Beside The One You Love - Peter Hammill

You’re helpless, entranced by the magical

Touch of her skin against yours, adrift —

What else is there but this?

It feels so sweet

To fall asleep

Beside the one you love

Remember this fireside, this quiet room

Embers now flickering their last, like ghosts

And still she holds you close

Who else could know

Such afterglow

Beside the one you love?

Someday the memory will come again

As vivid as sensation now and then

There’ll be no «why?»

or «when?»

Who else could do

These things to you

Beside the one you love?

It feels so sweet

To fall asleep

Beside the one you love