Merciful wife

It shows in your face

when  you’re about to fade

acquaintances tell you

this is something new

this is something chilling

as you’re in for the killing

you’ve come to the end

and just cannot mend

      Somewhere there’s a river

      a stream that makes me shiver

      it’s where I’ll be delivered

      to my merciless wife

      at the end of my life

      make that my merciful wife

      at the end of my life

The masks are all falling

dark masters are calling

I just long for the spring

and the last song I’ll sing

oh bring the last beaker

to the mouth of the seeker

I’m looking for reasons

in these senseless seasons

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Hand of fate, on me now

Jagger said it and then how

I feel it in my very blood

and I’m stuck deep in the mud

of doubt and fear, anxiety

I’m a stranger to all piety

the truth is naked, inhumane

still I’ve decided to stay sane

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14/1/12