Upon This Earth

by David Sylvian

From the album: Gone to Earth

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

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Lyrics for 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 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 Aghast 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

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