The Critical Distance (w: S H Jones) Lyrics

Waist high in the wild oats Goose-grass burrs on his old coat A knife tears through his throat. Sunlight sparkles in the old stones by the wall Surprise in his eyes as he begins t...Read Full Lyrics

It's quarter past seven when I hold you A head floats above the sleeping town Somebody shouts to me you're calling But nobody's out there to reply It's quarter past seven and I ho...Read Full Lyrics

You stand beneath a racing sky You don't know why you came to The house of the heart You sit amongst the whitered flowers By the dry fountains You look at the barren world around T...Read Full Lyrics

As a voice beneath the millpond sings >From her past the lost June days are woken And wind across the gorse slopes call Through years, where the darkness roars Until with wirl-pool...Read Full Lyrics

She hung her gown from the pear tree And watched it swing, Above the daisies ox-eyes Like the flapping of wings Through the blue marbled sky, From her chest... And the trickling...Read Full Lyrics

The rain was fresh on the streets The camber of the road Hissed beneath The soft caressing seat Sucked me back. The town arose above me Through the tunnel Like a dream. But nobody...Read Full Lyrics

But where are you going my little girl Without a candle in this twilight world Don't bother me now Don't hold my elbow Or shake my wrist I walk to The Saracen's head Past The Bear...Read Full Lyrics

Your features Looking so happy inside Don't let them see down through the floors Ignores the quetionnaires and smiles Plays ignorant to words today The blind could not ignore your ...Read Full Lyrics

Transparent babies we walk like men Across the marshes and back again We seek a different view A world that's fresh and new We wait together at twilights pose Bodies dance forever,...Read Full Lyrics

The old man's come to see The way the land lies over Come to see the way the clouds roll. He wants to know if cowslips still grow On the hill where he kissed his girl And if the sk...Read Full Lyrics