This Lyric is: #193

Two Moons
by Tim LaBorie
© 2001

We touched down on a foreign world, just to dig the mines.
I put my hands into the earth, left my heart behind.
Annie was a kitchen maid, the only comfort there.
She's doing well, that's what I hear.

Leaving home for a better life, we crossed the Milky Way.
Sleeping in the freezing hull, get drunk every day.
Playing cards on credit, 'till our sun was far away.
When we came into phase I owed them two year's pay.

Chorus 1:
Love is a stone that you carry to your grave.
Sometimes like a good luck charm, sometimes a weight.
If only Annie would come back here again
I would do anything, we could ship out for the moon.

Going to the mine each day, the first moon is on the rise.
Coming home in the dust at night, the second is in the sky.
Someone said there is a time they cross about mid-day
Well I don't know, I never see the light of day.

Chorus 2
Two moons are always in her eyes;
One that glows in the morning mist, one that sets at night.
If only Annie could come back here again
I would do anything, we could ship out for the moon.

Sometime back in my seventh year I finally got ahead.
Got myself a private room, a kitchen and a bed.
A letter from a lawyer came, it said that I was dead.
Well I don't know, that's what it said.

Chorus 1

Annie shipped out years ago I was working in the mine.
Nothing left to hold her, nothing left behind.
I look out on a crowded sky with nothing left to lose,
She's doing well, I just can't move.

Chorus 2
Chorus 1

[This message has been edited by blakeh (edited 09-01-2002).]

Tim LaBorie
http://www.timlaborie.com