Grace of God

I'm here to answer questions, for a judgement on my soul
 Clinging to a lifeline, holding onto hope
 Pinned down on a table of the mercy of machines
 The software coldly calculates, no bargaining or pleas
 There but for the grace of God go I
 There but for the grace of God go I
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 Bruises, purple flowers, cover healing punctured veins
 Dark posies slowly fading in the passing of the days
 Keep faith in strangers fingers as they search a withered arm
 The sterile sting of cannulas that probe under the skin
 A smile back to the darkness, a wink to hide the pain
 Black blood in the chamber, shadows in the ward
 Staring at the heavens through a ceiling in the clouds
 The hum of empty corridors, the trails of lonely ghosts
 And there but for the grace of God go I
 There but for the grace of God go I
 There but for the grace of God go I
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 A circus of consultants troupe on to centre stage
 The closing curtains whisper, I hear the hushed debate
 Slipping out of consciousness suspended in real time
 The chorus of the monitors, the drip feeds down the line
 There but for the grace of God go I
 There but for the grace of God go I
 There but for the grace of God go I
 There but for the grace of God go I
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 Angel with pop star braids staring at the ground, her docs unlaced
 Cotton dress, floral pattern
 She wore it on a special day
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 He only smiled he didn't speak, she hung around 'til he fell asleep
 She got bored, was led away
 She bowed her head when the others cried
 It's in her head, she's scared to ask, she only wants to know
 Is daddy coming home again?
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 He shuffles past, belly sagging, his underpants grey and ragged
 Dull mind in a dull cage
 You know that he's seen better days
 He sucks deep on his nebuliser
 Eyes closed in a moment's peace
 His chest racks, his lungs exploding
 Coughing like a drowning man
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 Guilty eyes and steady fingers lay the strands of shredded leaves
 In a bed of bleached white paper, a moist tongue seals his fate
 He rolls up his habit's rations
 Stacking up the coffin nails
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 He lights up under weeping birches
 He shelters from the drizzling rain
 Amputees in roving wheelchairs
 Close circle to deny the gnawing pain
 Vampires in the shadows (vampires in the shadows)
 Just a face in the shadows
 He moves in the shadows
 A face in the shadows
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 There but for the grace of God go I
 There but for the grace of God go I (vampires in the shadows)
 There but for the grace of God go I (he moves in the shadows)
 There but for the grace of God go I (a shape in the shadows)
 There but for the grace of God go I (vampires in the shadows)
 There but for the grace of God go I (he moves in the shadows)
 There but for the grace of God go I (a shape in the shadows)
 There but for the grace of God go I (just a face in the shadows)