Will It Come For You?

Will it come for you? Oh sha sha, oh sha sha-la ha Flowers for the new religion In the penal colony Oh, life is sweet for the men in sheets And their dreadful progeny Burn in the streets of the promised land Make refuge a living hell Twist it round ‘til you hear that sound Leave it where it fell I make my bed in a rushing stream Of crimes I never could have dreamed Will it come for you? Left to our own devices We would carve these laws in flesh And in the bright of some stilly night Would carve ‘til there’s nothing left Oh, would I were a desert flower At the feet of this platoon Baby, faces grey as the coming day Turned up to the listing moon And if not now then presently This world will dash your heart out on a tree And if not here then around the bend All things move freely to their end Left my baby in the still of the night Had to tell her that I done saw the light But the truth’s worse and the words will not come And I wish I were home, that I’d never begun Down this road, baby, all blooming with clover All spangled with horrors, yeah yeah Here it comes again I loved you once once but you know you let me down And will it come for you?