Long Is the Night - MoriArty

Long is the night

Long as the shame of the man

Who can’t manage to die long

Under the lamppost his naked eye swing

And his eye, blind with the breath of Gin

And the smell of a blond girl’s wet flesh under his nails

Oh God, how long is the night

Must they drag the sky away

Let the earth not lead me on

Must they drag the sky away

And lay me long in stillness

Long in stillness for night

Oh how long is the night

Deliver me from this night

It happened on a Friday

My life ran on with fasting

The air oozed vapours of lemon

And the fishbone stuck into my craw

When out of the gutted fish I lifted

A ring which cast for at the time of my birth

Feel in the river of night

Feel in the river of night

Where it sank I threw it back to the night

Must they drag the sky away

Let the earth not lead me on

Must they drag the sky away

And lay me long in stillness

Long in stillness for night

Oh how long is the night

Deliver me from this night