Waiting To Happen

(music: marillion lyrics: steve hogarth)



I lie awake at night, listening to you sleeping

I hear the darkness breathe

And the rain against the window



After all this time

Cynical and jaded

All the stones are diamonds

All the blues are faded



Everything i've been through

All i've seen and heard

Spend to much of my life

In the spiritual third world

But you came and brought the rain here



Something waiting to happen

Something learning to fly

We can talk without talking

From inside to inside

I have waited to feel this

For the whole of my life



We took ourselves apart

We talked about our faces

You said you didn't like yours

I said i disagree



I keep the pieces separate

I clutch them in my coat

A jigsaw of an angel

I can do when i feel low



From emptiness and dryness

The famine of our days

Watch the heavens open

Wash it all away

You came and brought the rain here



Something waiting to happen

Something learning to fly

On the edge of exploding

Something wild and alive

Something waiting to happen

Anytime that you like

I have waited to feel this

For the whole of my life


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