Marillion Lyrics

Album: Brave

Goodbye To All That Lyrics

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

They try to trace her in the town 

Appeal for information on the local news

Someone must have missed her by now

A mother or a father or a friendly face to talk her down

She's heading for the great escape 

Heading for the rave

Heading for the permanent holiday ...


 (i) wave

Hold your breath ... 'till you feel it begin ...

Here it comes ... 

Do you feel that?... 

... 'Feel this?

Get used to it ...

She had the face of the statue of liberty

Oh free me

The fire and ice of Amazon and Eskimo 

Take me home

The edge and glance of high fashion 

Ask me about next year ... 


 (ii) made

Tell me I'm mad

How should I know?

Tell me I'm mad 

I have been here for so long ...

Help me paint a picture 

They say it's a lie

Tell me I'm mad! 

You're a fine one to decide

Burn me in the fires of wild heaven

Like it never would stop 

Tell me I'm mad 

Tell me I imagined that ...

Was it something I didn't say? 

Or was it something I said 

Leave that stuff alone 

Use me instead

I know I'm always falling off the edge of the world 

I got space in my bed

("Off with his head!" ... "Clearly, he's mad")

You've got Egypt in your head

I've got a headful of Troy 

Chandeliers and Charlemagne

Fireworks and toys


 (iii) the opinum den

But you sleep like a ghost with me 

It's as simple as that 

So tell me I'm mad

Roll me up and breathe me in 

Come to my madness

My opium den 

Come to my madness

Make sense of it again 


 (iv) the slide

Make a drug of my senses

I'll get you out of your head ...

I'm sick for you ...

Love wastes us together 

Love holds us together

Love folds us together 

Flowers ...


 (v) standing in the swing

I don't know what you're doing here 

When there's murder on the street 

I appreciate your concern 

But don't waste your time on me 

I'm ashes on the water now 

Somewhere far away 

You think you came here just in time

But you're twenty years too late 

You won't have long to wait

Easy

You said I was easy 

This world sharpens teeth 

Eat your words ...