The art of the juggles stole his sleep As cold but tender whore was sold too cheap So he was sentenced to plead for his own art To lay down beside her till death do us apart
Show me the harvest moth The plain greed in the artist's cloth And i'll just swallow the knife And grow larger than life I'll just follow the rhyme Of a simple rune from time to time
But you throw me the harvest dream The simple need of the artist's scheme And i swallow the knife I grow larger than life And as i wallow in sleep I spoil your chance to seap
Gone is the sprawling dancer brought on stage Gone is the wild-eyed lunatic inside the cage And as the artist went home with a means to an end You were painted in blood with clown's torn pride to mend