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Yeah!
Slow french kissing with the dauphins daughter
If I fall in love now Ill be floating in seine
Plastered in paris
Ive had an eiffel
Gonna make my escape on the midnight train
Choo, choo to you
Choo, choo to you
Charting the single
Schnapping my fingers on an alcoholic day
Sniff round a fraulein when Im scent to cologne
All night hotel liebling make your mark
Let sugar daddy melt in his home sweet home
Home is where the heart lies
Where is home, is where the heart lies, but where is home?
Get a pizza the action when I romeo again
Chianti see you with me, so just let him wine
Juliet on the balcony, its pasta serenade
Wedding rings, I know when venice time
Venice time to chart the single, to chart the single
Charting the single, charting the single
The chicks are getting cheaper on the not so common market
Stockpile experience before the blond hairs turn to grey
Before the blond hairs turn to grey
I like to train, express myself in the universal language
Ego on my face in the nicest possible way
Its absolutely the nicest possible way
Charting the single
I got no clause in my contract, got no shares in my name
Im just charting the single in a bachelors game
Charting the single
Its a solo performance on a one way street
Youll never have the chance again and never again well meet
Charting, charting, charting, charting the single
Yeah, yeah, charting the single
Yeah, yeah, charting the single
Charting, ouh, charting, ouh charting, ouh, charting the single
Charting, charting, charting, Im charting the single
Charting, charting, Im charting the single
Charting, charting, charting, charting the single
Charting the single, charting the single
Home is where the heart lies, but if the heart lies
Where is home, is where the heart lies, but where is home?
Where is home?
Charting the single |
I feel so strange; whats wrong with me?
Youve got a problem that you cant see
But Ive got a feeling that the rumours are true
I see the girl got a hook in you
You carry on believing
That you can take or leave it
Now who are you deceiving?
Cause when its own up time, shes in the back of your mind
Shes got her hooks in you
Yeah, shes got her hooks in you
You said youd never let it happen again
You spend your money and youre deeper in
Your fair-weather friends call two by two
To let you know whats wrong with you
But now your heartbeats thumpin
You watch your nerve ends jumpin
Well I can tell you something
When its own up time, youre gonna toe the line
Shes got her hooks in you
Yeah, shes got her hooks in you
She got her hooks in me, too
Say, I feel so strange; whats wrong with me?
Youve got a problem that you cant see
But Ive got a feeling that the rumours are true
I see the girl got her, I see the girl got her hooks in you
Yeah, she got her hooks in you
She got her hooks in you
She got her hooks in you
Yeah! |
Youre gone as suddenly as you came to me
Like nightfall followed dawn without a day between
Youre gone and suddenly I cant see
Im in the shadow of you
Im in the shadow of you
I can see you in my minds rose-tinted eye
Somewhere youre drifting by
Your heels rolling sparks on the lucky street
While here am I, left behind
Stunned and blind
But I can see you from here
I can see you so clear
You are the light
You are the light
You have the day
I have the night
But we have the early hours together
Youre gone and heaven cries
A thunderstorm breaks from the northern sky
Chasing you back to the daily grind
Youre gone, and where am I?
A haunted life
The ghost of your laughter
The half-empty glass
The half-empty glass
And I wait til midnight tolls
Two souls almost touching in the dark
Ill be alright
You are the light
You are the light
You have the day
I have the night
But we have the early hours
We have the early hours
We have the early hours together |
The Remainers remain in their homely places
Go home, wash their faces, lay down their heads
As the Leavers take with them their lonely craziness
Our fast-moving laughter
Our fast-moving beds
And our hearts slowly lose focus
Like gypsies at fairs
We will meet someone new somewhere else |
How long can you stand
Tightening up
Avoiding the fight
Avoiding the truth
Tighten the smile
Tighten the lie
Will you get what you want
To be cursed with your dreams
I hope for your sake
Something gets in the way
How long can you stand
Living under the lens
The kiss of success
The ensuing, all consuming, mess
Message of love
They arrive everyday
People you touch
Wasting away
People you dont know
Give you no choice
And youre sick to your stomach
At the sound of your voice
And the shape of your face
And the sound of your name
They send you pictures of yourself
Its someone you dont know
And they call you a genius
Cause youre easier to sell
But the fire in your belly
That gave you the songs
Is suddenly gone
And you feel like a fake
Is that what you want?
I hope for your sake
Youve got what it takes
Youve got what it takes
To be spoilt to death |
What do you do when your roots have dissolved and broken down
And the soil that you grew in when you were small
Has become nothing more than dirt in some dirty town
When you list all the qualities that you despise
And you realize Youre describing yourself
And breakin someone up inside
Is your only source of pride |
We saw the crash on the news today …oh boy
It changed our lives
But did it really happen?
Flyin high in a scary sky
Flyin high in a scary sky
Whats going on?
Whats going on?
Whats going on?
I dont know if I can believe the news
I dont know if I can believe the news
They can do anything these days
They can do anything with computers these days |
Therell come a time when all of this is over
Something else will grow and take its place
The brand new car:scrap metal in a junkyard
The children playing will grow up and leave home
Put it away this dream you cant stop dreaming
Put it away this anger and desire
The open road is infinitely hopeful
Take all those memories and throw them in the fire
And dont hurt yourself
Dont hurt yourself
Dont hurt yourself anymore
Theres old man on a warm and sunny island
No job, no money, just a smile to call his own
Know what he says?. The past will only haunt you
Live for today. Each days an open door
Dont hurt yourself
Dont hurt yourself
Dont hurt yourself anymore?
Nothing to lose is nothing to fight over
The shining stars!
Theyve seen it all before
Dont hurt yourself
Dont hurt yourself
Dont hurt yourself anymore
Dust keeps coming. Rust keeps coming
Weeds keep growing. Seeds keep growing
Where you going? |
There are scars in our eyes
From a thousand goodbyes
That was great
You can write
But I wont reply
You know we are the Leavers - I’ll tell you a secret…
Its better to leave us alone
Its been terrific to know you
But we really cant stay
Tomorrows new country
Calls us home
…for the day |
You give up hope
You settle down
With your favourite soap...
Now wash your hands |
A hundred nights of fun and games
A thousand empty glasses
I feel it change
And stay the same
As each day passes
They invite me to their gatherings
In the finer parts of town
They seem attracted to my indifference
The irony just knocks me out
And I love them as if I love them
And they reciprocate with help
But I look up at these mirrors sometimes
And I cant see myself
They say that some are born to burn
And some are born to give
They say that people live and learn
Some people only live and live
You dont know that I come here
But if you did, you would know why
So we close our eyes
You didnt notice me
As I passed you on the stairs
How could you ever guess
Looking at my face
How closely I share your taste
How well I know your place
Even the clothes you wear
Ive seen them when youre not there
You say that you can win win win
If you know how to play the game
But while youre out there playing you see
Theres something you should know
She spends your money
She spends your money on me |
Saw you walking on your velvet lawn
Is it lonely on the moon?
You took a dive and swallowed all you could
Did you drink too much too soon?
Nothing left for you to fight about
And no-one wants to see you try
The nearest neighbours are a mile away
Does the ocean hear you cry?
Punching at the sky
They say the King is losin his grip again
They said youre bullet proof, they said you feel no pain
It seems the hero is misunderstood again
Is it love or is it surgery
Makes he seem so ill at ease
As shes begging you to please calm down
In her silk Armani on her knees
Did you carry out those threats I heard
Or were you only playing macho?
And the stains on her Versace scarf
Were they really just Gazpacho?
They say the King is watching his back again
They say the King is losing his grip again
Raging like a bull to an empty ring
Dyou think they will forgive a hero anything?
Now the ring is just a band of gold
And your wife needs police protection
While youre sparring with the journalists
Youre trying to win back her affection
Is this what it means to be a man boxing up all your emotion
So now shes gone and youre alone at last
You can tell it to the ocean
They say the King is losing his grip again
They say the King is countin his numbered days
You never lost a fight in your whole life
You never had no trouble sleepin through the night
The bottle and the doctor get you through the day
The boys who run the housell make it all OK
You think they will forgive a hero anything
Maybe Hollywood... but maybe then again...
Now the ring is just a band of gold...
Drive the road... |
Theres a hot hard hurt
Burning under her skin
And it pricks her like thorns
And its needles and pins
And it twists in her body
And I know what it is
And Im paying in pain
But its the cost of the high
Till the weight of the secret
And the weight of the lie
Makes my heart want to burst
Feel the ache as time goes by
Getting better and worse
Getting better and worse
And theres a screw that I tighten
As I dream of the kiss
And it twists and it cuts me
And you know what it is?
