About this song
He was once a weapon in another's hands, his mind and body violated by Phyrexian oil. Now, Ajani Goldmane offers not vengeance, but a quiet understanding to those who share his scars. This is the song of a healer who knows exactly where it hurts, because he's carried the pain himself.
Lyrics
[Verse 1] You came down the steps with two heads on a chain. You took a stone finger off a statue in passing. And the fire girl said, look, it's you without mercy, and I looked a long time, and I didn't look away. [Verse 2] I have been the thing you are, and worse. Norn put her oil in my blood and a blade in my hand, and I turned on the ones who trusted me, and I still wake at night with her fingers in my fur. I lost my words in that tower, too. The telepath took a whole language off my tongue, and I healed a friend in a voice I didn't know, till a girl with his face gave it back, and I said thank you twice. [Pre-Chorus] So don't ask me like you're asking a stranger. [Chorus] I know where it hurts. I have carried it in me. I was somebody's weapon once, and I came back to being me. Even the mind can be healed, even yours, even this. I know where it hurts. [Bridge] I charged a ghost of Norn in a tower full of lies, and the hunter held me back with everything he had, and I said forgive me for forgetting what was real. She still claims my nightmares. She doesn't get my hands. [Verse 3] At the end he sent you back for one more fight. My axe met the hunter's shadow on the sanctum floor, and the gorgon looked at you, and the stone came up your mane, and you died with a snarl, and I'm sorry that you did. [Pre-Chorus] So don't ask me like you're asking a stranger. [Chorus] I know where it hurts. I have carried it in me. I was somebody's weapon once, and I came back to being me. Even the mind can be healed, even yours, even this. I know where it hurts. [Outro] I know where it hurts. Let me.
