Never Had it Better

[Verse 1]
One time for our mountain
Our volcano that threw herself from the sea
And when the rain striped the cement sky on the way to crown her
I covered you with a banana leaf, yeah
Two times for our lime green oceanside motel
And for the couple of nights that we decided to spend there
I found my roots in something deeper then
We called it love, or was it deliverance? Yeah, yeah

[Chorus]
I never had it better
I never had it better than this, with you, oh, oh
I never had it better than this, yeah
I never had it better
I never had it better than this, with you, oh, oh
I never had it better than this

[Verse 2]
Three times for an August moon that just lit you right
On a hard black beach on a soft black night
We made the angels jealous, felt 'em hovering close
We called it love, we called it discovering head to toe

[Chorus]
I never had it better
I never had it better than this, with you, oh, oh
I never had it better than this, yeah

[Verse 3]
Sometimes, when the night is warm, but the wind is cold
When my mind is young, but my body’s old
And the light is dancing like a swarm of bees
I know all we were given is shadows and dreams
And mine was a dense and reverberating jungle
And mine was a transparent cathedral
I was a bruiseless child, I was unstained light
My body is cloudy, my body was bright
And mine was an incandescent grove of rubies
And mine was that sweet fruit of electric beauty
I’ve walked the length of my mind, and feel it end
Like the edge of a shadow when the light descends

[Chorus]
I never had it better
I never had it better than this
I never had it better
I never had it better than this
I never had it better
I never had it better than this
I never had it better
I never had it better than this