Emerald Lies lyrics

To be the prince of possession

In the gallery of contempt

Suffering your indiscrete discretions

And you ask me to relent

As you accumulate flirtations

With the calculated calmness of the whore

I am the harlequin

Diamonded costume dripping shades of green

I am the harlequin

Sense strangers violate my sanctuary

Prowl my dreams, my dreams

and they're my dreams, they're my dreams

Plundering your diaries

I'll steal your thoughts

Ravaging your letters

Unearth your plots

Innocence, what a surprise

Innocence, what a surprise

Innocence, innocence

To don the robes of Torquemada

Resurrect the inquisition

In that tortured subtle manner

Inflict questions within questions, within questions

Looking in shades of green

Through shades of blue

I trust you trust in me

To mistrust you

Through the Silk Cut haze

To the smeared mascara

A forty watt sun

On a courtroom drama

And the coffee stains gather

Till the pale kimono

Set the wedding rings

Dancing on the cold linoleum

This is innocence

And accusations moths

That circle on the light

They char their wings

In spiral senseless suicidal flight

You packed your world within a suitcase

Hot tears melt this icy palace

And dissolve a crystal

Swallowed by the night

Looking in shades of green

Through shades of blue

Looking in shades of green

Through shades of blue

These shades of blue, of blue

• Artist:Marillion