PARISH, Mitchell

PARISH, Mitchell

Stardust

And now the purple dusk of twilight time

Steals across the meadows of my heart

High up in the sky the little stars climb

Always reminding me that we're apart

You wander down the lane and far away

Leaving me a song that will not die

Love is now the stardust of yesterday

The music of the years gone by

Sometimes I wonder why I spend

the lonely night dreaming of a song

The melody haunts my reverie

And I am once again with you

When our love was new

And each kiss an inspiration

Oh, but that was long ago

Now my consolation

is in the stardust of a song

Beside a garden wall,

When stars are bright

You are in my arms

The nightingale tells his fairytale

A paradise, where roses bloom

Though I dream in vain

In my heart, it will remain

My stardust melody

The memory of love’s refrain

Deep Purple

When the deep purple falls

over sleepy garden walls

and the stars begin to flicker in the sky

thru the mist of a memory

you wander back to me

breathing my name with a sigh.

In the still of the night

once again I hold you tight.

Tho' you're gone

your love lives on

when moonlight beams

and as long as my heart will beat,

lover, we'll always meet

here in my deep purple dreams.

Sophisticated Lady

They say into your early life romance came

And in this heart of yours burned a flame

A flame that flickered one day and died away

Then, with disillusion deep in your eyes

You learned that fools in love soon grow wise

The years have changed you, somehow

I see you now

Smoking, drinking, never thinking of tomorrow, nonchalant

Diamonds shining, dancing, dining with some man in a restaurant

Is that all you really want?

No, sophisticated lady,

I know, you miss the love you lost long ago

And when nobody is nigh you cry