Crystal Gazing

Lyrics for Crystal Gazing

Nelson The man who owned the heartache that lived on the stairs Passed me in the night whistling 'Memories of You' . . . I stared, too frightened to move For fear my eyes shone a light On the darkness he drew like a cloak all around his shoulders . . . And the church on the corner marked the time for the mother Who was giving birth to a child across the hall . . . And I waited, half in anger, half in sadness For an answer to the call for help I had written on the wall. And the rain fell like jewels on the heads of all the fools Who wandered crazed with their souls ablaze for me . . . And the blessing of the hour Was the twilight and the tower With its golden bell from the bottom of the sea . . . And the moon through the window of the bedroom Where lovers slumbered, Made a silver dance of such dust beneath the bed . . . And I waited for a moment in the lamplight, Crystal gazing, listening to their hearts And the changing of their breath.