Sasha11 May 2004

NE ME QUITTE PAS

Don't you leave me now,
Now we must forget
All we can forget
All that's left us now;
To forget about
All the times we fought
And the time we lost
Trying to figure out
How we might forget
When attacks of "why?"
Helped our hearts kill time,
How it thrills me! yet
Don’t leave me now...

I will offer you
Beads and rain-made pearls
That come from a world
Where it never rains.
Roam the land and sea
Till I gasp and die,
With a golden gleam,
And a sheen of jewels
Build your realm to be
Where love’s everything
Where love is the king
Where you'll be the queen
Don’t you leave me now

Don’t you leave me now
I will recreate
Words and what they state,
Things you'll know about,
Tales of lovers who
Fell away and then
Fell in love again
As their love stayed true
There’s a story too
That I must describe
Of this king who died
Of not meeting you
Don’t you leave me now

And it’s true that new
Flames can burst and blaze
From a peak thought done
With volcanic days.
Seems a burning field
Scorched in blasts of heat
Could give us more wheat
Than April's best yield
When the night is nigh
Burning overhead,
Can't the black and red
Twine across the sky?
Don’t you leave me now

Don’t you leave me now
Now I'll cry no more
And I'll sigh no more
Hide myself somehow:
See your dance anew,
Hear the song you sing
Hear your laughter ring,
Watch you smiling too
Let me be for you:
Shadow of your shadow
Shadow of your hand
Dog at your command