The Trial

Album: Dead Can Dance (1984)
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  • All my senses rebel
    Under the scrutiny of their persistent gaze
    It took a lifetime to get here,
    A journey I'll never make again

    For those who have accepted the burden of shame,
    For the innocent only guilt will remain
    And our lives will be forced to accommodate
    The perpetrators of our own bastard race

    All my senses rebel
    Under the scrutiny of their persistent gaze
    It took a lifetime to get here,
    A journey I'll never make again

    I stand accused of a thousand and one crimes,
    A witness to events that led to this present time
    These traditions which bind our hands and keep us tied
    Will never survive the greatest test of time

    Deliver me from those feverish eyes
    That threaten to unbalance my state of mind,
    For I must confess only to the smallest of crimes
    A sense of guilt
    A sense of guilt
    A sense of guilt
    A sense of guilt Writer/s: BRENDAN MICHAEL PERRY, GUS FERGUSON, JAMES E. PINKER, LISA GERMAINE GERRARD, PETER LAWRENCE ULRICH, SCOTT RODGER
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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