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von Peter Hammill

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 preordained
We know them anyway

Don′t change your mind
Don't be a fickle friend
Don′t change your mind
Oh 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 must
Guard your castle well
For I am the lone wolf
And the boar at bay
Grant me your axe
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 spurn

If you cross the stream
You never can return
If you stay you'll surely burn
If you stay you′ll surely burn
If you stay you'll surely burn