Ana Silvera - Gardenias And Cigarettes lyrics

Water on shingle and vagrant hours That stumble round this sunstruck town And white lantern blossoms With torn off wings Break from their branches With pale yearning Oh my mind came unmoored in the night You set it adrift With a kiss that was sweeter Than anyone else's That I've known before then or since Oh gardenias and cheap cigarettes On your mouth and your fingers I tasted In the name, on the hands and the back of love Ships were raised and lovers fought And the Gods above watched from a ringside box As cities were wasted to ashes and dust I saw you go through a low window By the idle tide of dusk And I should have seen through those arrows and bows That even golden apples rust Oh my mind came unmoored in the night You set it adrift With a kiss that was sweeter Than anyone else's That I've known before then or since Oh gardenias and cheap cigarettes And the ghost of the touch of your fingers