Sad Stephen`s Song Lyrics

Sad Stephen`s Song lyrics

And there were mermaids -- weren't there? --

Sweet silver mermaids.

All
through that grey Trafalgar Square,

Such silver mermaids.



They
were young, and they were fiar.

They brushed their bronze and dusky
hair,

And whispered, "Come, Sad Stephen, come and play here."



"You
will love, you will be loved.

You will grow up, and do so much.

You will
be strong, you will be sung.

By all the mermaids.  Silver
mermaids..."



And once they'd sung their satin song,

They beckoned
to me from the fog --

They spread their arms and lifted

Pale-portrait
faces...I was taken.



To their coral-cavern halls,

To rooms with
oyster shells for walls,

To sandy nooks, and pearly books, and ivory
dolls...



In ivory stalls, in ivory stalls...



And there were
mermaids -- weren't there?

Sweet silver mermaids.

All through that wan,
forgotten square,

Silver mermaids.



They were young, and they were
fair.

They brushed their bronze and dusky hair.

And whispered, "Come,
Sad Stephen, come."

And I was taken.



Was I wrong?  Should I have
run?

I wanted all, I wanted young

And portrait faces...I was
taken.



Did I love?  I didn't care.

Did I grow up?  Well,
unaware.

And was I strong?  And was I sung?

How do I haunt Trafalgar
fog

And find I want so much, still want --



And no more
mermaids.

No more mermaids...