Rubicon - Peter Hammill

I lay down beside you:

I am a unicorn, you a virginal maid

And I come in laughing play

But, maybe, to be saved

Peer through the backcloth:

I am a character in the play

The words I slur are pre-ordained

We know them anyway

Don’t change your mind, don’t be a fickle friend;

Don’t change your mind, don’t pretend

To something false

Open the toy-box:

You are Pandora, I am the World

If you cross the stream, you never can return;

If you stay, you’ll surely burn

Don’t change your mind, don’t come all orchid eyes;

Don’t change your mind, don’t disguise the fear you feel

It’s real, and you must

Guard your castle well

For I am the lone wolf and the boar at bay

Grant me your Pax, you know we only live today

And on, and on, and into

«So long»

It takes so long to drown

It takes so very long to choke on the taste you’d spurned

If you cross the stream you never can return

If you stay you’ll surely burn