1. The glow of his smile parts his lips
Radiant at dawn for the journey ahead

2. Awaken, though stars you’ve not known
In the east, the night in white robes

3. I said, we have rivaled the full moon
Yet no moon did rise in that sky

4. I shut my eyes when it shined
Only for fear of who might see

5. And I make my voice loud in talk
So my heart’s secret stays hid in my chest

6. How can their hearts allow this
When they see killing as greatest honor

7. And they permit what is forbidden
Wine’s intensity, to cloud the mind

8. You’d have me live oppressed
My killer, if you sought reward