Song | Moonlight Serenade |
Artist | Kurt Elling |
Album | Flirting With Twilight |
[00:05.09] | Understand the Night. |
[00:11.53] | When she flashes her sparkling eyes at dusk, |
[00:19.59] | she flirts with Twilight. |
[00:25.28] | When the noise of day dies away, |
[00:30.22] | the Night and Twilight stay and stay, |
[00:33.84] | making quiet love up high over the town. |
[00:43.03] | And the gentle Twilight gives his light, |
[00:49.22] | making a queen of Night. |
[00:53.59] | If I could, I would write a sonnet of the night as a rememberance of your eyes. |
[01:02.34] | And, if you'd promise not to tell, |
[01:05.99] | I could whisper the words in the dark, like a lover. |
[01:17.12] | We could count the stars - the shooting stars - |
[01:22.99] | and talk of lovers through the ages who had lived out of their dreams. |
[01:28.87] | Such will and courage they needed to live in a dream; |
[01:33.80] | to burn, with every breath so serene - |
[01:39.68] | as if they had been the first to find love at all - |
[01:45.30] | like Night and Twilight. |
[01:50.31] | (They were the first of lovers ever.) |
[01:54.18] | Could we be like them - hold on to one another until dawn comes? |
[02:07.20] | Then, we'll fly off and dream until Night and Twilight kiss again. |
[02:54.51] | My love - my one and only love - |
[03:04.13] | let me take you out under the moonlight and show how the Twilight loves the Night; |
[03:25.88] | why he lives for an hour of loving through lifetimes of longing |
[03:47.51] | and sings his moonlight serenade. |
[00:05.09] | Understand the Night. |
[00:11.53] | When she flashes her sparkling eyes at dusk, |
[00:19.59] | she flirts with Twilight. |
[00:25.28] | When the noise of day dies away, |
[00:30.22] | the Night and Twilight stay and stay, |
[00:33.84] | making quiet love up high over the town. |
[00:43.03] | And the gentle Twilight gives his light, |
[00:49.22] | making a queen of Night. |
[00:53.59] | If I could, I would write a sonnet of the night as a rememberance of your eyes. |
[01:02.34] | And, if you' d promise not to tell, |
[01:05.99] | I could whisper the words in the dark, like a lover. |
[01:17.12] | We could count the stars the shooting stars |
[01:22.99] | and talk of lovers through the ages who had lived out of their dreams. |
[01:28.87] | Such will and courage they needed to live in a dream |
[01:33.80] | to burn, with every breath so serene |
[01:39.68] | as if they had been the first to find love at all |
[01:45.30] | like Night and Twilight. |
[01:50.31] | They were the first of lovers ever. |
[01:54.18] | Could we be like them hold on to one another until dawn comes? |
[02:07.20] | Then, we' ll fly off and dream until Night and Twilight kiss again. |
[02:54.51] | My love my one and only love |
[03:04.13] | let me take you out under the moonlight and show how the Twilight loves the Night |
[03:25.88] | why he lives for an hour of loving through lifetimes of longing |
[03:47.51] | and sings his moonlight serenade. |