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

Beating with a teenage heart Remember when the night turned up And sun went down If just for a moment We were falling at the speed of sound Yeah, the moon played a part Two shadows in the dark We were circus lights and cannonballs We were way too high to

And it's a long road out of Eden Moon shinin' down through the palms Shadows movin' on the sand Somebody whisperin' the twenty-third psalm Dusty rifle in his tremblin' hands Somebody tryin' just to stay alive He got promises to keep Over the ocean in