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Don't cry, my love, don't cry no more |
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A crashing sky, a roaring screen |
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A city drowning, God's black tears |
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I cannot bear to see |
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She lay under the midnight moon |
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Her restless body stirring |
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Until the magic morning hour |
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Like poison it succumbs her |
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Her baby skin, her old black dress |
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Her hair it twists 'round her necklace |
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Constricts and chokes like ruthless vines |
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'Til sleep, she overtakes her |
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Her room is painted heron blue |
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Lit by candlelight and chandelier |
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And from her headboard, perched so high |
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A million dreams have passed her |
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Don't cry, my love, don't cry no more |
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It overwhelms my breaking heart |
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A minor swell of violins |
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I cannot bear to hear them |
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A mother shepherds her young birds |
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She fills their mouths and warms their souls |
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'Til they are strong and good to fly |
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Away from her, alone she'll die |
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Cradle on quiet old oak limbs |
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As heaven blue her light fails |
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A breath of soot into her lungs |
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A life, a journey's end in one |
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Don't sing that old sad hymn no more |
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It resonates inside my soul |
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It haunts me in my waking dream |
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I cannot bear to hear it |
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Don't play those violins no more |
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Their melancholic overtones |
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They echo off the floor and walls |
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I cannot bear to hear them |
