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THE LAST HUMAN GATEWAY Across the plateau, no clouds storm the sky Above the riverbed, the world's run dry I beat the air for those who hear And through the night, my call goes out unheard I cry for company and get no word The silent groan God only knows I stand alone The wind divides the empty shells below Deep in the valley, night begins to grow The memory, the best of me From out the shadows, something takes my hand To lead me homeward through a foreign land The silence grown The palest eyes I'm the only one A mother's son, a father's pride How can I run and where to hide? I close my eyes and hope tonight My healing flesh will be all right A baby cries, another ghost A different side to claim the most My blood gone black and down to dust So save my soul or let me die I'm still alive I'm on the other side Shaken down, lovely but cockeyed No wonder I feel nervous Lord, they don't deserve us Anyway I want to burn these wings You can see how it's happening Still they're telling me to smack the enemy It's killing time I should have known before Only bad's half as good as dead I can't go any faster Stuck like alabaster White as I know We stand in lines of old, staying cold Swallow all the anger Releases get away, coming down Across the fields of amber To the water Oceans far below As the mirror to the sun The colour of the evening Never let go Hold my stomach, keep it tight They're pulling out the breathing Let it go If you ever change your mind Don't be caught alone, no It's only me With all the hopes and fears combined It's hard to care for living anymore I wouldn't let you down again Inspired by hunger, fired by lust I sold the children's faces, painted gold Something moving taking hold Is gathering but never growing old I did everything I could just to say Believe me, you're not alone But with the winter in my bones Oh what else can I do now? It's only me i wouldn't let you down again. Break back to back lately Oh and how they moved when I was younger than this Get my spirit caught beneath the surface See me play dead today I love my daydreams, leave my doldrums Armies of priests All come to practice their party pieces Pounding like metal from side to side To shoot, to save And risk that horizon No smoke can shield, it stays unhealed Safe in our stillness At last we see him rise from out the earth I set the silhouette that leaves me scarred Lost my condition from the perfect star I caught the fire Can't help but see There's none to carry on I knew these plains before the world was mine
With no escape in mind, i'll be resigned
Inside alone
I know for sure
The future's all gone
THROUGH THE CORRIDORS When the feeling takes me over What else can I do but run? Through the corridors I follow I shoot into oblivion If you close your eyes and listen You can hear the children play I love it when their eyes are watching I'll have it when they disobey It's a different kind of loving Such a dirty rigmarole But just in case there's no tomorrow I'll drink fire from their souls If you close your eyes and listen You can hear the children shout I hate it but I won't be happy Till i've turned them inside out All day long
Here I go
All day long
All day
AWAKE AND NERVOUS So the certainty is I can get no air Getting nowhere at all Open-ended and suspended One by one In the slipstream And Harvest hold the horrorbag Emotion starts to lag With panache I keep a-crashing through the sky No compassion have I Kick a kiss of superstition and I cry 'Just a guide or I throw All the panic I can muster Threatening to the cluster' The hangman's whore's so obvious Discretion's such a drag But I know his apparatus snows my mind When it gets too far out Guard the ribs and fall I long to catch my breath Condemn it all As the number I become They count me out a volunteer See how they run in silence up all the belfry steps Each unaffected by the sight of the blistered skin Someone to calm me till the pounding in my head stops Over the tens of thousands Find no way out of in Through the pandemonium My heart is beating like a drum Barricaded in here Crawling's getting creepier With my head in my hands All the Heaven in my heart Get me out of here
Let me get away
Let me go from here
Get me out away
Get me out of here
Let me get away
Let me out of here
Let me go today
MY BABY TREATS ME RIGHT 'COS I'M A HARD-LOVIN' MAN ALL NIGHT LONG Instrumental
THE ENEMY SMACKS Helplessly held by the weeds, we are grown, I tried talking sense to you Leave it alone I give in to the weight of the kick So weary of waiting and hoping for this The two of us alone No-one else to see I promise not to miss you and no more jealousy Careful of my gender, it comes, how it goes Love me tender so nobody knows Nobody knows the trouble I seen Each time they asked I said something obscene The splinters shower down I shelter from the rain Against the grain, against the moon I waxes and I wanes No ecstasy sent for taking a line Right through the tokehead They rip, run and shine I awake and the feeling won't drop Each time they slam down I swear I will stop The two of us alone No-else to see The damage brings us closer to murder Can't you see? Here in my rocking-horse house I keep the curtains drawn Inside my little head I hear them screaming out my name Here in my rocking-horse room I keep my eyes shut tight Inside my peeping-holes I know that if they're empty I can sleep Don't you believe her Deliver a shiver to me Is this what you wanted? I'm haunted My eyes grown cold I still got second sight I still can see at night Here comes the enemy
The beast in me
Alive a little more
On my hard shoulder
The warning goes deeper than before
I still got second sight
I still can see at night
JUST CHANGING HANDS She blacks and blues She wear new bruise 'Cause he beat her senseless He hit the booze Whenever she's prey to his disease She take some beating Fall to her knees It's only love, he told me so He's coming home to my bed I wouldn't bleed if only he'd leave me along now and then When did it start? I can't recollect I'm still alive, if a little wrecked He makes it so i'm so old before my time He comes from behind it helps him to unwind It's all right, love, he told me so He's promised me no more pain I wouldn't bleed if only he'd leave me alone now and then ----------------------------------------------------- OUTER LIMITS Break out the waters Waiting for anything to come Hold on forever Hell below and Heaven dead ahead Don't ever change your way Burn down the prison Stay in the balance of the wire Hold on forever Only you can turn that lethal level I'll keep you safer than sound Even the rain won't fall in a straight line Take it from me You'll find that the pulses shine I take the strain Let go the millions of us The whole divide It wasn't easy, I want to stay You're not alone, so don't look back
You better see it's getting black
You're not alone, surrender now
You're going to fall in line
You better learn this time
I'm trying to get there
I'm falling from nowhere
THE WAKE Singing praises was never a feature Encouraged in me or my kind Every time they remain With my hand to my mouth The crowded borders leave me colour-blind Pushing me for the death warmed up And the flowers and fur to parade In the time that it takes for the ritual wake They've broken all the promises they made I was driven away to distraction and Couldn't see we were all laid to waste Never sleeping, I saw my abduction from Solid areas fallen from grace I come drifting through the draughting Dropping out of sight I'm not begging for love, I'm empty as I am I'm beginning to wonder Is the ability too weak? If this stark interior surrounds me Am I so unique? Little blue souvenir to remind me of
Restless days when I should have said no
And you know that I've nothing to share with you
For the chance of the love that we save
I wanted to be magnificent
For the less-than-a-lifetime of mine
I forget where I came in
All I know there's no discipline now
THE MAGIC ROUNDABOUT Stop your tears from hiding See them mesmerize your skin It's all that I can do To keep away from going in I fed the ghost of plenty As the perfume turned to gray If life is still worth living How come I feel afraid? One day, some day I will take from the air the only way out I can't deny the honesty I want to stay but it's more than me I'm losing all the reason Keep forgetting what I've said Oh I try to bring it closer But there's nothing in my head I don't believe in ever And I don't believe in now If life is still worth living How come I feel alone? Suddenly, if it comes then I'm gone Why don't you talk to me? See I'm not your enemy? I am right by your side I want to stay but it's more than me Each time you go down
Don't forget to remember
Everything is easy
Most of all believing
It will take you over
It will bring you down
It's hidden in the language
It's in the words I say
(I say so)
CORNERS Darker than the starlight gold Bearing down again to bury me, in the air, Suffer like a stained glass wire When the waves are gone, your eyes and fears I'll be there And if we can still believe in tomorrow Yesterday will disappear soon enough When it seems impossible to remember How the world could be so proud of itself Into lives of violent ends She hides away, relies on night All the time Holding out a hand to take Still awash in seas of ivory We steal away And it's such a lonely ride to tomorrow Through the corners where the light never shows When it seems impossible to imagine How the world could be so cold to itself And if we can still believe in tomorrow
Yesterday will disappear soon enough
When it seems impossible to remember
How the world could be so proud of itself
WIDOW'S PEAK Garden over me, the secret I love most God and man agree to giving up the ghost High above the moon, the sun has left the sky I would love to know if you're the reason why Garden under me, the naked and the dead I can still remember everything we said Higher, higher now than I have ever been More than meets the eye than mine have ever seen Garden over me, you never know the grief Hide this side away to satisfy belief I can't stand the agony of nothing new When the soft white belly enters into you I go down The ribbon wrapped a gun I blinded everyone Collected underground Now I'm up, I'm down It isn't how you lie It's in the way you're mine How was I to know The nerves would overflow? I want to see you I want to touch you I want to feel the breathing changing I want to be you To be inside you To pull you under, get you fighting Unsodden, even the water leaking, Don't want to hear the widow speaking And just to know if there could be something You couldn't get that, yeah Ah, you fools Don't you see? He's darker than he's going to be The state I'm in Hollow bone Diamond hard heart of stone Lost in love
Senses flown
Diamond hard heart of stone
THE THOUSAND DAYS I may be wrong But the miracle that I prayed for is here Could be illusion, maybe some trickery I don't know why I'm scoring the angels Counting all the thousand days There were so many tears So many times, wasting away So what about the thousand days? We miss the reason because of what we are I fall silent with you The gash I know is getting obvious The blood of ages from Scoring the angels Guaranteed for all we know There were so many tears So many times, wasting away So what about the thousand days? I swerve the engine The balance disappears While I'm sleeping I'm scoring the angels
Counting all the thousand days
There were so many tears
So many times, wasting away
So what about the thousand days?
