Take What You Will - Toyah

Ophelias Shadow

Take What You Will

(Gunn/Willcox/Geballe/Beavis)

Take what you will

In a dark, moonlit state

Collecting with a skill

>From my disarray

Tip toe quickly

Round my sleeping bed

Moving silently outside my dreaming head

Picking up my clothing

Dropping it in the floor

Thinking no one’s noticing

You steppin through my door

Taking what you will

I’d never been so happy

Take what you will

Creeping round the hallway

Taking all the silver

Taking all my photos

Taking all the jewellery

Taking all there is of me

My deep deep sleep

Standing in the breathing dark

Sliding down the bannisters

Glide into the living room

Sitting on my sofa

Reading through my diary

Getting to know me better

Enjoying my life story

The critic, the assessor

Dreaming big big shadows

Long long shadows

Moving moving shadows

Shadows of my former self

Breaking all the windows

Dreaming big big shadows

Long long shadows

Moving moving shadows

My deep deep sleep

You never

My deep deep sleep

But you never touched me

Or woke me with a kiss

My deep deep sleep

As you carried me

Across the threshold

My deep deep deep deep deep deep sleep

You never touched me sleep