Silver (the Hunger) Lyrics - Singles - Kris Kristofferson

Silver was a rounder with a wicked reputation 

Music was his magic and his madness rolled in one 

It's said he charmed the fairest hearts of this world's fairest maidens 

Quick as silver mercury and slippery as a song 

Winding like a river through a thirsty world of strangers 

Carving out a legend in a dream-forsaken land 

Silver took his pleasures just as freely as he gave them 

'Cause hungry eyes weren't quick enough for Silver's flashing hands 

Then, once upon escaping from the world of silk and shadows 

Sudden growin' sicker of the secrets and the shame 

He stumbled onto something real that beckoned like a candle 

And never lookin' backwards, he surrendered to the flame 

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[Chorus:] 

Because Hunger, is the surface of a darkened pool of sadness 

Silver pale reflection of a deeper need below 

Mystery and magic are the holy forms of madness 

Sacred as the ecstasy that slumbers in your soul 

Silver moved instinctively within her soft defenses 

Soon unfolding mysteries he'd never seen before 

And wakening an ancient need, she slipped inside his senses 

And Silver took it easy as the closing of a door 

Then soon he touched the secret fears she'd hidden with her sorrows 

Darker than her raven hair and deeper than her eyes 

And dared to try to lead her to the sunlight from her shadows 

Following the line between her laughter and her lies 

But Silver left his magic with the legend he'd abandoned 

Love had stripped him naked of illusion and it's charms 

Then one long night her changing mind took kindly to a stranger 

And morning found her moving in the golden stranger's arms 

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[Chorus] 

Silver stared in silence at the tangled scene before him 

Time was burning frozen in the oceans of his eyes 

And sadly turning backwards to the world that he'd forsaken 

He donned the shining mantle of deception and disguise 

Slowly, with the patience born of silent desperation 

Silver worked his way into the darkness of her mind 

Weaving through her conscience like a chance she might have taken 

Sadder than the shadows of the love she'll never find 

And Silver's spell was stronger than the softly smiling stranger 

Whose star was burning smaller in the naked light of day 

And Silver took her hand again, a wiser man, but sadder 

Ready for the stranger who would steal her love away 

Because Hunger, is the surface of a darkened pool of sadness 

Silver pale reflection of a deeper need below 

Mystery and magic are the holy forms of madness 

Sworn to free the ecstasy that slumbers in your soul