LISTEN Lyrics

There is no magic any more

We meet as other people do

You work no miracle for me

Nor I for you.

You were the wind and I the sea

There is no splendor any more

I have grown listless as the pool

Beside the shore.

But though the pool is safe from storm

And from the tide has found surcease

It grows more bitter than the sea

For all its peace.

I am alone in spite of love

In spite of all I take and give

In spite of all your tenderness

Sometimes I am not glad to live.

I am alone as though I stood

On the highest peak of the tired gray world

About me only swirling snow

Above me endless space unfurled;

With earth hidden and heaven hidden

And only my own spirit's pride

To keep me from the peace of those

Who are not lonely having died.

Now while my lips are living

Their words must stay unsaid

And will my soul remember

To speak when I am dead?

Yet if my soul remembered

You would not heed it dear

For now you must not listen

And then you could not hear.