The Waterboys Beverly Penn lyrics

Girl sleeping on a mansion roof
Under a wintery sky
Wrapped she is in furs and sable
Starlight in her eye

And what is the name of this creature?
Where did she live and when?
Who was she and why was it
That Peter Lake loved Beverly Penn

Four o'clock on a marble morning
Water pouring on her skin
In fever her life bursts open
And a hurricane blows in

When high from the dreams of this creature
A thief on a horse descends
It was dawn and it was December
And Peter Lake loved Beverly Penn


It was all of a windy day
And the sky was full of crows
When her lovely soul ascended
She just closed her heart and rose

And whither the soul of this creature?
Tell me the story again
Of scarves and songs and the skin of space
And how Peter Lake loved Beverly Penn

I would dive in a freezing river
Set fire to a hundred men
If I could for just one time
Love somebody the way that he loved Beverly Penn