This here is the service for the sinners; kneel down and let your sins run out. 
This here is the temple of the lost souls, none of us can do without mercy. 
Sweet mercy, lord have mercy on me for all the ways that I've been wrong, for all my dirty deeds. 

(Now before you die- won't you let me here you sing?) 

Down, down here, down here in the valley of the shadow of death
I'm waiting, I'm waiting,  (I'm waiting and waiting) for my last breath

You're welcome at the service for the sinners; no need to hold your demons back. 
Everybody here has seen the hard times in the bottom of a whiskey glass. 
Mercy, sweet mercy, lord knows I can't change- no, I just can't be satisfied. Can't stop my wicked ways. 


Service For Sinners

You could say he's my religion and I'll wear him to my grave-
He's a bad boy. I'm a girl who won't behave, 
But he's so brave. He's so brave. 
Time after time he tried to save my life. Oh well. 

Mad river, I wanna flow down
Your mad river, I wanna flow down- and never come back up. 

He would say it's all forgiven, I would say it's all the same. 
He's a mad man, I'm a woman who can't be saved,
But he's so brave. He's so brave.
Time after time he tried to save my life. Oh well. 

It was all I wanted, it was all I'd ever need- 
But it was haunted- oh the house you built me bleeds.
Have you been my sparrow? Have you been my hopes and dreams?
You were only nothing. You were only everything to me. 








Mad River

X-ray eyes make me wise- give me what you've got inside
Oh you've got secrets I could find, and I'd have seen your face if I was blind. 

Hard and fast and built to last, are you made of steel or made of glass? I want to know how to make you go. I want to know your secret soul. 

I just want to see your insides. I think you might be made of stone- I just want to see your pretty bones. 

Pick you up, take you down- drive you out to the edge of town. Get so lost we can't be found, swallow you up in my sound. 

Before I die, I want you to see my insides. I think I might be made of stone- I want you to see my pretty bones. 

I thought I told you I had weapons of mass destruction? 




Pretty Bones

Open up wide baby look me in the eyes, if you dare to look inside 'em, let 'em take you for a ride around- it's happened before, they'll start to tell you a story, and it's gonna go a little like this: Kiss, kiss, mister I don't mean to boast but I'm more sugar than most and if you get a little closer I got something I could show ya blink blink blink blink, now you're getting it I think- I need a drink. Could you go see about that? 

He's looking for a free ride and I'm hot like a stolen gun. 
I'm gonna teach him a lesson. He's never learned a single one. 

Take off your shoes, what have you really got to lose? Come in and close the door behind ya, tell me what you got in mind- a little snap/boom/clap, all the pieces on the floor? Give me that whiplash crack on the two, three, four, five- fly baby fly baby make me feel alive, sick as death, hold my breath gives me those chills inside. We build the sound, build the sound, build the whole damn town in a moment when we spoke it in a long slide down. 

I'm gonna take a free ride, and he's smooth like a loaded gun.
Gonna teach me a lesson- I never learned a single one. 

I've never been afraid, I've got a vision like a brave. I'm always getting where I'm going, always wanting without knowing how I get the things I want- somehow, I get the things I want. Five, four, three, two- baby now I want you. 





Free Ride

Holding tight your money soul, keeping all your secrets like they're gold, gold, gold. I can see them weigh on your mind. Aren't we just two of a kind? 

I wanna know- what kind of ghosts are you hiding from? 
I wanna know- what kind of ghosts are you fighting now? 

Dirty love, play my song. I wanna be your girl but all I'll ever be is wrong. You don't even know how I've tried, just because we're two of a kind. 

My baby, he's gone like a sleepy ghost. He sings me a spell that nobody knows. 

Playing games, hide and seek- steal your secret soul cuz I'm a secret soul thief. Just a little more, by and by- you'll find out we're two of a kind. 

Ghosts

Where you from? Baby, where you been? 
You know how to make me sing and sigh like a violin. 
I'll never pray to anyone else again. 
I keep that secret close to my heart, I like to put it together and take it apart. 

Hold me together, baby I'm coming apart. 
Hold me together, baby I'm falling. 

Soak me down, baby you're the rain. 
Oh, your voice is like a wave and I just want to get a taste, 
drink down your water when I come to pray. 
I keep that memory warm in my heart, I like to put it together when I'm coming apart. 

I know I'm never gonna die, I'm gonna live forever. 
Hanging from the sky, spinning in a slow bang. 
You know I'm never gonna die, I'm gonna live forever
Hanging from the sky, spinning in a slow bang. 

Slow Bang

Remember when we used to go to the water? 
We used to go to the water together. 
Back when we used to go to the water, you were the water- do you remember? 
Now I'm a desert, water doesn't seem real. And I can't imagine how the rain would feel. 
Days may come and days may go, but the water ain't coming to my shore. 
I may never see the rain again. But I'll still remember it, even then. 

You were a hurricane in my sea, and you lit up all the storms in me. 
You brought the water (brought the water) to me, I drowned in the water and it felt like breathing, drowned in the water and it felt like breathing. 





Atlantis

Arabella is a Toronto based project, fronted by songwriter and vocalist Erin Elizabeth. I Heard the Brother Speak is their debut album, released January 2016. 


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