Rubicon [BBC Radio One John Peel Session][*]

I lay down beside you : I am a unicorn, you a virginal maid,

And I come in laughing play ----

But, maybe, to be saved.

Peer through the backcloth : I am a character in the play,

The words I slur are pre-ordained ----

We know them anyway.

Don't change your mind, don't be a fickle friend;

Don't change your mind, don't pretend

to something false.

Open the toy-box : you are Pandora, I am the World.

If you cross the stream, you never can return;

If you stay, you'll surely burn.

Don't change your mind, don't come all orchid eyes;

Don't change your mind, don't disguise the fear

you feel :

It's real, and you must

Guard your castle well, for I am the lone wolf,

and the boar at bay -----

Grant me your Pax, you know we only live today,

And on, and on, and into :

"so Long" -- it takes so long to drown;

It takes so very long to choke on the taste you'd spurned.

If you cross the stream you never can return;

If you stay you'll surely burn.