Thomas Anderson

singer, songwriter, rock 'n' roller

Girls in the Twilight

by Thomas Anderson

from the album My Songs Are the House I Live In

The doctor of dead languages

Calls the physics lab

Remembering time dilation

From the master's course he had.

He says This should be summer

But the snow is on the ground.

I'm drowning in the decades

And I think I'm goin' down.

There should be love and laughter

Punctuated with a kiss,

But I'm still chasing after

All the things I missed.

Can you make me some elixir

While I hear the siren's song,

Get me out of the faculty mixer

Take me back where I belong.

And whoever thought

I'd be chasing girls in the twilight,

I'm a Falstaff

Wrapped in Romeo clothes;

'Neath the balconies

Where girls in the twilight

Politely decline

My red red rose.

The professor says The only way

To slow down time you might

Pick up the pace in your race

'Til you push the speed of light.

'Til the snow is flying upward

And the sun falls in the east;

And you will hear love call your name

When you think about it least.

But there's no fool

Like an old fool they will tell you,

Like they made it up,

With a look profound.

And send you back

To doze on Mount Olympus,

And watch TV

Til they lay you down.

And whoever thought

We'd be chasing girls in the twilight

Like a Falstaff

Wrapped in Romeo clothes,

'Neath the balconies

Where girls in the twilight

Politely decline

This red red rose.