HEADLONG I'm here The ragged burden come to nothing Comfort go We drift I talk with you and hear you though you're never here Hovering above me like a net I'm terrified to look beyond the threat I kill ambition while I can I'm cold I drag the beauty, black confetti swept away Stumbling, we go blindly marching on Bursting like a dream and now all gone In time I know we'll fly again Frail as ever, still the most severe Haven't I surrendered everything now? Naked in my cruelest waking fear From the rages of the weightless sleep 'Who will catch him falling?' called the wind 'I will claim him,' volunteered the grave 'Marry me forever,' cried the bride Said the orphan, 'Who'll remember me? Anyone at all? Are you coming back?' From the moment we were torn Thrown into the tunnel, we withdrew Whiter colours then untied Don't desert me now I'm coming through I fought the memory of beautiful things Imaginings The only strength I got from wanting you All the love I've been needing The hunger is feeding on me Spirit, bear me away to the place of birth You, you put the fear in the fear of flying
The breath of dying
You want a sign, you want a sign
It's already there
DANS LE PARC DU CHATEAU NOIR It burns when it's died Runs down my side Before the dawn robs me of the dark I will remember I never ever Thought for one second It would take me over under water IT ALL STOPS HERE I can feel the movement Growing all around me everywhere I can hear the language of the revolution every day If you pledge to join me We can fight for reason everywhere All the things we wished for Are ours for the asking anyway Many years ago we lived here All too soon our hopes were drowned Now as if I never knew you Life goes on in different towns And I can walk round you, past you, through you Because you're only ghosts now Yes, I can walk round you, past you, through you Because you're only ghosts now Somehow in this silent city A little of us still remains Mingled with the distant laughter Fused with dust in future rains And I can walk round you, past you, through you Because you're only ghosts now Yes, I can walk round you, past you, through you Because you're only ghosts now ----------------------------------------------------- FASCINATION I was waiting for the change To come from underneath the ground Caught in half-light, there she stood But I had given all I could Upside down the shape looked normal In its magic uniform I can't remember getting older I can't get it off my mind It's only fascination diving Keeps my spirits half-alive My infatuation driving my incentive to survive Does it suffocate the daughters Or does torture sink a thrill? Still obsessed with time will time It's now and never, watch it swell It's only fascination diving Keeps my spirits half-alive My infatuation driving my incentive to survive It may be far away but it's here to stay New reminders sway into yesterday She walks towards me now She lives, I don't know how I can hardly move, I can hardly breathe Roses, I am chrome
No, she's not at home
Shot down to the bone
Sitting here alone
She walks towards me now
She lives, I don't know how
I can hardly move
I can hardly believe in even nothing
I hide you in bullets, I had it all
Still dragged from shock to shock
One drink to let me sink
If I never see you again
If I'm jaded, stretched or cleaned
Don't tell me, I guessed
While you bled for me less
I love what you used to be
INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT Is it me that you're speaking to? Can you really put me down? Do you know the things to say? What will happen in the meantime? Are you telling me the truth? Can you really put me down? Would you bother if you could? What will happen if you do? What will happen to my friends? Will they be the same as you? Can you tell me if I'm wrong? When will I be right again? ----------------------------------------------------- NO LOVE LOST Through the stinging of the system Wandering lonely as a cloud Talking only in the open Congregation is even now disallowed Growing anger in the city Banner headlines around the world What has to be done is called reformation To heal the rift of living apart together Forgive them, they know not what they do There's no love lost at all Save them, they rue the day when they ever got involved Even so I have a dream Turning circles in my head That they're closing down all the no-go areas Opening one for them both instead Forgive them, they know not what they do There's no love lost at all Save them God are you waiting open-armed? All of the problems over the years I'm sure can be sorted with peaceful solutions My warm shoulder dries your tears I want no more heartache Oh for crying out loud No point asking if you're leaving Didn't I make that clear If we agree to differ The closer, I'm certain, we'll always feel Forgive them they know not what they do
There's no love lost at all
Save them, they rue the day when
They ever got involved
PROMISES (AS THE YEARS GO BY) Stay awhile, when I'm not alone I forget all the anger in me Kiss a tear when the hammer falls They're holding me here in Never ending circles I can still remember summer madness I can taste the perfume on your cheek The heat is overcome by coldness-iron Consoling words are insignificant Say you'll pray Justify the actions These are days of the mob-rule Sharp tongue, curfew When the mind is in solitary confinement- Makes the mood that breaks you There's a spirit seeking liberation Here's a fire with a hungry heart If I listen maybe time will tell me The reasons why we're torn apart As the years go by Don't make any false promises As the years go by Say you'll pray Here the silence is too loud In a steel barred jail on the other side We invented the differences That weaved the web with which we lied Caught in the middle of a cold war zone I left my lover in a far-off place She'll kiss a tear when the hammer's falling And wipe the Darkness from my face As the years go by
Don't make any false promises
As the years go by
Just say you'll pray
NOMZAMO Look beyond the colour Past the covering on us to see what we are Turn the faded pages The mark we leave on History is what we are Every country is part of us Irrespective of the one where we grew up Yes you are my sister Though we never shared a home That's what you are And your eyes keep shining in the darkness Defying all the chains, that's what you are Home for the homeless, hope for the hopeless Between the lines on your face I can read... Nomzamo, Nomzamo... They of the silk-white breast seemingly proud They are so much more less On the day of the vow Here's a woman who is tired and weary Leading resistance and still laying wreathes How can we stand by and watch this happen? Is this the justice we preach? It seems too much to ask for an equal Peaceful living In a land of screams, Stinging tears and Broken smiles Following through all extremes 'One who will suffer many trials' Is this a land to inherit? Crumbs on the table, The segregated people starve With gleeful oppression the mindless procession Cast nonchalance out of their cars Somewhere, sometime we pay for the crimes We incessantly do If we believe that we are what we leave I left a hope - what did you? Reeling from punches which Leave them winded Reeling from laws which Should be rescinded Now 'Day of the vow ...' Nomzamo, Nomzamo...
