Angelo Branduardi - By appointment lyrics

ANGELO BRANDUARDI "fables and fantasies" By Appointment Through the misty realm of morning Came the cry of the raven's warning Come away there is evil around you There is canker curse and fire It will take out your eyes for its master It will cut you and give him your heart sir Now too late it is close it has found you Beware the venomous iron Be still I do not fear d**h I now welcome the journey But friend fly to my patron And pluck his eyes in revenge Go tell him that my last breath I spent singing an old song His heart will burn with my heart In the fires of hell before long For the crab will come out of the ocean To be near to his mouth for the time He can steal his soul on his dying breath And hide it away for eternity Oh greater the lord more the fool Always the same essential flaw While his lackeys are picking my bones clean People dance on to my songs at his back door