Cleaning the Stones lyrics

A moment ago we were cleaning the stones

And I turned and I faltered, and now I'm alone

I went round this little bowl three or four times

Now I can't find you, oh where did you go?

A moment ago things had always been so

Our own little castle, our undulant home

A neat little garden of me and of you

A glistening house for a glittering two

Will I forget your shining gold eyes?

My flickering friend, my companion in water

Will I lose sense of your shivering skin?

Your silvery scales as they skirted my own

When we were cleaning the stones

A moment ago I was cleaning the stones

And I turned and I faltered, felt all alone

I wondered if something was missing and then

Corrected myself, then I faltered again

I've been a bachelor all of my life

In this garden so lonely, growing and grand

If I had a friend for all this bounty to share

I would honour her face every hour she was there

And never forget her shining gold eyes

A flickering friend, a companion in water

Never lose sense of that shivering skin

Those silvery scales as they skirted my own

We could go cleaning the stones