David Sylvian - Upon This Earth Lyrics

Lyrics 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 this was my farewell,
Until the pen moved slowly upon paper
And tears fell.
He had written a name, yours, in printed letters:
One word on which bemusedly to pore
No protest, no desire, your naked name,
Nothing more.
Would it be tomorrow, would it be next year?
But the vision was not false, this much I knew;
And I turned angrily from the open window
Aghast at you.
Why never a warning, either by speech or look,
That the love you cruelly gave me could not last?
Already it was too late: the bait swallowed,
The fast



Writer(s): Robert Fripp, David Sylvian


David Sylvian - Gone To Earth (Remastered 2003)
Album Gone To Earth (Remastered 2003)
date of release
13-09-1986




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