Dead Bees On A Cake

David Sylvian Dead Bees On A Cake Lyrics
1.I Surrender

I opened up the pathway of the heart
The flowers died embittered from the start

That night i crossed the bridge of sighs and i surrendered

I looked back and glimpsed the outline of a boy
His life of sorrows now collapsing into joy

And tonight the stars are all aligned and i surrender
My mother cries beneath a southern sky and i surrender

Recording angels and the poets of the night
Bring back the trophies of the battles that we fight

Searchlights fill the open skies and i surrender

Outrageous cries of love have called me back
Derailed the trains of thought, demolished wayward tracks

You tell me i've no need to wonder why i just surrender

I stand too close to see the sleight of hand
How she found this child inside the frightened man

Tonight i'm learning how to fly and i surrender

I've travelled all this way for your embrace
Enraptured by the recognition on your face

Hold me now while my old life dies tonight and i surrender
My mother cries beneath the open skies and i surrender

An ancient evening just before the fall
The light in your eyes, the meaning of it all

Birds fly and fill the summer skies and i surrender

She throws the burning books into the sea
'come find the meaning of the word inside of me'

It's alright the stars are all aligned and i surrender
My mother cries beneath the moonlit skies and i surrender

My body turns to ashes in her hands
The disappearing world of footprints in the sand

Tell me now that this love will never die and i'll surrender
My mother cries beneath the open skies and i surrender


2.Dobro #1

I stole a life
With braids of fire
And it rained on my house
All summer

There never was any freedom here
All i feared the most came back around
And it rain on my house and it rained on my house
All summer


3.Midnight Sun

They've stolen the moon
The magic has gone
And there in this place
A black midnight sun
The darkness is frightening
And love is denied
They've stolen the moon
God only knows why

The stars have lost their daughter
The devil's thieves have won
And there in her place

A black midnight sun


4.Thalheim

Couldn't leave you if i tried
Couldn't weather this alone
And through the darkness you still provide
The sweetest love i've ever known

Take the shadow from the road i walk upon
Be my sunshine, sunshine
And in the emptiness
You look and find someone
The damage is undone
And love has made you strong
And heaven gave me mine, thalheim

The saddest words have come undone
Changing the very air i breathe
And miracles have just begun
In which only you and i believe

Take the shadow from the road i walk upon
Be my sunshine, sunshine
And in the weightlessness
You look and find someone
The damage is undone
And love has made you strong
Heaven gave me mine, thalheim

When i'm all at sea
You never let me down
I'll just keep coming back to you
'til i walk on solid ground
From the foothills to the mountains
On the waters of the rhine
Face to face in shahbagh gardens
In communion, out of time

Thalheim, thalheim

From the lilies of the valley
To the grapes upon the vine
The well of speculation
Is it his or hers or mine?

Thalheim, thalheim

In the everything and nothing
In disharmony and rhyme
In the sound of shot and echo
Who's the victim, what's the crime?
What's the crime?

Be my, be my sunshine

In the keening cries of evening
Unforgotten, underlined
We slipped into the water
Out of focus, out of time.


5.Alphabet Angel

It's later than i thought it was
The shadows long and lost
Circle through the room

Swear as i met your mother there
In new orleans
The sun was slipping into blue

The longest day is over
The longest day
My alphabet angels come out to play
Yeah


6.Krishna Blue

She's here in the snowfall
At dead of night
The mood is of courtship
The final fight
She's all that i need
All that i am
The voice of compassion inside the man

If you open the gates
The madness begins
I'll follow you down
I'll follow you back in
She's here in the lifelines
In every curve
Suspended in silence
Between each word

It's all in the way that she moves
The grace and the light that will see me through
It's coming true
She's prising the rope from my hands
The fear and the hopes that i held onto
It's coming true
Colour the river i swim back to you
Krishna blue

Waist deep in water
She starts to sing
The voice is familiar
And draws me in
She's lighting the fires
I dowsed by hand
Erasing the figure drawn in sand

You open the gates
The madness begins
I follow you down
I follow you back in
And here in the darkness
The boundary gone
The flame is alive
And burning strong
It's all in the way that she moves
The grace and the light that will see me through
It's coming true
Colour the river i swim back to you
Krishna blue

In the softest belly
And the warmest heart
In your open hands
I lay my head
In the never ending
I fall apart
In the silent forest
And the brilliant red
And through the stream of words
There comes a sound
And i listen
Child like
To her voice
Spellbound

It's all in the way that she moves
The grace and the light that will see me through
It's coming true
She's prising the rope from my hands
The fear and the hopes that i held onto
It's coming true
Colour the river i swim back to you
Krishna blue


7.The Shining Of Things

Take my word for it
This never should have happened
What in the world d'ya think
Got into me

We fire at will
And as we watch the pieces shatter
We find were closer
Than we've ever been

She calls my name and i come running
I have lost the voice i listened too
And in the blindness
As my world stops turning
Theres a sadness like i never knew
But i still see the shining of things

As the morning breaks
It hardly seems to matter
I hear a shallowness
In everything i say

We've played the night out
In all too familiar fashion
To wear the heart-ache
Through another day

She calls my name and i come running
I have lost the voice i listened too
And there's a stillness now
The rain's stopped falling

Theres a sadness like i never knew
But i see the shining of things


8.Cafe Europa

They fired off the first shot
So we're on our feet and running
We're re-writing all the textbooks
In the process of becomming
There's so much to live for
If we stop putting up a fight
There's a place for every story
And this one starts with us tonight

Let me take you down
To cafe europa
There's so much to be found
So much to discover
Let me take you down
To cafe europa
There's so much to be found
I won't let you dowm

We're travelling by moonlight
From london to the highlands
We lose ourselves in inner cities
In the hope of re-defining
The space that surrounds us
What an emptiness within
It's all in the papers
The boy's in love again

Always arriving
Headlights lit up from coast to coast
Empty days full to bursting
With the names of the people and places
We miss the most

I'm taking the last train
Flying the last flight
I'm calling on the angels
And letting in the sunlight

Let me take you down
To cafe europa
There's so much to be found
So much to discover
Let me take you down
To cafe europa
There's so much to be found
I won't let you dowm
I won't let you down

Let me take you down
To cafe europa
To cafe europa
Theres so much to be found
So much to discover
Let me take you down
Cafe europa
Cafe europa

It's the heart that has been broken
Finds the truth in what is spoken
Cafe europa
Cafe europa
Let me take you down


9.Pollen Path


10.All Of My Mother's Names


11.Wanderlust


12.Praise


13.Darkest Dreaming

Stay tonight
We'll watch the full moon rising
Hold on tight
The sky is breaking
I don't ever want to be alone
With all my darkest dreaming
Hold me close
The sky is breaking

I don't ever want to be alone
With all my darkest dreaming
Hold me close
The sky is breaking