Alexandra Leaving
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Suddenly the night has grown colder.
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The god of love preparing to depart.
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Alexandra hoisted on his shoulder
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They slip between the sentries of the heart.
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Upheld by the simplicities of pleasure
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They gain the light, they formlessly entwine
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And radiant beyond your widest measure
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They fall among the voices and the wine.
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It's not a trick, your senses all deceiving
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A fitful dream, the morning will exhaust
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Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving.
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Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost.
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Even though she sleeps upon your satin
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Even though she wakes you with a kiss.
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Do not say the moment was imagined
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Do not stoop to strategies like this.
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As someone long prepared for this to happen
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Go firmly to the window. Drink it in.
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Exquisite music. Alexandra laughing.
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Your first commitments tangible again.
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And you who had the honor of her evening
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And by that honor had your own restored
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Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving
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Alexandra leaving with her lord.
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Even though she sleeps upon your satin
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Even though she wakes you with a kiss.
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Do not say the moment was imagined
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Do not stoop to strategies like this.
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As someone long prepared for the occasion
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In full command of every plan you wrecked
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Do not choose a coward's explanation
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That hides behind the cause and the effect.
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And you who were bewildered by a meaning
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Whose code was broken, crucifix uncrossed
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Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving.
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Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost.
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Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving.
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Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost.