The Clientele - From a Window lyrics

The sunset touched the house today The children laughed and called my name Upon the path so overgrown with briar And mother says the summer's come But I'm too ill to play And so they ran away and I grew tired I hear their voices echoing Though dying light upon the green As evening falls so vivid and so deep And mother takes me to the flowers Behind our garden walls And I am ready now to sleep And I dreamt a ship had come To take me far away from here And I could see the sea stretch though the dark But I woke to midnight And the wind upon the trees Was calling to the beating of my heart Though canopies of lonely grey The fingers of the ivy's frame Have touched this silence moving in And cold upon my fingertips The window's beads of rain have mixed With tears that never quite begin