YouLyric
Sign in
Sign up for free
Goodbye And Hello
Share
Tim Buckley
What's this song about?
Generate meaning
1
The antique people are down in the dungeons
2
Run by machines and afraid of the tax
3
Their heads in the grave and their hands on their eyes
4
Hauling their hearts around circular tracks
5
Pretending forever their masquerade towers
6
Are not really riddled with widening cracks
7
And I wave goodbye to iron
8
And smile hello to the air
9
O the new children dance -- I am young
10
All around the balloons -- I will live
11
Swaying by chance -- I am strong
12
To the breeze from the moon -- I can give
13
Painting the sky -- You the strange
14
With the colors of sun -- Seed of day
15
Freely they fly -- Feel the change
16
As all become one -- Know the Way
17
The velocity addicts explode on the highways
18
Ignoring the journey and moving so fast
19
Their nerves fall apart and they gasp but can't breathe
20
They run from the cops of the skeleton past
21
Petrified by tradition in a nightmare they stagger
22
Into nowhere at all and they look up aghast
23
And I wave goodbye to speed
24
And smile hello to a rose
25
O the new children play -- I am young
26
Under the juniper trees -- I will live
27
Sky blue or gray -- I am strong
28
They continue at ease -- I can give
29
Moving so slow -- You the strange
30
That serenely they can -- Seed of day
31
Gracefully grow -- Feel the change
32
And yes still understand -- Know the Way
33
The king and the queen in their castle of billboards
34
Sleepwalk down the hallways dragging behind
35
All their possessions and transient treasures
36
As they go to worship the electronic shrine
37
On which is playing the late late commercial
38
In that hollowest house of the opulent blind
39
And I wave goodbye to Mammon
40
And smile hello to a stream
41
O the new children buy -- I am young
42
All the world for a song -- I will live
43
Without a dime -- I am strong
44
To which they belong -- I can give
45
Nobody owns -- You the strange
46
Anything anywhere -- Seed of day
47
Everyone's grown -- Feel the change
48
Up so big they can share -- Know the Way
49
The vaudeville generals cavort on the stage
50
And shatter their audience with submachine guns
51
And Freedom and Violence the acrobat clowns
52
Do a balancing act on the graves of our sons
53
While the tapdancing Emperor sings "War is peace"
54
And Love the Magician disappears in the fun
55
And I wave goodbye to murder
56
And smile hello to the rain
57
O the new children can't -- I am young
58
Tell a foe from a friend -- I will live
59
Quick to enchant -- I am strong
60
And so glad to extend -- I can give
61
Handfuls of dawn -- You the strange
62
To kaleidoscope men -- Seed of day
63
Come from beyond -- Feel the change
64
The Great Wall of Skin -- Know the Way
65
The bloodless husbands are jesters who listen
66
Like sheep to the shrieks and commands of their wives
67
And the men who aren't men leave the women alone
68
See them all faking love on a bed made of knives
69
Afraid to discover or trust in their bodies
70
And in secret divorce they will never survive
71
And I wave goodbye to ashes
72
And smile hello to a girl
73
O the new children kiss -- I am young
74
They are so proud to learn -- I will live
75
Womanwood bliss -- I am strong
76
And the manfire that burns -- I can give
77
Knowing no fear -- You the strange
78
They take off their clothes -- Seed of day
79
Honest and clear - Feel the change
80
As a river that flows - Know the Way
81
The antique people are fading out slowly
82
Like newspapers flaming in mind suicide
83
Godless and sexless directionless loons
84
Their sham sandcastles dissolve in the tide
85
They put on their deathmasks and compromise daily
86
The new children will live for the elders have died
87
And I wave goodbye to America
88
And smile hello to the world
Tim Buckley - Song to the Siren
209 views
0 meanings
Go Pro
Unlimited meanings ยท Priority generation
Upgrade
