If it was any other year, or any other life

But this one's mine to carry on now, yes it's mine to carry on now

'Cause I will always disappoint you, is it vengeance or your pride?

'Til you lose me like that trinket on your bracelet

Charming, charming

In the dream it's all a test, that I face by myself

Lose the briefcase, lie at the airport, swallow the inky code

We'll all answer in the end in our temporary tongue,

But for now don't say anything, don't say anything

Charming, charming



'Cause there, at the garden verge, I will pull you up in hope again

No more second thought will crowd you out of your desire

To be loved, not touched, to be blameless and ecstatic again

This is all there is, no knowledge is too much to bear in the end



And I want this more than anything, and I want the damned red shoes

And I want to lead Dorothy back home

Here today, here tommorrow, here's the lay of the land

Here's my heart, here's my sorrow, I surrender

Charming, charming

Charming, charming



'Cause there, at the garden verge, I will pull you up in hope again

No more second thought will crowd you out of your desire

To be loved, not touched, to be blameless and ecstatic again

This is all there is, no knowledge is too much to bear in the end