LEANT INTO AFTERNOON song lyrics NERUDA 7
by Joel Sattler

[based on the seventh poem of 20 LOVE POEMS by Pablo Neruda]

leant into afternoon
I cast sad nets into the ocean of your eyes

the highest fire grows and burns off loneliness
my arms become a castaway's

the water washes wind away
you shall not cry, you will not stay
I gave up my yesterday
you had not a word to say

I bloodshot your absent eyes
that move like the sea at the lighthouse shore

you keep sole darkness, my faraway girl,
from your dirty look, the dreadful coast comes forth

the water washes wind away
you shall not cry, you will not stay
I gave up my yesterday
you had not a word to say

leant into afternoon
I cast sad nets into the sea that's waving in your eyes

the night birds peck out the first stars
that shine like love that tries to rise

leant into after gloom
I cast sad nets into the sky but have no yield

the nightmare rides above the night
and sheds blue flower spikes across the fields

the water washes away
you shall not cry, you will not stay
I gave up my yesterday
you had not a word to say

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