The daughters of Lilith don't get along so well with the sons of Eve.

A Spider in the Rose
© Allison Lonsdale 2002
Live at Lestat's, Disc Two, Track 1

It's only a matter of time and some pressure
Till she puts her foot down and you leave
I'm a daughter of Lilith and men have not ever
Chosen me before the daughters of Eve

She still has her cherry & she needs your protection,
She don't know her way through the woods
I'm wicked and old and just want your erection
And you know that I'm just damaged goods

        There's a spider in the rose, and it's an old friend of mine
        This is how the story goes so don't you pretend it's not
        When you're taking off her clothes don't imagine I'll be crying
        This is how the story goes, there's a spider in the rose

She's young and she's pretty, she's pure and she's clean,
She's as empty as a bottle of air
When you look in my eyes you know how much I've seen
And you really don't want to go there

When there's someone who wants you like a child wants sweets,
Who has never known anyone else
Whose kisses don't taste like old pain and the streets
And whose spirit don't taste like a self

        There's a spider in the rose, and it's an old friend of mine
        This is how the story goes so don't you pretend it's not
        When you're taking off her clothes don't imagine I'll be crying
        This is how the story goes, there's a spider in the rose

Oh someday I'll find him, my brother, my lover
A Lilith-born man to the core
Who won't get a hard-on for tabula rasas
Who prays in the church of the whore

He'll walk past those girls made of sugar and flowers
To the woman who's as soft as a knife
He'll say “Why would I want all those bottles of air
When here you are so full of life?”

        There's a spider in the rose, and it's an old friend of mine
        This is how the story goes -- don't I deserve a happy ending?
        When I'm taking off my clothes, he will see my scars as beauty
        This is how the story goes, there's a spider in the rose