Palace of Memory

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Old lovers walk through walls So soft their footfalls In the hours after midnight they call on me [Verse 2] "Is this regret?" they say This lonely shadow-puppet play You're lost in a maze and you can't get free [Pre-Chorus] Echoes in empty halls All round my bed The moon shines and the night bird calls Listen [Chorus] Beneath the green grass the stone Beneath the pretty flesh the bone In the palace of memory Beneath the green grass the stone Beneath the pretty flesh the bone In the palace of memory You lie, you lie alone [Verse 3] Old lovers fade away Into the break of day They melt in the light at my window sill [Verse 4] A waking world outside I throw the window open wide In the roar of the traffic I hear them still [Pre-Chorus] Wake up, I try and try My ghosts never say goodbye Listen [Chorus] Beneath the green grass the stone Beneath the pretty flesh the bone In the palace of memory Beneath the green grass the stone Beneath the pretty flesh the bone In the palace of memory You lie, you lie alone [Bridge] Get up, get up Don't let 'em see you cry Get up, get up Don't let 'em wonder why Get up, get up Don't let 'em see you cry Get up, get up [Pre-Chorus] Wake up, I try and try My ghosts never say goodbye Listen [Chorus] Beneath the green grass the stone Beneath the pretty flesh the bone In the palace of memory Beneath the green grass the stone Beneath the pretty flesh the bone In the palace of memory You lie, you lie alone Your life's a candle burning down Take off that solitary crown In the palace of memory Beneath the green grass the stone Beneath the pretty flesh the bone In the palace of memory You lie, you lie alone