Alabaster Lyrics

Ancient craters of the moon

Their list of names we chose to use

Does not apply

Insufficient and untrue

For all should know it was you

Who placed it in an empty sky

Lunar craters

I'm convinced

Are there to authenticate

Your fingerprints

It's true

I wanna take you there

Anyplace, anywhere

Will do

But here

Where I kissed your face

And lay my own

Upon your hands

Of alabaster stone

Silver salt

Falling light

Frozen joy

In black and white

I wanna take you there

I wanna take you where

Years to come

Were unaware

Of promises

Hanging by a thread

Of lines and tubes

Another white suit

A machine to breathe

Or execute

Give me a sign

Give me a squeeze

A little more time

Before the whole world drops down to its knees

I wanna leave with you

Anyplace, anywhere

Will do

But here

Where I kissed your face

And lay my own

Upon your hands

Of alabaster stone

I've been in-and-out of this room

I've been climbing up its roof

I've been howling at the moon

I shot that boy who cried wolf

A shattering rain of falling stars

Like questions dying to be asked-

Is crashing on this parting road

Left or right

Where should I go?

I don't know

Then the room turned cold

And my youth was sold

By a robe all torn

A hand of bone

A voice that spoke

'It's time to go'

You know it's hard sometimes

Not to imagine what it would have been like

To have closed my eyes

To have stayed right here

Where I kissed your hands

And lay my own

Upon your face

Of alabaster stone

But I left that place

Tried to hold my own

As the moon shone above me

Like an alabaster stone