Current 93 - Immortal Bird lyrics

what drives us on? what drives us on? i left something of myself in you fourscore, twenty, thirty in your body and in your flesh in your vault of skin i was nothing for you but the shadow of another love that one day for you would shift the skies to pastures blue streaked with pa**ing and loss tortoise green in my eyes from the moss of my past you arise and lightly then i saw you smile with ivory throat and ivory eyes at night i catch you before i sleep and if i died before i wake i prayed that you my heart might keep i cannot hold your tunnelled eyes near my heart any longer all this love is nothing truly: mist of moons' breath grit of evening the gra** was green (i now recall) before my own particular fall i saw we were both really masks on nothing (the moonlight sweeping over northern beaches) all the trees stand stripped just silhouttes of memories at night i have started to dream of you: your eyes are wide and shot through with seablue