
Date of issue: 31.12.2012
Song language: English
Oscar Wilde Gets Out |
Freedom for the scapegoat leaving Reading Jail |
Rheumy eyes just pierced his heart like crucifixion nails |
Shaking fists and razors gleamed |
You never stood a chance |
When the ink ran red on Fleet Street |
You turned your eyes to France |
Humbled far from Dublin, chased across the waves |
Your biting wit still sharp enough |
To slice through every page |
Destitute and beaten by the system of the crown |
The bitter pill you swallowed |
Tasted sweeter going down |
And looking back on the great indifference |
Looking back at the limestone walls |
Thinking how beauty deceives you |
Knowing how love fools us all |
A golden boy in velveteen landed in New York |
The past was so seductive |
When they paid to hear you talk |
Baccarat and champagne flutes |
Tobacco from Virginia |
Long before the lords and law |
Branded Oscar Wilde a sinner |
And looking back on the cold bleak winter |
Looking back on those long dark days |
Felt like the head of John the Baptist |
In the arms of Salome |
Don’t turn around it’s a white gull screaming |
Don’t cry out loud you never know who’s listening |
You’ve seen it all the exiled Unforgiven |
From the stately homes of England to her prisons |
And looking back at the hardened lifers |
Looking back on the wretched poor |
Thinking maybe they were my saviors |
Strange to think I’ll miss them all |
Strange to think I’ll miss them all |
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