Perfect Song

Many years I've lived alone
 A life of solitude
 Since my love did leave this life
 My joys have been but few
 In my sleep she sang to me
 Like summer's windy breath
 No sooner had she warmed my heart
 Than had she left my bed
 Had she left my bed
 Won't you sing to me the perfect song
 That I might smile again
 Won't you sing to me the perfect song
 That I might smile... smile again
 The melody enchanted me
 With words I can't describe
 It danced around the room until
 It vanished in the night
 Only gods and angels know
 She touched me on the cheek
 With gentle hands like flakes of snow
 Some day soon we'll meet again
 If it's in a dream I'll never wake
 So it won't end
 We'll live in my head
 and the echo of your song won't go
 Quietly it holds me here
 By my window I wait
 How long will it take?