Love Chrystie - A Velvet Border

[Intro] [Verse 1]: The green-gold dawn felt vast and deep While Georgetown lay in heavy sleep Two girls beneath the rainbird's cry Shared every breath, watched years roll by Now half a world divides the shore The Demerara calls no more The winter coat, the tropical heat Two separate lives on different streets. [Chorus]: But there’s a wire that never yields Across the wide and frozen fields My closest heart, my sister-soul We built the art that keeps us whole Now tiny hands reach for your dress And tiny lips; my apron press But in the dark, the signal bends The velvet border never ends. [Verse 2]: I watch your face through glowing screens A queen of automated scenes You praise the way I hold the line I marvel at your grand design From teenager skirts to motherhood We understood what no one should The Atlantic stretch is wide and cold But cannot break the quiet hold. [Chorus]: Because the wire will never yield Across the wide and frozen fields My closest heart, my sister-soul We built the art that keeps us whole Now tiny hands reach for your dress And tiny lips; my apron press But in the dark, the signal bends The velvet border never ends. [Bridge]: Distance is a modern lie Breathing beneath the self-same sky A permanent devotion grows Beyond the way the water flows No distance alters what has been made The colors blend, they do not fade. [Outro]