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the left hand is we always say the demon devil's side the left had does the dirty work the shameful things you hide judas kissed the left cheek of christ it's satan's special mark there were no left-footed animals allowed on noah's ark left-handed people are impure they go against the grain left-handed children play with themselves and drive themselves insane i was born left-handed but the nuns where i went to school they said it wasn't right so they broke me of it and now i'm right-handed just like i'm supposed to be and now i'm fine i'm just fine Songtextereally really but sometimes i get so low so low sometimes i get so depressed as though i lost a part of me that loved me the part that knew me best the child in me that cried to be cherished the side of me that tried to be my friend in the heart of me was living and loving but it perished and i'll never be completely me again my right had fills the china teacups and needlepoints with old maid aunts my right hand clings to rosary beads and waters dying plants but it's never painted a picture nor has it run for president my left hand might have done these things if its roots had not been bent a sculptor a poet it might have been instead of a useless thing to decorate with bangles and bracelets and my mother's wedding ring something it might have accomplished or nothing but now i'll never know oh my lost my left my natural hand my god i miss you so Aus Songtexte Mania