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Orion Lyrics
Orion, won't you give me your star sign
Orion, get up on the sky-line
I'm high on my hill and I feel fine
Orion, let's sip the heaven's heady wine
Orion, light your lights:
Come guard the open spaces
From the black horizon to the pillow where I lie.
Your faithful dog shines brighter than its lord and master
Your jewelled sword twinkles as the world rolls by.
So come up singing above the cloudy cover
Stare through at people who toss fitful in their sleep.
I know you're watching as the old gent by the station
Scuffs his toes on old fag packets lying in the street
Orion, won't you make me a star sign
Orion, get up on the sky-line
I'm high on your hill and I feel fine
Orion, let's sip the heaven's heady wine
And silver shadows flick across the closing bistro.
Sweet waiters link their arms and patter down the street,
Their words lost blowing on cold winds in darkest Chelsea.
Prime years fly fading with each young heart's beat
Orion, won't you make me a star sign
Orion, get up on the sky-line
I'm high on your love and I feel fine
Orion, let's sip the heaven's heady wine
And young girls shiver as they wait by lonely bus-stops
After sad parties: no-one to take them home
To greasy bed-sitters and make a late-night play
For lost virginity a thousand miles away.
Orion, won't you make me a star sign
Orion, get up on the sky-line
I'm high on your love and I feel fine
Orion, let's sip the heaven's heady wine
On the sky-line
Orion
Orion, get up on the sky-line
I'm high on my hill and I feel fine
Orion, let's sip the heaven's heady wine
Come guard the open spaces
From the black horizon to the pillow where I lie.
Your faithful dog shines brighter than its lord and master
Your jewelled sword twinkles as the world rolls by.
So come up singing above the cloudy cover
Stare through at people who toss fitful in their sleep.
I know you're watching as the old gent by the station
Scuffs his toes on old fag packets lying in the street
Orion, get up on the sky-line
I'm high on your hill and I feel fine
Orion, let's sip the heaven's heady wine
Sweet waiters link their arms and patter down the street,
Their words lost blowing on cold winds in darkest Chelsea.
Prime years fly fading with each young heart's beat
Orion, get up on the sky-line
I'm high on your love and I feel fine
Orion, let's sip the heaven's heady wine
After sad parties: no-one to take them home
To greasy bed-sitters and make a late-night play
For lost virginity a thousand miles away.
Orion, get up on the sky-line
I'm high on your love and I feel fine
Orion, let's sip the heaven's heady wine
On the sky-line
Orion
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A soliloquy to a celestial presence, perhaps more tangible than the popularized and mass-marketed God, who looks down upon our pitiful existence from the heavens. Omnipresent and benign, it nonetheless has no impact (or interest) whatsoever in the scenes that play out below.
Orion of course refers to the constellation, one of the more easily identifiable in the night sky. "Your faithful dog shines brighter than its lord and master" likely refers to the constellation Canis Major ("large dog") which seems to follow Orion on his nightly journey. "Your jeweled sword twinkles" is a reference to the bright stars (42 Orionis, Theta Orionis, and Iota Orionis) and M42, the Orion Nebula which make up Orion's "sword" which are in an almost straight line and are prominent features of the constellation.