Paper Wedding

Behold the citadel
Is covered by the weeds
On broken eggs of hope
There sits despair

The caterer is tending
To their needs
And the hum of human misery
Fills the air

Lady Ruth is sitting
In her ivory tower
She became the bride
Of Frankenstein

And an angry bull is banging
On the door below
Crying 'let her go
The lady's mine'

And the jester dances over
Undistinguished heaps of ruins
Writing songs of love
And revelation

And he says I think
I recognise the tune
But I just can't seem to place
The situation

And time is writing wrinkles
Upon his head
And all of his good friends
Can hardly wait until he's dead

And the deed is done
Burns like a fire in my mind
And you're surely mad of me
Mad of me to cry

Goodbye lady Ruth
Goodbye love of mine
If you want to know the truth
I hope you're feeling fine

Life goes on they say
But what am I to do;
When life is you without me
And me without you