When the Bough Breaks Lyrics

He in a stable so adored
Not once upon a rhyme
In a manger weaved from straw
It ripped the fabric of time

Yet something else was born that night
In the Devil’s care
Fed nourishing at the breast of beast
Lord of lies beware
Wrapped in warmest skins of goats
Bassinette of coal
His mission, to murder God’s son
And protect our swallowed souls

Through the hourglass they became friends
Playgrounds in the sand
The eyes that pierce remaining soft
Patient with dad’s demands

Growing up with a twitch of mad
Lusting for the spear
Listening too long to those prayers
Harboring no fear
When the bough breaks
When the bough breaks
When the bough breaks
When the bough breaks
The cradle will fall
Fall
Fall
Integral passion for changing the world
To its primitive ways
Collapsing all the towers of light
Into a kingdom of shades
Now with the force of dragon
Evil brings a hammer down
On his foe’s whole life’s work
And forever kindness drowns
Victorious in the killing of it
Cloaked he’s moving on
Into the brothel where Christ’s mother prays
Her virgin womb be gone
Spreading the legs and anxious to come
Proud father stomps a hoof
Waging a war inside this whore
Satan’s second son the proof
When the bough breaks
When the bough breaks
When the bough breaks
When the bough breaks
The cradle will fall