Every Colour You Are David Sylvian

I touched his hand Burned like coal Put pay to the devil And saw the mountain fall Feel like crying The jokes gone to far You can be anything you want Every colour you are Family man His patience

Krishna Blue David Sylvian

I'll follow you down I'll follow you back in She's here in the lifelines In every curve Suspended in silence Between each word It's all in the way that she moves The grace and the light that will see me

Laughter And Forgetting David Sylvian

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

Laughter & Forgetting David Sylvian

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

Before The Bullfight David Sylvian

If I'm losing you, Then there's nothing more that I can say. The fighting is on, And battles are won, Or thrown away.

Maria David Sylvian

These words are yours, maria The waters warm (hold me) The table bare (till the worst is past) Until the summer nights return Until we close our eyes Maria, your every thought's my heartbeat Maria, save

Brilliant Trees David Sylvian

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.

Silver Moon David Sylvian

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

Weathered Wall David Sylvian

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

Buoy David Sylvian

Underneath a burning sun There's always work to be done We take much more than we care to give away You'll be the moth, I'm the flame I'll bless you and keep you safe and sound Until sunrise comes around

Pop Song David Sylvian

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 I'll tell you I love

Cafe Europa David Sylvian

They fired off the first shot So we're on our feet and runnin' We're re-writing all the textbooks In the process of becoming There's so much to live for If we stop putting up a fight There's a place for every

Jean The Birdman David Sylvian

He gambles on the Sabbath He's pulling at the mane He thrashes on the horse's back Ambition is a bloody game Horse doesn't want to jump The river looks too wide Well he faces every hurdle With

The Scent Of Magnolia David Sylvian

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 I'm leaving America, I'm taking a girl I'm selling my soul again, I'm gaining the world Every

Forbidden Colours David Sylvian

The wounds on your hands never seem to heal I thought all i needed was to believe Here am i, a lifetime away from you The blood of christ, or the beat of my heart My love wears forbidden colours My life

The Healing Place David Sylvian

That has to be the age of overcome The systems which are, which are on the Which are on the ceiling Which are on the run to destroy Humankind's nation Humankind's inwardness Humankind's ability What for

Orpheus David Sylvian

that they'll hear But Orpheus sleeps on his back still dead to the world Sunlight falls, my wings open wide There's a beauty here I cannot deny And bottles that tumble and crash on the stairs Are

Promise (The Cult Of Eurydice) (Remastered 2003) David Sylvian

The wounds on your hands never seem to heal 네 손의 상처는 낫지 않을 것 같아 I thought all I needed was to believe 내게 필요한 건 믿음이었을 거야 Here am I, a lifetime away from you 내가 있는 곳은 너와 떨어진 생애 The blood of Christ

Pulling Punches David Sylvian

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.

Ghosts David Sylvian

daylight almost gone It seems there's something I should know Well, I ought to leave But the rain it never stops And I've no particular place to go Just when I think I'm winning When I've broken every

When Poets Dreamed Of Angels David Sylvian

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 "next time i'll break every bone in your body" And the well-wishers

I Surrender David Sylvian

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 And tonight the stars are

Backwaters David Sylvian

(There are always other possibilities.) This way and that. "

The Ink In The Well David Sylvian

The lights of the ashes smoulder through hills and vales Nostalgia burns in the hearts of the strongest Picasso is painting the ships in the harbour the wind and sails These are years with a genius for

Nostalgia David Sylvian

Their joy, their calm, and luxury Are lost within the wanderings of my mind. I'm cutting branches from the trees, Shaped by years om memories. To exorcise their ghosts from inside of me.

Wave David Sylvian

I'll run to you, nothing stands between us now. Nothing I can lose. This light inside can never die. Another world just made for two.

Red Guitar David Sylvian

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, It's the iron in my soul.

