Forever Hold

If I am lying in pleasure Where we met by the light of the moon To float down the widest river To arrive in the finest room Then keep me on the tether there Where graces wide are strewn And hold me to the letter there That all is gone so soon It was out in the dust of the evening Where the water flows from the rock That we met with the greatest feeling On the dunes of ten o'clock And now you're face is the sunshine That feeds the leaves of these eyes And now your arm is the river vine That pulls these limbs from the tide I'll forever hold to you I will And when I am cold I hold you still If ever there were demons There are demons to be sure I think that I can see them Coming right up to the door And if I only dream them Let me leave them to recite Whatever oath's between them And the skeletons of night And if that oath I'm under And I mumble it like a fiend Then break me from their number And take me from the scene And love me like you loved me When you loved me in the Spring And mine will be the memory Whose future you'll redeem I'll forever hold to you I will And when I am cold I hold you still If I am lazy in splendor And whistling a tune With my feet up on the leather Of the hide of a Mydas tomb Then do me one the better there And break my bed of doom And make your own a bed of stone As a bride for a wide-eyed groom And it will be my purpose To answer when you cry And if true love deserve us Then blessed be you and I And ever-after seldom Will a tear fall from your eye And when they ask I'll tell them That I loved you when I die I'll forever hold to you I will And when I am cold I hold you still