Pianos and Clocks
Fading Echoes: Pianos, Clocks, and Lost Brown Eyes
Lyrics
Well, hello there, sweet to see you,
Greeting someone warmly
Like your colour, how you doin'?
Complimenting their appearance and asking how they are
I've been battered and bewildered
Feeling emotionally and physically affected, possibly by past experiences
In the beauty of your ruins
Finding beauty despite destruction or decay
Flash, flash and I am blinded
Feeling overwhelmed or dazzled
By the fact that you've been born
Realizing someone's existence or creation
Feels like fiction life goes on
Sense of disbelief about life continuing
Brown eyes are gone
Referencing the absence of someone with brown eyes
Silence is a virtue
Implying the value of keeping quiet at times
I was taught so I agreed
Agreement with the importance of silence
Conversation half forgotten
Recalling incomplete conversations
Is the hole I hold in me
A feeling of emptiness or absence
And all our language and expression
Communication breakdown due to an authoritative decision
Is decimated by decree
The fading of music or joy
The sound of song dies in the dawn
The end of something beautiful or meaningful
Brown eyes are gone
Reiterating the absence of someone with brown eyes
Descended slowly on the
Descent toward a significant place
Steps of the cathedral
Recollection of a moment at a cathedral
Where I kissed you,
Remembering an intimate moment
Remembered candles lit with meaning
Symbolic illumination with misunderstood intentions
I imposed but that escaped you
Not realizing one's impact due to lack of understanding
With your brown eyes
Reference to someone's eyes and attire
And your blue jeans
Describing sensory experiences
I heard the chiming of the clocks
Hearing the sound of clocks chiming
Kick out the shifting
Interrupting a rhythm or routine
Shuffling rhythm of your docs
Alteration or disturbance caused by someone's actions
Hit the road with my compadre
Setting off on a journey with a friend
Saw the city incomplete
Observing an incomplete city
We were tossed and torn and tumbled
Experiencing turmoil in an unfamiliar place
In your famous foreign streets
Feeling fearless but forgotten or ignored
I felt so fearless and forgotten
Perceiving a lack of order or structure
No-one numbered nothing neat
Despite chaos, feeling a sense of belonging
The son has shone, we still belong,
Acknowledging the presence despite absence
Brown eyes are gone
Reiteration of the absence of someone with brown eyes
So farewell then senorita
Bidding farewell to a lady
Pianos played and set the tone
Music setting the mood or atmosphere
I was singing like a servant
Singing along to the chaos or noise of life
To the tune of telephones
Comparing singing to serving, influenced by constant distractions
I wish you freedom and forgiveness
Wishing well for someone's future
And a time that is your own
Referencing personal color and time
Blue is the colour, mine's the moment
Reiteration of the absence of someone with brown eyes
Brown eyes are gone
Final emphasis on the absence of someone with brown eyes
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