seven times   your mindless rhymes   as the needle stings   and the test tubes fill with dreadful things   you're spinning round   from the words you found   with arguments you've buried underground      say, you say that you'll wait   through air raids you pray   when letters will fade   i miss you so      the choir sings   as gun fire rings   from the wars above   as nurses patch my arms with rubber gloves   it's sad but true   that when morning comes   the dead will rest to the beat of cadence drums      say, you say that you'll wait   through air raids you pray   when letters will fade   i miss you   through the wars in the streets   and the hospital sheets   the letters will read   i miss you so      so if the death does show   charging crossing tolls   i'll say, there's nothing living to revoke   so dream of sleeping   movement creeping   and if we're out of stone   i'll carve anything of permanence to find my home   and with watermelon effects i'm pardoned      say, you say that you'll wait   through air raids you pray   when letters will fade   i miss you   through the wars in the streets   and the hospital sheets   the letters will read   i miss you so