[01:13.180]Suddenly the night has grown colder.
[01:21.740]The god of love preparing to depart.
[01:30.560]Alexandra hoisted on his shoulder,
[01:38.260]They slip between the sentries of the heart.
[01:44.800]
[01:45.450]Upheld by the simplicities of pleasure,
[01:53.780]They gain the light, they formlessly entwine;
[02:02.920]And radiant beyond your widest measure
[02:11.350]They fall among the voices and the wine.
[02:17.600]
[02:19.920]It’s not a trick, your senses all deceiving,
[02:28.360]A fitful dream, the morning will exhaust –
[02:40.010]Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving.
[02:48.510]Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost.
[02:57.270]
[03:01.520]Even though she sleeps upon your satin;
[03:09.820]Even though she wakes you with a kiss.
[03:18.110]Do not say the moment was imagined;
[03:26.330]Do not stoop to strategies like this.
[03:33.700]
[03:38.370]As someone long prepared for this to happen,
[03:49.580]Go firmly to the window. Drink it in.
[04:03.730]Exquisite music. Alexandra laughing.
[04:13.050]Your first commitments tangible again.
[04:19.760]
[04:22.070]And you who had the honor of her evening,
[04:30.630]And by that honor had your own restored –
[04:38.860]Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving;
[04:48.270]Alexandra leaving with her lord.
[04:54.000]
[04:54.960]Even though she sleeps upon your satin;
[05:03.930]Even though she wakes you with a kiss.
[05:11.450]Do not say the moment was imagined;
[05:19.750]Do not stoop to strategies like this.
[05:28.400]
[05:30.050]As someone long prepared for the occasion;
[05:38.240]In full command of every plan you wrecked –
[05:46.670]Do not choose a coward’s explanation
[05:54.890]that hides behind the cause and the effect.
[06:00.570]
[06:01.560]And you who were bewildered by a meaning;
[06:01.640]
[06:02.020]And you who were bewildered by a meaning;
[06:09.860]Whose code was broken, crucifix uncrossed –
[06:18.290]Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving.
[06:27.030]Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost.
[06:32.980]
[06:34.790]Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving.
[06:43.490]Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost.