People You Were Going To Lyrics

The golden dream, the seat of all decorum, A satellite to match the light of Rome: Its silver children chatter in the Forum, The bath-house, and the brothels, and their homes About...Read Full Lyrics

Won't hear a sound at Porton Down, The clear liquids keep their silence, Buried underground at Porton Down The fast form of the final violence. Quite right to be worried about the ...Read Full Lyrics

You've never shown a trace of human frailty, No-one could ever catch you on the hop: Each post-modern take on the action would find you already, in principle, totally hot, al...Read Full Lyrics

If you catch me running along by the sea, with bare feet in The sand, then you'll know I am dreaming my life out in a way You won't understand. I'm slipping right out of your mind,...Read Full Lyrics

Once, all the stars in the sky were bright, Now they're red and fading And all the colours we wore, the shades that we bore Have moved. And the gold turns to red with no time for c...Read Full Lyrics

I lay down beside you : I am a unicorn, you a virginal maid, And I come in laughing play ---- But, maybe, to be saved. Peer through the backcloth : I am a character in the play,...Read Full Lyrics

I saw your picture in the Evening Standard: You were wearing your battle dress. I really must confess That I she'd a silent smile for you - It had really blown my mind, I wonder, a...Read Full Lyrics

Silently I rest in the tall green grass And look steadily upwards. Birds sing ceaselessly around me, And the blue of the sky surrounds me strangely. Out here, life is at its essenc...Read Full Lyrics

In the new hotel on Fiesta Night The staff are bored; Donna Ysabel dances, zombie-like, The guests applaud.... The colour is local, The tourists are tanned The natives are restless...Read Full Lyrics

Stranger still in another town, How normal to sit out the dance, Eating the good meal by myself, Toasting the empty glass; And they're already setting out The next place, Already f...Read Full Lyrics