Long Is the Night

Long is the night Long as the shame of the man Who can't manage to die long Under the lamppost his naked eye swing And his eye, blind with the breath of Gin And the smell of a blond girl's wet flesh under his nails Oh God, how long is the night Must they drag the sky away Let the earth not lead me on Must they drag the sky away And lay me long in stillness Long in stillness for night Oh how long is the night Deliver me from this night It happened on a Friday My life ran on with fasting The air oozed vapours of lemon And the fishbone stuck into my craw When out of the gutted fish I lifted A ring which cast for at the time of my birth Fell in river at night Fell in river at night Where it sank I threw it back to the night Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better Must they drag the sky away Let the earth not lead me on Must they drag the sky away And lay me long in stillness Long in stillness for night Oh how long is the night Deliver me from this night