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
- Taking the Veil
- Laughter and Forgetting
- Before the Bullfight
- Gone to Earth
- Wave
- River Man
- Silver Moon
- Camp Fire: Coyote Country [Remix]
- Healing Place
- Answered Prayers
- Where the Railroad Meets the Sea
- Wooden Cross
- Silver Moon Over Sleeping Steeples
- Bird of Prey Vanishes into a Bright Blue Cloudless Sky
- Home
- Sunlight Seen Through Towering Trees
- Upon This Earth