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"Hang Me High" lyrics

Siouxsie And The Banshees Lyrics

"Hang Me High"

Oh...
Hang me high hang me high
Set me up with the bells in the tower
And beat them hour after hour
Hang me high
To the bonds that seal your lips
Intone a penance as you slip
Into another night of bleeding flowers
And in that final sinful moment
Were you just seeking love so tender?

Oh...
Does loathsome loss become a gain?
Empires stagger onwards no pain
The voice of love grows out
Exaltation, exaltation

Ohh....hang me high
Take this rainbow and bury it deep
Take this serpent and put it to sleep
Take these words then learn to keep
Take this sow and reap

Oh...
Hang me high
The night man coming away
With the ashes of some fallen saint
With some forgotten martyr to weep over
Take me, take me and sleep take me keep some
Do not weep, do not weep

Oh....hang me high


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Writer(s): Susan Janet Ballion, Peter Edward Clarke, Steven John Bailey
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box set: "Downside Up" (2004)
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Downside Up box set cover
Voices (On The Air)
20th Century Boy
Pulled To Bits
Mittageisen (Metal Postcard)
Drop Dead / Celebration
Eve White / Eve Black
Red Over White
Follow The Sun
Slap Dash Snap
Supernatural Thing
Congo Conga
Coal Mind
We Fall
Cannibal Roses
Obsession II
(Instrumental)
A Sleeping Rain
(Instrumental)
Il Est Né, Le Divin Enfant
Tattoo
(There's A) Planet In My Kitchen
Let Go
The Humming Wires
I Promise
Throw Them To The Lions
An Execution
The Quarterdrawing Of The Dog
(Instrumental)
Lullaby
Umbrella
Shooting Sun
Sleepwalking (On The High Wire)
She Cracked
She's Cuckoo
Something Blue
The Whole Price Of Blood
Mechanical Eyes
False Face
Catwalk
Something Wicked (This Way Comes)
Are You Still Dying, Darling?
El Día De Los Muertos
Sunless
(Instrumental)
Staring Back
Return
Spiral Twist
Sea Of Light
I Could Be Again
Hothead
B Side Ourselves
Swimming Horses (Live)
All Tomorrow's Parties
Hang Me High
Black Sun
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