I've lived a life of despair So please don't take my hair It's all that I have left It will leave me bereft The Norwood Reaper cometh The Norwood Reaper cometh The coming years look bleak For the suffered freak Ascend the widows peak What makes the brave man meek The Norwood Reaper cometh The Norwood Reaper cometh The Norwood Reaper cometh The Norwood Reaper cometh It's here today and it's gone tomorrow The Norwood Reaper cometh Oh fighting back is folly He culls the hedges wholly Sowed by melancholy Betrothed with just the holy The Norwood Reaper cometh The Norwood Reaper cometh The Norwood Reaper cometh The Norwood Reaper cometh It's here today and it's gone tomorrow The Norwood Reaper cometh