Moonlight Serenade

Understand the night

When she flashes her sparkling eyes at dusk

She flirts with twilight

When the noise of day dies away

The night and twilight stay and stay

Making quiet love up high over the town

And the gentle twilight gives his light

Making a queen of night

If I could I would write a sonnet of the night

As a remembrance of your eyes

And if you'd promise not to tell

I could whisper the words in the dark

Like a lover, we could count the stars, the shooting stars

And talk of lovers through the ages

Who had lived out of their dreams

Such will and spirit, courage, they needed to live in a dream

To burn with every breath, so serene

As if they had been the first to find love at all

Like night and twilight

They were the first of lovers ever

Could we be like them?

Hold on to one another until dawn comes

Then we'll fly off and dream until night and twilight kiss again

My love, my one and only love

Let me take you out under the moonlight

And show how the twilight loves the night

Why he lives for an hour of loving

Through lifetimes of longing

And sings his moonlight serenade