I Didn't Die

from The Beggar (1989) by Damien Youth

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Here in my sitting room
I look past Chester field
Beyond the orchid bloom
just behind the wishing well
There lies my mother's grave
a cross stands made of stone
When I turn out my lights
she creeps into my home

And the porch light breaks
and the doors swings back
and she pulls me to her side
And I push away
from her flesh decayed she screams
I didn't die, I didn't die, I didn't die
I didn't die, I didn't die, I didn't die

Here in the psycho ward
I don't know what is real
The cold asylum walls
or the shrieks from Chester field
When I was a young boy
I heard my mother scream
I swung back the bedroom door
where she hung by apron strings

Now her head floats 'round
and she's haunting me
with forks stuck in her eyes
And she drags me down
to the soul pit ground, she screams
I didn't die, I didn't die, I didn't die
I didn't die, I didn't die, I didn't die

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from The Beggar (1989), released July 24, 1989

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