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One Knot Wrong

darkprincess

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Persian weavers leave one deliberate mistake in each carpet, because only heaven makes perfect things. Hers is a single pink thread, pulled from a scarf someone dropped outside a bakery. The carpet ends up in Rome. Nobody knows he's in it.

Lyrics

Intro

Ey jaaan ey-va-laa

(aah)

Ey jaan ey-va-laaa

(aah ey)

Verse

I tie the wool in madder red

And indigo where the borders spread

Pomegranate rind gives gold

Three hundred knots in the inch I hold

I sing the pattern row by row

The way my mother taught me, slow

Hook

One knot wrong, I tie it on purpose

(ey jaan)

You'd never see it on the surface

(look closer)

Only heaven gets it perfect

(aah)

I left you there and it was worth it

Interlude

Aaa-maaan ey jaa-aan

(ey)

Ey yaaa-aar ey-va-laa

(aah)

Verse

Down in the corner near the vine

One rose-pink thread that breaks the line

I pulled it from the scarf you dropped

Outside the bakery when we stopped

The buyer runs his thumb along

And never finds where you belong

Hook

One knot wrong, I tie it on purpose

(ey jaan)

You'd never see it on the surface

(look closer)

Only heaven gets it perfect

(aah)

I left you there and it was worth it

Hammered Dulcimer Solo

Breakdown

Ey jaaan ey-va-laa

(aah)

Ey jaa-aan

(del)

[Spoken] "Created by DarkPrincess -- Royalty of the Night"

Verse

They roll it up and bind the fringe

I watch it leave and do not flinch

It lands in a hallway out in Rome

A stranger's dog will nap on you at home

And no one there will ever know

That I wove you in so long ago

Hook

The next one starts tomorrow morning

(ey jaan)

I'll weave it straight, I'm giving warning

(I mean it)

But my hands know where the corner lies

(aah)

They tie you in before I realise

Instrumental

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