Search results for 'sackcloth and ashes'

don't even think about
Asking her to dance,
'Cause in your sackcloth and ashes,
You're never gonna have a chance,
Sackcloth and ashes...

She smeared you

no excuse for our arrogance

Sackcloth and ashes
The sun turns red
And when the sky falls
Who will save us

We're drawn closer
Closer to the edge
Do we

Flood I

The Sisters of Mercy

Floodland

1987

terms of surrender
On a backcloth of lashes and eyes
In a flood of your tears, in sackcloth
And ashes, and ashes, and ashes, and ashes
And ashes

of lashes and eyes
In a flood of your tears, in sackcloth
And ashes and ashes and ashes and ashes
And ashes and ashes and lies...

And her hallway...
Like...

Atom to Adam

Otep

Atavist

2011

Godless 
Lawless 
Stifled 
Bondage 

The grubs are fastened 
In sackcloth and ashes 
We are the children 
Of amnesia of heaven 

Their

small repairs
And open the way to Nineveh

City of heartbreak (Nineveh)
City of hope (Nineveh)
Sackcloth and ashes
We have been through the fire
But we

No matter the sins and fouls that did us part
I'll stagger back to her in sackcloth and ashes

I've seen the forests and the mountains in the east
I've

Let It Blow

Richard Thompson

Front Parlour Ballads

2005

Would sackcloth and ashes displease you?"

And they honeymooned down in Ibiza
Where the sun and the nightlife were hot
As she lay on the sand, he said,

Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt

The Mars Volta

Scab Dates

2005

You must have been phlegmatic in stature
The gates of Thanos are a spread eagle wide
You let the shutters make sackcloth and ashes
Out of a blind

Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt

The Mars Volta

De-Loused in the Comatorium

2003

You must have been phlegmatic in stature
The gates of Thanos are a spread eagle wide
You let the shutters make sackcloth and ashes
Out of a blind

before
I'm no novice to the art of feeling guilt

I'll Wear my sackcloth and ashes every day
Have a scarlet letter branded on my brow
I'll even change my

as the pavement 
Motherfuckeras waiting on the work they get impatient
The semi-auto knock ‘em off his axis
It's dark fear Allah doggy sackcloth and ashes
He move

Someone loses their innocence
It’s all fun and games until
Someone loses

In sackcloth and ashes now when you know
Demand for endeavour’s been chronically

a wrong-eyed woman
She looked like a crow
The bird of ill omen
In sackcloth and ashes
She shook the dust off her feet
"Now ain't you coming, boy," she said
"Away

Sackcloth and ashes
For now but that's alright
It's the way of stepping
Out of the headlights
It's the right time and time again

I erase
My alibi
My alibi

let
Me die alone
Die alone

Graveside
Sackcloth and ashes
With candles lit
Tongue-tied
I walk up to the rostrum
And I can't say
I don't know what to say

There lived in the Land of Judea
A widow honored and adored
She stayed in a tent on a rooftop, sackcloth and ashes she wore

Every day she would fast

as this

God's people were to perish, that was the evil plan
In sackcloth and ashes Mordecai bid the queen you better take a stand
She backed away and then

to the high-rise disease
And falling cycle started creeping
In the sane of leaving
What’s the point of speaking?
What’s the use in action?
Act sackcloth and ashes

And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

And I prayed unto the LORD my God,

Castles in Spain made of unholy words 
 Preach in the shadow of gallows 
 Repentants in sackcloth and ashes 
 Choir of the psalms of hollow 
  
 Burn down

Tear your robes
Shave your head
In sackcloth and ashes
Until you're finally dead

The Good Lord giveth
And He taketh away
When you walk through

get took-en 
Go on in ignorance, I know I shouldn't
I couldn't, climbing the steps
Sackcloth and ashes, I had to repent
I was a mess, yeah, I couldn't

the world that's superficial clothes be oh so lavish
What if we traded in designer for sackcloth and ashes
What if the people called by His name would pray