In a Mist

My love and I
Finished our wine
And we laid down together, like friends often do

And that self-same night
I had a dream
About another young girl I once knew

I travelled back to the summer
Of seven years ago
When I in slender youth was clad
When the air was full of magic
And our bodies full of strength
And we gave each other every drop of youth we had

But in spite of our love
We were never of one mind
And we fought and separated many times
And we were unfaithful
And we were unkind
And our story ended in a broken rhyme

In a mist
It was all in a mist
That we said farewell

And when I awoke
And saw my present love
And my mind from troubled sleep was freed

I thought "sweet ally"
You are all I have
But truly, you are all I need

And since that night
I don't look back
Or gaze into the future with her sign of birth

And the past has settled
Like the early snow
That lies buried in the bosom of the deep, deep eye

In a mist
It was all in a mist
And so long ago

And if there's a morale
And a morale there may be
In what starts as a journey and ends in a dream

We are born alone
And we die alone
And we cannot posess anyone inbetween

In a mist
We are all in a mist
In a mist
We are all in a mist
And a little sleep