Listen to this song at: http://www.mbouchard.com/misc/leaves-red-as-love.mp3
There was once upon a time
I felt I was your princess.
You’d have charged through a battlefield
for a touch of my hand.
It was back when the trees were green
and the flowers were blooming wild,
and the smell of white roses
floated over the land.
True you never made promises
that the sea would not call you,
and you never swore to me
that you’d stay by my side.
But the way that you walked with me
under trees in the moonlight,
I was sure that where my heart was
yours would ever reside.
But the trees have turned red as my love
And the stars slumber over the clouds
I have waited for you to return to me
But I can’t find your face in the crowds…
I know the king is not hiring
since the war is now over long.
I have watched every ship come in
still with no word of you.
The cabin boys shake their heads
when I show them your portrait
as I stand with the salt wind in my hair
wondering what to do.
For the leaves have turned red as my love
And the stars slumber over the clouds
I have waited for you to return to me
But I can’t find your face in the crowds…
I am sure you’re no silkie rare
now returned to the ocean deep.
You’ve not turned to a raven black,
or suffered any such fate.
No, I think you’re just a man
who has left me here longing.
This princess will rescue herself
I suppose, rather than wait.
For the leaves have turned red as my love
And the stars slumber over the clouds
I have waited for you to return to me
But I can’t find your face in the crowds…
There was once upon a time
I felt I was your princess
You’d have charged through the battlefield
for a touch of my hand.
It was back when the trees were green
and the flowers were blooming wild
and the smell of white roses
floated over the land.
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Today was such a grey, rainy day that the leaves looked red, but nearly brokenhearted. The rain wasn’t hard enough to actually matter, just enough to make you feel like you were waiting for nothing in particular to happen. And it also made me think of staring out of a window, watching for someone. Usually that ends in my head with someone coming home, but today, nobody came. Well, that’s not entirely true. This song came, and I’m glad I let the little melancholic, heartbroken thing in out of the rain.