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Tell me about it, talk to me - I hear it
coming, I feel it coming,
the way you want this thing to be.
You're only trading on our memories
don't go and say you still love me.
I shelved my broken heart, I put you from
my mind,
I got up from my knees, I picked up all
my pieces,
but seeing you again puts shakes into
my soul.
Just when I think I'm finally over you,
don't come and show me that's not true.
Oh, tell me about it, have your way; I
see it coming, I hear it coming,
I know what you're about to say.
You've had too many of my yesterdays,
and I don't want to fall again.
You're trading on my memories, you're trading
in a rosy past;
you know I'm lost on stormy seas, but
I still stand before the mast,
beneath the stars and under sail towards
horizons out of true....
Behind the dance of seven veils I still
see you....
Tell me about it, have your way....
Don't try to tell me nothing's changed,
don't try to tell me nothing's new,
too many of my yesterdays are lost in
you.
Seeing's believing and I believe in you
I can't conceal it, just what I feel for
you.
Seeing's believing, I know that you'll
see me through.
I believe in you
I have faith in you
I put my faith in you, faith in you, faith
in you.
Doubt casts its shadow
on every perfect plan that is made
but I'll be beside you
through those dark days -
I'll be with you come what may...
Don't let me down,
now that I've fallen completely for you.
So many years ago, and now it's hard to
recall
just what you meant to me... still I wait,
I'm patient,
for the memory comes to me eventually.
Here you are, and though you may soon
be gone
somehow the song still burns as bright:
I felt it happen here tonight -
here, in the empire of delight.
Dream and ghost the world around me,
you seem as real as ever you were...
but in a blur your breath on my cheek
has gone, and the evening come into night.
So many years ago, and now it's hard to
recall
quite what you meant to me; still I wait,
impatient,
though the memory comes to me eventually.
Here I am, forever caught up in this mystery
and then, that moment when the fire ignites
-
I felt it happen here tonight,
here, in the empire of delight.
Once we were friends in our idealist days,
still, let's pretend, it's funny in a
way
that now our friendship's token you like
to say
I owe you everything - some debts remain
unspoken.
Double talk, double standards,
you speak with two tongues, truth's abandoned
all life has become one-way traffic to
lucre
You take your meetings on the cloth of
gold,
just down the river from the lives you've
sold for silver.
The silver crossed your palm, oh, can you
see the future?
I hope you'll know when you sold your
soul.
Argente, argent.
All the things you've done will carry their
own taint
and a day will come when you chorus the
complaint
that your friends don't do you fairly;
the back you turned,
the shoulders that you shrugged now fit
the blame quite squarely.
What you want, what you need,
your emotional greed all-consuming
but no hearts will bleed and the coffers
are empty.
Yes, in the end you'd give it all away,
but on the sockets of your eyes they lay
the silver.
Remember this fireside, this quiet room,
embers now flickering their last, like
ghosts
and still she holds you close
Who else could know
such afterglow
beside the one you love?
Someday the memory will come again
as vivid as sensation now, and then
there'll be no 'why' or 'when'...
Who else could do
these things to you
beside the one you love?
It feels so sweet
to fall asleep
beside the one you love.
I've held back my feelings for so long
while clutching at straws in the caravan
-
I'll say what I must and take it like
a man,
I've fixed my grin, I've raised a laugh,
and after the back's been broken by the
waiting game....
'Mustn't grumble, can't complain,
no hard feelings', other old cliches.
Suddenly I see the scales falling from
your eyes -
this revelation surely comes as a surprise?
Well, what d'you want? what d'you expect?
what do you say?
Can it really be so predictable?
Now all of the secrets are given away,
what words of forgiveness are there left
to say?
Hold me now, don't let go,
hold me, soon there comes a price I cannot
pay,
I take the words back straight away,
'I'm so sorry, I didn't mean it',
beg forgiveness, beg and prey....
blind self-pity, other old cliches.
Oh, don't anyone let the cat out of the
bag,
don't anyone admit to human frailty,
Oh, someone let the cat out of the bag.
Confidentially we learn we're not alone,
in lack of confidence we're not alone.
Behind the smile of confidence
somewhere you'll find the mortal man
waving his arms in some urgent secret
semaphore...
So I'll face the world with confidence,
I'll toughen up my point of view,
what better way to live a life,
what other way can there be of seeing
this thing through?
In confidence the trick, in confidence
the game,
the thing that makes us tick -
In confidence the flame!
Inside the ring of confidence
somewhere you'll find a stone-age man
lost in the forest with darkness falling,
striking his flint to hold back
the roaring, the alien, the world.
We are not alone.
So soon you'll be gone to that wide world
the tunes of adulthood calling little
girls.
Remember, whatever else in life you find
to doubt,
do remember, although you hear him mostly
in a shout,
your father loves you
as though he never knew the meaning of
the words until just now.
So soon you'll be gone to that wide world
one tune of childhood I sing my little
girls....
Sleep now, one day I'll tell you how my
life has been.
Oh, so strange to think your eyes will
fall on things
that mine have never seen, these eyes
that gently flicker
in some lost childhood dream.
Sleep now, safe and warm in the haven
of your bed,
go to sleep now.... although you won't
remember what I've said,
your father loves you
as though he never knew the meaning of
the words until just now,
as though he never knew the meaning of
the words.
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