เพลง The Curse

He opens his eyes

Falls in love at first sight

With the girl in the doorway

What beautiful lines

Heart full of life

After thousands of years

What a face to wake up to

He holds back a sigh

As she touches his arm

She dusts off the bed where til now he's been sleeping

Under mires of stone

The dry fig of his heart

Under scarab and bone

Starts back to its beating

She carries him home

In a beautiful boat

He watches the sea from a porthole in stowage

He can hear all she says

As she sits by his bed

And one day his lips answered her

In her own language

The days quickly pass

He loves making her laugh

The first time he moves it's her hair that he touches

She asks "Are you cursed "

He says "I think that I'm cured "

Then he talks of the Nile and the girls in bull rushes

In New York he is laid

In a glass covered case

He pretends he is dead

People crowd round to see him

But at night she comes round

And the two wander down the halls of the tomb

That she calls a museum

But he stops to rest

Then less and less

Then it's her that looks tired

Staying up asking questions

He learns how to read

From the papers that she is writing about him

Then he makes corrections

It's his face on her book

More come to look

Families from Iowa

Upper West-Siders

Then one day it's too much

He decides to get up

Then as chaos ensues he walks outside to find her

She is using a cane

And her face looks too pale

But she's happy to see him

As they walk he supports her

She asks "Are you cursed "

But his answer is obscured

In a sandstorm of flashbulbs

Rowdy reporters

Such reanimation

The two tour the nation

He gets out of limos

Meets other women

He speaks of her fondly

Their nights in the museum

She's just one more rag now he's dragging behind him

She stops going out

She just lies there in bed

In hotels in whatever towns they are speaking

Then her face starts to set

And her hands start to fold

Then one day the dry fig of her heart stops its beating

Long ago on the ship

She asked why pyramids

He said "Think of them as an immense invitation "

She asks "Are you cursed "

He says "I think that I'm cured "

Then he kissed her and hoped

That she'd forget that question