Credits

• Lyrics: Jarvis Cocker and Neil Hannon
• Music: Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoit Dunckel

• Producer: Nigel Godrich

• Charlotte Gainsbourg: vocals
• Nicolas Godin: acoustic guitar
• Jean-Benoît Dunckel: piano, synthesizer (synth bass)

Lyrics

Without blindness
there is no sight
You'd see the further if you'd only close your eyes

In unconsciousness
I can find peace
Inside prison walls I can find release

There is a place that I've seen
somewhere between waking and sleeping

Down at the water's edge
somebody waits for me
Is it too late for me?
"It's never too late", he says

Without blindness
there is no sight
You'd see the further
if you'd
close your eyes

(Two voices)
A: Without blindness
B: Without blindness
A: there is no sight
B: there is no light
A: I'd see further
B: People gather
A: if I
B: by the river
A: close my eyes
B: they were talking
A: about the failure

There is a place that I have seen
somewhere between waking and sleeping

Leaning of overside (??)
trailing my fingertips
watching the water slip
into the quiet night

Viewed from the wrong end of a telescope
I see myself
so far below

Still and silent
rest in peace
A thread unravels
such merciful release

There is a place that I have seen
somewhere between waking and sleeping

Now I can all but see
figures upon the shore
He's gathering in (??)
Where are you taking me?

Related pages

• A list of Jarvis' collaborations and side projects