STILL LIFE Weird scenes are coming through the airwaves From a flickering tube An old film with an older theme And those actors could be us But the ending is good so I'm thinking 'There's the rub' Later when we meet It's emotion going through the motions A kick to break up or a kiss to make up But then there'll be another scene Like the one yesterday When we say hello we mean goodbye Feigning paradise, wanting to cry Love, all our passion I'm sorry to say Is part of the game we play So we're into action on cue And go spinning like a reel Summing up this relationship And the way I feel I think maybe we should go on out Into the moonlight Out of the spotlight And examine where we are And where we've been to Where we're going is down Without a happy ending When we say hello we mean goodbye
Feigning paradise, wanting to cry
Love, all our passion I'm sorry to say
Is part of the game we play
PASSING STRANGERS I wish I had a penny For every time I told her I loved her But that sincerity I know won't raise the fare She was born with a wanderlust And against the odds she made the grade Now out of sight is out of mind to her I'm scared... It's a big bad big bad dead end world If I close my eyes I can't forget you, stranger In my sleep I see you dancing into danger Mister don't shoot her You can't see the whites for the reds of her eyes Maybe she's been crying over me While you're lying over her Talk of us is words in perfect tenses It seems that action men have Broke down your defenses We're passing strangers But your leaving left me wondering why These times have changed us Caught in the middle of a big bad Dead end world Caught in the middle of a big bad Dead end world Friends rally round but it's not just A question of sympathy Others come and go, Why won't you come and go with me? We're passing strangers
But your leaving left me wondering why
These times have changed us
Caught in the middle of a big bad
Dead end world
Caught in the middle of a big bad
Dead end world
HUMAN NATURE Free as the wind, tall as a tree Wide as a mind, deep as a sea You crawled on my land Now I grow in your hand Always like the first time unlike the others They're so-so, so called lovers Theirs is the push that comes to shove But not in our evolution, it's natural From great to grand True love is never really planned And wipes the memory of those who came Before our evolution, it's natural And with you see me walk on air I know that I can do it When you're holding tightly to my sleeve The one with my heart upon it Hard as a mountain range, bright as a harvest moon The set gets rearranged But there's still time to join our show Every dog must have its day And everyone's a winner And every time the lights go down on us I'm a beginner How lady luck has changed, 'so long Salem' The set gets rearranged But there's still time to join the show Free as the wind, tall as a tree Wide as a mind, deep as a sea An interlude With haunting melodies of nursery rhymes Singing the changes, singing the changes Singing... I hear talk of classroom drama Maybe it's a kind of psychodrama Children, the mirrors of our yesterdays On the land out of the sea Blowing in the breeze Mind over metaphor Fall in love with innocence Don't dally long with diligence Stand up choose me Don't refuse me They pawned our world of peace A flock of sheep to fleece Our flood of love won't cease No harm can come our way And it's easy to see what sets us apart From the creatures still on the ocean bed Our evolution, It's natural It goes from great to grand
Falls into place like something that we planned
When you curl your arms around my frame
Or curl your lips around my name
And do just what comes natural
The first thing on your mind
Do just what comes natural
I prefer your kind of human nature
SCREAMING Sooner or later, ready or not We find ourselves dissolved in soil The big sleep state I don't worry When you gotta go you gotta go But wouldn't it be nice to have a say In our final day When I take my dying breath You'd better bet your life I'm going out Screaming Like I came in now Screaming Love and emotion We're told will keep us sheltered From the threat of the bear But danger is everywhere So take my hand now As they adopt their fighting stance Parade our derision And assume the position: configurate When I take my dying breath You'd better bet your life I'm going out Screaming Like I came in now Screaming I want to be the first to go, To test the water I miss those lazy, hazy, Crazy days of summer In our younger phase All the things I took for granted But most of all You When I take my dying breath
You'd better bet your life
I'm going out
Screaming
Like I came in now
Screaming
COMMON GROUND Here we are Alive and free Far away in time from our darkest day That took our young and brave From the cradle to the grave 70 years ago on July one, 1916 on the Somme The enemies had never seen Fighting like this before such a simple plan- How could any German man survive through that ordeal? Company 'A' to Company 'B' 'Morale is high here sir, But I don't think it's safe to go' Company 'A' from Company 'B' 'Mister you have your orders and you must obey' So the first line rose, And the first line fell And a poet who survived later wrote about A 'sunlit vision of hell' And 'larks singing' Because after all it's just Another summer's day in France And the Tommies on the Somme sang
'We are fighting to turn
No-man's land into
A common ground'
A common ground
COLOURFLOW With all the tears and rain In every pleasure and every pain And despair, delight, disdain I hurt you, didn't I? The summer was almost gone I won't forget the first time Swimming in pools of your innocence Leave your mark and the colourflow of you Hey don't you feel sensation? Hey don't you feel the yearn? Just lying there for the taking Don't give, make me earn all your love Promise me all your soul Give to me all your heart You'll never be on your own For all your life You know you made me shine Through orange lights and wet streets But that's outside our undercover You concerned me when you showed me The colourflow of you Hey don't you feel emotion? Hey don't you feel spellbound? Just lying there for the taking What you lost I found all your love Promise me all your soul Give to me all your heart You'll never be on your own For all your life Some people make it look so easy Some you think they'd never heard of Compromise But we can speak oceans by motions We simplify all your love Promise me all your soul Give to me all your heart You'll never be on your own For all your life The colourflow of, Colourflow of, Colourflow of you ----------------------------------------------------- WAR HEROES The colour of the evening With a sunset that bleeds The fallen on the stony ground Like so many seeds We're taking the country From border to shore Like people used to tell me All's fair in love and war For we are soldiers King for a day Mountains to molehills Peasants for pay People would cry If they'd seen what we've done But we'll be war heroes When we get home We came across the borderline To another part of town Her streets were deserted As we tore the wire down The women were screaming As we came through the door But like people used to tell me All's fair in love and war For we are soldiers
King for a day
Mountains to molehills
Peasants for pay
People would cry
If they'd seen what we've done
But we'll be war heroes
When we get home
DRIVE ON They took the man from out of town They won't believe his alibi And on that day the sky fell down I swear I heard that young boy cry He told them: I'm no ordinary In your eyes I never will be I'm strange and peculiar Drive on, drive on, I want to go to paradise Drive on, drive on, The feeling cuts me like a knife Drive on, drive on The rains came late again this year The crops won't grow without the sun It's better there than over here When will dreamtime come? He told them: I'm no ordinary In your eyes I never will be I'm strange and peculiar Drive on, drive on
I want to go to paradise
Drive on, drive on
The feeling cuts me like a knife
Don't lose your head
Just take your time
Can't you see if I'm worth having
I'm worth waiting for
NOSTALGIA Instrumental FALLING APART AT THE SEAMS Wish you were here with me in my head and looking through Same window but seeing a different view Dr Winsley he told me I'm unbalanced but that's outrageous Take a jacket to hold me; what did I ever do wrong? I'd better stay home it's not good in my stars today Can't sleep am I falling apart at the seams? Really out of my head now; is it me or the room that's spinning? Only water and bread now they're throwing me out of my home Suspended animation making the colours all run into one In my imagination everything's right where it used to be wrong Facing the music we can't hear the words of the song Haven't you heard it's illegal to smoke in a restaurant But it's OK (it's OK!) if you carry a gun Terrorific news on four from the Lebanon All those stupid little bastards Where in hell did they come from? Suspended animation making the colours all run into one In my imagination everything's right when it used to wrong Facing the music we can't hear the words of the song Les, Les the Landlord's here to throw me out
I gave him everything yes everything, everything
Les, Les the Landlord send his brothers 'round
I'll take on anything yes anything, anything
But don't bleed on my floor
SOLD ON YOU Mel and me, the railway children Played the disused line Run through the fields we'd kicked our shoes off Drunk on air like sweet red wine Together like suede and leather No more easy come easy go I remember the coalmine closing Her father's face was a sight Bringing up kids on a pittance. Wages? Nothing's left by Saturday night Those days will scar forever No more easy come easy go Melanie won't run-run-runaway Melanie can't come, she's got to stay Worth her weight in gold ooh baby I'm sold on, sold on, sold on you Think of all tomorrow's parties And giving it all away There's nothing left here but muck-stack Charlies Let's make a run for it, what do you say? You've got to make it happen No more easy come easy go Melanie won't run-run-runaway Melanie can't come, she's got to stay Worth her weight in gold ooh baby I'm sold on, sold on, sold on you You're one in a million You'll always come first All the zeroes follow you Melanie you've got to save yourself This time take them for granted No more easy come easy go Melanie won't run-run-runaway
Melanie can't come, she's got to stay
Worth her weight in gold ooh baby
I'm sold on, sold on, sold on, sold on...
