Pianos and Clocks - Intellectual

[Verse 1]

Well, hello there, sweet to see you

Like your colour, how you doin'?

I've been battered and bewildered

In the beauty of your ruins

Flash, flash and I am blinded

By the fact that you've been born

Feels like fiction

Life goes on

Brown eyes are gone

Silence is a virtue

I was taught so I agreed

Conversation half forgotten

Is the hole I hold in me

And all our language and expression

Is decimated by decree

The sound of song

Dies in the dawn

Brown eyes are gone

Descended slowly on the steps of the cathedral

Where I kissed you

Remembered candles lit with meaning I imposed

But that escaped you

With your brown eyes and your blue jeans

I heard the chiming of the clocks

Kick out the shifting, shuffling rhythm of your docs

Hit the road with my compadre

Saw the city incomplete

We were tossed and torn and tumbled

In your famous foreign streets

I felt so fearless and forgotten

No one numbered nothing neat

The sun has shone

We still belong

Brown eyes are gone

So farewell then, señorita

Pianos played and set the tone

I was singin' like a servant

To the tune of telephones

I wish you freedom and forgiveness

And a time that is your own

Blue is the colour

Mine's the moment

Brown eyes are gone