Spellbound

written by Judy Collins/ The Judy Collins Publishing Company (ASCAP) or The

Wildflowers Company/Admin by Universal Music Corp (ASCAP) when noted.

Windy day in Honolulu

Looking out beyond the hills

Memories and times of heartache

Leis of lilies, daffodils

Here I lighted like a bird

Upon the bright blue water’s shore

With my hope and with my nightmares

Praying I could swim and soar

Dark dreams, haunted sunlit days

While I drank down rum and hope

Burning dreams and crimson lovers

Dancing on a thin tightrope

Spellbound, spellbound, spellbound

Birds of paradise were walking

As though they were angels’ songs

Bright wings flew along the beaches

In their shimmering sarongs

And I thought when I would see them

So content and so serene

How could I find that surrender?

I could fly but I would scream

Fighting out of beauty’s trance

In the light of sand and water

Knowing I would crawl the highways

Finding my own kind of slaughter

Spellbound, spellbound, spellbound

How I longed to sing the day

Doing what I saw you do

How you lived and danced in light

Yearning to know what life knew

Whittled down, the drinking gone

To whimper towards the sight of land

Hungering to sail in water

Bright with promise, deep in sand

In these islands once I wept

For the lost and for the found

Surfacing in air and light

Now I live, and I am spellbound

Spellbound, spellbound, spellbound

Spellbound, spellbound, spellbound