Meddle

songteksten

Songs:

01. One of these Days

01. One of these Days

On of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces

A cloud of eiderdown draws around me

Softening the sound

Sleepy time when I lie with my love by my side

And she's breathing low, and the candle dies

When night comes down you lock the door

The book falls to the floor

As darkness falls and waves roll by

The seasons change the wind is warm

Now wakes the owl, now sleeps the swan

Behold a dream, the dream is gone

Green fields, a cold rain

Is falling in a golden dawn

And deep beneath the ground the early morning sounds

And I go down

Sleeping time when I lie with my love by my side

And she's breathing low

And I rise like a bird

In the haze when the first rays touch the sky

And the night winds die

You say the hill's too steep to climb, climbing

You say you'd like to se me try, climbing

You pick the place and I'll choose the time

And I'll climb the hill in my own way

Just wait a while for the right day

And as I rise above the tree-line and the clouds

I look down hearing the sound

Of the things you've said today

Fearlessly the idiot faced the crowd, smiling

Merciless the magistrate turns round, frowning

And who's the fool who wears the crown

No doubt in your own way

And every day is the right day

And as you rise above the fear-lines in his brow

You look down hear the sound of the faces in the crowd

As I reach for a peach

Slide a line down behind a sofa in San Tropez

Breaking a stick with a brick on the sand

Riding a wave in the wake of an old sedan

Sleeping alone in the drone of the darkness

Scratched by the sand that fell from my love

Deep in my dreams and I still hear her calling

If you're alone, I'll come home

Backward and homebound, the pigeon, the dove

Gone with the wind and the rain on an airplane

Born in a home with no silver spoon

I'm drinking champagne like a good tycoon

Sooner than wait for a break in the weather

I'll gather my far flung thoughts together

Speeding away on a wind to a new day

If you're alone, I'll come home

And I'll pause for a while by a country stile

And listen to the things they say

Digging for gold in a hole in my hand

Open the book, take a look at the way things stand

And you're leading me down to the place by the sea

I hear your soft voice calling to me

Making a date for later by phone

And if you're alone, I'll come home

I was in the kitchen

Seamus, that's the dog, was outside

Well I was in the kitchen

Seamus, my old hound, was outside

Well you know the sun was sinking slowly

And my old hound-dog sat right down and cried

Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air

And deep beneath the rolling waves

In labyrinths of coral caves

The echo of a distant time

Comes willowing across the sand

And everything is green and submarine

And no-one showed us to the land

And no-one knows the where or whys

But something stirs and something tries

And starts to climb towards the light

Strangers passing in the street

By chance two separate glances meet

And I am you and what I see is me

An do I take you by the hand

And lead you through the land

And help me understand the best I can

And no-one calls us to move on

And no-one forces down our eyes

And no-one speaks and no-one tries

And no-one flies around the sun

Cloudless everyday you fall upon my waking eyes

Inviting and inciting me to rise

And through the window in the wall

Come streaming in on sunlight wings

A million bright ambassadors of morning

And no-one sings me lullabies

And no-one makes me close my eyes

And so I throw the windows wide

And call to you across the sky