The thought that you’ll not live with me forever
Makes in vain each every endeavour
The way you smile, each way you sigh
Each day you remind me, that it’s worth while
For the sands in the glass that inevitably guide
To the bottom of the crystal, in the future we die
To the present which is now, but now it is then
As a temporal progression, we commit many sin
Pity the dead, no don’t pity the living.
But as we enchant into our own bemusement
Think of the days when we were immune to
The rigours of life, the indefinite folly
With each casket comes rain, must embrace with no brolly
Pity the dead, no don’t pity the living.
The sand is thick; I’m up to my neck
Still thinking of you, a surfaced shipwreck
I’ve outgrown so many, many that I’ve loved
But not one comes so near, guiding me from above
A perpetual amity, that came from a mew.
Pity the living, no don’t pity the dead.