Matthew Perryman Jones - Land of the Living

O Theo

Under the silence of water,
Into a sky full of birds
Out from the land of our fathers,
I am falling on your words,
Oh...

Dark as the night of a preacher,
I made a bed out of hay
They paid me a handful of money,
I gave it all away...
All away...

And the righteous raised their stones
And the devil threw his arrow
That was longing for a home
With nowhere to go,
Oh, Theo...

In the half-life of the city,
She took off all of her clothes
I flew from the height of the mountains
Into a valley of dry bones
All alone

Then my heart was still unknown
I was drunk and full of sorrows
I was longing for a home
With nowhere to go,
Oh, Theo...

So, I set fires of starlight,
To burn up against the despair
I was caught in the tangles of midnight's
Long, unanswered prayer:
'Are you there?'

And the light of morning grows
On a field of fallen sparrows
I was longing for a home
With nowhere to go,
Oh, Theo...

Ahh, ahh, ahh
Ahh, ahh, ahh



Credits
Writer(s): Matthew Perryman Jones, Donald William Chaffer
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Other Album Tracks

  1. Stones From the Riverbed
  2. Poisoning the Well
  3. I Won't Let You Down Again
  4. O Theo
  5. Sleeping With a Stranger
  6. Waking the Dead
  7. Keep It On the Inside
  8. Canción de la Noche
  9. The Angels Were Singing
  10. Land of the Living

All Album Tracks: Land of the Living >

Altri album

  1. Intimate Strangers
  2. Learning to Fall - Single
  3. Belly of the Beast - Single
  4. The Waking Hours
  5. Lovers in Another Life
  6. Anything Goes
  7. Careless Man (feat. Young Summer) - Single
  8. Careless Man
  9. Land of the Living (From the Trailer of "Manchester by the Sea")
  10. Living in the Shadows

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