Guy Davie - After Eliot lyrics

We shared the experience of being alive And then we took some tea We finished up and all on a whim We talked as it was free When we went to get the bill The lady looked us over She told us, 'now you stay quite still And I'll fetch in some clover' And all of the yellow melancholy The world about grew stark The only sound in all of the place Was the singing of a lark It sang Holly go lightly bright as the day Fresh as the moon and stale as the hay Cold as the window frozen with frost You never been seen and you never been lost And lost I was for all of the time We never shared thereafter Closing my books and chilling my feet The air blew in much darker Four boys they've been laughing at me The folds of my skin are frayed I'm the oldest man I know by now I was the youngest yesterday What did I lose to mourn so long A worm in the heart has stained me Laying to rest in a ventricle Stirs when I take my tea Holly go lightly bright as the day Fresh as the moon and stale as the hay Cold as the window frozen with frost You never been seen and you never been lost I saw her once and she came upon the midday And gave me both her hands It seemed while I was still dreaming of the waves That she lived a while on land Slipping through a stream of dark The streets laid out a way Stayed above the level Kept my wondering heart at bay In the s--a feeling in the land I was daily dealing There's a turn of a twisting smile Cheap is your time now tea don't taste so fine How are you, it's been a while Holly go lightly bright as the day Fresh as the moon and stale as the hay Cold as the window frozen with frost You never been seen and you never been lost Holly go lightly bright as the day Cold as the moon and stale as the hay Fresh as the window frozen with frost You never been seen and you never been lost