E5 G5 D5 C5 Out on the front porch with a kerosene lamp E5 G5 D5 C5 See white-capped waves rolling five feet high, E5 G5 D5 C5 but begging these memories for another advance E5 G5 D5 C5 is like whispering love to the sky E5 G5 D5 C5 I have this picture of you taking my hand E5 G5 D5 C5 Sink to my knees in the damp, dark sand E5 G5 D5 C5 Take off all your clothes and we reach out in vain E5 G5 D5 C5 The light goes out as it starts to rain A5 D5 G5 D5 C5 Saint Cecilia send me something simple and sublime A5 D5 G5 D5 C5 Close my eyes and douse my head with red respberry wine E5 G5 D5 C5 .... Wind rises swiftly and the trees start to sway To take back the delicate words that you said Place me there in the sunrise of the strong new day Cause the light here is failing these words are all dead Just leave me my cherished ambiguity I need it to sleep with, I need it to see for all contradictions that I try to disguise will rise up from my lungs - come to be baptised by
