23 - a song that you want to play at your wedding
Subway to Sally - Henkersbraut
Open the doors, open the gates,
Here comes the bride full of magnificence
She has been a whore, she has stolen,
Spread flowers for the hangman's bride!
No wreath of myrtle in her black hair,
no veil and no altar,
no priest for the ritual,
the groom is ostracized and bald
He softly calls her his small wife,
and eyes her meager body
The group of guests in rags,
crowds around her and laughs and screams:
Open the doors, open the gates,
Here comes the bride full of magnificence
She has been a whore, she has stolen,
Spread flowers for the hangman's bride!
Once she was as guiltless as a doe
and her skin was like new snow
but in the cornfield by the house
they cast out her innocence
In a dark night
she killed her small child,
that slept unborn inside her,
that didn't defend itself and did not cry out
Open the doors, open the gates..
(Now, that would be a funny song for a wedding! :D)