SECOND SIGHT
DON’T THEY KNOW YOU’VE GONE
So what’s left, what is left for me
Dry old words, a sad old history
Oh the birds they sing such a carefree song
How can they just carry on
Don’t they know you’ve gone
Precious time lost in one small sleep
Now the days are mounting at my feet
And all is dark on this silent screen
Phantoms play an empty role
In this senseless dream
Oh the darkness of the night turns into gold
But here where the fire was burning lie only ashes cold
Can’t you hear, hear me calling
But the world still turns and my heart still churns
See these eyes, no longer wise
So here I am, can’t think what to do
My limbs can’t move, I’m frozen in my shoes
And the birds they sing such a carefree song
How can they just carry on
Don’t they know you’ve gone
Don’t they know you’ve gone
Don’t they know you’ve gone
WHERE THE WARM WINDS BLOW
Silent thoughts float between us
Silent lives overflow
How can we transcend the dark day’s end
When there’s nowhere left to go
Days drift by in a daydream
Years fall without trace
As you understand your promised land
Is now so commonplace
So you look forward to anything
That’s far away from this wasted dream
Where the sun sets low and the warm winds blow
And your troubles go away
Oh my heart surrender
Oh my love be strong
If we change our course with gale force
We could still be wrong
But you look forward to anything
That’s far away from this wasted dream
One day you’ll go on quiet tiptoes
And leave this all behind
So set sail over the seven seas
Loose yourself in a reverie
Where the sun sets low and the warm winds blow
And your troubles go away
With a face just like a prisoner
You think your life’s something similar
One day you’ll see that you’re never free
From the things you left behind
So set sail over the seven seas
Loose yourself in a reverie
Where the sun sets low and the warm winds blow
And your troubles go away
SONGS AND SILHOUETTES
See how the night has fallen
Fallen upon you and me
See how its cloak has covered us
Guarding our mysteries
And how the stars are sinking
Sinking below you and me
Lost in a dream of oblivion
Lost in the shimmering sea
As the wind flies over the world unseen
Lilac eyes shine in the dark
And with the rise and fall of our unspoken dreams
She gathers us into her arms with
Songs and silhouettes
Songs you won’t forget
Feel how the world is floating
Floating around you and me
Feel how the air is whispering
Secrets of eternity
As the wind flies over the world unseen
Lilac eyes shine in the dark
And with the rise and fall of our unspoken dreams
She gathers us into her arms with
Songs and silhouettes
Songs you won’t forget
Songs and silhouettes
Songs you won’t forget
A FLICKER OF GOLD
Written by Kate St. John & Boris Grebenshikov
The sun’s coming up, the strangest of mornings
The curtain falls down on the longest of nights
The world stretches out with innocent glory
A flicker of gold, a future yet untold
So you breathe in the air, you breathe in the silence
Breathe in the pain to hide it away
But the radiant dawn fills you with yearning
As your sad disarray fills yet another day
And the rivers flow, the rivers run so fast
No chance to float or disembark
And lovers fly through the air so fast
Then hurtle down to the dark
So now that it’s come, the end of the story
No violins, no one to tell
Your body awaits but your soul is still searching
The infinite skies for a sign to recognise
Songs come and go
Whispers and silence
Worlds fall apart
Ashes and dust
And love disappears
Like mist off the water
Rising above
Higher and higher
A flicker of gold
Bursting into life
FIREWORKS
What am I doing here
Watching your firework eyes
Light up another’s land
Dimming a part of my small country
What I am doing here
Is pulling our shared net of fate
Out from the dreaming sea
Exposing the bright eyed catch to the empty air
We stay softly
Imprisoned in each other
But we’re already fading
Into our separate lives
Watching each other
Our bodies paralysed
An unspoken, unending mystery
Lighting the darkness around
See the silence
Hear the hunger
Fear the fireworks
The past is a whirlwind cloud
Rising up into the sky
But as sure as we’re apart
Our names have now been written down
In the immortal book of hearts
MY LONELY LOVE
Got your heart close to mine
With our lives so entwined
We are gathered in grace
But we are stranded in time
Here I have your hope in my hands
But love slips like grains of san
Sadness invents
What do we understand
Ooh my lonely love
Ooh my lonely love
Don’t rely on the pain
Of love’s open wounds
To bring meaning to your life
To keep lament in your stride
Here we are alone on our star
Don’t look back too long too far
Let the present outshine
What the past brought to stay
Ooh my lonely love
Ooh my lonely love
Ooh my lonely love
Ooh my lonely love
A FOOLISH DANCE
Did I hear you laugh
In the middle of the night my friend
Did I hear you cry
With the world between us turned up-end
Take me in your arms for a foolish dance
Let our troubles slip away
How we pass our days
In a whirlwind of desire and pain
Silence has no chance
In the middle of a hurricane
Dance with me tonight in the firelight
Let our troubles slip away
Words unspoken say so much more
Than tortured tales and old rancour
Answer the mystery
Why love is kept under lock and key
Hearts abound with love unfound
So take me in your arms for a foolish dance
Let our troubles slip away
Let our troubles slip away
DARK HEAVENS
Standing in the fading light
In the silence
In the air surrounding us
In the twilight
Dark heavens are overhead
The wild geese streak through the sky
The ghosts of forty winters pass by
A sudden gust of wind blows out the day
As their ragged cries are swept away
There’s a voice in the air
In the distance
With a sad refrain
Calling
Here I lie
I will never go home
Lost in no-man’s land
Dark heavens are overhead
In the fading light
COLONEL SINNOTT’S SONG OF LOVE
Words by Edward Stockley Sinnott
I know not why but someday
I shall know and comprehend
At the gateway of the morning
Where all journeys end
For I know you will be waiting for me there
Young and lovely as you were
Untouched by age or care
When some still evening
On the ebbing tide
My little boat puts trembling
Out to sea
I know you will be waiting for me there
On the far fair side
With eager outstretched hands
To welcome me