![Empire Of Delight - Peter Hammill](https://cdn.muztext.com/i/3284751201193925347.jpg)
Date of issue: 31.12.2006
Record label: Virgin
Song language: English
Empire Of Delight |
Memory extends its empire |
Holds the frame but blurs the line |
Some other time invades the sense |
A moment caught and lost, second sight |
Suddenly I feel you near me |
Worlds away and close as this |
One stolen kiss upon my lips |
And the moment slips away in mid-flight |
So many years ago, and now it’s hard |
To recall just what you meant to me |
Still I wait, I’m patient |
For the memory comes to me eventually |
Here you are, and though you may soon be gone |
Somehow the song still burns as bright |
I felt it happen here tonight — |
Here, in the empire of delight |
Dream and ghost the world around me |
You seem as real as ever you were… |
But in a blur your breath on my cheek |
Has gone and the evening come into night |
So many years ago, and now it’s hard |
To recall quite what you meant to me |
Still I wait, impatient |
Though the memory comes to me eventually |
Here I am, forever caught up in this mystery |
And then |
That moment when the fire ignites — |
I felt it happen here tonight |
Here, in the empire of delight |
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