@ALBUM: Domo Arigato
The Durutti Column
[Tokyo April 1985]

Lyrics transcribed by R Stanzel
and Michael B. Branch
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93/06/07

@SONG: Sketch for Dawn

A brightness falling through the air
Into the grass where we lie
A lark spirals upwards in perfect pitch
Soaring into exquisite tension

[chorus]
In the dawn
In the dawn
In the dawn

Dreams burnt away
By the first cigarette of the day
Instincts move us into
The rhythms of love
Soaring into
Exquisite tension
Making gentle pornography together

[chorus]

A brightness falling through the air
Into the grass where we lie
A lark spirals upwards in perfect pitch
Soaring into
Exquisite tension

[chorus]

@SONG: Dream of a Child

And in the new light
Comes 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
My time of day
Slipping away
To find colours of joy
I look for a shelter
And this is my time
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 say it
Turn away from inside

[chorus]

Stood at[?] the statue
Stare out of the square
Watching the dreams
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

[chorus]

@SONG: The Room

There's a room in this place
And the room is called heaven
Lights go out on me
Then I get to see
The room called heaven
The room called heaven

The face against the glass
Stand quietly in the dark
Dreaming of those shadows
In a room called heaven
The room called heaven

I feel the cold out there
Through the door and the wall
Now they're calling out my name
To take me to the room
A room called heaven
The room called heaven

@SONG: Tomorrow

All I wanted was your time
All you ever gave me was tomorrow
All I wanted was your time
All you ever gave me was tomorrow

And tomorrow never comes
Tomorrow never comes
Tomorrow never comes
Tomorrow never comes

People stood in a line with flowers
They were only waiting for the moment
People stood in a line with flowers
They were only waiting for the moment
And I know the feeling so well
I've been waiting for you for so long
And I know the feeling so well
I've been waiting for you for so long

And tomorrow never comes
Tomorrow never comes
Tomorrow never comes
Tomorrow never comes

@SONG: Missing Boy

There was a boy
I almost knew him
A glance exchanged
Made me feel good
Leaving some signs
Now a legend
The dream was wrought
Where thoughts were heard
Love is reserved
From previous times

[chorus]
Like a dead bird in the dirt
Like a rusty can on the ground
I don't believe in stardom
Machinery in action
Full of experts
Full of experts
Same old order
Same old order
Same old order

Watch with obsession
Some accident of beauty
Try to capture
As the light begins to fail
Shapes to compose
Shadows of frailty
The dream is better
Dissolves into softness
But the end
The end is always the same

[chorus]

There was a boy
I almost knew him
A glance exchanged
Made me feel good
Leaving some signs
Now a legend