[00:35]Lying on my bed, I was reading French
[00:38]With the light too bright for my senses
[00:43]From this hiding place life was way too much
[00:47]It was loud and rough round the edges
[00:51]So I faced the wall when an old man called
[00:55]Out of dreams that I would die there
[00:58]But a sight unseen, you were pulling strings
[01:03]You had a different idea
[01:07]I was like a child, I was lying strong
[01:10]And my father lifted me up there
[01:14]Took me to a place where they checked my body
[01:18]My soul was floating in thin-air
[01:22]I clung to the bed and I clung to the past
[01:26]I clung to the welcome darkness
[01:29]But at the end of the night there's a green green light
[01:34]The quiet before the madness
[01:37]There was a girl that sang like the chime of a bell
[01:41]And she put out her arm, she touched me when I was in hell
[01:48]When I was in hell
[01:53]Someone sang a song and I sang along
[01:57]Cause I knew the words from my childhood
[02:01]Intellect ambition they fell away
[02:04]And they locked me up for my own good
[02:08]But I didn't mind, cause the silence was kind
[02:12]It spoke to me in whispers
[02:16]There was the sound of the wind and the cold cold dawn
[02:19]And the quiet hum of business
[02:23]Let me dangle awhile in this waiting room
[02:27]I don't need to go I don't need to know what you're doing
[02:35]Know what you're doing
[03:10]Lying on my side you were half awake
[03:13]And your face was tired and crumpled
[03:18]If I had a camera I'd snap you now
[03:21]Cause there's beauty in every stumble
[03:25]We are out of practice we're out of sight
[03:29]On the edge of nobody's empire
[03:33]And if we live by books and we live by hope
[03:37]Does that make us targets for gunfire?
[03:41]Now I look at you, you're a mother of two
[03:45]You're a quiet revolution
[03:49]Marching with the crowd, singing dirty and loud
[03:53]For the people's emancipation
[03:56]Did I do okay, did I pave the way?
[04:01]Was I strong when you were wanting?
[04:04]I was tied to the yoke with a decent bloke
[04:08]Who was stern but never daunting
[04:12]And he told me to push and he made me feel well
[04:16]He told to me to leave that vision of hell to the dying
[04:23]Oh to the dying