Is anyone really gone?

We never can remember all the lives we've lived before
The days decline in number, slip the ropes away from shore
Whenever Heaven calls us there's regret and compromise
And in another distance lies a past unrealised
Where are you now? Who are you now?
Is anyone really gone?

Detta är bara så vackert. Det är en text av Peter Nichols i IQ. Låten är också väldigt bra. Om ni inte av någon speciell anledning har den så går det att ordna… Guiding Light heter den.

Av en händelse så hade jag en diskussion med Hövdingen om livet efter, om det nu finns något sånt. En kort tid därefter upptäckte att den här texten rörde vid ämnet och det vi pratade om. Ren tillfällighet, men intressant.


Guiding Light
The eyes that see, the lips that tell no tales
Nobody's guest, dressed like a mannequin
Put out to sea before the ship had sails
I have always dreamed that somewhere in your heart
There's a guiding light still shines
For our lives and times we should have spent together
But we passed each other by like seasons out of time

Easter you left, changed more than anyone
I asked you why, you told me, 'Just because'
Nobody guessed, under your influence
The man I am is not the man I was

We have lived our lives across this great divide
I couldn't make you change your mind
And we almost glimpsed a promise of forever
But we passed along the way like seasons out of time

Sometimes everything is hard to bear
Let go, following without a care
Still now, though it's hard to understand
We built on shifting sand

Somehow memories are more than this
Set free only with a deathly kiss
And now when the restless hour is high
A million stars go by

We never can remember all the lives we've lived before
The days decline in number, slip the ropes away from shore
Whenever Heaven calls us there's regret and compromise
And in another distance lies a past unrealised
Where are you now? Who are you now?
Is anyone really gone?
In all the world, in all this space, the race is run

I have always dreamed that somewhere in your heart
There's a guiding light still shines
For our lives and times we should have spent together
But we passed each other by like seasons out of time