Gardenias and Cigarettes-Ana Silvera

[ti:Gardenias and Cigarettes] [ar:Ana Silvera] [al:The Aviary] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Gardenias and Cigarettes - Ana Silvera [00:02.13]Water on shingle and vagrant hours [00:07.75] [00:09.49]That stumble round this sunstruck town [00:13.49] [00:14.98]And white lantern blossoms [00:19.29] [00:19.91]With torn off wings [00:23.03] [00:24.59]Break from their branches [00:28.03] [00:29.27]With pale yearning [00:32.21] [00:33.21]Oh my mind came unmoored in the night [00:38.76] [00:39.82]You set it adrift [00:43.00]With a kiss that was sweeter [00:45.69] [00:46.56]Than anyone else's [00:48.68] [00:49.62]That I've known before then or since [00:54.30] [00:54.98]Oh gardenias and cheap cigarettes [00:57.98] [00:58.91]On your mouth and your fingers I tasted [01:04.34] [01:20.71]In the name on the hands and the back of love [01:23.89]Ships were raised and lovers fought [01:26.64] [01:27.26]And the Gods above watched from a ringside box [01:30.44]As cities were wasted to ashes and dust [01:33.62] [01:34.19]I saw you go through a low window [01:37.38] [01:37.99]By the idle tide of dusk [01:40.36] [01:41.24]And I should have seen through [01:43.73]Those arrows and bows [01:45.42]That even golden apples rust hoo [01:51.10] [01:59.59]Oh my mind came unmoored in the night [02:07.20] [02:08.13]You set it adrift [02:09.75]With a kiss that was sweeter [02:12.81] [02:13.32]Than anyone else's [02:15.51] [02:16.63]That I've known before then or since [02:20.92] [02:21.43]Oh gardenias and cheap cigarettes [02:23.93] [02:25.05]And the ghost of the touch of your fingers [02:28.92]I tasted hoo hoo haa hoo