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I gazed upon you from the bleachers
A creature so foreign to me
With the stars and the stripes wrapped around you
Well how could I know there was England below?
I gazed upon you and I wondered
Cheerleader with hair of red flame
But that was first glance - I saw only the dance
And the distance from New York to Yorkshire
Truths always stranger than fiction
And here its especially true
Here in the home of Miss USA
Whats a wide-eyed English boy going to do?
I never knew much about baseball
But I was quick with the US cliché
The crowd gave a roar and I dont know what for
The Major League rules get me so confused
Truths always stranger than fiction
The cheerleader showed me around
You with the heart of the USA
And me with the spite of a small English town
Central Park after dark, is safe these days
Depending on the game you play..
America. House of Blues
What do you know?
Gimme the news
America. Shock and awe
Not any more
America Im ready for you
Tell me what to do
Tell me what to do
Tell me what to do |
Tell me Im mad
How should I know?
Tell me Im mad
I have been here for so long
Help me paint a picture
They say its a lie
Tell me Im mad
Youre a fine one to decide
Burn me in the fires of wild heaven
Like it never, never, never would stop
Tell me Im mad
Tell me I imagined that
Was it something I didnt say
Or was it something I said?
Leave that stuff alone
Use me instead
I know Im always falling off the edge of the world
I got space in my bed
Youve got Egypt in your head
Ive got a head full of Troy
Chandeliers and Charlemagne
Fireworks and toys |
I saw you there last night
In the latest place
You were taking in the scenery
Hungry for a new face
Seems what I said to you
Didnt change your mind
You could open your eyes, realise
You dont need anyone
Whos always on the phone
You dont need anyone
Who wont leave you alone
You dont need anyone
Whod want you to cut him a key
You dont need anyone
Out on the streets today
In the clothes you bought
And your glossy picture pages
Full of other peoples thoughts
Will you just wander along
Live your life this way
Till some magazine shows you what to do
You dont need anyone
Whos always on the phone
You dont need anyone
Who wont leave you alone
To fill up the holes in your life
To tell you what youre needing
And make you do what you dont like
You dont need anyone
To show you where to go
And turn you into somebody
You wouldnt even want to know
You dont need anyone
As far as I can see
You dont need anyone
But Me |
We need to talk... about the way youve been behaving
We need to talk... about the Christmas lights in your clothes
We need to talk... about the stranger in the kitchen
We need to talk... about the scissors and the silver foil
I thank God...
Youre so fabulously...
Odd
Whatever is wrong with you
Whatever is wrong with you
Whatever is wrong with you
Is so right for me
So right for me
We need to talk.. about the wedding cake, and the wet-suit
We need to talk.. about the policeman down the hall
Youre truly strange
But it wouldnt do for us all to be the same
Whatever is wrong with you
Whatever is wrong with you
Whatever is wrong with you
Is so right for me
Just right for me
Whatever is wrong with you
Whatever is wrong with you
Whatever is wrong with you
Is so right for me
So right
Whatever is wrong with you
Is so right for me |
She took my hand and said Lets go together
You and me against the world
And so we stuck it out through still and stormy weather
And so we tumbled down the years
I took her hand and said Lets go together
Just you and me against the world
Lets go together
Stay together
Well tumble down the years
And well come to find the key behind it all
We never stopped to see if we were still in step
We never checked each others eyes
To see who lived in there behind them
And down the years we disappeared
Lets go together
Say no together
Well tumble down the years
Lets try together
Lets lie together
Well tumble down the years
And though we never found the key behind it all
I think we came to know the meaning of the fall
Lets go together
We said forever
You and me against the world
Hold on together
And damn the river
Well tumble down the years
Well tumble down the years
Well tumble down the years |
Woke up in a city that doesnt sleep
Full of rain
You woke me up
Woke up in a city down by the sea
Like a dream
You woke me up
I woke up in a city full of snow
And history and beauty and Christmas-lights and cold
With angels that come when all is lost
In golden light at dead of night
They take you home
And I woke up
I woke up
Woke up in a city that doesnt sleep
You woke me up, You woke me up, You woke me up
And I woke up in a city by the sea
You woke me up, You woke me up, You woke me up
You woke me up
I woke up in a city full of rain
The world had stopped
I woke up to feel no pain
Day from night
Anti-gravity and light
Its so clear, just what Im doing here
The blinding obvious is what you showed to me |
Something is coming out of the rain
Magic, its happening again
Like the last time
I dont know how it happens
But I know what to do
Comin up from the ground
I think its you
I will walk on the water
You sent me the red sun and the purple sky
Cirrus clouds and grins
Atoms of roses
The power to do anything
In the chaos of colours
And the fluttering of wings
You carry me up
And Im free again
Dont let anyone tell you
This is impossible
What we have here is bigger than fear
I will walk on water
Dont let anyone tell you
This is impossible
Hold on to me
Believe what you see
I will walk on water |
Strung out below a necklace of carnival lights
Cold moan, held on the crest of the night
Im too tired to fight
So now were passing strangers, at single tables
Still trying to get over
Still trying to write love songs for passing strangers
All those passing strangers
And the twinkling lies, all those twinkling lies
Sparkle with the wet ink on the paper |
Air full of feathers
Fluttering distant laughter
Air full of signs & strange magic
Planets aligned in warning
Trap door sprung beneath me
And Im falling
But Im rising..
