The Song Of Fie
In the year of jubilee I was cast out on the street
and they told me to go far into the jungle wild and deep
the hand I held was mine and the soul I held, the same
but the clothes upon my back, on none I laid my claim
oh why, has your love forgotten me?
oh why, does it pain me to be free?
I came up to a town, and the name it had was Fie
And the sign it had before said "such a nice place to die"
So I went down to the bone yard, gave the gravedigger my dime
he looked at me with hungry eyes and said "its not quite your time"
oh why, has your love forgotten me?
oh why, does it pain me to be free?
So I checked into a motel and the writing on the wall
said "Call on me - Sweet Sara" and a map of where to call
so I wrote it on a paper that I tore from the good book
and I hid it in a place where no god would ever look
oh why, has your love forgotten me?
oh why, does it pain me to be free?
I climbed up to a high place with the wind upon my face
Where I met a man named Daniel who had fallen, once, from grace
He showed me of his open wounds, and showed me of his sores
He said to me through dying teeth: "these don't compare to yours"
oh why, has your love forgotten me?
oh why, does it pain me to be free?
I looked more closely, and I saw him blind and lame
his feet were chained to his log, eyes burdened by shame
I robbed him of his money, he fell into a crawl
said "I live my life of exile, but you don't live at all"
oh why, has your love forgotten me?
oh why, does it pain me to be free?
"Your tarnished soul is one to keep, your youth is yours to taste
your woes of flesh are not so much to seek out death with haste
take your knife and plunge it deep and through your throat at will
but note with every breath you take your knife and hand are stilled"
oh why, has your love forgotten me?
oh why, does it pain me to be free?
Sweet Sara on the balcony with a shotgun in her hand
Said "Call me not a woman, for I call you not a man.
Be warned, you all, who enter here, be weary of your sins
You'll never be forgiven, your heart shall never mend"
oh why, has your love forgotten me?
oh why, does it pain me to be free?
So here I stayed in cold embrace, for years I can't recall
And all I was, was guilty and a witness to my fall
My mouth was tainted with the taste of hatred strong as steel
My heart was torn, and rotted out, and had started to congeal
oh why, has your love forgotten me?
oh why, does it pain me to be free?
Coming down from this sick town
To the place where I once hid
From the eyes of these snakes and flies
Who would cut you too be rid
Maybe here I can find somewhere
Where I can wash away my fears
Find some hope or a length of rope
To help forgive the years