Mausoleum - Rafferty

Come inside my mausoleum

Light a candle of the pathway to my casket room

Step on through rusty iron archways

Where a pigeon lays

it died without his lover

So strange and beautiful

How you gaze upon my bones

Mistake a tragedy

Since we’d missed eachother by centuries

They took my clothes and sent to a museum

All I am is dust, and a handlebar mustachio

They took my guns and horse and swords for history

But they kindly left a photograph of you and me

You dress so beautiful

On those cliffs that took your soul

But I reach for you as you drifted out to sea

Since we’d missed eachother by centuries

Your fine lips, I would kiss you again

So don’t be frightened by my skeleton

I’d kill to touch your soft bony hands

But I can’t, because this is my lover’s century

So strange and beautiful

How you gaze upon my bones

Before you leave me out to sea

I’ll visit your bones next century