Downwards into blue sky
Im rising
Downwards into blue sky
Re-entering the earth
Comets tail behind me
Signaling a birth
The northern lights, all burning
Hot & cold at the same time
My spirit, white & liquid
And I have learned & I am learning
But Im rising
Downwards into blue sky
Im rising
Downwards into blue sky
I am the other half
And you are what I am for
I wont lie to you or hurt you
Im not like that anymore
I am with you all the time now
One soul. One mind. One heart
The other half cannot be parted
From the other half |
The little corn flies are messing with my nerve endings
Just like you
My little corn fly
She comes with the sunlight and the perfect summer days
And she never stays
Just like you
My corn fly
The little corn flies are messing with my nerve endings
Just like you
My little corn fly
Into my clothes and under my picture frames
Before it rains
Just like you
My little thunder fly
Ooh
She comes with the sunlight and the perfect summer days
She comes with the sunlight and the perfect summer days
Ooh
She belongs in the great outdoors
Kickin off her shoes in a field of corn
Even though shes only very small
Shell leave you in no doubt at all
The little corn flies are messing with my happy endings
The little corn flies are messing with my happy endings
The little corn flies are messing with my..
The little corn flies are messing with my..
And I feel her in the sweat at the back of my neck
I feel her in the sweat in the back of my neck
Feel her in the sweat in the back of my neck
Ooh
She belongs in the great outdoors
Kickin off her shoes in a field of corn
When the winter rains bring you down
Thunderin around you
Shell take you where she found you
In sunshine..
Sunshine
Sunshine |
Everything crashed
His wife left him
He lost all his money
And most of his friends
He lay awake all night
Lonely and desperate
Contemplating starting again
These chains are all your own
These chains are comfortable
Four in the morning
Sat in the kitchen
Keys on the table
Went out for a drive
He didnt know
Where he was going
Didnt know
If he was alive
The dawn was breaking
A new day was rising
Shadows creepin over the fields
He watched the pink light
Steal across the horizon
He realised
He saw with new eyes
These chains are all your own
These chains are comfortable
This cage was never locked
Born free but scared to be
This cage was made for you
With care and constant attention
This cage is safe and warm
Will you die and never know what its like
Outside |
Bound up in this energy ball again
Laughing and bouncin off the magic
Rollin under like a surfboard in a wave
Washin me up... I want to do it again
Entwined in her arms
Spinning around and submarine beneath the deep of her
Climbing the forks of the lightning
Building a rod for my back its all right, its all right
Dreamin a dream that only the sleepless know
Chilling the afternoon in viva vida
Watchin the sun slide down the avenue
So real...
I feel...
Dizzy to fever with this love
The blues and the greys are waved away inside a day with her
Riding the forks of the lightning
Feeling the sparks along my back its all right, its all right
I thought I was born to take and to damage
But Im giving and healing and feeling
Ultramarine and ultra-serene
Climbing the forks of the lightning
She told me today itll be okay its all right, its all right
Im a submarine in this ocean |
Curl up tight into a ball
Curl my body against the soil
Staring up here
At the cathedral wall
I will sleep tonight
Be a baby
Forget it all
Be a baby
Watch the quiet stones
Massive friend
Cathedral wall
I will sleep tonight
A mother to the living
A mother to the dead
Silent as the moonlight
I come to lay my head
And I wont know you
Anymore
The peckish evening rolls once more
Into the ravenous night
Of hunger pains
That keep our troubled souls awake
We are forbidden to explain
A mother to the living
A mother to the dead
My ghost will drink the moonlight
Magic stones
My heart and bones
And I wont know you
Anymore
Shes cold
She knows me
Cathedral wall
Shes cold
She shows
I borrow
Keep away
Keep you away my love, my love
And pray I might sleep tonight
The violence of my heartbeat
The violence of the blood
I will sleep with the cathedral
And, one day, youll give up
And I will love you
But I wont know you
Anymore
My frenzied and exhausted mind
Will somehow find a way
To leave you for a time
Condemned to lieing
And lying awake |
We flew here to see you
My feelings and I
I looked down on the city
From up in the sky
The sun was reflecting
From the roofs and the water
Spring had come early
In the parks and the old town
I came with a mission
To patch up a dream
We walked and I talked and my words were absorbed
Into the answering machine
I came two thousand miles
Just to take a look at you
But you were broken and frozen
A heartbreak of a statue
In the bullet-proof mirrors
Where your eyes used to be
I stared at myself and I called for some help
Into the answering machine
The day slipped by and I tried and tried
You took me home and you said
Goodnight, Sleep tight
On the floor by the bedroom door
I watched you sleep and I left before first light
The bugs dont bite
The bugs dont bite
The bugs bite
From the land of the frozen
To the land of the low
We journeyed together
But we were always alone
So if I should come calling
Best not pick up the phone
Cause Im no good for you and youre no good for me
Let me talk to the answering machine
I can cope with the answering machine
Im a friend of the answering machine |
When youre driving through the city
I hope all your lights are green
And the boy you choose to live with
Well, I hope hes never mean
When you stop a while to think
I hope your thoughts dont drag you down
When youve had too much to drink
I hope the room dont spin around
Youre a girl half the world could fall in love with
Doo doo doo..
