The Woman Dancing by William Auld Lyrics
The woman dancing lifts her face
Passive amid the wilting flowers;
The Jazz-band clacks its sticks and bones
In great gay rhythm through the hours.
Men clad in black take turns to lead her;
Dwarfed sense blinds them as they rotate:
That is how moons of Saturn gyre
And cosmically migrate.
Saturn, however, doesn't look
That sad, inert and faraway
As though upon night's brooding face
Lay glorious ruins of day.
Passive amid the wilting flowers;
The Jazz-band clacks its sticks and bones
In great gay rhythm through the hours.
Men clad in black take turns to lead her;
Dwarfed sense blinds them as they rotate:
That is how moons of Saturn gyre
And cosmically migrate.
Saturn, however, doesn't look
That sad, inert and faraway
As though upon night's brooding face
Lay glorious ruins of day.