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The Soft Soil
Bob Geldof
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Let the soil be your soft pillow
Grassy blankets keep you warm
Let the leafy branches cool you
Let the blue skies keep you from all harm
Let the wind keep fresh your memory
Let it blow across the land
Let the rain refresh your spirit
Let the damp earth hold your hand
Memory is sometimes perfect
Sometimes clearer than the light
You can wade and wallow through it
In the hollows of the night
I can see your white and tired face
Veil goes flute through empty space
We saw Christ here up in heaven there
And no Christ will be beneath them
Now the evening sun is racing on
Lying flat on wintry fields
It carries, carries on its restless wind
The sound of fifty church bells pealing
And all the bells you've ever heard
Are ringing out for what you've done
Like all the dreams in all the world
You're shining reckless at the sun
And in the moment of your madness
In the center of that storm
You understood it takes the same time
For man to die as to be born
Someday, someday, someday maybe
It gets them, gets them, gets them down
They will understand your body
And pull them up as they went down
And all the hope in all the world
Is weighing down on top of you
So come on, come on, come on, come on
Come on, come on and show me, show me what to do now
I'll follow you, follow you, follow you
Follow you down that road and try to learn from you
To learn from you, to learn from you, to learn from you
This may not mean a lot to you
It means a lot to me
Let the soil be your soft pillow
The grassy blanket keep you warm
Let the leafy branches cool you
And the blue skies keep you from all harm
Let the wind keep fresh your memory
Let it blow across the land
Let the rain refresh your spirit
Let the damp earth hold your hand
Your breath would still be breathing softly
In a nighttime filled with stars
Drifting like a dream in sleep
Softly beating in your heart
Come on, come on, come on, come on
Come on, come on and show me, show me what to do
Now, what to do now, what to do now, what to do
I'll follow you, follow you, follow you
Follow you down that road and try to learn from you
To learn from you just what to do, what to do now
This may not mean a lot to you
It means a lot to me