Paroles de All Souls Hill
I remember the day the games beganAnd the hills themselves crackled and sang
And news was brought by stone and water
Of wind and her daughter
And a child was dancing under the sky
With gods for companions, I saw with my eye
Dryads and naiads and all their clan
In the company of Pan
Call it strange: we live, we die
All may change in the wink of an eye
And I recall your dread of the gathering clouds
The way you recoiled from the cape of the crowd
When the shouts and the rage and the sudden fear
Failed to disappear
Yet the touch of your hair as it brushed my cheek
And you telling me no, don't sing, don't speak
And your skin so warm in the dark alive night
And the stars bright
Call it strange: we live, we die
All may change in the wink of an eye
Then the bodies burned and the cities bled
And the courthouse fell and innocence fled
When into our minds, unbidden, unsought
Came the Great Thought
It dropped to your heart where the lover is found
And there it took root, and there it was crowned
And you and I stood on All Souls Hill
Breathing still
Call it strange: we live, we die
All may change in the wink of an eye
Call it strange: we live, we die
All may change in the wink of an eye
Dryads and naiads and all their clan
In the company of Pan
Call it strange: we live, we die
All may change in the wink of an eye
And I recall your dread of the gathering clouds
The way you recoiled from the cape of the crowd
When the shouts and the rage and the sudden fear
Failed to disappear
Yet the touch of your hair as it brushed my cheek
And you telling me no, don't sing, don't speak
And your skin so warm in the dark alive night
And the stars bright
Call it strange: we live, we die
All may change in the wink of an eye
Then the bodies burned and the cities bled
And the courthouse fell and innocence fled
When into our minds, unbidden, unsought
Came the Great Thought
It dropped to your heart where the lover is found
And there it took root, and there it was crowned
And you and I stood on All Souls Hill
Breathing still
Call it strange: we live, we die
All may change in the wink of an eye
Call it strange: we live, we die
All may change in the wink of an eye
