Verse: 1
Girl sleeping on a mansion roof
Under a wintery sky
Wrapped she is in her furs and sable
Starlight in her eye
Verse: 2
And what is the name of this creature?
Where did she live and when?
Who was she and why was it
That Peter Lake - loved - Beverly Penn?
Verse: 3
Four o'clock in a marble morning
Water pouring on her skin
In fever, her life bursts open
And a hurricane blows in
Verse: 4
When high from the dreams of this creature
A thief on a horse descends
It was dawn and it was December
And Peter Lake - loved - Beverly Penn
Verse: 5
It was all of a windy day
And the sky was full of crows
When her lovely soul ascended
She just closed her heart and rose
Verse: 6
And whither the soul of this creature?
Tell me the story again
Of scarves and songs and the skin of space
And how Peter Lake - loved - Beverly Penn
Verse: 7
I would dive in a freezing river
Set fire to a hundred men
If I could, for just one time
Love somebody the way that he loved Beverly Penn