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Ride

Messages ran all over town
Words without sound
Condemned me
And left me for dead
All over again
It wasn't the first time, but this time

siddha kunjika stotram

(The song which gives the key to perfection)

siva uvaca (siva said)

smu devi pravaksyami kunjika stotram uttamam yena mantraprabhavena candijapah subho bhavet

There's a certain slant of light,
On winter afternoons,
That oppresses, like the heft
Of cathedral tunes.

Heavenly hurt it gives us;
We can find no scar,
But internal difference

There is always sunshine
Above the grey sky
I will try to find it
Yes, I will try

My mind has been wandering
I hardly noticed
It's running on its own steam

I hear your voice way down inside
A whispering sea of towering trees but no reply
A silence so rare and more than I can stand
Sweeps like a flood through life's flesh and blood
And steals away with its heart

If I'm losing you, then there's nothing more that I can say

I fall outside of her
She doesn't notice
I fall outside of her
She doesn't notice at all

And mine is an empty bed
I think she's forgotten
And mine is an empty bed

Inside I'm out and I don't know whose thoughts I'm thinking
I'd rationalize if I only had a clue
And yellow and red are the colours to which I swear allegiance
And I follow them back to you

And it's love love love
It's love
And it's love love love

When you come to me
I'll question myself again
Is this grip on life still my own

When every step I take
Leads me so far away
Every thought should bring me closer home

Is this how they'll find her?
Pale blue frock-coat, snagged full of needles
Belly full of sunshine

And what will they do without him? (Without him)
Now she's gone
What will they do without him? (Without him)

She was no longer a user
Don't think she realized we knew that
Not one to make a fuss
Why this and not something else
Wasn't it obvious?

She made such a hash of it
You can't help but notice

And slowly, you come to realize
It's all as it should be
You can only do so much

If you're game enough
You could place your trust in me

For the love of life

Welcome to Sun State
The language of light
The energy's impulse
The loud, dark, iron
The purpose of history
The Eurasian Steppes
From treshold to treshold
Astonishment.

With a burning candle,
A book of holy things,
They'll throw you up against the wall;
Bind your hands with string.
Caught in the sudden shower,
Our host of heavenly Kings,
They're all victims of circumstance,
Of ancient bells that bring.

She fell
No jewels for the hurt
When she fell
Where is the mother?

Draw back the sheets
Shake off the sleep and complete me
As I complete you

I should not dare to leave my friend,
Because, because if he should die
While I was gone and I too late
Should reach the heart that wanted me

If I should disappoint the eyes
That hunted, hunted so to see
And could not bear to shut until

I opened up the pathway of the heart
The flowers died embittered from the start

That night I crossed the bridge of sighs and I surrendered

I looked back and glimpsed the outline of a boy
His life of sorrows now collapsing into joy

She's here in the snowfall at dead of night
The mood is of courtship, the final fight
She's all that I need, all that I am
The voice of compassion inside the man

You open the gates the madness begins
I'll follow you down, I'll follow you back in
She's here in the lifelines in every curve

Running like a horse between the trees
The ground beneath my feet
Gives me something to hold on to

With the reins around my heart
Guided by hands that spread life before my very eyes

Well every hope falls down on it's knees in time

There's a man down in the valley
Who doesn't speak in his own tongue
He bears a grudge against the English
The tune to which his songs are sung

There's a man down in the valley
Who is moving back in time
It's a physical ascension

Voices heard in fields of green.
Their joy, their calm, and luxury
Are lost within the wanderings of my mind.
I'm cutting branches from the trees,
Shaped by years on memories.
To exorcise their ghosts from inside of me.
The sound of waves in a pool of water.
I'm drowing in my nostalgia.

You run to the gate
But you'll be marked late
It's for your own good
It's for your own good

You're likely to make the grandest mistakes
You suffer alone
In the skin and the bone

Welcome me father on the North shores of Lapland
Welcome me father who knows no name
Welcome me mother the earth here is yawning

my body is shaking for want of a flame

down here
Got to laugh

Behind the iron gates
The shifts were workes in silence
Each weekend beckoned like Ulysses's sirens

And as the words were few
We'd listen to the radio
It was loud, and irritated me so

If heaven watches over me,
Sowing seeds back in the soil.
With eyes that see, hands that feel,
Why am I the last to know?
Sheltered lives, spent partially breathing,
Are gathered together, under new religion.
Pulling punches, sleeping on our feet,
Pulling punches, I need someone to comfort me.

Oh, the lights are blinking
Here's the great deceiver
Bling, bling all bets are off
It goes unnoticed
If not for me it goes unnoticed
It goes unnoticed

Find another record

Under yellow light
Comes the face of tomorrow
Lights the fuse gives meaning to
All that was previously hollow

To a soundtrack track of sirens
And mute aspiration
The express train to Heathrow

I recognise no method of living that I know
I see only the basic materials I may use

If you ask me, I may tell you
It's been this way for years

I play my red guitar
It's the devil in the flesh

I see your eyes light up like fire
It's medicine to me
But as the hunted live their lives
You're keeping out of reach

So I keep running, falling
Till I reach the water
Run with me holyman

Shine upon my hour,
Shadowland
Cold cold winter hands
Shine upon my hour
Shadowland

Mountain we bear, mountain fall
Climbing up the charcoal trees

Out upon the open fields
The rain is pouring down
We're pulling up the sheets again
Against the passing tides of love
Every doubt that holds you here
Will find their own way out

I will build a shelter if you call

It's the farthest place I've ever been
It's a new frontier for me
And you balance things
Like you wouldn't believe
When you should just let things be

Yes, you juggle things
Cause you can't lose sight

Half life
She moves in a half life
Imperfect

From her place on the stairs
Or sat in the backseat
Sometimes you're only a passenger
In the time of your life

Maybe I'm wrong
I should just keep moving on...
I suppose.
But I'll see it through
Just like some kind of fool.

