The Green Pajamas

Deadly Nightshade


And if I were to see all that I hold dear to me
The open heart of mystery pounding very near to me
Pumping my funny dreams away
Would I still bother with the day

And so we chose to live face to face and secretive
Ivy wrapped around the dove, spies in the house of love
That poison ivy is a blade
Just like the deadly nightshade

Come kiss me goodnight my deadly nightshade
Come kiss me goodnight my deadly nightshade

    Against the endless winter sky
    The sun shown coldy in her eyes
    I kissed the mouth of night goodbye

And if I were to die I would loose my fear of death
In the dark ocean or the sky I would breath my secret breath
I'd live in mirrors in a row
And in the falling China snow
Sweet world of mystery I made
And in the deadly nightshade

Come kiss me goodnight my deadly nightshade
Come kiss me goodnight my deadly nightshade


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by Jeff Kelly
(c) 1997 St. Brigid Publishing