The Burning Of The Midnight Lamp Lyrics - Her Chess Years - Minnie Riperton

(jack bruce) 

the morning is dead 

and the day is too 

there's nothing left here to greet me 

but the velvet moon 

all my loneliness 

i have felt today 

it's a little more than enough 

to make a man throw himself away 

and i continue 

to burn the midnight lamp 

alone 

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now the smiling portrait of you 

is stll hangin' on my frowning wall 

but it really- really doesn't bother me- too much at all 

it's just the- uh- everfalling dust 

that makes it so hard for me to see 

that forgotten ear-ring laying on the floor 

facing coldly toward the door 

and i continue 

to burn the midnight lamp 

whoa, alone 

burn 

yeah yeah 

lonely lonely lonely 

loneliness is such a, drag 

so here i sit to face 

that same old fire place 

gettin' ready for the same old explosion 

goin' through my mind 

and soon enough time will tell 

about the circus and the wishing well 

and someone will buy and sell for me 

someone will toll my bell 

and i continue to burn the same old lamp 

alone 

yeah, right now 

can you hear me callin' you?- so lonely 

gotta blow my mind 

yeah yeah 

lonely lonely lonely 

blow my mind 

yeah