Its a fragment of love
From a splintering heart
And it tears her apart
But not as much as this
So you save up your tears
For the moments alone
Till the splinters you gather
Leave you glass-hard and numb
And the same sun is shining
On the old and the young
On the saints and the sinners
On the weak and the strong
And theres a burning and freezing
And a cross for a kiss
So she learns to stop dreaming
And you know how it is
With these fragments of love
And this splintering heart
With the fragments
And this splintering heart |
Theres a line on her jeans, that a ballpoint made
From a careless mistake, that she cant wash away
And theres a heart on her sleeve, from a spill of red wine
Theres a piece of green in the blue of her eyes
She named it after me
Theres a stay dog she feeds, that she found in the street
And he loves her to hold him, but he wont let her keep him
And he claws at the door to be let out at night
And she makes do without him, and she worries about him
She named him after me
So if you ever decide, that you have to escape
And travel the world, and you cant find a place
Well, you could wind up believin
That paradise is nothin more than a feelin
That goes on in your mind
So if you ever find out what that is
Theres somethin you could do
Cause if I ever hold that golden dream again
I want to tell you Im gonna name it after you |
As you lie there on your bed
Beneath the face of Louise Brooks
With your makeup and your teddy bear
And your C. S. Lewis books
Bad seed
Youre a bad seed
Youre a decadent in chrysalis
Waiting sleepily to emerge
When youll visit every seedy need
Of your random obsessive urge
All the ruses that you use
All the food that you refuse
All the dust and tired air that feeds interior lulus
All the poisoned attitudes
And the lust for the unknown
And the second best that devils use
To make this world their own
Interior lulu
Interior lulu
Every rainy day by e-mail
As you lie there on your bed
Another virtual page arrives
There will be times when you remember me
Of the chapters youll be writing
As the voices echo in your head
In the book called wasted lives
As you read Henry and Anaïs
All the lost weekends and booze
All the finger-and-thumb screws
All the sleepless worn out blues that bruise interior lulus
Interior lulu
Interior lulu
Use the anger
Paint a picture of it
Throw the colours
Use the pain, use the pain
Scream back a brand new emotion
As it runs across the skin
Fire across paper
Burn and curl, burn and curl
You thought you couldnt feel like this
But its happening again and youre waking up in pain
Tattooed in that private place
Microsoft and tears
Intimately pierced
Discovering and remembering
You felt like this somewhere before
Stirrin up the bed of the river
Somewhere you dont like to go
You wrote this down so many times
But you get up anyway and you write it down again
Youve bored us all to death with this
Well who you gonna tell
When youve nothing left to sell
She says shes lonely
She says she knows me
But shes a one-way street
She told me what I already know
If you can carry it out you can take it away
If you can carry it out you can take it away
If you can buy it, it can be bought
If you can buy it, it can be stolen
If you can break it
Its already broken
Lately, I can stand to hear other people talking
So many empty conversations
What a waste of lips
Lately I can stand to stand on primrose hill
Look down upon the city
A heart pumping the roads
In our racing stripes
We rejoice at being connected
Without touching
Thank God for the internet
We stare at our screens
All our lives
What a waste of eyes
till the electrical storm blows our fuses
And we gaze, dumbfounded, at the rain
All the trust and tired care
Left to rust and go nowhere
All this gold beneath my skin
Sparklin like sin somewhere within
In so deep
In so deep that
I cant sleep for these interior lu lu lu lu lus |
Such a pretty girl
The anger didnt hide it
You shaved your head, pulled a face
Dressed yourself up without grace
It didnt hide a lifetimes damage
It didnt hide a lifetimes fears
Against your better judgement
You put your whole self up for sale
The horror show when you were young
We couldnt wait to hear about it
But even whores
Dont kiss with tongues
Nonetheless I do believe
You cry real tears
Real tears for sale
Real tears for sale
Real tears for sale
Real tears for sale
The wrong side of a lifetimes drinking
Its where it seems Im coming from
I took my demons by the hand
Bent them, twisted them
Until they scanned and rhymed
And I took your love
And all the hurt inside
Laid it out on the market stall
Agony at a knockdown price
Reduced to clear is what I cry
The wrong side of a lifetimes wishful thinking
Dragged me here to pills and ale
Come and listen
Come and listen to my tale
Come and get it
Real tears for sale
Real tears for sale
Real tears for sale
Real tears for sale
All the hurt
All the secrets
All the damage
All the shame
All the dirty absolutions
All the rage
All the rage
All the rage |
Midnight suns bid moors farewell, retreats from charging dusk
Mountains echo, curfews bell, signal ending tasks
They place their faith in oaken doors, cower in candlelight
The panic seeps through bloodstained floors as Grendel stalks the night
Earth rim walker seeks his meals
Prepare the funeral pyres
The shapers songs no longer heal the fear
Within their eyes, their eyes
Wooden figures, pagan gods, stare blindly cross the sea
Appeal for help from ocean fogs, for saviors born of dreams
They know their lives are forfeit now, priestly heads they bow in shame
They cannot face the trembling crowd that flinch in Grendels name
Earth rim walker seeks his meals
Prepare the funeral pyres
The shapers songs no longer heal the fear
Within their eyes, their eyes
Their eyes, their eyes, their eyes
As Grendel leaves his mossy home beneath the stagnant mere
Along the forest path he roams to Hrothgars hall so clear
He knows that victory is secured, his charm will testify
His claws will drip with mortal blood as moonbeams haunt the sky
As Grendel leaves his mossy home beneath the stagnant mere
Along the forest path he roams to Hrothgars hall so clear
He knows that victory is secured, his charm will testify
His claws will drip with mortal blood, as moonbeams haunt the sky
Earth rim walker seeks his meals
Prepare the funeral pyres
The shapers songs no longer heal the fear
Within their hearts, within their hearts
Within their hearts, within their eyes
Silken membranes span his path, fingerprints in dew
Denizens of twilight lands humbly beg him through
Mother natures bastard child, shunned by leaf and stream
An alien in an alien land, seeks solace within dreams
The shapers lies his poisoned tongue malign with mocking harp
Beguiling queen, her innocence offends his icy heart
Hounds freeze in silence bewitched by the reptile spell
Sulfurous essence pervades round the grassy dell
Heorot awaits him like lamb to the butchers knife
Stellular heavens ignore even childrens cries
Screams are his music, lightning his guide
Raping the darkness, death by his side
Chants rise in terror, free round the oaken beams
Flickering firelight portraying the grisly scene
Warriors advance, prepare for the nightmare foe
Futile their sacrifice as even their hearts must know
Heroes delusions with feet in the grave
Lurker at the threshold
He cares not for the brave
He cares not for the brave
So you thought that your bolts and your locks would keep me out
You should have known better after all this time
Youre gonna pay in blood for all your vicious slander
With your ugly pale skins and your putrid blue eyes
Why should I feel pity when you kill your own and feel no shame?
Gods on my side, sure as hell, Im gonna take no blame
Im gonna take no blame, Im goin to take no blame
So you say you believe in all of mother natures laws
You lust for gold with your sharpened knives
Ooh, when your hoards are gathered and your enemies left to rot
You pray with your bloodstained hands at the feet of your pagan gods
Then you try to place the killers blade in my hand
You call for justice and distort the truth
Well, Ive had enough of all your pretty, pretty speeches
Receive your punishment, expose your throats to my righteous claws
And let the blood flow, and let the blood flow, and let the blood flow
And let the blood flow, and let the blood flow
Let the blood flow, let the blood flow
Let the blood flow, let the blood flow, let the blood flow, flow, flow
Let the blood flow, let the blood flow
Let the blood flow, let the blood flow, flow, flow
Let the blood, let the blood, let the blood
Let the blood, let the blood, let the blood
Let the blood, let the blood, let the blood
Flow, flow, flow, flow, flow, flow, flow, flow |
One day Ill play you sounds that cant be made
Theyll sing in you from somewhere inside your head
Youll never hear them from the earth or the air
Youll never hear them from the outside world
Youll hear it happen inside you
Youll hear it happen inside you
Silent and high
Silent and high
Sounds that cant be made
One day youll play me sounds that cant be made
Ill feel them humming from somewhere inside your hand
Ill never hear them from the boring ordinary tawdry world
Youll never hear them from anywhere you could call anywhere
Ill make it happen inside you
Ill make it happen inside you
Silent and high
Silent and high
Silent and high
Silent and high
Sounds that cant be made
One day Ill play you sounds that cant be made
Theyll sing in us from somewhere inside our heads
No one ever heard them but you and me
Well make it happen inside us
Well make it happen inside us
Silent and high
Like the wind blowin
In the palms of my mind
I feel the wind blowin
In the palms of my mind
Aurora borealis
Shimmering green and blue
Indigo and violent
Like phantoms half-imagined
Something unreal
But realer than everything
Seeing all the planets love floating in the air
Caressing you every day
If only we can hear them
Sounds that cant be made
Sounds that cant be made
No it aint just in your mind babe
Its inside you
Dig it out, dig it out
Its inside you
Only love can stop you from merely existing
Play me sounds that cant be made |
A wise man once said
A flower is only
A sexual organ
Beauty is cruelty
And evolution
A wise man once said
That everything could be explained
With mathematics
He had denied
His feminine side
Now where is the wisdom in that?
I came just as fast as I could
Through the dirty air
Of your neighbourhood
Your name on a grain of rice
Hangin around my neck
And a head like lead
This is the 21st century
I heard everything they said
The universe demystified
Chemicals for god
This is the 21st century
I heard everything they said
A wise man once wrote
That love is only
An ancient instinct
For reproduction
Natural selection
A wise man once said
That everything could be explained
And its all in the brain
We lay on a velvet rug
By the open fire
She blew air on my eyelids
I cried whats it all about?
As she kissed my hair
She said there, there..
This is the 21st century
I heard everything you said
The universe demystified
Astronomy instead
This is the 21st century
Cant you get it through your head
This aint the way it was meant to be
Magic isnt dead
Come to bed
Come to bed
And rest your heavy head my love
And slowly, from above
She showed the answers something
That cant be written down
This is the 21st century
Flash to crash and burn
Nobodys gonna give you anything
For nothing in return
Theres a man up in a mirrored building
And he just bought the world
Would you want
To have kids
Growing up
Into whats left of this?
She shook her head
She said cant you see?
The world is you
The world is me. |
I was out in the cold of a north london street
A cog in the hurrying world
Above the walls and the gate police
I caught a glimpse of a Holloway girl
She was reachin out of a window
From a space just a few inches wide
till the hand of justice pulled her back inside
One day, freedom will unlock your door
Hold on. Believe on
Be who you were before
One day, freedom will unlock your door
I know how hard it can be to wait
For proof you were right all along
Self destruction is easy for you
We know what youre capable of
But like a needle in a haystack
The truth gets so disguised
In a kingdom built on madness and on lies
One day, freedom will unlock your door
So hold on. Believe on
Be who you were before
In deepest darkness
The faintest light shines bright
So hold on, hold on
Its gonna be alright
Youre lookin up at a mountain
Between you and the outside
But there isnt a mountain in this whole world
Hasnt been climbed
One day, freedom will unlock your door
So hold on. Believe on
Be who you were before
In deepest darkness, the faintest light shines bright
So hold on. Hold on
Its gonna be alright
One day, freedom
One day, freedom
One day, freedom will unlock your door |
I saw a blue umbrella in Princes Street Garden
Heading out west for the Lothian Road
An evening news stuffed deep in the pocket
Little did I know that even a heavy load
I found us walking Griersons dockyards
Where the only thing working was foreign film crews
Making an impressive documentary
For the big news
To the satellite
And all were left with is the black black oil
With a sense of pride and identity
The waters left behind we shouldnt forget
Laid low in the books of history
I saw the starlings wheel round Georgian spires
Gathering on patrol in the skies
In the distance burns the flame of Grangemouth
And the dream is lost
Everything what it could inspire
From the take you know there is no distance
How we talk about in the secret affairs
Taking our ride into the distance
To be what it was or could have been
What I should have said
And all were left with is the black black oil
With a strong sense of national pride
Till we take some more steps to unity
Take it back to me
Take it back
In a city run out of luck
And all were left with is the black, black oil
With a strong sense of national pride
Calling the for identity
What it meant to me, what I said
What we could have had
I saw a blue umbrella in Princes Street Garden
Heading out west for the Lothian Road
An evening news stuck deep in the pocket
Little did I know that hed fall
Carrying a heavy load
And all were left with is the black black oil
With a strong sense of national pride
Calling a name in the sake of unity
What it means to me youll never know
Youll never know
I see myself forced in servant exile
Turning around at anothers command
All I want to see is identity
What I could have been
What I did
Could have been
Internal exile
Internal exile |
I went to Morrisons grave at Pere Lachaise cemetery
The stony flowers and the matching graffiti were guiding me
To the steps inside of me
And what would you do if I got down on my knees to you
What would you do if I lied to your face
Could you still hold your dreams
Could you live with your silent face
So what would you do would you walk right through me
Would you stand in the way like the others before
Get in the way
Would you drink to me next Beaujolais day
Tell me the truth save a prayer for me
I would love to leave you but you would cry all night long
Eternal romantic victory failed on Beaujolais day
I heard a wheelchair whisper across a stale silent gymnasium
Trailing an ivy league jacket like a matador
Through the jitterbug steps of the night before
Through the chalk white chill and the tear fandango
Heading away to the inner wrangle
Do we cry for a cell
Do we need for a cell
What would you do would you cry for me
Could you set off ... could we go gently
Blame it away
Do you really want to head for the open door
Got to crack a bottle while you dream for me
Just an absent friend and a misery
Laying awake do we stay right there
Till Beaujolais day
On Beaujolais day
So what would you do would you lie to me
Would you sit right back in a victory
Would you play for me
Could you die for me
So what would you do would you walk right through me
Heading away saying its just another victory
This is Beaujolais day |
Turn your life upside down
Take a car into town
Wait until the worlds asleep
And tear it up and never stop again
Take a train to the sea
Stay up all night ... and be
It only takes a fraction of a second
To turn your life upside down
Take a train to the sea
Be anyone you want to be
A little spark of light inside your mind
Safe and sound off the ground upside down
Wide awake on the edge of the world |
The only unforgivable thing
Hauls itself out of bed
Looks over my shoulder
At the Bloodyenglishweather
The only unforgivable thing
Waits for me in the corner of the room
Laughs as I clean my teeth
Laughs as I rub at my eyes
The only unforgivable thing
Is curled up in the wardrobe with my clothes
Sticks like chicken bones in my throat
Ruins the ritual Sunday lunchtimes
The only unforgivable thing
Watches itself with me
Every night on the tv
Follows me across the park
As I go out walking in the dark
Waits for me in the kitchen cupboards
The only unforgivable thing
The only unforgivable thing
We will close down
Hide in the corner of the
Lost and Found
For to live without the ground
Is so unsound
Gravity would only pull us down
Will no one help the boys
Who exist only as voices?
