Upon This Earth Lyrics

The song Upon This Earth is performed by David Sylvian in the album named Gone to Earth in the year 2007 .



Looking by chance in at the open window
I saw my own self seated in his chair
With gaze abstracted, furrowed forehead, unkempt hair

I thought that I had suddenly come to die
That to a cold corpse this was my farewell
Until the pen moved slowly upon paper and tears fell

He had written a name, yours, in printed letters
One word on which bemusedly to pore
No protest, no desire, your naked name, nothing more

Would it be tomorrow, would it be next year?
But the vision was not false, this much I knew
And I turned angrily from the open window, aghast at you

Why never a warning, either by speech or look
That the love you cruelly gave me could not last?
Already it was too late, the bait swallowed the hook fast



David Sylvian - Gone to Earth

Apr 2007

  1. Taking the Veil
  2. Laughter and Forgetting
  3. Before the Bullfight
  4. Gone to Earth
  5. Wave
  6. River Man
  7. Silver Moon
  8. Camp Fire: Coyote Country [Remix]
  9. Healing Place
  10. Answered Prayers
  11. Where the Railroad Meets the Sea
  12. Wooden Cross
  13. Silver Moon Over Sleeping Steeples
  14. Bird of Prey Vanishes into a Bright Blue Cloudless Sky
  15. Home
  16. Sunlight Seen Through Towering Trees
  17. Upon This Earth

Upon This Earth