The Sweet Goodbye

Ah, you look so good, Tallulah You look so good tonight With your metal edges shining In the sickly yellow light You keep me young You make me feel Like a man reborn And we will both be smiling From the front page in the morn Destiny beyond the blind Give ‘em what they need Sweet, the sweet, the sweet goodbye Sow the final seed If anybody asked me How I come to know That everyone is guilty And everything must go I’d tell them ask The vein of blood That’s buried in the rocks Or else the men who reared me In their fatigues and their frocks Destiny beyond the blind I shall be released Sweet, the sweet, the sweet goodbye Kamikaze in the sheets Now goodnight sweet Tallulah I’ll wake you when it’s time There’s one more road to walk down And one more tower to climb Green the land that I May sadly never yet return to, dance through Still my heart goes with you, darling As the glory fades from all view Goodbye, baby, bye-bye There’s nothing left to say This must be the way It’s like I said, Tallulah I’ll never let you go ‘Til they prise you from my cold dead hands And we’re buried in the snow