Papa Won't Leave You, Henry (Live God)

George

I went out walking the other day
The heat hung wet around my neck
My head, it rung with screams and groans
From the night I spent amongst her bones

I passed beside the mission house
Where that mad old buzzard, the reverend
Shrieked and flapped about life after you're dead
I thought about my friend Michel
How they rolled him in linoleum, and they shot him in the neck
A bloody halo like a think-bubble circling his head
Alright

And I bellowed at the firmament
Looks like the rains are here to stay
And the walls ran red around me, and wash me all away

Saying, Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, boy
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, boy
Well, the night is long and the night is hard
And many fall by the side
But Papa won't leave you, Henry
So there ain't no need to cry

And I went on down the road
(He went on down the road)
Oh yeah, I went on down the road
(He went on down the road)

Well, the moon it looked exhausted, like something you should pity
Spent an age spotted above, the sizzling wires of the city
Reminded me of her face, her bleached and hungry eyes
Her hair was like a curtain falling open with the laughter
And shot down with the lies
And the ghost of her still lingers on
Though she's passed through me and is gone

(Whoa-whoa) the slum dogs, they are barking
The rain children on the streets
And the tears that we will weep today will all be washed away
By the tears that we'll weep, we'll weep again tomorrow

Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, boy
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, boy
Well, the night is long and the night is dark
Many fall by the side
But Papa won't leave you, Henry
So there ain't no need to cry

And I went on down the road
(He went on down the road)
Oh yeah, I went on down the road
(He went on down the road)

Oh, whoa-whoa (whoa-whoa)
Oh, whoa-whoa (whoa-whoa)
Oh, whoa-whoa (whoa-whoa)
Oh, whoa-whoa (whoa-whoa)
Oh, whoa-whoa (whoa-whoa)
Oh, whoa-whoa (whoa-whoa)
Oh, whoa-whoa (whoa-whoa)
Oh, whoa-whoa (whoa-whoa)
Yeah (whoa-whoa)

Yeah-yeah-yeah (yeah-yeah-yeah)
Yeah-yeah-yeah (yeah-yeah-yeah)
Yeah-yeah-yeah (yeah-yeah-yeah)
Yeah-yeah-yeah (yeah-yeah-yeah)

Whoa-whoa (whoa-whoa)
Whoa-whoa (whoa-whoa)
Whoa-whoa (whoa-whoa)
Whoa-whoa (whoa-whoa)
Listen

Whoa-whoa (whoa-whoa)
Whoa-whoa (whoa-whoa)
Whoa-whoa (whoa-whoa)
Whoa-whoa (whoa-whoa)

I came upon a little house, a little house on a little hill (whoa-whoa)
I entered through and the curtain hissed
Into the house with its blood-red bowels
Where wet-lipped women with greasy fists
Crawled the ceilings and the walls

Yeah-yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah
Yeah-yeah-yeah (yeah-yeah-yeah)
Yeah-yeah-yeah (yeah-yeah-yeah)

Filled me full of drink, they led me 'round the rooms
Naked and cold and grinning
'Til everything went black and I came down spinning
Whoa-whoa, whoa-whoa
Whoa-whoa, whoa-whoa

I awoke so drunk and full of rage that I could hardly speak
A fag in a whalebone corset draping his dick across my cheek
It's into the shame, it's into the guilt
And it's into the fucking fray
And the walls ran red around me, and wash me all away

Saying, Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, boy
Papa won't leave you, Henry
Papa won't leave you, boy
Well, the night is long and the night is dark
Many fall by the side
Yeah, Papa won't leave you, Henry
So there ain't no need to cry

And I went on down the road
(He went on down the road)
Yeah, I went on, my brothers
(He went on down the road)

Oh, whoa-whoa (whoa-whoa)
Oh, whoa-whoa (whoa-whoa)
Oh, whoa-whoa (whoa-whoa)
Oh, whoa-whoa (whoa-whoa)
Yeah, yeah-yeah (yeah-yeah)
Oh, whoa-whoa (whoa-whoa)
Oh, whoa-whoa (whoa-whoa)
Oh, yeah-yeah (yeah-yeah)
Oh, whoa-whoa (whoa-whoa)
Oh, yeah-yeah (yeah-yeah)

And I went on down that road
Yeah