Elizabeth The Bumblebee

Elizabeth the bumblebee keeps flying round and stinging me

Left poison in my fingers long ago

And lonesome in the summer night she tried to get me one more time

Left stinger in my body before she died

And every night that buzzing fills my ears till morning light

And how I’ve saved that bitter pain as if it was today

Elizabeth you’re just like me come back to life come set me free

We’ll drink the nectar, spark like fireflies

And teach me every flower known to this foreign land you call your home

I’ll give you shelter if it gets too cold

But oh, I know your paper wings were frozen long ago

And fallen here, my swollen hands and eyes all filled with tears

I had another dream last night, a bumblebee came flying by

Black and yellow shape caught on the breeze

And as I turned expecting you to whisper, “how I looked for you!”

I only saw an ordinary fly

For the world’s gone gray and all that’s left are flies around decay

And all I see:

Are golden fields that’ll never be

And love you spent and lost on me

Your final words still stingin’ me

Wring honey from my heart so bittersweet