I️ was drawing the devil card from a deck of mirrors
I️ saw you broke a bottle of black stars
where the sky and I out poured her heart
fog, portentous clouds of storms obscuring the tower face
Ahh, at night I roam the pall anew that sized her lungs and obscured her dark.
And all she felt was true
and all she sang was true
and all she loved was true
that ballad cracked of forking heart on main street I had heard
Hierophant, Last night I️ heard the blossomed saddened tune
Me and my rat had walked down streets of Trieste and feasts to observe our statue
Oh, gloriana Imagination is the child crying
we walk a tone down Main Street's breadth to hold respect and Lay our sorrows at your feet
Beth sings songs of unborns and the old
your calumny was told
ah, the empty streets were singing
and I don't mind
the semantic tick of time
your loneliness and mine
were holy cities
and if you go
I'll never have to know
inside the orange glow
where the ash had shinned like snow
All those dark eyed lovers, hermits, at the railways sing
It's midnight special drinking for the hanged man and the dream
for what if that midnight train, it might never come?
Haven't we arrived somewhere else already
is this not Missouri or Marcelina?
Oh, gloriana gloriana the empress now does take your name
but could she ever really take the shape of a woman maimed
like Duessa, like Duessa so does pain
sans joy sans joy sans joy all my love's in vain
like the blues men say
Beth sings songs of unborns and the old
your calumny was told
ah, the empty streets were singing
and I don't mind
the semantic tick of time
your loneliness and mine
were holy cities
and if you go
I'll never have to know
inside the orange glow
where the ash had shinned like snow
So tell me magician
isn't it prosopagnosia?
Haven't I heard it all before
King David composing hallelujah
french singing troubadours
Facsimile of sadness, Verisimilitude of joy
I've reanimated the great emancipator
He lives on Main Street, does exactly as I️ say
and whipper wills are perch upon a branch that's in my lungs
and in the 55 I hear the Mississippi
so convinced that I know myself when I feel you near me
Beth sings songs of unborns and the old
your burdened heart was cold
ah, the empty streets were singing
and I don't mind
the semantic tick of time
your loneliness and mine
ah my eyes were hacking
Beth sings songs of unborns and the old
your burdened heart was cold
where the ash had shinned like snow
oh My Duessa, it’s another Cloudy day
Main Street’s stiff as the emperors sight, consumed in air of flames
ahh, the smoke emerging from the Canyons change
all of us in castle, our loves an oubuliette of night
and before my castle some fool stands
the red cross night
so hard to see our guiding stars unlucked to be wished upon
at night, at noon, or at dawn
oh gloriana, gloriana that orange smoke that's inside of you
oh gloriana, gloriana I think it's there inside me too
so come, don't come, if you think that's true
we'll dance upon the rain dark streets
streets that are dry without a tear
every steps a drop of love and sadness
every footfall's a splash of hate and fear
us be the flood of '38 washing it all clear
our waiting tears, our waiting tears
our vision it has warped
like eyes, like lightning our hearts and minds are forked
so if you just can't tell
you just can’t tell
Your face from form,
Gloriana or duessa? Hell?
and if you just don't care
well maybe you just don't know
beneath the castle shadows where the ash had shinned like snow
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