After The Curtain

Echoes from a lost refrain weave and bend
They haunt me
After the curtain

Once-filled rows of smiling faces
Now a sea of empty places
After the curtain

I blink back leaping heart
Who thought those were footsteps in the sand outside my door
Only to find
My last cigarette crackling loudly in the stillness
Ashes growing longer
Too much
After the curtain

My song is through
It was your song too
And it must have played at least a hundred times now
I could feel you in the music while the room was dark
And I remember your leaving

Take me, too
I feel the cold that follows
After the curtain




Words and music copyright ©1981 Betty Elders/ Whistling Pig Music (ASCAP) administered by BUG Music

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