I Surrender
David Sylvian

I opened up the pathway of the heart

The flowers died embittered from the start

That night I crossed the bridge of sighs and I surrender


I looked back and glimpsed the outline of a boy

His life of sorrows now collapsing into joy

And tonight the stars are all aligned and I surrender


My mother cries beneath a southern sky and I surrender


Recording angels and the poets of the night

Bring back the trophies of the battles that we fight

Searchlights fill the open skies and I surrender


Outrageous cries of love have called you back

Derailed the trains of thought, demolished wayward tracks

You tell me I've no need to wonder why, I just surrender


I stand too close to see the sleight of hand

How she found this child inside the frightened man

Tonight I'm learning how to fly and I surrender


I've traveled all this way for your embrace


Enraptured by the recognition on your face

Hold me now while my old life dies tonight and I surrender


My mother cries beneath the open skies and I surrender


An ancient evening just before the fall

The light in your eyes, the meaning of it all

Birds fly and fill the summer skies and I surrender


She throws the burning books into the sea

Come find the meaning of the word inside of me

It's alright, the stars are all aligned and I surrender


My mother cries beneath the moonlit skies and I surrender


My body turns to ashes in her hands

The disappearing world of footprints in the sand

Tell me now that this love will never die and I'll surrender


My mother cries beneath the open skies and I surrender


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Lyrics by David Sylvian

  125 Spheres   20th Century Dreaming (A Shaman's Song)   A Certain Slant Of Light   A Fire in the Forest   All Of My Mother's Names   Answered Prayers   Atom and Cell   Backwaters   Ballad of a Deadman   Bamboo Music   Before The Bullfight   Big Wheels in Shanty Town   Black Crow Hits Shoe Shine City   Blackwater   Blemish   Brightness Falls   Brilliant Trees   Bringing Down The Light   Buoy   Cafe Europa   Come Morning   Cover Me With Flowers   Cries and Whispers   Damage   Darshan   Died In The Wool   Dobro #1   Every colour you are   Exit/Delete   Fire in the Forest   Firepower   Five Lines   For the Love of Life   Ghosts   God Man   God's Monkey   Gone To Earth   Good Son   Heart Knows Better   Heartbeat   Heartbeat (Returning To The Womb)   How Little We Need To Be Happy   Jacqueline   Jean The Birdman   Jean The Birdman   Krishna Blue   Late Night Shopping   Laughter & Forgetting   Laughter And Forgetting   Let the Happiness In   Linoleum   Linoleum [Wamdue 2-Step Dub Experience]   Linoleum [Wamdue Project 2 Step Dub Experience]   Manafon   Money for All   Nostalgia   Only Daughter   Orpheus   Playground Martyrs   Pocket Full Of Change   Pollen Path   Pop Song   Pulling Punches   Pure Genius   Rain Tree Crow   Red Guitar   River Man   Riverman   September   She Is Not   Silver Moon   Sleepwalker   Sleepwalkers   Small Metal Gods   Snow White in Appalachia   Some Kind of Fool   Sugarfuel   Taking The Veil   Thalheim   The Boy With The Gun   The Day the Earth Stole Heaven   The Department of Dead Letters   The Devil's Own   The Golden Way   The Good Son   The Greatest Living Englishman   The Healing Place   The Heart Knows Better   The Ink In The Well   The Last Days Of December   The Only Daughter   The Rabbit Skinner   The song which gives the key to perfection   The World Is Everything   there’s a light that enters houses with no other...   Thermal   Thoroughly Lost To Logic   Transit   Transit (with Fennesz)   Upon This Earth   Wanderlust   Waterfront   Wave   Wave [Version]   Weathered Wall   When Poets Dreamed Of Angels   When Poets Dreamed Of Angels   Where’s Your Gravity   Wonderful World   World Citizen   Zero Landtime

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