Lyrics

If you had doubts
You best believe
What passion brings
We can’t repeat
You came for good
I’m bound to leave
This state of things
Beyond the sheets
Your face divine
Your skin is sweet
Pulled by a string
A heart that beats

A fortune sad
You once received
Such blesséd form
You offer me

In still life I see your image
Silk in shadows of ripened fruit
And still life will continue
No matter what I do

If I were unbound
You best believe
I would hold out
For sight of you
You came in time
To give me leave
And do without
For want of you

In still life I see your image
Magnolias white on velvet blue
And still life will continue
No matter what I do
What need to view the masters
When art is forged and misconstrued

What need to wait for morning
The night’s a world in its own tableau

Your aching cares
Will find relief
Still life unspared
Makes best of things
Before too long
You will retrieve
Your heart that beats
Pulled on a string

In still life I see your image
Violin beside the resting flute
And still life will continue
No matter what I do
What need to read the poets
When myth is flat and held untrue

In still life I see your image
Magnolias in white on velvet blue

In your image
There is still life
Its own tableau
Pardon me my beauty
I’m bound to go