YOUR FUNERAL... MY TRIAL
Your Funeral, My Trial
I am a crooked man
And I've walked a crooked mile.
Night, the shameless widow
Doffed her weeds, in a pile.
The stars all winked at me
They shamed a child
Your funeral, my trial.
A thousand Marys lured me
To feathered beds and fields of clover,
Bird with crooked wing cast
It's wicked shadow over.
A bauble moon did mock
And trinket stars did smile.
Your funeral, my trial.
Here I am, little lamb...
Let all the bells in whoredom ring.
All the crooked bitches that she was
(Mongers of pain)
Saw the moon
Become a fang.
Your funeral, my trial.
Jack's Shadow
They dragged Jack and his shadow
From the hole
And the bulb that burned above him
Did shine both day and night
And his shadow learned to love his
Little darks and greater light
And the sun it shined
And the sun it shined
And the sun it shined
A little stronger.
Jack wept, and kissed his shadow
'Goodbye'.
Spat from the dirty dungeons
Into a truly different din.
Shat from their institutions
Into a fully different din.
And his shadow soon became a wife
And children plagued his latter life
Until one night he took a skinning knife
And stole into the town
And tracked his shadow down.
Said that shadow to Jack Henry
'What's wrong?'
Jack said 'A home is not a hole
And shadow you're just a gallow that I hang my body from,
O shadow you're a shackle from which my time is never done'.
Then he peeled his shadow off in strips,
He peeled his shadow off in strips
Then he kneeled his shadow on some steps
And cried 'what have I done?'
And the sun it shined
And the sun it shined
I say 'Love is blind'
And is it any wonder?
Is it any wonder?
Jack and his damned shadow
Is gone.
And though each one of us are want to duly mourn
And though each one of us are want to duly mourn
'Tis down in brighter corners now
'Tis down in brighter corners now
Now that Jack's black shadow's gone.
And the sun it shines
And the sun it shines
And the sun it shines
A little stronger.
I swear, love is blind
Oooh love is blind
Yeah love is blind
And is it any wonder?
'Tis done in brighter corners now
'Tis done in brighter corners now
Now that Jack's black shadow's gone.
The Carny
And no-one saw the carny go
And the weeks flew by
Until they moved on the show,
Leaving his caravan behind.
It was parked on the south-east ridge
And a the company crossed the bridge
With the first rain filling the bone-dry river bed
It shone, just so, upon the edge.
Dog-boy, Atlas, Mandrake, The Geeks, the hired hands,
There was not one among them that did not cast an eye behind
In the hope that the carny would return to his own kind.
And the carny had a horse, all skin and bone,
A bow-backed nag that he named Sorrow.
Now it is buried in a shallow grave
In the then parched meadow.
And the dwarves were given the task of digging the ditch
And laying the nag's carcass in the ground,
And Boss Bellini, waving his smocking pistol around
Saying 'The nag is dead meat
We can't afford to carry dead weight'.
The whole company standing about
Not making a sound,
And turning to the dwarves perched on the enclosure gate
The Boss says 'Bury this lump of crow bait'.
And then the rain came hammering down
Everybody running for their wagons
Tying all the canvass flaps down.
The mangy cats growling in their cages.
The Bird-Girl flapping and squawking around.
The whole valley reeking of wet beast,
Wet beast and rotten hay,
Freak and brute creation
Packed up and on their way.
The three dwarves peering from their wagon's hind,
Moses says to Noah 'We shoulda dugga deepa one',
Their grizzled faces like dying moons
Still dirty from the digging done.
And as the company passed from the valley
Into higher ground
The rain beat on the ridge and on the meadow
And on the mound
Until nothing was left, nothing at all
Except the body of Sorrow
That rose in time
To float upon the surface of the eaten soil.
And a murder of crows did circle round
First one, then the others flapping blackly down.
And the carny's van still sat upon the edge
Tilting slowly as the firm ground turned to sludge.
And the rain it hammered down.
And no-one saw the carny go
I say it's funny how things go.
She Fell Away
Once she lay open like a road
Carved apart the madness that I stumbled from
But she fell away
She fell away
Shed me like a skin
She fell away
Left me holding everything.
Once the road lay open like a girl
And we drank and laughed and threw the bottle over.
But she fell away
She fell away
I did not see the cracks form
As I knelt to pray
I did not see the crevices yawn, no.
Sometimes
At night I feel the end it is at hand
My pistol going crazy in my hand
For she fell away
O she fell away
Walked me to the brink
Then fell away
I did not see her fall
To better days
Sometimes I wonder was she ever there at all.
She fell away
She fell away
She fell away.
Hard On For Love
It is for she that the cherry bleeds
That he moon is steeped in milk and blood
That I steal like a robber
From her alter of love.
O money lender! O cloven gender!
I am the fiend hid in her skirts
And it's as hot as hell in there
Coming at her as I am from above
Hard on for love. Hard on for love.
Hard on for love. Hard on for love.
Well, I swear I seen that girl before
Like she walked straight outa the book of Leviticus
But they can stone me with stones I don't care
Just as long as I can get to kiss
Those gypsy lips! Gypsy lips!
My aim is to hit this miss
And I'm movin in (I'm movin in)
Comin at her like Lazarus from above
Hard on for love. Hard on for love.
Hard on for love. Hard on for love.
The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want
The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want
But he leadeth me like a lamb to the lips
Of the mouth of the valley of the shadow of death.
I am his rod and his staff
I am his sceptre and shaft
And she is Heaven and Hell
At whose gates I ain't been delivered.
I'm gunna give them gates a shove.
Hard on for love. Hard on for love.
Hard on for love. Hard on for love.
And her breast rise and fall
Her breast rise and fall
Her breast rise and fall
Her breast rise and fall
And just when I'm about to get my hands on her
Just when I'm about to get my hands on her
Just when I'm about to get my hands on her
Just when I'm about to get my hands on her
You are beautiful! O dove!
Hard on for love. Hard on for love.
Hard on for love. Hard on for love.
Just when I'm about to get my hands on her
Just when I'm about to get my hands on her.
Her breasts rise and fall
Her breasts rise and fall
Just when I'm about to get my hands on her
Just when I'm about to get my hands on her
Hard on for love. Hard on for love.
Hard on for love. Hard on for love.
Sad Waters
Down the road I look and there runs Mary
Hair of gold and lips like cherries.
We go down to the river where the willows weep,
Take a naked root for a lovers' seat
That rose out of the bitten soil,
But bound to the ground by creeping ivy coils.
O Mary you have seduced my soul
(And I don't know right from wrong)
Forever a hostage of your child's world.
And then I ran my tin-cup heart along
The prison of her ribs,
And with a toss of her curls
That little girl goes wading in,
Rolling her dress up past her knee
Turning these waters into wine
Then she plaited all the willow vines.
Mary in the shallows laughing
Over where the carp dart
Spooked by the new shadows that she cast
Across these sad waters and across my heart.
Long Time Man
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