I have lost the stars and the sky
It was so that I could keep the earth
So now Im found
Beyond the rocket-burst among the burned out fireworks
In November
The only unforgivable thing
Is comfortable in its own skin
Whispers Why did you do this to me?
til its just about all
Just about all I can see
The only unforgivable thing
The only unforgivable thing
The only unforgivable thing
I did..
I did..
You did.. You did.. You did..
We did.. |
This rock-star trip. Some serious ship
White-knuckle journey blackened my
Eye and cut my lip
Better to be a doctor or a man who
Walks the earth
Hedonistic laughing boys
Whats any of it worth?...
Look at myself
Look at myself
Escaped to the car
Drove to a bar somewhere
The beautiful game
Such a thin line between love and hate
Look at myself
Look at myself
Mr. Taurus ate a thesaurus
Made the girls cry and skipped straight
To the chorus
Mr. Taurus had a great fall
All the Kings horses were no good
At all
No good at all
Heres one I broke earlier
I broke earlier
Woke up in a spaceship of shimmering gold
Tutenkhamen sleeping
Shoulda left him alone
Floating round in Orion
Arrow pointing to heaven
Between all the planets
Out in the cold
Everyone I love
Everyone I love
Everyone I love lives somewhere else
And I have time to look at myself
Look at myself
Look at myself
And Ive seen enough
Ive seen enough
Everyone I love lives somewhere else
Everyone I love lives somewhere else
Somewhere Else
Somewhere Else
Somewhere Else |
200 fates entwined inside the plane
We watched as England dropped away from us again
I wasnt waiting, I wasnt sure what I would find
I was prepared to let it happen on its own this time
I had a feeling I was floating into time spent amongst friends
Reintroduced from other strange and wonderful weekends
As the seat belt signs announced the fall
I realised Id been falling for a while
Wed been falling for some time into Montreal
I saw ice upon the river as the plane came in to land
I heard Joni Mitchell singin her poems of isolation
The man at immigration said his friends all knew the band
Bizarre to come so far to an outstretched hand and easy conversation
We were welcomed through arrivals without the usual transatlantic fuss
And greeted by the fans who led us to the chilly street onto the bus
The snow had hung around on the corners of the vacant lots
And France was singing in the air of hi-rise North America
And as we made our way into the hotel hall
The man behind the desk broke a knowing smile, and said
Hello sir, welcome back to Montreal.
We hid away for the day in our identical rooms
Like we usually do
Another new bed, upside down in our heads
And afternoon was morning
And night was afternoon
Only the jet-lagged know the way I sleep tonight..
So I Skyped home and said Its me. How are you babe?
I cant be with you but I can see you on the screen
Technology is wonderful when it isnt in the way
The little one seems older now with every passing day
I hope the vibes are good. Im behavin as I should
Going down to breakfast ..What time is it now there?
Ill go shopping for shoes ..or whatever ensues
Je taime my darling, Je taime my darling
See you soon..
We were invited to the circus - guests of honour if you please - by a girl with an eskimo name
And in the cafe of the Cirque Soleil
We bought Easter-eggs from outer-space
40 different languages are spoken in this place
And inside the steel-glass building I gazed up at the trapeze
The building 30 metres tall - we watched the acrobat fall
He was quite safe
He was falling into Montreal
Down at the sports-bar the ice-hockey never ends..
Down at the sports-bar the ice-hockey never ends..
So up in my room I discovered Leonard Cohen on TV
Live in London. Aint that perfect symmetry?!
It warmed the heart to watch him float around the hall
Soaking up, reflecting, radiating
Just as I would, tomorrow night
On the outstretched tender hands, tender hands
Tender hands of Montreal
The fleur de lis was always kind to me
Ill make the time if ever you should call
The fleur de lis was always kind to me
Ill make the time if ever you should call
And so I shall...
Je taime my darling, Je taime my darling
Montreal |
Well she tied me to the headboard with a surf leash
And her wet hair hugged her body like a long-lost friend
And I really tried my best to get across to her
But nothing she would say could be defended
Well her birthday suit it was her only present
When I looked into her eyes - no history
And I told her eating people wasnt pleasant
But she laughed a snake eye laugh and walked away from me
I watched her as she walked across the coals
I watched her as she walked across the coals
She was singing: I was born in nineteen sixty weird
And I am your nightmare surfer babe
Mr. Wilson wheres your sandbox and your beard
Are you still looking for the perfect microwave
So I did my best to try and get across her
I said: One day every pebble hits the beach
And I kissed her face and held her like a long-lost friend
But she was too far out there to be reached
She was singing: I was born in nineteen sixty weird
Im your nightmare surfer babe
Mr. Wilson wheres your sandbox and your beard
Are you still looking for that perfect microwave?
And the sun came up over the mountain
And the waves rolled in across the bay
And the fabulous brightly coloured birds flew up out of the forest
And she said Well were all heavens beautiful children livin together in paradise
Lie down my dear... youre going to enjoy this
She looked like shed had sex
With a tyrannosaurus rex
She was singing: I was born in nineteen sixty weird
Im your nightmare surfer babe
Mr. Wilson wheres your sandbox and your beard
Are you still looking for that perfect microwave?
And I watched her as she walked across the coals
And I watched her as she walked across the coals |
This train is my life
Speeding through the night
We have been to these places
For barely a moment
Wide awake
Sometimes sleeping
Sometimes watching
Sometimes dreaming
Through stroby stations
Too fast to know their names
Too fast to know if we came or will come again
Sleeping towns joined together
By the steel of the rails
Parallel lines
Parallel lives
You and I
Were movie-rich
Were reflected in the window
The dark nights black mirror glass
Distant lights from the wrong side of the tracks
Christmas lights
Go by in the houses
Anonymous windows
Anonymous rooms of
Anonymous souls
So take my hand
Squeeze it tight
Make some light
In the darkness
Im glad you came on this trip
Dont lose your grip
Dont lose your grip
This train is my life
This train is my life
Travel with me
And well see.. |
Cover my eyes
The light falls on her face
Dangerous lines
Dangerous colours and shapes
Ferocious designs
Connected and ready to play
Buttoned up tight
Crimson and Halloween-white
Shes like the girl in the movie when the Spitfire falls
Like the girl in the picture that he couldnt afford
Shes like the girl with the smile in the hospital ward
Like the girl in the novel in the wind on the moors
Pain and heaven
Pain and heaven
The meaning of life
A hair falls out of place
Cover my eyes
Dangerous colours and shapes
And when she moves
Cover my eyes
She like the girl on the TV with the red guitar
Like the girl with the dealer at the end of the bar
Shes like the girl with the smile in the dream in the dark
Like the girl overtaking in the open car
Pain and heaven
Pain and heaven |
I heard the battle raging on the other side of the wall
Buried my head in a pillow and tried to ignore it all
Every night when I hear you I dream of breaking down your door
An avenging knight in shining armour to rescue you from it all
From the family business
When I see you in the supermarket
With sunglasses in the shade
Averting your eyes from the staring questions
How were those bruises made
Its family business
Children clutching to your legs
Theyve got so much they want to say
But daddys sitting home drunk again
So they bite their lips and pray
And daddy dont like no strangers prying
And noses in his private affairs
And if anyone asks from the social
Well you fell down the stairs
Its family business
So Ill become an accessory
And I dont have an alibi
To the victim lying on my doorstep
The only way I could justify
Its family business
Cos every day its getting harder
Try to see to go away
To all the people that surround you
You have to sit down and explain
To be the writing on the wall inside
To be the pledge you call your own
And if you run into the day
You sure you know youll find a home
You sure you know youll find a home
The traffic lights shine upon
... and the broken home
Everyone could be so far away
... and the white lines lead the way
The writing on the wall
Theyre carving out the martyrs
Couldve been the same this way
Couldve been the same this way
Tell them Im the same today
We could have been much younger
It could have been much longer
Until the real time
Too far
You run away today
Tomorrow
You take away the time
You took away a mind
Something to the light she said
Everyones burning
We could have been much younger |
Theres something I have to tell you
Before its too late
Theres someone needs a timing
I could be the same
Got to listen to you clearly
Would you understand it all
Would you hold it all together
Do we run up in the bar
Everyone needs someone to listen to
If you dont want to shine on
Could you know it all
And if someone lay before you know it could be true
A voice in the crowd
You came upon an ...
Just an alibi
Did you have to go do it
To feel you want to try
If youd only see the reason ...
Someone came, someone rose, someone left
I dont know if you could be sure
You dont understand
And if the days were good
You never know the way we planned
And if the time is there ...
