If it was any other year or any other life   But this one's mine to carry on now, yes, it's mine to carry on now   'Cause I will always disappoint you, is it vengeance or your pride   'Til you lose me like that trinket on your bracelet   Charming, charming      In the dream it's all a test that I face by myself   Lose the briefcase, lie at the airport, swallow the inky code   We'll all answer in the end in our temporary tongue   But for now, don't say anything, don't say anything   Charming, charming, charming charming      'Cause there, at the garden verge   I will pull you up in hope again   No more second thought   Will crowd you out of your desire   To be loved, not touched, to be   Blameless and ecstatic again   This is all there is, no knowledge is too much to bear in the end      And I want this more than anything and I want the damned red shoes   And I want to lead Dorothy back home   Here today, here tomorrow, here's the lay of the land   Here's my heart, here's my sorrow, I surrender   Charming, charming, charming, charming      'Cause there, at the garden verge   I will pull you up in hope again   No more second thought   Will crowd you out of your desire   To be loved, not touched, to be   Blameless and ecstatic again   This is all there is, no knowledge is too much to bear in the end.