As I went walking
Out one evening
Beside the sycamores
By the trembling lake

I met a woman
Named Candy Gallows
And her tears had rusted
The palace gates

Candy Gallows
Candy Gallows
Don't ask me how the time goes

Candy Gallows
Candy Gallows
Don't ask me how the time goes

She said "Your highness
Thomas Aquinas
Have you measured
The depth of the abyss?"

I said "Ms. Gallows
I have not done so
I cannot climb on
Ladders of mist."
She said "Your highness
Thomas Aquinas
Is god as unhappy as we?"

I said "Ms. Gallows
Our human sorrows
Just like are lives
Are flickering and brief

The life hereafter,"
I said with laughter
"Is like the radiance
When a storm cloud lifts."

She said "Your highness
Thomas Aquinas
Wouldn't god die
If death were such a gift?"

Candy Gallows
Candy Gallows
Don't ask me how the time goes

Candy Gallows
Candy Gallows
Don't ask me how the time goes
I said "Ms. Gallows
I must take my leave."
I cut through the graveyard
Though the hour was late

I struck a match
Upon a tombstone
And read in horror
My name and date