The Rake's Regress

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Verse 1 - The Madhouse


Gather round, my fevered bedfellow friends
Stop your screaming and scratching the walls
Come close, my moonlit Bedlamite kin
Let me tell you the tale of my fall
Strap in, all you angel-anarchists
Beau-bedraggled and bold
For the story of a daring escape
From the straitjacket sewn for my soul

Verse 2 - The prison


Twenty years a prisoner, bound and foresworn
In a fortress of so feckless and dry			
Twenty years a fiddler, playing for time
In a dungeon of my own design 				
Twenty Lears' worth of indecision
Slowly wasting away					
Too blind to see the gates were unlocked
Too unwilling to enter the fray

Pre Chorus 1 - The Gaming House


And all the games of skill and chance would tantalise
Always swindling myself out of time 
Every roll of the dice, took my eyes off the prize, I sighed,

Chorus 1 - The marriage


You there - let us pray
Here comes the pastor, bible out to marry me 
All here - you gonna pay
Been down so long, you'll say yes to anything
Hold on - if I may!
The blood in the wine, it should've been a giveaway
Church door - getaway
It's not you, it's me - I only came to claw my way back
Throw me to the wolves, I'll come back at the head of the pack
Throw me to the wolves, I'll come back at the head of the pack



Verse 2 - The Arrest


Like a convict on a desperate chase
Apprehended and stopped in the street	(you knave and villain)
Abandoning my men and sedan
I was saved from the jaws of defeat (and sinful living)
Rapscallions plundered purse and pocket
I began not to care (the flesh is willing)
The judgement came as blessed relief
I was tried and found wanting repair


Pre Chorus 2 - The Orgy


As I stripped my habits in a sea of limbs
"It's good to party, there is no doubt
But it's better to have
Something to party about", they said...

Chorus 2 - The Levee


"Born free - here we are
Too blind to know that never isn't good enough
Off key - but always here
Too loud to hear - too deaf to give a damn about"
Deep freeze - debutante!
Smelling the coffee, banishing the entourage
Stop me - if you've heard this before
Won't die in the wool, I'm not your sacrificial lamb, jack.
Throw me to the wolves, I'll come back at the head of the pack
Throw me to the wolves, I'll come back at the head of the pack



Middle 8 - The Heir


Now I've found my tribe
Now I'm purified
I can see what I gotta do
My decline and fall
Can't be bad at all
If it led
Me to you

Outro pt1


Deal me a wildcard - let the cards play where they fall
Rumours of my demise - are quite overstated, i'm sure

Outro pt2
I was born under a century moon
At the dawn of an in-between age (of sons and daughters)
I was torn between the now and the soon
And the chaos of Finding My Way (through fire and water)
I was raised with the promise of it all
Of the rise with no fall (like lambs to slaughter)
Just in time to see it crumble and fall 
Torn to pieces in front of my eyes

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