[Verse 1]
Well, hello there, sweet to see you
Like your colour, how you doin'?
I've been battered and bewildered
In the beauty of your ruins
Flash, flash and I am blinded
By the fact that you've been born
Feels like fiction
Life goes on
Brown eyes are gone
[Verse 2]
Silence is a virtue
I was taught so I agreed
Conversation half forgotten
Is the hole I hold in me
And all our language and expression
Is decimated by decree
The sound of song
Dies in the dawn
Brown eyes are gone
[Bridge]
Descended slowly on the steps of the cathedral
Where I kissed you
Remembered candles lit with meaning I imposed
But that escaped you
With your brown eyes and your blue jeans
I heard the chiming of the clocks
Kick out the shifting, shuffling rhythm of your docs
[Verse 3]
Hit the road with my compadre
Saw the city incomplete
We were tossed and torn and tumbled
In your famous foreign streets
I felt so fearless and forgotten
No one numbered nothing neat
The sun has shone
We still belong
Brown eyes are gone
[Verse 4]
So farewell then, señorita
Pianos played and set the tone
I was singin' like a servant
To the tune of telephones
I wish you freedom and forgiveness
And a time that is your own
Blue is the colour
Mine's the moment
Brown eyes are gone
Blue is the colour
Mine's the moment
Brown eyes are gone
Pianos and Clocks was written by Roddy Frame.
Pianos and Clocks was produced by 坂本龍一 (Ryuichi Sakamoto) & Roddy Frame.