Like Ashes, Like Millions

I've got the devil by my bedside

We talk from time to time

About our favourite son

And the bells that chime



I've got deserters as companions

I need the battles to stay in place

But I really can't make it rhyme with safe



Like ashes like millions of private things

We lead them deceive them

Still to remain

We used to burn bad bridges

We used to point our fingers and laugh

We disappeared but we never left



Parting's all I know of heaven

And all I need of hell

So I seek the places where sickness dwells