Songwriter: Steven Sater Duncan Sheik
Producer: Duncan Sheik
Drifter, what about her conversation?
Drifter, how about an explanation --
Where you go, when you recede;
And why you never let her feed
On all that truth you hold so dear
But never let another near?
No one around --
My, don't we love? --
No one around
No -- to the quiet gazes
No -- to the muttered phrases
No -- to the utter waste of
Time and good fortune
Taster of the poetry
Of Pater, Proust, and Socrates...
What are you to do but sleep?
And when are you to stop and weep
For all you inability
To mate with your own memory?
No one around --
My, don't we love? --
No one around
No -- to the endless gazes
No -- to the splintered phrases
No -- to the utter waste of
Time and good fortune
Singer, will the singing say it?
Singer, will such saying change it?
A whole long life spent tuning strings
And will it now mean anything
But empty chords that only bring
And endless, voiceless sorrowing?
No one around --
My, don't we love? --
No one around
No -- to the frightened gazes
No -- to the stuttered phrases
No -- to the utter waste of
Time and good fortune
Time and good fortune...
Drifter, how about an explanation --
Where you go, when you recede;
And why you never let her feed
On all that truth you hold so dear
But never let another near?
No one around --
My, don't we love? --
No one around
No -- to the quiet gazes
No -- to the muttered phrases
No -- to the utter waste of
Time and good fortune
Taster of the poetry
Of Pater, Proust, and Socrates...
What are you to do but sleep?
And when are you to stop and weep
For all you inability
To mate with your own memory?
No one around --
My, don't we love? --
No one around
No -- to the endless gazes
No -- to the splintered phrases
No -- to the utter waste of
Time and good fortune
Singer, will the singing say it?
Singer, will such saying change it?
A whole long life spent tuning strings
And will it now mean anything
But empty chords that only bring
And endless, voiceless sorrowing?
No one around --
My, don't we love? --
No one around
No -- to the frightened gazes
No -- to the stuttered phrases
No -- to the utter waste of
Time and good fortune
Time and good fortune...
more tracks from the album
From the album
- Phantom Moon (2001)
Duncan Sheik popular songs
- Don’t Do Sadness/Blue Wind
- The Dark I Know Well
- The Song of Purple Summer
- Left Behind
- Those You’ve Known
- And Then There Were None
- The Word of Your Body
- Totally Fucked
- The Guilty Ones
- The Word of Your Body (Reprise)
- Whispering
- The Mirror-Blue Night
- I Believe
- Barely Breathing
- There Once Was a Pirate
- Hey Casanova
- William, It Was Really Nothing
- House Full of Riches
- White Limousine (radio edit)
- How It Feels
- Reasons for Living (La Leche mix)
- Magazines
- Sad Stephen’s Song
- On a High (Love From Humboldt dub)