The Hall of Fallen Angels

William Campbell Powell © 2024

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            There's a place that no-one speaks of at the end of Meeting Street
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            Where the faithless and the loveless and the heartless lovers greet
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            It's the place where last-chance losers come to live their hopeless dreams
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            Where guilt walks masked as innocence and nothing's as it seems

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            The past mistakes we left behind, re-opened and laid bare
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            It's the Hall of Fallen Angels and I was welcomed there
            
            Dark angel calls to angel and two hearts forbidden beat
            As one, and one draws closer, and passions flame and heat
            In secret rooms we threw off caution, and played our fantasies
            And I crept home and filled my once love's ears with hollow lies
            
            The new mistakes we're building, which you and I now share
            In the Hall of Fallen Angels, in the bed of I-don't-care
            
            The ones that we have left behind, the first loves we now wrong
            With lies that sound so sweet but taste so bitter on the tongue
            A stolen hour at noon-time spent in passion on a quilt
            The room keys shine like gold but all they open up is gilt
            
            The futures that we hoped for have turned to dark and cold
            In the Hall of Fallen Angels, where we count the love we stole