Myrna Loy

verse 1 Let me stay with you a while and tell old, old stories Of your oft' electric laughter and your charms How you came out of Montana with a wolf pup at your heels And a snow white rabbit huddled in your arms In the darkness In the darkness In the darkness verse 2 Remember, hey, those Gold Rush days, how the gold dust in the mud From Main St. leading all the way to Alder With sunset turned the color of a lover's throat at blush And with moonrise, blazed some new and silver river In the darkness In the darkness In the darkness verse 3 The minister was bloodless and the preachers were on fire And Mahatmas sang their love songs in nasturtiums But if he, or they, or any of their masters called my name I was in your holy temple and never heard them In the darkness In the darkness In the darkness Break verse 4 Remember, hey, those Gold Rush days, some Last Chance Gulch saloon You, and I, and all the miners watching As shadows danced across a screen as quiet as the moon Without sound, their fury signifying all things Verse 5 The whole town was alive that night as we floated down the street Through fist fights, cowboy poets, parlor women And the light from the projector seemed to glow within your soul Like an opal throated songbird in its prism In the darkness In the darkness In the darkness Verse 6 They're tearing down the movies now, not a stone upon a stone All dust is dust no matter how celestial But I, who tasted hornet juice and honey on the rose What use have I for all their cold memorials? Verse 7 Still every now and then sometimes when the night sky gets so bright And no Bethlehem of stars could match its burning I Go out into the fields until I can feel you by my side And my memory is a book of gold thrown open Bridge How you rode a white horse The queen of the harvest kissed your cheek The boys all took one look And found that they could no longer speak In the darkness In the darkness In the darkness