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Alba (morning song)

from Book of Rain by Golconda

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The sun is risen, the day is streaming in.
The noon's heat stirs, but still we lay within.
For no light can rend us now in this night the fates allow,
But I sight the dawning's bow and still we tarry.

So flee, my lady, flee from me,
Flee to where you ought to be,
Run 'til you're over the lea,
Unencumbered.

Trusted sentry, why did you fall asleep?
You opened a bottle and dove into the deep.
So we awake on the opposite shore where the breezes make me want more,
And we break from what we were before for the places we're going.

But flee, my lady, from my arms,
Before the day sounds its alarms
And we're discovered.

Soft, O lover. My promised will come soon,
And it's you who must run into the afternoon.
But I'll be yearning all day, as I'm learning the role that I play,
For your returning, when we can stay again under the moonlight.

So flee, my darling, from this place,
Until our steps we can retrace,
For what we have they can't erase.
Here in the morning's cool embrace I will be with you.

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from Book of Rain, released April 5, 2011

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