Lyrics Phoenix - Marketa Irglova

Phoenix

You told me all creation starts
Within the darkness of a womb
Comparing flowers to enlightened minds, and
Therefore loving to see them bloom
As I had loved to see your joy, and
Sought out a meadow to pick this living light, but
Then I turned up at your door, and
Found I’d only been stealing in the night
When you said: «Don't give me flowers to put in a vase
They’re beautiful, I know, but they are dying
Unlike the love that they were given to proclaim
We’ll plant an oak tree in our garden
To better stand the test of time
Please don’t kill no flowers in my name
Don’t kill flowers in my name.»
Well then I thought of life and death, and
The impermanence of all there is, and
Grew unsure of how you knew
Our love could never feel the deathly kiss of time
When you said: «Love is like a phoenix, never to truly die
For it rises from its own ashes to be born anew
Yeah, it is so if the love is true, but
If it’s lost to you and I, it is lost to the world, and
It will truly feel as though each star has ceased to shine for good
Our love it lives on as it should
Our love lives on as it should