The Charity Of Saint Elizabeth - Sullivan

Cold and fever wrap disease around your neck

Here’s hemostats to stop the flow of blood

Summer freckles hide the roses on your cheeks

Does heaven keep a place for her inside?

Breathe till it freezes

Colors carry phantoms to their graves

What leaks in will seep out

The run-off from a gutter tells the story of our child

The message in the water

«The kids are going home tonight»

I know the voice of orderly all too well

Call the parents on theirs cell phones

You see, they need to get get here right now

'Cause there is an angel in the place of the boy next door

I’m afraid I’ve got some bad news

Something’s in this room tonight

Something’s in this place

And I’m right here waiting

And I’m right here

Something’s in this room tonight

Death has found escape

And I’m right here waiting

And I’m right here

Look under the bed

Look under the bed

Stop striking matches to disguise the smell

We all know, all day all night all we hear

Is blue bouncing through the walls

As Madre Santiago takes a knee

And she screams to the fluorescents

All our lives for this one night

Our sleep can’t hide from you

So take my dreams in place of me

I reach my hand to you

All our lives for this one night

Our sleep can’t hide from you

So take my dreams in place of me

I reach my hand to you

Something’s in this room tonight

Something’s in this place

And I’m right here waiting

And I’m right here

Something’s in this room tonight

Death has found escape

And I’m right here waiting

And I’m right here

Look under the bed

Look under the bed

Slip through the crack, a gathering of adults

White skirts, blue-green scrubs, shaking their heads

Stop pointing your fingers and making your rounds

It’s not going to be me, it’s not going to be me