
Date of issue: 31.10.2003
Record label: Pointy
Song language: English
When You and I Were Young |
when you & I were young |
we would press our white faces from the car |
& the rain on the windows would run through the gathering dark |
& the lampposts shone & dogs would run into the dying frame |
where the park was glowing dimly through the silence of the lanes |
& the radiators hum rose above the falling leaves |
where so fragile & so young you had drifted into sleep |
I’ve been for a walk |
& every face I see seems to be mine |
night-time comes |
the birds have flown |
a fever glows in every line |
I love this season |
this weary night |
the flint the dreams the silent pines |
the eeriness |
is in the feeling |
that I have finished everything |
& a child from the school was running back to her car |
& her white face cried she was deaf & afraid of the dark |
& the whispering house grew still as we stared into the night |
in the garden & the lamps & the window’s fading light |
& though Christmas was the same, we had seen another year |
turning softly through the flames |
Song tags: #Reflections After Jane
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