Enchantment Passing Through

A few more days and we'll be home in glory Already they'll be getting out the flags With Memphis high motive dormitory For me, I only see a lot of snags The prospect above all I find distressful Is having to give up the soldier's life If anything I'm rather too successful They made me hand my sword in for a wife For just because I've triumphed as a slaver Brought booty back to Egypt by the ton Of this and every month, I'm now the flavor And scheduled to do things I've never done And why should I tell you this, a stranger I just met A woman who in hours from now I'll certainly forget Anonymous and undemanding enchantment pa*sing through My secrets and my confidence are safe enough with you My days out on the field are all but ended They'll put me out to gra*s which means the throne Bedecked and bejeweled alongside my intended I feel as though my heart is set in stone But maybe I am being far too gloomy Yes, maybe I'll make waves in pastures new Find government and politics come to me As naturally as I now talk to you For just because I've triumphed as a slaver Brought booty back to Egypt by the ton Of this and every month, I'm now the flavor And scheduled to do things I've never done And why should I tell you this, a stranger I just met A woman who in hours from now I'll certainly forget Anonymous and undemanding enchantment pa*sing through My secret lack of confidence is safe enough with you Why should I tell you this, a stranger I just met A woman who in hours from now I'll certainly forget Anonymous and undemanding enchantment pa*sing through My secret lack of confidence is safe enough with you