Nobody's Empire

[00:35.16] Lying on my bed I was reading French

[00:38.40] With the light too bright for my senses

[00:42.91] From this hiding place, life was way too much

[00:46.16] It was loud and rough round the edges

[00:49.91] So I faced the wall when an old man called

[00:54.16] Out of dreams that I would die there

[00:57.66] But a sight unseen, you were pulling strings

[01:01.90] And you had a different idea

[01:06.15] I was like a child, I was light as straw

[01:09.66] When my father lifted me up there

[01:13.91] Took me to a place where they checked my body

[01:17.16] My soul was floating in thin air

[01:21.41] I clung to the bed, and I clung to the past

[01:25.56] And I clung to the welcome darkness

[01:28.81] But at the end of the night there’s a green green light

[01:33.21] It’s the quiet before the madness

[01:36.61] There was a girl that sang like the chime of a bell

[01:40.36] And she put out her arm and she touched me when I was in hell

[01:47.61] When I was in hell

[01:52.61] Someone sang a song and I sang along

[01:56.11] Cause I knew the words from my childhood

[02:00.35] Intellect, ambition they fell away

[02:03.49] They locked me up for my own good

[02:07.50] But I didn’t mind cause the silence was kind

[02:11.99] And you spoke to me in whispers

[02:15.24] There was the sound of the wind in the cold cold dawn

[02:19.24] And the quiet hum of business

[02:22.99] Let me dangle a while in this waiting room

[02:26.74] I don’t need to go, I don’t need to know what you're doing

[02:34.25] Know what you're doing

[03:09.99] Lying on my side you were half awake

[03:13.24] And your face was tired and crumpled

[03:17.75] If I had a camera I’d snap you now

[03:21.00] Cause there’s beauty in every stumble

[03:24.74] We are out of practice we're out of sight

[03:29.00] On the edge of nobody’s empire

[03:32.75] If we live by books and we live by hope

[03:36.74] Does that make us targets for gunfire?

[03:40.99] Now I look at you you’re a mother of two

[03:44.50] You’re a quiet revolution

[03:48.74] Marching with the crowd singing dirty and loud

[03:52.24] For the people’s emancipation

[03:55.74] Did I do OK, did I pave the way?

[04:00.00] Was I strong when you were wanting?

[04:03.49] I was tied to the yoke with a decent bloke

[04:07.74] Who was stern but never daunting

[04:11.24] And he told me to push and he made me feel well

[04:15.74] And he told me to leave that vision of hell to the dying

[04:22.50] Hell to the dying