Gothenburg I'm standing on a stage in Sweden in the rain But only see the sunlight from your face It illuminates the faces that smile back from the crowd We create the time, but you create the place And the curtains are closing on this act of the play Tomorrow it seems will be a different kind of day
Stay with me a while! - let me live this moment once or twice Freeze Frame! - Magnify! - Do I see trouble in your eyes? Have I just borne witness to the scars that you bear, From my own pursuit of dreams that perhaps we don't share?
'Talk to me a while', I'd plead, knowing all was said and done, And that words alone can't change things, Not when the fighting's already begun, We had a Utopian postcode and a Nirvanan phone, But no-one was calling and we were left alone Lying on our backs,
On the cooling tarmac of a country road, we watched the stars, We watched them fall. Lying to ourselves In the quiet slumber of a foreign town We let it slide With no idea at all.... .... of our own position in infinity
Oh beware of the promises of songs When the road ahead can be so long For constructed poetic verse, No matter how well-rehearsed Can't fill in all the cavities In the mouth that formed the curse