Lover’s Moon

Lightning splits the ancient night,

Your eyes split my courage

Would you like to split a pint

Perhaps discuss the marriage

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Lovers come as husbands go

but they - won’t erase my failure

When I did, I said I do

Now I’ve - lied to God and me and you

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Chorus:

I am dazed and I’m confused

I got nothing, to come home to

But while I sing these heartfelt blues

I’ll wish for you...........a sweeter tune

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It seems just like a year or two

It should have been forever

Now you believe I hated you

With a small but cruel endeavor

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Chorus:

I am dazed and I’m confused

I got nothin’ to hold on to

But while I drink these bitter blues

I’ll wish for you….a sweeter tune

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Lightning splits my desperate fight

And what’s left of my courage

Think I’ll dissolve into a pint

As you dissolve our marriage............

as you dissolve our marriage

I’m moving full circle to home

I’m spinning full circle to you

I’m falling like a pale pink moon

Over the heartache, born in this room

Death is dying in the bed where I was born

I am trying to pull out all the thorns

From all the flesh that has come between

You and I, mother and child

Chorus:

I see a pale moon in your garden

I hear a voice inside our silence

I see the smile you’re giving me

Eclipsing with my faith

Death is dying in the bed where I was born

I am trying to pull out all the thorns

From all the flesh that has come between

You and I, father and child

Chorus:

I see a pale moon in your garden

I hear a voice inside our silence

I see the smile you’re giving me

Eclipsing with my faith

I’m moving full circle to home

I’m spinning full circle to you

I’m falling like a pale pink moon

Over the heartache, born in this room

We’re all moving full circle to home

We’re all spinning full circle to You

Can you feel me slippin’ away

I’m trying not to show it

I’m trying not to do it

Chorus:

Slip away....back to who I was

Slip away....back to who I am

Should a never let you in

Just to break your heart

Can you feel me slippin’ away

Am I, hiding the obvious

Are you trying not to watch me

Chorus:

Slip away....back to who I was

Slip away....back to who I am

Should a never let me in

Just to break your heart

Bridge:

I never would have loved you

You never would have loved me

If we’d known from the beginning

That our hearts would touch but turn-

To slip away

I can feel you slippin’ away

Your eyes are turning gray

I’m trying not to watch them

Chorus:

Slip away....back to who you were

Slip away....back to who you are

Should a never let you in

Just to break my heart

Slip away....back to who you are

Slip away....back to who I am

Slip away.... back to who you are

Slip away....back to who I am

Slip away

Slip away

Slip away

Slip away

I don’t know what they’re saying,

but I know it’s not nice when they whisper

I don’t know what they’re doin’

but I know it’s not good when they whisper

chorus:

No time for lullabies, pink and blue the clouds roll by

Someone else can have this sky, no time for lullabies

I fill up my nights with people

Who talk loud all day long

And yes I do my damnedest

I’m the loudest of them all

But I don’t hear a thing through the bombs

Or the shrapnel of my conversation

When I catch a glimpse of myself

I know it’s all just presentation

chorus:

No time for lullabies, pink and blue the clouds roll by

Someone else can have this sky, no time for lullabies

Die for me, you say you think you're gonna die for me

I wish you'd never even cried for me

You're doing damage to my soul

Locked inside, you know your heart is never satisfied

You play the martyr and you break the ties

That held your heart so close to mine

Chorus:

And if I got down upon my knees

and gave you the very last part of me

You'd swear my heart was a royal liar

And throw me back into your funeral pyre

I can't deny, that loving you has opened up my heart

But something in me's getting torn apart

You're doing damage to my soul

I walk the night, searching for something like Holy light

But I don't see my peace of mind in sight

I'm doing damage to my soul

I see the tide fold, I watch your love roll

And yes your splendid kiss, was just another miss

And yet — I know there will be another June

Oh if your songs weren’t real, well I was meant to feel

The depth of every word, so life was not unheard

As she, whispered ‘round a hollowed room

Bridge:

I cannot truly say that I loved you with all my heart

But I was loving the play and your melodramatic part

Out of the mouths of fools, we hear the strangest truths

If we can lend an ear, before we follow fear

Into her — always impending doom

I see the tide fold, I watch your love roll

Ah yes your splendid kiss, was just another miss

And yet — still I believe in the lovers’ moon

— still I believe in the lovers’ moon

I WOKE UP TO SEE WHAT TIME IT WAS

BUT THE SUN GAVE ME NO CLUE

I LOOKED TO THE EAST FOR SYMPATHY

BUT THERE WAS NO RESPONSE FROM YOU

I’VE SPENT THE WHOLE OF MY LIFE

JUST LOOKING FOR THE LIGHT

AS IF THAT LIGHT WERE TANGIBLE

AND I COULD STEAL IT FROM THE NIGHT

Chorus:

