Farewell, My Darling

Farewell, my darling, you don't need to carry your cross

Don't need to fill the box with diamonds, ashes and rust

Before the long line of your life turns into dust

There's never enough time to spare your last blush.

Oh, farewell, my darling, it's been a long, long time

Darkness has crept up on us and covered up the vines

The crucifix of your circumstance has met with it's own deceit

Beside the gate where your delivery boy waits with barefoot feet.

Farewell, my darling, there's no need to argue or to beg

The things you learnt before are too deep laid to ever forget

There's no need to beg for mercy, all the mercy's been given out

By the weary prophets of eternity

Who follow the words that sprinkle from your mouth.

Farewell, my love, too many crimes sink before the dawn

While we watch the poets who circle across your lawn

There's far too few reasons for you to ever learn the truth

There's too many dreams undreamed and too many thoughts are new.

Farewell, my darling, I'm sure I don't need to explain to you

The reason for your dignity or the shadow of the noose

There's unwrapped dreams lying there, they're cast around your stairs

And deep-laid plots of kings and queens lay hidden beneath your hair.

Farewell, my lover, too many regrets are unseen and unwashed

Too many empty evenings are hidden deep and lost

Too many tides have turned back at the edge of the cliff

Too many diaries filled with unreasoning words of

Something that you've missed.

Farewell, my darling, time never waits for you

The reasons for your doom are the truths they gave to you

Time will wash your fears away if only for a while

When you kick your sleep tonight, then you'll be allowed to smile.

Farewell, my darling, there's no reason for tears of regret

I'll always stay forever lost, forever in your debt

I have no need to argue, to borrow or to beg

When I'm sleeping with you, remembering the words you said.

Farewell, my darling, keep your cards with you at all times

Never listen to the rumours and always mistrust the lies

There's no need for false circumstance, it lies beside the tide

And what's written in the book can never, can never be denied.

Oh! No!