Rusalka, Rusalka / Wild Rushes

[Rusalka, Rusalka] Rusalka, Rusalka your arms out of water Your hair like an alien bloom Dark-eyed Rusalka, your brow tressed in flowers Pale in a liminal moon And all that you are is a star on the water When first I went swimming, I heeded no warning And dared breach your rippling pool As I lulled and lingered, the ring slipped my finger And drifted down the deepening cool And all that I want is to fall in your shallows And now we are wed, the water our bed And bank to bank our property lay And you are my wild-eyed rusalka, my river bride Drag me down, take me away And here we will lie, you and I, 'neath the cold, dark, sky [Wild Rushes] Beware the wild rushes, my mother told me That grow on the bank side along the salt sea But I being young, I heeded her none So to the wild rushes the wind carried me The summer was here and the sun it was high And to the wild rushes I came by and by And there took my seat and dipped in my feet And through the wild rushes, a voice sweetly cried: Come down, my little darling, come closer to me The water is warm; it is salty and free I long for your touch but I won't ask too much And I, being foolish, walked in to my knees Come down, little darling, and lay at my breast Oh come a little closer and I'll do the rest I waited so long for a lover to come And I, being foolish, walked in to my chest Come down, my little darling, oh farther come in For deeper the water, the sweeter the sin My lily lies here, if you'd only draw near And I, being foolish, went in to my chin Oh come, my little darling, do you feel my cool breath? Do you feel my arms around you so warm and so wet? Swept from my feet, she pulled me beneath And in the wild rushes, I went to my death