Jimmy Davis - An Invitation To Love Lyrics
I wished that love would visit me, and bestow upon me graceSo I set out to build the monuments that would surely win love’s favourAnd when the work was complete, I penned an invitation, beseeching love to comeLove, I have gilded you a palace, bedecked with roses and with ivyThy place of rest within I have scented with jasmine and with frankincenseIf you will join me to dine, I will have my cooks prepare succulent meats and honey treats, and dahls beyond compareMy minstrels will compose epic odes to honour thee and, dancing girls with sparkling eyes will whirl for thy delightSay you will come honour my great offeringI sealed the invitation and hired the swiftest couriers in the land,And they returned that very day, with love’s reply in handI am busy working in the fields, enjoy your fineryMy hot tears of shame fell freely upon love’s brief and brutal noteThe truth hurts and the truth cuts quick to the very coreI saw the magnitude of my folly and with self loathing boiledSinking, sobbing to the floor like a child that has disappointed its motherI barely noticed the muddied servant who tried to help me up‘Leave me, I am nothing!’ I cried out in bitter griefSeeking to offer my burning pain as fresh sacrifice to loveBut the servant persisted, and bringing me to my knees, asked in a soft and gentle tone, ‘if you are nothing, then with whom will I share the feasting and the revels this invitation promised?’My heart skipped a beat as the moment’s truth flooded meLove’s ineffable infinity, where words cease to have meaning, washing over me in wave upon waveI pressed my lips to love’s feet, my tears falling joyous now as wordless offerings of gratitudeLove raised me up, embracing me, beaming a smile that would inspire starlightHe said, ‘my child this smile is for you. I have plenty more for the stars’But come, let us eat, let us play, let us grow, let us sing, let us make musicFor the truth is my child,Existence … is the sound … of LOVE
