Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love - Madeleine Peyroux (玛黛琳·蓓荷)

Written by：Madeleine Peyroux

Lay your sleeping head my love

Human on my faithless arm

Time and fevers burn away

Beauty from

Thoughtful children and the grave

Proves the child ephemeral

But in my arms till break of day

Let the living creature lie

Mortal guilty but to me

The entirely beautiful

Certainty fidelity

On the stroke of midnight pass

Like vibrations of a bell

And fashionable madmen raise

Their pedantic boring cry

Every farthing of the cost

All the dreaded cards foretell

Shall be paid but from this night

Not a whisper not a thought

Not a kiss nor look be lost

Beauty midnight vision dies

Let the winds of dawn that blow

Softly round your dreaming head

Such a day of sweetness show

Eye and knocking heart may bless

Find the mortal world enough

Noons of dryness see you fed

By the involuntary powers

Nights of insult let you pass

Watched by every human love