Into this strange elastic world
Pont us kindly gave up a pearl
His eternal stone and mud
But ain't she lovely bone and blood
Born of the sea
A thousand miles away from me
A court of angels
Wards of the sun
A future forming
A curse undone
Under our softly burning lamp she takes her time
Riff 1
Telling stories of our possible lives
And love is the ink in the well when her body writes
Riff 2
I've been selfish and full of pride
And she knows deep down there's a little child
But I've got a good side to me as well
And it's that she loves in spite of everything else
Verse
A song in the tree has distracted her mind
Some other curious form of life
Has made it's presence to her known
And she coos so gently soft and low
Her shining face in a million reflections
in tiny raindrops that fall in a veil
Over our city like notes from above
It overwhelms me! just aint that tough
Riff 1
It's not that the darkness can't touch our lives
I know it will, in time
Riff 1
But she's no ordinary valentine
And now when the sun goes down
she sheds a darling light.
Riff 2
I've been selfish and full of pride
And she knows deep down there's a little child
But I've got a good side to me as well
And it's that she loves in spite of everything else