Dimming of the Day

By Richard Thompson

This old house is falling down around my ears

I'm drowning in a river of my tears

When all my will is gone, you hold me sway

I need you at the dimming of the day.

Come the night you're only what I want

Come the night you could be my confidant

Ooh ooh ooh - ooh ooh ooh - ooh ooh ooh!

I see you on the streets in company

Why don't you come and ease your mind with me?

Now all the bonny birds have wheeled away

I need you at the dimming of the day.

You pull me like the moon pulls on the tide

You know just where I keep my better side

Ooh ooh ooh - ooh ooh ooh - ooh ooh ooh!

What days have come to keep us far apart?

A broken promise or a broken heart?

 I'm ready for the night we steal away

I need you at the dimming of the day.

I need you at the dimming of the day.

Smile

By David Gilmour/Polly Samson

Would this do
To make it alright
Once he has taken you
from out of sight
I'll make my getaway
Time on my hands
search for a better way
to find my way home
to your smile
smile

wasting days and days
on this fight
always down, and up half the night
hopeless to reminice
through the dark hours
we only sarcrifice
what time will alow us
you're sighing
sighing
sighing

(nice guitar break with backing 
singers singing "sighing")

all alone
though your right here
now it's time to go
from your sad stare
I'll make my getaway
time on my own
leaving's a better way
to find my way home to your smile
smile
smile

Hushabye Mountain

From the cheesy-but-lovely children's classic, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

A gentle breeze from Hushabye Mountain

Softly blows over Lullaby Bay

It fills the sails of boats that are waiting

Waiting to sail your worries away.

It isn't far to Hushabye Mountain

And your boat waits down by the quay

The winds of night so softly are sighing

Soon they will fly your troubles to sea.

So close your eyes on Hushabye Mountain

Wave goodbye to cares of the day

And watch your boat from Hushabye Mountain

Sail far away from Lullaby Bay.

Je Crois Entendre Encore

By Georges Bizet (from The Pearl Fisher)

Je crois entendre encore

Caché sous les palmiers

Sa voix tendre et sonore

Comme un chant de ramiers.

Oh nuit enchanteresse

Divin ravissement

Oh souvenir charmant,

Folle ivresse, doux rêve!

Aux clartés des étoiles

Je crois encor la voir

Entr'ouvrir ses longs voiles

Aux vents tièdes du soir.

Oh nuit enchanteresse

Divin ravissement

Oh souvenir charmant

Folle ivresse, doux rêve!

Charmant Souvenir!

Charmant Souvenir!

Sonnet 18

William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

Breakthrough

Richard Wright 1996

I can take or leave it, won't be the woebegone,
Don't need a model universe to hang your pictures on.
You hide somewhere, you die somewhere
And then this senseless thought,
By hating more you're feeling more
And that's how you get caught.

They're never going to make it easy
Of this you can be sure.
I greet you from your wilderness,
I'll stay inside your door.

There is no cage or prison, they have no fence too tall,
You die more times than anyone, there's still no place to fall.

They're never going to keep it simple
This comes down from above.
I have no helm, no secret realm,
I dream to be at the heart of love, a part of love.

I bet you can conceal it, but that's just a dead-end track,
I'll cover you like the driven snow and then I'll bring you back.
You'll see! you feel like, you feel like a banner,
Unfurled and gently blown,
And there before your opening eyes
The self you've never known.

They're never going to make it easy
Of this you can be sure
You feel untied, beatified
And loved for evermore.

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