Wild Silk

Stand Up

I'm walking round the ancient quarters
Their owners left them long ago
Maybe time forgot those houses
Rushing where it had to go

Once somebody chanced to tell me
What they knew of life and death
About the way things keep on changing
How to hear our hidden breath

Stand up for nothing less and nothing more
Than love, for love is our heartbeat
And the dearest thing we have

I'm walking through the living history
On a shining summer day
What blooms and fades ... tells a story:
Tales of slendour and decay

Dusty pearls from another time
Juwels from forgotten days
Stones and walls that confite in me
Secrets of the human race

Stand up for nothing less and nothing more
Than love, for love is our heartbeat
And the dearest thing we have

A cat is on the roof she's watching
Her kittens playing a hunting game
I see her from my hotel window
A snapshot in a picture frame

Stand up for nothing less and nothing more
Than love, for love is our heartbeat
And the dearest thing we have