Florence and the Machine - Tear Out My Tongue / Ye Olde Hope lyrics

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Old hope, got stuck in your throat, <br />

Wound it's way round your neck <br />

And caused you to choke.<br />

Old hope, made of rope, <br />

That held you tight as the chair legs broke.<br />

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When they found you hanging in the wood, <br />

You said at least now I don't have to kind nor good. <br />

I'll be cruel and I'll be obscene, <br />

Tear out my tongue, <br />

'Cause I've been redeemed.<br />

<br />

When they found you hanging in the wood, <br />

You said at least now I don't have to be kind nor good. <br />

I'll be cruel and I'll be obscene, <br />

Tear out my tongue, <br />

'Cause I've been redeemed.<br />

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Save my blushes for the grave, <br />

No shy glance, no coy restraint, <br />

And I won't hang my head, <br />

And I won't repent, <br />

Won't face the wall and count to ten<br />

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5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10... <br />

<br />

Well they tore you down <br />

And they tore out your tongue, <br />

And they made you kneel <br />

For all the things that you'd done. <br />

But you wouldn't cry, <br />

You wouldn't beg, <br />

You just screamed <br />

And tore out your teeth instead.<br />

<br />

And when they found you hangin in the woods, <br />

You said at least now I don't have to be kind nor good. <br />

I'll be cruel and I'll be obscene <br />

Tear out my tongue, <br />

I've been redeemed.