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MEDDLE - 1971

  1. One of These Days
  2. A Pillow of Winds
  3. Fearless
  4. San Tropez
  5. Seamus
  6. Echoes

ONE OF THESE DAYS

              One of these days
              I'm going to cut you into little pieces

A PILLOW OF WINDS

              The cloud of eiderdown draws around me
              Softening the sound
              Sleepy time when I lie with my love by my side
              And she's breathing low, and the candle dies

              When night comes down you lock the door
              The look falls to the floor
              As darkness falls and waves roll by
              The seasons changed, the wind is warm

              Now wakes the owl, now sleep the swan
              Behold the dream, the dream is gone
              Green fields, a cold rain
              Is falling in a golden glow

              And deep beneath the ground
              The early morning sounds
              And I go down
              Sleepy time when I lie with my love by my side
              And she's breathing low, and I rise like a bird
              In the haze when the first rays touch the sky
              And the night wings die

FEARLESS

              You say the hill's too steep to climb, try it
              You say you'd like to see me try climb it
              You pick the place and I'll choose the time
              And I'll climb the hill in my own way
              Just wait a while for the right day
              And as I rise above the tree-line
              And the clouds
              I look down, hearing the sounds
              Of the things you've said today

              Fearlessly the idiot faced the crowd, smiling
              Mercyless the magistrate turns round, frowning
              And who's the fool who wears the crown
              Go down in your own way
              And every day is the right day
              And as you rise above the fear-lines
              In his crown
              You look down, hearing the sound
              Of the faces in the crowd

              You never walk alone, you never walk alone
              Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart
              And you never walk alone, you never walk alone

SAN TROPEZ

              As I reach for a peach, slide a ride
              Down behind a chauffeur in San Tropez
              Breaking a stick with a brick on the sand
              Riding a wave in the wake of an old sedan
              Sleeping alone in the drone of the darkness
              Scratched by the sand that fell from my love
              Keeping my dreams and I still hear her calling
              If you're alone, I'll come home

              Backward and homebound, a pigeon, a dove
              Gone with the wind, the rain on an aeroplane
              Owning a home with no silver spoon
              I'm drinking champagne like a good tycoon
              Sooner than wait for a break in the weather
              I'll gather my far-flung thoughts together
              Speeding away on the wind to a new day
              If you're alone, I'll come home

              And I pause for a while by a country style
              And listen to the things they say
              Digging the gold in a hole in my hand
              Hoping the good, take a look
              At the way things end
              And you're leading me down
              To a place by the sea
              I hear your soft voice calling to me
              Making a date for Rita Pavone
              If you're alone, I'll come home

SEAMUS

              I was in the kitchen
              Seamus, that's the dog, was outside
              Well I was in the kitchen
              Seamus, my own hound, was outside
              Well you know the sun was sinking slowly
              And my own hound-dog sat right down and cried

ECHOES

              Overhead the albatross hangs
              Motionless upon the air
              And deep beneath the rolling waves
              In labyrinths of coral caves
              The echo of a distant time
              Comes billowing across the sand
              And everything is green, the sun beneath
              And no one showed us to the land
              And no one knows the where's of the why's
              But something stares and something tries
              And starts to climb towards the land

              Strangers passing in the street
              By chance to separate closes meet
              And I am you and what I see is me
              And do I take you by the hand
              And lead you through the land
              And help me understand the best I can
              And no one calls us to the dawn
              And no one forces down our eyes
              And no one speaks and no one tries
              No one flies around the sun

              Cloudless everyday you fall upon my waking eyes
              Inviting and insighting me to rise
              And through the window in the wall
              Come streaming in on sunlight wings
              A million bright ambassadors of morning
              And no one sings me lullabies
              And no one makes me close my eyes
              So I throw the windows wide
              And crawl to you across the sky