Red Shift 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

You can see in the 1st light that's graced as dawn That there's nothing in my heart but pain As I stand, facing sea, knowing that you're gone All the elements rage to explain That ...Read Full Lyrics

Citadel reverberates to a thousand voices, now dumb: What have we become? What have we chosen to be? Now, all history is reduced to the syllables of our name - Nothing can ever be ...Read Full Lyrics

Oh, suddenly things begin to come clear in my mind As I look into the land laid bare by your eyes; E-S/M attractions are working behind my thought, I can't help my feelings, the wa...Read Full Lyrics

Spring came far too early this year: May flowers blooming in February. Should I be sad for the months, Or glad for the sky? The birds don't know which way to sing and, my friends, ...Read Full Lyrics

When I was a child they made me read Word-daggers of quiver and squirm Now in the stumbling dark I see I am a worm, silently fruiting your garden My sister, my child . Night c...Read Full Lyrics