"Serenade" lyrics

"Serenade"

Darkness falls
Around your window pane
A light still burns
But just a smouldering flame
Is it the end of another affair
An open engagement with gloom
Or will you be smiling
When the sun conjures up
A broken spell au clair-de-lune?

Silhouette
As you draw the shade
Cloak of night
You know it's tailor-made
G-Plan gymnastics
By an ever-glow fire
Could never mean the same
As summer enchantment
By an old mill stream
From courtly love to costly game

Maybe I'm wrong for seeming
Ungrateful, unforgiving
Oh how it hurts now you're finally leaving
I couldn't take anymore

Now's the time!
Let's hide away
Sacred hours
Saved from yesterday
Boo-hoo willows weep around you still
Mirror reflections of dew
But waterfall pages of an open book
Could shower new horizons soon
Call the tune
Will you swoon
As I croon
Your serenade


Thanks to Andrew Holden for correcting these lyrics.
Writer(s): Bryan Ferry
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