david sylvian - before the bullfight

live at the hammersmith odeon, 30-05-1988 I hear your voice Way down inside A whispering sea Of towering trees But no reply A silence so rare And more than I can stand Sweeps like a flood Through life’s flesh and blood And steals away with it’s heart If I’m losing you Then there’s nothing more that I can say The fighting is on And battles are won Or thrown away But if I could live Safe and sound In God given fields Or mountains of steel Then here I’d stay Till you’d gone Guilty of stealing Every thought I own I will take my turn To fight the bullfight Every word’s sunk in deep Like the blades of a knife through my heart But my strength will return To fight the bullfight As time’s come to show I’m told nothing more than I should know A ship on the sea that threatens to leave But never goes This island of blue Where