lirik lagu peter hammill – pompeii
the golden dream, the seat of all decorum,
a satellite to match the light of rome:
its silver children chatter in the forum,
the bath-house, and the brothels, and their homes
about the latest fashions for their clothes.
across the tyrrhenian sea comes drifting
a song that none of them have ever known.
the golden dream that holds back all the hours
for the ladies in their dionysian rites,
blonde heads all garlanded with flowers:
wine and love and laughter through the night
in constant masque and pageant, constant flight.
the ground below them whispers in a murmur
of p-ssion which is hotter yet than white.
the golden dream, the city of all cities,
its towers piercing into the azure sky,
whose hand is dealt, regarless of all pity:
condemned to martyrdom, but not to die.
two lovers look up from their hidden bower.
the wine has stood too long and it turns sour.
i see the tall and bending of your streets
but now they echo only leather tourist feet
and waking, ashen, grey-blue blinding death
your sudden winding-sheet.
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Lirik lagu lainnya:
- lirik lagu peter ja%c2%b6back – jag kommer hem igen till jul
- lirik lagu peter ja%c2%b6back – i allt jag ser
- lirik lagu peter ja%c2%b6back – guldet blev till sand
- lirik lagu peter ja%c2%b6back – decembernatt
- lirik lagu peter ja%c2%b6back – ave maria
- lirik lagu napoleon the 14th – they’re coming to take me away
- lirik lagu napoleon the 14th – i live in a split level head
- lirik lagu mark owen – 4 minute warning
- lirik lagu mark owen – four-minute warning (accurate)
- lirik lagu splendora – knifepoint laminents