Old hope

Got stuck in your throat

Wound its way around your neck

And caused you to choke

Old hope

Made of rope

That held you tight when the chair legs broke.

When they found you hanging in the wood

You said at least now I don't have to be kind or good

I'll be cruel and I'll be obscene

Tear out my tongue

Cause I've been redeemed

When they found you hanging in the wood

You said at least now I don't have to be kind or good

I'll be cruel and I'll be obscene

Tear out my tongue

Cause I've been redeemed.

Save my blushes for the grave

No shy glance, no coy restraint

And I won't hang my head

And I won't repent

Won't face the wall and count to ten

Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Well they tore you down

And they tore out your tongue

And they made you kneel

For all the things that you'd done

But you wouldn't cry

And you wouldn't beg

You just grinned

And tore out your teeth instead.

When they found you hanging in the wood

You said at least now I don't have to be kind or good

I'll be cruel and I'll be obscene

Tear out my tongue

Cause I've been redeemed.

I don't have to sit down and behave

Cause my darling I've been saved.