The Librarian

Released at October 17, 2005

Release date:

October 17, 2005

Samadhi Sound

Length:

9:01

Status:

Official

Publisher:

published by opium (arts) ltd. / freibank

Lyrics

Keep your head down
Keep your head down
While theyre firing low
Youre too young child
To know the difference

Oh my pretty
Oh my sweet girl
Its a marvelous place
They put weights down
In your coat tails to burn you out

Lest you fly
Lest you take off
And show whomever whats what.
Its one outrageous lie after another

Turn their lights out
Change the channel
Before we lose the heart
To fight against belief in what theyre saying

Theres a hotel
With a dark room
At the end of a corridor
I will meet you
To the strains of Allah

We will lie back
On a pillow of the whitest snow
And the silence we were promised
Will engulf us

Lay your head down
Keep your head down
While theyre firing low
Youre too young child
Youre too young child

We will wake up
From the dreams that bury us
We will tunnel our way out
By moonlight

From the dark room
To the white streets and the snow banks
Well invest in one anothers future

Oh my pretty
Oh my sweet girl
Its a marvelous place
She designed it
With escape routes
For you and me

So to the library
With your new card
Grab your favorite books
Look for blueprints
To the strains of Allah
Here we go.

Benevolence is in back
Of everyplace you look
Its not a monstrous face she is hiding

If I see her
I will tell you
Youll come quickly
If you see her
Dont hesitate just go

But til then

Keep your head down
Keep your head down
While theyre firing low
Youre too young child
Youre too young child

Youre too young child
Here we go

A track from the Nine Horses album.

Bass Guitar – Keith Lowe
Clarinet – Hayden Chisholm
Drums, Percussion – Steve Jansen
Electric Guitar – Tim Motzer
Loops, Synthesizer, Percussion, Piano – Burnt Friedman
Music – Burnt Friedman
Vibraphone – Morten Grønvad
Vocals – David Sylvian

produced and arranged by david sylvian, burnt friedman