Requiem - The Three Degrees

When you came to me there in that old telephone pole

Out of the night

And I rushed right down to meet you and that silky thing

And sat down on a porch swing

Oh, and I knew the moon would melt

Before I held it to my breast like that again

Why couldn’t I die then

So warm

Behind the curtains of your arms

When you stopped the clock on that cold rock

And mix the hot young blood with granite dust

Then I raise my head just to kiss the sweat

They clung like honey from your garnet brow

Ooh, and I knew the mountainside would be

A million years of dusted rust before you took me up there again

So tell me why couldn’t I die then

I was warm

Behind the curtains of your arms

Instead I was found dead, but well carrying on my life

With my dusk glow and dear friends

Buried without a casket

And no one who writes my epitaph

'Cos I know that I’m still breathing

And they think that means I’m still alive

I’m still alive

And I knew the mountainside would be

A million years of dusted rust before you took me up there again

Why could I not die then

Warm

Behind the curtains of your arms

Why could I not die then

As seems it doesn’t really matter when

It doesn’t really matter when

It doesn’t really matter when

It doesn’t really matter when

It doesn’t really, no

It doesn’t really matter when

It doesn’t really matter when