I see you better now, shaded in deeper blue Hardly needing to carry the find-your-way-lamp Down to the river And tonight flies a better moon Sad water buffalo lie fast near the shallows A splash revealing the fly catching fishes Dark Gods silently watching And tonight flies a better moon I guess you've known lovers here, compliant in passion Softly laid in the old reed bed Harshly lit in the noon sun And tonight flies a better moon Now cloaked in this milky light, new as the virgin dawn Shrouded sweetly in all kinds of mystery Turn, smile and then are gone And tonight flies a better moon And tonight flies a better moon And tonight flies a better moon