Eveline from Lighthouse Keeper by William Wallace

Eveline unwinds herself from sleep and throws an arm across my side
She’s long and soft and languid and her heart beats close, her eyes are open wide
She says “Last night I dreamt of serpents racing down the mountainside
With their tongues all forked like lightning and their bodies forged in fire
They drove us to the water and with nowhere left to hide
We jumped in with all our clothes on and went out just like the tide”

Lines of sweat are forming, yeah she’s burning, giving off an inner heat
She’s coal, she’s fire, she’s naked under earth and rock and cotton sheets
The pressure building slowly every time her red heart beats
Like the world might split apart when our bodies finally meet
And there’s only stone and diamond where a woman used to be
All that fire all that fury making channels towards the sea

so open up
and swallow me in
I would like to feel the same way that i did when we began
i sail away
oh, you draw me back
the waters rush to fill the places where the ocean cracks


Eveline’s the sound that tears a hole across the blue uncertain sky
She’s a metronome of thunder sounded back and forth to keep the time
She says “Last night I dreamt of trumpets down from heaven’s gate on high
While the smell of burning sulfur seeps from hell’s one open eye
The fever finally breaking in the cooling winds that wind
From the falling walls of Jericho to crumbling mountainsides”

And I know that day is coming
And in my mind I plainly see
Two statues laid in embrace
Where our bodies used to be
And the years may treat us kinder
Than the years had meant to be
Yes I know that day is coming
When there’s only you and me

Eveline unwinds herself from sleep and throws the window shutters wide
It’s morning on the mountain she comes back to bed and lays down by my side
She says there’s nothing to remember from the dreams of sleep gone by
So we might as well just lay here with the sunlight in our eyes
Or we’ll walk down to the water laid before us deep and wide
We’ll jump in with all our clothes on and go out just like the tide

so open up
and swallow me in
I would like to feel the same way that i did when we began
i sail away
you draw me back
And the waters rush to fill the places where the ocean cracks

• Folk
• acoustic guitar
• americana
• singer-songwriter
• songwriter
• Austin