Time To Burn letra

Time to burn, we could talk all the problems through...
Are the promises still unbroken,
do the spoken words still ring true ?
Oh, and where are you ?
Time to burn, wakes and weddings, celestial choirs,
and while one hand shakes on the bargain
see the other stoke the suttee pyre...
So we're all on fire,
burning for tomorrow.

So much time wish- and hoping,
soon the future will come
with a bridal wreath for the wedding
in the hands of the prodigal son.
So much left undone,
here we are with time to burn.

So much time wishful thinking,
all the whitest of lies
with the prodigal caught at the border
and the order of service awry,
no time for goodbyes,
will we ever start to learn ?

Time to burn, wakes and weddings become confused,
all the faces over-familiar
in the whirlwind of deja-vu...
Oh, but where are you ?

Time to burn, all our lifelines are gathered round
with a speech from the back of a postcard
all the memories free in one bound.
Free, and gone to ground,
free, and gone forever;
Free, and gone to ground,
so I will remember
so much lost and found.
Here we are with time to burn.

Peter Hammill - Letras

• (No More) The Submariner
• (On Tuesday She Used To Do) Yoga
• A Better Time
• A Forest Of Pronouns
• A Headlong Stretch: i. Up Ahead
• A Headlong Stretch: ii. Continental Drift
• A Headlong Stretch: iii. The Twelve
• A Headlong Stretch: iv. Long Light
• A Headlong Stretch: v. Backwards Man
• A Headlong Stretch: vi. As You Were
• A Headlong Stretch: vii. Or So I Said
• A Louse Is Not A Home
• Again
• Been Alone So Long
• Candle
• Child
• Comfortable
• Crying Wolf
• Faint-Heart and the Sermon
• Ferret And Featherbird
• Fight
• Forsaken Gardens
• Four Pails
• Gog
• Happy
• I Once Wrote Some Poems
• Imperial Zeppelin
• Just Good Friends
• Lost And Found
• Magog (In Bromine Chambers)
• Man-Erg
• Material Possession
• Mediaevil
• Mirror Images
• Modern
• Mr. X (Gets Tense)
• My Experience
• My Favourite
• Nadir's Big Chance
• Narcissus (Bar & Grill)
• Nightman
• No Moon In The Water
• Nobody's Business
• None Of The Above
• Not For Keith
• Not The Man
• Nothing Comes
• Now Lover
• Now More Than Ever
• Oasis
• On The Surface
• Open your Eyes (The Locarno Song)
• Ophelia
• Other Old Clichés
• Our Oyster
• Painting By Numbers
• Palinurus (Castaway)
• Paradox Drive
• Patient
• People You Were Going To
• Personality
• Phosphorescence
• Planet Coventry
• Pompeii
• Porton Down
• Power Of Speech
• Primo on the Parapet
• Pushing Thirty
• Rain, 3 a.m.
• Ram Origami
• Re-Awakening
• Red Shift
• Reprise
• Rock and Rôle
• Rubicon
• Sci-Finance
• Seven Wonders
• Sharply Unclear
• She Wraps It Up
• Shell
• Shingle Song
• Sign
• Silver
• Since The Kids
• Sitting Targets
• Skin
• Sleep Now
• Slender Threads
• Smile
• Solitude
• Something About Ysabel's Dance
• Still In The Dark
• Still Life
• Stranger Still
• Stupid
• Summer Song (In the Autumn)
• Sun City Nightlife
• Sunshine
• Tapeworm
• Tenderness
• The Birds
• The Comet, The Course, The Tail
• The Cut
• The Future Now
• The Gift of Fire (Talk Turkey)
• The Great European Department Store
• The Great Experiment
• The Institute Of Mental Health, Burning
• The Jargon King
• The Lie (Bernini's St. Theresa)
• The Light Continent
• The Meanings Changed
• The Moebius Loop
• The Mousetrap (Caught In)
• The Noise
• The Old School Tie
• The Play's The Thing
• The Polaroid
• The Second Hand
• The Spirit
• The Tower
• The Unconscious Life
• This Book
• This Side Of The Looking Glass
• Time For A Change
• Time Heals
• Time To Burn
• Too Many Of My Yesterdays
• Traintime
• Trappings
• Two Or Three Spectres
• Under Cover Names
• Unrehearshed
• Viking
• Vision
• Vote Brand X
• What I Did
• What's it Worth?
• When Language Corrodes
• Where The Mouth Is
• Wilhelmina
• You Can't Want What You Always Get...
• You Hit Me Where I Live
• Your Word