half the perfect world

Lyrics

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