Will It Come For You?

Will it come for you?

Oh sha sha, oh sha sha-la ha

Flowers for the new religion

In the penal colony

Oh, life is sweet for the men in sheets

And their dreadful progeny

Burn in the streets of the promised land

Make refuge a living hell

Twist it round ‘til you hear that sound

Leave it where it fell

I make my bed in a rushing stream

Of crimes I never could have dreamed

Will it come for you?

Left to our own devices

We would carve these laws in flesh

And in the bright of some stilly night

Would carve ‘til there’s nothing left

Oh, would I were a desert flower

At the feet of this platoon

Baby, faces grey as the coming day

Turned up to the listing moon

And if not now then presently

This world will dash your heart out on a tree And if not here then around the bend

All things move freely to their end

Left my baby in the still of the night

Had to tell her that I done saw the light

But the truth’s worse and the words will not come And I wish I were home, that I’d never begun Down this road, baby, all blooming with clover All spangled with horrors, yeah yeah

Here it comes again

I loved you once once but you know you let me down And will it come for you?