A wretched party stood and prayed  Under the lashing rain and thunder  The ropes fell through the handles, the coffin sloping under  The earth slipped through black fingers  At the graveside where she stooped  And an ill wind howling through her veil  For a man who served no good, he served no good  He never was an evil man, hard but fair, his mother said  A timid youth of ridicule, each schoolday made him quake with dread  In the showers and the rugby field, the bullies came to play  Most nights he'd weep and piss the bed  But he vowed they all would pay, they all would pay!  Like his father in the coldstream guards, he was soon in married quarters  Licked his way up through the ranks, he had no time for sons and daughters  She waits on him, the sweet young thing  Repenting at her leisure  Like a blinkered mount he charges on  How much longer is her tether  How how she laughed, while so lovingly she spurned him  For time had stole ungraciously all the dreams she'd been yearning  No joyous cries of children, is this marriage granite firm  It breaks his heart that seeds can't grow, from a bag of watered sperm  He joined the prison service, she broke the chains and left him  For the first time he was all alone, a demon's soul possessed him  An institute of misery, in a painful sea of darkness  And from inside his tortured mind, cruel, bleak and heartless  An angry mob was breaking out from the chokey cells and 'D' wing  Tonight the hard lags call me tune, come the dawn, no birds will sing  No more raining down the stick, a violent end draws nigh  No hope, no tears, no mercy, for the life of this small fry!