4th Day Prayer

[Verse 1]

I was the Queen of Westmount Park

It was all mine after dark

Old willow tree it was my throne

Till I, till I went home

Father used me like a wife

Mother turned the blindest eye

Stole my body, spirit, pride

He did, he did each night

[Chorus]

One for the hate that loops and loops

Two for the poison at the roots

Three for the children breaking through

Four for the day we're standing in the sun

Ooh, ooh, ooh

[Verse 2]

"These are the best years of your life"

If I'd bеlieved it I'd have diеd

Something told me that they lied

Oh I, oh I survived

Left home, I was just a child

Slept in the graveyard, end of the Mile

When the sun came up and found my skin

I rose, I rose again

[Chorus]

One for the hate that loops and loops

Two for the poison at the roots

Three for the children breaking through

Four for the day we're standing in the sun

Ooh, ooh, ooh

[Verse 3]

Slip streams and fever dreams

Do you see what I can't see?

Tell me, tell me, tell me

I want to understand

From the coast of Africa

To the hills of Grenada

To the cold of Montreal

That whip, that whip still falls

[Chorus]

One for the hate that loops and loops

Two for the poison at the roots

Three for the children breaking through

Four for the day we're standing in the sun

One for the hate that loops and loops (Ooh)

Two for the poison at the roots (Ooh)

Three for the children breaking through (Ooh)

Four for the day

One for the hate that loops and loops (Ooh)

Two for the poison at the roots (Ooh)

Three for the children breaking through (Ooh)

Four for the day