The Seductive Poison

Under a sky that spoke dryly and highly

Though some would say plainly, come given the view

Of dust devil prairies, a scary deluge

Poised to drum, thunderheads edged into blue

I fell in a bar, like the clouds from afar

Seemed no more a dream than the stars

Gambling, a Lamb of God, demons contest

Eighty proof truths, twenty-twenty the rest

A Dionysian pull

I'm a confident fool

Under the moonshine's prowess

I rise again

Ten thousand men in chorus

Could not defend

Against nor bend this tempered Horus

And give or take

I break the sacred vow

This hour was never my goal

For on my knees

The thirst decrees

I now bow to the power of alcohol

Raised glasses praise spirits, a lyrical toast

To the Djinn in my veins and the unholy ghost

Fires are licking, the sickness inbred

The thrall of the bottle, full throttle ahead

I feel the spread of my wings

Across the spiteful mountainside

A dreaded raptor sings

Of delightful flames intensifying

Dark forces rule

The whinges of my flesh

Of course I fall

But always binge afresh

I rise again

Ten thousand men in chorus

Could not defend

Against nor bend this tempered Horus

And give or take

I break the sacred vow

This hour was never my goal

For on my knees

The thirst decrees

I now bow to the power of alcohol

Sekhmet save me

I am not the man that the plan has favoured

Opened gravely

I flounder onward drowned in bliss

Sekhmet save me

I am just a boy that the poison's savoured

Opened gravely

I am but a slave to the abyss

I will rise again

I'll plummet from the summit

But I'll rise again

I will rise again

I'll plummet from the summit

But I'll rise again

I will rise again

I will rise again