David Thomas Broughton - Beast lyrics

Sun picks out pale warblers on willow and painted ladies pausing on perches Before pairing clumsily and padding on the breeze Wrapped in Earth's diurnal course with rocks, and stones, and trees Ravaged as we are some day by some sort of disease To the one new young friend we have: Almost inaudible sounds come through like sirens to your ears. You have to watch yourself if you want to be taken seriously. You are always showing your age To one of the many people I regret not showing more attention to: I am not the trained health specialist with the beautiful dark skin. I'm simply the friend you once had, Simon, come to see the state that you're in If you can't be forgiving then you can't be my friend. We drink 'til we're drunk and we walk 'til we bend My love is something that comes with no question, but you insist on it's dissection My love is a stone that has known no attrition Have been left with nothing but blanks of uncertainty How could you have seen future in the futility of love? How could you have seen something that was not? When we would become the beast with two consciences