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                         [Sylvian & Fripp - Damage]

       © 1993 by Opium (Arts) Ltd. / Crimson Music for all countries.
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                                   Damage
                        David Sylvian & Robert Fripp

                                   Damage

                               I found the way
                         By the sound of your voice
                            So many things to say
                          But these are only words
                             Now I've only words
                           Once there was a choice

                             And I want to love

                            Did I give you much?
                           Well you gave me things
                          You gave me stars to hold
                                Songs to sing

                           I only want to be loved

                            And I hurt and I hurt
                           And the damage is done
                          You gave me songs to sing
                               Shadow and sun

                             Why didn't I stay?
                               Why couldn't I?
                           So many lives to cross
                          Well I just had to leave
                            There goes everything
                                 Everything

                            Can I meet you there?
                             God knows the place
                          And I'll touch your hand
                               Kiss your face

                          We only want to be loved
                          We only want to be loved

                            And I want to be love

                            And I hurt and I hurt
                           And the damage is done
                          You gave me songs to sing
                               Shadow and sun
                            Earthbound, starblind
                               Tied to someone

                                The First Day

                             Bring out the stars
                             And fade to silence
                            Let the heart decide
                              and watch it grow

                             Ring out the bells
                            Trading in blindness
                              Fooled by kisses
                              Touched by wings

                                 Shadow-fall
                          And water fills the room
                          Bathed in moon grey blue

                        Baby came and spoke her name
                         With promises to call again
                      Swimming gold in a blackened sea
                               She troubles me
                               She troubles me

                              Counting the ways
                           To fall without landing
                            Stumbling into flight
                              Descent and slide

                              Compressing sound
                            From coal to diamond
                           Words are knotted tight
                             To chords that bind

                                 Shadow-fall
                          And water fills the room
                          Bathed in moon grey blue

                        Baby came and spoke her name
                         With promises to call again
                     Swimming gold in a shipwrecked sea
                               She troubles me
                               She troubles me

                  Received by the eye, believed by the word
             Be seen to make haste, when the soundings are heard
                             Don't discourage me

                   Whittling down the wood with the stone
                 If the boundary breaks I'm no longer alone
                             Don't discourage me

                             Bring out the stars
                              On the first day
                                The first day
                                The first day

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                           Originally compiled by
                 Curtis C. Hovey (chovey@access.digex.net).

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