Crescent noon

Music by JOHN BETTIS
and RICHARD CARPENTER
From the CARPENTERS album
CLOSE TO YOU (1970)

I don't think I could be accused of having SAD because I tend to be a winter person; I like the colours and the cold. This song's words are rather doleful, but the warm minor chords of Richard Carpenter's arrangement hints at the promise of spring.

Green September
Burned to October brown
Bare November
Led to December's frozen ground
The seasons stumbled round
Our drifting lives are bound
To a falling crescent noon

Feather clouds cry
A vale of tears to earth
Morning breaks and
No one sees the quiet mountain bird
Dressed in a brand new day
The sun is on its way
To a falling crescent noon

Somewhere in
A fairytale forest lies one
Answer that is waiting to be heard

You and I were
Born like the breaking day
All our seasons
All our green Septembers
Burn away

Slowly we'll fade into
A sea of midnight blue
And a falling crescent noon