The Music I Heard Once Songtext / Lyric

The music I heard once

Was louder

Than it is now

I can no longer distinguish

Pained cries

From shouts of joy

Perhaps my ears are deaf

Or the interference too great

Still the order I remember

Has given way to discord

And while running wild was exciting

It was so

Only for a moment

Fleeting as a note

Leaving an even more transparent impression

The music I recall

Was different than it is now

For the new makes the old seem

Older than it is

To think from that

We grew into a new age

Suggests that

Ages past

Were not enough for adventuring souls

For stars too bright to be concealed

In a dark

But beauteous night

We will paste upon the curled pages

Words

Like charming

And romantic

And sentimental

Forgetting that charming is witchcraft

Romantic is love

And sentiment is what makes us

Human