Mack Murphy & The Inmates - Merry Green Land | Текст песни

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• Mack Murphy & The Inmates
• Merry Green Land

We left her at midnight
And on the morrow she died
I can still see her lying there for days
Exposed to all the damps and dews of night
& that tattooed promise & pictures put in frames
perfumed letters wrapped in ribbons
we’re burning on the window sill

Tell me why, why should I stay here
where all beauty must die
where’s that merry green land that I shall call mine
& we pray up to the Lord, & we swear by the…

Knowing that there’s no truce
Lapsing into blind belief
We all seek girls & soup, beggar, king or thief
& those live nude girls in glittering G-strings
the sad lights of the carnival
& that great longing within

we orphan our children, we widow our wives
we raid the graveyard for bones
try never to surrender our lives
shooting ourselves out of cannons
along with these fortune telling cards
leaving these stale beer afternoons behind
for the endless ride