Uploaded by 000mario000dsas on Aug 21, 2008
The Lazarus heart
He looked beneath his shirt today
There was a wound in his flesh so deep and wide
From the wound a lovely flower grew
From somewhere deep inside
He turned around to face his mother
To show her the wound in his breast
That burned like a brand
But the sword that cut him open
Was the sword in his mother's hand
Every day another miracle
Only death will tear us apart
To sacrifice a life for yours
I'd be the blood of the Lazarus heart
The blood of the Lazarus heart
Though the sword was his protection
The wound itself would give him power
The power to remake himself at the time of his darkest hour
She said the wound would give him courage and pain
The kind of pain that you can't hide
From the wound a lovely flower grew
From somewhere deep inside
Every day another miracle
Only death will keep us apart
To sacrifice a life for yours
I'd be the blood of the Lazarus heart
The blood of the Lazarus heart
Birds on the roof of my mother's house
I've no stones that chase them away
Birds on the roof of my mother's house
Will sit on my roof someday
They fly at the window, they fly at the door
Where does she get the strength to fight them anymore
She counts all her children as a shield against the rain
Lifts her eyes to the sky like a flower to the rain
Every day another miracle
Only death will keep us apart
To sacrifice a life for yours
I'd be the blood of the Lazarus heart
The blood of the Lazarus heart
Lyrics: www.sting.com
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El meor tema de la carrera entera de Sting solista...
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I love this album; and I have a copy on vinyl. sealed. I want to open it it, but part of me wants to never open it.
2 months ago 3
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Probably my favorite solo Sting album. From beginning to end it just wraps you in its mystical, magical warmth and power. Amazing .
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@markj15062 enjoy lady ga ga !
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@GETANCHOREDNOW Nicely put.
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I remember the first time i listen to this opening album song, i was a bit shivering because i did not know if the album was as good as the first. It was different. I was always looking for some police sound in sting's album, this one had some.
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Fun Fact: Originally going to be the ending song of the movie: "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"
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Amazing sting.
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dvscorp 2 years ago 43
"The Lazarus Heart"
Sting
1987
Sting's mum passed away while he was making his second album, Nothing Like the Sun. Appropriately, he channeled his grief into "The Lazarus Heart," the story of an artist who's creativity is drawn from a wound inflicted by his mother. With its dreamlike, mythical imagery, the song is a moving homage not only to Mrs. Sumner but the whole mother archetype. Sting dedicated the finished album to his mom and made this its opening track.
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