New Cross -

I took the long way home, love

Over the shatter of bone

And cities of campfire ash

Stood in the dying light, love

Trying to make my mind up

Couldn’t we never go back?

Time is all we need now

But it doesn’t need our spurn

It feeds upon the cautiousness of man

I don’t wanna wait for a messenger to come

Lead us to the great white surface of the sun tonight

And the donkey they threw from the bell tower

from the Black Sea

And shrouded my heart in a Golden Fleece

And I trampled hard coals to a diamond

Left from the deck of a ship in the Dardanelles

To bring you this ring in an oyster shell

I had the darkest dream, I

Can’t get my conscience clean of

I burned this town to the ground

(Oh, that you didn’t)

Resigned myself to wandering around