"The Damask Drum"
Words and Music by Hair Knight and Brent Bowman
Appears on Pied Piper & Bridges & Snakes
The Damask Drum. The Damask Drum.
The drum is beating in your silence.
The Damask Drum. The Damask Drum.
The drum is beating in your silence.
Though when I ask you softly to visit me inside,
All I get is your silence. Overflowing. Drowning me.
When I can ask you darling and you tell me you can't hear.
Then I do believe you. You'll be true. Forever true.
Sitting beside my mirror looking at my own face.
I am the secret sharer and you are a sad disgrace.
How do you know you hear me? Oh, can I know you hear me
When I keep telling you to go away. Oh, please stay.
The Damask Drum. The Damask Drum.
The drum is beating in your silence.
The Damask Drum. The Damask Drum.
The drum is beating in your silence.
I can cry out in warning but somehow you can't know
What's going on inside me. Don't you know I love you so?
My china heart is breaking. Has been for a thousand years.
As long as I have known you, you were blind but you had ears.
Watching that awful TV. glued to commercial spots.
I say that I might be leaving. Yes, I am. No, I'm not.
Why do I think you hear me? God, I hope you can't hear me.
'Cuz if I knew you heard me...You don't care. Savoir Fare.
The Damask Drum. The Damask Drum.
The drum is beating in your silence.
The Damask Drum. The Damask Drum.
The drum is beating in your silence.
© 1991 Just A Song