THROUGH MY FINGERS So baby, you don't have the time Too busy, you can't see the crime In keeping yourself to yourself Well girl You don't look that good anyway Persistence paid off in the end She insisted we'd only be friends That was then this is now one year later It's not right, no not quite All the lights are on but no-one's home tonight Girl with a summer tan Slips through my fingers like sand All I wanted to see was you Coming home to me Smiled so wide I'm tearing my face When she moved her stuff into my place But all I see now are notes on a table Yeah I love you too But what good does that do? We gotta get together baby Me 'n' you Girl with a summer tan Slips through my fingers like sand All I wanted to see was you Coming home to me I go crazy pacing the floor Learn my lines Then you walk through the door When I see you it fires something in me Your loving shows I wanna burn these clothes Take you right there where you're standing Lace and all Girl with a summer tan
Slips through my fingers like sand
All I wanted to see was you
Coming home to me
WURENSH I am just a small town boy But don't hold that against me Mum's a lawyer, Dad's got a bank But really I'm OK Should I stop or should I go I'm full of indecision I'd throw it away for a dollar a day If I could be like... You made me promise not to mention You can call round any time of day and see Me and my family These things are sent to try us Or to land us in hot water Turning grey as my Tube record plays When I call you come as you are You don't need fancy cars or finery You don't need a credit card to buy me They'll never understand I bite the hand that's feeding me Saying I must be mad - that's a matter of opinion You, I'll give you all of my affection You and I can celebrate defection Get up and go tonight, I've seen the light that's leading me Saying that I'll be back well that's a matter of opinion We'll work we don't care how long it takes us We'll save we'll buy that house on the hill some day Never thought I'd be the black sheep of the family Never thought I'd be the black sheep of the family Control me, console me, conceive me, consume me We all need some space Just a little room to breath My girlfriend sees to me I know that I couldn't do it alone We will shine for you Come and share the atmosphere up here, now that we're Over, over the moon It feels like we're in Heaven, Heaven Over, over the moon It feels like we're in Heaven now Over, over the moon It feels like we're in Heaven, Heaven Over, over the moon It feels like we're in Heaven now Never thought I'd be the black sheep of the family
NOTHING AT ALL Did you ever wake at four in the morning? You ever, did you have a dream in your head? So determined to hang onto the moment Letting go, surrender, close the door I met a girl when I was shallow sleeping I heard the calling of a new frontier Facing tomorrow like Deucalion and Pyrrha Telling the story of pioneers Love matters most wherever it comes from We see each other when our eyes are closed It's not so easy living out of the shadows It would break my heart if your broke the spell Heaven is waiting and waiting is hell I would rather grow old In the land of my dreams Without them real-life means Nothing at all They said that it couldn't be done You know you must be out of your mind But I've finally found that someone Who'll take a chance and give it a try So I'll lay right back and fantasize Getting nowhere, let me be there I would rather grow old In the land of my dreams Without them real-life means Nothing at all ----------------------------------------------------- SERA SERA ----------------------------------------------------- THE DARKEST HOUR If I won't live a lie It's in my self defense That I remember hiding then If I'm eroding all the innocence Am I running rigid once again? And he won't hear me now in the darkest hour I'll never see him now Oh I can take the mystery in the darkest hour And he won't hurt me now If we are lost in paradise Our recollection all but gone We will make the only sacrifice For the strength to carry on In spite of everything I recognize the end And feel the scars that never heal I keep the purity, buried as I am In an effort to conceal Don't underestimate what I've retained All my souvenirs, forget-me-nots, I'll pretend all you want me to I won't believe it if you don't Burn it up again, it's here and I've Let it live through other stolen lives Save your hollow breath Feast your tired eyes You need protection as well as I Nothing any good ever came from me Thought I could run you in the ground What do I do, what kind of fool Covers you like an animal? Out of the way I'm anyone wilder than you are Anyone who ever had a heart Wouldn't deny me Woe betide the one, not to be outdone Who will remember all that stuff Didn't I say it then enough? If I could let it be, I would Start it again, when does it end? I'm in there somewhere Nobody can carry me over Now the dead winds have blown with the cold rains If I should fall from your side keep it in your mind How I tried to keep him here How I promised he'd be safe And he never said a word and he never cried Another day leads me on
and I will follow
Whatever it takes now, I'll do
If it's over
And he won't hear me now, I know
When I'm losing all the power
And he won't hurt me now
In this darkest hour
FADING SENSES i. After all Following everything I've known I was wondering all alone Waiting for a time That might have been my own way down Suddenly everything is wrong have I really been gone so long? Hanging by the nails Across my idle eyes so wide And after all the days of fading senses This has taken more than I had to give If we face the one we've been avoiding And I'm out of all control again Let me go Gathering comforting remains I was unprepared, running scared Faltering, and why do I hold on? It's gone, I know And after all the days of fading senses I don't feel the same and I want to live The insecurity of never knowing Has the race been run And is the long day done? ii. Fading Senses instrumental
OUT OF NOWHERE Out of a time from way back when Disregarding discipline Should have never given in And I really should have known Some are born into their lives With a need to be destroyed It's the wrong thing on my mind The only thing we can't survive Standing in the line of fire Innocently dumb They're in my head and still they come Out of nowhere Is there something Something more than this? Inner tension settled with a kiss What a time to bump and grind What a daydream, looking back Never a worry in the world For the cutter in the pack I don't understand this pain And I never will The scene is gone and here they are Out of nowhere Is there something Something that I've missed? It's going to happen and I can't resist If I believed a single word I would hesitate as well Making Heaven out of Hell All it takes is everything I want to raise you up and see There's something in your eyes But every time I try, they come Out of nowhere Is there something
Something more than this?
Inner tension settled with a kiss
Is there something
Something that I've missed?
