Bob Geldof - The Soft Soil lyrics

Let the soil be your soft pillow The gra**y blankets keep you warm Let the leafy branches cool you And the blue skies keep you from all harm Let the wind keep fresh your memory Let it blow across the land Let the rain refresh your spirit Let the damp earth hold your hand Memory is sometimes perfect Sometimes clearer than the light You can wade and wallow through it In the hollows of the night And I can see your white and tired face Pale ghosts flitting through empty streets There are Christs here of another faith And no Christ will be beneath them Now the evening sun is racing on Lying flat on wintry fields It carries on its restless winds The sounds of fifty church bells peeling And all the bells you've ever heard Are ringing out for what you've done Like all the dreams in all the world You're shining reckless like the sun And in the moment of your madness In the center of that storm You understood it takes the same time For man to die as to be born Someday, maybe When it gets them down They will understand your bodies Have pulled them up As they went down And all the hope in all the world is weighing down on top of you So come on Show me what to do I'll follow you Down this road And try to learn from you This may not mean a lot to you It means a lot to me Your breath will still be breathing softly In a nighttime filled with stars Drifting like a dream in sleep Softly beating in your heart This may not mean a lot to you It means a lot to me