Stranger In the Half-Light

Sign out Of slumber's lucid pull A cry now The thunderous undertone A shiver The weary back and forth Of winter And the life we used to know Hear the doorway crack The scornful songbird laugh Feel the eyelids open I thought it was you In spite of myself But the stinging lack of someone else The thought of us In our summertime glow When a stranger in the half-light told Me to wake up Tired And the light is seeping through The curtain The close of me and you Hear the doorway crack The scornful songbird laugh Feel the eyelids open I thought it was you In spite of myself But the stinging lack of someone else The thought of us In our summertime glow When a stranger in the half-light told Me to wake up