Fables of the Silverlink

[Intro]
Blue sloes caught in wet grass, Jarita lasya
Blue sloes caught in wet grass, Jarita lasya
I remember so well, she was dying in May
She was dying in May
Blue sloes caught in wet grass, Jarita lasya

[Verse 1]
Caged birds flinch, the subway is still
Anna lives in the house on the hill
Where the sun's hot line is crossing the street so slow

[Verse 2]
Out of the dark and the black pond rising
The nightingales
And they have crossed through the telegraph wires
To the clear, dark air

[Verse 3]
Still so still, with your hands on your face
And I kissed your eyеs, and I knelt like I prayed
In thе gardens there, I was young again
I was young again
I was young again

[Interlude]
[Spanish vocals]
In the night air

[Verse 4]
After you wake, after the song
After the quiet dream of love in the inhaling dawn
Somebody's mowing the lawn
And with the hares in the moon
You'll know when I'm coming through

[Verse 5]
After the light, after the dawn
After the morning rain hits junkyards, fireweed and patio lawns
Your beautiful light, so hollow and clear and alive
Here in the face of your child
Here in the face of your child

[Verse 6]
After you wake, after the dream
After your father's hands have cradled still your sleeping head
His voice is so real
Calling the girl that you were
Calling you back through the night
Lost and found in the fire
Lost and found in the fire

[Bridge]
Steel rims crack, the night sings back, the hare is in the moon
If I get myself together, I'll be 'round so soon
With a Russian glove on a high-back chair
That you moved aside while the radio glared
And you touch your face
And I am lost in your eyes
And I am lost in your eyes
And I am lost in your eyes
I am lost

[Outro]
So Elaine, I love the games we used to play
But I can't find my way back through the night
I am in the days at school
When the only things I knew
I was nobody at all 'til the streetlamps broke the spell
I don't know why