Anjani

I built my house beside the wood So I could hear you singing And it was sweet and it was good And love was all beginning Fare thee well my nightingale 'Twas long ago I found you Now all your songs of beauty fail The forest closes 'round you The sun g

There's perfume burning in the air Bits of beauty everywhere Shrapnel flying; soldier hit the dirt She comes so close. You feel her then She tells you No and No again Your lip is cut on the edge of her pleated skirt Blue Alert Visions of her drawing

Looking back, to San Francisco Wearing my blue Chinese dress A yellow jacket with padded shoulders Smoking Sobranie cigarettes Four o'clock and the fog comes in We all remember the sea For several seconds our sins are forgiven Mine against you, yours

Nowhere to go Nothing to say You won't hear my voice Till it's far, far away I'm too tired now To fight anymore We're saying goodbye At the innermost door When I am alone You'll come back to me It's happened before It's called memory I must go back T

Thanks for the dance I'm sorry you're tired The evening has hardly begun Thanks for the dance Try to look inspired One two three, one two three one There's a rose in my hair My shoulders are bare I've been wearing this costume Forever Turn up the mus

I had to go crazy to love you Had to go down to the pit Had to do time in the tower Now I'm too tired to quit I had to go crazy to love you You who were never the one Whom I chased through the Souvenir heartache My braids and my blouse all undone Som