The Charlatan's Lament

At long weary last

This game is over

The sins of the past

Fled from my shoulder



The sleep that i need

Is all that i ask

In thought and in deed

I have burnt the mask



Here i am

Here i am



Enchantment is broken

I merged with the crowd

Oaths have been spoken

Inside and out loud

Emerging from under

Motions of god

In tears and in wonder

I ventured abroad



Here i am

Here i am



Can you walk a smithereen

Can you walk a smithereen

Closer to me

Could you love a thimbleful

Could you love a thimbleful

Harder for me



Encountered a loathly hag

Blood on the snow

She said "i've a burden to drag

And leagues to go"

I left her down by the seaside

In someone's hall

By dawn's empty light i cried

To no-one at all



Here i am

Here i am



Can you walk a smithereen

Can you walk a smithereen

Closer to me

Could you love a thimbleful

Could you love a thimbleful

Harder for me



I swing between

Tears and wonder

I swing between

Tears and wonder

I swing between

Tears and wonder

I swing between

Tears and wonder



Can you walk a smithereen

Can you walk a smithereen

Closer to me

Could you love a thimbleful

Could you love a thimbleful

Harder for me

Harder for me


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