Pianos and Clocks

[Verse 1]

Well, hello there, sweet to see you

Like your colour, how you doin'?

I've been battered and bewildered

In the beauty of your ruins

Flash, flash and I am blinded

By the fact that you've been born

Feels like fiction

Life goes on

Brown eyes are gone

[Verse 2]

Silence is a virtue

I was taught so I agreed

Conversation half forgotten

Is the hole I hold in me

And all our language and expression

Is decimated by decree

The sound of song

Dies in the dawn

Brown eyes are gone

[Bridge]

Descended slowly on the steps of the cathedral

Where I kissed you

Remembered candles lit with meaning I imposed

But that escaped you

With your brown eyes and your blue jeans

I heard the chiming of the clocks

Kick out the shifting, shuffling rhythm of your docs

[Verse 3]

Hit the road with my compadre

Saw the city incomplete

We were tossed and torn and tumbled

In your famous foreign streets

I felt so fearless and forgotten

No one numbered nothing neat

The sun has shone

We still belong

Brown eyes are gone

[Verse 4]

So farewell then, señorita

Pianos played and set the tone

I was singin' like a servant

To the tune of telephones

I wish you freedom and forgiveness

And a time that is your own

Blue is the colour

Mine's the moment

Brown eyes are gone

Blue is the colour

Mine's the moment

Brown eyes are gone