Waterboys • The Whole of the Moon • 1985 Concert

The Whole of the Moon
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I pictured a rainbow
You held in your hands
I had flashes
But you saw then plan
I wondered out in the world for years
While you just stayed in your room
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon!
The whole of the moon!

You were there at the turnstiles
With the wind at your heels
You stretched for the stars
And you know how it feels
To reach too high
Too far
Too soon
You saw the whole of the moon!

I was grounded
While you filled the skies
I was dumbfounded by truths
You cut through lies
I saw the rain-dirty valley
You saw brigadoon
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon!

I spoke about wings
You just flew
I wondered, I guessed, and I tried
You just knew
I sighed
But you swooned
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon!
The whole of the moon!

With a torch in your pocket
And the wind at your heels
You climbed on the ladder
And you know how it feels
To reach too high
Too far
Too soon
You saw the whole of the moon!
The whole of the moon!

Unicorns and cannonballs,
Palaces and piers,
Trumpets, towers, and tenemets,
Wide oceans full of tears,
Flag, rags, ferry boats,
Scimitars and scarves,
Every precious dream and vision
Underneath the stars

You climbed on the ladder
With the wind in your sails
You came like a comet
Blazing your trail
Too high
Too far
Too soon
You saw the whole of the moon!

• Category

  Music

[calumsharkey2806]

I am a huge Beatles fan, but these are the best lyrics ever put to paper. I remember hearing this for this first time in '85 and it always blows me away and fills me with hope.....

[LPthat]

i dont think enough people understand this track beats most tracks hands down Also! use this to get this song on your ipod > bit.ly/17iiUHr?=dlxkk

[enrique jorge romero fuentes]

IN FACT MY FRIEND CALUMSH THE ARMONIES AND EVEN THE TRUMPHET FRON PENNY LANE, THIS GROUP WAS A LITTLE HERITAGE FROM THE LIVEERPOOL GENIUS. MTRO. ENRIQUE ROMERO

[rüdiger orth]

i heard this song last night and it did touch me in a way only good songs do. i am a child of the eighties, i was a twen at that time, had good times, but this song missed me - whyever. it is something typical for that period. the lyrics are great and that's why it touched me..... you saw the whole of the moon..... it nearly dumbfounded me... great music, absolutely!

[craig sawyer]

This is a absolute classic, great material.

[Tim Berriman]

One of my favourite songs of all time still! Just keeps building and adding and then " you came like a comet" KABOOM , blows me away every time

[todd levine]

Just about a perfect song...

[99trance]

This track is absolutely amazing ... The way it builds layer upon layer is just a magical experience to savour time after time xXxXx

[Butterfly1Blue]

Fantastic song.

[Micke Gus]

HELLL YEESSSSS...THis is the 80:es

[Diluan Luiz Palombit]

I would Like to be alived when these musics were the ones wich were listened :D