Sad Stephen's Song Lyrics - Phantom Moon - Duncan Sheik

And there were mermaids, weren't there? 

Sweet, silver mermaids 

All through that gray Trafalgar square 

Such silver mermaids 

And they were young and they were fair 

They brushed their bronze and dusky hair 

And whispered, "Come, sad Stephen 

Come and play here" 

"You will love, you will be loved 

You will grow up and do so much 

You will be strong, you will be sung 

By all the mermaids, silver mermaids" 

And once they'd sung their satin song 

They beckoned to me from the fog 

They spread their arms and lifted 

Pale portrait faces, I was taken 

To their coral cavern halls 

To rooms with oyster shells for walls 

To sandy nooks, pearly books and ivory dolls 

In ivory stalls, in ivory stalls 

And there were mermaids, weren't there? 

Sweet, silver mermaids 

All through that wan, forgotten square 

Silver mermaids 

They were young and they were fair 

And they brushed their bronze and dusky hair 

And whispered, "Come, sad Stephen, come" 

And I was taken 

Was I wrong? Should I have run? 

I wanted all, I wanted young 

And portrait faces, I was taken 

Did I love? I didn't care 

Did I grow up? Well, unaware 

And was I strong? And was I sung? 

How do I haunt Trafalgar fog? 

And find I want so much, still want 

And no more mermaids 

No more mermaids 

And no more mermaids