Chain of Keys

Album: The Hope Six Demolition Project (2016)
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  • Fifteen keys hang on
    Fifteen keys hang on a chain
    The chain is old
    The chain is old and forms a ring
    The ring is in
    The ring is in a woman's hand
    She's walking on
    She's walking on the dusty ground

    The dusty ground's a dead-end track
    The neighbours won't be coming back
    Fifteen gardens overgrown
    Fifteen houses falling down

    The woman's old
    The woman's old and dressed in black
    She keeps her hands
    She keeps her hands behind her back
    Imagine what
    Imagine what her eyes have seen
    We ask if she
    We ask but she won't let us in

    A key so simple and so small
    How can it mean no chance at all?
    A key, a promise, or a wish
    How can it mean such hopelessness

    The circle is broken, she's dead
    The circle is broken, she said Writer/s: POLLY JEAN HARVEY
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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