Rain Tree Crow

David Sylvian Rain Tree Crow Lyrics
1.Big Wheels In Shanty Town

Dolphin, faced for the crime
The birthday of time


2.Every Colour You Are

I touched his hand
Burned like coal
Put pay to the devil
And saw the mountain fall

Feel like crying
The jokes gone to far
You can be anything you want
Every colour you are

Family man
His patience tried
Put a torch to his home
And warmed his hands by the fire
The greed of desire

My roads uncrossed
White lined and tarred
By believing in you
Every colour you are


3.Rain Tree Crow

I see the world
With a heart that knows
In shadow play
Rain
Tree
Crow

I put no trust in mile stones
Disparate hopes
Halfway homes

I share the world with one who knows
The light still shines
In shadow play
Rain
Tree
Crow


4.Pocket Full Of Change

She brings me water
Sweeter than wine
Lost in the moment
Summertime

Counting the hours
Beating our time
Shallow as any heart
I could hope to find

Move with the water
Drift with the tide
With no regrets
To keep ghosts alive

When she smiles
She smiles for me
Life runs out
Like a pocketful of change
Time runs out
Like a pocket full of change

Here comes the morning
Blind and tired
Pulled by the undertow
This world of mine
This world is mine

When she cries
She cries for me
Life runs out
Like a pocketful of change
Time runs out
Like a pocket full of change


5.Blackwater

Hold you in
A sea of silence
On the borderline of truth
Open violence
I see no sign
I see no place i've loved
Depending on the signs
To fine the road

Blackwater take me with you
To the place that i have spoken
Come lead me through the darkness
To the light that i long to see again

I walk with you
But sleep beside her
The summer came and went
It passes us over

I see her cry
I see the face i have loved
Depending on the blind
To find the road

Blackwater take me with you
To the place that i have spoken
Come lead me through the morning
For the land that i long to see again


6.Black Crow Hits Shoe Shine City

The beat of his wings on the moon never tire
As black crow descends stealing somebody else's fire
Suffering is no cause for pity
As black crow hits shoe shine city
God's burned his wings
Struck dumb for his crimes
A black crow descends on shoe shine city


7.Cries And Whispers

Shattered dreams on a bed of lies
Now my love dies and cries
Cries and whispers

My heart grew wing under desert skies
Now my love dies and cries
Cries and whispers

And my heart sings of many things
In cries and whispers