Autumn Soon

The puppetmaster understands the need

The jury needs to feel the greed

And seeds revolve and grow and bleed

Daytime sees a newer breed

The underlife tick tocks

Pushing through my safe ideas

Goodbye heroica you overdosed on years

And I ask you for a midnight, you give me a high noon

When winter puts her hands on you

It must be autumn soon

Whatever happened to the leaves that used to fall

And where's the candle I left spluttering in the hall

And what's the meaning of the siren's call

I blame it on you all

The underlife tick tocks

And chimes away between

Goodbye heroica, you're not needed for this scene

And the flaming dying sunset has collapsed like a balloon

When winter puts her hands on you

It must be autumn soon

I thought I heard her voice upon the tide

It was only the shells and the stones that sighed

Old Neptune tosses in the deep and scalds his mermaid bride

And you know, I really tried

The underlife tick tocks

And changes into ash

Goodbye heroica we only accept cash

I'm here to give you everything, do I have to stoop or croon

When winter puts her hands on you

It must be autumn soon