Sepia
Sing me a pastel shade sunset Washed with sepia bleached by the moon Paint me faded into grey Never night and never day No windows no doors in the room Dazzle me with razzle phased trumpets Come together for never at heart Throwing shapes at crystal balls Hurting herald curtain calls Grab the seams and tear them apart Coming on like a sabretooth daydream Take the polish right down to the bone Carve forever and a day Get set go and come what may Sell the echo and profit the stone Dance the days a silver tongued sunbeam Deaf eternal to cries of the night Whispersmith to kill the time Third's the charm so spare the wine Shame the circle and swallow the light Dread of the circus freak nightmare Washed by faces blurred out by the rain In the archives of the blind Dusty shelves with words entwined A penny a time for the pain Sketched on the parchment of nowhere Show of hands will turn back the tide Strike the pose at half past one Hold your colour hold the gun Make forever a wishwatch width wide