Seance

Like a womb, night was all around
Someone, somewhere must have talked some sense
I could feel it moving underground
So many things i still don't understand
The dream i was having took on an ugly face
I don't know if i was walking through heaven
It could have been any place
Skipping 'cross the water, wading through the sand
Awake to find you gone, emptiness is where you lay
I just had to smile for all the things you'll never hear me say
Oh, i know, i could never get that near
What do you expect me to do, disappear?
You and me, we're as free as we can be
Can't you see, like the trees so obviously...
The message disturbs me so i throw it to the wind
And after all the hellos good-byes etc. etc.


We can't start this thing again
It's like the fog you walk towards, but never seem to reach
Every morning now i hear that same old song
And though the singer is long dead, his voice goes on and on
Ugliness you have to learn, beauty you can't teach
Awake to find you gone, a note pinned to my sleeve
It wasn't just the things you took
It was the things you had to leave
Now it seems you were never here
What do you expect me to do, disappear?

I know it was the wind that kept your door closed
The echo of another time, an age of beauty
She lived in the future, she lived in the past
She gave it all to me, she gave it all to me
Travel by thought
Don't think i've forgotten the thoughts of your room
It told unlikely tales, an age of beauty
Some nights i walk through the heat to your street
I lose my bearings, but i can see clearly
Travel by thought
Where do you want to go?
Imagine the feeling before that last jump
Come back to mother earth, an age of beauty
Oh you just can't define, the sad things in your mind
Just give them all to me
Travel by thought
Who do you want?
What do you want?
How do you want it?
Why do you want to go?
Anywhere that ignorant
Travel by thought
Who do you want?
Where do you want to go?
Don't think i've forgotten
The stranger's arms
That scares the bird that carries home dinner
Into the eggshell arms of the eggshell earth
Don't think i've forgotten


Don't think i'll keep that promise


Don't think i've forgotten
Travel by thought
Intercontinental intelligence

Tell me, is everything unplanned?
It's all so unexpected that i just can't understand
We run so hard and always end up in the same place
"glad that went so smoothly" well that never is the case


One day the darkest cloud is bright
Who will shake away the shadows of eternal night
It's just the storm before the calm
Like the life held in your palm - it's clay, one day


And you stand there, with ashes blowing past
Dipping into gilt-edged love that will be made at last
And the gold you spend and the hastening end
That you throw into the sea
Coming back a hundredfold, there's no guarantee


We'll walk and be like giants, we'll all be honest men
I go back to my blindness so that i may see again
A woman standing on a hill is gazing out to sea
Dreaming of a new age waiting there for me
I call her from a distance and she smiles into the sun
And men and gods begin their dance, for their time has begun
And holy wars extended and battlefields of pain
Washed away, forgotten in the perfect rain
Princes, kings and humble things are well-worn and content
Messengers come everywhere, envoys have been sent
"na na na na, na na na na na
A palm tree nodded at me last night he said
'hey you look so pale.' "

Sinking silk, and burning gold
Touch you as the air is turning cold
Another place i look for you
The heights above an almost perfect view
Seeing things just rest a while
As the tide sweeps out another mile
Inside the man, the pleasure dome
This is the world that i once called home
Strangers in their naked skin
Waiting for their sweet oblivion
Close to you, hear all you say
Even though you're continents away
The perfumed air, the taste of fear
Shrug your shoulders and they disappear
Take this gift and let it grow
Let it be all the hope you know
It doesn't change

In a moment of triumph, i find defeat uncontrolled
In the second of honor, a despair sharp and old
She gives me a taste, please show me some etiquette
I wasn't looking for you and i don't want to find you yet
At an uncurtained window, in a street full of rooms
Watching the gardens, and pursuing the blooms
This world is so white, they never see me anymore
But i trusted you then, and i'm trusting you still
It's just that i'm not quite sure
Now i wonder why, i thought i could ever lose
But the gain is hardly what i'd choose
Now i wonder why
It was somebody, a woman, it was a delicate crime
And i've been waiting for ages, yes i've been here all the time
There was this greed in my blood, she let me take the easy way
She helps me hide the vagabond, that was myself yesterday
And after the acting, i found that i couldn't sleep
And during my drifting, i found that i was too deep
By the virtue of faith
I knew that i could be lost
Beyond this dark place
Unprepared to pay the cost