Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Marillion
Vocals
Ian Mosley
Drums
Mark Kelly
Keyboards
Steve Rothery
Guitar
Peter Trewavas
Bass Guitar
Nick Davis
Recorder
Fish
Vocals
Tessa Niles
Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Derek Dick
Composer
Ian Mosley
Composer
Mark Kelly
Songwriter
Steve Rothery
Composer
Peter Trewavas
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Nick Davis
Recording Engineer
Richard Sullivan
Engineer
Chris Kimsey
Producer
Lyrics
On promenades where drunks propose to lonely arcade mannequins
Where ceremonies pause at the jewelers shop display
Feigning casual silence in strained romantic interludes
Till they commit themselves to the muted journey home
And the pool player rests on another cue
Last nights hero picking up his dues
A honeymoon gambled on a ricochet
She's staring at the brochures at the holidays
Chalking up a name in your hometown
Standing all your mates to another round
Laughing at the world till the barman wipes away the warm wet circles
The warm wet circles
I saw teenage girls like gaudy moths
A classrooms shabby butterflies
Flirt in the glow of stranded telephone boxes;
Planning white lace weddings from smeared hearts and token proclamations,
Rolled from stolen lipsticks across the razored webs of glass
Sharing cigarettes with experience
With her giggling jealous confidantes,
She faithfully traces his name
With quick bitten fingernails
Through the tears of condensation
That'll cry through the night
As the glancing headlights of the last bus
Kiss adolescence goodbye
In a warm wet circle
Like a mothers kiss on your first broken heart,
A warm wet circle
Like a bullit hole in central park,
A warm wet circle
And I'll always surrender to the warm wet circles
She nervously undressed in the dancing beams of the fidra lighthouse
Giving it all away before it's too late
She'll let a lovers tongue move in a warm wet circle
Giving it all away and showing no shame
She'll take a mother's kiss on her first broken heart
A warm wet circle
She'll realise that she played her part in a warm wet circle
Written by: Derek Dick, Ian Mosley, Mark Kelly, Peter Trewavas, Steve Rothery