"Falling Asleep" lyrics

Voices moving in the quiet house
Furry feet and muffled shutting doors
Out in the night there's all
All in smiling gloom

Crowded with the whispering trees
Cross the park
The hollow cry of hounds
Like lonely bells

The lurid rise in the moon now air is cold
And wrangled by the pool
And hooting owls sit
Above pale stoops of ours

Waiting for sleep I drift from thoughts like leaves
And where today was dreamed I built my dreams
Music, the courtroom of life

There's someone singing a song about a soldier
About two hours ago
They sung a song with me last night
But now other beauty swims across my brain

When the old light comes and it's as sharp as a knife
You feel the drift in the pub as the radio cries
You can still make such faces
September stars, September's lies, September stars, September's lies
When the old light comes and it's as sharp as a knife
You feel the drift in the pub as the radio cries
I'll know you when I see you

Now the mirrors are misted, but the room is the same
You see the face in the place and the painted lane
Bless your major at the edge of the rain
Bless your major at the edge of the rain
September in the darkness
Love fading past me into peace

When the old light comes and it's as sharp as a knife
You feel the drift in the pub as the radio cries
September stars, September's lies, September stars, September's lies
When the old light comes and it's as sharp as a knife
You feel the drift in the pub as the radio cries
I'll know you when I see you

Now the mirrors are misted but the room is the same
You see the face in the place and the painted lane
Bless your major at the edge of the rain
Bless your major at the edge of the rain
Now the mirrors are misted, but the room is the same
You see the face in the place and the painted lane
I'll know you when I see you

Waiting for sleep, I drift from thoughts like leaves
And where today was dreamed I built my dreams
Music, the courtroom of life