Gentle Giant - Under Construction [compilation] (1997) by Gentle Giant (보컬) on maniadb.com

Now she sits by the riverside
Watching the waters glide by,
With a sigh
And the things she put faith in
Are ripples just waving her by
With a sigh
She sees lovers pass by with
much more than a kiss
Ah this little girl who had everything finds
she's nothing at all
Now the wind seems so cold
Seems all old as it laughs at her fears
And her tears
And as ducks swim away from her
Visions of past love appear
In her tears
She sees love in his face
as she tells him to go,
And so here's a girl who had everything now
she's Nothing at all

What could she do if she saw him now;
Now that he's gone she's losing
If she could see what she's seeing now
For sure she's more than just choosing

Now she sits by the riverside
Watching the waters glide by,
With a sigh
And the things she put faith in
Are ripples just waving her by,
With a sigh
She sees lovers pass by
with much more than a kiss
Ah this little girl who had everything finds
She's nothing at all

Three friends are made, three lives are laughs and tears
Through years of school and play they share
As time stands still the days change into years
And future comes without a care.
But fate and skill and chances play their part
The wind of change leaves no good-bye
Three boys are men their ways have drawn apart
They tell their tales to justify.

The bell rings
And all things
Are calling
The days past
The play's cast
Remember
September
When we were
Together
Together
Together
Schooldays the happy days when we were going nowhere
Schooldays the happy time when we were feeling no care
Schooldays when three said that we'd better be friends forever
How long is ever isn't it strange
Schooldays together why do they change.
Did kites fly
And I spy
And you cry
To run fast
Or come last
You know how
We made vows
They're gone now
We made friends
We broke friends
No more friends
Remember,
Remember when we
Together
Went to the sea
Was it real or did we dream. The days of children gone.
Seagull's scream and pink ice cream and the deep blue sky
And the waves seem high and golden sand and the town
brass band play on.
Wait for me
Wait for us always
Wait for me
Wait for us to come
Homework's dull. It's worth the pain to go out when I want
Mister Watson wants to see you in the master's room. It's
about the work you should have done and I think you
must go now.

There coming over Charaton Bridge
Look do you see the man who is poor but rich.
What do you wish, and where do you go,
Who are you, where are you from,
Will you tell me your name?
Rest awhile, call me your friend.
Please stay with me I'd like to help.

Then he said,
How can I speak when I'm dry and my
Throat is burning. So bring me aid
And I'll answer your doubts.
Friend in need I'd like your help
Please take me home I'll stay with you.
Then said he fair Pantagruel
My name is Panurge and I have come from Hell.

Look at my friend
Look all around you
Look at my friend
Take all round you.

Hey, Friend
?
So brotherhood was made as their bond
Carried him home and provide for his needs
And his shelter, this day was done
As no other the like.
Faithfully their vow was made and from
That day they were as one.

Lying down here in the afternoon
In my pretty cosy little cushioned room
I can talk to all my funny friends in here
I was told to rest why ... I am not quite clear
Eating flowers growing in the garden where there are tasty
tulips and I don't care
If I wet my trousers there was no time
I had nowhere else to go nowhere else I could find

Staring up at the great big white light
That shines everyday and shines all through the night
Hearing voices of the silly friends of mine
Always lock the door nurses waiting outside all the time

Hurt myself this morning, Doctor gave me warning sent me
to my room and told me that I'm bad

I heard someone saying I think he'll be staying maybe for a
long time, Why does everybody else think that I'm mad
I heard someone saying I think he'll be staying maybe for a
long time and that I'm mad

Lying down here in the afternoon
In my pretty cosy little cushioned room
I can talk to all my funny friends in here
I was told to rest why ... I am not quite clear

You'll find an answer, You've got to believe in your own way
of life.
So you'll have to find an answer, You'll have to find a way,
Try to find, Try to find.

You'll try to question her, Does she believe in the choice of
your life.
So you have to try to ask her, when you are away, left
behind, out of mind; away.

And in the end you discover, examine, you have to decide if
there is an answer, if there is a way, Let her find piece of
mind.

And another day, all alone, think there is away at home.
Every other may, have their own, way of life that is their
own.
And your wandering only a game to realise no joy your
own.

And another day, all alone, choice of life is not your own.

You'll try to question her, Does she believe in the way of
your life.
So you have to try to ask her, You'll have to find a way, left
behind, out of mind; away.

Once I was a boy, an innocent to life and my role in it,
This world played my game, and anyone a clown or foil for
myself

The harmless affairs, and no-one seemed to care for any
meaning
My life was my own, The debt I paid, I paid it only to
myself

The unseeing youth, how can it be so shallow and short-
sighted
These years passed me by, to realise the folly of these unripe
years

Now I am a man, I realise
My unworldly sins pained many lives
Yet I heard, heard with ears that wouldn't listen
And still I watched and I saw with blinkered eyes

But with age the conscience slowly dawns and bonds of
duty gently tied
All my sins, seen through now there is experience and
recollecting act in virgin guise.

