madonna of the evening rose hold me close while the story unfolds you know i never done a thing i been told just trying to keep my heart from the cold through the tempest of the changing tides sparks of light ripple beneath your spiraling eyes reflecting eternity upon the sky like an infinite probability of fear and desire rising like fire time enforces equality with absolute stunning brutality it reasons to be as the fingers that bind start to unwind the pathway born by two symbols slide towards twilight the needle meets the thimble as the double becomes single weaving the tapestry of an open window collapse my love and begin to realize the disguise lends reason to demise sheds those tears and dry your eyes i’m not sure but we may have proved truth lies behind the curtain that forever moves surrender to ceaseless change closed but unbounded like our broken heartstrings

madonna of the evening rose
cast your light into my soul
kiss me once before you go
back into the great unknown
i have traveled far and wide
searching for the other side
made it to the walls of time
honey i almost made you mine
madonna of the evening rose
tell me what the darkness knows
embrace the figure of shadow
escaping in the wind that blows

standing in the big black void of night the trees whisper to shattering heights once upon a time conjured in a rhyme just like a white blinding sight that i heard buried beneath the untilled ground thorns of light burst from the flaming crown rise from the earth sacrifice the darkness and give birth never ask for whom the church bell tolls the wheel will grind the young back to old forcing us all back into the cold, the cold fold of solitude catapulting its cure through the crude scenes where everything shutters and screams when i held you and cried by whose word did love become a crime i didn’t mean to say it but i meant what i said there is no doubt a piece of the mystery belongs to you now at the carnival where we tried to find our way back out as you turned that candy apple in your mouth do not regret there’s no need in speaking of you will escape the danger and return my love craving the taste of lion’s blood beating for you just like a slackened drum

embrace the form of forms in a never ending storm silhouettes searching for a phantom home like bullets through a canvas torn or an unseen path that is somehow worn it’s ripple on the water think harder like a message in a bottle everything you see is just a model as you close in the circulation gets hotter memories incinerate past horizon’s gate ashes of love rise from what had been hate the curve of the dunes reminds me of you a clean wound followed by a search for proof take this hymn leave behind your silver moon and then depart once more and wait for destruction to begin sing to the king for he has triumphed gloriously thrown the horse and rider into the sea don’t look back once you have broken free the first question lies between thought and deed as above so below if i was me and you were you would the opposite not also be true

best if listened to on headphones
words and music by aaron berg
all rights reserved ©2008
love & coffee is written, recorded, and performed by aaron berg

a.b. – all vocals, fender bass, hammond organ, percussion, fuzz and finger guitars
drums by johnny ‘indicator’ byce
best if listened to on headphones
dedicated to the silent rose…

ABOUT LOVE & COFFEE PODCAST
Every Thursday beginning April 24 a new track by Aaron Berg will be featured on the Love & Coffee podcast: TO RECEIVE THE ‘LOVE & COFFEE’ PODCAST VIA EMAIL, SIGN UP AT www.myspace.com/theheavylove