The Riddle (LP Version)

See the moon slink down in the sky darling

Let your fantasies fly darling

Life is cold

And the game is old

Just see how virtue repays you

You turn and someone betrays you

Betray him first and the game's reversed

For we all are caught in the middle

Of one long treacherous riddle

Can I trust you

Should you trust me too

We shamble on through this hell

Taking on more secrets to sell

'Til there comes a day

When we sell our souls away

Through the mist your lover is beckoning

Comes that moment of reckoning

Faces change

Even smiles grow strange

And we all have so many faces

The real self often erases

Enticing lies

Flicker through our eyes

Feel the terror draw ever nearer

The more you stare in the mirror

But hold your own

Face the wind alone

Reel on love

Toughen your scars

Year by year we're falling like stars

'Till there comes a day

When we sell our souls away

Can I run to you

Are you true to me

I'll do unto you as you do to me

And we slowly learn someone has to burn

Better you than me

Oh

Ev'ry judas once loved a jesus

But fin'lly treason will seize us

And only fools follow golden rules

We all are caught in the middle

Of one long treacherous riddle

Of who trusts who

Maybe I'll trust you

But can you trust me

Wait and see