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With Love To My Darling

from Five Hours (Rough​-​Cut EP) by Tom Powell

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On this pleasant afternoon
There are people in the streets
Commuters on the pavements
I hear the rhythm of their feet
There are lovers in the backstreets
And one begins to sing
A charming barcarolle, he starts
“With love to my darling…

I will love you every evening
Until the moon falls down
I will love you every morning
Til that moon comes back around
And until the day that Jupiter
Flies right into Mars
And fish begin to fly through space
And find their way to stars

We’ll always be together darling
My hands are yours to hold
And as we grow together love
Our hands will turn old”
Then stopped the boy and stopped the song
As she began to cry
Not tears of joy or tears of pain
But fear of saying goodbye


Goodbye...


In her mind the hands of Time
are clasped around her throat
Each wrinkle like a poison
But there is no antidote
The longer spent the greater love
But more to lose, as such
And Time gets ever nearer
And we can’t escape his clutch

Togetherness a great reward
For love to breed and bloom
But haunted by the ticking clock
Of Time’s impending doom
So stare (stop) into the glass you hang
On each and every wall
Reminding you that age old tale
Of how the mighty fall

I’ve heard that story twice before
Please, Grandpa don’t go on
Granny can you hear me now
I’m shouting down the phone
Now there’s rich-teas in the biscuit tin
The TV’s turned up loud
The lovers look to one another
Pupils holding clouds

Goodbye..

[Instrumental Break]

In the evening I went back there
I walked around the streets
Cracks in every paving stone
And moss under my feet
No lovers in the backstreets
No sound but for the bell ring
And echoes of the song he sang
“With love to my darling…”

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from Five Hours (Rough​-​Cut EP), released April 8, 2017

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