- published: 31 Aug 2012
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Parlour (or parlor), the name used for a variety of different reception rooms and public spaces in different historical periods.
Parlour derives from the Old French word parleor or parler ("to speak"), and entered English around the turn of the 13th century In its original usage it denoted a place set aside for speaking with someone, an "audience chamber".
The first known use of the word to denote a room was in medieval Christian Europe, when it designated the two rooms in a monastery where clergy, constrained by vow or regulation from speaking otherwise in the cloister, were allowed to converse without disturbing their fellows. The "outer parlour" was the room where the monks or nuns conducted business with those outside the monastery. It was generally located in the west range of the buildings of the cloister, close to the main entrance. The "inner parlour" was located off the cloister next to the chapter house in the east range of the monastery and was used for necessary conversation between resident members.
I sleep, I feel you here
Brush the hair away from your eyes
The water takes you there
You run, but you don't hide
You wait for an excuse
To sleep away your revolution
You might as well give up
Ever after's begun - oh no
I won't get over you this time (x4)
What if one day you knew
The secrets of the universe and
Your breath became divine
You're an omnipresent man
No need for alibis
You'd die to live another lifetime
How is the lilac wine
Over there on the other side
I won't get over you this time (x4)
Look around outside your bubble
Look into these eyes and then say you don't know
Don't speak, not another word now
Look into these eyes and then say you don't
You wanna go down slow
You wanna go down, be on your way
You gotta go down slow
No, no, no, no, no, no
I won't get over you this time (repeat to fade)