Faithful Departed
(专辑: The Time Has Come - 1983)
This graveyard hides a
million secrets And the
trees know more than they can tell The
ghosts of the
saints and the
scholars will haunt you In heaven and in hell Rattled by the
glimmer man, the
boogie man, the
holy man And living in the
shadows, in the
shadows of a
gunman Rattled like the
coppers in your greasy till Rattled until time stood still Look over your shoulder, hear the
school bell ring Another day of made-to-measure history I
don't care if your heroes have wings Your terrible beauty has been torn Faithful departed, we fickle hearted As you are now so once were we Faithful departed, we the
meek hearted With graces imparting bring flowers to thee The
girls in the
kips proclaim their love for you When you stumbled in they knew you had a
shilling or two They cursed you on Sundays and holy days of abstinence When you all stayed away When you slept there a
naked bulb hid your shame Your shadows on the
wall, they took all the
blame The
Sacred Heart's picture, compassion in his eyes Drowned out the
river of sighs Let the
grass grow green over the
brewery tonight It'll never come between the
darkness and the
light There is no pain that can't be eased By the
devil's holy water and the
rosary beads You're a
history book I
never could write Poetry in paralysis, too deep to recite Dress yourself, bless yourself, you've won the
fight We're gonna celebrate the
night We'll even climb the
pillar like you always meant to Watch the
sun rise over the
strand Close your eyes and we'll pretend It could somehow be the
same again I'll bury you upright so the
sun doesn't blind you You won't have to gaze at the
rain and the
stars Sleep and dream of chapels and bars And whiskey in the
jar Faithful departed, look what you've started An underdog's wounds aren't so easy to mend Faithful departed, there's no brokenhearted And no more tristesse in your world without end