Hyacinths and Thistles

Quiet, please: There are leaves falling Trees do their striptease, summer is ending I wonder why you look so far away Against the sky in fifty shades of gray Night falls like a grand piano Outside it could be China Let's watch the trees that trickled

Even though I met you only recently I find myself falling in love with you I don't know quite how to put this decently But what's the chance that you can love me too? Who who who who who Has made my dreams come true? And turned my gray sky blue Why i

Will you dance with me Take my hands and lead me With all my faults In the ballroom waltz That we might have done had we ever been young It'll end in tears ...but not for years If you dance with me Will you dance with me Me, with two left feet You'd

I was the restless kind With a heart inclined to play games of chance Until a dark-eyed girl from another world Led me a dangerous dance On the cliffs of Oahu Oahu Oahu Oahu We became the slaves of the Pacific waves That come hard and slow Sometimes

Priests and fools say We are but animate clay But rude vessels housing immortal souls But the dead only quickly decay They don't go about being born and reborn And rising and falling like soufflĂŠ The dead only quickly decay It would be swell to see

Give me back my dreams. I've been counting these sheep since I can't remember when. Give me back my sleep. I'll be dreaming of you till I wake up crying again. I have lain awake through the longest hours wondering whether to cry or scream. You can ta

I spent all day dreaming of the way I'd like to hold you So I got absolutely nothing done but it was so much fun And have I told you how beautiful you are tonight? Just like a movie star Quit your job, dear Then you can stay here at home beside me Yo

Let the camera linger on your perfect skin Your windows peak and your lucky grin And the bluest eyes I know As you turn to go Let there be a record of your gorgeous voice The turn of phrase that filled my days with joy Something like Bing singing sof

You were a soldier from the way, waltzing me all the way home I'd never seen your kind before, your every word was a poem Thank you for giving me reasons for living, more reasons than I'd ever known Thank you for giving me new worlds to live in and w