Bergen

from Disconnected by ianto mabon

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It’s been an awful year since I was here with you
You walked me through the autumn cold
Through the pretty streets to park of statues
And that feels like our love now, suspended in
Frames and songs and poems I wrote
And memories of yours I don’t know
It’s that I feel lonely only that I know
How it felt to share air with you
And see your dying eyes take it all in


Then I took a train from Oslo’s afternoon
I saw the moving window’s view
All the mountains under snow
And all the little towns I’ll never visit
I will never capture them in words or song
And that’s okay with me
I’ve got memory


I sat there every night and I watched the water-lights
From the traffic and the tops of buildings
And boats that moved through the black harbour
I smoked to keep myself warm, to feel the nicotine
With some music just to keep me company
Oh, Elliott you’re always with me
On every street I walked down I saw new beauty born
The painted white clapboard houses
And the fjords so dark under the grey sky
I didn’t have to talk or to prove myself
Sometimes I don’t have the fight for
This life that feels like a contest
I found a solace in all the pictures on the wall
A history of transposition
Transcendence in the paint on paper
And that is all I want now, to make something true
Something that moves beyond my death
To be heard or read or felt for centuries


Then I took a train from Bergen in the rain
I saw the lights shimmering below
Oh, what a sight and what a life
I thought of living, thought of dying
How could I be satisfied with only this?
And how could I not be
Satisfied?

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from Disconnected, released April 5, 2020
Ianto Jones - Vocals & Instrumentation

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