A voice in the crowd
A voice in the crowd |
Every day at 5 am
If youre down or in a mess
Get off on Angelina
When youve stayed up far too late
Fallen through the door in a state
Call her at the premium rate
Tune in to Angelina
Dont touch that dial
Dont go to bed
Dont read a book
Call up instead
Angelina takes requests
Every day at 5 am
If youre down or under stress
Get into Angelina
When youve stayed up far too late
If your life is in a state
Call her at the premium rate
Get into Angelina
Dont touch that dial
Dont go to bed
Dont read a book
Call up instead
0800 s l e e p y h e a d
Get off on Angelina
Lonelymansbestfriend
Lonelymansbestfriend
All the classics
All the hits
Angelina, shes got it
Ultra lounge and acid kitsch
Get off on Angelina
Something wicked something bad
Something for your mom and dad
Dont get even, Dont get mad
Get off on Angelina
Lonelymansbestfriend
Lonelymansbestfriend
Ooooh
Mad Bad Kitsch Hits Shhh
Angelina mega-jock
Angelina round the clock
Twin decked. Canned up. Ready to rock.. |
I was taught from much too young
To never give myself away
Yes I was taught for every secret
Theres a price you have to pay
An accident of gender
An accident of birth
That holds me to this point of view
This time and place on earth
This time and place on earth
You ask me how Im feeling
I only wish you knew
How hard it is for me to share
Share those kind of things with you
Its not that I dont love you
Its just I cant connect
Cause I was taught from much too young
To shine and not reflect
Im an accidental man
You ask me if Im happy
I only wish I knew
Cause happiness is not something
That I ever learned to do
Its not that Im complaining
Its all the same to me
If everything that happens, happens accidentally
Im an accidental man
I was taught for every secret
Theres a price you have to pay
I was taught from much too young
To never give myself away
I was born to worthy causes
I was born to take the reins
I was taught from much too young
To never give myself away
An accident of gender
An accident of birth
That holds me to this point of view
This time and place on earth
So try and understand
If I dont say all I can
A stranger to myself I am
An accidental man
Im an accident
Im an accidental man |
Ive got a photograph
I took a picture of you
I took your photograph in front of my favourite view
You play the part so well
You look so sure and free
No one could ever tell that you belong to me
And cause you lie so well
Ive got to pin you down
Under lock and key
So you will always be in my in my collection
If you cant speak you cant lie
If you cant run and you cant hide
I know a place you cant die
So no one lives inside
My collection
I want to capture you
I want to immortalize
The way you play with your hair
The way you flash your eyes
I taste the air you breathe
I taste the food you eat
I keep your nails and hair
And some of the clothes you wear
If you cant speak you cant lie
If you cant run you cant hide
And if youre dead you cant die
So no one lives inside
No one lives inside
My collection
Ive got some photographs
Id like to show them to you
Though you dont know the girls
Youll recognize the view... |
At that time of the night
When streetlights throw crosses through window frames
Paranoia roams where the shadows reign
Oh, at that time of the night
At that time of the night
Your senses tangled in some new perfume
Criticism triggers of a loaded room
Oh, at that time of the night
So if you ask me
How do I fell inside
I could honestly tell you
Weve been taken on a very long ride
And if my owners let me
Have some free time some day
With all good intention
I would probably run away
Clutching the short straw
At that time of the night
When questions rally in an open mind
Summon all your answers with an ice cube chime
At that time of the night
At that time of the night
Pretend youre off the hook with the telephone
Your confidence wounded in a free fire zone
Oh, at that time of the night
So if you ask me
Where do I go from here
My next destination
Even isnt really that clear
So if you join me
And get on your knees and prey
Ill show you salvation
Well take the alternative way
Clutching the short straw
If I had enough money
Id buy a round for that boy over-there
A companion in my madness in the mirror
The one with the silvery hair
And if some kind soul
Could please pick up my tab
And while theyre at it
If they could pick up my broken heart
Warm wet circles... |
Did you ever feel that just by jumping on a plane
All your cares would drop away and youd be born again
Returning to a nature child happy wild and free
But forgetfulness is a river and you know where the river leads
Holidays in Eden
Life before the fall
See no, hear no, speak no evil
Feel no guilt, feel no guilt at all
Naked through the jungle, mud between your toes
Following the river, where the river flows
The creatures of the forest bid you Welcome to the dark
Nothing here can hurt you, darkness has no heart
Holidays in Eden
Paradise regained
See no, hear no, speak no evil
Throw your past away
You wake up one morning, wondering who you are
Theres a map of new country up on the wall
All your new lovers merge into one
Youve done everything under the sun
Theres a date on the air ticket
And the moneys gone
Back in your own country
Nothing seems the same
No one comes around at night
Or uses your new name
Hearing silent whispers
Old friends are acting strange
No one wants to know you now
People say youve changed
Holidays in Eden
Life before the fall
See no, hear no, speak no evil
Feel no guilt at all
Holidays in Eden
Paradise and light
Heaven loses you to this world
Leaves you alone
Kiss your home goodbye |
I can imagine nothing more tedious
Than trying to have fun with you again
Maybe its just something in my mind
But I hate feeling like Im trying all the time
Its a kind of lie
When we pretend that were still friends
Im sure youre not exactly short of people to
Hang out and laugh at your jokes
Tell you you look great
You wouldnt want me around
Making it all feel forced
.. And put down
And every time I smile to wonder if Im laughin at you
And with every little grin you dont want to be wonderin
Just exactly what it is Im taking pleasure in
Although I always said
We were basically the same and all one
All one
Its so easy to persuade myself
Im clockwork and youre quartz
I guess that irony
Will surely be
The death of me
And every time I smile dyou wonder if Im laughin at you?
And with every little grin you dont want to be wonderin..
Although I always said
We were basically the same and all one
All one
Its so easy to persuade myself
Im clockwork and youre quartz
Youre only happy when youre oiled and jewelled
Youre only happy when you wind me up and I know
Youre so reliable it isnt true
And its so easy for me to break down
If I could jump a ride between the skin and silicon then
We could join hands and understand. Hallelujah!
But I listen
To the ticking
I guess were worlds apart...
Its so hard
So hard
I know theres no going back
And you know theres no going back
Youre only happy when youre oiled and jewelled
Youre only happy when youre oiled and jewelled
Youre never happy
I need maintenance
I need patience
Im not foolproof
Im not waterproof
Im not shockproof
Bombproof
Bulletproof
Fireproof
Leakproof
Childproof
Stainproof
Pressureproof
I know I told myself
Were all basically the same and all one all one
Yknow sometimes I just cant help myself
Im clockwork and youre quartz
Im clockwork and youre quartz
I know I never get the balance right
And turn up half an hour late night after night
And being totally dependable is so very commendable
Although youre never wrong
One of these days.. Youre just gonna stop |
On the rebound, fumbling all the lines
The light at the end of the bottle - alcoholic alphabet
Through the looking glass the proof in my own reflection
Five senses down and reeling on the Cinderella search
On the rebound, fumbling all the lines
Decay on the vertical hold with a horizontal aim
Conversation needs translation
Three dimensions down dissolving on the Cinderella search, Cinderella search
On the rebound, writing all the lines
Dreaming bartenders, bourbon and saxophone
Out of luck, out of charm, out the game of rejections in a cigarette city
Only courting the homing of direction on the Cinderella search, Cinderella search
But the Samaritan of the heartbroken, heartbroken
Swam through the nicotine seize, and we exchanged the kiss of life
Resurrection in a trance, the model, the grail, in a marquee of promises
I touched the dream, I hold the dream, I have the dream
To end the Cinderella search, Cinderella search, oh no more, no more!
Exposing bedside manners on a work extension
Awaiting development with paranoid polaroid eyes, polaroid eyes
The footman memorised the number
But the prince still holds both the slippers
And would you leave a palace for a bed sit
And Canterbury Tales, Canterbury Tales?
Maybe it was infatuation or the thrill of the chase
Maybe you were always beyond my reach and my heart was playing safe
But was that love in your eye I saw or the reflection of mine?
Ill never really know for sure, you never really gave me time
Give me time, wont you give me that time!
Welcome back to the circus
Welcome back to the circus
Welcome back to the circus
I always use the cue sheets but never the nets
Always the cue sheets but never the nets
Never the nets, never the nets
Nevertheless, nevertheless, nevertheless, nevertheless, nevertheless
Welcome back to the circus! |
She bought a bottle of cider
From the shop on the corner
They didnt stop her
Thought she was older
She took a bus ride
To a name and a number
A house full of music
And a hat full of wonder
And some of the people that
She thought that she knew
Were never like this
When she saw them at school
Shes never been anywhere like this before
Everybodys so out of control
She was in a backroom
Full of strange aromas
And noises and candles
That was where he found her
He took her to a garden
Full of rain and silence
And she could smell the soil and the trees
And see the succulent light
From the little fires in his eyes
Pulling shapes out of the night
She was enchanted....
Then its twelve oclock
And the last bus is gone
Theyre gonna go crazy when
They hear what shes done
And higher is lower
And less is like more
Shes never felt anything like this before
Before
And then it was yesterday
And he said Oh, by the way,
Welcome to your first party |
Everything to decide
Its time I came up with some answers before I can carry on
Its time I made my mind up before we can go along
And I thought it was so simple
And I knew that it could be so fine
I know that the places that everything comes
Rose beds scattered across the lawn
Like the squares at Waterloo
With the bayonets of thorns repelling
Small children in search of lost tennis balls
Seeing everything and giving their all
I used to be scared of heights
I used to get dizzy
I never felt safe with my feet on the ground
They said that up there the air would be clearer
They said more space and more room to breathe
Everything to the side
I knew that something would happen
Its better off than being alive
I knew the standards decline
I knew that we had to decide
All the places that all wed ever seen
And the place that we thought about
And the road that you travel has never been seen
Rose beds scattered across the lawn
Like the squares of Waterloo
With the bayonets of thorns repelling
Small children in search of lost tennis balls
Giving everything and giving it all
I used to think everything was coming up roses
But I couldnt see the weeds that entangled my feet
I couldnt see the trees
Cos my forest was burning
I couldnt see the bridges the fire in my eyes
They sold me the view from the hill
They sold me the view from the hill
They said that up there the air would be clearer
They said more space and more room to breathe
I used to be scared of heights
I used to get dizzy
They sold me the view from the hill |
A man came to drill holes in the afternoon
And by the evening
Most of the afternoon had gone
I seem to have slept through the morning
But in the afternoon
A morning is yet to come
A girl came to help out in the kitchen
And by the evening
We found we were all washed up
We ate on the lawn
With the insects
We burned incense
Most of the band turned up
It was just one of those days
When the mind strays
One of those days
When everyone plays
One of those days
When everyone stays
And all of the dreaming goes on
A woman arrived in a panic
With a picnic
Better to give than receive
A man came to pick holes in the logic
He wore plastic
And shoes you would hardly believe
The evening arrived
Slightly early like a pygmy
Chewing the wrong kind of leaves
We ordered extra tea
Listened to XTC
Under a shady tree
Went back to bed at three
It was cool
As can be
It was just one of those days
When the mind strays
When everyone plays
One of those days
When everyone stays
And all of the dreaming goes on
One of THOSE days |
There were almost four hundred until the black day
I discovered how high they would fly to the sky
If you used them for tennis instead of a ball..
