Theme For Thought Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Lepra Messias 

Cover art for Theme For Thought lyrics by Virgin Prunes

The quote is taken from Oscar Wilde's "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" (http://www.pmms.cam.ac.uk/~gjm11/poems/reading). It is a poem which expresses sympathy for a sinner who is hanged in a prison: "A prison wall was round us both, Two outcast men were we: The world had thrust us from its heart, And God from out His care: And the iron gin that waits for Sin Had caught us in its snare."/"Yet all is well; he has but passed To Life's appointed bourne: And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourner will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn."