Maddy Prior - Cold Flame lyrics

Clouds crush the setting sun The sky is darkening grey Restless whispering The summer's blown away Bleak deserted arbors That speak of absent friends God forsaken wasteland In time all friendship ends Flame sears the sullen air Scorching my land Yonder swoops the black crow To the wind's command Your body is warm But your brain is cold Leaving me lonely Only emptiness to hold The spine of love is snapped There is nothing to be said But the hollow in my belly Sends an echo through my head I ache to see you To laugh with you again But the voice that once caressed me Is filled with disdain Like a hurricane you came and shook my innocence You woke me in every sense And I ran bemused and excited, curious and delighted But I could not hold you, like the wind you moved on I stood rooted like a fool waiting for the sun And bare trees trace their story Of d**h of the sky And the savage winter wind Has a tear in its eye