Adrienne Rich - Nightwatch lyrics
[Adrienne Rich - Nightwatch lyrics]
And now, outside, the walls
Of black flint, eyeless
How pale in sleep you lie
Love: my love is just a breath
Blown on the pane and dissolved
Everything, even you
Cries silently for help, the web
Of the spider is ripped with rain
The geese fly on into the black cloud
What can I do for you?
What can I do for you?
Can the touch of a finger mend
What a finger's touch has broken?
Blue-eyed now, yellow haired
I stand in my old nightmare
Beside the track, while you
And over and over and always you
Plod into the deathcars
Sometimes you smile at me
And II smile back at you
How sweet the odor of
The station master's roses! How pure
How poster-like the colors of this dream
Of black flint, eyeless
How pale in sleep you lie
Love: my love is just a breath
Blown on the pane and dissolved
Everything, even you
Cries silently for help, the web
Of the spider is ripped with rain
The geese fly on into the black cloud
What can I do for you?
What can I do for you?
Can the touch of a finger mend
What a finger's touch has broken?
Blue-eyed now, yellow haired
I stand in my old nightmare
Beside the track, while you
And over and over and always you
Plod into the deathcars
Sometimes you smile at me
And II smile back at you
How sweet the odor of
The station master's roses! How pure
How poster-like the colors of this dream