For the Love of Ash Grey - The Verlaines

You took me down to Alexandria

Showed me where the library stood

All this rampant kind of ignorance

Is happening everywhere that you look

Oh God…

And in between drinking

Impairing your hearing,

Being so bloody uninspiring, singing

Hallelujah, hallelujah

Hallelujah, hallelujah

All the way home

You’ve not known much at all

For the love of ash grey

You barter far too much away

For the love of ash grey

You lie within a single state

I have a book and you yourself have written in it

And if you want I’ll let you take a look at it

Know all there is to know, or just remain a shadow of it

You took me down to Alexandria

Showed me where the library stood

I held a book, a match, a tin of kerosene

I didn’t feel very good

Oh God…