Zinging glass satellites crueller than fate
Whacked with a racket up into the blue
Id smashed all the greenhouses on the estate
And a crowd formed a queue at the gate.. |
We are led by the light at the end of the tunnel
We are guided by the fires of our burning dreams
Were inspired by our ideals and driven by conscience
To cross what the cynics perceive as naive
We the people want it straight for a change
We the people are getting tired of your games
We the people want the answers laid out on the lines
No more of your cheap propaganda
And stop talking tic-tac-toe
We the people fight your arms dealers wars
We the people want our futures secure
We the people want a peace staying all the way
So cut out your message
And take all your talking tic-tac-toe
Everyone needs a symbol
If you dont know of the reason
Well how can you take a stand
You need to be sure
You need to return to an open
Take a lesson from me
Take a lesson from me
That children play tic-tac-toe |
Shes older than me
I dont care about them talking
Why cant they see
Ive got all that I need
All the pretty young things
Seem suddenly boring
When I look in her eyes
All the world is behind
Every line on her on her face
Is a place and a memory
When our fingers touch
All the years fall away
Mistakes that she made
Hard lessons she carries
And still shes prepared
To tell me shell stay
Shes older than me
Shes shown me a heaven
And were gonna be
Over the hill
And far away
Far away
Far away |
Reality is something that you rise above
We dont see things as they are, we see them as we are
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run
The fearful fall foul of fate as often as the reckless
You dont need money to be rich anyhow
Spending yourself is what its all about
No tears
No lies
No pain
No doubt
No darkness
No confusion
No loneliness, despair
No more, no more
Its all illusion
If you have made mistakes
Theres always another chance for you
You can start over again at any moment
Any little time you choose
Talk about failure
To fall is not to fail
Failure isnt about falling down
Failure is staying down
Energy makes energy anyhow
Spend yourself and get rich right now
No tears
No lies
No pain
No doubt
No darkness
No confusion
No loneliness, despair
No way, no how
Its all illusion
Reality is something that you rise above
We dont see things as they are, we see them as we are
Theres always another chance for you
You can start over again
Start over again
Over again
Any little time you choose
Get rich right now |
Watching the people on the street today she couldnt help but smile
Watchin the town go walking by all shaded eyes and alibis
Strange how much pain you can hide away beneath a well-cut suit
This is the day she walks away
And the lights of the city pushin a good time
Asking her out tonight
But shes saving her money for a better life
Shes got a map of the world
Pinned up on her wall
Shes got a map of the world
Shes gonna go and see it all
Shes gonna see it all
Watchin the people on the street today
Such a lonely sight
Swore she could see their dreams go by
All cars and stars and buy buy buy
Runnin on empty runnin to stand still
No time for their own lives
Sleepwalking through the danger signs
And it feels a little scary
A little runaway
Letting go of all shes done
And the lights of the city, well theyre all singin
Buy some of this, cmon
But when you lie to yourself
You lie to everyone
Shes got a map of the world
Pinned up on her wall
Shes got a map of the world
Shes gonna go and see it all
Shes gonna see it all
Shell empty the sand from her shoes
In paradise
Sail out across the bay
Shell dance under an island sky
Until the break of day
Shes got a map of the world
Pinned up on her wall
Its such a beautiful world
Glistening and magical
Shes got a map of the world
Shining away in her mind
Colouring-in her life
This is the day she walks
Shes gonna see it all
Shes gonna breathe it all
Paris London New York
Shes gonna see it all |
Tell you what I want
Essence
Tell you what I need
Essence
What Im looking for
Essence
Sit in silence close your eyes, feel the magic everywhere inside you
Fingers toes head heart and soul, connected deep to every living thing
Not just the taste, the touch, the smell
Or the face you know so well
Not the 400 word description
The book, the film, the faithful depiction
Get out of here
Get out while you can
Choose life, strive for essence
Choose life, Choose living
Choose life, Choose living
Go digging, Go digging
Go digging, Go digging
Go digging for essence
For Essence
For Essence
Sit in silence and watch the sky
Feel the magic deep inside you
Every woman and every man
Turn off your mind and youll understand
Sit in silence and watch the sky yeah
Feel the energy inside outside
Aint one damn thing means a thing in this life
Til you get close to Essence, til you try
Every man and woman listen to me, hey
Live in the moment or youll never be free
Essence
Essence
Essence
Choose life, Choose essence |
I. Wide Boy
Wide boys, wide boys, wide boys, born with hearts of Lothian
Wide boys, we were wide boys, born with hearts of Lothian
Wide boys, we were wide boys, these hearts of Lothian
Its six oclock in the tower blocks
Stalagmites of culture shock
And the trippers of the light fantastic, bow down, hoe-down
Spray their pheromones on this perfume uniform
And anarchy smiles in the Royal Mile
And theyre waiting on the slyboys, flyboys, wideboys
Rooting, tooting cowboys
Lucky little ladies at the watering holes
Theyll score the Friday night goals
I was born with a heart of Lothian
I was born with a heart of Lothian
With a heart of Lothian
I was born with a heart of Lothian, with a heart of Lothian
II. Curtain Call
And the man from the magazine, wants another shot of you all curled up
Cos you look like an actor in a movie shot
But youre feeling like a wino in a parking lot
How did I get in here anyway?
Do we really need a playback of the show?
Cos the wideboys want to head for the watering holes
Lets go
And the man in the mirror has sad eyes |
For me and my true love well never walk again
On the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond
Moira Anderson, eat your heart out!
You take the high road an Ill take the low road
An Ill be in Scotland before ye
For me and my true love well never walk again
On the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond
Youll take the acid an Ill take the dope
An Ill be stonied before ye
For me an my true love, the drug squad as well
On the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond
Step we gaily on we go
Heel for heel and toe for toe
Arm in arm [an row an row
All for Mhairis wedding]
Step we gaily on we go
[Heel for heel and toe for toe
Arm in arm an row an row
All for Mhairis wedding]
I said, you, you, you, you take the high road
Ill, Ill, Ill, Ill take the low road
On the lead guitar, from Yorkshire
Mr. Steven Rothery!
I said you, you, you, you take the high road
I said Ill, Ill, Ill, Ill take the low road
On the bass guitar, the backing vocal, from Aylesbury
Mr. Peter Trewavas!
I said you, you, you, youll take the high road
I said Ill, Ill, Ill, Ill take the low road
On the keyboads, from Dublin
Mr. Mark Kelly!
I said you, you--, you take the high road
I said Ill, Ill--, Ill take the low road
On drums, percussion
Mr. Michael - E.T. - Pointer
And a very big round of applause for yourself
Our audience tonight. It takes two!
On vocals, and percussion
Fish!
A dream fulfilled!
Sweet Ma- Ma- Ma- Ma- Margaret
I said you take the high road
[an Ill take the low road
An Ill be in Scotland afore you
For me and my true love well never walk again
On the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond]
Sweet Ma- Ma- Ma- Ma- Ma- Margaret
The balcony!
Sweet
Show yer Scottish!
I said youll take the high road
[an Ill take the low road
An Ill be in Scotland afore you
For me and my true love well never walk again]
On the bonnie bonnie bonnie bonnie bonnie bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond
Banks of Loch Lomond!
Banks of Loch Lomond!
Sweet Margaret
Sweet Margaret
Sweet Ma- Ma- Ma- Ma- Margaret!
Thank you Edinburgh, goodnight
We shall definitely return! |
When I was a child I had marbles
They brought admiration and fame
They were pretty to look at and marbles
Was always my favourite game
We played all the summer days
In the stony alleyways
In the playground after class
We would trade the coloured glass
More valuable than diamonds
More magical than diamonds
Did anyone see..
Did anyone see..
Does anyone see? |
Dressed in black, no turning back
We blanked out on the Great White Way
Fingers in desires crack
Wed bridge and tunnel into day
Abandoned to the salt of skin
Abandoned to the highway
Sand running in the hourglass
Heat of leather and mirages
So how do we now come to be afraid of sunlight
So how do we now come to be afraid of sunlight
Day-Glo Jesus on the dash
Scorch marks on the road ahead
Friendly fire in hostile waters
Keep the faith, dont lose your head
Dont lose your head
So how do we now come to be afraid of sunlight
Afraid of Sunlight
Agave flower
Sleep beside me
Driving on
Nevadas burning
Phoenix rising
Driving on
To sunlight
Day-Glo Jesus on the dash
Scorch marks on the road ahead
Friendly fire in hostile waters
Keep the faith, dont lose your head
Dont lose your head
So how do we now come to be afraid of sunlight
How do we now come to be afraid
Afraid of sunlight |
Here today
Gone this afternoon
Another tune we almost remember
Whats the story
Sex and drugs again
Business as usual
The clocks already ticking
La la la la
When he was young
Staring at the TV
He watched the fun happenin to other people
Now they scream
As they run after him
Like a dream
Like Elvis and the Beatles
A three minute song is all he wrote
He only did it for a joke
They played him on the radio
From Tokyo to Timbuktu
A three minute boy, aint that somethin
They named their children after him
The good times rolled beneath his feet
He skipped along the one-way street
Shes a pretty girl
She dont know how it started
She made a movie
He almost remembered
She measured up
They moved into a basement
Were so in love!
They giggled to the nation
La la la la
Three minute millionaire they said
The numbers rattled round his head
They spun him three times round the globe
She waited patiently at home
And all the pretty girls wanted him
In places that hed never been
Too much love will do you in
Forgive Forgive Forgive Forgive
Yeah Yeah Ooo
Three minute kid is here again
Surrounded by three minute friends
He found someone to understand
To shock the world and hold his hand
No religion, no restraint
No direction, no complaints
No future and no way out
No time now to think about it
All the moneys gone
He dont know what he spent it on
Girlfriends gone off with the Jag
Gone back to her mum and dad
Hes curled up on the studio floor
He just cant do it anymore
The flashgun went off without warning
Hell read about it tomorrow morning
Shes goin out with someone new
In this week at number two
Three minute boy aint that somethin |
Things come wrapped up in time
Like the past in a present
Or the perfect line in a song
They take their time
And when theyre gone
They take their time with them
And you cant have them back
Because the time for them has gone
And their time has gone with them
The time for them has gone
Theres an echo of them
An echo of the time they were wrapped in
Sweet or bitter in the memory
But an echo is all, all I can reach now
An echo of you
An echo of you
An echo of you in your time
Still echoing
Like a star in the sky
Like a star in the sky above me
And the story of its life
Told backwards down this rod of light
But at its beginning..
Long extinct |
Lids that close and time that slows the rapid eye
There is no dreaming in the grave
Youll never look into those eyes again
In this world, in this world
So bend your head
The way that flowers bend their heads
Ill pour upon it my love like rain
Bend your head
The way that flowers bend their heads
Love has died
But love is gonna live again
People change and they turn strange and so will I
It makes no odds how we behave
Well never work out how to live in peace
In this world, with this world
So bend your head
The way that flowers bend their heads
Ill pour upon it my love like rain
Love has died but love is gonna live again
Ill pour upon it my love like rain
In a place where flowers rot and die
In a place where truth lies down and shacks up with the lie
There is still you, there is still you
And longer than this life gives life to you
Bend your head
The way that flowers bend their heads
Ill pour upon it my love like rain
Love has died but love is gonna live again
Ill pour upon it my love like rain
My love like rain, my love like rain, my love like rain |
For me and my true-love will never walk again on the bonnie, bonnie banks of loch lomond
Moira anderson, eat your heart out!
You-ou--
Youll take the high road an Ill take the low road, an Ill be in scotland before you
For me and my true-love well never walk again on the bonnie, bonnie banks of loch lomond
Youll take the acid an Ill take the dope, an Ill be stoned before you
For me an my true-love, the drink waters well on the bonnie, bonnie banks of loch lomond
Step we gaily on we go, heel for heel and toe for toe
Arm in arm
An row an row all for mhairis wedding
Step we gaily on we go, heel for heel and toe for toe
Arm in arm an row an row all for mhairis wedding
I said you, you, you, youll take the high road
I said ill, ill, ill, Ill take the low road
On the lead guitar, from yorkshire mr. Stephen rothery!
I said you, you, you, you take the high road
I said ill, ill, ill, Ill take the low road
On the bass guitar, the backing vocal, from aylesbury mr. Peter trawavas!
I said you, you, you, you take the high road
I said ill, ill, ill, Ill take the low road
On the keyboards, from dublin mr. Mark kelly!
I said you, you--, youll take the high road
I said ill, ill--, Ill take the low road
On drums, per-cus-si-on, mr. Michael e.t. pointer!
And a very big round of applause, for yourself, one audience tonight
It takes two!
On vocals, and percussion fish! ...
A dream fulfilled!
Sweet ma- ma- ma- ma- margaret
I said you take the high road
An Ill take the low road
An Ill be in scotland before you
For me and my true-love well never meet again
On the bonnie, bonnie banks of loch lomond
Sweet ma- ma- ma- ma- margaret
The balcony: sweet ma- ma- ma- ma margaret
Say yer scottish: sweet ma- ma- ma- ma- margaret
I said youll take the high road
An Ill take the low road
An Ill be in scotland before you
For me and my true-love well never meet again
On the bonnie, bonnie, bonnie, bonnie, bonnie banks of loch lomond!
Banks of loch lomond!
Sweet margaret
Sweet margaret
Sweet ma- ma- ma- ma- margaret!
