There Was A Saviour Lyrics - John Cale

Words: dylan thomas 

There was a saviour 

Rarer than radium, 

Commoner than water, crueler than truth; 

Children kept from the sun 

Assembled at his tongue 

To hear the golden note turn in a groove, 

Prisoners of wishes locked their eyes 

In the jails and studies of his keyless smiles. 

The voice of children says 

From a lost wilderness 

There was calm to be done in his safe unrest 

When hindering man hurt 

Man, animal or bird 

We hid our fears in the murdering breath, 

Silence, silence to do, when the earth grew loud, 

In lairs and asylums of the tremendous shout. 

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There was glory to hear 

In the churches of his tears, 

Under his downy arm you sighed as he struck, 

O you who could not cry 

On to the ground when a man died 

Put a tear for joy in the unearthly flood 

And laid your cheek against a cloud-formed shell: 

Now in the dark there is only yourself and myself. 

Two proud, blacked brothers cry, 

Winter-locked side by side, 

To this inhospitable hollow year, 

O we could not stir 

One lean sigh when we heard 

Greed on man beating near and fire neighbour 

But wailed and nested in the sky-blue wall 

Now break a giant tear for the little known fall. 

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For the drooping of homes, 

That did not nurse our bones, 

Brave deaths of only ones but never found, 

Now see, alone in us, 

Our own true strangers' dust 

Ride through the doors of our unentered house. 

Exiled in us we arouse the soft, 

Unclenched, armless, silk and rough love that breaks all rocks.