Devil's Spoke

Laura Marling · I Speak Because I Can [2010]

That I might be apart of this

Ripple on water from a lonesome drip

A fallen tree that witness me

Him alone,

Him and me



And that life itself could not aspire

To have someone be so admired

I threw creation to my kin

With a silence broken by a whispered wind



All of this can be broken

All of this can be broken

Hold your devil by his spoke and spin him to the ground



And root to root and tip to tip

I look at him my country drip

Leathered up by all his fears

But someone brought you close to tears.



Many trains and many miles

Brought you to me on this sunny isle

And what of which you wish to speak

Have you come here to rescue me?



All of this can be broken

All of this can be broken

Hold your devil by his spoke and spin him to the ground



But the love of your life lives, but lies no more

Than where she lay your flowers grow

The arms are fed and the babes that wed

The backs that bled keeping her in tow



But I am your keeper

And I hold your face away from light

I am yours till they come

I am yours till they come.



Eye to eye, nose to nose

Ripping off each others clothes in a most peculiar way



Eye to eye, nose to nose

Ripping off each others clothes in a most peculiar way