Into My Arms

I don't believe in an interventionist God

But I know, darling, that you do

But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him

Not to intervene when it came to you

Not to touch a hair on your head

To leave you as you are

And if He felt He had to direct you

Then direct you into my arms

Into my arms, O Lord

Into my arms, O Lord

Into my arms, O Lord

Into my arms

And I don't believe in the existence of angels

But looking at you I wonder if that's true

But if I did I would summon them together

And ask them to watch over you

To each burn a candle for you

To make bright and clear your path

And to walk, like Christ, in grace and love

And guide you into my arms

Into my arms, O Lord

Into my arms, O Lord

Into my arms, O Lord

Into my arms

And I believe in Love

And I know that you do too

And I believe in some kind of path

That we can walk down, me and you

So keep your candlew burning

And make her journey bright and pure

That she will keep returning

Always and evermore

Into my arms, O Lord

Into my arms, O Lord

Into my arms, O Lord

Into my arms

I Do Love Her So (Lime Tree Arbour)

The boatman calls from the lake

A lone loon dives upon the water

I put my hand over her

Down in the lime tree arbour

The wind in the trees is whispering

Whispering low that I love her

She puts her hand over mine

Down in the lime tree arbour

Through every breath that I breathe

And every place I go

There is hand that protects me

And I do love her so

There will always be suffering

It flows through life like water

I put my hand over hers

Down in the lime tree arbour

The boatman he has gone

And the loons have flown for cover

She puts her hand over mine

Down in the lime tree arbour

Through every word that I speak

And every thing I know

There is hand that protects me

And I do love her so

People Ain't No Good

People just ain't no good

I think that's welll understood

You can see it everywhere you look

People just ain't no good

We were married under cherry trees

Under blossom we made pour vows

All the blossoms come sailing down

Through the streets and through the playgrounds

The sun would stream on the sheets

Awoken by the morning bird

We'd buy the Sunday newspapers

And never read a single word

People they ain't no good

People they ain't no good

People they ain't no good

Seasons came, Seasons went

The winter stripped the blossoms bare

A different tree now lines the streets

Shaking its fists in the air

The winter slammed us like a fist

The windows rattling in the gales

To which she drew the curtains

Made out of her wedding veils

People they ain't no good

People they ain't no good

People they ain't no good at all

To our love send a dozen white lilies

To our love send a coffin of wood

To our love let aal the pink-eyed pigeons coo

That people they just ain't no good

To our love send back all the letters

To our love a valentine of blood

To our love let all the jilted lovers cry

That people they just ain't no good

It ain't that in their hearts they're bad

They can comfort you, some even try

They nurse you when you're ill of health

They bury you when you go and die

It ain't that in their hearts they're bad

They'd stick by you if they could

But that's just bullshit

People just ain't no good

People they ain't no good

People they ain't no good

People they ain't no good

People they ain't no good at all

Brompton Oratory

Up those stone steps I climb

Hail this joyful day's return

Into its great shadowed vault I go

Hail the Pentecostal morn

The reading is from Luke 24

Where Christ returns to his loved ones

I look at the stone apostles

Think that it's alright for some

And I wish that I was made of stone

So that I would not have to see

A beauty impossible to define

A beauty impossible to believe

A beauty impossible to endure

The blood imparted in little sips

The smell of you still on my hands

As I bring the cup up to my lips

No God up in the sky

No devil beneath the sea

Could do the job that you did, baby

Of bringing me to my knees

Outside I sit on the stone steps

With nothing much to do

Forlorn and exhausted, baby

By the absence of you

There Is a Kingdom

Just like a bird that sings up the sun

In a dawn so very dark

Such is my faith for you

Such is my faith

And all the world's darkness can't swallow up

A single spark

Such is my love for you

Such is my love

There is a kingdom

There is a king

And he lives without

And he lives within

The starry heavens above me

The moral law within

So the world appears

So the world appears

This day so sweet

It will never come again

So the world appears

Through this mist of tears

There is a kingdom

There is a king

And he lives without

And he lives within

Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For?

I've felt you coming girl, as you drew near

I knew you'd find me, cause I longed you here

Are you my desitiny? Is this how you'll appear?

Wrapped in a coat with tears in your eyes?

Well take that coat babe, and throw it on the floor

Are you the one that I've been waiting for?

As you've been moving surely toward me

My soul has comforted and assured me

That in time my heart it will reward me

And that all will be revealed

So I've sat and I've watched an ice-age thaw

Are you the one that I've been waiting for?

Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built

Out of longing great wonders have been willed

They're only little tears, darling, let them spill

And lay your head upon my shoulder

Outside my window the world has gone to war

Are you the one that I've been waiting for?

O we will know, won't we?

The stars will explode in the sky

O but they don't, do they?

Stars have their moment and then they die

There's a man who spoke wonders though I've never met him

He said, "He who seeks finds and who knocks will be let in"

I think of you in motion and just how close you are getting

And how every little thing anticipates you

All down my veins my heart-strings call

Are you the one that I've been waiting for?

Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere

I remember a girl so very well

The carnival drums all mad in the air

Grim reapers and skeletons and a missionary bell

O where do we go now but nowhere

In a colonial hotel we fucked up the sun

And then we fucked it down again

Well the sun comes up and the sun goes down

Going round and round to nowhere

The kitten that padded and purred on my lap

Now swipes at my face with the paw of a bear

I turn the other cheek and you lay into that

O where do we go now but nowhere

O wake up, my love, my lover wake up

O wake up, my love, my lover wake up

Across clinical benches with nothing to talk

Breathing tea and biscuits and the Serenity Prayer

While the bones of our child crumble like chalk

O where do we go now but nowhere

I remember a girl so bold and so bright

Loose-limbed and laughing and brazen and bare

Sits gnawing her knuckles in the chemical light

O where do we go now but nowhere

You come for me now with a cake that you've made

Ravaged avenger with a clip in your hair

Full of glass and bleach and my old razorblades

O where do we go now but nowhere

O wake up, my love, my lover wake up

O wake up, my love, my lover wake up

If they'd give me my clothes back then I could go home

From this fresh, this clean, antiseptic air

Behind the locked gates an old donkey moans

O where do we go now but nowhere

Around the duck pond we grimly moep

Gloomily and mournfully we go rounds again

And one more doomed time and without much hope

Going round and around to nowhere

From the balcony we watched the carnival band

The crack of the drum a little child did scare

I can still feel his tiny fingers pressed in my hand

O where do we go now but nowhere

If I could relive one day of my life

If I could relive just a single one

You on the balcony, my future wife

O who could have known, but no one

O wake up, my love, my lover make up

O wake up, my love, my lover make up

West Country Girl

With a crooked smile and a heart-shaped face

Comes from the West country where the birds sing bass

She's got a house-big heart where we all live

And plead and council and forgive

Her widow's peak, her lips I've kissed

Her glove of bones at her wrist

That I have held in my hand

Her Spanish fly and her monkey gland

Her Godly body and its fourteen stations

That I have embraced, her palpitations

Her unborn baby crying, "Mummy"

Amongst the rubble of her body

Her lovely lidded eyes I've sipped

Her fingernails, all pink and chipped

Her accent which I'm told is "broad"

That I have heard and has been poured

Into my human heart and filled me

And rebuilt me back anew

With something to look forward to

Well, who could ask much more than that?

A West country girl with a big fat cat

That looks into her eyes of green

And meows, "He loves you", then meows again

Black Hair

Last night my kisses were banked in black hair

And in my bed, my lover, her hair was midnight black

And all her mystery dwelled within her black hair

And her black hair framed a happy heart-shaped face

And heavy-hooded eyes inside her black hair

Shined at me frome the depths of her hair of deepest black

While my fingers pushed into her straight black hair

Pulling her black hair back from her happy heart-shaped face

To kiss her milk-white throat, a dark curtain of black hair

Smothered me, my lover with her beautiful black hair

The smell of it is heavy. It is charged with life

On my fingers the smell of her deep black hair

Full of all my whispered words, her black hair

And wet with tears and good-byes, her hair of deepest black

All my tears cried against her milk-white throat

Hidden behind the curtain of her beautiful black hair

As deep as ink and black, black as the deepest sea

The smell of her black hair upon my pillow

Where her head and all its black hair did rest

Today she took a train to the West

Today she took a train to the West

Today she took a train to the West

Idiot Prayer

They're taking me down, my friend

And as they uskher me off to my end

Will I bid you adieu?

Or will I be seeing you soon?

If what they say around here is true

Then we'll meet again

Me and you

My time is at hand, my dove

They're gunna pass me to that house above

Is Heaven just for victims, dear?

Where only those in pain go?

Well it takes two to tango

We will meet again, my love

I know

If you're in Heaven then you'll forgive me, dear

Because that's what they do up there

If you're in Hell, then what can I say

You probably deserved in anyway

I guess I'm gunna find out any day

For we'll meet again

And there'll be Hell to pay

Your face comes to me from the depths, dear

Your silent mouth mouths, 'Yes", dear

Dark red and big with blood

They're gunna shut me down, my love

They're gunna launch me into the stars

Well, all things come to pass

Glory hallelujah

This prayer is for you, my love

Sent on the wings of a dove

An idiot prayer of empty words

Love, dear, is strictly for the birds

We each get what we deserve

My little snow white dove

Rest assured

Far From Me

For you dear, I was born

For you I was raised up

For you I've lived and for you I will die

For you I am dying now

You were my mad little lover

In a world where everybody fucks everybody else over

You who are so far from me

Far from me

So far from me

Way across some cold neurotic sea

Far from me

I would talk to you of all matter of things

With a smile you would reply

Then the sun would leave your pretty face

And you'd retreat from the front of your eyes

I keep hearing that you're doing best

I hope your heart beats happy in your infant breast

You are so far from me

Far from me

Far from me

There is no knowledge but i know it

There's nothing to learn from that vacant voice

That sails to me across the line

From the ridiculous to the sublime

It's good to hear you're doing so well

But really can't you find somebody else that you can ring and tell

Did you ever

Care for me?

Were you ever

There for me?

So far from me

You told me you'd stick by me

Through the thick and through the thin

Those were your very words

My fair-weather friend

You were my brave-hearted lover

At the first taste of trouble went running back to mother

So far from me

Far from me

Suspended in your bleak and fishless sea

Far from me

Far from me

Green Eyes

Kiss me again, rekiss me and kiss me

Slip your frigid hands beneath my shirt

This useless old fucker with his twinkling cunt

Doesn't care if he gets hurt

Green eyes, Green eyes

Green eyes, Green eyes

If it were but a matter of faith

If it were measured in petitions and prayer

She would materialise, all fleshed out

But it is not, nor do I care

Green eyes, Green eyes

Green eyes, Green eyes

So hold me and hold me, don't tell me your name

This morning will be wiser than this evening is

Then leave me to my enemied dreams

And be quiet as you are leaving this

Green eyes...

Green eyes, Green eyes

Green eyes, Green eyes

Green eyes, Green eyes