It's going to happen and I can't resist
FURTHER AWAY Time takes my time I, here to myself, hold the silence in Torn from my hand So heavy now you're a world away Though they rage, these little lies I've grown so cold And will I see you When I turn around? Here I'll remain Bound, ever bound, I am left to drown In this space, I raise myself And move somehow To rearrange the brittle bones of you Now it's done And I resolve to make no sound So they're come Are they the ones who'll take me down? Don't you cry precious tears for me Passion killers and stocking fillers abound When someone takes a dive Surface breakers and undertakers surround All but the fairest faces alive Tension seekers and public speakers defend These they have come to judge Seasoned liars and false messiahs descend To lay on the feeling touch And I've seen too much Day by day and I don't know why After all, don't we matter the same? Reach for the sky Don't break my heart Are there no angels, only us? Look how they've changed me See what they've done It has begun Now as I lay me down to sleep If I should die before I wake Don't let me fail, don't ever break Roll me out where I am Let me in 'cause I've seen too much Day by day and I don't know why After all, maybe no-one's to blame And it's not the same I get this feeling from no-one else Show me now Are you out of my head? Breaking the borders, the chaos of lies Caught in the terrible rain from the skies Shaken as I am, her faith is as thin She can remember the moment of madness so well How many died right where they fell? I was the first in that sinister bed Closing the shutters and cutting the thread Shackled and fettered I know who you are Bleeding the heart and the mind As the rivers run red Somebody said, 'Here is Hell' Go wherever you can be And live for the day It's only wear and tear Doesn't matter anymore If I'm losing you You're always everywhere It's no wonder I'm afraid of making amends And shattering the fear Now it's happening I know it's going to come So dark inside of here What have they done?
Stay with me
Can you say where you are?
I'll be there, I'll do it, just tell me
I'll never let go
Never let go
LEAP OF FAITH Though you may be now a long way from home All your hand-me-downs live on in their dreams I can see something in that smile In the way they play They're passing down the line Opening the tears and the emptiness No danger signs Features unrecognized until now So soon winter brings the first fall of snow There are secret things in all the whitest worlds I can see something in that smile In the way they play They're passing down the line Opening the tears and the emptiness No danger signs Features unrecognized until now Time enough when old sensations
Won't remind anymore
Unaware of all the children
Running rings without a care
Joining in their games
When I hear pale horses riding
See them fly as they go
Then I know to free the reins
of unquiet thoughts
CAME DOWN All the memories that lead to isolation All the time we didn't share When we set adrift half-forgotten lies Will the madness still be there? Who of all you now will ride the lows and highs? Whose hands are these that come to pray? When you turn away the distance in your eyes Speaks the words that you won't say Far away, we say goodbye Too many unremembered arms that won't let go How can I be on your side if the line divides And if anyone should listen? Though starry-eyes, I know This is still the garden where I came down Holding faster than before for what it's worth now Those days that none will see replaced What became of us mysterious and ageless? We left without a trace Far away, we wave goodbye Too many unremembered arms that won't let go How can I be on your side if the line divides And if anyone should listen? Though starry-eyed, I know This is sill the garden Where I came down ----------------------------------------------------- OVERTURE Instrumental PROVIDER Are you inside, provider, or am I? Immersed in all the darkness and decay Denied the sleep to dream myself away Said I was bright, to sensitive to fly Can't tell you why you don't already know
He reins the horse for those I cannot see
Will I like him a gallant rider be?
The skin is pale, the sunken eyes are slow
SUBTERRANEA Belly first, unrehearsed, I'm thrown from all I've known A silhouette set among the badlands paved with stone Photographs, fingerprints, fragile refugee Higher rise fire in the skies society Can I hold on, Can I believe in All the things you are? There's no sane in, chaos reigns in Subterranea Cadillac heart attack, back of this beyond Pusher king, TV queen, accommodating blonde At Traitor's Gate while you wait gender reassigned Surgeon carves the matching halves The blindfold leads the blind Can I hold on? I cannot count them All the things you are Were I stronger I'd hold out longer in Subterranea Without the walls, comfort is freezing in my veins And caught within chemical rain My dreams have turned against me And fatally have fenced me in Above me cold light and below me over all The time I've lost, how can I know? So I keep forgetting what I am half recalling On a bed of fallen flowers Hold me now as I was held before Powerhouse, sacred vows, trigger happy punk Driven by hidden eyes and figure hugging junk Heaven knows if I'm close, am I unreleased? If I'm in hell I may as well be famine to the feast Can I hold on, can I belong to
All the things you are?
There's no sane in, chaos reigns in Subterranea
SLEEPLESS INCIDENTAL Sightless, he watches the columns collide As he wanders the canyon relentlessly wide Empires are burning, the rain cuts his skin And in every direction the sound closes in Time, only time, have I And already I'm not okay He falls in with the unwashed and unfed He will sleep for the first time, no crib for a bed In these extraordinary lanes He is blind again, unaware still From the greatest height and to the furthest end Without association, he will bend And walking with the wounded, old and thin Made to be paraded, bring the misfit in How to overpower the avenues of steel In my illusion, what if this is real? Sleepless incidental, what I really need Is how to now avoid the full stampede I'm only taking time
And I'm not where I want to be now
FAILSAFE 'Do you seek enlightenment Are you to frightened to speak? Short of experience here where the flesh is so weak Trust in these hands, let them attend to you We understand, we all intend for you To stand amongst friends' 'Are you remembering Do I revive your neglect, my one? A price must be paid for your sin And I'm here to collect All that you are is all that you'll ever be Unless on your hands and knees You put all your faith in me' Leave me alone, I don't belong here I'm not your candidate, guaranteed failsafe I'm on my own I don't know, I don't know... Bible bashing fashion victim Should have kicked him When he couldn't get arrested Uncontested will to carry on is gone Inside his head, he's dead He said, 'I never was alive I died with knives an nails and nightingales This is all the anger I can hold' Kennedy, remember me, I cannot bury you Until I stare into the mouth of hell Time alone will tell me how to Spend the time alone without you Listen to the songs about you, run for cover Gunners unrevealed will aim to please another son I can't go on, help me make that Golden Dawn Because for all we know we're done and dusted Must it end like this, here and now, here and now? I don't belong here
There's nothing now My eyes won't recognize
I'm all wrong here, let me go, I'm not for changing
I don't belong here
I'm not your victim and I don't believe
I'm not strong here, no religion, nothing more
I'm telling you know, I'm not your candidate
Guaranteed failsafe
I'm caught in a headrush
I'm out of control
SPEAK MY NAME Whenever I was silenced, when I was on my own A brutal cold existence, I believed I was gone Now I stand no longer nameless Though I've lost more than I'll find A simple moment set aside And I feel like I'm mine There are times when I remember But in my heart I'm not the same And I feel myself connected Every time you speak my name You speak my name Without the darkness in my soul With arms to call my own I face a future unafraid And I won't be alone There's a place where all my dreaming Will free me from what I became And I know no-one can reach me Every time you speak my name You speak my name There are times when I remember
But in my heart I'm not the same
And I feel myself protected
Every time you speak my name
You speak my name
TUNNEL VISION Don't want to lead a revolution Let another go ahead Don't have no need for elocution No desire to raise the dead You can't avoid the circulation Amend the circumstance Don't want to lose the combination Still want to hold it in my head Can't see around this tunnel vision From inside of what I've found When I was wracked with indecision When my hide was hunted down Under a moon of innovation A many-splendoured thing I need the company I'm keeping And I feel the hunger Something happened inside and I can't explain it I'm in a critical way When I didn't believe it I couldn't see Now I live a life in a day All at once she is gone again when I turn back Cracking up, more than I can take Make it come right And I'm dead on my feet, hesitating and down In a dangerous mood where I shouldn't remain Straighter than an arrow never-ending emotional ride (Raining from the harder sky) Waiting for survival, are there no words left to right? Don't want them anymore And now something I couldn't hide has happened inside
And taken the meaning away
When I didn't give in I couldn't begin
Now I live a life in a day
Something happened inside and I can't explain it
I'm in a critical way
When I didn't believe it I couldn't see
Now I live a primitive life in a day
INFERNAL CHORUS Hard on my heels I feel him from dusk till dawn he stands Astride the elevation, avoiding confrontation In this infernal chorus He follows where I lead him under the ground Who watches he who watches? Non-one above suspicion I want an explanation, one final word of wisdom 'Said you were bright-eyed wonder Set you up right, you're finally where you belong' I am your murdering Angel of Death
I will despise you until your last breath
When I cut into you, will you not bleed?
