Sig Paulson: Music

• MP3 short clip, hi-fi play (broadband)

“If The Castle Burns”… This was written for my wife Michele. These words or any others would be inadequate. She really is the only one that showed me what it really means.

If The Castle Burns

1. It was the scent of moonlit flowers that guided my way
Down the path to the door of the one for whom I care
And the incense hanging there will forever linger in her hair
As we open our eyes to the morning’s glare

2. It’s coffee with her Sunday as the sun comes up
And shines like silver, on the rainy streets
I’ve been with beggars and ate buckwheat
Been served meals for kings complete
But I’ve never tasted love that was so sweet

Chorus… Wherever my weary boots should ramble ‘round
To her heart I pledge my return
For if the castle burns there in the shambles will be found
A fair maid’s love a pauper never had earned

3. She’ll never look away from the abandoned child
The Wild Rose with her Love lies bleeding too
And if her eye should gaze on you
In green spring or November’s hue
She’ll show you grace, gentle, warm and true

4. She takes me by the hand and leads me through the crowd
To a place where I don’t have to feel like some antique
And there ain’t no hide and seek
When I touch her silky cheek
And we say it all and never have to speak

(Chorus)

5. I can hear her softly whisper to me now
Goodnight my love, and sweet dreams
Since a kid, I’ve heard it seems
Tales of the true heart Jacks and Queens
But she’s the only one, told me what it really means

(Chorus)