Sympathy (for Tommorow) Lyrics

Sympathy (for Tommorow) lyrics

I'm not asking for favors 

not tonight 

I look up in the sky...... 

all the rockets fall down (fall down) 

too many promises 

too many lies 

too many faces for me to know 



Sometimes I sit among the markers 

and contemplate my next life 

says something less sympathetic- 

"a little more unconditional respect was buried here" 



"But it never lived 

and it never died 

it never came from them 

it was always inside......" 



I don't care if time just passes us by 

I can stand the change...... 

but not the cruelty 

too many promises 

too many lies 

too many faces for me to know 



Sometimes I sit among the markers 

and contemplate my next life 

says something less sympathetic- 

"a little more unconditional respect was buried here" 



"But it never lived 

and it never died 

it never came from them 

it was always inside......" 



Thy soul shall find itself alone 

'Mid dark thoughts of the grey tomb-stone; 

Not one, of all the crowd, to pry 

Into thine hour of secrecy. 



Be silent in that solitude, 

Which is not loneliness- for then 

The spirits of the dead, who stood 

In life before thee, are again 

In death around thee, and their will 

Shall overshadow thee; be still. 



The night, though clear, shall frown, 

And the stars shall not look down 

From their high thrones in the Heaven 

With light like hope to mortals given, 

But their red orbs, without beam, 

To thy weariness shall seem 

As a burning and a fever 

Which would cling to thee for ever. 



Now are thoughts thou shalt not banish, 

Now are visions ne'er to vanish; 

From thy spirit shall they pass 

No more, like dew-drop from the grass.