We met in the east

Poured in like a flood

You're the whispering kind

Dark sapphire blood

You're a vision of veils

All shimmery white

Like a backdrop of sails

All aglow from the light

Of the wonder behind

At a starry night

In the mountain's song

In the blue jay's call

My heartbeat flows

In crystal water falls

You were so beautiful

In your elegant bed

You'd have my blues

For your Nantucket reds

I'd wait in the dark

Balanced on a thread

So I'd wait in the dark

Balanced on this thread

And under the church-light

You stand there

With your wicked blood and your curls

Yeah, under the church-light

You stand there

In your fur and your pearls

These lines were here

Long before we came around

Yeah, these lines were here

And there's an ember in the rafters

And it's going to bring this whole thing down

In the neon mist

I heard you breathe

An exquisite sound

Some secret symphony

Your silken skin

My fingers rough

In the midnight dim

We went home and touched

Beneath the chandeliers

And your Persian's dust

Beneath your chandeliers

And your Persian's dust

And under the church-light

You stand there

With your wicked blood and your curls

Yeah, under the church-light

You stand there

In your fur and your pearls

These lines were here

Long before we came around

Yeah, these lines were here

And there's an ember in the rafters

And it's going to bring this whole thing down