Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Nobody's Empire, artist - Belle & Sebastian. Album song Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, in the genre Инди
Date of issue: 18.01.2015
Record label: Matador
Song language: English
Nobody's Empire |
Lying on my bed, I was reading French |
With the light too bright for my senses |
From this hiding place life was way too much |
It was loud and rough round the edges |
So I faced the wall when an old man called |
Out of dreams that I would die there |
But a sight unseen, you were pulling strings |
You had a different idea |
I was like a child, I was lying strong |
And my father lifted me up there |
Took me to a place where they checked my body |
My soul was floating in thin-air |
I clung to the bed and I clung to the past |
I clung to the welcome darkness |
But at the end of the night there’s a green green light |
The quiet before the madness |
There was a girl that sang like the chime of a bell |
And she put out her arm, she touched me when I was in hell |
When I was in hell |
Someone sang a song and I sang along |
Cause I knew the words from my childhood |
Intellect ambition they fell away |
And they locked me up for my own good |
But I didn’t mind, cause the silence was kind |
It spoke to me in whispers |
There was the sound of the wind and the cold cold dawn |
And the quiet hum of business |
Let me dangle awhile in this waiting room |
I don’t need to go I don’t need to know what you’re doing |
Know what you’re doing |
Lying on my side you were half awake |
And your face was tired and crumpled |
If I had a camera I’d snap you now |
Cause there’s beauty in every stumble |
We are out of practice we’re out of sight |
On the edge of nobody’s empire |
And if we live by books and we live by hope |
Does that make us targets for gunfire? |
Now I look at you, you’re a mother of two |
You’re a quiet revolution |
Marching with the crowd, singing dirty and loud |
For the people’s emancipation |
Did I do okay, did I pave the way? |
Was I strong when you were wanting? |
I was tied to the yoke with a decent bloke |
Who was stern but never daunting |
And he told me to push and he made me feel well |
He told to me to leave that vision of hell to the dying |
Oh to the dying |