Her passions wrote lyrics upon the parchment of her lips,
Under the gaze of the scarlet night.
I could not hold her there and we felt alone; though we were together.
Under the gaze of the scarlet night.
The rose is red and the glaze is soft upon the open eye.
The poet in the attic - surrounded himself with ghosts and dust coated lies-
spins perfumed words in the cold scarlet night. He comes to realise
the mystery of fate in the hour of late advance as he comes to recreate
the masterpiece of failure; oh too late.
A portrait was painted in blood and wine
by the hand of a sullen amateur
Then burnt in the fire of music
In the deep scarlet nigh
I layed her down by the river
In the tall grass and dandelions,
a whispered voice came to greet me
Stay a while
Stay a while.
We never knew our bodies
or where the tide would take us.
We never saw destruction
We just stayed a while
Stay a while
A while.
In the empty morning we looked around
all we saw were the branches.
They spoke to us in Esperanto
And they said 'stay a while
'Stay a while.
She wondered where the moon was
as I held it in my palm.
It's light glanced off a broken clock
and I wondered where the time ran off to.
She turned around and said to me
under the shading arms;"Will you stay a while?
Stay a while,
A while.
Stay a whil