[Music by Adam Cook; Lyrics by R. Michael Cook]
"'Oh, dear! I can't understand that," said the princess.
'I dare say not. I didn't expect you would.
But that's no reason why I shouldn't say it.'"
[- George Macdonald, The Princess and the Goblin]
Let me pa**, let me pa**.
I am hungry for sweeter gra**.
Let me pa**, let me pa**.
Soon the first shall be the last.
The shadows on the wall
are not enough for me.
I want the light behind
all the shadowed shapes.
I shall soon graze in greener fields
of gra**es that whither not nor yield.
My final prayer is a feeble bleat;
the left path is never free.
Let me pa**, let me pa**.
Soon the first shall be the last.