Dead Can Dance — "I Can See Now / American Dreaming" medley (Live in Santa Monica, CA, 1994)

"I Can See Now"

Ever loved a woman who made you feel tall?

Ever loved a man who made you feel small?

If you were a sailor

I'd raise the anchor

To sail the sea

In search of you and me

And god

Conjures currents to break our fragile boats

And both the innocent and the damned

Are swallowed up in his wake

If you were a huntress

I'd be your bow

For your silver arrows

To seek out his heart

Ever loved a woman who made you feel tall?

Ever loved a man who made you feel small?

Who are you to complain

For lack of understanding?

We are all created equal

In just one thing alone

Alone...

In your thoughts that consume you through your life

They'll take you outwards to the dark edge of time

And there's nothing more dangerous

Than a man with nothing to lose

Nothing to live for

And nothing to prove.

"American Dreaming"

I need my conscience to keep watch over me

To protect me from myself

So I can wear honesty like a crown on my head

When I walk into the promised land

We've been too long American dreaming

I think we've all lost the way

Forlorn somnambulistic maniacal in the dark

I'm in love with an American girl

Well, she's my best friend

I love her surreptitious smile

That hides the pain within her

And we'll go dancing in the rings of laughter

And leave alone by the shores

Stay long in the brands of rapture

And leave alone for the loss

Faith, on the lea the rising wind blows

Faith, on the lea the rising wind blows

How long? how long?

Here alone on the grounds of allegiances we've left behind

Turned back by the foot of the doorway

Never lost and found

We've been too long American dreaming

I think we've lost the heart

Forlorn somnambulistic maniacal in the dark

Faith, on the lea the rising wind blows

Faith, on the lea the rising wind blows

How long? how long?

—Lyrics by Brendan Perry—