Johnny Flynn - After Eliot Lyrics
We shared the experience of being aliveAnd then we took some teaWe finished up and all on a whimWe talked as it was freeWhen we went to get the billThe lady looked us overShe told us, 'now you stay quite stillAnd I'll fetch in some clover'And all of the yellow melancholyThe world about grew starkThe only sound in all of the placeWas the singing of a larkIt sang Holly go lightly bright as the dayFresh as the moon and stale as the hayCold as the window frozen with frostYou never been seen and you never been lostAnd lost I was for all of the timeWe never shared thereafterClosing my books and chilling my feetThe air blew in much darkerFour boys they've been laughing at meThe folds of my skin are frayedI'm the oldest man I know by nowI was the youngest yesterdayWhat did I lose to mourn so longA worm in the heart has stained meLaying to rest in a ventricleStirs when I take my teaHolly go lightly bright as the dayFresh as the moon and stale as the hayCold as the window frozen with frostYou never been seen and you never been lostI saw her once and she came upon the middayAnd gave me both her handsIt seemed while I was still dreaming of the wavesThat she lived a while on landSlipping through a stream of darkThe streets laid out a wayStayed above the levelKept my wondering heart at bayIn the s--a feeling in the land I was daily dealingThere's a turn of a twisting smileCheap is your time now tea don't taste so fineHow are you, it's been a whileHolly go lightly bright as the dayFresh as the moon and stale as the hayCold as the window frozen with frostYou never been seen and you never been lostHolly go lightly bright as the dayCold as the moon and stale as the hayFresh as the window frozen with frostYou never been seen and you never been lost
