In The Flowers

Met a dancer
Who was high in a field
From her movement
Caught my breath on my way home
Couldn’t stop that spinning force I felt in me,
Everything around seemed to giggle glee
She walked up with a flower and I cared
Found a dancer
Who gets wild to the beats
of record rhythm
But I’m always away for weeks that pass slow
My mind gets lost
Feeling envy for the kid who’ll dance despite anything
I walk out in the flowers, and feel better
If I could just leave my body for the night,
Then we could be dancing
No more missing you while I’m gone
There we could be dancing,
And you’d smile and say, «I like this song»
And when our eyes will meet there
We will recognize nothing’s wrong
And I wouldn’t feel so selfish
I won’t be this way very long
To hold you in time
To hold you in time
To hold you in time
To hold you in time
While we were dancing
Early hours
Drunken days finally ended
And the streets turned for a pillowcase
Then I fumbled our good lock
Then the ecstasy turns to rising light
Through our windowpane
Now I’m gone
I left flowers for you there