by This Mortal Coil on album Rough Trade: Music for the 90's, Volume 3

When I woke up today And you weren't there to play Then I wanted to be with you When you showed me your eyes Whispered love at the skies Then I wanted to stay with you Inside me I feel, alone and unr

by This Mortal Coil on album 4AD: Lilliput

On the floating, shipless oceans I did all my best to smile 'Til your singing eyes and fingers Drew me loving to your isle And you sang Sail to me, sail to me Let me enfold you Here I am, here I am Wa

by This Mortal Coil on album Uncut: 4AD

You say my love for you's not real But you don't know how real it feels All I want to do is to spend some time with you So I can hold you, hold you Your sister says that I'm no good I'd reassure her i

by This Mortal Coil on album Lonely Is an Eyesore

The half-moon is aching, bitter and sad. We are wet. we are stripped to the bone. It's out of our hands, the dream we're bound to dream. We are wet, always alone

by This Mortal Coil on album Filigree & Shadow

In the valley where the moon and lovers play Lived two children who were born on Saturday One was dark one was fair Fathered by the dog, mothered by the pig Stranger children you have never seen Broth

by This Mortal Coil on album Filigree & Shadow

I've gathered all my lifetime memories of you My lusty sentiments that made life seem true I'm rather selfish and I mean to be unkind And you can't imagine what it does to me inside But where am I, I

by This Mortal Coil on album Filigree & Shadow

Come here my love. This feeling has me spellbound. Yet the story line in paragraphs laid down the same. In fathoms of my inner mind I'm mistified, oh, by this mood. This melancholy feeling just don't

by This Mortal Coil on album Filigree & Shadow

And all I see is little dots, Some are smeared and some are spots. Feels like a murder but that's alright. Somebody said "There's too much light." Pull down the shades and it's alright. It'll be over

by This Mortal Coil on album Filigree & Shadow

Alone, with too much generosity A theatre mask of hostility attracts Assaults occur, infrequently And those who come, to conquer? Need strength But damage accumulates Still moving him to tears Retaine

by This Mortal Coil on album Filigree & Shadow

Here I am believin' words again Here I am tryin' to find your love again Here I am down on my knees again Prayin' for a love that we used to know Both of us know how hard it is to love and let it go B

by This Mortal Coil on album Filigree & Shadow

I lit my purest candle close to my Window, hoping it would catch the eye Of any vagabond who passed it by And I waited in my fleeting house Before he came I felt him drawing near As he neared I felt

by This Mortal Coil on album Filigree & Shadow

In my life the piano sings Brings me words that are not the strength of strings Fiery rain and Ruby's cooling sun Now I see that my world has only begun Notes that roll on winds with swirling wings Br

by This Mortal Coil on album Filigree & Shadow

My father always promised us That we would live in France We'd go boating on the Seine And I would learn to dance We lived in Ohio then He worked in the mines On his dreams like boats We knew we woul

by This Mortal Coil on album Filigree & Shadow

I'm living but I'm feeling numb, can see it in my stare I wear a mask so falsely numb, and I don't know who I am Despite the worlds inside of me, thwarting me away I've noticed in other eyes, time's c

by This Mortal Coil on album Filigree & Shadow

Jeweller has a shop on the corner of the boulevard. In the night, in small spectacles he polishes old coins. He uses spit and cloths and ashes. He makes them shine with ashes. He knows the use of ash

by This Mortal Coil on album Blood

should have been enough to change your mind could have been enough to take your breath away should have been enough to change your mind could have been enough to take your breath away should have be

by This Mortal Coil on album This Mortal Coil

Between heaven and earth There's a ballroom floor Where the couples glide In the evermore. Floating through the clouds Dancing in the rain Eyes that see no lies Hearts that feel no pain. Hope it's n

by This Mortal Coil on album This Mortal Coil

On the floating, shapeless oceans I did all my best to smile til' your singing eyes and fingers drew me loving into your eyes. And you sang "Sail to me, sail to me, Let me enfold you." Here I am, here

by This Mortal Coil on album Late Night Tales: Röyksopp

Just like the sun over the mountain top You know I'll always come again You know I love to spend my morning times Like sunlight dancing on your skin What you see is what I've been There is nothing I

by This Mortal Coil on album Late Night Tales: Röyksopp

Just like the sun over the mountain top You know I'll always come again You know I love to spend my morning times Like sunlight dancing on your skin What you see is what I've been There is nothing I