Thank you edinburgh, good night, we shall de-fi-nite-ly return |
Storm clouds cruising cross the blue skies
Shadows float across the fields of barley
I find myself an island in an island
I have to sort things out just my way
And all I find is my bar
To laugh to me I say
Like all you know is true
Is for every time we know its mine
I saw clouds cruise floating cross the blue sky
Shadows float across the fields of barley
Hero down the right ... way
Everything will come out my way
Now I know, I see, I find
Its the only way I ever felt the way I do today
All I say, I play the game
I know I never could be sure of all the places that Ive seen
Clouds cruising cross the blue skies
Shadows float across the fields of barley
Every self an island in an island
Working every problem out my way
Now I see, I feel, I know
Its the only way that anything could sort out to the way
I say youll find its out of mind
Its the only way I could have been
Its the only way I stand
Clouds cruise
Float upon the barley |
I had this dream. That monkey inside ome
Gone skulkin away
Leavin me seeing.. Being
Seeing
Being
Drinking lemon tea
And feeling free
Chilling in the sunshine
On this dreamy street |
Just when I thought Id seen the last of you
You come here scratchin at my door
Your pain and angers in the howling dark
Of every corridor I walk
So tell me more about the love that you rejected
Tell me more about the trust you disrespected
I still dont know, why did you hurt the very one?
Why did you hurt the very one that you should have protected? |
I wonder if my rope’s still hanging from the tree
By the standing pool where you drank me
And filled me full of thirsty love
And the memory of water?
‘Wonder if a king still fishes there
His back toward the burned out air
His laughing catches singing loud
The memory of water
Your taste is blood and ecstasy
But I must drink you all alone
You’re freckled like a speckled egg
A dove… but this bird has flown
O stay with me sweet memory
O stay with me
Wonder if my rope’s still hanging from the tree
By the standing pool where you drank me
As pain flows through me like champagne
Of the memory of water |
Today! I saw music in the sky
I drove towards it in my car
And I turned left and I turned right
But I could never lose the light
That shines towards tomorrow night
Who can say what it means?
What goes on in between
And what gets in between
Its just somethin
Between you and me
Between you and me
Between you and me
Its as sweet as can be
Today! I saw music in the sky
It sang around me. I went blind
Like a masterpiece in a disguise
Couldnt stop it pulling at my eyes
Who can say what it means
What goes on in between
And what gets in between
Ice and fire
Between you and me
Between you and me
Sweet as can be
Between you and me
Monday.. Tuesday.. Blow a fuse day
Fix it in the usual way
Meet me at the church and well get in a state
Stay up late and Ill wake up feeling like
A kid swingin on heavens gate
With no God to complain
Or point the finger of blame
Well get it all down on video 8
You comin out to play?
Could be quite a day...
And I sang that pretty tune
An open airy song
And my heart looped the loop
Well I could do no wrong
Who can say what it means?
What goes on in between
Who can say what you see
And what gets in between you and me
Between you and me
Sweet as can be
Between you and me |
Im scared of opening the can
Scared of changing who I am
Mightve taken all I can
Im scared of everything I am
Are you a natural woman?
I know Ive got it comin..
The scent in the air
And the water running
The damage!
She said shes not telling it today
She said Come back when youre alone
Come back when youre alone
The damage The damage
The damage The damage
The damn damn dam damage
Are you a natural woman?
I know Ive got it comin..
Dissent in the air
And the water running
Dont give me whats in the window, babe
I want the stuff you think would never sell
Whatcha have under the counter on the bottom shelf?
Ill buy the lowdown deepdown primal truthful self
I let the genie out of the box
I let the genie out of the box
Are you a natural woman?
I know Ive got it comin..
The scent in the air
And the water running
Are you a natural woman?
Tell me youre the million-to-one
Are you a natural woman?
Are you a natural woman?
Im a natural man |
I’ve been feeling kind of down and loose
Like a Rosicrucian pope
Head down deep in the womb of time
Carrying a message of hope
My hands steady as a hangman’s hands
Surer than the hangman’s rope
I could sleep for invisible years
Carrying a message of hope
For the future
For the future
Carrying a message
Carrying a message
Carrying a message
Message of hope
I’ve been feeling kind of down and loose
Like a Rosicrucian pope
Head down deep in the womb of time
Carrying a message of hope
My hands steady as a hangman’s hands
Surer than the hangman’s rope
I could sleep for invisible years
Carrying a message of hope
For the future
For the future
I found a power on a dusty shelf
Hey!-the languages I learned
Now I’m so powerful I hurt myself
I hurt myself
I feel kind of limbie brain
Like the library of an astronaut
Found hidden in a pyramid
Shadowing a body of thought
Carrying a message
Message of hope
Madam I’m Adam, I’m a palindrome
Never odd or even any time
Fishin and smilin like a garden gnome
Twisting tales and spinning lines
Spinning lines
Twisting tales
Why don’t we twist like we did last year?
Carrying, carrying a message
Message of hope |
Her green plastic watering can for her fake chinese rubber plant
In the fake plastic earth
That she bought from a rubber man in a town full of rubber plans
To get rid of itself,- it wears her out
She lives with a broken man
A cracked polystyrene man who just
Crumbles and burns
He used to do surgery for girls in the eighties but gravity always
Wins and it wears him out
She looks like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My fake plastic love
But i cant help the feeling
I could blow through the ceiling
If i just turn and run
And it wears me out
If i could be who you wanted all the time |
Can you make it your own
Can you take it by the throat
Make your own luck, learn the skills
Get in early for the kill
It carries on
Pick up the weapon
Marry it, give it your name
Define yourself by it
Take it down the disco
Trigger happy, pulling power
Lady killer, take em out
See the weirdos on the hill
Come to get you if you stand still
It carries on
Somewhere in history you were wronged
Teach your children to bang the drum
Tell all your family, tell all your friends
Teach your brothers to avenge
It carries on
Or you could love
You could love
Lie down in the flowers
In the blue of the air
Open your eyes
Why use up your life for anything else?
No need to fight for what everyone has
What do you need?
Its already there
Its already there
You could love
So he carried the stars in his pocket
Drank the sunrise till he was drunk
He embraced the angels
They swam like little minnows in his blood
Ghosts in his eyes
Out walking beside him
Laughing like children in his mind
They chanted his mantra together
You could love
They were happy |
The sky was Bible black in Lyon
When I met the Magdalene
She was paralyzed in a streetlight
She refused to give her name
And a ring of violet bruises
They were pinned upon her arm
Two hundred francs for sanctuary
And she led me by the hand
To that room of dancing shadows
Where all the heartache disappears
And in the glowing tongues of candles
I heard her whisper in my ear
Jentend ton coeur, jentend ton coeur
I can hear your heart, I can hear your heart
I can hear your heart, your heart
Your heart, your heart |
What a time this is
Everything changing
Faster than the eye can blink
Faster than we can stop & think
What will the future hold?
Well whatever..
I wont ask you to care
But say youll be there
If you cant love me tonight
Just remember the light
Remember the light
Thank you whoever you are
Thank you whoever you are
Thank you
If we get half of half a chance
Well party til dawn. Well run
And dance
Sleep on a train & rent a car
Well gamble in the South of France
Well be a friend to this mad world
Happy together
I wont ask you to sign
On some cold dotted line
But if you can love me tonight
Ill remember the light
Only the light
Thank you whoever you are
Thank you whoever you are
Thank you |
The love that pounds your heart through your chest every night
Until the bed jumps beneath you and scares you white
Trap the spark and hold it there
You cant. You cant
Goose-bumps that dont fade away
They cant remain
Ive opened the box and Ive touched the treasures of the earth
Theyre buried on the island far away
And Im here in England with the map burning my pocket
Dreaming of diamonds..
Such a blinding secret to bear
Trap the spark and hold it there
You cant . You cant
Goose-bumps that dont fade away
They cant remain
Hold the perfect moment
Pin the cloud to the sky
Grab the spark and hold it
You can TRY..
Ive looked into a million laughing unhappinesses
In every bar and on the TV
But I know the real thing
I can remember
I can almost tell you how it is
Trap the spark and hold it there
You cant. You cant
Goosebumps that dont fade away
They cant remain
Photograph a feeling
Pin the cloud to the sky
Trap the spark and hold it
You can try
Trap the spark and hold it there
Grab the spark and hold it there |
It said in the paper that 90% of the universe went missing this morning
Tonight I lost 90% of what was left..
They send us up here to get us out of the way
We worry, and they dont like what we say
Seems obvious to us whats right and what is wrong
But it seems that our opinions dont belong
La la la
So were all up here together on Asylum Satellite 1
Were looking down together from Asylum Satellite 1
I can remember, back in 22
They changed the law - came knocking on the door
In that same moment, the broadband seemed to go..
Phones all dead. Gone dizzy in the head..
La la la
Next thing yknow
They put us on a transport to the stars
So were orbitting the earth together
And, right now, slightly to the left of Mars
Its all so clear
We can see the madness perfectly from here |
Can you feel my skin
Can you feel my bones
Can you put my spine in plaster and take me home
So unpleasant inside and out
So unpleasant inside and out
If you like Ill tell you about it
You wouldnt want to know
My heads full of water
Tears I never cried
Could you hold me under the shower
In the cold outside
So unsteady inside and out
So unsteady inside and out
If you like Ill tell you about it
You wouldnt want to be
Separated out
Separated out
Separated out
I need medical attention
Wheres my memory gone
Everything I told you - including this
I already forgot
Separated out
From the living stream
The thing that couldnt lie straight
Straight in the machine
So unstable inside and out
Dont know how much longer Ill take it
If you like Ill sell you a ticket
Or you can get in for free
Am I enough of a freak
To be worth paying to see
Am I enough of a freak
To be worth paying to see
Can you feel my skin
Can you feel my bones
Can you put my spine in plaster and take me home
Can you kiss my face
Let me know its there
Can you give it shape
Can you kinda care
Am I enough of a freak
To be worth paying to see
Enough of a freak
To be worth paying to see
Enough
Enough
Theyre pointing and laughing
Theyre pointing and laughing at me |
The alarm by the bed
Wring the dreams from my head
Its a new day
Leave the flakes in the bowl
Milk unopened, Im gone
But Im still late...
Join the fight for a cab
Take our place in the jam
And watch the clock again
There is a man in my head
I think he came from the screen...
Or the bible
All he wants is for me is to be strong
But I seem to be unreliable
You know it gets so hard
When everything you are
Is everything you dont want to be
But at the end of the day
Youre the one who burns it all away
The end of the day
Youre the one
Youre the one
The end of the day
So wont you show me those pictures, you hold in your head
And can you lose me somewhere inside them all
Because there are colours that run through the heart of me
That only you can see
But at the end of the day
Youre the one who burns it all away
The end of the day
Youre the one
Youre the one
The end of the day
Youre the one who burns it all away
You burn it all away
Would you burn it all away
Would you burn it all away |
Did you ever fall in love
Did you ever fall in love
Did you ever fall in love
Did you ever dream of falling
If my heart were a ball
It would roll uphill
We are alone in the world
We must do what we feel we should
We are told what is right
Need hurts within us
We can see sense
We can feel what feels right
And so often
All these things are not at all the same
Theyre not at all the same
If my heart were a ball
It would roll uphill
If my heart were a ball
It would roll uphill
Did you ever dream of running
And find you couldnt move
Did you ever dream of running
Running scared
Ankle deep in glue
With the monster after you
And its catching up
Monsters catching up
And its catchin up and youre going nowhere
And youre slowin up and you cant wake up
And its catchin up
And youre going nowhere wake up wake up
Youre falling..
