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Come as you are
Come as you are!
Where I would write to you
And you would sing for me
Meet me behind the valley
Away from rebellion and audacity
Where the raven did not crow and our mothers did not fuss
Where wisdom did not grow and sin could not touch
Come as you are!
Before we knew what alcohol could do
When cigarettes were just a strange ritual
Hence we declared we’d never use
Meet me far from the heathen
Before we first heard the raven’s cry
Where we laughed freely and talked without care
Where we cried together without true despair
Come as you are!
Before I lost my pen
And you became a mute
Meet me away from this oblivion
Where we now clean our bodies with dirtied hands
Where we became wayward beings bought and sold
And the talons gripped us into diverging souls
Come as you are!
Where there were no slashes
Upon your damned wrists
Nor any scars on mine
Meet me opposite the ivy
Let’s not return where poison clouded our minds
Where our innocence was crucified
And our tongues became weapons and our eyes eternally blind
Come as you are!
Where we parted our final glass
Before I took my leave alone. Alas!
Meet me above the Sahara
Before the raven severed our ties
Where I have waited for you comrade
But I guess where ever it was left had died
Thus
Come as you are!
But since it has so ought to be
I will write a song for you
And you will reside barren from me.
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