TO HOLD IT IN MY HAND

HOLD IT JUST LIKE SAND

FLYING ON THE WIND

STINGING IN MY EYES

EVEN DIAMONDS TURN TO DUST I KNOW

FOR ONCE UPON A TIME

I SAW DIAMONDS IN YOUR EYES

AND I LOVED A BEAUTIFUL DISGUISE

I WOKE UP TO SEE WHAT TIME IT WAS

BUT I WAS STANDING ON MY CLOCK

THE TICKING ROARS AT ME LIKE THUN DER

AS I SEARCHED FOR SILENCE IN MY HEART

Chorus:

TO HOLD IT IN MY HAND

HOLD IT JUST LIKE SAND

FLYING ON THE WIND

STINGING IN MY EYES

I WOKE UP TO SEE WHAT TIME IT WAS

BUT THE SUN GAVE ME NO CLUE

I LOOKED TO THE EAST FOR SYMPATHY

BUT THERE WAS NO RESPONSE FROM YOU

Well I’ve been all alone, most all of my life

Even when I’m with a man,

I’m usually somewhere else in my mind

You’ve got a very nice face

Maybe this is not a very nice place

But I can pretend to be with you

If you can pretend that I might love you

Chorus:

I want you to take me away

From all of my crazy thoughts today

And just rock me away, rock me away

Rock me away in your blue blue eyes

Take me out to the ocean on a full moon tide

Let me sink in your ship full of pirates’ gold

and just rock me away.

Well I’ll be all alone

When I feel your skin with me breath

As I watch you sleep like a child

I will leave your love in that perfect light

Chorus:

I want you to take me away

From all of my crazy thoughts today

And just rock me away, rock me away

Rock me away in your blue blue eyes

Take me out to the ocean on a full moon tide

Let me sink in your ship full of pirates’ gold

and just rock me away.

I may be all alone, all of my life

Maybe I’ll remember your eyes

When I’m wishing that things could be otherwise

Somewhere in the mist of some perfect light

I’ll wish you could take me away

From all of my crazy thoughts today

And just rock me away

rock me away, rock me away

In your blue, blue eyes

It’s not just you anymore

It’s not just “why are you so sad?”

It’s not just “why are some people so bad…to you?”

It’s not just you anymore.

Chorus:

So you’d better find your way to love

You’d better make your way to love

You’d better pave your way…to…. Love

Cause it’s just not you anymore

Bridge:

And she needs all the things you never had as a child

So find a rock a long your wayward crooked mile

You can - sleep like a sphinx overlooking the flooding Nile

Or you can – wake to the wisdom for the sake of the sacred child

But it’s just not you anymore…

It’s just not you…

It’s not just you anymore

It’s not just “why is life so cruel?”

It’s not just “why doesn’t luck shine down…on you?”

It’s not just you anymore.

Chorus:

So you’d better find your way to love

You’d better make your way to love

You’d better scrape your way…to…. Love

Cause it’s just not you anymore…

But it’s all…. in your hands.

The sun came up this mornin’

Before the moon went down

I caught a glimpse of my shadow

Crying in the yellow light

CHORUS:

Too much for me to see

It almost blinded me………..

It’s why, I live by the night

I can’t see my shadows in the dark

The stars came up in your eyes

Before my soul went down

I caught a glimpse of my shadow

Dancin’ in your shining eyes

CHORUS:

So much inside of me

I felt you set it free……..with your tears

It’s why I live by the night

You can see my shadows in the dark

You always see my shadows….

The sun came up this morning

The moon remains in me

If I let you love me at last

Would you help me reconstruct my past

Or when you saw the things I don’t want anyone to see

Would you run away from me

If I let you love me at first

You might - see the shadow but you would not see the worst

You’d concentrate on all the things you think you see in me

but then we’d both begin to bleed

Chorus:

Cause the truth is not as pretty as the beaded gown she wears

and underneath her highlights, she’s got - dull and graying hair

You’ve seen what meets the eye, but there’s a lot more lying there

And when you see me naked, you may not wish to stare

If I let this moment move through me

Just what might the consequences be

A single kiss can lead to many other things

But I am not prepared to dream

Chorus:

Cause the truth is not as pretty, as the beaded gown she wears

And underneath her highlights, she’s got dull and graying hair

You’ve seen what meets the eye, but there’s a lot more lying there

And when you see me naked, well you may not choose to stare

If I let you love me .......at last

In the deepest night, of this strangest life

There’s not one sign, of a guiding light

And not one sound, from a spirit’s voice

When it seems despair, is my only choice

Still hope abounds me

Still faith astounds me

Still love surrounds me

Under these November skies

The way life works, I haven’t got a clue

Of how I’ll find, the road from me to you

The Northern Star may hide behind the moon

But I’d rather die than not believe in you

Still hope abounds me

Still faith astounds me

Still love surrounds me

Under these November skies,

Every man’s sorrow swims beneath my veins

Every man’s blood runs like the ghosts through these fields

Every broken spirit saves my shaken soul

We all live here together under these November skies.

Still hope abounds me

Still faith astounds me

Still love surrounds me

Under these November skies….