PALACE OF MEMORY

Ray Cooper / John Jones / Alan Prosser / Ian Telfer
Pukka Music 2014

First released on:  Diamonds on the Water, 2014

old lovers walk through walls 
so soft their foot-falls 
in the hours after midnight they call on me

is this regret? they say 
this lonely shadow-puppet play 
you're lost in a maze and you can't get free

echoes in empty halls 
all round my bed 
the moon shines and the night-bird calls 
listen

beneath the green grass the stone 
beneath the pretty flesh the bone 
in the palace of memory 
you lie, you lie alone

old lovers fade away 
into the break of day 
they melt in the light at my window-sill

a waking world outside 
I throw the windows open wide 
in the roar of the traffic I hear them still

wake up, I try and try
my ghosts never say goodbye 
listen

get up get up 
don't let them see you cry 
get up get up 
don't let them wonder why 
get up get up 
don't let them see you cry 
get up get up

beneath the green grass the stone 
beneath the pretty flesh the bone 
in the palace of memory 
your life's a candle burning down 
take off that solitary crown 
in the palace of memory 
you lie, you lie alone.