Gareth Jones Songs

DID YOU HAVE TO ASK? 

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Are you really coming, are you coming to the fair?

All our friends and neighbours, they will all be there.

Death will ride beside us; they will see him come.

Will it not be fun, will it not be fun?

 

Open up a window that is hanging from a tree.

Tell me where you’re looking, will you tell me what you see?

Find benign removers, they’re exchanging your remains

Count the payment carefully, in case they come again.

 

See the stalls and side-shows, pass them one by one.

Open a box of treasures to let you have your fun.

Let the night fall slowly, as it has to come:

Did you see the sun? Did you see the sun?

 

This is just a shorter story of a song that’s still to come.

Try and pay me no attention, let me sit and sing this tune.

Castle’s glories, leaving stories, fantasy just died in bed.

Kiss the tears that stain the memory,  

Save everything except the head.

 

Yet still I hear you crying softly, listen to me just this time.

Try and make your God remember

That this is just a little sign made by lovers making others, Need the rules be kept by heart?

Understand why I am here now. 

Where on earth did this song start?

 

Did you go tomorrow, have you just come from the fair?

What a strange elation now I know you really cared.

What about the body that was lying on the path?

Did you have to ask?

Did you have to ask?

I knew that he’d come…………