Lullaby Lyrics

(Lay your sleeping head my love

Human on my faithless arms)

[Verse 1]

Time and fevers burn away

Beauty (from thoughtful) child

And the grave

Proves the child ephemeral

But in my arms till break of day

Let the living creature lie

Mortal, guilty but to me

The entirely beautiful

[Verse 2]

So let the winds of dawn that blow

(Softly round your dreaming head)

Such a day of welcome show

Eye and knocking hearth may bless

Find our mortal world enough

Noons of dryness find you fed

By the involuntary powers

Nights of insult let you pass

Watched by every human love

[Bridge]

(Certainty fidelity

On the stroke of midnight pass

Like vibrations of a bell

And fashionable madmen raise

Their pathetic cry

Every cent of dollar

And all that dreaded cards foretell

Should be paid but from this night

Not a whisper not a thought

Not a kiss nor look be lost)

[Hook]

You are mortal

Mortal, mortal, mortal...