• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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      9 days ago

      What are the real lyrics? I was going off of memory so it’s more likely I was mishearing the mental playback in my head from probably over a decade ago when the last time I heard that song

      • TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world
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        7 days ago

        (The Line breaks mean you pause as you recite the lyrics. This creates the proper cadence for the song)

        In a white room

        with Black curtains

        At the Station

        Black roof country

        No gold pavements

        Tired Starlings

        Sliver Horses

        ran down moonbeams

        On your dark eyes

        Dawn light smiles

        On your leaving

        My contentment

        I’ll wait

        in this place

        Where the sun

        never shines

        I wait

        in this place

        Where

        The shadows

        Run

        From themselves

        You said no strings

        could secure you

        at the station

        Platform ticket,

        restless diesels,

        goodbye windows

        I walked into,

        such a sad time,

        at the station

        As I walked out,

        felt my own need,

        just beginning

        I’ll wait

        in the queue

        When the trains

        Come back,

        Lie with you

        Where

        The shadows

        Run

        From themselves

        At the party,

        She was kindness

        In the hard crowd

        Consolation

        for the old wound

        now forgotten

        Yellow tigers

        crouched in jungles

        in her dark eyes

        Now gets morning,

        goodbye windows,

        tired starlings

        I’ll sleep

        in this place

        with the

        lonely crowd

        Lie in the dark,

        Where

        The shadows

        Run

        From themselves

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            4 days ago

            It’s ok. I knew where the mistake was. Besides, given the metaphoric underpinnings of the lyrics, It actually was more on the nose, given that the song is about the Vapid afterglow of 1960s post party scene where everyone is getting on the tube to go home and half are hungover, most everyone is exhausted and some are just coming down after experimenting on psychedelia. That kind of human wreckage cloud certainly be described that way. 😄