Marillion Lyrics

Album: Afraid of Sunlight

Gazpacho Lyrics

(Music: Marillion Lyrics: Steve Hogarth & John Helmer)

Saw you walking on your velvet lawn

Is it lonely on the moon?

You took a dive and swallowed all you could

Did you drink too much too soon? 

Nothing left for you to fight about 

And no-one wants to see you try

The nearest neighbours are a mile away 

Does the ocean hear you cry?

Punching at the sky 

They say the King is losin' his grip again

They said you're bullet proof, they said you feel no pain 

It seems the hero is misunderstood again

Is it love or is it surgery

Makes he seem so ill at ease 

As she's begging you to please calm down

In her silk Armani on her knees 

Did you carry out those threats I heard 

Or were you only playing macho? 

And the stains on her Versace scarf 

Were they really just Gazpacho?

They say the King is watching his back again

They say the King is losing his grip again 

Raging like a bull to an empty ring 

D'you think they will forgive a hero anything?

Now the ring is just a band of gold 

And your wife needs police protection 

While you're sparring with the journalists 

You're trying to win back her affection 

Is this what it means to be a man boxing up all your emotion

So now she's gone and you're alone at last 

You can tell it to the ocean

They say the King is losing his grip again 

They say the King is countin' his numbered days

You never lost a fight in your whole life 

You never had no trouble sleepin' through the night

The bottle and the doctor get you through the day 

The boys who run the house'll make it all OK

You think they will forgive a hero anything 

Maybe Hollywood... but maybe then again...

Now the ring is just a band of gold...

Drive the road...