I don’t mean to wake you
I don’t mean to wake you
I don’t mean to wake you
I don’t mean to wake you

Tried to lay still
I saw it light upon your face
It stayed until

Currents deep disturbed the place
We drank our fill
Laughing as we rocked in the tide

How much more?
How many evenings will
You grace my door
Your frame is lost in shadow
But I see you most
In the sidelong mirror of your stare

I’m reaching
For something I don’t see
Is it really what you feel
That chorus line reveal
With your eyes on me ?
_
But your ghost
Feeds off the glimmer
Of some distant coast
Words bring us nearer but
We don’t come close
Sailing so silent at night

How many islands?
How many islands
Could I sink with the spade of our love?
Burn every safe harbor
For traces of ardor
Could it be enough?
To keep you at bay
Away from me...

It’s all (living, dying, loving)
Gonna rise (waking, breaking, dawning)
With the sea (cresting, surging, mounting, tossing, diving, howling)
With every (growing, falling, drifting)
Mountainside (gleaming, sighing, shifting)
That sinks to sleep (creaking, shaking, groaning, dreaming, praying, moaning)
It’s all (begging, pleading, shouting)
I can ask (wanting, needing, doubting)
Won’t you please? (holding, shaping, making, giving, getting, taking)
It’s all going to start and end beneath
(walking, running, breathing, coming, going, leaving)