Silver (The Hunger)
Kris Kristofferson
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Silver was a rounder with a wicked reputation
Music was his magic and his madness rolled in one
It's said he charmed the fairest hearts of this
world's fairest maidens
Quick as silver mercury and slippery as a song
Winding like a river through a thirsty world of
strangers
Carving out a legend in a dream-forsaken land
Silver took his pleasures just as freely as he
gave them
'Cause hungry eyes weren't quick enough for
Silver's flashing hands
Then once upon escaping from the world of silk and
shadows
Sudden growin' sicker of the secrets and the shame
He stumbled onto something real that beckoned like
a candle
And never lookin' backwards, he surrendered to the
flame
Chorus:
Because Hunger, is the surface, of a darkened pool
of sadness
Silver pale reflection of a deeper need below
Mystery and magic are the holy forms of madness
Sacred as the ecstasy that slumbers in your soul
Silver moved instinctively within her soft
defenses
Soon unfolding mysteries he'd never seen before
And wakening an ancient need, she slipped inside
his senses
And Silver took it easy as the closing of a door
Then soon he touched the secret fears she'd hidden
with her sorrows
Darker than her raven hair and deeper than her
eyes
And dared to try to lead her to the sunlight from
her shadows
Following the line between her laughter and her
lies
But Silver left his magic with the legend he'd
abandoned
Love had stripped him naked of illusion and it's
charms
Then one long night her changing mind took kindly
to a stranger
And morning found her moving in the golden
stranger's arms
Chorus:
Because Hunger, is the surface, of a darkened pool
of sadness
Silver pale reflection of a deeper need below
Mystery and magic are the holy forms of madness
Sacred as the ecstasy that slumbers in your soul
Silver stared in silence at the tangled scene
before him
Time was burning frozen in the oceans of his eyes
And sadly turning backwards to the world that he'd
forsaken
He donned the shining mantle of deception and
disguise
Slowly, with the patience born of silent
desperation
Silver worked his way into the darkness of her
mind
Weaving through her conscience like a chance she
might have taken
Sadder than the shadows of the love she'll never
find
And Silver's spell was stronger than the softly
smiling stranger
Whose star was burning smaller in the naked light
of day
And Silver took her hand again, a wiser man, but
sadder
Ready for the stranger who would steal her love
away
Chorus:
Because Hunger, is the surface, of a darkened pool
of sadness
Silver pale reflection of a deeper need below
Mystery and magic are the holy forms of madness
Sworn to free the ecstasy that slumbers in your
soul
Music was his magic and his madness rolled in one
It's said he charmed the fairest hearts of this
world's fairest maidens
Quick as silver mercury and slippery as a song
Winding like a river through a thirsty world of
strangers
Carving out a legend in a dream-forsaken land
Silver took his pleasures just as freely as he
gave them
'Cause hungry eyes weren't quick enough for
Silver's flashing hands
Then once upon escaping from the world of silk and
shadows
Sudden growin' sicker of the secrets and the shame
He stumbled onto something real that beckoned like
a candle
And never lookin' backwards, he surrendered to the
flame
Chorus:
Because Hunger, is the surface, of a darkened pool
of sadness
Silver pale reflection of a deeper need below
Mystery and magic are the holy forms of madness
Sacred as the ecstasy that slumbers in your soul
Silver moved instinctively within her soft
defenses
Soon unfolding mysteries he'd never seen before
And wakening an ancient need, she slipped inside
his senses
And Silver took it easy as the closing of a door
Then soon he touched the secret fears she'd hidden
with her sorrows
Darker than her raven hair and deeper than her
eyes
And dared to try to lead her to the sunlight from
her shadows
Following the line between her laughter and her
lies
But Silver left his magic with the legend he'd
abandoned
Love had stripped him naked of illusion and it's
charms
Then one long night her changing mind took kindly
to a stranger
And morning found her moving in the golden
stranger's arms
Chorus:
Because Hunger, is the surface, of a darkened pool
of sadness
Silver pale reflection of a deeper need below
Mystery and magic are the holy forms of madness
Sacred as the ecstasy that slumbers in your soul
Silver stared in silence at the tangled scene
before him
Time was burning frozen in the oceans of his eyes
And sadly turning backwards to the world that he'd
forsaken
He donned the shining mantle of deception and
disguise
Slowly, with the patience born of silent
desperation
Silver worked his way into the darkness of her
mind
Weaving through her conscience like a chance she
might have taken
Sadder than the shadows of the love she'll never
find
And Silver's spell was stronger than the softly
smiling stranger
Whose star was burning smaller in the naked light
of day
And Silver took her hand again, a wiser man, but
sadder
Ready for the stranger who would steal her love
away
Chorus:
Because Hunger, is the surface, of a darkened pool
of sadness
Silver pale reflection of a deeper need below
Mystery and magic are the holy forms of madness
Sworn to free the ecstasy that slumbers in your
soul