Jealous Moon Waltz Lyrics

Lucy was harvest day queen

And she danced through everyone's dreams

The moon in creation

Was herself overtaken

And from above

Cast her love

For all to see

Jacob was a man about town

A lover of faithless renown

Though his heart was another's

He swore he would love her

They wed one night

In the sight

Of the moon

Shine, moon, show me a scene

Lord knows the sorrow she's seen

The lovers paddle soft in the night

A stolen heart and a bottle of wine

The sky pulls a blanket

Over their banquet

But the moon she finds

A parted blind

In the clouds

Lucy tracks their trail through the trees

Hunting after heartache is she

Through the crack in the covers

She soon spies the lovers

For there they lie

Undisguised

By the moon

Now Lucy, bewildered by grief

Gives herself up to the deep

There in the water

The lake takes a daughter

And hides her face

From the gaze

Of the moon

Shine, moon, show me a scene

Lord knows the sorrow she's seen

Jacob steals home in the dark

In the hallway he hangs up his heart

He climbs up the stair

And awaiting him there

Where his wife had been

A silver beam

Fills their bed

Jacob flees deep in the pines

And wherever he tarries, she shines

A light in the heavens

Seeking her vengeance

And Jake remains

Wide awake

To his shame

Shine, moon, show me a scene

Lord knows the sorrow she's seen

A lifetime of vagabond dread

Shortened by demons she fed

Driven to madness

He seeks out the blackness

Which he finds

In a mine

Made of coal

Surrounded by darkness at last

He hastens the end with a match

In the coal dust explosion

A narrow shaft opens

For evermore,

A ghostly glow

Lights his bones

Shine, moon, show me a scene

Lord knows the sorrow she's seen

A lake and a mine, seen at night

Some say gleam unusually bright

One pale and pretty

The other one grisly:

For there they lie

Haunted by

That jealous moon