The First Day Lyrics - David Sylvian

Bring out the stars 

And fade to silence 

Let the heart decide 

and watch it grow 

Ring out the bells 

Trading in blindness 

Fooled by kisses 

Touched by wings 

Shadow-fall 

And water fills the room 

Bathed in moon grey blue 

Baby came and spoke her name 

With promises to call again 

Swimming gold in a blackened sea 

She troubles me 

She troubles me 

Counting the ways 

To fall without landing 

Stumbling into flight 

Descent and slide 

Compressing sound 

From coal to diamond 

Words are knotted tight 

To chords that bind 

Shadow-fall 

And water fills the room 

Bathed in moon grey blue 

Baby came and spoke her name 

With promises to call again 

Swimming gold in a shipwrecked sea 

She troubles me 

She troubles me 

Received by the eye, believed by the word 

Be seen to make haste, when the soundings are heard 

Don't discourage me 

Whittling down the wood with the stone 

If the boundary breaks I'm no longer alone 

Don't discourage me 

Bring out the stars 

On the first day 

On the first day 

On the first day