venice will be standing when you and I are dust / when you and I are ashes, the bridge of sighs won’t sigh for us / they’ll be chasing tourists through the arches, and boats will break the bay / summer swoons and slips away, summer swoons and slips away / ring the bells for a day that’s born / cast the night away, cast the night away / ring the bells for a day that’s born / ring ‘em out and out and on until that old sun dies / it’s not right… / we lie awake in darkness, and sleepwalk through the day / yet the starlings gather, salmon leap and break the spey / jumping always, always jumping upstream / and we sleepwalk through the day / summer swoons and slips away, summer swoons and slips away / ring the bells for a day that’s born / cast the night away, cast the night away / ring the bells for a day that’s born / ring ‘em out and out and on until that old sun dies / it’s not right to spend the day wishing every breath away / didn’t mum and dad invest you with a care? / son, you’ll never keep a friend and your nightmare days won’t end / if you keep talking through them, walking through them / wallowing in righteous despair / wherever you lie down, wherever you wake up, the world follows