Released: October 22, 2012
Featuring: Nad Sylvan
Songwriter: Mike Rutherford Peter Gabriel Phil Collins Steve Hackett Tony Banks
Producer: Roger King Steve Hackett
Play me Old King Cole
That I may join with you
All your hearts now seem so far from me
It hardly seems to matter now
And the nurse will tell you lies
Of a kingdom beyond the skies
But I am lost within this half-world;
It hardly seems to matter now
Play me my song
Here it comes again
Play me my song
Here it comes again
Just a little bit
Just a little bit more time
Time left to live out my life
Play me my song
Here it comes again
Play me my song
Here it comes again
Old King Cole was a merry old soul
And a merry old soul was he
So he called for his pipe
And he called for his bowl
And he called for his fiddlers three
But the clock, tick tock
On the mantlepiece
And I want
And I feel
And I know
And I touch
Her warmth
She's a lady, she's got time
Brush back your hair, and let me get to know your face
She's a lady, she's mine
Brush back your hair, and let me get to know your flesh
I've been waiting here for so long
And all this time that passed me by
It doesn't seem to matter now
You stand there with your fixed expression
Casting doubt on all I have to say
Why don't you touch me, touch me
Why don't you touch me, touch me
Touch me now, now, now, now, now...
That I may join with you
All your hearts now seem so far from me
It hardly seems to matter now
And the nurse will tell you lies
Of a kingdom beyond the skies
But I am lost within this half-world;
It hardly seems to matter now
Play me my song
Here it comes again
Play me my song
Here it comes again
Just a little bit
Just a little bit more time
Time left to live out my life
Play me my song
Here it comes again
Play me my song
Here it comes again
Old King Cole was a merry old soul
And a merry old soul was he
So he called for his pipe
And he called for his bowl
And he called for his fiddlers three
But the clock, tick tock
On the mantlepiece
And I want
And I feel
And I know
And I touch
Her warmth
She's a lady, she's got time
Brush back your hair, and let me get to know your face
She's a lady, she's mine
Brush back your hair, and let me get to know your flesh
I've been waiting here for so long
And all this time that passed me by
It doesn't seem to matter now
You stand there with your fixed expression
Casting doubt on all I have to say
Why don't you touch me, touch me
Why don't you touch me, touch me
Touch me now, now, now, now, now...
more tracks from the album
From the album
- Genesis Revisited II (2012)
Steve Hackett popular songs
- For Absent Friends
- The Lamia
- Fountain of Salmacis
- The Return of the Giant Hogweed
- Prizefighters
- The Chamber of 32 Doors
- The Musical Box
- Watcher of the Skies
- Star of Sirius
- Can-Utility and the Coastliners
- Broadway Melody of 1974
- Dance on a Volcano
- I Know What I Like
- Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
- Blood on the Rooftops
- Fly on a Windshield
- Supper’s Ready
- Man in the Long Black Coat
- Firth of Fifth
- Myopia/Los Endos/Imagining/Ace of Wands/Hackett to Pieces
- Spectral Mornings/Firth of Fifth/Clocks
- Horizons (2012)
- After the Ordeal
- ...In That Quiet Earth