The Seventh House
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To be where once they met
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One who comes to lay the past to rest inside
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One who can't forget
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Yesterday the heroes of the hour
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Who survived those who fought and lost
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Standing at the moment of release they pause
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To count the dreadful cost
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My life is out of condition
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I've held it together myself the best I can
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I'll never feel this way again
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After all this time we've been apart
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Still now I wonder where you are
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No-one understands how close you came to us
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No-one knows how far
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This time it's harder than ever
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I've weathered the storm and I kept you safe and warm
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I'll never feel this way again
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Oh, my angel in black water
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All your heartache soon be over
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Oh, my baby, rest you well
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Cathedral that man created, you're weighted down by a jealous sound
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Bewildered and dislocated, your soul deflated and gone to ground
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Nobody, no final direction, no way to connect in this heavier state
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The lives that we never remember are heading us out to another mistake
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It's with me, it's waiting for me as Heaven is calling us to our knees
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And there in the seventh house lie the seventy-five figures such as these
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I'm all out of random
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Sentenced by madmen who have abandoned me
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What chance of survival?
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I've had an eyeful more than I cared to see
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And if I forget you or if I let you fall under someone's spell
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Nobody can blame you, put out the flame, you kept it alive so well
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What web are we weaving?
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Nothing achieving, are you receiving me?
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So far out in the ocean, stuck in emotion on an unending sea
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And if you forget me, don't ever let me under your broken wing
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Nobody can know you kept it below you, I never felt a thing
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What a way to go
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How did all the dreaming in my life arrive at such a bitter end?
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On the rooftops draped in black, denial stopped me in my tracks
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By the fearful light of dusk, this position I defend
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All around the sky is cracked, won't somebody send me back?
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Fourteen hundred hours, won't forget that day
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Coal-black sky, the earth a hundred shades of grey
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In the aftermath, as silent as the grave
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I alone remained, no other soul was saved
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Faces turning over
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Limbs that shake without a conscious kind of movement now
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For all their tomorrows we gave our last day today
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In a future all their own
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Documents reveal patriotic zeal
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Singing to remember, drinking to forget the lie
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All the name beyond recall
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Empty politics in houses one to six
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Locked and barred against the memory
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My life is out of condition
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I've held it together myself the best I can
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I'll never feel this way again, again
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These are the lives we are measured by
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Heaven help us to answer why
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Every minute of every day they die
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Waiting and wondering all alone
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Silent voices across the land
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Speak in tongues they can never understand
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Nameless and wandering far from home
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Always held in the seventh house
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Everything we inherit now's the same
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The Seventh House
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