Nothing Will Hurt Me Again (Remastered)

The monks are at the outer door I hear the relics sing Blue beneath their holy sleeves like winter under skin My father does not turn his head He knows before I speak The room is full of candle smoke The world is very weak He taught me how to see the blade before the blade was drawn He taught me pain is only fate when mercy comes too long I can stop it I can stop it I can stop the dark before it starts I can make it clean I can make it quick I know just where to stop the heart Nothing will hurt him Nothing will take him Nothing will make him kneel in pain If I am the wound If I am the mercy Nothing will hurt me again He looks at me like iron does when iron knows the flame No fear inside his weathered face No mercy in my name But mercy finds my hand somehow The thing he could not kill The daughter he made into war is still his daughter, still The monks are close The relics wake The blue light starts to crawl I do not have the strength to save unless I end it all I can stop it I can stop it I can stop the dark before it starts I can make it clean I can make it quick I know just where to stop the heart Nothing will hurt him Nothing will take him Nothing will make him kneel in pain If I am the wound If I am the mercy Nothing will hurt me again My hand remembers My breath goes still He made the weapon He made the will No cry No plea No curse No chain Just blood on my hand and his hand on my face He touches me so gently I almost come apart The first kind thing he gives me is given from the heart He nods as if I’ve pleased him He nods as if I’ve won And something breaks inside me where there should have been a son If love is this If mercy kills If tenderness is pain Then take the girl who came too late and do not leave her name Nothing will hurt me again Nothing will come through the door Nothing will stand where the danger begins Nothing will touch me anymore If mercy is how the blade gets in If love is the hand and the chain Then let the world learn silence Nothing will hurt me again Never again Never this small Never the hand that comes too late Never the daughter at the wall Never the mercy after pain Never the wound I could not see If monsters are what cannot break then make a monster out of me Nothing will hurt me again Nothing will come through the door Nothing will stand where the danger begins Nothing will touch me anymore I will be iron I will be flame I will be hunger wearing a name If the world can wound then the world can end Nothing will hurt me again The monks are at the outer door My father does not breathe He taught me how to stop the pain Now let the world learn me