Magdalene

(brooker / reid)Though I know the night has fallen and the sun's sailed out to sea

I will wait here for the band to play the trumpet voluntary

And with one foot on the seashore and the other in the sand

I will stand here plaiting daisies whilst you play the piano-grandCaprice, your bugle blew away the cobwebs from my ears

And for once I stood quite naked. unashamed, I wept the tears

Which I tried to hide inside myself from me, I mean from you

But the shame I found too painful and the pain it only grewMagdalene, my regal zonophone