Polonaise

The footprints she left were as secret as her gaze
The afternoons when the sky burned made her light dress sway
Braids like from another time
Her going-out shoes
Knew how to silently come and go

The town seemed dead under so much sleep sunk in the heat
Windows with silent blinds, if someone spied on her like the Sun did
That flower would wither
Maybe it’d be better to die
But today I just wanted to be happy

If you saw, it all started as a game
It really seemed like a dream
That he would stop to talk to her
He drew stars for her youth
Gave her a dizzy spell of thought
Letting her skin sail away
Behind a clandestine love, set sail

His chest longed to proclaim his love to the four winds from the rooftops
Prudence was the name of the science that gave him patience and held him back
You’ll be the one who never existed
The sweetest honey in the place
I remember that it shouldn’t be kept

If you saw, it all started as a game
It really seemed like a dream
That he would stop to talk to her
He drew stars for her youth
Gave her a dizzy spell of thought
Letting her veins bleed
Behind a clandestine love, set sail