A LIFE OF SUNDAYS



Hold me before I go under

hear me before I drown

sharpen your sense of wonder

listen to what I've found

Here we are again

two old lovers, two old friends

just when you need them

a devil was standing on my shoes

somehow I know how to defeat him

since I tumbled into you

You taught me Love and Pain

and the unsung king of Ireland

says the same thing

wherever you find it

The same thing from the same old cause

The same thing - I cannot define it

(It is) the same thing and it always was

It struck me sad and strange

all that ever stays the same is Change

and I dreamed I wandered

wayward as a restless wave

spanning from here to yonder

most spectacularly saved

Dream and life entwine

The old day cracks and crumbles

and it's fine

to be in your company

funny to be in your day

a miracle just to be with you

glad to be going your way

Were these unfolding plans

designed or drawn by mortal hands?

Never in a Life of Sundays

would I have seen me here.



[Mike Scott] The Waterboys from _Room to Roam