Red Balloon - Vagabond Opera

The other night i had a dream you came to me or so seemed, on a vessel of hot

air gleaming red.

An impetus upon the wing, you offered me a golden ring and so I left my dreams

within the bed

I jumped aboard with nightcap on, the moon was up, the curtains drawn-we rose

into the silver dusty glow

The whistle spoke above the cloak of factories that billowed smoke over the

city of Bordeaux

The captain and the ballast boy played a waltz on clocks and toys,

we set our sights for glory, and the sea

We fired the gas, and soon we passed, painted ships all made of brass who

sailed in orbit astro-logically

You promised me a lullabye, and we built castles in the sky, fashioned from the

flowers that we grew

But then the wind’s song was strange and we both knew that things would change

and so you left me floating in the blue

Oh, wind, carry me, carry me, far away far away

until another day,

Until another june

I’ll be looking for a lark

I’ll be floating in the dark

on this giant red balloon

Oh, wind, carry me, carry me, far away far away

until another day,

Until another june

I’ll be looking for a lark

I’ll be floating in the dark

on this giant red balloon

Two lovers, foating in the atmosphere

And i will always be your faithful cavalier

And just like tales of d’Arlandes and Rozier

We’ll float among the stars, I, your valiant gondolier

The other night I had a dream you came to me-or so it seemed- on a zepplin made

of crystal, made of glass

Upon a steam calliope you sat and played a song for me, a shanti from a vagrant

midnight mass

You puffed a pipe of turkish moss and set course for the albatross,

a sea of silver prophets on the wing

And through the captain’s telescope, you gazed and blew a ring of smoke,

and then we bade farewell unto the spring

You were like a dusty rose, an arrow launched from heaven’s bow, a chanson,

ever haunting to my ear

And for better or for worse, I knew this was the final verse, an ode to times

soon to disappear

The anchor man was ill-content and sang a song, a sweet lament, while I flipped

pennies to the sky

and bade farewell to you my love, this stormy romance up above, a tale sure to

electrify

Oh, wind, carry me, carry me, far away far away

until another day,

Until another june

I’ll be looking for a lark

I’ll be floating in the dark

on this giant red balloon

oh, wind, carry me, carry me, far away far away

until another day,

Until another june

I’ll be looking for a lark

I’ll be floating in the dark

on this giant red balloon