Chop That Child in Half

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Out in the darkness, lies and disease All that I have left when we went to the hospital Well I looked across the river and I was nearly sick The shallow grave of power grinned and flashed its teeth [Chorus] There's a lot of ghosts round here A lot of crying in the dark A taxi pulled up to park And out stepped Old King Solomon [Verse 2] I spoke to a girl from Scotland who was pregnant and didn't want to be We went back to the hospital and had a cup of tea All the demons rolled into one were dripping down her cheek And put back the splinter of glass back in her heart [Verse 3] Fragments I couldn't grasp turned to dust in my fingers We lurched into incoherence A puerile tear dimmed my eye, ashamed I wiped it away The night grew dark and the ram came driving fast [Chorus] There's a lot of ghosts round here A lot of crying in the dark A taxi pulled up to park And out stepped Old King Solomon [Verse 4] The darkness brought back a memory Of a beach hut in Whitley Bay Someone else's suffering and someone else's pain Back in time becomes a mystery you didn't understand [Chorus] There's a lot of ghosts round here A lot of crying in the dark A taxi pulled up to park And out stepped Old King Solomon