Ann CLARK "Our Darkness"

"Through these city nightmares you'd walk with me
And we'd talk of it with idealistic assurance
That it wouldn't tear us apart

We'd keep our heads above the blackened water
But there's no room for ideals in this mechanical place
And you're gone now


Through a grimy window that I can't keep clean
Through billowing smoke that's swallowed the sun
You're nowhere to be seen


Do you think our desires still burn
I guess it was desires that tore us apart
There has to be passion
A passion for living
Surviving
And that means detachment

Every-body has a weapon to fight you with
To beat you with when you are down
There were too many defences between us


Doubting all the time
Fearing all the time
Doubting all the time
Fearing all the time
That like these urban nightmares
We'd blacken each other skies

When we passed the subways we tried to ignore our fate there
Of written threats on endless walls
Unjustified crimes carried on stifled calls

Would you walk with me now through this pouring rain
It used to mingle with our tears
Then dry with the hopes that we left behind
It rains even harder now"


Ann CLARK "Our Darkness"
Album Joined Up Writing - 1984