T r o p h i e s
the Lyrics of
D ^{a v i d} S ^{y l v i a n}

 all words by DS [except where stated]

BAMBOO HOUSES (& Ryuichi Sakamoto)
Bamboo Houses, Bamboo Music

GOOD NIGHT (David and Yano)

BRILLIANT TREES
Pulling Punches, The Ink in the Well, Nostagia, Red Guitar, Weathered Wall, Backwaters, Brilliant Trees

GONE TO EARTH
Taking the Veil, Laughter and Forgetting, Before the Bullfight, Gone to Earth, Wave, River Man, Silver Moon, The Healing Place [Joseph Beuys], Upon this Earth [Robert Graves]

DREAMS OF REASON PRODUCE MONSTERS (Mick Karn)
Buoy, When Love Walks In

HOPE IN A DARKENED HEART (Virginia Astley)
Some Small Hope [Virginia Astley]

SECRETS OF THE BEEHIVE
September, The Boy with the Gun, Maria, Orpheus, The Devil's Own, When the Poets Dreamed of Angels, Mother and Child, Let the Happiness In, Waterfront, Forbidden Colours, Promise (The Cult of Eurydice)

POP SONG

RAIN TREE CROW
Every Colour You Are, Rain Tree Crow, Pocket Full of Change, Boat's for Burning, Blackwater, Blackcrow Hits Shoe Shine City, Cries and Whispers

HEARTBEAT (& Ryuichi Sakamoto)
Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II) - Returning to the Womb, Cloud #9

SAHARA BLUE (Hector Zazou)
Victim of Stars, To a Reason [Arthur Rimbaud], Tallow Moon (see Jean the Birdman)

THE FIRST DAY (& Robert Fripp)
God's Monkey, Jean the Birdman, Firepower, Brightness Falls, 20^th Century Dreaming - a Shaman's Song, Darshan - the Road to Graceland

JEAN THE BIRDMAN part I+II (& Robert Fripp)
Earthbound, Endgame, Tallow Moon

DAMAGE (& Robert Fripp)
Damage, Blinding Light of Heaven, The First Day

SLOW FIRE (live performance)
I Do Nothing, It Will Never Happen Again [Tim Hardin], Under Ingrid's Wheels

MARCO POLO (Nicola Alesini, Pier Luigi Andreoni)
Come Morning, The Golden Way, Maya

L'ALBERO PAZZO (The Mad Tree) (Andrea Chimenti)
Ti Ho Aspettato (I Have Waited for You)

UNDARK (Russell Mills)
How Safe is Deep?

WORDS WITHOUT SONG
Nagarkot, Lilith, The Colour of Roses, Ride, Slow Fire, "Salvation" spoken poem from Sakamoto's "Discord"

All the lyrics written by David Sylvian are copyright of Opium (Arts) Ltd.,
except "Ghosts" and "Forbidden Colours" are copyright of Chadwick Nomis Ltd.

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