1. TRANSLATION

I waited all through winter
For a spring that didn't come
You said you knew a window
That always faced the sun
You showed me every season
You always were my kind
You gave me every reason
For the things I tried to hide

You gave so much so gladly
You didn't make me choose
In all the time you've taught me
I never learned to lose
But now the lesson's over
Your teachings all are done
The only thing you left me
Is a summer without sun


2. EQUALS

So you sent me on my way
And I came upon the strangest people
All of them with worn-out reasons
And they persuaded me to stay
And they persuaded me to share myself

I came so far, I came to learn
And they told me of my isolation
Gave me gifts that had no value
And I returned all I possessed
And then they showed me how to give myself

All men are my equals now
I see myself in everyone
And everyone can see themselves in me
And I can show you how to lose yourself

Now left alone, I lose control
I find myself without protection
In my weakness you support me
For should one fall, so will we all
And then they showed me how to save myself for them


3. AN APPOINTMENT WITH THE MASTER

She leaves instructions on her doorstep
And they say, do not disturb her
And you tell yourself she's sleeping
But secretly she's keeping
An appointment with her master
Who wears gold upon his fingers
And puts silver in your pocket

Come the morning she's still sleeping
And you think an explanation
Might be useful for the future
But she just looks as if to tell you
That if you really want an answer
To the question that you're asking
Ask the master
If you really want an answer
Make an appointment with the master

So I went to see the master
And he said that there's no need to be
An everlasting loser
You take her and you use her
And pay very close attention
To the manners and the movements
Of your lord and loving master

Then he led me into darkness
And I felt that I was falling
And I said, can I be dreaming?
No, I know I am not sleeping
For my eyes were being opened
My imagination tutored
By my lord and loving master

Then she showed me to her table
And we dined before the master
And his blood was like a living wine
And I saw no need to ask her
For my manners and my movements
Were those that I had studied
From my lord and loving master


4. THE SETTLEMENT SONG

At the time
And for all that you said
I was someone, I thought, that you knew
All gone, my mind
A child I am
Give me your eyes
To see the man I see
A stranger

Please take my life
It's all I can give
All that I have to show for myself
Please take my life

Losing my life, I find myself
Closer to you, I know myself
Help me to know you

Losing my life
Changing my mind
How can I find a way to know you?

A stranger I am
You say that you saw me before
I saw myself

You say you can help me to help myself
You say you can help
You say you can help me to see myself
Oh you say you can see I can't help myself
I can't help myself
I can't see myself

Why don't you take my life?
Why don't you take my life?
Why don't you take my life
Now that I know myself?

Free from my mind, the child I knew
Lost in your world, so far from you
And still a stranger


5. LONG TIME LIVING

Life was a daydream
Living in my song
Now there's no laughter
And life seems so long

Someone was friendly
Somewhere a smile
Now there is no-one
And life's not worthwhile

Dying is easy
Like closing your eyes
If death is the answer
Then few are the wise


6. STRANGESTILL

How long have I been living here?
No-one can tell me
How often you've seen me
Yet no-one can know me

Sometimes I can almost see you near me
I can feel you
I can almost hear you call me

How long were you waiting for me
Calling to me, "How I need you"
Now I know you, take me to your world

I'm all alone even though I know you're here
The world has closed, all is dark, I have no fear
No-one knows me now I am you


7. COME ALL YE FACELESS

Soldier, we'll wait for you
Wait for you alone
People will pray for you
Where you belong
Soldier, you fight for us
You won't be gone
Seeking victorious
Glorious and strong

Death your communion
Blood is your wine
Wasted your epitaph
Your agony (.....)
Lost is your memory
Forgotten your name
No one can question us
There's no one to blame


BONUSTRACK (RE-ISSUE 1990)


8. THE SLIGHTEST DISTANCE

And we are young
In a world where people never change
And if they grow apart
Then pride is the distance of their age
And if I'd spoken out of turn
And watched you walk away
I'd see the same faces I've seen before
But I'd see them in a different way
Without speaking, without a word
I watched you grow away
And move amongst the faces I've seen before
But now I see them every day

How far you can go
(.................)
The people you saw there
The words that they say
They all sound the same

You go out on your own
You try to look for a friend
So far from the people
They watch you walk by
They don't even know you
They won't even try

Try, try, try
The closer you are
The less you can see
The further you go
The less you will know
The more you must (feel?)

Try, try, try
To go out on your own
Try to look for a friend
So far from the people
You watch me walk by
You don't even know me
You won't even try
Try

Look for someone
Someone friendly, anyone at all
All these people
Are they really everyone the same?

Well, well, well
Fancy meeting you here
Is there nowhere else to go?


9. DONNA

Donna, you won't leave me
You won't leave me
I know why
Without me to bring you comfort
You'd live in darkness
And there you'd die
And Donna speaks of leaving
It's not that easy

And Donna comes to the graveyard
Still dressed in mourning
And calls my name
And sometimes she hears an answer
But now the voices
All sound the same
And Donna, she speaks of leaving
It's not that easy

And you stay, but you say
You're wasting time
And you go, but you know
You're tasting wine
And there's still so much
You'd like to learn

Donna, you won't leave me
You won't leave me
And I know why
You stay here, so close to leaving
I know there's less reason
Each time you try
And Donna, she speaks of leaving
It's not that easy


10. A THOUSAND PAGES BEFORE

They say I was found in your garden
Asleep in the rain by your door
In my hand was a note
Can't explain what I wrote
Or why the words that you read
Should be something I said
A thousand pages before

When I wanted to learn and you taught me
You told me to write and I wrote
Page after page
I poured out my rage
In each line and each verse
And each kiss and each curse
Can be read in the rhymes that I wrote

Now it's cold and I'm tired and I'm lonely
There's no sleep to be found like before
I go out in the night
Just to sit there and write
The words that you see
And I think there must be
A thousand pages or more

And I'm lost, lost like I'm blind
She's not the kind of girl who would guide you
You're trapped, and the key is your mind
That's when you find she's turned it forever

So I drank 'til the bottle was empty
And the pages all strewn on the floor
But the words still remain
As if engraved on my brain
Was each line and each verse
And each kiss and each curse
I wrote a thousand pages before