Roy Harper - Goodbye lyrics

Your conscience rolls in torrents down each side of your face Your chair is full of silence, your hand is full of lace You say that you should have been by him when the bullets Laid his head Strange it's always the living who fear the idea of the dead Goodbye I'll take my leave of all of you as you sit and wonder why And you who stood around us and said that we were great Until your instant riches made us second rate Well you're the same old hangman who rationalizes hope Whose left hand pats my children and whose right hand holds a case full of rope He wears the sweeping landscape in the crystal of his eye And he jumps into the rain pools as the people pa** him by He rubs the dusty ages across his tender brow He laughs and cries and sniffs and sighs. It's four long summers now Goodbye I made my peace with all of you as you sat and wondered why She walks the clover meadows in the dandelion days She throws her golden shadows across the silver haze She wanders with the swallows in the noonday pa**ion plays She sits beneath the willow and she waits for me and twilight to come our ways Goodbye We made our peace with all the world as you sat and wondered why