Little Katie’s crying in the garden
With a little spade to hide her dear departed
She’s only just learned of lack of permanence
That “life” and “love” are present tense
She mourns a fairground fish, I mourn her innocence.
Late at night, Danny’s crying for his mama
Full of fright and he swears he’s heard a monster
Little does he know that here’s none under his bed
Not in his closet or his head
Danny’s daddy’s just grown horns, growled and made his mama dead
They say, you know, we are all debtors and one day we have to pay
There’s no choice in this,
We accrue interest and get deader by the day.
There’s a million points of light, stuck in the inky black of night
Choose the one to guide your way, but even stars burn out some day
What will you have to say for yourself,
If we reach the end to find there’s no heaven and no firey pits of hell?
Pray tell, will you say you still lived well?
They say, you know, we are all debtors and one day we have to pay
There’s no choice in this,
We accrue interest and get deader by the day.
We just simply exist, hand-to-mouth and -over-fist
Until there’s nothing left to save
So don’t waste your days away.
credits
from The Raven,
released January 14, 2015
Additional vocals bt Jane Lerch
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