On Hyndford Street Lyrics - Hymns To The Silence - Van Morrison

Take me back, take me way, way, way back 

On Hyndford Street 

Where you could feel the silence at half past eleven 

On long summer nights 

As the wireless played Radio Luxembourg 

And the voices whispered across Beechie River 

In the quietness as we sank into restful slumber in the silence 

And carried on dreaming, in God 

And walks up Cherry Valley from North Road Bridge, railway line 

On sunny summer afternoons 

Picking apples from the side of the tracks 

That spilled over from the gardens of the houses on Cyprus Avenue 

Watching the moth catcher working the floodlights in the evenings 

And meeting down by the pylons 

Playing round Mrs. Kelly's lamp 

Going out to Holywood on the bus 

And walking from the end of the lines to the seaside 

Stopping at Fusco's for ice cream 

In the days before rock 'n' roll 

Hyndford Street, Abetta Parade 

Orangefield, St. Donard's Church 

Sunday six-bells, and in between the silence there was conversation 

And laughter, and music and singing, and shivers up the back of the neck 

And tuning in to Luxembourg late at night 

And jazz and blues records during the day 

Also Debussy on the third programme 

Early mornings when contemplation was best 

Going up the Castlereagh hills 

And the cregagh glens in summer and coming back 

To Hyndford Street, feeling wondrous and lit up inside 

With a sense of everlasting life 

And reading Mr. Jelly Roll and Big Bill Broonzy 

And "Really The Blues" by "Mezz" Mezzrow 

And "Dharma Bums" by Jack Kerouac 

Over and over again 

And voices echoing late at night over Beechie River 

And it's always being now, and it's always being now 

It's always now 

Can you feel the silence? 

On Hyndford Street where you could feel the silence 

At half past eleven on long summer nights 

As the wireless played Radio Luxembourg 

And the voices whispered across Beechie River 

And in the quietness we sank into restful slumber in silence 

And carried on dreaming in God. 

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