The road to Mandalay, 23.2.2021

I wrote a version of Kipling's Mandalay, strongly inspired by Charles Dance's reading.

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Show me somewhere East of Nowhere

where your best is like my worst

For I’ve lost all sense and reason

your objection was my first

Now the bells of doubt are callin'

an' it's there that I should be

By the old Erised Mirror

looking boldly back at me

I may never see the day

                    when another wants to stay

                        with my sickness ever looming

                    pushing me another way

Will I ever see that day?

                    when I hear the organ play,

                        An' the dawn light up like thunder

                    as a promise, one could say