Single Phial lyrics

Artist	Skyclad
Album(s)	The Answer Machine?

Lyrics

I have walked the earth so many times before your birth
Today is only yesterday's tomorrow
And as a gardner in eden it was I who sowed the seed then
I've come to reclaim this life you borrow

Singing 'ring a ring o' rosies' for your final lullabye
Have you any prayers to make before you wave your last goodbye ?
I bring 'a pocket full o' posies' - lay a wreath to ease my guilt
As the light's go out forever not one drop of blood was spilt

Chorus:
As yet unwritten history -
Once more I stride the lightning road
Identity a mystery -
My burden is pandora's load
Traversing endless centuries -
Disguised behind death's lipless smile
I hide that my intention is to pour this single phial

I'd have rather seen your face almost any other place
Still here we meet - always the way in this profession
And as I gaze into your eyes - I see the glimer within dies
From ther moment I first make my dark confession

How could I swear I would be there for you, until your dying day
Certain in the knowledge that it's not that far away?
So you leave me sitting here bewildered as a new dead ghost
While I try to justify destroying that which I love most

As yet unwritten history -
Once more I stride the lightning road
Identity a mystery -
My burden is pandora's load
Traversing endless centuries -
Disguised behind death's lipless smile
I hide that my intention is to pour this single phial

The dark millenium is ending - final daze of the decayed
And a reign of tears is falling - it's the judgement eve parade
Though I wash my hands a thousand times - still the guilt remains
She stole my heart - I took her life ..
(And yet I never knew her name)

As yet unwritten history -
Once more I stride the lightning road
Identity a mystery -
My burden is pandora's load
Traversing endless centuries -
Disguised behind death's lipless smile
I hide that my intention is to pour this single phial

Out with a whimper - not with a bang
And they all gathered round while the church bell rang
Singing 'bring out your dead' they 'll stretch for miles
To be bourne to their graves in single files

Chorus:
As yet unwritten history -
Once more I stride the lightning road
Identity a mystery -
My burden is pandora's load
Traversing endless centuries -
Disguised behind death's lipless smile
I hide that my intention is to pour this single phial

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