Love Without End

Mighty Rome has fallen
and so shall America too
I shall be as dust
and so my friend shall you
and all that follow us
they shall follow too

What was accomplished?
What was done?
A few careless rhymes
lots of senseless action
Let us put down these false pretences
of inner satisfaction

Fie on your silly slogans
That flutter in the wind

I have not the answer
and neither have you my friend
Yet if I had but one chance
for to the future a message send
in the perfect perfume of dream
a love without end

Fie on all your blarney
and all men stout of heart
Everyones a gambler
in a game never to start
And all that's put together
is so only to fall apart

The goddess becomes a hag
and mother turned a whore
When the heartbeat is drowned
by the drums of war
The savior only pretends
he's been here before

Hate is an open wound
that will never mend

I have not the answer
and neither have you my friend
Yet if I had but one chance
for to the future a message send
in the perfect perfume of dream
a love without end

Pretty lime trees line the driveway
leading to the mansion

Cold ocean breezes carry the seagulls
high above the city

Nature, red in tooth and claw,
prefers her dinner eaten raw

Some sell souls for silver
some make confession
But the night keeps falling on
down on the procession
Marching under the hill
Is that what you will?

Tell me wiseman, who
drives the cows before you?
Your day is done
Fie on transient wisdom

You are dead already
A wave upon the ocean
You claim you are different
You're just going through the motion

In someplace outside of history
I smile as I watch you stand
I wonder what you would think of me
if the hour of doom were at hand?

Think that you'd be so brave then
convinced that you know the plot?
Tell me you've got the answer?
Sorry bud, I think not

Pity the gentle rainbow
the sky forces to bend

I have not the answer
and neither have you my friend
Yet if I had but one chance
for to the future a message send
in the perfect perfume of dream
a love without end

One more song to sing you
One more thing to say
But it's an empty song
So I'll be on my way
The chicken or the egg
The night or the day

I can remember nothing
just her name
And so dissolveth gold
power and fame
when all that's won is lost
so follows the game it's true
The fire you died to own
now comes to consume you