I Hold Nothing

Your love
Swells and pounds me

And I know nothing
Now that I know you
My face goes blank
My eyes go open gates
And the world can go in
And the world can stay
And make us wealthy
And take away
So, I hold nothing

Now that I hold nothing, now that I hold you
There's no place to use our money

Where we live
The generous world suggests generous living
So we lay under low wide branches
Of the oldest tree on the dune, in the hay
Where we will stay for so long
That the careful birds will relax
And make black nests in your black hair
And walk around beneath my still feet
And we will only notice the play of the world for a moment
And let it roll on, the way the world rolls on

We will only notice the world for a moment
And let it roll on, the way the world rolls on
The world, for a moment, and let it roll on the way the world rolls on
Through open gates

We will only notice the play of the world for a moment
And let it roll on the way the world rolls on