River Man David Sylvian

Run with me holy man. 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 ask me to come home.

Krishna Blue David Sylvian

She's here in the snowfall At dead of night The mood is of courtship The final fight She's all that I need All that I am The voice of compassion inside the man If you open the gates The madness begins

Buoy David Sylvian

flame I'll bless you and keep you safe and sound Until sunrise comes around again I'm like a 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

When Poets Dreamed Of Angels David Sylvian

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 let the devil in And if the river

Godman David Sylvian

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 stand God Man

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

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

Let The Happiness In David Sylvian

as the gulls all settle down Upon the empty vessels The faded whites of their wedding gowns The songs of hopeless selflessness The cold December Sun A cold that blisters The hands of a working man

Wanderlust David Sylvian

nothing that could do without you Loving the state that I'm in Between no longer and not yet On the threshold of some bright affair The match was struck and I was fired The embers of a drowning man

I Surrender David Sylvian

trains of thought, demolished wayward tracks You tell me I've no need to wonder why I just surrender I stand too close to see the sleight of hand How she found this child inside the frightened man

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...

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...

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 o...

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 h...

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 when...

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...

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 that ...

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...

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 sing 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 in...

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,...

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...

Maria David Sylvian

These words are yours, mariaThe waters warm (hold me)The table bare (till the worst is past)Until the summer nights returnUntil we close our eyesMaria, your every thought's my heartbeatMaria, save ...

The Devil's Own David Sylvian

The night is dark and coldThe strong winds and the rainCrack the branches upon my windowThe devil beats his drumCasting out his spellDragging all his own down into hellThe ticking of the clockInexo...

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...

Forbidden Colours David Sylvian

The wounds on your hands never seem to healI thought all i needed was to believeHere am i, a lifetime away from youThe blood of christ, or the beat of my heartMy love wears forbidden coloursMy life...

The Golden Way David Sylvian

She said "Come to me and sit you downYou'll always return as I promised you wouldWhen you're through playing games with the bad and the goodImmerse your heart in the remains of the dayOn the golden...

Pop Song David Sylvian

Behind the iron gatesThe shifts were workes in silenceEach weekend beckoned like Ulysses's sirensAnd as the words were fewWe'd listen to the radioIt was loud, and irritated me soI'll tell you I lov...

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...

Cover Me With Flowers David Sylvian

Hold your head up sonny boyLet the earth dry on itIt won't hurt youIt won't hurt youTell me something sonny boyBaptised and plungedIs it worth it?It must be worth itHold your head up sonny boyLet t...

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...

Cafe Europa David Sylvian

They fired off the first shotSo we're on our feet and runnin'We're re-writing all the textbooksIn the process of becomingThere's so much to live forIf we stop putting up a fightThere's a place for ...

Pollen Path David Sylvian

Welcome me father on the North shores of LaplandWelcome me father who knows no nameWelcome me mother the earth here is yawningMy body is shaking for want of a flameDown here, got to laughThe kickba...

Darkest Dreaming David Sylvian

"Stay tonightWe'll watch the full moon risingHold on tightThe sky is breakingI don't ever want to be aloneWith all my darkest dreamingHold me closeThe sky is breakingI don't ever want to be aloneWi...

Wave (Version) David Sylvian

It seems that I rememberI dreamed a thousand dreamsWe'd face the days togetherNo matter what they'd bringA strength inside like I'd never knownOpened the door to life and let it goThis sun may shin...

Upon This Earth David Sylvian

Looking, by chance, in at the open window,I saw my own self seated in his chair.With gaze abstracted, furrowed forehead,Unkempt hair.I thought that I had suddenly come to die,That to a cold corpse ...

The Healing Place David Sylvian

That has to be the age of overcomeThe systems which are, which are on theWhich are on the ceilingWhich are on the run to destroyHumankind's nationHumankind's inwardnessHumankind's abilityWhat for m...

Taking The Veil David Sylvian

In dresses white, all set for sailA little girl dreams of taking the veilIn dresses white, all set for sailA little girl dreams of taking the veilOn beaches clean of sand and shellA little girl dre...

Laughter & Forgetting David Sylvian

Running like a horse between the treesThe ground beneath my feetGives me something to hold on toWith the reins around my heartGuided by hands that spread life before my very eyesWell every hope fal...

Before The Bullfight David Sylvian

I hear your voiceWay down inside.A whispering seaOf towering trees;But no reply.A silence so rare,And more than I can stand.Sweeps like a flood,Through life's flesh and blood,And steals away with i...

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.Caught in the sudden shower,Our host of heavenly Kings,They're all victims of circumsta...

Wave David Sylvian

It seems that I rememberI dreamed a thousand dreams.We'd face the days together,No matter what they'd bring.A strength inside like I'd never known,Opened the door to life and let it go.This sun may...

Silver Moon David Sylvian

Out upon the open fieldsThe rain is pouring downWe're pulling up the sheets againAgainst the passing tides of loveEvery doubt that holds you hereWill find their own way outI will build a shelter if...

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?Sheltered lives, spent partially breathing,Are gathered together, under new rel...

The Ink In The Well David Sylvian

The lights of the ashes smoulder through hills and valesNostalgia burns in the hearts of the strongestPicasso is painting the ships in the harbour the wind and sailsThese are years with a genius fo...

Nostalgia David Sylvian

Voices heard in fields of green.Their joy, their calm, and luxuryAre lost within the wanderings of my mind.I'm cutting branches from the trees,Shaped by years om memories.To exorcise their ghosts f...