Subject: TOWNES Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 15:01:33 +0200 From: Diego To: Many thanks to Diego!! (Quicksilver Daydreams Of) MARIA Well, the diamond fades quickly When matched to the face of Maria Aw, the harps they sound empty When she lifts her lips to the sky Aw, the brown of her skin Makes her hair seem a soft golden rainfall That spills from the mountains To the bottomless depths of her eyes Well, she stands all around me Her hands slowly sifting the sunshine Aw, the laughter that linger Down deep ıneath her smilinı is free Well, it spins and it twirls Like a hummingbird lost in the morninı And caresses the South wind And silently sails to the sea Aw, the sculpture stands stricken And the artist he throws ıway his brushes When the image comes dancinı The sun she turns sullen with shame And the birds they go silent And the wind stops his sad mournful singinı When the trees of the forest Start gently to whisperinı her name So if softly she wanders Iıll desperately follow her footsteps And Iıll chase after shadows That offer a trace of her sigh Aw, they promise eternally That she lies hidden within them But I find theyıve deceived me And sadly I bid them goodbye So the serpent slides slowly away With his moments of laughter And the old washy woman Has finished to cleaninı and gone But the bamboo hangs heavy In the bondage of quicksilver daydreams And a lonely child longingly looks For a place to belong