Azure D'or

Where we threw the stone
The stream ran warm inside the sun
Along the bank we walked
So clear that day
Worn by time, dust and weeds
Light and dark fell through the leaves

Where we sometimes laughed
So full of light and morning mist
We walked beneath the trees
So clear that day
Stark in winter, shadows black
Still in my mind, no turning back
(we sometimes laughed the day we threw the stone)

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Forever changing
Light and dark horizons
Always turning, moving on
Forever changing
Near and far horizons
And changes take the day
Forever gone

Where we sometimes were
Our words still swirl all around
Whispers come and go
So clear that day
Some tomorrow other words
Blend with ours, their voices heard
And sometimes we heard our words that swirl and dance around

Chorus

All at once we turned our heads
To find each other looking in a different way
Laughter rang and people sang
But up above as night time fell
You ran away
So what do i do now
Secret mission seemed so strange somehow

It happened once it happened twice
I understood and took your love in anyway
Leaving in a new direction
Casual glances, take in every word you say
So special can't be told
Secret missions have you in their hold

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Leaving for rio, ships that pass in the night
Spent a long day together once
Your career at its height
It's so hard to miss you
When i don't even know your name
Never the same
Changes every day

I've heard them say that you're the best
You're never caught and can't be found
And that's the test
I understand just what they mean
I've turned around to see you vanish
Like a dream
Stood on a tightrope for so long
Secret meetings must go wrong

Chorus

Met a man with the answer to everything
Books and words from philsophers come
Analysed and he cut down a winter tree
To find the sun

Fell asleep, had a dream by the winter tree
Heard the snow fall and melt into spring
Saw the ice lose its hold
On the pale frost grass
To which it clings

Chorus:

Have you ever seen a better day
Though we follow many different ways
Though your mind may hold the winter time
Spring is never very far behind
In the summer under open skies
We'll see the sunshine, shine on
Take it easy live today today
We'll see the sunshine, shine on

When i woke there i was by the winter tree
Nothing changed but a thought in the air
Seasons turn, take their days
And in time, i'll take mine
I'll go back there

Chorus

Shine on
Take it easy live today today
We'll see the sunshine, shine on

You lie in peaceful slumbers
But yet so proud
So safe the second city
Houses reach the skyline and
Far below the narrow streets that sing
With the movement of the crowd

No break from daily changes
As life goes on
Secure as french men can be
Fill your time with love and wine
And in your heart you'll know as long as you
There will always be a song

Then on a winter's day
With your face against the cold and rain
In the wind there's changes
The rivers rise
The water grips the town - tears fill her eyes


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I'm standing here which way to go
The crossroads call, but they don't know
Midnight, caught inside
I'm standing here, could all be lost
The crossroads call
You've stood so long

It weaves the strangest picture
Of silky thread
The shadows cast reflection
Lyons as the water's bed
Trees that stand look straight ahead
And search for a sight of distant land

This was a winter's day
In your heart you felt the cold and rain
Change the wind to silence
There's not a sound
Silver patterns run and dance
Upon the ground

Chorus

A different smile upon her face
He's proud to be a part of it all
A welcome from the human race
A world so big and one that's so small
You see they've come so very far
But can't believe that's
The way it was planned
Just can't understand
That only angels have wings
With all the love they could give
Is this a fit place to live
Where only angels have wings

Through school days growing very fast
Today a boy, tomorrow a man
His roots set deeply in the past
It's hard but keep your head if you can
You see he's come so very far
But can't believe that's
The way it was planned
Just can't understand
That only angels have wings
Ambition so low with nowhere to go
As only angels have wings

Then suddenly an element of chance
Night falls on his town
The colours blend and dance
He's breaking in, no time to go back
There must be some way out
Making life easy - hear him shout it out

His father can't believe his ears
His mother stands with tears in her eyes
No child of theirs could be so wrong
Deep down inside a part of them dies
You see they tried so very hard
But just can't see that's
The way it was planned
Just can't understand
That only angels have wings
A part of our age, an action in rage
And only angels have wings

So far away, a time for second thought
Things seem much clearer now
The price for being caught
He longs for home and wants to go back
To how it was before
An ordinary person, happy to be born