Arc of a Diver
Album - 1980 - Debaser id 13231

(Steve Winwood/Will Jennings)

Stand up in a clear blue morning
Until you see
What can be
Alone in a cold day dawning
Are you still free
Can you be

When some cold tomorrow finds you
When some sad old dream reminds you
How the endless road unwinds you

While you see a chance
Take it
Find romance
Fake it
Because it's all on you

Don't you know by now
No one gives you anything
And don't you wonder
How you keep on moving
One more day
Your way
Go your way

When there's no one left to leave you
Even you don't quite believe you
That's when nothing can deceive you

While you see a chance
Take it
Find romance
Fake it
Because it's all on you

Stand up in a clear blue morning
Until you see
What can be
Alone in a cold day dawning
Are you still free
Can you be

And that old grey wind is blowing
And there's nothing left worth knowing
And it's time you should be going

While you see a chance
Take it
Find romance
Fake it
Because it's all on you

While you see a chance
Take it
Find romance

While you see a chance
Take it
Find romance
(Fake it)

While you see a chance
Take it
Find romance

While you see a chance
Take it
Find romance
(Oh, fake it, baby)

She bathes me in sweetness
I cannot reveal
For sharing dreams
I need my woman

This humble expression
Meagerly dressed
My eyes so mean
It has no meaning

But jealous night and
All her secret chords
I must be deaf on the telephone
I need my love to translate

I play the piano
No more running honey
This time to the sky
I'll sing if clouds don't hear me

To the sun I'll cry
And even if I'm blinded
I'll try moon gazer
Because with you I'm stronger
I'm stronger, I'm stronger

Arc of a diver
Effortlessly
My mind in sky
And when I wake up

Daytime and nighttime
I feel you near
Warm water breathing
She helps me here

But jealous night and
All her secret chords
I must be deaf on the telephone
I need my love to translate

This time to the sky
I'll sing if clouds don't hear me

To the sun I'll cry
And even if I'm blinded
I'll try moon gazer
Because with you I'm stronger

But jealous night and
All her secret chords
I must be deaf on the telephone
I need my love to translate

This time to the sky
I'll sing if clouds don't hear me

To the sun I'll cry
And even if I'm blinded
I'll try moon gazer
Because with you I'm stronger

Doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo

Lean streaky music
Spawned on the streets
I hear it but with you
I had to go

'Cause my rock 'n' roll
Is putting on weight
And the beat it goes on

Arc of a diver
Effortlessly
My mind in sky
And when I wake up

Daytime and nighttime
I feel you near
Warm water breathing
She helps me here

But jealous night and
All her secret chords
I must be deaf on the telephone
I need my love to translate

With you my love
We're going to raid the future
With you my love
We're going to stick up the past

We'll hold today to ransom
'Til our quartz clock stop
Until yesterday
Whoa, until yesterday
Until yesterday
'Til our quartz clock stop

Sundown coming down too soon, no time to be alone
So I'll take a glass of memories and understand the blues
Oh they're the last thing you lose
Slowdown sundown, all I really need is time
For faded love songs and feelings in the wine
Let them take me down the line
Sunrise, a woman's eyes, good loving one warm afternoon
Here's to all the strong ones who don't care if they win
The kind I'll never see again
Slowdown, give me just a little while
It's not the darkness, it's just the night's so long
Puts the sadness in the song
Here's to someday when someone understands it
Why life keeps turning like a mad thing
Until that someday I'll just play what I have to play though I play it alone
Slowdown sundown, all I really need is time
For faded love songs and feelings in the wine
Let them take me down the line

I can feel the heat, no one has to tell me
It's so good, once it starts I'll never let go
I can feel the beat like a Spanish dancer
Under my feet, making the world go 'round, I can't come down
You can't hold me when I get to feeling this way
It's all over, I'm inside that music that's playing
It takes me out across the wall
It makes my life a carnival
I go out on the street and take my chances
Don't even have to ask, I know the answers

Out of the night burning with light
Train shining black, I won't look back, life is running
Hoping some day someone will say I got it made
Pull up the shade, let the sun in

Down on the K-Night train, I feel the starlight steal away
Use up a lifetime looking for the break of day

Border patrol looking through me
Towns without names all look the same, I hear crying
Paris to Spain, countries in pain
Caught up in flight, feeling the sight, Europe dying

Rolling on, hear the wheels singing, fever keep coming on so strong
My ticket paid, trying to fade
I hope I get there not just somewhere I was leaving
Out in the dark all the wolves bark
I fold my arms try to keep warm by believing

Hard rain following on, cold wheels moving on
Everybody they're so alone down on the K-Night train.

Time they call the universal healer but you're back every three days
Settling all around me
A feather duster's no substitute for the real thing
And the dust you left behind is settling still

With you dawn never tasted so good
Swept up like debris on a Saturday night
Did we ever have fun?
The dust, the gentle legacy you left behind
Is falling softly on my mind

Dust, the timeless memory of you, I love you
I do for all the little things you do and I guess I always will
The dust settles again to remind me still
Of memories I've cherished so long
Hold me close to your side 'cause my love won't decay anymore
Memories of hope of those long summer days
And the dust you left behind is settling still

Feeling your body stretched so long, what was it went to wrong, went wrong
That our love, our love it was gone but our friendship going strong