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JOAN BAEZ lyrics : "Play Me Backwards"

You don't have to play me backwards
To get the meaning of my verse
You don't have to die and go to hell

To feel the devil's curse

Well I thought my life was a photograph

On the family Christmas card
Kids all dressed in buttons and bows
And lined up in the yard

Were the golden days of childhood
So lyrical and warm
Or did the picture start to fade

On the day that I was born

I've seen them light the candles

I've heard them bang the drum
And I've cried Mama, I'm cold as ice!
And I got no place to run


Let the night begin there's a pop of skin
And the sudden rush of scarlet

There's a little boy riding on a goat's head
And a little girl playing the harlot
There's a sacrifice in an empty church

Of sweet li'l baby Rose
And a man in a mask from Mexico
Is peeling off my clothes


I've seen them light the candles
I've heard them bang the drum

And I've cried Mama, I'm cold as ice!
And I got no place to run


So I'm paying for protection
Smoking out the truth
Chasing recollections

Nailing down the proof

You don't have to play me backwards

To get the meaning of my verse
You don't have to die and go to hell
To feel the devil's curse

I'll stand before your altar
And tell everything I know
I've come to claim my childhood

At the chapel of baby Rose

I've seen them light the candles

I've heard them bang the drum
I've seen them light the candles
I've heard them bang the drum

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