UP
THE DOWNSTAIR
1993 |
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What
You Are Listening To...
[Written by Steven Wilson] [Instrumental] |
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Synesthesia
[Written by Steven Wilson]
I'm
sending you a letter
Because I don't think there's much time
Time to lear the cobwebs
Time to bear the crime
It's
only a number
It's only a death
Another soldier died in action
The telegram regrets
I'm
lying on a stretcher
They're lyring to my face
There's no-one left to help me
I'm just a waste of space
It's
a matter of moments
I'll be dead before you've read
There's blood on the table
And my back is full of lead
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Monuments
Burn Into Moments
[Written by Steven Wilson] [Instrumental] |
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Always
Never
[Lyrics - Alan Duffy / Music - Steven Wilson]
I
feel no pain
Cos I'm an island
I will remain
In the deafness of your silence
I
love you sometimes
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Up
the Downstair
[Written by Steven Wilson]
Sleep
Until the colours dissolve
Leave the dream to rain-soak forever
In blessed moments
Viewed from trains of half-truths
Monuments
burn into moments
Up into other worlds
Other ascensions
Without deep sorrow to endure
Black
Sunday of sleep
Open for small angel escapes
Moved by buildings to tears
They week in the rain
Am I at home?
Am I in heaven?
Gentle Architecture
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Not
Beautiful Anymore
[Written by Steven Wilson] [Instrumental] |
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Siren
[Written by Steven Wilson] [Instrumental] |
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Small
Fish
[Lyrics - Alan Duffy / Music - Steven Wilson]
The
first thing that I saw as,
the fisherman smiled at me
Were empty people dressed in grey,
floating out to sea
The rain lashed down in darkness
A lizard blinked an eye
And time stopped in the silence
The small fish gave a cry
The
next thing that I saw as,
things were fading fast
Were dreams of children's laughter,
smouldering to dust
The rain lashed down in darkness
A lizard blinked an eye
And time stopped in the silence
The small fish gave a cry
The
last thing that I saw as, my life passed by
Were fields of empty people, laying down to
die
The rain lashed down in darkness
A lizard blinked an eye
And time stopped in the silence
To watch the burning sky
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Burning
Sky
[Written by Steven Wilson] [Instrumental] |
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Fadeaway
[Lyrics - Alan Duffy / Music - Steven Wilson]
I
sat in the room with a view
The girl in the photograph knew
Can't you see?
Why is she laughing at me?
I
stumbled through the dark unaware
The face in the hall isn't there
Tomorrow has gone
Where do the voices come from?
Watching
the leaves as they blew
Lost in the room with a view
Climb the walls
You did not know me at all
I
fell through a hole in the floor
The audience cried out for more
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