Decidedly you will provide what I need
Give me a focus now, give me a name
Who is responsible, who do I blame?
Back to your maker, return to his side
Unressurected, unrecognized
Mockenrue...
KING OF FOOLS King of fools, you'll never bring him back He's got them where they want him Hanging high, is this the way it ends? On bended knee, not with a bang But with a fatal kiss, I won't twist again For you can bend me, shape me Won't escape me Now I've got the reason for the rhyme Skintight stupid substitute
You don't come close, no sense pretending
Dr Suess's golden goose is
Too seductive, too demanding
Idle handsome fascist with his
Love-me-love-my-velvet-fist attention
never meant to leave me
Now I'm unintentionally fine
THE SENSE IN SANITY Ignited by the realizing eyes Unwrapped around the solitary sound A failing voice is railing under walls Collapsing on the unfamiliar ground O, empty heart, am I the only one? On pins alone or are we many born? Well, either way, you are what you've begun And by the way, I never did you wrong Nothing here is guaranteed, nothing's understood Now that I am far beyond beginning to belong Maybe I don't understand the sequence as I should Can't tell left from right from wrong God from bad from good For all you know, for all you made of me It's hard to keep the skin from tender bone No earthly ties to hang me from on high I wait beneath your overcrowded skies Nothing here makes any grade
There's nothing I can do
Fed and watered though I was barely half alive
Time enough to tire me out but now I'm sleeping
I've lost the sense in sanity
Got the bad in good
STATE OF MINE Instrumental LAID LOW Instrumental BREATHTAKER Beyond imagination, born of blood and fire In splendid isolation, I have lived Corrupted and conspiring All I wanted, all I was living for An end to all the silent sweet revenge And nothing more No longer God's Apollo, no more Mercury Down among the unbelievers Fuck the wild and wasted, look at me Got pills to sleep, got pills to get awake Eternally I ray no-one my breath will take The honesty is gone now There is no other way in this state of mine The resolutions halted The innocence betrayed by your hand All I can do is keep uncertain company I get this murderous intention With a tendency to fly How can I hold on? If I'm not living who am I? He knows that I'm about him He feels me in his skin, I follow him in again Confidence is shaken, his conscience is unclear One of us promised more I know you lie with me, breathtaker To dream my dreams You steal them for the maker of rain Get out of my subterranean heart and I'm alive Asylum is everything and it's mine Are you made of stone?
And are you there at all or here in my head?
Anyone with half a brain would do the same
I know your name
CAPRICORN The shadows fill the corners across the square they come a-crawling to offer shelter, to haul me in Without a needlepoint in the light And the steel to still your tongue The night hides a multitude of uncovered sins The heart beating in Capricorn, I take on a guise They won't define me anytime in the English rain Will I feel an automatic release from all this pain? With no movement, undiscovered, I lie in wait So what if you're sentimental
And I'm out of tears, out of sympathy?
I'll make it look accidental
And I'll leave no sign to say your life was mine
No-one I think fell out of my tree
No-one I carried just the same
Thinner than most sinners and saints alive
Dare you speak my name?
So what if you're temperamental
And I'm out of tears, out of sympathy?
So what if I'm elemental?
THE OTHER SIDE Instrumental UNSOLID GROUND All my life I'm governed and controlled At someone's beck and call Made to walk a balanced line before I even crawled All the time I hungered for release On independence day Without a contact or a name, I waited anyway Torn apart and written in the starts More I cannot see Blind enough to follow through Unsupervised devotion Forever I was losing sight, sound escaping And all the world was tuning upside down For every move I tried to make when I was stranded At least I'm standing on unsolid ground All my live I'm governed and controlled At someone's beck and call Maybe there's no genius in having lived at all All my life I'm taken by surprise I'm someone's waste of time Now I walk a balanced line And step into tomorrow Forever I was losing sight, sound escaping
And all the world was tuning upside down
For every move I tried to make when I was stranded
At least I'm standing on unsolid ground
SOMEWHERE IN TIME Wakes up forgotten, makes up his mind Sets out to question if he's one of a kind On and on, want to feel somehow Somewhere in time You'll see it all the way that I do now Gives in to impulse, reaches in between Gets back a notion, still remembers a dream Gone again and I don't know how Some other time You're going to look like I do now Sprawls across the walkways, recalls another place Finds the faces hidden, no names upon a stone Raises up a fever, he rails against the skies Careless what he wishes for And what he's always known On and on, want to feel somehow Somewhere in time You'll see it all the way that I do now In and out of daylight, hung on for dearest life Stumbles on misguided, is rousing from a sleep On the street civilians display a common band Roaring like a cry from Heaven seven thunders deep Gone again and I don't know how Some other time You're going to look like I do now So many held in firm array, each one anonymously files In every kind of every way and every mother's only child And all the time identified, it's hard to take it in at all There must be many more besides Those to watch us while we're sleeping So many here, so many held
Aligned and catalogues for good
And punching in and punching out
The empty voices keep repeating
'I don't live on the outside
I'm provided for in here now
Love us where we stand, lead us through this land
We all know the score, that's what living's for'
HIGH WATERS Wherever the faithless are With any other prey approaching Come hell or come waters high Believe it or surrender nothing In all that is envious He's sworn to continue And he will contain you all No one salvation anymore You're right in the sights He moves on all sides Now as I turn THE NARROW MARGIN Divided by loyalty, surrounded by emotion Nobody under here, remembers any mercy at all We stay down Deciding the borderline Maya, did no-one tell you? I couldn't have made you mine 'Cause I feel your pain more than my own All the love gone astray There will be hell to pay this time For those of us born to die There'll be none to testify Time and time again I skin the world, keel it over Spinning on its side, beginning as it ended Through these diamond eyes Maid of Morphine settled in my side Did she intervene ? Don't know where I know you from Time and time again I've lived enough in silence It's getting harder now to keep the violence in me Someone I once was, raised upon a gallant rider's knee Mortal memories lost among the unrecalled Set the cross of fire (if I live) These are the only ones (if I've loved) Remember who they are If I look, I see them everywhere Don't know where I know you from Told me, go the way of your heart I'll be waiting for you But wherever you are, you're not inside me now Told me, try to sleep, I will come But I'm still waiting for you And wherever you are, I'm still inside you now I'm never going to cut through without you now If I get ascension or die All the love that was mine denied All the love that you qualified Like a desert I'm open wide There's nowhere for me to hide at all For your love, I can never go back Every one of us is herded and contained Not a single one invited Voices circulate around the musty hall And the kerosene's ignited Through the rising flames that lick against the flesh Incandescent in the crossfire Do my eyes betray the longest night of all Do I see or dream of Maya? But he's got us where he wanted us to be Undivided, under control As the narrow margin finds us face to face As he laughs across the foxhole Nowhere was ever safe enough for all of us No one contender cared about getting out Tied now behind the hungry fire meant for us Scattered like dust and finally free Held together by fear I can't be the same, too much has changed Undeniably real and it's better left unsaid All the love you said was nothing Find a rhinestone not a diamond I never wanted this Left alive and laid to rest Told me I was brighter than most And I believed it all then Through the dangerous times I needed more than cold eyes I want to be alone To dream myself away from darkness and decay As I try to forget it No-one entered into my mind more than Maya
Someone she believed I could be is burning in me
Now I want to be alone like a stronger man
Then I can understand
As I try to remember where I know you from
Provider, are you inside or am I?
