Adelina

Adelina, you take me on Caught your days on fire when you raised the sun Take me higher than I can go And you inspire more than you know Adelina, what do you see When your world becomes what it comes to be? You retired your status quo With your cherry-blossom mind, out where the greatest words are worn And the fields where you recline, dreaming imaginary storms I love you for the shape you make of me The fog cradling the sea Adelina, now, don't you mock me With your gentle lines of California poppy A sapphire of yellow chrome Mustang tires on a desert road With those revelries you make out of the silence that you mine While the mountains stay up late, making the shadows with their pines I love you more than syllables could show And I'm always sad when you go Adelina Adelina You take me higher