The Name of Love & Moonfall

Lyrics

ROSA Love is but a word that wandered here from pastures green Where it was rarely said or seen and seldom sung Innocent enough, it was intended to be used on rare occasions Not abused by every tongue Rarely has a word been ever taken so in vain - What little meaning might remain is quickly blurred Never has there been so quite exhausted such a term - Your sighs and syllables confirm how drained this word ROSA / JASPER You call it love. / I call it love I call it rude. / You call it rude I call it lust. / You think me just I call it lewd. / A bit too crude I call it cruel. / And I the fool I cannot bear / Yet I still dare To call it love. / To call it love I think it foul. / I see you scowl I think it vile. / You see me smile No more I'll take / 'Tis you I'll break! Of cunning guile. / I've no denial You're worse than bad: / My words are mad: You give to sin / I speak them in The name of love. / The name of love ROSA Rose Bud, the dainty little face whose every curl Confirms that she's a child, a girl, a neophyte: Rosa is the only soul in Cloisterham, it seems Who senses just the sort of dreams you dream at night Did you think your stare would stop my seeing? Every fibre of my being told me since I was betrothed That your most unnatural attention Conjures words I dare not mention You must know how much I loathed ROSA / JASPER To know your wants. / You know my wants To see your clutch. / to need not clutch To hear your voice / You have no choice To feel your touch / Is it so much A dreadful task / For me to ask? To even speak / I only seek The name of love. / The name of love I will not fear / I love to hear My tragic plight! / The angry bite I have a choice - / of your fair voice! I'll take to flight! / One blazing night I'll not permit / You will submit You to desecrate / And give your fate The name of love! / The name of love! And in the moonfall, / And in the moonfall Can you not see this victim, / Can you not free this victim And lo, his slave / You so enslave? Save me - / Save me And yet he seems so in pain! / And let these dreams remain John, you make me like stone, / Awake my own Transfixed with wonder, / Transfixed with one... Mixed with the thunder / Of this love Of this love. / My all, my love Your name of love / Your name is love Is chilling to me! / And thrilling to me! ROSA & JASPER Beneath these skies one night unknown Would (s)he dare? Between our eyes one sight alone we share: The sight of moonfall As it comes into view... ROSA / JASPER So that / So I promise that you shall be Soon I / Soon a golden idol whom I Only see but / Own and love and lead into a Sea of light! 'Tis but the falling You! / Moon!