He reuses the verse melody from the previous album's "Dirty Little Religion", the topics of the verses are all over the place, and he packs too many words into one line (goes to show...) and too few in another (it's pretty hard to find), and rhymes "Henley Regatta" with "Persona non grata", but gets away with it all as only he could.
Sundown dazzling day
Gold through my eyes
But my eyes turned within
Only see
Starless and bible black
Old friend charity
Cruel twisted smile
And the smile signals emptiness
For me
Starless and bible black
Ice blue silver sky
Fades into grey
To a grey hope that oh yearns
To be
Starless and bible black
Sundown dazzling day
Gold through my eyes
But my eyes turned within
Only see
Starless and bible black
Old friend charity
Cruel twisted smile
And the smile signals emptiness
For me
Starless and bible black
Gold through my eyes
But my eyes turned within
Only see
Starless and bible black
Old friend charity
Cruel twisted smile
And the smile signals emptiness
For me
Starless and bible black
Ice blue silver sky
Fades into grey
To a grey hope that oh yearns
To be
Starless and bible black
Sundown dazzling day
Gold through my eyes
But my eyes turned within
Only see
Starless and bible black
Old friend charity
Cruel twisted smile
And the smile signals emptiness
For me
Starless and bible black
Lyrics submitted by ruben, edited by Pseudobrain, shpilk, Hlodowig, chhaprahiya, tpurseriv, Crimson_King73, codehead, taklamakan
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Gordian, you've got 'amends' right, but it's
To a grey hope, That amends to be,
'hole' doesn't make sense, 'hope' does, and that's the lyric.
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Your correction to the other poster re. lyrics is correct. But what I'd like to find out is - what are the lyrics to the live version? Not only are they different, there's more of them. I've looked all over and can't find the answer to this.
@shpilk I can't believe I am responding ten years later...I guess I was busy. Anyway, I'm still pretty sure it's "hole" and not "hope" because a hole is an empty space filled with nothing...emptiness, and that better fits the true flavor and meaning of the song...it's about nothingness...utter blackness. "Starless & Bible Black"...as black as it gets.