After transcribing the lyrics to Anna Domino's Mysteries of America album, I turned to the older (1987) album, "This Time".
The album has ten tracks, all written (as far as I can tell) by Anna Domino.
This album and others are available from LTM Publishing.
I contacted Anna Domino to ask for permission to reproduce these lyrics here, and she was once again kind enough to correct the many errors I made in my transcription. (For some tracks, she typed in most of the lyrics herself.)
Here we are polite, well-informed, and mannerly All our boys and girls have money and enough to eat And weave a thread through the whole community Showing how we value heredity And what it means to belong to the fatherland Know the aborigine, colourful but out of hand And now and then others come and threaten us And we fall back on forces we can trust And we shake our fists at the posters on the bar room wall We display our public grievance in the editorial page Or else we paint it on a subway hall We look upon a world but we're not quite part of it All the trouble there surely isn't our fault All the pain and hate and the needless punishment We've grown out of that and we're quite proud of it And something else that should well bear mentioning Once we were on top, fashionable and interesting And we held sway over half this ship of fools Subject to our values, myths, and rules We know we can't afford to lose the past So full of moral lessons We thought would always last But now so many years without a war We have a generation A generation Rotten to the core!
More than just once We chance on something Much larger than life Emotions so strong They conjure an ocean Of fear and delight We seek to find each other We reach and clasp another And places we've been to And left far behind us Suddenly become home As passion and sentimentality Takes on a life Of its own Some days deserve another Some never quite recover More than just once More than just once Passed on a highway Or lost in a crowd Dreamed of at midnight Remembered by day Never spoken out loud Far off in a world Frightened by changes And bored with its fate We wait for the miracle Promised at birth Always so late We listen for an answer And come to court disaster We seek to find another We reach and clasp each other More than just once
Time for us A time for us Love stepped in On a heart that you could trust Is there someone you can call?—I don't know What's the real thing after all?—Tell me One mistake can lead to another Storms must break and threaten us all Words take shape, roll over and under I have held my love to break my fall Time for us In time for us Short and sweet Betrays faith so incomplete Who's the one that you would call?—I don't know What's the real thing after all?—Tell me One clean break leads into another Storms must rage and weather us all I've seen faith and looked on in wonder I have used my love to break my fall Time for us Left to us Walks that beat On a dead-end one-way street Who'll be waiting at the end?—I don't know Brother, sister, police men?—Tell me One mistake can lead to another Storms must break and threaten and blind I see lightning and listen to thunder I will hide my love inside this time Time to find the time to—Give to us Time to find the time that's—Left to us Time to take a chance that—We know we must The laws of romance say—In time we trust In time for us...
He has sympathy and tenderness Eyes that never tell a lie Unspoken hope for what has come to less And faith in everything in sight Patient as an angel Waiting for the signal He's sure will arrive Bringing change into his life I wait impatient for the sun to rise In silence loaded like a gun He says that everything will work out right I know this change will never come Angry and unstable Tired and unable to find This change to come It won't change my mind Is this serious? What's so mysterious to me How do I know if it's time this time? What's to become of us if I can never trust you with Hope and sorrow of my heart and mind I know the passions of a younger love Can turn around overnight We've turned so many times by now my love It's hard to tell the wrong from right Wouldn't we breathe easier Once we have really begun Calling for this change to come He has sympathy and tenderness Eyes that never tell a lie I wait impatient for the sun to set This change to come into my life
This time, though nothing is said I've realised I'm being misled And this anger grows, and grows, and grows Once I... I thought that I knew The purpose of pride when a love proves untrue But I know now how low, how low, how low... I can hardly find the words In the lies I have heard They have lost whatever meaning they once had If you could know how I feel Kind of spent and unreal Would you call me back or cast me off instead? This time, I thought that I knew But I've realised the love is untrue And this anger grows, and grows, and grows I can hardly find the words In the lies I have heard They have lost whatever meaning they once had If you could know how I feel Kind of spent and unreal Would you call me back or cast me off instead? I've brought it all on myself You say, and how can I tell If I misunderstood you or made it this way It's done with anyway And I'll never hear you say another word I can hardly find the words In the lies I have heard I can hardly find the words In the lies... They have lost whatever meaning they once had If you could know how I feel Kind of spent and unreal Would you call me back or cast me off instead? I can hardly find the words In the lies I have heard They have lost whatever meaning they once had
You watch me What will you say? When I face you You look away What's on your mind This time? You know me well You know the longing is so strong You might be right But your intentions are all wrong I've shut that door Before So you tempt me Don't tempt me What am I to do? For every worthy demon in me Angels of my reason speak too I wait here For time to tell So many things I fear I've Never felt This racing heart Stands apart So you tempt me Don't tempt me Spin the wheel again So tempting Don't tempt me I don't play to win We must battle somewhere beyond the words of virtue and sin So you tempt me Don't tempt me Here the ice is thin So tempting Don't I would never win So tempting Don't tempt me Save my precious skin This mystery means more to me Than anything you say to draw me in Tempt me with time on your side My time is spent in reverie Tell me what's yours could be mine Mine to be tempting...