----------------------------------------------------- CAPITAL LETTERS (IN SURGICAL SPIRIT LAND) If only I were a snake I would fly from tree to tree And eat the coconuts from their holes Ha ha ha ABOUT LAKE FIVE Instrumental FOR CHRIST'S SAKE Instrumental BARBELL IS IN One of these days you'll find So much rhythm in your head Can serve to clean your mind And the voices you can hear Can't relate to what you see And the monotone inflection Infiltrates internally Barbell is in, Barbell is in Barbell is in, Barbell is in One of these days you'll find So much rhythm in your head Can serve to clean your mind And the voices you can hear Can't relate to what you see And the monotone inflection Infiltrates internally Barbell is in, Barbell is in
Barbell is in, Barbell is in
FOR THE TAKING I still have a dream, a dream that is mine That when this is over, they'll empty my spine Still the sweet smell of burning alive If God prods my liver, I'll let go the line I'm stuck in the trench with the stench of decay And nothing can be what it wasn't today I've not slept in days with my wits going numb Wish she could see what I've become Holding my breath, take my last breath Addicted to this I wouldn't say a word I don't want my children Staggered with hump backs No feeling to wake, not even to die I'm dying for her to ask where I am I'm dying for her, she don't give a damn I'd almost forgotten how rotten skin fails Not even in my death can her beauty pale And she come tear a tear from my eye So call me a coward but how would you fight? And talk about heaven and days when we danced But down here, Christ, Heaven it can't stand a chance And you make me so sick for murdering Slovik For having no tug of your war You never would listen
A surrogate has risen
ELOKO BELLA NEECHI Close the door Let the shadows fly from the night Make the morning rise with the promise Of new life, new fire Brighter days, deeper hope unlimited ----------------------------------------------------- THE UNIVERSAL SCAM Either talk or listen Don't entertain nobody else Now that the lines are positive Someone save me from myself Unthinkable, unbelievable There's no way out Unconvincing hypocrites Are you putting sense aside? All you sarcastic sycophants You pussyfoot in, sanctified As he's cornering individuals He contrives a role reversal A universal scam saved in ignorance Surely taking you down I must confess I feel second blessed A voice I can't forget reverberates inside my head: 'You're all you'll ever be Your soul is stained, give in to me By these almighty hands The purifying flames are fanned The hours left to us fade so fast The first shall be the last to know' Unthinkable, unbelievable
WINTERTELL The eyes that watch her weeping As she turns to leave Surrender to another tear Uncertain of this new decision we have made Too empty, though, to say for sure And she and I no longer know the reason It's all I can do to bury my fear I wanted so much to always be here Wherever she goes, whatever she does How can I let go? When all that I know, in all that I see I know in my heart reminders will come Both out of words and out of hope Another day exactly like i've come to know So nervously I close my eyes In hoping, when I open them, that she'll be gone For well she knows I can't give in to sorrow I wait for a chance to be letting her know I love her enough to be letting her go I know it's everything we said
But I must not trust
It's too late, too late to trust
And I must not trust
It's too late, too late to trust
HOLLOW AFTERNOON One mistake and all the hopes are dashed Before the chance is given I want to hide in driven snow Until the chill is deep inside me On this hollow afternoon It can't be long if I'm immune To falling without the warmth of surrender Feel the memories fade away and I'm here where I was yesterday And I need to search my mind But I'm scared of things that I might find A fear too strong to tame One day is much the same as another Lonely dreams I've smothered in silence I'm positive they've been before Winding down, i'm finding different ways To keep what's still ahead Behind me where they come back together Feel the memories fade away and I'm here where I was yesterday And I can't escape the sensation That it's bound to end this way Feel the memories fade away
and I'm here where I was yesterday
And I need to search my mind
But I'm scared of things that I might find
APATHETIC AND HERE, I... Watch myself glide from the sky, losing height And end up as something gone bump in the light Which doesn't desire to be dragged from the night But change is the heartbeat of life into life Which trembling approaches the knife Redemption is costly there's blood on the land And all of us till it, it sticks to our hands It seems to be bound up in our very glands It sucks all our wagon wheels into its slush And falsifies our every blush There heart's a thermometer readings are odd
We're from lukewarmer regions where Cain gives the nod
And we tread upon roads where our fathers have trod
We are mapless and hapless and blown by the breeze
And we chatter of being at ease
Dreary me
We chatter of being at ease
N.T.O.C. (RESISTANCE) It's over, I'm older, the fire is burning cold And I will any day now release this heart and soul There is no reason now nor rhyme Within the heavy head of mine Unbroken emotion, this is the hurting time I hang on every word There's nothing wrong but it's not right It feels like I will always stay If only moving over now The eyeless and unhearing Retreat into their circles When everything is shifting I'm breaking direction Imagine, remember the rattle of the day Be here and let it not be that I feel you slip away There is no reason now nor rhyme Within the heavy head of mine The silence I've been hearing Enough to steal my thunder Illusions I've been under Are breaking direction Far from nowhere, somehow here I know that blue heart's in those skies And no resistance, no more pain now I have seen it fading in your eyes It feels like I will always stay If only moving over now The eyeless and unhearing
Remain inside their circles
When everything is shifting
I'm breaking direction
The silence I've been hearing
Enough to steal my thunder
Illusions I've been under
Are breaking direction
EYES OF THE BLIND Once I was down, nowhere to climb What lay ahead unclearly defined I could have done more than I did I was young, easily led When I was a boy out of time Give me a place where I can hide
None can erase one who has died
I want to belong, I long to believe
Words that were sent, never received
With eyes of the blind, we collide
THE BOLD GRENADIER As I was a-walking one morning in May I spied a young couple a-making of hay Oh, one was a fair maid And her beauty shone clear And the other was a soldier A bold grenadier 'Good morning, good morning Goo morning,' said he 'Oh where are you going, my pretty lady?' 'I am going a-walking By the clear crystal stream To see cool water glide And hear nightingales sing' 'Oh soldier, oh soldier, will you marry me?'
