Rubicon Lyrics - Hammill Peter

I lay down beside you : I am a unicorn, you a virginal maid, 

and I come in laughing play ---- 

but, maybe, to be saved. 

Peer through the backcloth : I am a character in the play, 

the words I slur are pre-ordained ---- 

we know them anyway. 

Don't change your mind, don't be a fickle friend; 

don't change your mind, don't pretend 

to something false. 

Open the toy-box : you are Pandora, I am the World. 

If you cross the stream, you never can return; 

If you stay, you'll surely burn. 

Don't change your mind, don't come all orchid eyes; 

don't change your mind, don't disguise the fear 

you feel : 

it's real, and you must 

guard your castle well, for I am the lone wolf, 

and the boar at bay ----- 

grant me your Pax, you know we only live today, 

and on, and on, and into : 

"so Long" -- it takes so long to drown; 

it takes so very long to choke on the taste you'd spurned. 

If you cross the stream you never can return; 

If you stay you'll surely burn.