Inside Out-Shara Nelson

[00:35.05]Inside the doors are sealed to love [00:37.98]Inside my heart is sleeping [00:40.80]Inside the fingers of my glove [00:43.74]Inside the bones of my right hand [00:46.71]Inside it′s colder than the stars [00:49.43]Inside the dogs are weeping [00:52.16]Inside the circus of the wind [00:55.01]Inside the clocks are filled with sand [00:58.16]Inside she′ll never hurt me [01:00.71]Inside the winter′s creeping [01:03.80]Inside the compass of the night [01:06.49]Inside the folding of the land [01:09.54]Outside the stars are turning [01:12.11]Outside the world′s still burning [01:20.82]Inside my head′s a box of stars I never dared to open [01:26.47]Inside the wounded hide their scars, [01:28.95]inside this lonesome sparrow′s fall [01:32.25]Inside the songs of our defeat, [01:35.06]they sing of treaties broken [01:37.49]Inside this army′s in retreat, [01:40.51]we hide beneath the thunder′s call [01:43.37]Outside the rain keeps falling [01:46.41]Outside the drums are calling [01:48.91]Outside the flood won′t wait [01:51.86]Outside they′re hammering down the gate [01:54.71]Love is the child of an endless war [01:57.63]Love is an open wound still raw [02:00.35]Love is a shameless banner unfurled [02:02.91]Love′s an explosion, [02:04.14]Love is the fire of the world [02:05.87]Love is a violent star [02:07.26]A tide of destruction [02:08.92]Love is an angry scar [02:10.31]A violation, a mutilation, capitulation, [02:13.59]love is annihilation. [02:17.84]Inside the failures of the light, [02:20.19]the night is wrapped around me [02:23.33]Inside my eyes deny their sight, [02:26.13]you′d never find me in this place [02:29.24]Inside we′re hidden from the moonlight, [02:31.88]we shift between the shadows [02:34.90]Inside the compass of the night, [02:37.49]inside the memory of your face [02:40.69]Outside the walls are shaking [02:43.39]Inside the dogs are waking [02:46.26]Outside the hurricane won′t wait [02:48.90]Inside they′re howling down the gate [02:51.72]Love is the child of an endless war [02:54.64]Love is an open wound still raw [02:57.30]Love is a shameless banner unfurled [02:59.66]Love′s an explosion, [03:01.11]Love is the fire at the end of the world [03:03.45]Love is a violent star [03:04.78]A tide of destruction [03:06.26]Love is an angry scar [03:07.79]The pain of instruction [03:09.27]Love is a violation, a mutilation, capitulation, [03:13.31]Love is annihilation. [03:17.23]I climb this tower inside my head [03:22.53]A spiral stair above my bed [03:28.34]I dream the stairs don′t ask me why, [03:34.03]I throw myself into the sky [03:40.00]Love me like a baby, love me like an only child [03:42.71]Love me like an ocean; love me like a mother mild [03:45.61]Love me like a father, love me like a prodigal son [03:48.54]Love me like a sister, [03:49.71]love me like the world has just begun [03:51.44]Love me like a prodigy, love me like an idiot boy, [03:54.14]Love me like an innocent, [03:55.38]love me like your favorite toy [03:56.99]Love me like a virgin, love me like a courtesan, [03:59.71]Love me like a sinner, love me like a dying man. [04:02.74]Annihilate me, infiltrate me, incinerate me, [04:06.13]accelerate me, mutilate me, inundate me, violate me, [04:09.88]implicate me, vindicate me, devastate me [04:14.30]Love me like a parasite, love me like a dying sun [04:17.13]Love me like a criminal, love me like a man on the run [04:20.12]Radiate me, subjugate me, incubate me, recreate me, [04:23.91]demarcate me, educate me, punctuate me, evaluate me, [04:28.57]conjugate me, impregnate me, designate me, humiliate me, [04:32.90]segregate me, opiate me, calibrate me, replicate me