Faces In The Crowd Lyrics - Black Velvet - Alannah Myles

Esther walks the hall, carrying a candle 

Listens at the wall, for a sign of life 

Closing her eyes as the room fades away 

Counting the chimes in the church of our saviour ringing out 

To faces in the crowd 

Simon drives this town, works a graveyard Sunday 

Esther flags him down, doesnt speak a word 

He hums to himself as the streets disappear 

On the ferry from Dover to Calais 

Arm in arm on a windswept day 

Ive got a photo of them sailing away 

Mothers so pretty, fathers so proud... 

I stop to count the chimes, an orphan in the shadows 

So little left behind, so much Ill never know 

A list in 'The Times' of the lives lost at sea 

An old photograph and a past that seems so like