Can't Fight It Lyrics

Evening’s hymnConjures the parkAnd, now out of the dark—In a dream I followed you homeThe crowds thinned out until we were aloneWaiting on some street I didn’t knowWhen you h...Read Full Lyrics

5 o’clock, and in the street by Russell SquareThe strip lights shineI disappearI was no one todayHearing voices hurrying through the alleywaysHollowaysLunar daysDown in the stree...Read Full Lyrics

Voices moving in the quiet house:Thud of feet and muffled shutting doors:Out in the night there’s autumn-smelling gloomCrowded with the whispering trees;Across the parkA hollow c...Read Full Lyrics

Ballerina, breatheDoubled night, cohereNothing here is quite the sameSongbirds singing new refrainsPalpitations on the train andStatic in the grassYou just can’t place it as you ...Read Full Lyrics

Pleiades fallPleiades riseTurn your face andWatch the rainy signDancing through the nightFollowing the long-wheeled climbI don’t know, I don’t knowBut tonightEveryone you meet ...Read Full Lyrics

Sweet night timeUs drinking our wineBats sang the songs of the nightAnd the circus passed byWhen everything rang in the darkThere were bells in the parkThe hook, the umbrellas, the...Read Full Lyrics

Dust of football fields still risingTo a cardboard moonWreaths of dark linoleum areSailing to the moonTea at the refectoryThen your fingers start to freezeAs the nights draw inAnd ...Read Full Lyrics

One Friday night, in late summer, I was walking the old canal; cars passed, open windows blaring hits by Madonna. Buddleias overhung the roadI left the towpath as the light began t...Read Full Lyrics

Swallows wheel from sun-bleached eavesTrucks glow on peripheriesLight the lamps, the empty house is fallingTurning corners into lightTurning corners into lightLight the lamps, the ...Read Full Lyrics

Dear Linda, pick up the phone Dear Linda, pick up your phone and let me say helloDear Linda, pick up the phone Dear Linda, pick up your phone and let me say helloWhere was it I'm s...Read Full Lyrics