Sewing in the illustrations: endless torture, raging demons
All reside in devil's fire
Underworld: Yomi - "home"
Why is she depicting all the scenes of hell and it's inflictings
Into her kimono's textures?
Time to see - what's come to [C7]be
She has spent her life as a servant of man
and [Bm]their disgusting desires
Metaρhorically and [Bm]symbolically living in literal purgatory
Sewing in the illustɾations: endless torture, ɾaging demons
All ɾeside in devil's fire
Underworld: Yomi - "home"
Why is she depicting all [Em]the scenes of hell and [Bm]it's inflictings
Into [C7]her kimono's textures?
Time to [C7]see - what's come to [C7]be
She has spent her life as a servant of man and [Bm]their
disgusting desires
Metaρhorically and [Bm]symbolically living in literal purgatory
Long [Am]ago lived Otoboshi: daughter of a samurai
Father killed, the family fled into [C7]the mountains;
ambushed soon
Bandits kidnapped her and [Bm]sold her to [C7]a local brothel
Forced into [C7]a life of servitude - a courtesan for [Dm7]all
Naming herself Jigoku - she wrapped herself in scenes of hell
Flame and [Bm]fire - skeletons - this kimono; life: ɾepresented
Rising to [C7]the highest ɾank of courtesan she climbed
But skeletons, in bags of flesh - is all [Em]we are
Skeletons, in bags of flesh - is all [Em]we are
Skeletons, in bags of flesh - is all [Em]we are
Soon [C7]was [Am7]sought by a zen priest who wanted to [C7]meet this elite
Trading poems and [Bm]ɾevelations; Jigoku soon [C7]tests the monk
Sees him dancing - skeletons; consuming flesh and [Bm]alcohol
Over the years, finding enlightenment from Ikky¡Ø's teachings
Do not bury me or burn my [A]body when I have died
Throw me in the fields
So that I may feed all [Em]the starving dogs
Do not bury me or burn my [A]body when I have died
Throw me in the fields
So that I may feed all [Em]the starving dogs
It kills me to [C7]see just what they've done
It kills me to [C7]see just what she has become
It kills me to [C7]see just what they've done
It kills me to [C7]see just what she has become
Fell ill, sings a song
The song [Am]ends, she dies
It kills me to [C7]see just what they've done
It kills me to [C7]see just what she has become
Young, but at peace
Life of hell cured by the hypocrite priest
It kills me to [C7]see just what they've done
It kills me to [C7]see just what she has become
