Jabberwocky, or Nick's Dilemma
(This song is for my friend Kiley who first introduced me to Forever Knight and if anyone is casting "Forever Knight the Musical, she'd be an incredible Natalie. This song is inspired/based on an episode called "Curiouser and Curiouser", the song pretty much sums up the story, but it was a fascinating episode that really played fast and loose with the realities of Nick's life, and it featured the ever incredible Nigel Bennet as Lacroix doing the most sinister of things to Lewis Carrol.)
Tonight another cause to mourn you did things by the book
Tonight another mortal dies another life you took
Eight centuries of guilt are there you have no place to hide
And somewhere in your tortured soul his voice begins to chide
Have you seen the jabberwock my son
The claws that bite the fangs that catch
Beware the jub jub bird and shun
The frumious bandersnatch
What was red has now turned white you have a different life
Your confidant's your paramour your paramour's your wife
You now have everything you want the world has gone insane
Your maker's dead and still his voice is screaming in your brain
Have you faced the jabberwock my son
The fangs that bite the claws that catch
Beware the jub jub bird and shun
the frumious bandersnatch
My beemish boy I warned you of the price that you would pay
Regrets and purer wishes cannot be a vampire's way
No tum tum tree to rest by a decision must be-made
Accept that you cannot turn back or face my vorple blade.
Snicker snack and through and through the past the blood the how
The nothing more you could have done holds little comfort now
Have you slain the jabberwock my son
The pangs that bite the guilts that catch
Beware the sentence "where did I go wrong" and shun
The frumious bandersnatch
The looking glass is shattered and you're back where you belong
redemption's an illusion your life of darkness must go on
Be careful what you wish for every evil has a plan
And know that you can never purge the monster from the man
And do you know the jabberwock my son
The pain that bites, the hurts that catch
Beware the darkness bottled in your mind and shun...