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?

I Surrender David Sylvian

I opened up the pathway of the heart The flowers died 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

River Man David Sylvian

I see your eyes light up like fire; It's medicine to me. But as the hunted live their lifes, You're keeping out of reach. So I keep running, falling, Till I reach the water. Run with me holy man.

Riverman David Sylvian

I see your eyes light up like fire It's medicine to me But as the hunted live their lives You're keeping out of reach So I keep running, falling Till I reach the water Run with me holyman But

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

Darkest Dreaming David Sylvian

"Stay tonight We'll watch the full moon rising Hold on tight The sky is breaking I don't ever want to be alone With all my darkest dreaming Hold me close The sky is breaking I don't ever want to be alone

The Boy With The Gun David Sylvian

loved him less Reading down his list of names He ticks them one by one He points the barrel at the sky Firing shots off at the sun "I am the law and I am the King I am the wisdom, listen to me

Cafe Europa David Sylvian

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 story And this one starts with

Pollen Path David Sylvian

Welcome me father on the North shores of Lapland Welcome me father who knows no name Welcome me mother the earth here is yawning My body is shaking for want of a flame Down here, got to laugh The kickback

Pulling Punches David Sylvian

If heaven watches over me, Sowing seeds back in the soil. With eyes that see, hands that feel, Why am I the last to know?

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

Orpheus David Sylvian

Standing firm on this stony ground The wind blows hard Pulls these clothes around I harbour all the same worries as most The temptations to leave or to give up the ghost I wrestle with an outlook

Forbidden Colours David Sylvian

Learning to cope with feelings aroused in me My hands in the soil, buried inside of myself My love wears forbidden colours My life believes in you once again I'll go walking in circles While doubting the

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

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

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

Upon This Earth David Sylvian

With gaze abstracted, furrowed forehead, Unkempt hair. I thought that I had suddenly come to die, That to a cold corpse this was my farewell. Until the pen moved slowly upon paper, And tears fell.

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.

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

Learning to cope with feelings aroused in me 내 안에 끓어오르는 감정들에 대항하는 연습 My hands in the soil, buried inside of myself 자신 안에 파묻힌 손은 흙 속에 My love wears forbidden colours 금지된 색채로 뒤덮인 나의 사랑 My life

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

Wave David Sylvian

I'll swim the seas inside with you, And like the waves, without a sound, I'll never let you down. Upon a wave of summer, A hilltop paved with gold, We shut our eyes and make The promises we hold.

Wave (Version) David Sylvian

We'll find a shelter there and never leave 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 I'll swim the seas inside with

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

Mother And Child David Sylvian

Shadows form knights and pawns Upon the squares Blood is drawn up from the well Secret signs brought the crime Right to your door An innocent guilty as hell Oh, the cot is open wide Damp with milk and

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.

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

Wanderlust David Sylvian

Help me I feel like I'm weightless 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

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.

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

Silver Moon David Sylvian

passing tides of love Every doubt that holds you here Will find their own way out I will build a shelter if you call Just take my hand and walk Over mountains high and wide Bridging rivers deep inside With

The Devil's Own David Sylvian

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 close to me

Backwaters David Sylvian

Rushing to bite the hand that feeds me, Running this way and that. (There are always other possibilities.) This way and that. "

Ride David Sylvian

Messages ran all over town Words without sound Condemned me And left me for dead All over again It wasn't the first time, but this time Things will never be the same Ride, ride the very thought

Waterfront David Sylvian

ship And saved for last On the waterfront the rain Is pouring in my heart Here the memories come in waves Raking in the lost and found of years And though i'd like to laugh At all the things that led me

Before The Bullfight David Sylvian

Sweeps like a flood, Through life's flesh and blood, And steals away with it's heart. If I'm losing you, Then there's nothing more that I can say.

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 me

Nostalgia David Sylvian

To exorcise their ghosts from inside of me. The sound of waves in a pool of water. I'm drowing in my nostalgia. Nostaligia. Ay, ay, ay, nostaligia. The sound of waves in a pool of water.

Buoy David Sylvian

mountain made of stone I'm like a new day dawning I'll be here every morning, close to you We'll sail on a river, way out to the Baltic sea Love will keep us together And the tide will draw you close to me

Thoroughly Lost To Logic David Sylvian

When the little one came A hole was blown open A partial surrendering in the midst of knowing And for an instant the constant heart shed its own tears Wave upon wave carried me over Beyond the peripheries

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 Scent Of Magnolia David Sylvian

In the coldest hour something's going down Whatever pierced the heart it 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...

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...

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...

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...

Ghosts David Sylvian

When the room is quiet The 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...

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...

When Poets Dreamed Of Angels David Sylvian

She rises early from bedRuns to the mirrorThe bruises inflicted in moments of furyHe kneels beside her once moreWhispers a promise"next time i'll break every bone in your body"And the well-wishers ...

Godman David Sylvian

Welcome to Sun StateThe language of lightThe energies impulseThe loud, dark, ironThe purpose of historyIn Eurasian SteppesFrom threshold to thresholdAstonishmentrefrain:You've misunderstood the pla...