Heaven and the Night Tide
Feb. 23, 20141 viewer
Heaven and the Night Tide Lyrics
He regarded the stars in the cold dark.
They were a long way off, and he decided, watching them blink,
that perhaps they did not speak for him.
Compared to the distance between him and them,
the outside-looking-in feeling was sitting in a sad, angry chair.
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
and noticed that she was there, a shadow parked between times.
Out across the horizon where the half-moon poured thin light
across cresting waves. Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
enwrought with golden and silver light.
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths;
I thought, I would spread the cloths under your feet.
He started when she approached, smiled, and she said, “Hi, stranger.”
And he said, “You don’t know how I feel about you,”
And she said “Then show me.” He thought for a while,
and she thought of leaving again. The moon light in that silence
was thin like paper. Spelled of the night, neon light, and the half-light,
and he said, “I love you.” And she said, “Liar.”
It was clear that they were not polite, but he pleaded.
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
They were a long way off, and he decided, watching them blink,
that perhaps they did not speak for him.
Compared to the distance between him and them,
the outside-looking-in feeling was sitting in a sad, angry chair.
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
and noticed that she was there, a shadow parked between times.
Out across the horizon where the half-moon poured thin light
across cresting waves. Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
enwrought with golden and silver light.
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths;
I thought, I would spread the cloths under your feet.
He started when she approached, smiled, and she said, “Hi, stranger.”
And he said, “You don’t know how I feel about you,”
And she said “Then show me.” He thought for a while,
and she thought of leaving again. The moon light in that silence
was thin like paper. Spelled of the night, neon light, and the half-light,
and he said, “I love you.” And she said, “Liar.”
It was clear that they were not polite, but he pleaded.
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Lines remixed from:
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, William Butler Yeats
The Seventh Night, Robert Hass
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