Shadows - a Lemon Cohen Song

I feel that something now in me is fading and is slowing

A sense perhaps, that I was ever strong

Though hereabout tall lime trees still, are shadowed and are growing

My shadow, as a shadow, isn't now so deep or long.

A sense perhaps, that I was ever strong

Has vanished, and I fail to make impressions, that will linger

My shadow, as a shadow, isn't now so deep or long.

The book I read defeats me, I'm afraid the moving finger

Has vanished, and I fail to make impressions, that will linger

To show me what my eyes are resting on.

The book I read defeats me, I'm afraid the moving finger

That once would follow holy light through tricks and paradoxes vast

And win me through to truth at last

Now fails as my eyes blur with tears of sorrow

That once would follow holy light through tricks and paradoxes vast

Unsightful now just flinch against the twilight of the morrow

Now: fails as my eyes blur with tears of sorrow.

And the older that my eyes get, the less they greet the morning

Unsightful now just flinch against the twilight of the morrow

As I shiver in the coolness, and hollows that are yawning

And the older that my eyes get, the less they greet the morning

For the grey of life grows over all my strength

As I shiver in the coolness, and hollows that are yawning

And the other shadows lengthen and are darker in their length

For the grey of life grows over all my strength

Like moss or creeping lichen on the stonework of the altar

And the other shadows lengthen and are darker in their length

As the last nights now are falling, when the powers of light must falter

Like moss or creeping lichen on the stonework of the altar

That once would exalt living light, in starlights on the dome of night

As the last nights now are falling, when the powers of light must falter

Unless the Sun will rise again, in warmth and love and light

That once would exalt living light, in starlights on the dome of night

Though hereabout tall lime trees still, are shadowed and are growing

Unless the Sun will rise again, in warmth and love and light

I feel that something now in me is fading and is slowing