You say you care
That this kind of life

In dresses white, all set for sail
A little girl dreams of taking the veil

In dresses white, all set for sail
A little girl dreams of taking the veil
On beaches clean of sand and shell
A little girl dreams of taking the veil

He knows well his wicked ways
A course of bitterness
A grudge held from his childhood days
As if life had loved him less
Reading down his list of names
He ticks them one by one
He points the barrel at the sky
Firing shots off at the sun

Standing firm on this stony ground
The wind blows hard
Pulls these clothes around
I harbour all the same worries as most
The temptations to leave or to give up the ghost
I wrestle with an outlook on life
That shifts between darkness and shadowy light
I struggle with words for fear that they'll hear

You know he'll take you
But not too far
Always first in line
But second to none
The good son

The good son

Here we are then, here we are
Notes from a suicide
And he will never ever be
The Greatest Living Englishman

It's such a melancholy blue
Or a grey of no significance
Plastic coated surfaces

I don't know how long
She's been here with me
But it's been a long time coming

Make it last forever
Make it last forever
Yes, it's been a long time coming

She was, she was
A friend of mine
Do us a favour, your one and only warning
Please be gone by morning

She was, she was
A friend of mine

Well it's been a long time
How should I feel?
What can I say?
With fantastic stories
You present yourself
In different ways
Some particular places
Remembered so well

Who'll do for him
Child of the 50's
With no common sense
And no easy resting place
Only lichen on beeches
Oil on gun barrel
And the hard taste of pennies

In the coldest hour something's going down

Whatever pierced the heart it didn't make a sound

I am terrified but I'm not losing sleep

If I'm falling then I'm falling at her feet

ake My word for it
This never should have happened
What in the world d'ya think
Got into me

We fire at will
And as we watch the pieces shatter
We find were closer

siddha kunjika stotram

(The song which gives the key to perfection)

siva uvaca (siva said)

smu devi pravaksyami kunjika stotram uttamam yena mantraprabhavena candijapah subho bhavet

Morning, you lay sleeping
Your small body clinging tightly to mine
With frightening dependency
Life defining, impossible to betray

And with that…
The mattress rose
Set adrift on the burgeoning emotional tide

Looking, by chance, in at the open window,
I saw my own self seated in his chair.
With gaze abstracted, furrowed forehead,
Unkempt hair.

I thought that I had suddenly come to die,
That to a cold corpse this was my farewell.
Until the pen moved slowly upon paper,

Words are blinded and the bows released
lights tiny arrows pierce the moon
I turned the tallow in the hand of sleep
A victim of stars for want of a room

I raised the boat in a sea of sound
Astonished
Absolutely spellbound

Help me, I feel like I'm weightless
Floating right out of your hands
And there's only so much I aspire to

Taking one day at a time
And deliverance has many faces
But grace is an aquaintance of mine

On the banks of a sunset beach
Messages scratched in sand
Beneath a roaming home of stars
Young boys try their hand
A spanish harbouring of sorts
In catalonian bars
They were pulled from a sinking ship
And saved for last

It seems that I remember
I dreamed a thousand dreams
We'd face the days together
No matter what they'd bring

A strength inside like I'd never known
Opened the door to life and let it go

You were someone to believe in
A place for hope in a changing world
Feeling every moment
Every one of the years spent in your arms

After a lifetime of living
These soiled hands show no life at all
Working at all hours

There's something in the air
It's never felt like this before
A turning of the tide
A slamming of the holy doors

I'll find myself a quiet place that no-one's ever seen
A blazing sun will shine upon the road ahead of me
When love walks in

She rises early from bed, runs to the mirror
The bruises inflicted in moments of fury
He kneels beside her once more, whispers of promise
"Next time I will break every bone in your body"
And the well-wishers let the devil in
And if the river ran dry they'd deny it happening

As the card players steal their hands from the bottom of the deck

It's a wonderful world
And you take and you give
And the sun fills the sky
In the space where you live

It's a day full of dreams
It's a dream of a day
And the joy that it brings

What happened here?
The butterfly has lost its wings
The air's too thick to breathe
And there's something in the drinking water.

The sun comes up
The sun comes up and you're alone
Your sense of purpose come undone

This is my home
The land of my mother
The place I play
With sisters and brothers

The trees are rooted
In the ground beneath
Take away the violence

Из альбома
Gone To Earth (1986)

I hear your voice
Way down inside
A whispering sea
Of towering trees
But no reply

David Sylvian - Secrets Of The Beehive

She rises early from bed
Runs to the mirror
The bruises inflicted in moments of fury

He kneels beside her once more
Whispers a promise

David Sylvian - Rain Tree Crow

Hold you in
A sea of silence
On the borderline of truth
Open violence
I see no sign
I see no place I’ve loved

Из альбома
David Sylvian - Dead Bees On A Cake

Stay tonight
We’ll watch the full moon rising
Hold on tight
The sky is breaking
I don’t ever want to be alone