Take Me Away My Love

I'm a breeding ground for sin
I feel them squirming from inside
There are maggots in my skin
They are eating me alive

Won't you take me away
Far away from an infected land
Where the sunshine touches my skin
Won't you give me a helping hand?

Take me away, take me away
Over the hills and faraway
Take me away my dear

To hills and valleys and lands of green
Take me away, take me away
To a land I've never been to or seen
Take me away my love

Where flowers of every kind bloom
Take me away, take me away
How long must I wait? It better be soon!
Take me away my love

I can feel them crawling beneath
Like a poison within my veins
Through my pores they writhe and seethe
Yes, this is driving me insane!

I need someone to scoop me up
and mend my broken bones
Oh who will fill my empty cup?
I feel so alone!

Won't you take me away
Over the hills and faraway
Take me away my dear

A place where the stream flies from mountainside
Take me away take me away
May it's cleansing powers abide
Take me away my love

Let it wash every inch of me clean
Through my pores, to the places unseen
Let it flow through all the cracks
So that the disease won't come back!

Take me to a place so high
They can't catch me, they won't even try
Take me to a place in the clouds
Where the silver moon and the glowing sun abound

Can't you see it festering?
It's starting to seep through!
You better stay clear of me though
Else I get it all over you!

It's highly infectious,
it spreads like wildfire
So better run to the sacred land
Cause the flames are getting higher!
And higher
And higher
And higher!

Ah! I am being consumed by rot
Take me away take me away
Dead I am, alive I am not
Take me away my dear

Let the silver feather across my fingertips
Lead me to cool waters so that it may touch my lips
Better lead me to a pool where stars forever shine
Through the blackest waters, honey, why can't you be mine??

I've waited so long, I feel the strain
Take me away, take me away
Why must I endure all this pain?
Take me away my love

My road is trampled, my heart has been torn
Take me away, take me away
I cannot go forward one minute more
Take me away my love

You will have to carry me there
For I'm too weak to walk
I'm a heavy burden to you
I can barely talk

I hope you have the strength
to get us both over that cliff
It may be too late for me,
but of purity, you might get a whiff

You must take me to the shallows
For in the deep I cannot swim
My arms are all but torn
I have not one working limb

I feel the death spreading like a sluggish river of tar
I feel so exhausted, surely I cannot go far
Drag me to the waters and remake me there anew
Oh tell me dear lover, what am I supposed to do?!

Won't you take me away...?
Take me away, take me away...
Over the hills and faraway...
Take...me away...my...love...