Emerald Eyes

Emerald eyes

Sparkling across the bar

Promise surprise

So near and yet so far

Memories of the war

Bullet marks on the door

Station so cold

Freights howling through the night

Feel pretty old

Winter's the wind to fight

There's nowhere left to go

Looks like it's gonna snow

She spun dusty dreams

where candles burned so brave

Shadow families

Lost voices in the cave

Houses of ghosts

And happy years

Weddings to celebrate

And drive away the fear

Soon it would be too late

Then came the dark

And all the smiles

Were smoke in the air

There was no more time

The dogs began to bark

Touching her hand

Maybe we'd carry on

"You don't understand"

turned round and she was gone