Venus Was Adorned

Venus was adorned in her usual flaming dress

She stole my gaze away from on the woods

The riverbed below in a lively teeming mess

A marketplace where life and death are goods

I could just make out the face of the moon between the trees

Smiling down on this metropolis

A wilderness from which our better selves were born

To think we'd ever have forgotten this

Twenty thousand stars a second fading from our view

If not for change you'll bring about oh the same will come of you

Oh the same will come of you

A day off fourteen weeks til I saw her face again

Hiding round the far side of the Earth

Head hung in despair at the waning of her friend

In the miles between Iquitos, here and Perth

Twenty thousand stars a second fading from our view

If not for change you'll bring about oh the same will come of you

A mother on her dying bed. Could this be her final breath?

If not for change you'll bring about oh the same will come of you

Oh the same will come of you

Twenty thousand stars a second fading from our view

If not for change you'll bring about the same will come of you

Twenty thousand stars a second fading from our view

If not for change you'll bring about the same will come of you

Oh the same will come of you