One Flesh by Elizabeth Jennings. Tarrega - Adelita (excerpt).

Song One Flesh by Elizabeth Jennings. Tarrega - Adelita (excerpt).
Artist Honor Blackman
Album Words For You

Lyrics

[00:08.78] Lying apart now,each in a separate bed
[00:14.15] He with a book keeping the light on late
[00:18.76] She like a girl dreaming of childhood
[00:22.47] All men elsewhere - it is as if they wait Some new event:
[00:29.47] The book he holds unread
[00:32.97] Her eyes fixed on the shadows overhead
[00:38.31] Tossed up like flotsam from a former passion
[00:43.17] How cool they lie.They hardly ever touch
[00:48.46] Or if they do, it is like a confession
[00:52.71] Of having little feeling - or too much
[00:58.35] Chastity faces them a destination
[01:02.89] For which their whole lives were a preparation
[01:09.02] Strangely apart, yet strangely close together
[01:17.43] Silence between them like a thread to hold
[01:22.50] And not wind in. And time itself's a feather,Touching them gently
[01:30.84] Do they know they're old
[01:34.06] These two who are my father and my mother
[01:38.42] Whose fire from which I came,has now grown cold?