'Oh no, my sweet lady, that can never be
For I have a wife at home in my own country
Two wives and the army's too many for me'
MY LEGS Prince Charles: And now, the British premiere of 'My Legs' by Ken and Ron Sex Bachelor. Narrator: Mice. The hall was dark and rubbery. Fezzit is waiting for a likely young chicken to drop in a lake. But Bernie doesn't believe this and quickly woofs. Meanwhile, Shelat and Target are destined by a huge cat. Bernie: Crikey, you lot, am I all? Derek Guyler: The gun is above me head. Narrator: The Bernie rushes naked into the pre-heated oven. Target: There's a false lady ouside selling pyjamas. What shall I tell her? Olive out of On The Buses: Please will you coat my legs? Target: Lock me up baby. Johnny McDozenlegs: Ask if she's tepid, do. Bernie: Yes, do. Richard Wattis: Yes, do. Dr Wizzy: Yes, do. Sid James: Yes, do. Monica Rose: Yes, do. Esma Cannon: Yes, do. Joyce Grenfell: Yes, do! Yes, yes do! Peggy Mount: Am I shiny enough yet? Shelat: Is there a long pipe in the house? Narrator: For a while, all was silent. Until... Anne Aston: Oh, look! I whopped my big kidneys out for all to see. All: Ooooh... Bernie (the bolt): Do not say 'Ooooh.' All: No, we shall not say 'Ooooh.' Bernie: No! Never say 'Ooooh.' Dr Wizzy: If only Lieutenant Uhuhu was here, She wouldn't say 'Ooooh.' Charles Hawtrey: Love. Love my dire native. Karen Carpenter: Carry me to Zimbabwe, me lovely fishes. Susan Dropweewee: Soon me cannelloni is 'tween me legs. All (singing): 'Cause we couldn't find the Hoover. ----------------------------------------------------- THE WRONG SIDE OF WEIRD A sudden unpredictable sky contains the dawn Seconds in an hour counting down before the day is born Long enough in the grave to be sustained Science, or belief, reminders of a time we can't regain Have all the idle dreamers awoken from their dreams To find their not alone? Nothing now is really as it seems This would always arrive somehow Problem left unsolved, radiating in the here and now And in my memory Only just begun to understand the reasons why A one in ten degree Alternate between the faithful and the fearless If all the riches and ransoms coalesced As one were intertwined You would be the brightest I possess If all the gold and the silver came combined You would still define the colours I imagine in my mind And in my memory Under the same moon, lighted on a lunar sea A one in ten degree Alternate between the faithful and the fearless I can't remember, can't even be him And chances are slim that I'm found No finer substance, no final demand I'm tired and know no bounds Thought that I was pulling through Though I never had a chance of winning at all Caught between the heard and the seen Something out of quarantine beginning to call In silence I'm drowning I'm spinning around and round Oblivion lies unrevealed More than flesh and bone can bear together to feel In silence I'm sinking I don't think I'll make it down Riding the meltdown, right in the fallout And I turn to the fire when I'm spurned Send out the thing that is driving me crazy I can douse it and leave it to burn Daylight dissolving, crawling miasma On a spellbound and desolate prayer Somebody somewhere stop me before I rip away all the soul they've repaired Time already grows heavy, gravity won't hold steady Pole people cry for their lives passing by darkly This belongs to you for he would have loved you as I do Life as we feared on the wrong side of weird binds us two And in my memory Only just begun to understand the reasons why A one in ten degree Alternate between the faithful and the fearless Where are you now? Who are you now? I can't go there Thought that I was pulling through Though I never had a chance of winning at all Caught between the heard and the seen Something out of quarantine beginning to call Riding the meltdown, right in the fallout And I turn to the fire when I'm spurned Send out the thing that is driving me crazy I can douse it and leave it to burn Once every lifetime shadows are lifted And the daylight disperses the dark Want to be sure that all I've endured is put away But where do I start? EROSION Where do I start? This things tearing us apart Nothing is clear, where do we go from here? No wonder in sight, not even the blackest night So where do I start? It only remains to empty this heart Everything I came to trust slipped away I resisted the call to arms, feet of clay Now when I sleep, I reach for the book I keep In my hour of need I turn to the pages no-one will read Everything that I came to trust slipped away I live through this a thousand times every day All the time that I've held in suspension And unable to make myself heard I can't hold back the tide of erosion And the vision that haunts me is blurred Been as cold as I can since who knows when Would that I could feel now as I did then Get in out of the light, avoid the glare Lost and out on a limb, miles from anywhere All the time that I'm held in suspension And unable to make myself heard I can't hold back the tide of erosion And the vision that haunts me is blurred Everything that I came to trust slipped away I resisted the call to arms, feet of clay Everything that I came to trust slipped away I live this a thousand times every day THE SEVENTH HOUSE On a bleak and solitary road they return To be where once they met One who comes to lay the past to rest inside One who can't forget Yesterday the heroes of the hour Who survived those who fought and lost Standing at the moment of release they pause To count the dreadful cost My life is out of condition I've held it together myself the best I can I'll never feel this way again After all this time we've been apart Still now I wonder where you are No-one understands how close you came to us No-one knows how far This time it's harder than ever I've weathered the storm and I kept you safe and warm I'll never feel this way again Oh, my angel in black water All your heartache soon be over Oh, my baby, rest you well Cathedral that man created, you're weighted down by a jealous sound Bewildered and dislocated, your soul deflated and gone to ground Nobody, no final direction, no way to connect in this heavier state The lives that we never remember are heading us out to another mistake It's with me, it's waiting for me as Heaven is calling us to our knees And there in the seventh house lie the seventy-five figures such as these I'm all out of random Sentenced by madmen who have abandoned me What chance of survival? I've had an eyeful more than I cared to see And if I forget you or if I let you fall under someone's spell Nobody can blame you, put out the flame, you kept it alive so well What web are we weaving? Nothing achieving, are you receiving me? So far out in the ocean, stuck in emotion on an unending sea And if you forget me, don't ever let me under your broken wing Nobody can know you kept it below you, I never felt a thing What a way to go How did all the dreaming in my life arrive at such a bitter end? On the rooftops draped in black, denial stopped me in my tracks By the fearful light of dusk, this position I defend All around the sky is cracked, won't somebody send me back? Fourteen hundred hours, won't forget that day Coal-black sky, the earth a hundred shades of grey In the aftermath, as silent as the grave I alone remained, no other soul was saved Faces turning over Limbs that shake without a conscious kind of movement now For all their tomorrows we gave our last day today In a future all their own Documents reveal patriotic zeal Singing to remember, drinking to forget the lie All the name beyond recall Empty politics in houses one to six Locked and barred against the memory My life is out of condition I've held it together myself the best I can I'll never feel this way again, again These are the lives we are measured by Heaven help us to answer why Every minute of every day they die Waiting and wondering all alone Silent voices across the land Speak in tongues they can never understand Nameless and wandering far from home Always held in the seventh house Everything we inherit now's the same ZERO HOUR Yesterday is up for auction Souvenirs are in demand In the rooms where rocking horses Carried us on moonlit strands Thunder crash and flash of lightning Storms of metal raining down Little hands that cradle ashes Little eyelids heavy, head run aground Will the cross and all its stations Lead you where you want to go? You say you want a revelation Well, tell me something I don't know Zero hour times are changing Count the seconds one by one Found a girl whose laughter turned me round To face a brighter sun Was it just hallucination sent the artist off the rails? Searching for communication in the knife when all else failed Zero hour tide is turning Calmer waters from now on Found a girl whose laughter turned me round To face a brighter sun SHOOTING ANGELS Something's up on the northern skyline Angels descending from their gallery on high Rally around me slowly Angels with dirty faces Leaving their lipstick trace across the human race Heavenly host unholy Walking the wire, I jump the gun Some of us flying too close to the sun Gone are the days when Heaven could wait Thought there was time but now it's too late So when you hear the angels sing Get ready to spread your wings How the hell am I going to do this? Heavenly bodies multiplying though the mist Steadily swell their numbers Under celestial orders Ascending the clouds right up into the stratosphere Marching us down to Slumbertown Walking the wire, I'm taking aim Keeping my tail ahead of the game Gone are the days of Heaven's lament Satellite plays the whole event So when you want to take them higher Get ready to open fire In Arcadia, all they've made of light is shade A halcyon retreat now frayed Stay together in a hell for leather world Torn apart by angels and their battlecries Walking the wire, I jump the gun Some of us fly too close to the sun Gone are the days when Heaven could wait Thought there was time but now it's too late So when you hear the angels sing Get ready to spread their wings GUIDING LIGHT Came from the west, only to fly again The eyes that see, the lips that tell no tales Nobody's guest, dressed like a mannequin Put out to sea before the ship had sails I have always dreamed that somewhere in your heart There's a guiding light still shines For our lives and times we should have spent together But we passed each other by like seasons out of time Easter you left, changed more than anyone I asked you why, you told me, 'Just because' Nobody guessed, under your influence The man I am is not the man I was We have lived our lives across this great divide I couldn't make you change your mind And we almost glimpsed a promise of forever But we passed along the way like seasons out of time Sometimes everything is hard to bear Let go, following without a care Still now, though it's hard to understand We built on shifting sand Somehow memories are more than this Set free only with a deathly kiss And now when the restless hour is high A million stars go by We never can remember all the lives we've lived before The days decline in number, slip the ropes away from shore Whenever Heaven calls us there's regret and compromise And in another distance lies a past unrealised Where are you now? Who are you now? Is anyone really gone? In all the world, in all this space, the race is run I have always dreamed that somewhere in your heart There's a guiding light still shines For our lives and times we should have spent together But we passed each other by like seasons out of time |