Gareth Jones Songs
Album Four
12.Hurstpierpoint (4:08)
I fancied a girl who came from this town, and I did once say I’d go and visit her there –
I never did.
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Hurstpierpoint
I sat in an open window, as a canon to my thoughts
And the daylight shone in silent vitiation of them all
And the clouded fields were clearing
As the shadows passed me by
I am waiting for a summer recollecting other times
And I see your face so clearly as a model for a frame
And your name begins to haunt me
In its smooth autumnal way
Is a meeting chanced upon a fate the basis for a song?
If I never followed feelings than I never would be wrong
For the world that people live in is surrounding an oasis
Bringing water to the creatures that I want to put my faith in
I am looking to the Eastern House, a way of future lands
Hurstpierpoint is calling me
In phrases which I want to understand
Understand, understand
Carry forward syndromes of a past received before
And we’ll let the stock of images become the dreams we saw
As the flying kite is soaring to a height that we would love
Can I let the wings of apathy return me to above?
And all the secrets of the past are buried once again
And a brighter light is shining from the caverns of the pain
And I’ll hold your hand in fields of hope the way we had before
But now a door is opening to interrupt the wall
For the world that people live in is surrounding an oasis
Bringing water to the creatures that I want to put my faith in
I am looking to the Eastern House, a way of future lands
Hurstpierpoint is calling me
In phrases which I want to understand
Understand, understand
Fly on Golden Eagles as a hope once held to rest
As the memories preserved in glass, the newer ones are best
For to wait for nineteen-eighty is an age and half away
Will we see the painted houses
Will we watch that Passion Play?
As the Skye you knew still beckons you, I turn towards the sea
To travel to a unknown land of hopeful mystery
Where I think you have been waiting
Where I think the summer lies
And I carry forward attitudes that now are reconciled
For the world that people live in is surrounding an oasis
Bringing water to the creatures that I want to put my faith in
I am looking to the Eastern House, a way of future lands
Hurstpierpoint is calling me
In phrases which I want to understand
Understand, understand
Hurstpierpoint is calling me
In phrases which I want to understand
Understand, understand
