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Crucify Me

from Lay It Down by Krista Herring

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This song is a message to all the oppressors

Who would silence the voice of the heart

Keep us living scared in the dark (pause)


(v1)You don’t understand and so you slap my hand

And take away the love that you can

But you don’t give a damn how happy I am

You were happier when I was miserable

But fit your model of a nauseating, suffocating, perfect fucking world


(v2)But I’m not afraid of you anymore

And I won’t be an emotional whore

Change who I am to get the love I need

No that’s not me and I won’t bleed at your hand anymore

(prechorus)

I never gave you permission to judge all my decisions

You nailed me to this cross, now I bear it on my soul

(You wanna) crucify me. Through this darkened glass is all that you can see

With my back against the wall, I won’t take it anymore. I won’t bleed.


(v3)What’s ironic about the situation

Is it’s your fear of your own damnation that

Leads you to do to me what you’re afraid they’re gonna do to you

But I refuse to be part of this hell that you choose

It’s safe but it’s sick, and it’s sad and so thick with fear
Repeat chorus

Into break (same chords as intro)

Why do we create such misery and hide our hearts away where no one can see

It doesn’t have to be so lonely any more


(prechorus one and a half times)

How can you judge what you don’t know?

It’s only your fear that’s running the show

And in your inability to see

You crucify me

(Chorus to out)

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from Lay It Down, track released August 1, 2009

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Krista Herring Portland, Oregon

This California native songbird has traveled the country from the East to West coast, sharing her soulful prose and bittersweet melodies. These days, when not on the road, she spends most of her time reveling in the beauty of the Pacific Northwest, near Portland, OR. ... more

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