Mojim Lyrics
Mojim Lyrics > Americas singers > David Sylvian( David Alan Batt ) > David Sylvian Gone To Earth > Upon This Earth

David Sylvian( David Alan Batt )

Lyrics
Album list
Singer Intro
David Sylvian( David Alan Batt )

Upon This Earth

(voice of j. g. bennet)

Looking by chance in at the open window
I saw my own self seated in his chair
With gaze abstracted, furrowed forehead,
Unkempt hair.

I thought that i had suddenly come to die,
That to a cold corpse this was my farewell,
Until the pen moved slowly upon paper
And tears fell.

He had written a name, yours, in printed letters:
One word on which bemusedly to pore
Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com
No protest, no desire, your naked name,
Nothing more.

Would it be tomorrow, would it be next year?
But the vision was not false, this much i knew;
And i turned angrily from the open window
| agahst at you.

Why never a warning, either by speech or look,
That the love you cruelly gave me could not last?
Already it was too late: the bait swallowed,
The hook fast