Michael Franks - Abandoned Garden (Warner Bros., 1995)
4. Hourglass
Hourglass, remember how I said I’d miss you?
I confess I lied:
Hourglass, I couldn’t live without you
If I tried, Which I
Do not intend to ever try.
My Hourglass, your sensual geography
I live just to explore.
Your present, past, and future incarnations
I adore. The more
We love the more I know we loved before.
Luck of such magnitude fills me with gratitude;
Some Navigator Divine tied us together in time.
Love measures Infinity minute by minute.
Why, Hourglass, do you suppose my arms surround you
So existentially?
Hourglass, I know the sand that flows through you
Is me. I see
The sand that flows through you is me.
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Produced by Matt Pierson & Gil Goldstein
Guitar: Jeff Mironov
Piano: Gil Goldstein
Bass: Marc Johnson
Drums: Peter Erskine
Percussion: Don Alias & Bashiri Johnson