[00:02.12]Into this strange elastic world[00:06.56]Pontus kindly gave up a pearl[00:11.31]Of his eternal stone and mud[00:15.91]And ain't she lovely bone and blood[00:20.78]Born of the sea[00:25.22][00:25.67]A thousand miles away from me[00:30.17]A court of angels[00:32.76]Wards of the sun[00:34.92]A future forming[00:37.12]A curse undone[00:39.52][00:44.27]Under our softly burning lamps she takes her time[00:53.43]Telling stories of our possible lives[00:59.78]And love is the ink in the well when her body writes[01:06.33][01:10.75]I've been selfish and full of pride[01:15.17]And she knows deep down there's a little child[01:19.56]But I've got a good side to me as well[01:24.45]And it's that she loves in spite of everything else[01:31.06][01:43.66]A song in the tree has distracted her mind[01:48.93]Some other curious form of life[01:53.17]Has made its presence to her known[01:57.69]And she coos so gently, soft and low[02:02.69]He shining face in a million reflections[02:08.03]On tiny raindrops that fall in a veil[02:12.61]Over our city like notes from above[02:16.90]It overwhelms me I just ain't that tough[02:21.75][02:26.48]It's not that the darkness can't touch our lives[02:30.96]I know it will in time[02:35.68]But she's no ordinary valentine[02:41.93]And now when the sun goes down[02:44.81]she sheds a darling light[02:48.04][02:52.67]I've been selfish and full of pride[02:57.27]And she knows deep down there's a little child[03:02.27]But I've got a good side to me as well[03:06.68]And it's that she loves in spite of everything else[03:18.30][03:20.61]