Book of lies

I went to the ends of the earth
to find out what your loving was worth
now I'll never be the same
my heart, my will, my soul's gone lame
So I flew into Taipeh
but I was feeling so far away
I didn't deign to even look
seeing I was in another book

         in the book of lies
         of love betrayed
         in the book of ice
         of all feeling stayed
         so goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
         bye now, bye now, bye now

It wasn't Gideon's bible no
it was a lot more ribald so
I drank another beer and
I shrugged and I sighed and I leered
my jaws were clamped tight
so my eyes never cried
but my heart was bleeding
as I doggedly kept reading

       refr.


1981.