Farewell, my darling, you don't need to carry your cross Don't need to fill the box with diamonds, ashes and rust Before the long line of your life turns into dust There's never enough time to spare your last blush. Oh, farewell, my darling, it's been a long, long time Darkness has crept up on us and covered up the vines The crucifix of your circumstance has met with it's own deceit Beside the gate where your delivery boy waits with barefoot feet. Farewell, my darling, there's no need to argue or to beg The things you learnt before are too deep laid to ever forget There's no need to beg for mercy, all the mercy's been given out By the weary prophets of eternity Who follow the words that sprinkle from your mouth. Farewell, my love, too many crimes sink before the dawn While we watch the poets who circle across your lawn There's far too few reasons for you to ever learn the truth There's too many dreams undreamed and too many thoughts are new. Farewell, my darling, I'm sure I don't need to explain to you The reason for your dignity or the shadow of the noose There's unwrapped dreams lying there, they're cast around your stairs And deep-laid plots of kings and queens lay hidden beneath your hair. Farewell, my lover, too many regrets are unseen and unwashed Too many empty evenings are hidden deep and lost Too many tides have turned back at the edge of the cliff Too many diaries filled with unreasoning words of Something that you've missed. Farewell, my darling, time never waits for you The reasons for your doom are the truths they gave to you Time will wash your fears away if only for a while When you kick your sleep tonight, then you'll be allowed to smile. Farewell, my darling, there's no reason for tears of regret I'll always stay forever lost, forever in your debt I have no need to argue, to borrow or to beg When I'm sleeping with you, remembering the words you said. Farewell, my darling, keep your cards with you at all times Never listen to the rumours and always mistrust the lies There's no need for false circumstance, it lies beside the tide And what's written in the book can never, can never be denied. Oh! No!