To Where Now Do I Safely Steer

Clouds will come, again my darling And when they do where will you be I feel a shadow hangs over you and me The sky is darkening my darling The road ahead is far from clear It's getting darker by the second By the minute now my darling-dear To where now do we safely steer. Oh, I've never passed a driving test I've never taken the time But now I'm like that Ancient Mariner Who paid a lifetime for his crime? My heart is a segment a piece of fruit Yours is an amber locket But mine now is rotting to the core Do I navigate by your pendant darling? You left it on the sideboard When was it darling you jumped? And pulled that ripcord Was it only yesterday; was it. But it could have been years ago. As the hearth my heart Has frozen over with winter snow —Not fighting, letting you go. Clouds will come, again my darling And when they do where will you be I feel a shadow hangs over you and me The sky is darkening my darling The road ahead is far from clear It's getting darker, darker by the second dear By the minute now my darling-dear To where now do I safely steer.