The Night the Stars Fell From Heaven

at last something broke you and that something, it was you you were closing your eyes you were seeing it through you blew up and sold the world outside and within and i fell on your black day you showed me how to live you showed me how to die and no matter how hard i try to stare at the sun it is black to my blind eyes and suddenly my eyes are open somehow things begin to focus high we are all illuminated light is shining on our faces blind until our rapture falls to pieces these are stolen bits and pieces * new york is hot how i loathe where i'm living Bharata, you fought now it's i who is giving up and now fly now fly from your empty cage, girl you are rust and the sky always killing the bird see, i am the night jesus christ i suppose see, i am the light i don't mean to remind you of anything you gave me in song you blessed my muse with your light what you did was so wrong the light in us was darkness how the night is so long light a fire, wait for summer we black stars wander on smoldering embers september's come and gone here comes my december half beast and half gone * broken and cold but all is still holy Hallelujah, and through you yes everything, holy did we want it darker so you turned out the light? now i'm doing time playing with meter and rhyme longing to be in the house of my own secret life until the sea must free us i'll wait for you there you came just to see us all we sailing where? all of us sailors rowers, keep rowing now no light is showing now the danger's approaching row gently, never gently! upstream to ignite row never gently! rage at that night! oh captain, my lying captain turn around and take me home a long time ago i thought you'd died alone everybody knows this boat's leaking all the white horses stopped sleeping the ponies stopped running i the band just keep playing though the girls now are aging lilac wine, sweet and heady how my hand is unsteady how aghast and unready like my love that is ending like the last night you danced me when the music was over you turned out the lights you kissed me goodnight with a thousand goodbyes still in my dreams you walk dripping from the sea where i'm slipping from the sea that shall free me to my hut that is ripping through the masterpiece tripping how my soul is worn thin i can't even begin to speak so i'll speak no more and if it be your will i'll sink beneath your wisdom like a stone like a stone i'll wait for you there alone