A pistol shot at 5 o’clock
The bells of heaven ring
“Tell me what you done it for”
“No I won’t tell you a thing
“Yesterday I begged you
Before I hit the ground –
All I leave behind me
Is only what I found
“If you can abide it
Let the hurdy-gurdy play –
Stranger ones have come by here
Before they flew away
“I will not condemn you
Nor yet would I deny”
“I would ask the same of you
But failing will not die
“Take up your china doll
It’s only fractured –
And just a little nervous
From the fall”