The Gulf of Araby letra

The Gulf of Araby
If you could fill a veil with shells from Killiney's shore
And sweet talk in a tongue that is no more
If wishful thought could bridge
The Gulf of Araby
Between what is
What is
What is
And what can never be

If you could hold the frozen flow of New Hope Creek
And hide out from the one they said you might meet
If you could unlearn all the words
That you never wanted heard
If you could stall the southern wind
That's whistling in your ear
You could take what is
What is
What is
To what can never be

One man of seventy whispers free at last
Two neighbours who are proud of their massacres
Three tyrants torn away in a winter's month
Four prisoners framed by a dirty judge
Five burned with tyres
Six men still inside
And seven more days to shake at the great divide

We would plough and part the earth to bring you home
We would harvest every miracle ever known
If they laid out all the things
That these ten years want to bring
We would gladly give them up
To bring you back to us
O, there is nothing we would not give
To kiss you and believe we can take what is
What is
What is
To what can never be

One man at seventy whispers not free yet
Two neighbors who wake up knee-deep in their death
Three tyrants grab the reins in the summer's heat
Four prisoners lost in the fallacy
Five, on my life
Six, I'm dead inside
And seven more days to shake at the great divide

Natalie Merchant - Letras

• (From) Both Sides Now
• Adventures of Isabel
• After The Gold Rush
• All I Want
• Autumn Lullaby
• Baby I Love You
• Because the Night
• Beloved Wife
• Black Sheep
• Bleezer's Ice-Cream
• Break Your Heart
• Build A Levee
• Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow
• But Not For Me
• Calico Pie
• Carnival
• Children Go Where I Send Thee
• Come Take A Trip In My Airship
• Cowboy Romance
• Crazy man Michael
• Crying, My Little One
• Diver boy
• Down on Penny's farm
• Dust Bowl
• Effigy
• Equestrienne
• Frozen Charlotte
• Giving Up Everything
• Go Down, Moses
• Golden Boy
• Griselda
• Gulf Of Araby
• House Carpenter
• How You've Grown
• I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You
• I May Know The Word
• I Saw a Ship A-sailing
• I'm Not Gonna Beg
• If No One Ever Marries Me
• In the Ghetto
• Indian Names
• It Makes A Change
• It's A-coming
• Jealousy
• Just Can't Last
• Kind & Generous
• King of May
• Ladybird
• Last goodbye
• Life Is Sweet
• Lowlands Of Holland
• Lulu
• Maggie And Milly And Molly And May
• Maggie Said
• Misguided Angel
• Motherland
• My Skin
• Noah's dove
• Not In This Life
• Nursery Rhyme Of Innocence And Experience
• Ode To Billy Joe
• One Fine Day
• Ophelia
• Ophelia
• Owensboro
• Peace train
• Poor Wayfaring Stranger
• Put The Law On You
• River
• Saint Judas
• Sally Ann
• San Andreas Fault
• Santa Baby
• Seven Deadly Sins
• Seven Years
• Soldier, Soldier
• Son Of A Preacher Man
• Space Oddity
• Spring And Fall: To a Young Child
• Sweet And a Lullaby
• Sympathy For The Devil
• Take A Look
• Tell Yourself
• Texas
• The Ballad of Henry Darger
• The Blind Men And The Elephant
• The Dancing Bear
• The End
• The Gulf of Araby
• The Janitor's Boy
• The King Of China's Daughter
• The Land Of Nod
• The Letter
• The Living
• The Lowlands Of Holland
• The Man In The Wilderness
• The Missionary's Daughter
• The Peppery Man
• The Sleepy Giant
• The Walloping Window Blind
• The Worst Thing
• Thick As Thieves
• This House Is On Fire
• To Sir With Love (feat. Michael Stipe)
• Topsyturvey-world
• Tower of Babel
• Vain And Careless
• Verdi Cries
• Weeping Pilgrim
• When They Ring The Golden Bells
• Where I Go
• Which Side Are You On?
• Wonder