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The Angry Laughing God
Alasdair Roberts
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What God lied with scheme and strength
To keep the peopled earth in check?
And David he to wrap his hands
In anger round our narrow necks
Bestowed him a barren sack
Bequeathed to her a fallow sack
Gehenna for the many damned
And heaven for the few elect
Childlessness is no disgrace
But wither now, wither now the human race
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Well long before this old grey beard
Before my curly locks were thinning
Hope was for a welcome woman
Trailing in a gown of linen
Oh, now hope was for a bonny brood
And gaily playing in the garden
And I their only cornerstone
She their watcher and their warden
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I stumbled in disguised in drink
Described an arc around the room
Saw her in the corner shrink
A young embroideress at her loom
Oh, must it be from risk a thing
To run like some reluctant groom?
And leave her with her maidenhead
In bridal bed as heaven doom
But childlessness is no disgrace
But wither now, wither now the human race
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Well now her apron's to her shin
Her head upon my shoulder resting
On her face the wanton grin
Of one with modesty in question
Now the thing that led her to my door
Is far beyond my understanding
So why should I give roving over
And all my roguery abandon?
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Well it's what the angry laughing God
Who wrought the clockwork universe
Ordains, ordains
To bind with briars our desires
And lock our love away
In heavy chains, heavy chains
The angry laughing God
Who moulded everyone
Both young and old
In clay, in clay
The angry laughing God
Who made our limbs alone
To be repaid
One day, one day
It's what the angry laughing God
Who wrought the clockwork universe
Ordains, ordains
To bind with briars our desires
And lock our love away
In heavy chains, heavy chains
The angry laughing God
Who moulded everyone
Both young and old
In clay, in clay
The angry laughing God
Who made our limbs alone
To be repaid
One day, one day
Oh, sha-la-la-la
Oh, sha-la-la-la
Oh, sha-la-la-la
Oh, sha-la-la-la
Oh, sha-la-la-la
Oh, sha-la-la-la
Oh, sha-la-la-la
Oh, sha-la-la-la
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