Alice walks the graveyard
In the half light just from boredom
And Philip gathers flowers
Down from hilltops to reward her
And never once they falter
Though the signs are all against them
And the twilight slowly mingles
With the soft sounds from their lantern
And all the times they questioned
the ways that they were raised
Or thought that they were different
than the people they became
I’ll hold the door
We’ll make the spoon
I’ll laugh out loud
You’ll chase the moon
We’ll fly too high
Come down too soon
Count the stars in the thin night air
It will be spring soon
And after in the evenings
As the stars come out to see them
And the sidewalks are the foothills
To the pathways that precede them
And Alice asks for nothing but the nighttime to surround them
And Philip asks for Alice and wraps his love around them
Cuz Alice caught a lesson
he had the privilege to ignore
And Philip asks forgiveness
but doesn’t know what it is for
I’ll hold the door
We’ll make the spoon
I’ll laugh out loud
You’ll chase the moon
We’ll fly too high
Come down too soon
Count the stars in the thin night air
It will be spring soon