Lyrics, “Ruin”

The original lineation of the lyrics to the Hounds song, “Ruin.”

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Ruin

Backwards go the men into the garden.
What herds them, but a haircut and a look?

They're only twenty, but they're already hardened.
They've earned their horns with every hook.

There will be sighs, oh!
There will be signs, oh yes!
But mostly it is better.
Surely, mostly it is better.

Forget about great men,
and soon the Great Forgetting is over—
leaving all that's left all over.

Forward go long sleeves,
a latitude, and shame.

And curtains draw the whole world over.

There will be sighs, oh!
There will be signs, oh yes!
But mostly it is better.
Surely, mostly it is better.

Ponies cannot love children.
But oh, those ponies!

Ponies cannot love children.
But oh, those ponies!

There will be sighs, oh!
There will be signs, oh yes!
But mostly it is better.
Surely, mostly it is better.

Those ponies!
Those ponies!
Those ponies!
Those ponies!

There will be sighs, oh!
There will be signs, oh yes!
But mostly it is better.
Surely, mostly it is better.

Those ponies!
Those ponies!
Those ponies!
Those ponies!

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