If my heart were a ball
It would roll uphill
Did you ever see a shadow
Cast against your bedroom wall
Crooked shadow in the lamplight
Ten feet tall
Did you ever dream of falling
And find you couldnt move
Did you give up
And discover that you havent given up
Did you ever dream of falling
Did you ever fall in love
Hard ball dream love now roll
Fall clown stain truth space time
Race give black white all one
Church state God fast as I could cry
Laugh hide feel no clouds will
To win sweet seed you me
Hard ball dream love now roll
Fall clown stain truth space time
Never do that, never do that
Will to win, will to win, never do that
Give black white all one wild
Church state now roll
Fall clown stain truth space time
Race fruit
Give
Never do that
If my heart were a ball it would roll uphill
All one insane wild sweet heart
Wild rose
Did you ever fall in love? .. |
When we were young we used to say
Things would be different
One fine day
The walls would crumble
Nations sing as one
We live in hope
Cause so far it hasnt come
Listening to the pouring rain
Waiting for the world to change
Beginning to wonder if well wait in vain
For one fine day
Oh, how years change
The things for which we strive
A better world, or just a quiet life
What seemed so simple
Is still so far away
Dont hold you breath waiting
For one fine day
Listenin to the pouring rain
Waiting for the world to change
Beginning to wonder if well wait in vain
For one fine day
Life is strange
It can seem youre high and dry
Turn around
You find theres nothing in this world you recognise
Did we fall asleep babe?
Dreaming that dream babe?
Listening to the pouring rain
Did we fall asleep babe?
Dreaming that dream babe?
One fine day |
In our house
Twos a crowd
You threw me out
Of my own life
You seem want to be a friend
In our house
Twos a crowd
No more trouble
No more strife
You seem to be at your wits end
I tore apart my oldest friend
How my heart jumped
And may head thumped
As this hard earth
Came up and bumped
As I was dumped
And you threw me out
And you threw me out
Stood at the boundary
Without a clue
Unrequired
Losing you..
Testing your patience
Every day
Opening drawers
Getting in the way
And making a mess
While youre trying to clean
I guess thats my function..
Know what I mean..
Throw me out
Dont worry babe
Im recyclable
Ill biodegrade
Ill biodegrade
Im recyclable
Im recyclable |
It used to rain
Dreary and grey
Most every day but not any more
We come out of our homes
We lie down
Under the cloud that never comes
We roll in the radiation
And we make love
Under the sun
Under the sun
The polar ice is melting
Suits me fine
We go to the beach
On the Northern Line
We watch the sea
Comin up the street
Under the sun
Under the sun
It used to rain
Dreary and grey
Most every day but not any more
We take off our clothes
And have some fun
Under the sun
Under the sun |
I am the man from the planet Marzipan
Good to see you
My eyes are screwed up tight, unaccustomed to the light
And all my arms and all my legs are much too long
Much too long
My head is in a state, unaccustomed to the weight
I wear this mild expression, Im an alien to aggression
Music only does me in my skins so thin
Theres so much that I cant take in
Theres so much that I cant take in
Theres so much that I darent take in
Can you feel through my skin to me?
Can you feel through my skin to me?
Throw a tarpaulin over me
I look like a rotary washing line
I am the face of 2069
I have trouble with my breathing
My net-curtain lungs
And the thoughtlessness of other peoples careless tongues
The airs so thin
Oh my skin
The airs so thin
Oh my skin
I am the man from the planet Marzipan
My eyes are screwed up tight, unaccustomed to the light
I wear this mild expression, Im an alien to aggression
The airs so thin
Oh my skin
Oh my skin..
Im so close..
Im so close to a breakdown
A constant crisis in the heart
What the hell is going on here?
Earth creatures. Amazing, beautiful and mad
Monkeys trying to be stars
Monkeys carrying their Gods around
Lies and murder in the name of heaven
Seen it all before in the kindergartens of the Universe
It would be quaint if it wasnt so damned scary
I cant listen and I cant watch
I can see inside the machine
I can see the join! I can see the join
Can you feel through my skin to me?
Can you see through my skin?
Its all here in my skin, you see
Its all here in my skin
Here in my skin!
If you really look
Its a nursery book |
Do you remember chalk hearts melting on a playground wall
Do you remember dawn escapes from moon washed college halls
Do you remember the cherry blossom in the market square
Do you remember I thought it was confetti in our hair
By the way didnt I break your heart?
Please excuse me, I never meant to break your heart
So sorry, I never meant to break your heart
But you broke mine
Kayleigh is it too late to say Im sorry?
And Kayleigh could we get it together again?
I just cant go on pretending that it came to a natural end
Kayleigh, oh I never thought Id miss you
And Kayleigh I thought that wed always be friends
We said our love would last forever
So how did it come to this bitter end?
Oh, yeah
Do you remember barefoot on the lawn with shooting stars
Do you remember loving on the floor in Belsize park
Do you remember dancing in stilettos in the snow
Do you remember you never understood I had to go
By the way, didnt I break your heart?
Please excuse me, I never meant to break your heart
So sorry, I never meant to break your heart
But you broke mine
Kayleigh I just wanna say Im sorry
But Kayleigh Im too scared to pick up the phone
To hear youve found another lover
To patch up our broken home
Kayleigh Im still trying to write that love song
Kayleigh its more important to me now youre gone
Maybe it will prove that we were right
Or ever prove that I was wrong |
Some of us want a fast car
Some of us want to stand and gaze
Some of us pine for the great outdoors
Some of us wont leave the house for days
Some of us have died for their freedom
Some are quite happy in the cage
Some think a wild time
Is what they want at night
But freedom to sleep
Would be complete delight
I truly am
A lucky man
I have everything that I want
Some want diamonds and trinkets and gold
The perfect body and the perfect skin
Witnesses to their good deeds
Willing accomplices to their sin
Some of us pray for absolution
Some want sex and call it love
But freedom to cheats not something I need tonight
I truly am
A lucky man
I have everything that I want
Some of us want to be a rockstar
Some of us just want more and more and more and more
But Im not so sure, I think Ive been there before..
I truly am
A lucky man
I have everything that I want
I truly am
A lucky man
I have everything that I want
I truly am
A lucky man
I finally have everything that I want |
In the after-silence fighting leaves behind
I try to think it over
But my minds gone blind
I lost the right to argue somewhere down the line
I had to tell
She told me to
Go to Hell
And here I am
In the gaping hole
Home truths tear in a home
Married to this hurting
I know its all my fault
Who can tell
Looks like we have
A house to sell
Now shell never know
What anyone could tell her
Now shell never know
What anyone can see
Now she wont believe me
Ever again, completely
Now I hang around
Feet back on the ground
I just cant stand
I just cant stand
Now shell Never know
What anyone could tell her
Now shell never know
What anyone can see
Now she wont believe me
Ever again, completely
Now shell never know
Or ever dream
How much she means to me |
What I have here in my heart
Is like faith, but not faith
For those without faith also have
What I have here in my heart
What I have here in my hand
Is like feeling but deeper
Thats why I am here
What I have here in this room
Is knowledge without proof
What I have here in my hands
This is what I feel for you
Its why the Earth is alive
And makes electricity work
And fire dance in the sky
I feel inside the atoms
Where the science breaks down
What I have here in my hand
Is like faith, but not faith
For those without faith also have
What I have here in my hand
What I have here in my hand
Is like knowing but deeper
Its why I have faith |
He looked down from the airplane
A crack in the clouds opened up he saw a garden of Eden
An island in the sea
Starin at the birth of creation
The earth and the people living, growing, naturally
A state of mind...
He came down from the sky
Into the noise of a million lives
A garden of Eden
Was it all a dream?
We came a long, long, way with each other
Were goin nowhere til we see were only
Sisters and brothers
A state of mind
A state of mind is a contagious thing
Spread it around you never know what the future brings...
Ready to sow?
You ready to grow?
Reap what you sow
You ready to know?
A state of mind is a contagious thing
Spread it around - you never know what the future brings...
A state of mind
A state of mind |
Goodnight my love
Im so alone
And so surrounded
By your sweet memory
I cannot sleep
For all these dreams
They come to play
Till dawn comes stealin them away..
The fruit of the wild rose
Hangs here with summer gone
Voluptuous crimson
As the days become colder
The fruit of the wild rose
In a warmer country
Where the sea meets the land
You may walk with your baby
In the afternoon
Perhaps some aroma
From a street cafй
Might sadden your eyes
Carry you away
The fruit of the wild rose
Sweet and so sour on the tongue
Swollen and crimson
As the light fades and shortens
The thorny wild rose
She gave me a summer but shes gone
As england faces the winter
In your eyes, in your mind, in your mind
Clearer than a photograph
No passing of time
Ever could fade
You and i
Shimmering ghostly
Like a wild garden from another life
Will you throw your arm
Turn your body round
Breathe a sudden sigh
Wherever you lie sleeping
Stir your hips
Feel the seed inside so sweet
Dreaming westbound waves
And a man comin back from the sea...
Dreaming
Dance for me rose |
I left a note each day under your pillow
That I wrote in invisible ink
All you have to do is breathe on them
And you might read them written there in pink
You might find out whats inside me
Maybe its something that might amuse
As you watch my words appearing
The fear will go
And everything will flow
Im hoping you dont throw my little notes away
I wouldnt blame you
After all, theres nothing they appear to say
Its not a game, its simply fear
Stops them being clear
Cause Im hoping you dont throw my little notes away
I wouldnt blame you
After all, theres nothing they appear to say
Its not a game, its simply fear
Stops them being clear
Its not a game, its simply fear
That stops them being clear
Im being optimistic here
Im being optimistic here
Love or fear
Which do you have for me
Love and fear
Which do you have for me
Cause Im hoping you dont throw my little notes away
I wouldnt blame you
After all, theres nothing they appear to say
Its not a game, its simply fear
Always stops them being clear
Cause Im hoping
Yes Im hoping, Im hoping
Its not a game
Its not a game
Looks like a game
But its not a game.. |
You sound truly heartbroken
You can do it. youre a pro
Agony from every pore. and such control
The orchestra swoops and the drum samples roll
You hold the high scream into the key change for the outro
Its another number one
And thats exactly where youre comin from
But can you play me a song
For the deliberate loser
Like an olympic ice skater youve put in the hours
Learned the routines and the high scoring loops
And even before you sing the sweet opening line
Youre know that youre scorin at least 5.9
Here come the flowers
I saw them gathered all around you
Hangin on your every word
You were telling them youre masterplan
World domination
... any way you can
Dont you ever wonder if this will to win is a weakness?
Dont you ever wonder... |
The cars leave their trails of hot & cold light inside my head
Like burned-in long exposure pictures
The wheels spin slowly backwards
Strobing in the amber light
And the rain comes down and washes my brain
But it dont get clean
This town has turned me into what I have become
This town dresses me up like a stranger
This town performs in the window like the ultimate gift
This town takes us down
I feel like Im losing you to this town
We were saving our money for half of our lives
We were saving our dreams
And we came to this place to make the chances real in the big city
But Ive been counting the days Ive been watching you change
And I can feel it dying
The noise outside takes you in its arms like a lamb to a lion
And down there somewhere among the noise
The magazine dolls and the big money boys
Move silently on their easy heels
They move silently on their greasy wheels
This town has turned me into what I have become
This town dresses you up like a stranger
This town hangs around in the doorway and tells me Im late
This town takes us down, takes us down
I feel like Im losing you to this town
The morning breaks and I watch you awake and this town takes you down away from me again |
I used to be half empty
But now Im half full
I used to be half empty
But now Im half full
I used to be half empty
But now Im half full
Im half full, Im half full, Im half full
I used to be half empty
But now Im half full
Im half full, Im half full
You woke me up
I woke up in a city that doesnt sleep
Woke up in a city by the sea
I woke up in a city full of rain
I nodded off, you woke me up again
I woke up in a village full of stone
I woke up, someone had taken everything I own
The stone looked on and didnt care
But all I really needed was someone to say there there...
