Lyrical cutting: Carly Simon, "Tonight the Sun Went Down In Flames"

A number of e-mails have requested another cutting of either collected poems or songs. When Ty noted that, he suggested we go with songs and a vote had Carly Simon coming out as our top choice. We've assmbled cuttings from nine songs and we'll call it "Tonight the Sun Went Down In Flames."

Tonight the sun went down in flames
And the moon rose up in blue
The heavens spoke and called your name
But I'd rather it was you.

Didn't I give you midnight?
Didn't I give you the month of June?
Didn't I make it alright
When everything was ruined?

I remember when you were looking up at me
Like I was the only one
That you would ever want to see.

Remember when we were fresh in love?
Your eyes were pale
Like the moon
We'd sit on the porch in summer
List'ning for the breezes
Spinning melodies up from the river
I dressed you
Up like a God
The one you were.


You held me close to you
I didn't tell you waht to do
We Were burning', burnin', burnin'
You made love to me
We were crying', we were flyin'
We were dyin' in these field
We'd come out here in the softe nights
I was sunbruned under you.

"Come on Girl!"
You said to me, "let's fly away
Follow me where I will go
And we won't worry about tomorrow."

I remember when you were looking up at me
Like I was tthe only one
You'd ever want to see

We jumped into a river on the moon
But the water was too cold.
We tried to buy the morning star
But it was already sold.
I wanted to make it big with you
But my plans must have been too bold.

But I don't regret what I loved you
How I loved you
I will never forget
And in time I'll look back and remember
The boy that I knew when we first met.

Though I'm in it alone, I'm still in it, in love
And Love can be lonely like a sweet melody
But just maybe he feels me like a whisper inside him
Like and angel beside him, keeping him company.

All lyrics by Carly Simon. Below are the song titles, in order (with albums in parenthesis).

"I'd Rather It Was You" (Letters Never Sent)
"Didn't I?" (Have You Seen Me Lately?)
"You Don't Feel the Same" (Hello, Big Man)
"Make Me Feel Something" (Spoiled Girl)
"In Pain" (Come Upstairs)
"One More Time" (Carly Simon)
"You Don't Feel the Same" (Hello, Big Man)
"Back Down To Earth" (Boys in The Trees)
"It Happens Every Day" (Hello, Big Man)
"Fisherman's Song" (Have You Seen Me Lately?)