Operetta

A song about you

You're in a song

Are you good or evil

Or just right or wrong

Where's the boys all dressed in green

In the gap that lies between

Where's the girls all dressed in white

In the deep heart of the night

Where's the men all dressed in black

None are ever coming back

Where's the men all dressed in black

Where's the ladies dressed in red

All are dancing with the dead

Song about you

Just a song

Are you stranger still

Or do you belong

Life is short (phosphorescent rim of the sun)

So don't be long (turn to face it as the comets come)

Use your free will (a cloudy blanket, a moving storm)

Or get trapped in a song (as love thaws)

In summertime

Umbrella trees down by the sea

Limbs like men to bend low

You turn and you see me

Music plays

Space between the notes full of haze

Piano, drums and trumpets

Just like the old days

A song about you

You're in a song

Are you good or evil

Or just right or wrong

In summertime

Picking up an insistent distant beat

Beachcomber come home now

Come in from the heat

Interweaving leaves (where's the men all dressed in black)

Once she was a skeptic, twice she believes (none are ever coming back)

The wind that thinned and skinned us (where's the ladies dressed in red)

Underneath (all are dancing with the dead)

(Where's the boys all dressed in green

In the gap that lies between

Where's the girls all dressed in white

In the deep heart of the night

Where's the men all dressed in black

None are ever coming back

Where's the ladies dressed in red

All are dancing with the dead)