Wonderful Remark Lyrics

How can you stand the silence
That pervades when we all cry?
How can you watch the violence
That erupts before your eyes?

How can you tell us something
Just to keep us hangin' on?
Somethin' that just don't mean nothing
When we see it you are gone

Clinging to some other rainbow
While we're standing, waiting in the cold
Tellin' us the same old story
Knowin' time is growin' old

That was a wonderful remark
I had my eyes closed in the dark
I sighed a million sighs
I told a million lies to myself, to myself

How can we listen to you
When we know your talk is cheap?
How can we ever question
Why we give more and you keep?

How can your empty laughter
Fill a room like ours with joy
When you're only playing with us
Like a child does with a toy?

How can we ever feel the freedom
Or the flame lit by the spark?
How can we ever come out even
When reality is stark?

That was a wonderful remark
I had my eyes closed in the dark, yeah
I sighed a million sighs
I told a million lies to myself, to myself

Baby, to myself
Baby, to myself
To myself, to myself
To myself

Van Morrison - The Philosopher's Stone

Jun 1998

1. Really Don't Know
2. Ordinary People
3. Wonderful Remark
4. Not Supposed To Break Down
5. Laughing In The Wind
6. Madame Joy
7. Contemplation Rose
8. Don't Worry About Tomorrow
9. Try For Sleep
10. Lover's Prayer
11. Drumshanbo Hustle
12. Twilight Zone
13. Foggy Mountain Top
14. Naked In The Jungle
15. There There Child
16. John Henry
17. Western Plain
18. Joyous Sound
19. I Have Finally Come To Realise
20. Flamingoes Fly
21. Stepping Out Queen Part 2
22. Street Theory
23. Showbusiness
24. For Mr. Thomas
25. Crazy Jane On God
26. Song Of Being A Child
27. High Spirits