Than the Serpents in My Arms

"Dorme, dorme meu menino!

Dorme - no mar dos sargaços;

Que mais vale o mar a pino

Que as serpentes nos meus braços!"

- Mário Cesáriny

And when all life as you know it fails

All ghostlike lips taste just the same

What better comfort can you find

Than the serpents in my arms?

What better comfort can you find

Than the serpents in my arms?

Sleep, sleep now, my child

In the sea of crystal trouble

For better is the violent sight

Than all that you leave behind

In your eyes, a dark so subtle

It let's you walk but never fly

Never fly to leave us all

To leave us all behind

And when all life as you know it fails

All ghostlike Lips taste just the same

What better comfort can you find

Than the serpents in my arms?

(Than the serpents in my arms?)

What better comfort can you find

Than the serpents in my arms?

(Than the serpents in my arms?)

Down, down, terrible child

To resist is a sin

For better is you hold that smile

And leave us all behind

In your eyes, a mark so subtle

It let's you walk but never fly

Never fly to leave us all

To leave us all behind

And when all life as you know it fails

All ghostlike lips taste just the same

What better comfort can you find

Than the serpents in my arms?

(Than the serpents in my arms?)

What better comfort can you find

Than the serpents in my arms?

(Than the serpents in my arms?)

"Dorme, dorme meu menino!

Dorme - no mar dos sargaços;

Que mais vale o mar a pino

Que as serpentes nos meus braços!"

- Mário Cesáriny

What better comfort can you find

Than the serpents in my arms?

("Que as serpentes nos meus braços!")

What better comfort can you find

Than the serpents in my arms?

("Que as serpentes nos meus braços!")

What better comfort can you find

Than the serpents in my arms?