artist: | cavalier rose
track: | lamplight
album: | primary colors ep
release year: | 2009
netlabel: | self-released

release-page: | http://www.cavalierrose.com/
homepage: | http://www.cavalierrose.com/

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Bigger arms you need for me
Bigger teeth and better eyesight
Better girth across the seam
so I can see you in the lamplight
And the same old song of what-could never was
Keeps the walls intact beside my heart for you

Here forever in your trees
Paper hyacinth my one dove
leave me silent, let it be
You're the only joy I'm shy of
And the meadowlarks go singing till it breaks
Keep my tired eyes looking ever out for you

Ever growing evergreen
You are something of a marvel
bloomed dear in kerosene
One way down and I am careful
Light my empty rooms and beat the battle down
I can hear you in the walls that cradle me

Crepe and myrtle on your wings
Something sings me toward November
And your coos and mutterings
Let the beacon shine forever
Safe in coridoors I've slipped you from your frame
I can cup you in my palm and keep you here

So the time rolls through the age
so the dirging march keeps plodding
Ticker thunderous in its cage
Till the sinews rot and are clotting
Will you tell me of this when we all have gone?
Will you keep me somewhere locked forever?

Better days we have to roll away the stone
Keep the lamplight burning somewhere bright for me.