Lyrics - Rubicon by Hammill Peter

I lay down beside you :
I am a unicorn, you a virginal maid,and
I come in laughing play ----but, maybe, to be saved.
Peer through the backcloth :
I am a character in the play,the words
I slur are pre-ordained ----we know them anyway.
Don't change your mind, don't be a fickle friend;don't change your mind, don't pretend to something false.
Open the toy-box : you are
Pandora,
I am the
World.
If you cross the stream, you never can return;
If you stay, you'll surely burn.
Don't change your mind, don't come all orchid eyes;don't change your mind, don't disguise the fear you feel :it's real, and you mustguard your castle well, for
I am the lone wolf, and the boar at bay -----grant me your
Pax, you know we only live today,and on, and on, and into :"so
Long" -- it takes so long to drown;it takes so very long to choke on the taste you'd spurned.
If you cross the stream you never can return;
If you stay you'll surely burn.

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