Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Ian Anderson
Canonical path: /ian-anderson/a-better-moon
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A Better Moon
Read A Better Moon lyrics by Ian Anderson on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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A Better Moon
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I see you better now, shaded in deeper blue.
Hardly needing to carry the find-your-way lamp
down to the river.
Tonight flies a better moon.
Sad water buffalo lie fast near the shallows;
a splash revealing the fly-catching fishes.
Dark Gods silently watching.
Tonight flies a better moon.
I guess you've known lovers here, compliant in passion;
softly laid in the old reed bed, harshly
lit in the noon sun.
Tonight flies a better moon.
Now cloaked in this milky light, new as the virgin dawn,
shrouded sweetly in all kinds of mystery,
you turn, smile and then are gone.
Tonight flies a better moon.
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Ian Anderson performs "A Better Moon", and this lyric page sits inside the Ian Anderson catalog on LyroVerse.
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