(Music video!)
They fought, she walked out the door He thought, this woman is such a bore He stood his ground and let her She always came back before And she walked, as fast as her feet would go Traffic, crowds, and anger made her go awful slow As she runs she stumbles It's all over now, where can she go And they say that if you can't tell someone just what you want If you never give an answer to that question in your heart All is lost And she thought: If I could only free myself from this history of pain My life might take a turn and I might learn to love again I never give enough of what I have to give and then He never guessed what I possess, I never knew that man I guess I'll always wonder, I'll never understand And they say that if you can't tell someone just what you want If you never give an answer to that question in your thoughts And if you can't tell someone just what you want If you never give an answer to that question in your thoughts All is lost And they say: Once upon a time there was a thrill within my heart I noticed only pretty things until we fell apart The falling took much longer and it seems to linger still But maybe that's a memory, a wish that's unfulfilled I never made a promise and now I never will And they say that if you can't tell someone just what you want If you never give an answer to that question in your thoughts And if you can't tell someone just what you want If you never give an answer to that question in your heart If you never mention it All is lost All is lost when she walked
I can't say why, I won't say when I'll ever find my place inside this race to win There's nothing new in this dirty old town My friends are all off somewhere else when I'm around And the falling rain I don't doubt it It falls and it falls again Falling rain to the centre of the earth What is it worth If it all gets washed away? We soon forget what it was for Another empire finds its way back to the shore Those moments when this race excelled Were very few and far between our race to hell And the falling rain I don't doubt it It falls and it falls again Falling rain to the centre of the earth What is it worth If it all gets washed away? And the falling rain I don't doubt it It falls as it falls and then Falling rain to the centre of the earth It falls and it falls again Falling rain I don't doubt it It falls as it falls and then It falls as it falls and it falls as it falls again Falling rain...
I dreamed again last night You were sleeping in my arms Another chance to make it right Slips right through my hands And you come to harm This must be paradise 'cause we can't be in heaven yet I won't sleep at all tonight I may never sleep again How could you leave me? Here and alone How could you leave me? Alone It seems this sorrow comes And says so much that leaves so much To be said to each other once Unspoken leaves behind a heart of lead And the raging thoughts that run Through every chance and every possibility Chasing down the cord To this curtain of finality How could you leave me? Here and alone How could you leave me? Alone How could you leave me? Here and alone How could you leave me? Here I dreamed again last night You were sleeping in my arms Another chance to make it right Slips right through my hands And you come to harm This must be paradise 'cause we can't be in heaven yet I won't sleep at all tonight I may never sleep again It seems this sorrow comes And says so much that leaves so much To be said to each other once Unspoken leaves behind a heavy heart of lead And the raging thoughts that run Through every chance and every possibility Chasing down the cord To this curtain of finality How could you leave me? Here and alone How could you leave me? Here... Away from the poison flowers Far from the sharpened corners I'll keep you from the edge And back from the jaws that yawn and beg
In this place, wide and endless Surrounding the lake Where the water waits silently I walk in place Once begun So tell me now I'm swept in your wake I can't stand on in silence Walking to the other side of the lake I know somehow all your sufferers and tyrants Walked this way In the sky, pale and empty No wind ever blows And the flowers of dreams Slip by as I go Looking back So tell me now I rush in your wake Can I follow you in silence? Walking to the other side of the lake It seems somehow we have finally arrived To turn away So tell me now While I'm swept in your wake I can't stand on in silence Moving towards the other side I know somehow we have finally arrived So tell me now I'm swept in your wake Will we know it when we get there? Searching for the other side of the lake It seems somehow every sufferer and tyrant Walked this way So tell me now I'll dive as you say Breaking this silence I will reach the other side of the lake And see myself like Ophelia in flowers Drift away So tell me now I rush in your wake Can I follow you in silence? Walking to the other side of the lake It seems somehow we have finally arrived To turn away So tell me now...Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>