leaving came to us just like a song a dull geometry of lawns the sense that you are still a stranger but we were born to fade away like light looking sideways into life there is no reason we should stay here and i know you are listening to this song late in a still room with your lover now see that moon above the edge of speech as we flicker like a screen and we are gone once a spell of grace came over me and i walked on through empty streets redbricks sweat shops and madrassahs inside everything i heard a voice mechanical beyond itself like the sentence of a dreamer and i know you are listening to this song late in a still room with your lover now see that moon above the edge of speech out here beyond your reach i m singing on