Nearer Than You Lyrics - Emilie Autumn

How can a woman tell when love is gone 

From love that merely sleeps but deep inside 

Has still the root the stem and flower grow on 

And so dreams not to die but sleeps to hide? 

Perhaps when the clouds drifting by make more noise 

Than amorous whispers you aimlessly breathe 

And croakings of paddocks speak with greater poise 

Than lilypad speeches with nothing beneath 

And so I'll confess what I know to be true 

Bullfrogs have more eloquence than do you 

When days are longer than they used to be 

And nights are maddening eternity 

With only forced sighs to interrupt 

The same repose your lips would once corrupt 

I'll steal me away so your soul shall not wake 

Though more than my absence to rouse it would take 

Across from the meadow and down to the pond 

To sink myself up to the waist then beyond 

For water knows better in love what to do 

And plays with its prey with more passion than you 

In dreaming one may oft' release his grasp 

On what to conscious minds is naught but clear 

That once the time of questioning is near 

Chance there is none to hide the fatal asp 

Who follows me silently onto the shore 

Where I learn to cherish my new solitude 

And feel with precision what ere had been rude 

Yes, I shall return to thy bed nevermore 

Born was I with one heart; I ask not for two 

When rushes and lilies press nearer than you