Meddle

One of these days

I'm going to cut you into little pieces

A cloud of eiderdown

Draws around me

Softening the sound

Sleepy time

When I lie

With my love by my side

And she's breathing low

And the candle dies



When night comes down

You lock the door

The book falls to the floor

As darkness falls

The waves roll by

The seasons change

The wind is wry



Now wakes the hour

Now sleeps the swan

Behold a dream

The dream is gone

Green fields of cold rain

Is falling in a golden dawn



And deep beneath the ground

The early morning sounds

And I go down

Sleepy time when I lie

With my love by my side

And she's breathing low



And I rise, like a bird

In the haze

When the first rays touch the sky

And the night wings die

As I reach for a peach

Slide a rind down behind

The sofa in San Tropez

Breakin' a stick with a brick on the sand

Ridin' a wave in the wake of an old sedan



Sleepin' alone in the drone of the darkness

Scratched by the sand

That fell from my love

Deep in my dreams

And I still hear her callin'

If you're alone

I'll come home

Backward and homebound

The pigeon

The dove

Gone with the wind

And the rain on the airplane

Owning a home with no silver spoon

I'm drinking champagne

Like a good tycoon

Sooner than wait for

A break in the weather

I'll gather my far-flung

Thoughts together

Speeding away

On the wind to a new day

If you're alone

I'll come home



And I pause for a while

By a country style

And listen to the things they say

Diggin' for gold

With a hoe in my hand

Open a book

Take a look at the way things stand



And you're leading me down

To the place by the sea

I hear your soft voice

Calling to me

Making a date for

Later by phone

And if you're alone

I'll come home

I was in the kitchen

Seamus, that's the dog, was outside

Well, I was in the kitchen

Seamus, my old hound, was outside

Well, the sun sinks slowly

But my old hound done sat right down and cried

Overhead the albatross

Hangs motionless upon the air

And deep beneath the rolling waves

In labyrinths of coral caves

The echo of a distant time

Comes willowing across the sand

And everything is green and submarine

And no one showed us to the land

And no one knows the where's or why's

And something stirs and something tries

And starts to climb toward the light



Strangers passing in the street

By chance two separate glances meet

And I am you and what I see is me

And do I take you by the hand

And lead you through the land

And help me understand

The best I can



And no one calls us to the Lord

And no one forces down our eyes

And no one speaks and no one tries

No one flies around the sun



Regardless, everyday you form

Upon my waking eyes

Inviting and inciting me to rise

And through the window in the wall

Comes streaming in on sunlight wings

A million bright ambassadors of morning



And no one sings me lulabyes

And no one makes me close my eyes

So I throw the windows wide

And call to you across the sky