Emmylou Harris Michaelangelo Lyrics

Michaelangelo Lyrics

Last night I dreamed about you

I dreamed that you were older

You were looking like Picasso

With a scar across your shoulder



You were kneeling by the river

You were digging up the bodies

Buried long ago

Michelangelo



Last night I dreamed about you

I dreamed you were a pilgrim

On a highway out alone to find

The mother of your children



Who were still unborn and waiting

In the wings of some desire

Abandoned long ago

Michelangelo



Were you there at Armageddon

Was Paris really burning

Could I have been the one to pull you

From the point of no returning



And did I hear you calling out my name

Or was it forgotten long ago

Michelangelo



Last night I dreamed about you

I dreamed that you were riding

On a blood red painted pony

Up where the heavens were dividing



And the angels turned to ashes

You came tumbling with them to earth

So far below

Michelangelo



Last night I dreamed about you

I dreamed that you laid dying

In a field of thorn and roses

With a hawk above you crying



For the warrior slain in battle

From an arrow driven deep inside you

Long ago

Michelangelo



Did you suffer at the end

Would there be no one to remember

Did you banish all the old ghosts

With the terms of surrender



And could you hear me calling out your name

Well, I guess that I will never know

Michelangelo



Last night I dreamed about you

I dreamed that you were weeping

And your tears poured down like diamonds

For a love beyond all keeping



And you caught them one by one

In a million silk bandannas that I gave you long ago

Michelangelo