A distant bell

I'm so uncool that my fingers almost burn They've been known to strip the skin like the sun Come and touch me, brave heart, with your velvet skin You're playing games with me you'll never win You...

Oh hark, the drums do beat my love I can no longer stay The bugle horns are sounding clear And I must march away We are ordered down to portsmouth And it's many's the weary mile To join the british...

The space his leaving creates I have tried to fill with bodies that numbed my skin In them I had expected to find his opposites I found only forgeries He's away and I cannot breathe him in When I...

Alas, you were like a grand and magnificent mansion And I, from the white summit of your roof In the light of the star-studded night Listened to the fearsome flow of the euphrates below I heard with...

Young love is honed so sharp That the blade can snap, embedded in your heart And when you move you feel the ache Though the face that caused it fades But old love grows so long That the part above the...

Ye muses assist me, there is none can resist me Save only that fair one whom I do adore And the more that they tease me The more he would please me He'll be my greenwood laddie til time is no more...

I knew you could not forget me, couldn't if you tried You'd spoken truth on upper street: I was your soul & you were mine But the fire was too hot for you & you took your burned hand...

The trees they do grow high & the trees they do grow green But the days have gone & passed my love That thou & I were seen It's a cold winter's night my love It's now that I...

I give you no more words; you take them hostage And bring them back in negative In stockholm they're convinced by their captors In the opposite of reason, so twisted They smile at me with logic...

Sleeping beside you I dreamt I woke beside you Waking beside you I thought I was dreaming The motion of landscapes, of oceans, is inside him He is so innocent sleeping, no protection is needed At such...