@ALBUM: Another Setting
The Durutti Column

Lyrics transcribed by Rob  S t a n z e l
and Michael B. Branch <mb20@prism.gatech.edu>
Please contact us with comments or corrections.
93/06/07

@SONG: Bordeaux

In France you are sleeping
I wish I could see you
It's always this way
Love sent from Bordeaux
Love sent from Bordeaux

Just in odd moments
I wish you could see me
The truth that I am
It's always this way
Love sent from Bordeaux

I try to say something
My words they grow fainter
And you're slipping away
Love sent from Bordeaux

I hear you breathing
You're moving beneath me
I can't see your face
Love sent from Bordeaux

In France you are sleeping
I wish I could see you
It's always this way
Love sent from Bordeaux
Love sent from Bordeaux

@SONG: The Beggar

Some words uttered by a beggar
Struck a glancing blow
Frames form in his mind
Words form in his mouth
Call into this night

[chorus]
At each new corner
I grow more weary
At each new corner
I see more people
I see more people

Lay in this doorway
In the orange street glare
People seem so far away
Their names mean nothing now
I see them turn and stare
I watch them slip away
Their names mean nothing
Their names mean nothing
Their names mean nothing now

[chorus]

Has Jesus forgotten
This man on the ground
The dirt on his clothes
And the blood on his face
He has his own blood
And the light in his eyes
People seem so far away
Their names mean nothing now

People seem so far away
Their names mean nothing now
Their names mean nothing
Their names mean nothing now
[fade]

@SONG: Smile in the Crowd

You turned me away
Away from your actions
Forced by the violence
That always surrounds you

[chorus]
I want your special smile
A smile in this crowd
I want your special smile
A smile in this crowd

You burnt yourself out
In that silence
I have to tell you
I ache for you still
The sound of my words
Is always so shocking
They get much louder
Each time I speak

[chorus]

Signals of progress
We're growing much older
I'm afraid that I'll leave
And my ache never goes

[chorus]

@SONG: You've Heard It Before

Your smile breaking me off[?]
Taking some time out
Away from the places
Where you'll never fall

[chorus]
I catch my breath
I try to tell you
And you've heard it before
But I'll never grow tired

And you'll never know
What you are to me
And you never ask me
Yet I'm longing to say

[chorus]

Taking some time out
Away from the places
Where you never fall
Where you never fall

@SONG: Dream of a Child

And with the new light
Goes every morning
I walk the same streets
The same every day
Passed by the people
Who go to the center
The lines of their cars
They look the same way

[chorus]
I look for a shelter
I go slipping away
I look for a shelter
And my time of day

To some quiet place
To find colours of joy
I look for a shelter
And this is my time

Dream of a child
A physical presence
How she does touch me
It stays in my soul
No use to deny
Existence of passion
There's no way to play it
Turn away from inside

[chorus]

To some quiet place
To find colours of joy
I look for a shelter
And this is my time

Stood by the statue
Stare out of the square
Watching the dreams that are many
Filled with a life of their own
A crippled young child
The pain of a short life
To bear curses of men
And the turning away

I walk the same streets
The same every day
I walk the same streets
The same every day

[chorus]

To some quiet place
To find colours of joy
I look for a shelter
This is my time

@SONG: Spent Time

At the end of the journey
And all you have seen
Remember some faces
From the places you've been
And then there's a sadness
When you try to describe
How these things can happen
And the passing of time

The end of the journey
And all you have seen
Remember some faces
From the places you've been
And there's a sadness
When you try to describe
How these things can happen
And the passing of time
And the passing of time
And the passing of time
The passing of time
Passing of time