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Rock Of Fergus

Wine and cigarettes all i have in vain

But nothing comes close to ease my pain

Winter has frozen my pale fingers

As i walk and linger

My father's last words flew through my heart

As he touched my face and i cried to never part

The wood floor creaked as i walked

The walls shattered as i talked

He said the old house is alive

I knew it when it was so quiet at night

Whenever i said my flat prayers to Christ

 

I did not come back for melancholy of my boyhood friends

As memories have always been in the right places to suspend

Like cold brief kisses shared before goodbyes

Struggling for never ending happines to come by

 

Autumn came when i was still deep in slumber

Tucked up innocent in his warm chamber

Whenever i opened my eyes again he was there

Watching out the window, looking so fair

 

There were nights when the ferry docked

And those distinct shapes in the mist outside i could not make out

There he went away

Ferried over so far away

As i did to him likewise now

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Aug 23, 2011
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