Kings and Spaceships

you used to see planes and wish you had wings
great sober sunbursts riding the winds of everything we were
and when silver soaring flew you in china teacups on the breeze
you woke and told me it had all been a dream

and I just didn't know
that we were so damn foolish
like drunken singing in a midnight bar
our music of kings and spaceships and things
when we don't even know what they are
riding round the sun somehow
and living in so clear, until I feared
to lose you whenever you were near

you used to watch the grass and wish it were greener
sickly tendrils struggling to save ourselves in springtime
and when raindrops falling battered your battlements with ease
you smiled and told me nothing's as it seems

and I just didn't know
that we were so damn foolish
like drunken singing in a midnight bar
our music of kings and spaceships and things
when we don't even know what they are
riding round the sun somehow
and living in so clear, until I feared
to lose you whenever you were near

(I had a medal
once upon a time
and I polished it until it shine shine shined
but one day in anger
I threw it away
but I didn't want it anyway)

(and I had a love
once upon a dream
and I wanted it to gleam gleam gleam
but one day in sorrow
it fell to the floor
and I didn't see you anymore)

I just didn't know
that we were so damn foolish
like drunken singing in a midnight bar
our music of kings and spaceships and things
when we don't even know what they are
riding round the sun somehow
and living in so clear, until I feared
to lose you whenever you were near

I always feared to lose you whenever you were near