Can it be the sun descending o'er the level plain of water … - Mike Oldfield

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Can it be the sun descending o'er the level plain of water or the Red Swan floating, flying wounded by the Magic Arrow? Staining all the waves with crimson, with the crimson of its life-blood, filling all the air with splendor, filling all the air with plumage? [...] O'er it the Star of Evening melts and trembles through the purple, hangs suspensed in twilight, walks in silence through the heavens...

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Mike Oldfield (born 15 May 1953) is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and composer.

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Birth Name: Michael Gordon Oldfield

Alternative Names: Michael Oldfield

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Voices in the dark
And the lights burn low
Teach yourself the art
That you never know
Try to put a message through
To your sweetheart
Won't you like to know
The secrets of the heart?

Saved by a bell
Suffer in hell
But you were too blind to tell!
Saved by a bell
Suffer in hell
And you made it through so well!

Watching for a spark
It's a moonlight show
Reaching through the dark
Do you have to go?

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