Rufus Wainwright - Albatross lyrics

The lady comes to the gate
Dressed in lavender and leather
Looking north to the sea she
Finds the weather fine
She hears the steeple bells
Ringing through the orchard
All the way from town
She watches seagulls fly, silver on the ocean
Stitching through the waves
The edges of the sky

Many people wander up the hills
From all around you
Making up your memories and thinking
They have found you
They cover you with veils of wonder
As if you were a bride
Young men holding violets are curious to
Know if you have cried
And tell you why and ask you
Why any way you answer

Lace around the collars of the
Blouses of the ladies
Flowers from a Spanish friend of the families
The embroid'ry of your life holds you in
And keeps you out but you survive
Imprisoned in your bones behind the
Isinglass windows of your eyes

And in the night the iron
Wheels rolling through the rain
Down the hills through the long
Grass to the sea and in the dark the hard
Bells ringing with pain come away alone

Even now by the gate with
Your long hair blowing
And the colors of the day
That lie along your arms
You must barter your life to
Make sure you are living
And the crowd that has come
You give them the colors
And the bells and wind and the dream

Will there never be a prince who rides
Along the sea and the mountains
Scattering the sand and foam
Into amethyst fountains
Riding up the hills from the beach
In the long summer grass
Holding the sun in his hands
And shattering the isinglass?

Day and night and day again the
People come and go away forever
While the shining summer sea dances in
The glass of your mirror
While you search the waves for love
And your visions for a sign
The knot of tears around your throat
Is crystallizing into your design

And in the night the iron
Wheels rolling through the rain
Down the hills through the long
Grass to the sea and in the dark the hard
Bells ringing with pain
Come away alone, come away alone with me