[00:23.07]Lacking sleep and food and vision
[00:26.46]Here I am again, encamped upon your floor,
[00:33.21]Craving sanctuary and nourishment,
[00:36.39]Encouragement and sanctity and more.
[00:42.58]The streets seemed very crowded,
[00:45.52]I put on my bravest guise
[00:48.16]I know you know that I am acting,
[00:51.02]I can see it in your eyes.
[01:02.82]In the harsh light of freedom I know
[01:04.69]That I cannot deny that I have wasted time,
[01:08.18]Have frittered it away in idle boasts
[01:13.40]Of my freedom and fidelity,
[01:16.94]When simpler words would have profited me
[01:19.52]Most...
[01:21.74]...it isn't enough in the end, when I'm looking
[01:24.50]For hope.
[01:28.45]Though the organ-monkey screams
[01:34.20]As the pipes begin to spit
[01:39.59]Still he'll go through the dance routines
[01:45.00]Just as long as he thinks they'll fit,
[01:49.50]Just as long as he knows that it's dance, smile
[01:52.01]Or quit.
[01:56.80]Like the monkey I dance to a strange tune
[01:59.46]When all of these years I've longed to lie with you,
[02:02.37]I've bogged myself down in the web of talk,
[02:07.79]Quack philosophy and sophistry-
[02:11.03]At physiciality I've always baulked,
[02:16.13]Like the man in the chair who believes it's
[02:18.76]Beyond him to walk.
[02:24.53]I've been hiding behind words,
[02:26.80]Fearing a deeper flame exists,
[02:29.76]Faintly aware of the passage
[02:32.53]Of opportunities I have missed.
[02:39.40]But the nearness and the smell of you,
[02:45.01]La Rossa from head to toe...
[02:50.41]I don't know what I'm telling you,
[02:55.60]But I think you ought to know
[03:00.46]Soon the dam wall will break, soon the water
[03:02.85]Will flow.
[03:06.54]Though the organ-monkey groans
[03:11.75]As the organ-grinder plays
[03:17.17]He's hoping, at the most,
[03:22.36]For an end to his dancing days;
[03:27.86]Still he hops up and down on his perch
[03:33.75]In the usual jerky way.
[03:38.77]Though it might mean an end to all friendship
[03:43.69]There's something I'm working up to say.
[03:51.27]Think of me what you will;
[03:57.67]I know that you think you feel my pain
[04:04.04]No matter if that's just the surface.
[04:20.54]If we made love now would that change all
[04:27.60]That ahs gone before?
[04:33.62]Of course it would, there's no way it could ever
[04:36.53]Be the same...
[04:41.47]One more line crossed,
[04:47.82]One more mystery explained.
[04:56.51]Now I need more than just words, though
[05:03.29]The options are plain that lead from all
[05:09.29]Momentary action.
[05:24.13]If we make love now it will change all
[05:31.30]That is yet to be...
[05:37.23]Never could we agree in the same way again.
[05:45.05]One more world lost,
[05:51.34]One more heaven gained.
[06:44.36]La Rossa, you know me, you read me as though
[06:47.44]I am glass;
[06:48.10]Though I know it there's no no way in which I can
[06:50.19]Pass
[06:50.67]Though it means that you'll finish my story
[06:52.85]At last I'd trade all the clever talk,
[06:55.45]The joking, the smoking and the quips,
[07:00.23]All the midnight conversations, all the friendship,
[07:04.79]All the words and all the trips
[07:08.51]For the warmth of your body,
[07:10.29]The more vivid touch of your lips.
[07:14.80]All bridges burning behind me,
[07:20.37]All safety beyond reach,
[07:25.21]The monkey feels his chains out blindly,
[07:30.81]Only to find himself released.
[07:37.64]Take me, take me now and hold me deep
[07:41.29]Inside your ocean body,
[07:43.43]Wash me as some flotsam to the shore,
[07:46.73]There leave me lying evermore!
[07:54.07]Drown me, drown me now and hold me down
[07:57.35]Before your naked hunger,
[07:59.49]Burn me at the altar of the night
[08:03.99]Give me life!
[08:14.41]Give me life!