After Eliot lyrics

We shared the experience of being alive

And then we took some tea

We finished up and all on a whim

We talked as it was free

When we went to get the bill

The lady looked us over

She told us, 'Now, you stay quite still

And I'll fetch in some clover'

And all of the yellow melancholy

The world about grew stark

The only sound in all of the place

Was the singing of a lark

It sang, 'Holly go lightly bright as the day

Fresh as the moon and stale as the hay

Cold as the window frozen with frost

You never been seen and you never been lost'

And lost I was for all of the time

We never shared thereafter

Closing my books and chilling my feet

The air blew in much darker

Four boys, they've been laughing at me

The folds of my skin are frayed

I'm the oldest man I know by now

I was the youngest yesterday

What did I lose to mourn so long

A worm in the heart has stained me

Laying to rest in a ventricle

Stirs when I take my tea

Holly go lightly bright as the day

Fresh as the moon and stale as the hay

Cold as the window frozen with frost

You never been seen and you never been lost

I saw her once and she came upon the midday

And gave me both her hands

It seemed while I was still dreaming of the waves

That she lived a while on land

Slipping through a stream of dark

The streets laid out a way

Stayed above the level

Kept my wandering heart at bay

In this age, strands of feeling in the landlord's daily dealing

There's a turn of a twisting smile

Cheap is your time and now tea don't taste so fine

How are you, it's been a while

Holly go lightly bright as the day

Fresh as the moon and stale as the hay

Cold as the window frozen with frost

You never been seen and you never been lost

Holly go lightly bright as the day

Cold as the moon and stale as the hay

Fresh as the window frozen with frost

You never been seen and you never been lost