She had announced a year before she recorded the album that she was leaving the band. 'Jezebel' was originally released on the album 'Our Time in Eden', the last studio album Merchant made with the band. What struck me today was the significance of when this song was written and released. This song is obviously about someone who has fallen out of love, and feels like they are lying by staying in the relationship. Wife, to weave our lives into a blindfold over both How I wish that we never had tried to be man and his No, it's a powerful word, inspired by strong desire I've no more ways to hide that I'm a desolate and I'm just saying we've mistaken one for thousands ofĪnd for that mistake, I've caused you such pain that Word to describe the sacred tie that bound me to I'm not saying I'm replacing love for some other I know your feelings are tender and that inside youīut I'm a shadow, I'm only a bed of blackened coal.Ĭall myself Jezebel for wanting to leave. I feel like the thief who is raiding your home,Įntering and breaking and taking in every room. Straining too hard for feelings I ought to find easily.īefore I say that the vows we made weigh like aįamily is family, don't let this tear us apart.

I've sat in the dark explaining to myself that I'm Wearing for two years, swearing I'd tear it off. To know I was carefully building the mask I was

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