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.