Bethlehems Gate Lyrics - Deacon Blue

There was a night 

As purple as this 

With a love so close 

We longed to be missed 

Summer `89 

And everything stood 

Sure and free and there 

To be finished 

I long to be there 

As bright as the sky 

At Bethlehem`s gate 

September again 

You come so quick 

So sudden your strength 

So strong your kiss 

The world groans and strains 

For the hope of a time 

Like a prayer that 

Is wished and willed 

To exist 

Like knocking so hard 

And trying to get through 

To Bethlehem`s gate 

I`m chiding the heart 

That the body will live 

To question the power 

And the gift of birth 

To stand and grow and die 

On the wasteland 

That scorns the high temples 

We build 

And stand in the way 

And darken the sky 

At Bethlehem`s gate 

Stand in the way 

And darken the sky 

At Bethlehem`s gate