There there, there there...
You woke me up
You brought me round
You picked me up when I was down
You said stand clear,
Hit me with the probes
And you exploded in my lungs -
And I woke up
I woke up
Ive been asleep for twenty years
Been doing a crawl in a pool of someone elses tears
I used to be half empty
But now Im half full...
I went to bed, too tired to cope -
And I was gradually losing hope
But angels come to you when all is lost
In golden light at dead of night
Golden light at dead of night
An angels voice on the telephone -
Come to whisper Take me home...
I used to be half empty
But now Im half full
I used to be half empty
But now Im half full!
And I woke up in a city full of snow, full of snow -
And history and beauty and Christmas-lights and cold
And I saw your hair freezing, your eyelashes too
And I never saw anything as beautiful as you -
Til I woke up
Well, I used to be half-empty
But now Im half-full
I used to be half-empty
But now Im half-full
Half empty
Half empty ...
And half full
Half full ... |
When I leave you
I will leave you
Things that might not help you
Things that might
Problems that I never solved
Dreams to keep you up at night
As I leave you
I will leave you
Things that stick for ever
Things that slide
Mysteries I swallowed whole
Happiness I couldnt share
Promises I never kept
Stories that I never told
Principles betrayed or sold
Love I tried to spread too wide
Muscles you can grow in hate
Summer darkness
Winter light
Young mans shame and
Old mans pride
When I leave you
I will hate to leave you
Thats the heat that grows
With growing old
So never let me leave you
Never let me leave you
Cold |
That was almost the end of my marbles
Confiscated, I choked back the tears
I hung onto a handful of favourites
That disappeared over the years
Did anyone see my last marble
I swear that I had it before
Sometimes I think I should go see a shrink
In case he can find me some more
Did anyone see my last marble?
Id saved it to give it away
Since I was a youth
Now I dont have no proof
Only words
Only words
Only words |
This house aches
I whistle its tune
After so much noise
Freedom is silence
Half the house is missing
Taken half of me with it
I had imagined this
Hurting in a different way
Hurting in a different way
I still have the hi-fi
Quiet at all volumes
As my dull thoughts
Echo viscous and slow like the tolling of some great bell under water
When she cries she cuts me
And when she smiles I wanna die
Afraid of knowing myself
Our eyes stare out while we hide inside
Looking at it, not seeing it
Looking at it, not seeing it
The open windows
Let in the spring air today
And the birds sing their thankfully happy, brainless song
But the silence here finds a way to stay
Some kind of explosion
God, if you hear me
Throw me a line or strike me down
Do you refuse even to accuse
Cmon, do your worst
But lift this curse
Built this house on solid ground
But now its crumbling tumbling down
Will nobody here even cry out for help?
As it slowly collapses into itself
Looking at it, not seeing it
Looking at it, not seeing it
Hanging on to this pain
Its no good
Its no good
But we try again
We try again |
Staring down from this high window
At the faces in the line
Cold from hours of waiting
How many people can you love?
When youre black and blue with bruises
From collisions on the road
The friction grind of travelling
This is the never ending show
All over the world in eighty days
Head in a blur of information
What kind of a man could live this way
I do what I can
I do okay
But right now
All I want to do
Is get real
If thats all right with you
Woke up last night under the mountains
Driving from Zurich to Milan
I lay there listening to the echoes
Thinking of Iceland and Japan
So many miles, so many faces
And my home so far away
I lose some of me in all these places
And I cant help the way Im changed
All over the world in eighty days
Memories turn like magazine pages
What kind of a man could live this way
I do what I can
But I cant escape it
Right now
All I want to do
Is get real
If thats all right with you
Right now
All I want to do
Somehow
Be myself with you
All over the world in eighty days
Alcohol haze of information
What kind of a man could live this way
As long as I have
And stay the same
Right now
All I want to do
Is get real
If thats all right with you
Right now
All I want to do
Get real
If thats all right with you
For just one night with you
If thats all right with you
Get real
Get real right now
Somehow |
A voice from the past
Entered my head today
Fresh & alive. Full of life, passion and pain
A voice now past
A beautiful soul. Gone, gone, gone
Speaking clearly - clearer than the living
Talking perfect sense
Used to not being understood
While talking perfect sense to the next generation
Have we caught up yet?
Is it time?
I think it is
Enough is enough
Enough is enough
A voice from the past
Entered my head today
Tiny child sighed in my ear
Giving up breathing in
Over & out
Over & out
Taken by bad luck & the ill fortune of geography
Common cold. Dirty water. HIV
Common apathy. Common crime
Perfect nonsense to the next generation
Dead yet alive
Dead yet alive
Gone but shouting anger
Gone but talking perfect sense
Have we caught up yet?
Is it time? Well I say it is. I say it is
Deaf & dumbed-down
Enough is enough
Give me a smile. Hold out your hand
I dont want your money
I dont want your land
Gimme a smile. Hold out your hand
I dont want your money
I dont want your land
I want you to wake up & do
Something strange
I want you to listen
I want you to feel someone elses pain
Someone elses pain
Someone elses pain
Someone elses pain
Deaf & dumbed-down
Deaf & dumbed-down
A tap with clean water |
The pack has now fallen
So bring out your dead
Has Alice forgotten
As the rivers run red
The White Queens running backward with a mallet to the fore
The Cheshire Cat is grinning, dissolving through the floor
So walk a little faster
To catch up with your past
And moving on a black square
You meet the Queen at last
An now the pack has fallen
Where your paths were once mislead
Youll never return for all the vows that were said |
Heading for the great escape
Heading for the rave
Heading for the permanent holiday
Heading for the winter trip
Heading for the slide
Heading for the dignified walk away
Heading for the open road
Goodbye to all that
Heading for the automatic overload
Standing in the open boat
Standing in the swing
Waiting for the ringing and the bright light
Waiting to be recognised
Quiet applause will do
They shower you with flowers when they bury you
Youre holding on, youre holding on ...
I. The Last of You
Just when I thought Id seen the last of you
You come here scratchin at my door
Your pain and angers in the howling dark
Of every corridor I walk
So tell me more about the love that you rejected
Tell me more about the trust you disrespected
I still dont know, why did you hurt the very one
Why did you hurt the very one
That you should have protected?
II. Falling from the Moon
Dont ask me why Im doing this
You wouldnt understand
Youre asking the wrong questions
You couldnt understand
A bridge is not a high place
The fifty-second floor
Icarus would know
A mountain isnt far to fall
When youve fallen
When youve fallen from the moon
Theres murder on the street
Im ashes on the water now, somewhere far away
I have fallen, fallen from the moon |
Its getting late for scribbling and scratching on the paper
Somethings gonna give under this pressure
And the cracks are already beginning to show
Its too late
The weekend career girl never boarded the plane
They said this could never happen again
Oh, so wrong, so wrong
This time it seems to be another misplaced rendezvous
This time, its looking like another misplaced rendezvous
With you
The parallel of you, you
You
On the outskirts of nowhere
On the ringroad to somewhere
On the verge of indecision
Ill always take the roundabout way
Waiting on the rain
For I was born with a habit, from a sign
The habit of a windswept thumb
And the sign of the rain |
I dreamed I rolled on the ocean floor
In the sunken bones of a broken ship
On the shadow line where spirits creep
To the world above from the world beneath
On waves of silver I dreamed of gold
till I lost the peace that dreaming gives
I dreamed of the moment of my own death
That no one ever dreams and lives
I dreamed I sailed to the mirrored edge
Of that murky world for an iron bell
That dragged me down to the ocean bed
And rang to mark where my shadow fell
On waves of silver I dreamed of gold
till I lost the peace that dreaming gives
I dreamed of the moment of my own death
That no one ever dreams and lives
That no one ever dreams and lives
That no one ever dreams and lives
I dreamed I slept on the ocean bed
And a silent grave of silver sand
Rolled in the sway of an iron bell
Ive heard them say when they go to sea
On stormy nights you can hear her moan
She tolls for the mourning of my own death
And echoes here on the village stones
On the waves of silver I dreamed of gold
I dreamed of the moment of my own death
That no one ever dreams and lives
That no one ever dreams and lives
That no one ever dreams and lives |
I wanted it til I got it
I wanted it til I got it
Believed in it til I saw it
I needed it til I had it
I guess I live to regret it
I dreamed of it til I got it
Believed in it til I saw it
I needed it til I had it
I wanted it til I got it
I wanted it til I got it
I wanted it til I got it
Believed in it til I saw it
I needed it til I had it
Then I wanted something else
I wanted to be free
I didnt last a week
There aint no pleasing me
Thats how its gonna be
Nothing fills the hole
Nothing fills the hole
Nothing fills the hole |
They got money, they got sun
They look like theyre havin fun
Dont it seem its so unfair
They know something you dont know
Theyve got a better place to go
Theyre thin and rich and they dont care
We get the dreams that we deserve
The magazines that we deserve
Page one and three that we deserve
The joy and the pain that we deserve
The sun and the rain that we deserve
The material gain that we deserve
We get what we deserve
They got tension, they got stress
They got their lives in the press
The whole world stares as they undress
Sold their friends to get ahead
They do therapy instead
Theyve got demons in their bed
We get the toys that we deserve
The quiet and the noise that we deserve
The girls and the boys that we deserve
We get what we want if we really want it
We get what we want if were really honest
You know what you are
You know what you want
You know what you deserve
We get the seas that we deserve
The flowers and the trees that we deserve
The spores on the breeze that we deserve
We get what we want if we really want it
We get what we want if were really honest
You know what you are
You know what you want
You know what you deserve
You deserve
We get what we deserve
We deserve |
The quiet sadness of the people of the North
Echoes silently around the cold grey places
Ecstasies undared
Tremble upon the edge of the tightly, respectably unfulfilled
Who drink to excess in order to forget what never happened
Brave faces
Well dressed ordered minds on suicides edge
Reflected in the rain-skimmed slate grey, battleship grey, hardship grey
And further South, and homeless
Here I am
Globally altered and dishevelled
Oh darling, Ive done it all
An antithesis of sorts
And yet bound together and hopelessly in love
With the inevitable loss
And the end
How can we run from ourselves? |
If the time will come when Im alone
Got no place to go
If you see me one night on my own
Rain pouring on
And my mind keeps on flying
Trying to be free
And my spirit comes to meet me
Im as high as I can be
And theres someone in the valley
Shes calling out to me
Shes standing by the river
My Lady Fantasy
Sunrise in the morning
Lies upon the hill
Daybreaks without warning
???? coming still
Sun fills up the valley
Carpet all of green
Falls upon the lady
Finest ever seen
She stands by the river
There for all to see
Love goes on forever
Oh my Lady Fantasy |
Youre only human
So am I
Its such a shame we have these secrets and lies
That get discovered from time to time
Whatever rises eventually falls
The world turns and it turns on us all
You cant live life without making mistakes
You cant live trying to keep the outside world away
Its time to stop
Beating yourself up
Its not your fault
Its not your fault
Its not your fault
I broke a mirror
Maybe two
Shattered reflections
Thats all I have of you
Crackin like eggshell beneath my fear
I couldnt breathe, I couldnt keep the outside world away
Oh dear
When you lie down to sleep
Repeat after me
Its not your fault
Its not your fault
Its not your fault
Were both so tired
Its not your fault
Its just the way were wired |