Patti Smith - Dead to The World lyrics

on my mind was nothing at all

come a mist an aire so appealing

I'm here a whisper you summoned I called

I formed me a presence whose aspect was changing

oh he would shift he would not shift at all

we sat for a while he was very engaging

and when he was gone I was gone on a smile

With a strange way of walking

and a strange way of breathing

more lives than a cat

that led me astray

all in all he captured my heart

dead to the world and just

slipped away

I heard me a music that drew me to dancing

lo I turned under his spell

I opened my coat but he never came closer

I bolted the door and whispered oh well

REFRAIN

I laid in the rushes the air was upon me

wondering well I just couldn't discern

will he come back come back to me

oh I whispered will you ever return

I was feeling sensations in no dictionary

he was less than a breath of shimmer and smoke

the life in his fingers unwound my existence

dead to the world alive I awoke