| Bind Up My Life Villains Lovers and Fools Page 9 |
| The Beast of Neverevermore My mood is now a black one Hobnail boots and dark Bleak resolve does fill my veins And shadows hide my heart My eyes dead set upon the rocks Of the foggy boggy moor To face that awful bloody beast Of Neverevermore The mist is cold and clammy Against hot humid skin A chilling rush runs through me As I slowly enter in I shall slay you Foul and fetid thing This anger to my heart And then I will begin again. A colder harder start |
| Feed My Head I wish I could feed my head With something other than me I am bitter fare and out of season. Serve me up sweet lies Of lovers long ago- Their kisses and happy endings. Speak of ancient legends That gobbled up kings and spit out fools. Mark the heroes that colored your dreams With shining swords and mighty steeds. And then the brandy and cigars- Reveal to me the mysteries of your soul |
| That Inside Joke I concluded long ago It was an inside joke It is the WHY That I�ve been pursuing Construing and misconstruing I�ve imagined it And re-imagined it I�ve defined it And refined it Measured its hypotenuse Divided it by pi And after all this speculation I still do not know WHY And so with it is with heavy heart I give up And bid it now goodbye |
| The Mines of ME I went down in the mines today In the rocky old land of ME It�s a dark and dangerous place Down there In the heart of deepest ME I scraped away at black hypocrisy My nails dirty with blind conformity My feet stumbling through the soot of society To find the treasure in the dark Down there in the heart Of deepest ME At the core a chest of honesty Diamond shining originality But I find it very hard to see Down there in the deepest part Of an unenlightened heart Of ME So find that genie with the magic lamp Let it shine so I can see We�ll split the booty if we find it there The treasure that is ME |
| BEACON I read the words of lovers So beautiful Winding their way around the heart Oh I wish my heart would open I wish I could swallow you up And let your love shine out of me A thousand little star lights shining A Beacon of humanity But I�m an abandoned light house My bulb burned out�.. |
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