The Wooden Cross

by David Sylvian

From the album: Gone to Earth

Track 11 of 17 on Gone to Earth (1986).

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Lyrics for The Wooden Cross

Oh, to be not anyone Gone this maze of being skin Oh, to cry not any cry So mournful that the dove just laughs the steadfast gasps Oh, to owe not anyone Nothing to be Not here but here Forsaking equatorial bliss Who walked through the callow mist Dressed in scraps Who walked the curve of the world Whose bone scraped, whose flesh unfurled Who grieves not, anyone gone to greet lame The inspired sky amazed to stumble Where God's get lost Beneath the southern cross

More from Gone to Earth

  1. Taking The Veil
  2. Laughter And Forgetting
  3. Before The Bullfight
  4. Gone To Earth
  5. Wave
  6. River Man
  7. Silver Moon
  8. The Healing Place
  9. Answered Prayers
  10. Where The Railroad Meets The Sea
  11. The Wooden Cross
  12. Silver Moon Over Sleeping Steeples
  13. Camp Fire: Coyote Country
  14. A Bird Of Prey Vanishes Into A Bright Blue Cloudless Sky
  15. Home
  16. Sunlight Seen Through Towering Trees
  17. Upon This Earth