Intro: F Dm F Dm (x2)We met in the East, poured in like a flood
You’re the whispering kind, dark sapphire blood
A vision of veils, all shimmery white
Like a backdrop of sails, all aglow from the light
Of the wonder behind
At a starry night
In the mountain?s song, and the blue jay’s call
My heartbeat flows, in crystal waterfalls
You were so beautiful, in your elegant bed
You’d have my blues, for your Nantucket reds
I’d wait in the dark
balanced on a thread
So, I’d wait in the dark
balanced on this thread
And under the church-light
you stand there
with your wicked blood and your curls
Yeah, under the church-light
you stand there
in your fur and your pearls
These lines were here
long before we came around
Yeah, these lines were here
And there’s an ember in the rafters
and it’s going to bring this whole thing down
In the neon mist, I heard you breathe
An exquisite sound, some secret symphony
Your silken skin, my fingers rough
In the midnight din, we went home and touched
Beneath the chandeliers
in your Persian’s dust
Beneath your chandeliers
in your Persian’s dust
And under the church-light
you stand there
with your wicked blood and your curls
Yeah, under the church-light
you stand there
in your fur and your pearls
These lines were here
long before we came around
Yeah, these lines were here
And there’s an ember in the rafters
an ember in the rafters
There’s an ember in the rafters
an ember in the rafters
There’s an ember in the rafters
an ember in the rafters
There?s an ember in the rafters
an ember in the rafters
Yeah, there?s an ember in the rafters
an ember in the rafters
There?s an ember in the rafters
an ember in the rafters
then…
And there’s an ember in the rafters
and it’s going to bring this whole thing down.
