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My Clockwork Heart
It's almost time for love I think I hear the ticking in the hall The silence has been deafening The movement barely there at all The strings that hold the memories Grown old and rusted over time are shaking off their leaden ways and learning how once more to chime A twisted mass of wires and wheels that shudders deep within my breast My clockwork heart begins to turn and lay the long past years to rest Be patient with the hands that stretch across the surface of my soul These little measured parts of me that add up to a measured whole Wishes
Once upon a long ago When I’d let my feelings show I’d hide away inside my mind And play with you a little So easy come and easy went Look where all the people sent Their lovers and their lives Down below into a place Where no one has a friendly face And slowly, slowly Twisting down onto the gentle knives I saw you once, and only once Inside up high upon a throne I wondered if you really knew And then I was alone I linger not on such a place Where velvet turns to sudden lace It’s not for me, these times are old I leave them there I wish I could Nowhere Heart
I have a melancholy heart It's been that way right from the start And while the other children played It held me back, and staid my ways A little darkness deep inside That grew to quiet chasms wide Where echoes of those sharper days Are lost within this peaceful maze It does not hurt, this nowhere heart It does not beat, nor fall apart It seeks the sadder songs once sung And mourns of moments never come But there's a sweetness in this loss A cautious line I cannot cross A lonely warmth that never dies And from this place I see the sky |
Touch Me
Touch me now Before I fail Before dark falls and time hardens The world turns and cuts us with her smile But I am here Soft with life Love me and feel the edge of forever A Weight
A weight was hung around my heart and left there just to swing A rather sorry substitute of what should be within And every time it swung I'd pray It wouldn't break and wouldn't stay This terrible mistake Arbre Amour
I spent eighty summers waiting Again to see your face And through the winters icy kiss I never left my place I thought I heard you laughing I stayed and prayed you’d come And while the skies turned up above I slowly came undone The leaves they scattered round my feet The birds they grew and flew And still I’m standing empty handed Silently for you Never
To live for a feeling To die for a touch Emotions revealing A love that’s too much Eyes that are lying Fingers of ice You leave me dying Yet still you entice I know I am nothing A fragment of dust I know you’re not stopping This game of mistrust But still I return So battered but true I know I can’t learn That I’ll never have you |
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