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myrrh and cinnamon cane and cassia olive oil to bind it frankincense and galbanum salt it beat it fine burn it where the smoke can't leave wash your hands wash your feet wash like your life depends on it red on the ear red on the thumb red on the toe ten feet tall (ten feet tall) watch it learn to crawl (crawl) took its name, took its teeth now it come when I call ten feet tall (ten feet tall) watch it learn to crawl (crawl) took its name, took its teeth now it come when I call forty days, no bread, no wine, nobody at the door prayed at dawn, prayed at dusk, wore a path into the floor quiet got so heavy I could hear it learn my name every habit that I starved came scratchin' at the frame said I could stop I didn't said nobody's watchin' that's the point fed the lamp, fed the smoke, let the rest of me go thin every night they knocked a little louder, tryna talk their way back in said I'm wastin' all my time, said the world forgot my face said the rod's a dead stick it's bloomin' anyway day forty they're here ten feet tall (ten feet tall) watch it learn to crawl (crawl) took its name, took its teeth now it come when I call ten feet tall (ten feet tall) watch it learn to crawl (crawl) took its name, took its teeth now it come when I call ACCUSER walk in with a ledger written in my own hand every slip I ever made, you read it back like I'm on the stand say confess and you'll go quiet I don't plead to you look at me swear it BELIAL walk in wearin' my face only smaller, only gray tellin' me nobody's listenin' every word I ever say say give it up it's easier that way no deal look at me swear it ten feet tall (ten feet tall) watch it learn to crawl (crawl) took its name, took its teeth now it come when I call ten feet tall (ten feet tall) watch it learn to crawl (crawl) took its name, took its teeth now it come when I call DEBER up the stairs at three a.m. every step a "what if" breathin' on my neck pullin' threads until the whole thing rips say let you in and you'll go quiet door stays shut. look at me swear it QETEB roll in like a heatwave sit down heavy on my chest turn the hours into mud whisperin' I earned a rest say lay down just for a minute not today look at me swear it they don't sleep they don't forget every oath they swore, they swore it like a threat Solomon had every one of 'em till the day he looked away one proud breath one day off that's all it takes and they'll wait so I don't look away ten feet tall (ten feet tall) watch it learn to crawl (crawl) took its name, took its teeth now it come when I call ten feet tall (ten feet tall) watch it learn to crawl (crawl) took its name, took its teeth now it come when I call