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Kirk can mean "church" in general or the Church of Scotland in particular. Many place names and personal names are also derived from it.
As a common noun, kirk (meaning 'church') is found in Scots, Scottish English and historically in some English dialects, attested as a noun from the 14th century onwards, but as an element in placenames much earlier. Both words, kirk and church, derive from the Koine Greek κυριακόν (δωμα) (kyriakon (dōma)) meaning Lord's (house), which was borrowed into the Germanic languages in late antiquity, possibly in the course of the Gothic missions. (Only a connection with the idiosyncrasies of Gothic explains how a Greek neuter noun became a Germanic feminine.) Whereas church displays Old English palatalisation, kirk is likely to be a loanword from Old Norse and thus has the original mainland Germanic consonants. Compare cognates: Icelandic & Faroese kirkja; Swedish kyrka; Norwegian (Nynorsk) kyrkje; Norwegian (Bokmål) & Danish kirke; German Kirche; Dutch kerk; West Frisian tsjerke; and borrowed into non-Germanic languages: Estonian kirik and Finnish kirkko.
Will you be my darling?
I have become the cold floor lately
Without much, I'll lay and wait
And I'm a white car in the wake
Of your endless mourning
So tell me who's afraid of change
Yeah, they will tell you we're the same
But you know I treat you different
You're my pretty, pretty princess
Girl, you know it
Now that I'm gone
Scream your loudest
If he's in your basement
If he's touching your skin
I'll kill him
Held my brush to his head
Said I'd paint this whole town red
Crack my heart and spill it
Were you crying baby?
Were you surprised to find me waiting?
Cause I had half the nerve to leave
And then I lost the will to breathe
Now I'm choking on this
I'm choking, look at me
Now that I'm gone
Scream your loudest
If he's in your basement
If he's touching your skin
I'll kill him
Held my brush to his head
Said I'd paint this whole town red
Crack my heart and spill it
And spilled it
And spilled it
And spilled it
Oh, can we
Take a second, please
To breathe
Oh, can we
Take a second, please
To breathe
Scream your loudest
If he's in your basement
If he's touching your skin
I'll kill him
Held my brush to his head
Said I'd paint this whole town red
Crack my heart and spill it
Scream your loudest
If he's in your basement
If he's touching your skin