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Jimmy Webb - The Moon's A Harsh Mistress
See her how she flies
Golden sails across the sky
Close enough to touch
But careful if you try
Though she looks as warm as gold
The moon's a harsh mistress
The moon can be so cold
Once the sun did shine
Lord, it felt so fine
The moon a phantom rose
Through the mountains and the pines
And then the darkness fell
And the moon's a harsh mistress
It's so hard to love her well
I fell out of her eyes
I fell out of her heart
I fell down on my face
Yes, I did, and I -- I tripped and I missed my star
God, I fell and I fell alone, I fell alone
And the moon's a harsh mistress
And the sky is made of stone
The moon's a harsh mistress
She's hard to call your own.
Golden sails across the sky
Close enough to touch
But careful if you try
Though she looks as warm as gold
The moon's a harsh mistress
The moon can be so cold
Once the sun did shine
Lord, it felt so fine
The moon a phantom rose
Through the mountains and the pines
And then the darkness fell
And the moon's a harsh mistress
It's so hard to love her well
I fell out of her eyes
I fell out of her heart
I fell down on my face
Yes, I did, and I -- I tripped and I missed my star
God, I fell and I fell alone, I fell alone
And the moon's a harsh mistress
And the sky is made of stone
The moon's a harsh mistress
She's hard to call your own.
fabulous post - love the moon images , especially the cresent moon. What a touching poem...love you.
ReplyDeleteHey, man. The photos are superb. But the video...what can I say? This fellow has done a good job with the song, and the music video creator has just outdone anything I expected from the beginning to the end.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this piece. When I saw the subject line, I expected something from the Robert Heinlein perspective.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress
What I found was so much better.
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Jimmy Webb always had a way of expressing the unexpressable.
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