When Dining With The Devil (Words And Music By Dr Ian Inkster 2017) Poem by Dr Ian Inkster

When Dining with the Devil Use a Long, Long Spoon

When dining with the devil use a long, long spoon.
You think the choice is yours but you'll consume
A dose of loathing in his dining room.
When dining with the devil use a long, long spoon

How did you get there and what can you do: You can't take no friend, he won't let in two
Argue forever but no-one can hear, The faces reflect your own shallow fear.
Regret cannot help you, the decision is his: Your soul long captured in his eternal fist,
Couplets that rhyme dismissed without thought: Now is the time you wished you'd done what you ought.
How did you get there and what can you do: You can't take a friend, he won't let in two.

When dining with the devil use a long, long spoon.
What your offered there shall be a tearing wound.
He'll leave you howling, wailing at the moon
When dining with the devil use a long, long spoon

No-one ever helped you now its too late: Never to pass through that St Peter's Gate,
God He ain't watching, cares not for you now: Sacraments don't travel, down here anyhow.
Those years that you prayed for yourself alone: Don't count for nothing, they can never atone.
Looking over your shoulder, fearful to fall: That's not quite the goodness God looked for at all,
No-one ever helped you now its too late: Never to pass through Old St Peter's Gate

When dining with the devil use a long, long spoon
You will never see him through a lowering gloom
You'll wish it had all ended in that dark, damp tomb …..
When dining with the devil use a long, long spoon

Ian Inkster June 2017