By Appointment - Angelo Branduardi

Through the misty realm of morning

Came the cry of the raven’s warning

Come away there is evil around you

There is canker curse and fire

It will take out your eyes for its master

It will cut you and give him your heart sir

Now too late it is close it has found you

Beware the venomous iron

Be still I do not fear death

I now welcome the journey

But friend fly to my patron

And pluck his eyes in revenge

Go tell him that my last breath

I spent singing an old song

His heart will burn with my heart

In the fires of hell before long

For the crab will come out of the ocean

To be near to his mouth for the time

He can steal his soul on his dying breath

And hide it away for eternity

Oh greater the lord more the fool

Always the same essential flaw

While his lackeys are picking my bones clean

People dance on to my songs at his back door