Lucifer
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 2020-04-24

Lucifer

F Am
He called me Lucifer
Em Am F Em
and I hated him, hoped he would disappear;
Am Em F G Am
no longer wanting the adult child here
Em Am
with a  mind poisoned with hate and fear

But packing his pitiful things in a rucksack
so he could sleep alone in a frosty park
my heart wept and begged his soul to come back
to his home, his family, away from the dark

Bb Am Dm C
I pack rugs and food, a packet of cigarettes
F Am Dm
Trying to ease the black night in his soul.
F C Gm A
A family photo, a torch and my regrets
Bb C A7
that I couldn't be there, make him whole

His feet are battered and bruised
He limps and can barely see
A friend guides his beaten body, confused,
lonely, sleepless, cold, in misery

We chant and pray that he may find his way
back to our warm parental arms
Our son, the tissue from our bodies combined,
Bb C Dm
Returned from madness and harm


TJD
24/4/20