Under The Stars - And Also the Trees

Take of your coat, girl

Leave it by the stairs

Pick up the telephone

There’s a star outside

Shining bride

And the moonlight falls

On the apple tree

She stands and watches Venus rise

And from another street a baby cries

But everything will be all right

And we can see her face

Disappear into the night’s strange patterns

From the window of a train

We see her dancing

Barefoot in the summer rain

Another face

Another time

Turns peacefully

Into the fading mackerel sky

But something ancient in her eyes

Says everything will be all right

I hear the milk-float

Coming down the terrace now

The fat man in the corner house

Is shaving in his dressing gown

A girl stands in a garden

And starlings swoop above the town

Then everything moves out of sight

In darkness deeper than the darkest night

We hear the heart that comes to life

And everything will be all right