Rhymes Of Goodbye - Scott Walker

I’ve come far from chains from metal and stone

From makeshift designs and seeking a star

To grab for the truth, to keep myself warm

I turn and it’s gone, you smile and it’s born

The rhymes of a woman’s

A river that never ends

The rhymes of dimension

Surrounds us with fire and friends

And roaring through darkness

The night children fly

I still hear them singing

The rhymes of goodbye

There’s nothing within, but within says a voice

That’s still my empire and I’ve got a choice

Its healers of death, it’s still got a fire

And I’ll keep it burning with hands of desire

The bells of our senses can cost us our pride

Can toll out the boundaries that level our lives

Can slash like the sunlight through shadows and cracks

Our nakedness calling, our nakedness back

The rhyme of our passions

Find beauty in loving love

The rhyme of our madness

Burn cities and push and shoves

And roaring through darkness

The night children fly

I still hear them singing

The rhymes of goodbye