The Serpent Said (Banks)
In the silence of the night, a serpent shape
Moves its way across the stony floor
In the comfort of your life, the serpent said,
You know that you could have still more,
Picture where you want to be
The door is open wide
Don't you really want to know?
Don't you want to know how it feels
To see if it's all worth trying?
You want to know how it feels
Don't you want to rule the world a little bit,
Who to help and who to leave to swim?
You could better everything, the serpent said,
In your own peculiar way,
History would honour you
No matter what you did
Don't you really want to try?
You want to know how it feels
And see if it's all worth trying
You want to know how it could feel,
In the silence of the night, you lie awake,
Turning over in your mind the words:
If at first you lack the nerve, the serpent said,
You could always try again.
And now left upon your own
Has nothing changed at all
Do you really want to know?
You want to know how it feels
And see if it's all worth trying
You want to know how it could feel,
To be the one.
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and I will know I've done the very best I can
and I will leave behind
strain and pain
and take the blame for who I am
and I
I tried
tried to find a way
to hang it all together
oh together
and when
I leave this life,
what will you say of me,
you who never knew my heart?
for I will
leave behind
the sound of a woman
who knew what was true
from the start.
and I
I wanna slide
out of my old hide all
clean and free and better
yeah I
wanna ride off into a wild new morning,
off