A Well Beside The River
Skyclad

A song i dedicate unto those who share my need
to give their all - and should they fall strive on til they succeed.

though my belly aches with hunger - weary limbs tremble and shiver
i'd rather go where waters flow - no well beside the river.

It's spur has driven some to Hell on an unbridled desire
no pain - no gain - the strongest chain's forged in the hottest fire

I pity you - who's eyes so blue have never known ambition
yet can spit your judgment at me like some crazed, despotic queen
This dull existence merely half-life - (a glazed comatose condition)
too scary to try - so born to die sat at your sewing machine

Discontentedly accepting all the world's prepared to give her
it's fate that she stagnates just like a well beside the river

Life's one almighty, ducking - school we've built with our own hands.
We can swim and burn or sink and drown
'cause either way we're damned.
I'm so proud to be the tupping fool - your foul, fantastic freak,
at least each moment I've spent on this earth was totally unique.

So little man with such big plans to stand upon the stage,
Why do you squabble in the dirt - you should be reaching for a star?
By far the greatest gift that I can give on making the front page,
it is: instead of punching faces why not practice your guitar.

More beauty has been composed than jealousy can tear and sliver.
Wilst troubled waters bubble -you're a well beside the river

Life's one almighty ,ducking - school we've built with our own hands.
We can swim and burn or sink and drown
'cause either way we're damned.
I'm so proud to be the tupping fool - your foul, fantastic freak,
at least each moment I've spent on this earth was totally unique.

There's a dirty job I've done for all my life without
time-off called being me.
Though the hours are long and my pay is poor - I can't resign it's
all I'm qualified to be!

[CHORUS:]

Life's one almighty ,ducking - school we've built with our own hands.
We can swim and burn or sink and drown
'cause either way we're damned.
I'm so proud to be the tupping fool - your foul, fantastic freak,
at least each moment I've spent on this earth was totally unique.

Though my belly aches with hunger - weary limbs tremble and shiver,
I'd rather go where waters flow - no well beside the river.


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  A Badtime Story   A Bellyful Of Emptiness   A Broken Promised Land   A Clown Of Thorns   A Dog In The Manger   A Good Day to Bury Bad News   A Near Life Experience   A Stranger In The Garden   A Word To The Wise   Alone In Death's Shadow   Another Fine Mess   Any Old Irony?   Art Nazi   Bewilderbeast   Bombjour!   Brimstone Ballet   Building A Ruin   Bury Me   By George [Instrumental]   By George [Instrumental]   Cancer Of The Heart   Cardboard City   Catherine At The Wheel   Civil War Dance   Come On Eileen   Constance Eternal   Crux Of The Message   Cry Of The Land   Dead Angels On Ice   Deja-Vu Ain't What It Used To Be   Desperanto (A Song For Europe?)   Earth mother, The Sun And The Furious Host   Eirenarch   Fainting By Numbers   Gammadion Seed   Great Blow For A Day Job   Halo Of Flies   Helium   History Lessens (The Final Examination)   History Lessons   I Dubious   If I Die Laughing, It'll Be An Act Of God   Inequality Street   Intro: Pagan Man   Isle Of Jura   It Wasn't Meant To End This Way   Jeopardy   Jumping My Shadow   Just What Nobody Wanted   Karmageddon (The Suffering Silence)   Kiss My Sweet Brass [Instrumental]   Kiss My Sweet Brass [Instrumental]   Land Of The Rising Slum   Little Miss Take   Master Race   Men Of Straw   Moongleam And Meadowsweet   Mr. Malaprope & Co.   My Mother In Darkness   My Naked I   No Deposit, No Return   No Strings Attached   On With Their Heads!   Our Dying Island   Penny Dreadful   Polkageist   Polkageist!   Postcard From Planet Earth   Quantity Time   R'Vannith   Ring Stone Round   Sabre Dance [Instrumental]   Salt On The Earth (Another Man's Poison)   Schadenfreude   Science Never Sleeps   Single Phial   Sins Of Emission   Skyclad   Snake Charming   Spinning Jenny   Spiral Starecase   Spiral Starecase [Instrumental]   Still Spinning Shrapnel   Terminus   The Antibody Politic   The Cradle Will Fall   The Declaration Of Indifference   The Disenchanted Forest   The Great Brain Robbery   The Ilk Of Human Blindness   The One Piece Puzzle   The Parliament of Fools   The Present Imperfect   The Silver Cloud's Dark Lining   The Sinful Ensemble   The Sky Beneath My Feet   The Song of No-Involvement   The Thread Of Evermore   The Truth Famine   The Wickedest Man In The World   The Wickedest Man in the World [Live]   The Widdershins Jig   The Wrong Song   Think Back And Lie Of England   Thinking Allowed   Thinking Allowed   Trance Dance (A Dreamtime Walkabout)   Troublesometimes   Tunnel Visionaries   Turncoat Rebellion   Vintage Whine   When God Logs Off   Womb Of The Worm   Worn Out Sole To Heel   You Lost My Memory

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