SISTER MOON
By Meah and Morgan
MY MISTRESS’ EYES ARE
NOTHING LIKE THE SUN
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
Shakespeare refers to his mistress
with wire hair and pale cheeks and
lips. But, at the end he says, “And yet,
by heaven, I think my love as rare as
any she belied with false compare.”
This means that he believes that his
mistress is as beautiful as any other
woman.
SISTER MOON
Sister moon will be my guide
In your blue blue shadows I would hide
All good people asleep tonight
I'm all by myself in your silver light
I would gaze at your face the whole night through
I'd go out of my mind, but for you
Lying in a mother's arms
The primal root of a woman's charms
I'm a stranger to the sun
My eyes are too weak
How cold is a heart
When it's warmth that he seeks?
You watch every night, you don't care what I do
I'd go out of my mind, but for you
I'd go out of my mind, but for you
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
My hunger for her explains everything I've done
To howl at the moon the whole night through
And they really don't care if I do
I'd go out of my mind, but for you
Sister Moon
The singer was trying to interpret the
same thing as Shakespeare when he
was saying, ‘My mistress’ eyes are
nothing like the sun’. He was
referencing to sonnet 130 by
Shakespeare. He uses it to convey a
better meaning than just saying that
‘I love her’.