Night Lilies Songtext / Lyric

come gether round assholes and chop me a line

I'll tell you a tale of a good friend of mine

it's a tale worth the telling

so you might not agree

of a man I once knew and how he lost the sea



I came here from a hearrtland

where no heart can live

where eyes remain hard and cannot forgive

of bloodshed and prison I was not affraid

as long as the dead man inside me got laid






and there's a chain that is snaking

through all our dreams

it wraps round our eyes and shuts out moonbeams

and my young heart was twisted

by dark sexual games

and the terminal shadow of heartache and stains



but boys I was waiting, just biding my time

and walking my rage down an old railway line

and girls the night lilies they perfumed the track

and when the day broke there was no turning back



now I live among lost man with winding down lives

I sleep on their sofas and feel up their wives

I wake late in the morning

with a scream in my skull

I shuffle to the kitchen but the knives are all dull



and my life kept on winding, winding down slow

I was dying of shame but not one tear did flow

and with on final click and with nowhere to go

I lay down to sleep where the night lilies grow