Manning - The House on the Hill lyrics

I. The Frame I'm standing staring at this photograph I thought I saw you start to smile Curled edges & sellotape, beauty and entropy entwined I fall in love with this memory I fall in love with this face I will reach down through the Ages and stop Time & Space Turn back the clocks! Along the Hawking miles Folded in on ourselves in some paradigm I see myself walking slowly in Autumn Kicking stones down some leafy English lane & suddenly it hits me, I'm alone, I call your name Cold sepia gla** I feel the moments pa** me by the house on the hill is so far away. II. Travel Plans Fixate on a single point in Time These bu*terfly wings can still arise Inner point of view locked in my heart Ride on the beam back to the start Mad jugglers stand in line, & they recognise their King! Tumblers in the clockwork mind begin… …they begin to sing Thin gossamer webs with strange designs Promised whispers from the other side - A trick of the light, a trick on the mind No worries at all about what's left behind Court jesters wait in line, They recognise - not a thing! Players of the morbid games begin we begin to sing III. The Other Shoreline It's Alright, It's OK Under the portal gaze there is some calm & some waiting & some breathing It's not quite how I thought it would be, but then what do I know? Got to get my dead ducks in a row Ferryman, here is your coin Take me to the other side But hurry now I'm all for being on my way Slip through the moorings, feel the oars Cast adrift on the other shore my destiny is there, waiting for me No sounds of water No slipstream in our wake I'm into the Shadowlands Where the dead are still awake No signs of any Grand Estates In this wasteland, desolate I search for her amongst the lost blank faces Black & white, all shapes & sizes the overwhelming sorrow that this flow comprises I look for her within the wandering crowd...but she's not there IV. Into the Light Left staring at this photograph I only want to see you smile & there you are before me now, found in Time Turn back the clocks! & make this moment last Together as one, from out of the Past Hand In Hand We walk towards the horizon Lost in each other's eyes The House on the hill is not so far away My journey's end my heart's content the end of the story as if it was always meant to be & you are with me now!