I spent many a night laying on my back Waiting for the dawn to pierce a crack in the ceiling Hanging from the sky And I envied the boy who grabbed the toy And ran away and found the joy While I stood in the shadows wondering why Flying towards me, wrapped in laughter A woman's face, a terrible taste Of the morning after kisses and goodbyes I can never seem to catch my footsteps Have desires they fly away And every day I've got to fight the Plague
How can I live an hour like this When anguish strikes me like a fist My nakedness exposed, and I can't stand Still I try to remember lips on lips And hits on the hips, and ice and fire and gloom and glow When did they leave the man In the river of the night I see A face that shimmers down at me But like a falling star burns itself out Like a lead leaf scrapes the gravelled ground My voice cries out, a gravelled sound But no-one's there to hear me but the Plague
Straining hard to see Running after me I keep pounding Pounding on the door But it's all so vague When you meet the Plague And I keep coming, I keep coming back for more