my never by brian mumford

i've got a loyal and true little pet
the name that i call him is never
he sings to me in the morning hours
when lucidity is my endeavor

i try and try to open my eyes
but oh the song is so soft and so sweet
and so i drop back down into my slumber
oh i've got never in a cage at my feet

one day she came to me and i arose
ignoring the song of my favorite friend
and i followed her down through the orchards and wept
to see the fruit falling ere we reached the end

she turned her head and laughed in glee
and i thought of my never so soft and so small
my never would always show kindness to me
so i trod back alone as the sky turned to fall

and what did i find upon my return?...
the door of the little brass cage left unchained
my never was gone never to return
and only a sickly sometime remained

but as never was gone and never returned
i had lost my never, but found it to hold
just me and my never alone in our bliss
but still in the corner sat sometime, too bold

we shut tight our eyes, turned to our backs
but still sometime sat all clammy and white
we couldn't have sometime to ruin our plans
so never and i did conspire in the night

that we would take sometime when weakest of all
in falling through sadness and catch it in chains
drag down through the orchards toward golgotha lake
and hurl sometime in, watch it sink 'mid the rains

and once in the darkness we heard sometime sigh
and i knew that never was now on the task
so i took the chain and i wove it with care
through the sinews in sometimes' pasty white mask

we burst out through the rain toward the golgotha lake
just never and i and our sometime all bound
and we ran through the orchards (the fruit was long gone)
and we threw in the sack and watched our sometime drown

on the edge of the orchard, by golgotha lake
my never and i alone basked in the murder
but now to my eyes came the shape of the girl
my never said "now", but i swore not to hurt her.

though she'd thrown back her head in the cruelest of laughs
as i'd wept for the fruit that had died here so young
and i'd turned back alone (that's where sometime had come)
but there must be no witnesses never now sung

as i lay back my head, and my eyes fell soon closed
i knew that my never now needed a cage
to keep it as never singing sweet lullabies
for it now was a sometime all twisted with rage

a sometime now grew from my never's remains
it was never who wilted the fruit on the tree
and made her to laugh as i set forth my tears
it was never my never who let me be free

my never had nothing to offer or touch
but this sometime grew from the murderer's husk
so i waited and watched until just the right time
and i threw down the sometime to golgotha's dusk

on the edge of the orchard, by golgotha lake
she stood in her glory all shining and grand
i asked her to tell me the name that she took
she said "i am your always" and reached for my hand.

now never will never return to its cage
for i've found an always to let me be free
but once in the night as i let my eyes close
i swear always sings never's song still to me.

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