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.