Master inner voices, making the choices

Once I could rebel and consequences then had no reflection
And I am a man, And I am bound by adult age discretion
now

Empty promise broken the path has
not been paved any
way
Cogs in cogs the machine
is being left where it lay
Anger and the rising murmur breaks
the old circle, the wheel slowly turns around

All words saying nothing
the air is sour with discontent
No returns have been tasted
or are they ever sent
Slowly burning is the fire, rising murmur breaks
the old circle, the wheel slowly turns around

Cogs in cogs wheel turning
around,
The circle tuns around,
the changing voices calling
circle turns around,
the changing voices
Slow burning is the fire rising murmur breaks
the old circle, the wheel slowly turns around

cogs in cogs in wheels
in circles slowly turn around

See me, what I am, what I was, what I'll be,
Hear me, understand that I'm not what you see
Take this, take the man, middle term, common me
Don't you see that I'm just doing what I want to do
Nothing more and nothing less than you
Read no thoughts I didn't think myself
Just the same as anybody else

Make me someone else, put me up on a stand.
Something that I don't really want on my hands
Use me, idolise all you can understand
Don't you see that I'm just doing what I want to do
Nothing more and nothing less than you
Read no thoughts I didn't think myself
Just the same as anybody else

Change it, what you think, what you thought, what you say
Look for something more than you sought yesterday.
I don't want to be part of your life to-day.
Don't you see that I'm just doing what I want to do
Nothing more and nothing less than you
Read no thoughts I didn't think myself
Just the same as anybody else

Who would believe me now that my hands are free,
that my hands are free
I never thought it would ever come to me,
ever come to me
Now that my life's my own, I leave you behind,
leaving you behind
What ever made you think that I'd change my mind,
that I'd change my mind

It wasn't hard to run, break away from you,
break away from you,
After all you'd done, what was I to do,
what was I to do
Who's gonna take my place in the games you play,
in the games you play
Nobody's listening now to the things you say,
all the things you say

Now my hands are free from the ties, from the ties
Now I look forward to the future, where it lies
And with you, feeling low, looking black
Here, now my head is clear, why should I look back

When it was over did you have regrets,
did you have regrets
Or did you really think it was over yet,
it was over yet
Now that my life's my own I leave you behind,
leaving you behind
What ever made you think that I'd change my mind,
change my mind
Change my mind
Change my mind

Rests where he's staying, nowhere he knows,
A place where nobody cares where he's straying or where he goes.
To find no-one in particular, footloose, adventure still,
No thoughts for reasons, he does all he's doing
Has time to kill and still he's killing the time.

Sundowner, drifting from place to place,
Where all he needs is the shelter from seasons he was to face,
No bounds or duties are his, never seeking to find an end.
For life goes on being life, time and fortune he needs no
Friends and yet he's killing the time.

Where does he come from what did he do,
You know the answers are his hopes and promises nothing new
With no regrets he goes on doing nothing.
Himself alone, but still he finds all the time isn't wasted,
His life his own and yet he's killing the time.

And with no questions then he finds his way
Tomorrow's never dawn only today.
Content within his time just drifts away
He finds his way
He finds his way

Sundowner, drifting from place to place,
Where all he needs is the shelter from seasons he was to face,
No bounds or duties are his, never seeking to find an end.
For life goes on being life, time and fortune he needs no
Friends and yet he's killing the time.

Where does he come from what did he do,
You know the answers are his hopes and promises nothing new
With no regrets he goes on doing nothing.
Himself alone, but still he finds all the time isn't wasted,
His life his own and yet he's killing the time.

1. Isn't it strange, oh it's funny,
working for years have no money,
suddenly luck can smile on you
and your life seems worth while to you.

Chorus:
Just how much can you spend,
give it back in the end,
and the time of your season,
was no use, had no reason.

2. And you move, you go away
and you can't come home not today.


Spreading it out over the bad years,
not for those men, they can't hear.

Chorus:

3. Haven't had much in a long time,
hoping that change is going to be mine.
Don't want to go, I want to stay here,
spreading it out over the bad years.

Chorus:

(Chant)
As years drift by
and future dies.

1. He sits and he thinks
about all he's done in life,
I'm now an old man,
what have I been in life?
what did I do?
Had no end to aspire to.

2. His dreams as a boy
were of hope and intention
of making his mark
with his plans and invention,
where did they go,
how could he know how time goes.

In my day had to have
certain future,


but now you can do as you like,
all that I might have wanted,
seeking what you're after,
but not for me.

Everything comes to those who wait,
I thought everything may come to me
made my way only as I was able.

3. He knows there's no more he can do,
no romances, now bitten today
for they have all his chances,
all too late, no one waits
how time goes by.

Seeking what you're after,
but not for me
Have as my years drift by
never for me.

1. Lock the door and go,
heads still in a daze,
throw the key away,
lost all count of days.
Where's the float for the gas?
How much left does he have?
set the stage
and so here's another show
ask the band how they're feeling,
never see them now dealing,
in a way they never would
we'll get our way,
always could.

2. Sleep all day,
there's another show today,
find the map for the place,
tell him where, just in case,


set the stage and go,
here's another show.

3. Stage is empty now
always last to go.
Where tomorrow?
No, I don't want to know,
all the scene is torn down,
up again other town,
set the stage and so,
there's another show.
Are we going out tonight?
Find a friend and it's alright,
leave the morning,
moving so we can stage,
another show.

1. She knows the streets
where she walks,
never were paved with gold
can't return,
but won't dream till she's old.
leaving it soon behind
city so cold.

And everyday now so long,
how could she have been so wrong.



2. And as the morning comes,
shadows on her fall upon,
walking crowded the streets
she looked on,
packs her case
and tomorrow she's gone.

And everyday now so long,
how could she have been so wrong.

Plastic, plastic, take the modern way
Simulation, for my instant day
Why should I care, if you say that it's no good
It's for me, can't you see?
Convenience, everything is clean and easy

I can't read, but then I watch T.V.
Stimulation, they can do it for me
How can you say, what is right and what is wrong
It's for you, for me, too
Convenience, everything is clean and easy

Just believe me, it runs like a big machine
It's just for me, can't you see?
Convenience, everything is clean and easy