August Carol - Kestrel

I was alone one night

A hand took my shoulder

She stood before me with her hair like silver firelight

She had such a way that

I couldn’t say exactly what she said to me

But she asked if I would follow my dizzy head

Just said, «Yes»

My head was aching with a pain like a furnace

I realized that I can’t live the old way now again

Let me go away now

I see the day when I’ll be right again, you see

It was all I really needed to find again

Let me live

My breath began to fade there

I saw mistakes I made there

The ruin lies before me

Thank God they never saw me

All of the people in an August Carol with me

She let me see the nights I lied to my good friend

And all the many things I’d done and times I’d run away

Well I just had to ask then

Please let me live my life again

Because you know I’ve got nothing left to love for

Now I can see what I really am