The One True Colour (Live Acoustic at Alexandra Palace)
As one child is taught red on his mother's knee (The one true colour) A neighbour is taught blue on his mother's knee (The one true colour) With a fervour inherited (It will be subsequently delivered) Ignore the spectrum
Dear whom it may concern I feel as though I'm about to crash and burn I think I'm falling and there's no return But I've no idea to whom this may concern I'm looking out at all the stars and I learn There's no one up above to hear me yearn I'm on my own
In the arena of the endless unknown (Do not stage theatre) Do not stage theatre and call it truth (And call it truth) And when one child is taught red on his mother's knee It must be subsequently delivered With all of the spectrum
Dear whom it may concern I feel as though I'm about to crash and burn I think I'm falling and there's no return But I've no idea to whom this may concern I'm looking out at all the stars and I learn There's no one up above to hear me yearn I'm on my own
Someone has whipped the carpet from beneath my feet Someone upturned the furniture in my mind
But oh how rich the soil How wondrous the upheaval It's time to embark
But oh how rich the soil How wondrous the upheaval It's time to embark
To dissect is to broaden the adventure (But oh how rich the soil) And enrich one's tenure (How wondrous the upheaval) So do not blunt the surgeon's knife (It's time to embark)
To dissect is to broaden the adventure (But oh how rich the soil) And enrich one's tenure (How wondrous the upheaval) So do not blunt the surgeon's knife (It's time to embark)
But oh how rich the soil How wondrous the upheaval It's time to embark
But oh how rich the soil How wondrous the upheaval It's time to embark
Oh there's so much to explore; there's so much to absorb And then the atoms that you borrowed They are returned to the cosmos
There's so much to explore; there's so much to absorb And then the atoms that you borrowed They are returned when you're...