Bitter Suite: Brief Encounter / Lost Weekend / Blue Angel / Misplaced Rendezvous / Windswept Thumb (Live)-Marillion

[ti:Bitter Suite] [ar:Marillion] [al:THE THIEVING MAGPIE (LA GAZZA ] [by:] [offset:0] [00:02.86]Bitter Suite [01:00.70] [02:17.82]A spider wanders aimlessly within the warmth of a shadow [02:23.87]Not the regal creature of border caves [02:28.80]But the poor misguided directionless familiar of some obscure scottish poet [02:38.48] [02:40.29]The mist crawls from the canal [02:42.35] [02:43.34]Like some primordial phantom of romance [02:45.78]To curl under a cascade of neon pollen [02:50.89]While I sit tied to the phone like an expectant father [02:56.39]Your carnation will rot in a vase [03:01.38] [03:02.69]A train sleeps in a siding [03:05.00]The driver guzzles another can of lager lager [03:12.55] [03:13.36]To wash away the memories of a friday night down at the club [03:20.16] [03:24.03]She was a wallflower at sixteen shell be a wallflower at thirty four [03:31.52] [03:35.39]Her mother called her beautiful [03:39.44]Her daddy said a whore [03:43.17] [04:45.80]The sky was Bible black in lyon when I met the magdalene [04:52.98]She was paralyzed in a streetlight [04:55.97]She refused to give her name [04:59.15]And a ring of violet bruises [05:02.84]They were pinned upon her arm [05:05.71] [05:06.27]Two hundred francs for sanctuary and she led me by the hand [05:11.88]To a room of dancing shadows where all the heartache disappears [05:19.37]And from glowing tongues of candles I heard her whisper in my ear [05:25.43]Jentend ton coeur jentend ton coeur [05:32.16]I can hear your heart I can hear your heart I can hear your heart [05:38.90]Hear your heart [05:41.15] [05:41.71]I hear your heart [05:46.45] [05:59.36]Its getting late for scribbling and scratching on the paper [06:08.22] [06:12.16]Somethings gonna give under this pressure and the cracks are already beginning to show [06:17.83]Its too late [06:19.14]The weekend career girl never boarded the plane [06:21.52]They said this could never happen again [06:23.20]Oh so wrong so wrong [06:24.45]This time it seems to be another misplaced rendezvous [06:26.94]This time its looking like another misplaced rendezvous [06:29.00]With you [06:29.57]The parallel of you you [06:30.81]On the outskirts of nowhere [06:32.06]On the ringroad to somewhere [06:33.37]On the verge of indecision [06:34.68]Ill always take the roundabout way [06:36.18]Waiting on the rain [06:37.18]For I was born with a habit from a sign [06:40.05]The habit of a windswept thumb and the sign of the rain [06:43.92]Rain on me rain [06:45.29]Its started raining