Beneath a Moonless Sky

I should have known that you'd be here

I should have known it all along

This whole arrangement bears your stamp

You're in each measure of that song

How dare you try and claim me now?

How dare you come invade my life?

Oh, Christine, my Christine

In that time when the world thought me dead

My Christine, on that night just before you were wed

Ah, Christine, you came and found where I hid

Don't you deny that you did

That long ago night

That night

Once there was a night

Beneath a moonless sky

Too dark to see a thing

Too dark to even try

I stole to your side

To tell you I must go

I couldn't see your face

But sensed you even so

And I touched you

And I felt you

And I heard those ravishing refrains

The music of your pulse

The singing in your veins

And I held you

And I touched you

And embraced you

And I felt you

And with every breath and every sigh

I felt no longer scared

I felt no longer shy

At last our feelings bared

Beneath a moonless sky

And blind in the dark

As soul gazed into soul

I looked into your heart

And saw you pure and whole

Cloaked under the night

With nothing to suppress

A woman and a man

No more and yet no less

And I kissed you

And caressed you

And the world around us fell away

We said things in the dark

We never dared to say

And I caught you

And I kissed you

And I took you

And caressed you

With a need too urgent to deny

And nothing mattered then

Except for you and I

Again and then again

Beneath a moonless sky

And when it was done

Before the sun could rise

Ashamed of what I was

Afraid to see your eyes

I stood while you slept

And whispered a goodbye

And slipped into the dark

Beneath a moonless sky

And I loved you

Yes, I loved you

I'd have followed anywhere you led

I woke to swear my love

And found you gone instead

And I loved you (how I loved you)

And I left you (how I loved you)

And I had to, both of us knew why (we both knew why)

And yet I won't regret

From now until I die

The night I can't forget

Beneath a moonless sky

And now?

How can you talk of now?

For us, there is no now