Rainy Day

On bended knee
I've looked through every window then.
Touched the bottom,
the night a sleepless day instead;

A day when love came,
came easy like what's lost now found.
Beneath a blinding light
that would surround.

We were without, in doubt,
(and now) we were about saving for a rainy day.

I crashed through mirrors,
I crashed through floors of laughter then.
In a blind scene,
no ties would moor us to this room.

A day when love came,
came easy like what's lost now found.
And you would save me,
and I held you like you were my child.

If I were you, defiant you,
alone upon a troubled way.
I would send my heart to you
to save it for a rainy day.

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Love Among The Ruins

The sky was falling, heaven was calling.
When danger crashes, rose from the ashes.

Like two statues hidden inside ancient rock,
We were praying for the secrets to unlock.
And when the sun had turned its back on us,
In the dark our love kept track of us,
Pushed together by the lack of love.

We held each other tightly
through our hell of dreams.
I still hear the never-ending
echo of those screams.

But it's a life not made for reliving,
Its a life that makes your soul forgiving.
We sealed our bond from the beginning.

Aching, affection, vulnerable protection;
Falling, captured, crawling, rapture.

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Even With My Eyes Closed

Even with my eyes closed
Funny how I know it's harder, it's harder now.
Young girl in my
young girl days, thinking I could live for always.

But like an ocean tide
I'm drawn back inside and I know.

Seasons pass like sand inside a glass
and nothing, nothing returns.
Standing with the friends I've made,
I'll race them to the grave.
Well who won, won the extra days?

When you take away the years toll
on the waters wide, shallow high and low.
In the autumn sky,
happy to know I'm going home.

Even with my eyes closed,
funny how I know it s finally,
has it finally begun?

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Girl On A Train

Waking on a train dreaming,
charmed alone they started speaking.
Captured in his artist way
before the memories fade away.

To remember a face,
and you're home or want to.

Certain they would meet soon,
paint a portrait of a family.

Single light on, single way,
single light away.

The night fell.
Saw a painting on the stairwell
to mourn the passing of a daughter dear.
Her soul upon the train
so far so near.
Just close your eyes and you're home.

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Green Children

An August day in the hills of Spain,
a pair of children emerged from a cave.
The strangest sight there alone they stood,
with skin of green and words no one had heard.

The girl was stronger, the boy was weak,
with her new mother she learned to speak.
And wove a tale of a dying sun,
they left the darkness,
a dark world come undone.

They travelled so far.
Believing they came from a star.
She fell through life, through time,
(through parallel lives)

The men of science, the men of fame,
the men of letters tried to explain:
Was it parallel worlds or a twist of time
to make her think she'd fallen from the sky?

A whirlwind spun them all alone,
took them from their twilight home.

Believing they came from a star

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A Room For Everything

You were looking away from me,
western skies calling you.
Colors spilling, running
dazzling you.

I was looking the other way
voices call from the east
I saw my roots of the trees
there planted at my feet.

It could be I'm searching
for a place so small
with room for everything
where worlds on worlds revolve.
But how can we wait?

I wouldn't hold you back.

Suppose I was the clever one
And words came easy to me
I could say I was writing a song about you
(you) and me.

Maybe that verse is yet to be found,
but waits inside of me,
a secret room a tangled web to unweave.

But how can we wait
knowing our ways,
how can we hold on,
still you know
its not too late.

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More Than This

( Lyrics / Music : Brian Ferry )

I could feel at the time
There was no way of knowing
Fallen leaves in the night
Who can say where they´re blowing
As free as the wind
And hopefully learning
Why the sea on the tide
Has no way of turning

More than this - there is nothing
More than this - tell me one thing
More than this - there is nothing

It was fun for a while
There was no way of knowing
Like dream in the night
Who can say where we´re going
No care in the world
Maybe I´m learning

Why the sea on the tide
Has no way of turning

More than this - there is nothing
More than this - tell me one thing
More than this - there is nothing

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You Won't Find Me There

I'd like to know
what makes you stay
while your eyes still search for escape.

You think that I
don't feel the cold (babe),
but I wait while confessions unfold.

You'll never make a living from reading minds
or from getting your direction from exit signs.
Look into your heart
and you won't find me there.

You won't find
me where you hide
and that makes us a matter of time.
Like trees exposed by fall,
time reveals it all.

Tell me you want to do everything
but you're stuck up to your knees.
And I'm less likely pushed forward
by ambition than a breeze.

But there's a flame
that must be fanned,
and it appears as a beckoning hand.

Don't think cause you're not,
talking you're being kind,
you've been getting there
tolls your direction from exit signs.
Look into your heart
and you won find me there.

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All That Never Happens

She walks alone on the brick lane,
the breeze is blowing.
A year had changed her forever,
just like her gray home.

He used to live so close here,
we'd look for places I can't remember
The world was safe when she knew him,
she tried to hold him, hold on forever.

For all that never happens
and all that never will be,
a candle burning for the love we seldom keep.

The earth was raw in her fingers,
she overturned it.
Considered planting some flowers,
they wouldn't last long, no one to tend them.

it's funny how these things go,
you were the answer to all the questions.
The memories made her weary,
she shuddered slowly, she didn't want to.

As a distant summer he began to whisper,
and threw a smile her way
She looked into the glass,
liquid surface showing
that they were melding, together present past.

So where can I go from here?
The color fading, he didn't answer
She felt him slip from her vision.
She tried to hold him, hold on forever.
So close forever, in a silent frozen sleep.

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Shining Light

Something was pulling me
without knowing what was leading me on:
your shining light.

In my darkest hour the only way
to bring the dawn was
your shining light.

But you're unaware
your shining light is even on.
Like with a little glance
when you take me by surprise
and I take a chance
and I see it all through your eyes.

Free me from my history
and show me where to draw the line,
by lighting up the mystery,
and you don't even know that it shines.

I'm not worried now
about flying too close to the sun.
your shining light.

When December skies are cold,
you know I will always run to
your shining light.

I won't abuse it
so please just let it glow behind your smile.
Let me use it,
let me feel the warmth like a little child

who understands your glance,
though it takes me by surprise.
And I take a chance
and I see it all through your eyes
it's your shining light.

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Across The Fields

Well they left then in the morning,
a hundred pairs of wings
in the light moved together
in the colors of the morning
I looked to the clouds
in the cirrus sky and they'd gone.

Across the marshes,
across the fields below.
I fell through the vines
and I hoped they would catch me below.

If only to take me with them there,
tell me the part that shines
in your heart on the wind.

And the reeds blew in the morning.
Take me along to the places
you've gone when my eyes looked away.
Tell me the song that you sing
in the trees in the dawning.
Tell me the part that shines
in your heart and the rays of love forever,
please take me there.

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