The shadows fill the corners across the square

They come a-crawling to offer shelter, to haul me in

Without a needlepoint in the light

And the steel to still your tongue

The night hides a multitude of uncovered sins



The heart beating in Capricorn, I take on a guise

They won’t define my anytime in the English rain

Will I feel an automatic release from all this pain?

With no movement, undiscovered, I lie in wait



So what if you’re sentimental

And I’m out of tears, out of sympathy?

I’ll make it look accidental

And I’ll leave no sign to say your life was mine

No-one I carried just the same

Thinner than most sinners and saints alive

Dare you speak my name?

So what if you’re temperamental

And I’m out of tears, out of sympathy?

So what if I’m elemental