Minotaur Forgiving Minos

I stopped looking for the way out years ago

It's like chasing a ghost

Like the smell of cooked meat

I sometimes catch through the stone

I stopped looking for the way out years ago

There is a hole in the ceiling

I have memorized the corner

Where I can see the sky

And I go there sometimes to watch whatever floats around

I stopped looking for the way out years ago

That sadistic inventor, that sadistic inventor

That sadistic inventor did a fantastic job

I know what birds are, I know what clouds are

I know the colour of blue and the colour of blood

But that sadistic inventor did a fantastic job

All innocent, innocent, innocent, all

I hear the kids singing on the far side of the wall

"His Highness King Minos couldn’t kill the white bull

So the sea god hit the bull and the Queen hit the stall"

And I guess you know the rest and don't think about me at all

Except for every nine years sending fourteen souls

All seven of the boys and all seven of the girls

All innocent, innocent, innocent, all

And I hate to hear their screams

And I hate to see myself through their full moon eyes

And I hate that I forgive you but I do

I just don't know why

That sadistic inventor, that sadistic inventor

That sadistic inventor did a fantastic job

I know what birds are, I know what clouds are

I know the colour of blue and the colour of blood

And that sadistic inventor did a fantastic job

That sadistic inventor that sadistic inventor

That sadistic inventor did a fantastic job

I know what birds are, l know what clouds are

But I will never know why you couldn’t kill the bull

And that sadistic inventor did a fantastic job

I stopped looking for the way out years ago

It's like chasing a ghost