Half the Perfect World

[00:23.40]Every night she'd come to me [00:27.68]I'd cook for her, I'd pour her tea [00:34.16]She was in her thirties then [00:39.66]Had made some money, lived with men [00:56.57]We'd lay us down to give and get [01:01.82]Beneath the white mosquito net [01:08.34]And since no counting had begun [01:13.86]We lived a thousand years in one [01:28.59]The candles burned [01:34.67]The moon went down [01:40.16]The polished hill [01:45.49]The milky town [01:50.22]Transparent, weightless, luminous [02:01.25]Uncovering the two of us [02:05.95]On that fundamental ground [02:12.14]Where love's unwilled, unleashed, [02:21.47]And half the perfect world is found [02:38.37]The candles burned [02:44.31]The moon went down [02:49.60]The polished hill [02:55.36]The milky town [02:59.98]Transparent, weightless, luminous [03:10.80]Uncovering the two of us [03:15.24]On that fundamental ground [03:21.34]Where love's unwilled, unleashed [03:32.06]And half the perfect world is found