Phosphorescent Lilies - Charming Disaster

Phosphorescent lilies on the surface of the water

Forming floating constellations 'round the caravan

The Gyptians rule the marshlands, they can read them like the lines

That trace the future in the creases of your palm

They might not let us go, but we’ll be royalty

The queen adopts her prisoners into the ancient clan

If we submit to their initiation rites, and we survive

They’ll make us part of all their secret plans

They say

If you want to stay

There is a price to pay

A sacrifice to make

What will you cast away

Cast away

'Round the circle goes the flask and, hand to hand, the pipe is passed

Until we almost can’t remember who we are

Fireflies conspire with the lanterns on the fishing boats

To let us float among the drunken stars

We didn’t mean to come here, but we never want to go back home

The children throw us silver after every song

We’ll learn to ply the waterways and serenade the cormorants

We’ll roll our cuffs and let our hair grow long

They say

If you want to stay

There is a price to pay

A sacrifice to make

What will you cast away

Cast away

They say

Would you give up your pinky finger

Stay

A roof over your head

Pay

Your great great grandmother’s wedding ring or

Make

Your comfortable bed?

They say

Would you lose that precious memory

Stay

Of your first true love

Pay

Your house, your home, your family

Make

Your shaky faith in God above?

They say

A tooth, an eye, a kidney

If you want to stay

Your future unborn babe

There is a price to pay

The last ten years of your short life

A sacrifice to make

What will you cast away?

Cast away

Crickets chirp and nightjars sing as fiddle bows meet fiddle strings

The music’s in a tongue we don’t yet understand

Jasmine blooms intoxicate

The choice was never ours to make

We’re dizzy but

We’re dizzy but (We know we’re safe)

We know we’re safe (We're dizzy but)

We’re dizzy but (We know we’re safe)

We know we’re safe (We're dizzy but)

We’re dizzy but (We know we’re safe)

We know we’re safe

We’re dizzy but

We know we’re safe

We’re dizzy but

We know we’re safe

We’re dizzy but

The dancers smile and take us by the hand