Godman David Sylvian

State The language of light The energies impulse The loud, dark, iron The purpose of history In Eurasian Steppes From threshold to threshold Astonishment refrain: You've misunderstood the place where you

Wave (Version) David Sylvian

This sun may shine forever Upon the back of love A kingdom raised from ashes And held within your arms And should the rain break through the trees We'll find a shelter there and never leave I'll run to you

Blackwater David Sylvian

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 Depending on the signs To fine the road Blackwater take me with you To the place

Cover Me With Flowers David Sylvian

Hold your head up sonny boy Let the earth dry on it It won't hurt you It won't hurt you Tell me something sonny boy Baptised and plunged Is it worth it?

The Devil's Own David Sylvian

goes on The howling of the stray souls of heaven The treasures of the cove Where the traders stored their gold Echo voices still dead to the world Underneath the vine Shaded by the leaves I still hold you

Upon This Earth David Sylvian

But the vision was not false, this much I knew; And I turned angrily from the open window, Aghast at you.

The Golden Way David Sylvian

She said "Come to me and sit you down You'll always return as I promised you would When you're through playing games with the bad and the good Immerse your heart in the remains of the day On the golden

Wanderlust David Sylvian

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 Tell me how could it have happened You

Ride David Sylvian

darkness closes in Until the ravaged soul begins To reflect the open skies, ride The chapel was burned Razed to the ground From the darkest of clouds Small birds tumbled like rain Time and again You

God's Monkey David Sylvian

One push You fall in Born in darkness Built on shame And hurting Filled with silence Filled with silence And stars Stars Stars Find the ladder Climb the ladder To God's monkey No songs To

Gone To Earth David Sylvian

With a burning candle, A book of holy things, They'll throw you up against the wall; Bind your hands with string.

Riverman David Sylvian

keep running, falling Till I reach the water Run with me holyman But when I reach out I find I'm standing right beside her Now we're living Blessed with all the thunder in the world Now, should you

River Man David Sylvian

Now, should you ask me to come home. To wake up from the sleep, Like a boat inside a storm. Is there no hope for me? So I keep running, falling, Wade into the water.

Midnight Sun David Sylvian

They've stolen the moon The magic has gone And there in this place A black midnight sun The darkness is frightening And love is denied They've stolen the moon God only knows why The stars have los...

The Boy With The Gun David Sylvian

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...

Cries And Whispers David Sylvian

Shattered dreams on a bed of lies Now my love dies and cries Cries and whispers My heart grew wing under desert skies Now my love dies and cries Cries and whispers And my heart sings of many thin...

Let The Happiness In David Sylvian

I'm waiting on the empty docks Watching the ships come in I'm waiting for the agony to stop Oh, let the happiness in I'm watching as the gulls all settle down Upon the empty vessels The faded white...

September David Sylvian

The sun shines high aboveThe sounds of laughterThe birds swoop down uponThe crosses of old grey churchesWe say that we're in loveWhile secretly wishing for rainSipping coke and playing gamesSeptemb...

Mother And Child David Sylvian

Shadows form knights and pawnsUpon the squaresBlood is drawn up from the wellSecret signs brought the crimeRight to your doorAn innocent guilty as hellOh, the cot is open wideDamp with milk and hon...

Waterfront David Sylvian

On the banks of a sunset beachMessages scratched in sandBeneath a roaming home of starsYoung boys try their handA spanish harbouring of sortsIn catalonian barsThey were pulled from a sinking shipAn...

Thoroughly Lost To Logic David Sylvian

When the little one cameA hole was blown openA partial surrendering in the midst of knowingAnd for an instant the constant heart shed its own tearsWave upon wave carried me overBeyond the peripheri...

Come Morning David Sylvian

God is in the silences Between the rhythms Rise and falling The starring of the skies of blue The promise of tomorrow's calling Hey ho and away we go Hey ho come morning

Alphabet Angel David Sylvian

It's later than I thought it wasThe shadows, long and lostCircle through the roomSwear as I met your mother thereIn New OrleansThe sun was slipping into blueThe longest day is overThe longest dayMy...