Midnight Swell -

Lightning ripped and clothes were torn

cast down onto a glistening sand below

As the shouts and the calls from the village that spurned them

now burned them at their moonlit backs

A gentle touch on each others face

that was the only truth that either would obey

A smiling nod and a tear was felt

as they embrace for one last time this day

The sound of baying crowds barking closer as torchlight crossed the beach

no more would words curse them, forever more out of reach

And they crashed through midnight waves and basked in the full moon’s rays

Hand in hand over lilting swells, far from an angry shore

And they sang, we don’t give a damn about your gods or your rules

no man or god will ever know what we feel to be true

They say, the love we have will see us burn in hell

But hell is our hearts apart so we strike out through the swell

She sang, my love for love will never fade away

It will burn as the sun in the heart of the day

She replied, a-stor, you have my heart

No more will they beat us or keep us apart

The only words I’ll listen to is the singing of your heart

Run with me tonight and we’ll leave this all behind

And the stars sing sweetly for the lovers pounding hearts

as they closed their eyes and sank beneath the pitching dark

And in the fading lights they kissed into the depths they swayed

their bones in peace would lie together till end of days

And they sang, we don’t give a damn, about your gods or your rules

no man or god will ever know, what we feel to be true

They say, the love we have will see us burn in hell

But hell is our hearts apart so we strike out through the swell

She sang, my love for love will never fade away

It will burn as the sun in the heart of the day

She replied, a-stor, you have my heart

No more will they beat us or keep us apart

The only words I’ll listen to is the singing of your heart

Run with me tonight and we’ll leave this all behind

And they sang, we don’t give a damn, about your gods or your rules

no man or god will ever know what we feel to be true

They say, the love we have will see us burn in hell

But hell is our hearts apart so we strike out through the swell