The Greatest Living Englishman-David Sylvian

[02:26.49]Here we are then here we are [02:32.45] [02:34.74]Notes from a suicide [02:37.89] [02:44.18]And he will never ever be [02:48.26] [02:49.79]The Greatest Living Englishman [02:54.15] [03:09.79]It's such a melancholy blue [03:13.60] [03:15.00]Or a grey of no significance [03:18.89] [03:21.74]Plastic coated surfaces [03:25.11] [03:27.25]A space to place his suitcase [03:30.99] [03:32.53]As it's passed from A to B [03:36.21] [03:59.69]But it's such a melancholy blue [04:03.52] [04:05.13]The curtains round the bed are drawn [04:08.89] [04:10.39]Broadcast voices from the ward [04:13.76] [04:15.69]The humming of machines hurt [04:18.87] [04:21.18]But there are distances between [04:25.14] [04:28.88]Yes there are distances between [04:34.92] [04:49.69]His aspirations visited him nightly [04:54.29] [04:56.08]And amounted to so little [04:59.92] [05:01.51]Too much self in his writing [05:04.67] [05:07.56]Now he will never ever be [05:10.88] [05:13.39]The Greatest Living Englishman [05:18.84] [05:31.12]The engine shifts into second gear [05:34.74] [05:36.02]They're all aboard accounted for [05:39.98] [05:40.95]It's a journey he must make alone [05:44.79] [05:46.36]The black sheep boy is leaving home [05:51.20] [05:56.06]It's been rehearsed a thousand times or more [06:00.81] [06:02.04]He's well prepared of that he's sure [06:06.38] [06:10.30]But still it's such a melancholy blue [06:13.68] [06:17.42]As he erased a page of history [06:21.22] [06:23.22]Much as he'd intended to [06:26.55] [06:53.22]He wouldn't speak or show you he was happy [06:57.72] [06:59.44]Though you'd meet him with your eyes [07:02.33] [07:05.22]There was a wall that always stood between you [07:09.72] [07:12.61]He'd shut himself outside [07:16.22] [07:27.05]And the love that he engendered [07:30.50] [07:31.46]Would never be enough [07:33.81] [07:35.37]For him to feel alive [07:38.41] [07:39.19]Warm and tender [07:41.96] [07:44.93]He'd shut himself outside [07:48.45] [08:08.33]Not a fake or a sham [08:11.20]But dug in deep and fighting [08:14.28] [08:16.57]The world could not embrace a man [08:20.16] [08:21.45]With so much self in his writing [08:25.35] [08:43.64]And he was never gonna be [08:47.94] [08:49.43]The Greatest Living Englishman [08:54.04] [08:57.66]He had ideas above his station [09:01.21] [09:03.89]Minor virtues go unmentioned [09:08.32] [09:15.92]Little England you fit like a straightjacket [09:20.26]Hemmed by the genius of others [09:24.10] [09:26.17]He said [09:27.26] [09:28.49]To conquer the world is not to the trace [09:33.35] [09:35.01]Remove even the shadow of the memory of your face [09:41.24] [09:47.96]A grey of no significance