A Land Beyond

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And this can't be love.

And this can't be love.

I sat up in the purple light before the dawn

With three words that came to me inside a dream

Trying to work out what it is that they might mean -A land beyond -And this can't be love.

And this can't be love. And this can't be love.

I took the words out walking by the water's edge

Bathed them in the ripples 'til it made them gleam Maybe one day they'll merge on many magazines For a land beyond

And this can't be love.

And this can't be love.

-And this can't be love.

-You could call it Camelot Or the Silas side of another world

A night in jail, the Celtic veil

The emerald eyes of a girl But who birthed the words?

Every signal needs a sender And why me? And why now?

I hold the words up to the light

And I think the sunset sees it

The words become a walking thing that talks to me

It cups my ears and tells me that my longing feeds it And there's a distant shore beyond my memories

It tells me that to get there I must tear apart

Everything and everyone I've ever loved It knows a place where we could make sense

In a land beyond

God bless these eyes for showing me the dangers Of sentimental self-sabotage Now I can hear the call that it calling From a land beyond

Oh cursed eclipse that did I deceive

Useless as pagans and open seas

Chasing the saints across the sea

A land beyond that waits for me

No army triumphs, no flag can lead

Just English lions with rotten teeth

For I can take this with a degree

Our brothers grip is panic for a land beyond

And this can't be love. And this can't be love. And this can't be love.

I sat up in the purple light before the dawn

With three words that came to me inside a dream I'm in the water trying to work out what it means A land beyond