Temptation Lyrics

My thoughts whisper of temptation

They beg me to concede

While I wander aimlessly, trying to keep off of my knees

It isn't easy to feel certain

There isn't much that seems sincere

It's the drawing of the curtain that keeps me waiting here

And now the time is coming

And I know it won't be long

It's for you I'm feeling something, it's for you I hear this song

There's a glass upon the table

Someone filled it up with gin

What good am I to wander when there's nowhere I have been

I could watch the tables turning

I could feel it from where I stand

But it's all a circus game, behind the curtain there's a man

I pour out my religion

I serve it to you cold

Don't expect for you to toast the very life that you've been sold

I'll ask you where you're going

With that tremor in your voice

Say you're heading into trouble, I say you haven't any choice

See the markings on the tomb

Read the writing on the wall

Not for you I gave it up, not for anyone at all

See the moving of the clock hand

He must be waving me goodbye

Say you'll see me once again, it's not the last time that I'll die

There's people all around me

And they plead me with their case

Find no words to hold against them, no jury can I face

Their eyes force me to wonder

If there's really any way

To keep humility and linger where I lay