Ricardo João Rosa

 

Electric dreams

Lavender

I was walking in the park Dreaming of a spark When I heard the sprinklers whisper Shimmer in the haze of summer lawns Then I heard the children singing They were running through the rainbows They were singing a song for you Well it seemed to be a song for you The one I wanted to write for you, for you, you Lavenders blue, dilly dilly, lavenders green When I am king, dilly dilly You will be queen A penny for your thoughts my dear A penny for your thoughts my dear I O U for your love I O U for your love Lavenders green, dilly dilly, lavenders blue When you love me, dilly dilly, I will love you A penny for your thoughts my dear A penny for your thoughts my dear I O U for your love I O U for your love Lavender dreams dilly, dilly, lavenders true When you missed me dilly dilly, I did miss you A penny for your thoughts my dear A penny for your thoughts my dear I O U for your love I O U for your love For your love, for your love, for your love Oh I'm gonna get back to you Gonna find my way back to you For your love, for your love, for your love I'm always walking in the park Always dreaming of a spark From you

I'm waiting in my cold cell When the bell begins to chime Reflecting on my past life And it doesn't have much time 'Cause at five o'clock They take me to the gallows pole The sands of time for me are running low Running low, yeah 

When the priest comes to read me the last rites Take a look through the bars at the last sights Of a world that has gone very wrong for me Can it be that there's some sort of an error? Hard to stop the surmounting terror Is it really the end not some crazy dream? Somebody please, tell me that I'm dreaming It's not easy to stop from screaming But words escape me when I try to speak

 Tears flow, but why am I crying? After all I'm not afraid of dying Don't I believe that there never is an end? As the guards march me out to the courtyard Somebody cries from a cell, "God be with you" If there's a God why has he let me go? As I walk my life drifts before me And though the end is near I'm not sorry Catch my soul, it's willing to fly away Mark my words, believe, my soul lives on Don't worry now that I have gone I've gone beyond to see the truth When you know that your time is close at hand Maybe then you'll begin to understand Life down here is just a strange illusion Yeah, yeah, yeah Hallowed be Thy name Yeah, yeah, yeah Hallowed be Thy name Yeah

NGR

She cries, smiles and cries.