My girl wakes in her bed of night,
Dressed in silver and dressed in white,
She says she's having the strangest dreams,
Of another time and century;
And now she speaks of a far-off place,
A woman and a man are in a deep embrace,
Don't they know it's against the law,
Well it must have been before the war,
Long before; it was
Real love and devotion - with sight and touch,
Real love and emotion - with sight and touch,
Real love and devotion, before the modern world;
She hears voices in her mind,
Talking of another world lost in time,
Before they took away the words,
That told us how we used to be,
Our history; words of
Real love and devotion - with sight and touch,
Real love and emotion - with sight and touch,
Real love and devotion, before the modern world;
And now we live in a two by four,
Never going outside through the door,
They're watching us on the videoline,
But we sit and wait until the night,
And in the night, we have
Sweet love and devotion - with sight and touch,
Real love and emotion - with sight and touch,
Sweet love and devotion, in such a modern world;
We're never going to be lonely - with sight and touch,
We're never going to be lonely - with sight and touch,
We're never going to be lonely in such a modern world...
"In the back of my head was a film that I had seen called 'Fahrenheit 451' which is an absolutely tremendous film about a future time when books have been banned because they cause people to deviate from what the state wants them to think. And in 'Fahrenheit 451' we have this hero in it who believes that books are right and must be preserved. And in fact away in the forest there are people learning books by heart to pass on to the next generation. And I like that film a lot. I didn't say to myself "yes, I must write a song about this film", it just kind of drifted to 'Sight And Touch'. And again like a clue I thought about a time when 'Sight And Touch' was such a rare thing that people had babies by state control and emotion and sexuality was crushed. It's a future time and of course I hope this never happens."
Man On The Line, August 2002
Albums
"Sight And Touch" appears on the following albums:
