Inside the Castle Walls |
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| The crippled children lie laughing in the rain
Glassy-eyed lovers turn their eyes away Tin can mothers shreik with new found pain and speak of an iron Jesus, while young love steals away to bear the virgin fruit of a nameless babe With the brave soldier you will find his gun (there's always that one last War to be won) now lying dead out in the noonday sun There lies long-loved freedom, with his face in the mud and the earth spits out his fresh-spilled blood The constumed ringmaster plays chess with the clown who falls into a deep sleep and almost drowns Through the tears of his own sorrow you can hear his frown He's caught up in a dead world and can't get down Now his painted smile has dropped to the ground Along the blackened roadside lies the dying dog its whines pierce the moonlight that glistens in the puddle of blood For he's rode upon the metal eyesight of a chrome-plated horse and breathes as the earth runs around 'till nothingness opens it doors then life flows on, a little more insecure The inmates gaze quietly over the grey stone walls and sigh as they watch the strugglin' animal through the twilight fog Don't you expect any better, for they'll never give you any more and Insanity pulls up the drawbridge and things go back as before as a lady smiles behind the Castle walls |
Notes
Written around 1968. Known from a notebook with handwritten lyrics sold at an auction in 2006.
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