Half The Perfect World

Every night he'd come to me
 I'd cook for him, I'd pour his tea
 I was in my thirties then
 Had made some money, lived with men
 We'd lay us down to give and get
 Beneath the white mosquito net
 And since no counting had begun
 We lived a thousand years in one
 The candles burned
 The moon went down
 The polished hill
 The milky town
 Transparent, weightless, luminous
 Uncovering the two of us
 On that fundamental ground
 Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound
 And half the perfect world is found
 The candles burned
 The moon went down
 The polished hill
 The milky town
 Transparent, weightless, luminous
 Uncovering the two of us
 On that fundamental ground
 Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound
 And half the perfect world is found