After the bed and the death swirls
and the purpureal magnificence
of the psychopomp who came
and the sun who ran with joy
twisting all the red green leaves
i reach by eye through window pane
and saw you gasp out your life in starts:
³are you a man or are you a mouse?²:
what strange last words to leave
the lips of one who may be d***ed
or may be saved or may be lost
what in the heat of
your mind¹s last seizure
did you see? or did you mean?
where the night was innoculated
by legion
the world is legion: everywhere.
in the last lick of night,
the last taste of black
on my lips, pink swizzle foam
as the helicopters stutter through the
long corridors: down we go:
we¹re in london: we are legion:
the sickness that waits
in the heart or in the hole:
and the lights are always on in your eyes
but in your heart they were clicked
suddenly shut:
now as the sunset
coughdrop red
folds the birds into the squidinkblue sky
always
in the night
when the lights are bright
and his voice calls for the police, or for
the british legion:
all nothing drifting
through you they were:
there is no-one to come now
the time is nowhere, and we are legion:
your heaven or your hell awaits
mothering sunday: after the service:
and the vicar shakes hands with you all
and if you but knew
he is waving goodbye
legion: someday: today: legion
check the hands of the watch
for time, for time,
and do not say ³this time is mine²:
this is the night; the night and you:
your meeting with the dreaming
faces of the sea and the moon:
all shine; all shine:
someone bright appears
and says:
³your time is mine²
and the purpureal magnificence
of the psychopomp who came
and the sun who ran with joy
twisting all the red green leaves
i reach by eye through window pane
and saw you gasp out your life in starts:
³are you a man or are you a mouse?²:
what strange last words to leave
the lips of one who may be d***ed
or may be saved or may be lost
what in the heat of
your mind¹s last seizure
did you see? or did you mean?
where the night was innoculated
by legion
the world is legion: everywhere.
in the last lick of night,
the last taste of black
on my lips, pink swizzle foam
as the helicopters stutter through the
long corridors: down we go:
we¹re in london: we are legion:
the sickness that waits
in the heart or in the hole:
and the lights are always on in your eyes
but in your heart they were clicked
suddenly shut:
now as the sunset
coughdrop red
folds the birds into the squidinkblue sky
always
in the night
when the lights are bright
and his voice calls for the police, or for
the british legion:
all nothing drifting
through you they were:
there is no-one to come now
the time is nowhere, and we are legion:
your heaven or your hell awaits
mothering sunday: after the service:
and the vicar shakes hands with you all
and if you but knew
he is waving goodbye
legion: someday: today: legion
check the hands of the watch
for time, for time,
and do not say ³this time is mine²:
this is the night; the night and you:
your meeting with the dreaming
faces of the sea and the moon:
all shine; all shine:
someone bright appears
and says:
³your time is mine²