Written in ignorance... SONG OF AN OUTCAST It seemed like a forest where we walked stray paths, lay in dry leaves, made love and cracked laughs; we dreamed if we stayed here we might never part; this was the stage we were made for. So when the sunlight splintered the trees and fell in your eyes, I rose to my knees. I tend to be pious at moments like these but you might say it’s all that I prayed for. Now I don’t know how we lost the way there. I can’t remember, you don’t seem to care. These hands are dead now – they’re not worth a pair – you might say we’ve lost all that we played for. (Chorus) So why don’t you lay my head on your warm white breast? Don’t you mind if I play dead, I just need some kind of rest. And we’ll steer clear of this cold hard track – see how it stretches down to the stark town; I don’t think there’s still a last train back. This seems like a trial, where we can’t stand still, sentenced to labour on this city hill. Lust, love or pity – they’re just acts of will, such are the sentries we’ve turned to. And all the fine talk we’ve worked to an art I’ve come to think it was fake from the start. I ache to be healed – this is breaking my heart, not to yield in the way I once yearned to. So we lie set in stone while the sky’s scored grey – all we need’s a small dog at our feet made of clay – till silence descends at the close of each day, such are the ashes we’ve burned to. Oh, how did you go so cold? Oh, how did I grow so old? Oh, if it was our souls we sold, that was a bad deal when this is the whole world. I’ll tell you the truth and it won’t take long. It’s nothing to do with what’s right and what’s wrong. You trade in your voices, and go for a song, you don’t have what you need to sing with. When we come to draw, it’s a dark empty well. We put our home on a long shot that fell. It was a haven we turned to a hell, there’s not a lot left we can sin with. I know that I’m stalling, and it sounds absurd, but we could try calling, in case we get heard. I’ll bid all I have, if you just give the word. It might be enough to begin with…
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 01:16:47 +0000
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