Patrick Wolf

And I walked west Sussex sunlight
Up by dead man’s pool
Where ma, mudlark and Lewes
Stared me down you drunken fool
Old teenage debts engulfed my chest
As I contemplate death
I put a challenge to its glamours
And all its loss and glory
Late afternoon breath
Taken deep into my lungs
Thinking of the man I must become
My story has just begun
And I will be returning
To myself soon
I’ve been alone for so many
The great moments in my life
Alone like too many
But at this moment in my life
I ask you
Father, father, anyway
I can help ye?
See I am only just growing
Much better to know thee
Thank you for the things
You’ve given to our family
Given your whole life
To your wife and my sister
And me
Now I look out north of Battle
Where our ancestors lie in grave