All you boys a-dancin'
All you singin' songs
Quit while the lights a-swayin'
To death those lights belong...

Sick, now with the fevers
Rattles in the lungs..
All the words are mixin'
All the words been sung...

All you painted faces
All the lies you speak
Caught you in your places
Snagged you where you're weak

All the boys, your world now falls
the seas a-churnin' round
You with your charms in shadowed halls
Your words, to which now bound.

All you boys a-cryin
gnashin' at the teeth
You drowned with all your lyin'
Belong now, to the Beast...

04/12/2008

Author's Note: Something different, from 2006

Posted on 04/12/2008
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