Alone with my thoughts this evening I walked on the banks of Tyne I wondered how I could win you Or if I could make you mine Or if I could make you mine
The wind it was so insistent With tales of a stormy south But when I spied two birds in a sycamore tree Came a dryness in my mouth Came a dryness in my mouth
For then without rhyme of reason The two birds did rise up to fly And were the two birds were flying I swear I saw you and I I swear I saw you and I
I walked out this morning It was like a veil had been removed from before my eyes For the first time I saw the work of heaven In the line where the hills had been married to the sky And all around me every blade of singing grass Was calling out your name and that our love would always last And inside every turning leaf Is the pattern of an older tree The shape of our future The shape of all our history And out of the confusion Where the river meets the sea Came things I′d never seen Things I′d never seen
I was brought to my senses I was blind now that I can see Every signpost in nature Said you belong to me
I know it′s true It′s written in the sky as blue As blue as your eyes, as blue as your eyes If nature′s red in tooth and claw Like the winter′s freeze and summer′s thaw The wounds she gave me Were the wounds that would heal me And we′d be like the moon and sun And when our courtly dance had run Its course across the sky Then together we would lie And out of the confusion Where the river meets the sea Something new would arrive Something better would arrive
I was brought to my senses I was blind now that I can see Every signpost in nature Said you belong to me
How was I ever so naive That I could never see What was in front of me I grew up and you let me down That′s when I realized I didn′t need Your kind around me I′m not letting myself change for you Your change is my demise I′m not letting myself change for you Please try and understand You stole what we gave you for free I′m taking back all my sins I′m not letting you in I′m not letting you in I′m not letting you in I′m not letting you in How did you ever get passed My senses of sight, smell, taste, feel And what endeavors and gestured blessings Made you believe that you could Get this over on me But wait you didn′t think About the pressure Understand understand The lecture take heed You′re walking on bad land You better check yourself Before your wreck yourself man I′m not second place To a paycheck man You silly rabbit turning tricks I give you no respect I don′t understand the joy You get from pretending That you are the man That you are the man I see the struggles never ending On my time you′re wasting And you′re spending On rewriting the original silly criminal Prepare for the lesson You wish you learned Back in school you fool Well here′s the golden rule You stool I sit Well you ain′t biting this My friend the end is What I put to this The question everybody wanders This is your kid This is your kid Ha you wish Well you ain′t biting this You can′t wonder why Damn we′re too fly for you The bottom of my shoe These are my words That you heard You came up with this I never heard Something so obvious I thought we were close Now I understand that we Were only an influence To you To you To you To you To you Not a teacher to you Not a preacher to you Not a speaker to you Not a friend to you Not no Not no Not no Not no Not no brother to you Not no other to you Not explaining this to your mother BOO thought that you Would be true But I explained to you that Second chance is through Second chance is through Shame on you My senses they cut through you Shame on you
One man speaking the truth No one likes when it fits So we tell soothing lies And betray our own lips
The uncivilized world And its people decay Once sweet breeze is defiled Sucking our breath away
Yesterday′s answers has nothing to do With today′s questions
Life can only be understood in reverse But must be lived forwards. I′m losing my senses, I′m losing my senses
We watch as the living all die Contemplating if we should Ever open our eyes
If all that we touch Keeps turning to sand We will cease to exist Till the last living man
Yesterday′s answers has nothing to do With today′s questions
Life can only be understood in reverse But must be lived forward. Life can only be understood in reverse But must be lived forward. I′m losing my senses
Yesterday′s answers has nothing to do With today′s questions
Life can only be understood in reverse But must be lived forwards. Life can only be understood in reverse But must be lived forwards.
If my hands couldn′t feel Your warm soft skin If my eyes wouldn′t show me The things way they are If your love wasn′t there I couldn′t be me - now I know This is an evening - I never saw before A new beginning unpredictable Thank you for the comfort The feeling that I′m not alone Although there is no-one here I can see Sensing you closeness Never leaving me alone Making me to trust the day
The song in my mind Once so pure and light Now suddenly lost it′s rhythm Tones out of tune Was it your leaving That caused disharmony?
Now I have a collection of you Though I can′t restore Every memory of us Tons of pictures - letters Written in love - but you′re more The moment you stepped out My heart left with you I lessened living - unreturnable I remember your closeness Never leaving me in vain
Sensing your love Living in these walls But even this drink is Torturing my empty veins Still waiting to hear your voice
This song in my mind Once so pure and light Now suddenly lost it′s rhythm Tones out of tune Was it your leaving That caused disharmony
I long for your love Thirst for your kiss Is this human You′re only making me alive?