The Charlatans Lament

At long weary last

This game is over

The sins of our past

Fled from my shoulder



The sleep that I need

Is all I ask

In thought and in deed

I have burnt the mask



Here I am

Here I am



Enchantment is broken

I merged with the crowd

Oaths have been spoken

Inside and out loud



Emerging from under

Motions of God

In tears and in wonder

I ventured abroad



Here I am

Here I am



Can you walk a smithereen

Can you walk a smithereen

Closer to me



Could you love a thimbleful

Could you love a thimbleful

Harder for me



Encountered a [Incomprehensible] hag

Blood on the snow

She said, "I've a burden to drag

And leagues to go"



I left her down by the seaside

In someone's hall

By dawn's empty light I cried

To no one at all



Here I am

Here I am



Can you walk a smithereen

Can you walk a smithereen

Closer to me



Could you love a thimbleful

Could you love a thimbleful

Harder for me



I swing between

Tears and wonder

I swing between

Tears and wonder



I swing between

Tears and wonder

I swing between

Tears and wonder

Tears and wonder



Can you walk a smithereen

Can you walk a smithereen

Closer to me



Could you love a thimbleful

Could you love a thimbleful

Harder for me

Harder for me