I hope you never get insomnia
And all your dreams are sweet
And that everybody smiles at you
When they see you on the street
I hope you think about me sometimes
But not enough to cause you pain
And someday that we can say were friends again
Youre a girl half the world could fall in love with
Youre a girl half the world could fall in love
Could fall in love with
Doo doo doo..
Youre a girl half the world could fall in love with
Half the world could fall in love
Youre a girl half the world could fall in love with |
Best of three, the angel said
As daylight burst behind his head
Jacob all night wrestling with his angel
Then out into the Boul St. Mich
He cruises in a new Corniche
Now doesnt god stand up for b-a-s-t-a-r-d-s
Baby you cant lose it
Youd be mad to choose it
Don¹t you know he was born to do you down
You cant cheat your fate girl
Check the time and date girl
Dont you know he was born to do you down
But guys who show how much they care
Try hard to please and get nowhere
You know that every girl round here got built-in bastard radar
Baby you cant lose it
Youd be mad to choose it
Dont you know he was born to do you down
Cause what will be will always be
Though stinging kills the honey bee
You know that every girl on Earths got built in bastard radar
Im singing one-two in the mike
You know Im testing
Im singing death where is thy sting?
Its only resting
And thank god every woman knows
Its piss and wind and fancy clothes
That make a man a man
Thank god for built-in bastard radar |
Vodka intimate, an affair with isolation in a Blackheath cell
Extinguishing the fires in a private hell
Provoking the heartache to renew the licence
Of a bleeding heart poet in a fragile capsule
Propping up the crust of the glitter conscience
Wrapped in the christening shawl of a hangover
Baptised in the tears from the real
Drowning in the liquid seas on the Piccadilly line
Rat race scuttling through the damp electric labyrinth
Caress Ophelias hand with breathstroke ambition
An albatross in the maritime tradition
Sheathed within the Walkman, wear the halo of distortion
Aural contraceptive aborting pregnant conversation
She turned the harpoon and it pierced my heart
She hung herself around my neck
From the Time-Life-Guardians in their conscience bubbles
Safe and dry in my sea of troubles
Nine to five with suitable ties
Cast adrift as their side-show, peepshow, stereo hero
Becalm bestill, bewitch, drowning in the real
The thief of Baghdad hides in Islington now
Praying deportation for his sacred cow
A legacy of romance from a twilight world
The dowry of a relative mystery girl
A Vietnamese flower, a Dockland union
A mistress of release from a magazines thighs
Magdalenes contracts more than favours
The feeding hands of western promise hold her by the throat
A son of a swastika of 45 parading a peroxide standard
Graffiti disciples conjure testaments of hatred
Aerosol wands whisper where the searchlights trim the barbed wire hedges
This is Brixton chess
A knight for Embankment folds his newspaper castle
A creature of habit, begs the boatmans coin
Hell fade with old soldiers in the grease stained roll call
And linger with the heartburn of Good Fridays last supper
Son watches father scan obituary columns in search of absent school friends
While his generation digests high fibre ignorance
Cowering behind curtains and the taped up painted windows
Decriminalised genocide, provided door to door Belsens
Pandoras box of holocausts gracefully cruising satellite infested heavens
Waiting, the season of the button, the penultimate migration
Radioactive perfumes, for the fashionably, for the terminally insane, insane
Do you realise? Do you realise?
Do you realise, this world is totally fugazi
Where are the prophets, where are the visionaries, where are the poets
To breach the dawn of the sentimental mercenary |
Well I gave up cocaine and I gave up smack
I gave up drinking alcohol and smoking crack
I gave up living on the never never
But I cant give up believing that Im going to live forever
Well I gave up computer games, I gave up meat
I gave up watching tv in my favourite seat
I gave up wearing fur and I gave up wearing leather
But I cant give up believing that Im going to live forever
Give it up, give it up
Dont you know youve got to lose?
The desires you were born with
And your talent to abuse
Give it up, give it up
Theres a better life to live
Give it up, give it up
Give it all youve got to give
Well I gave up sugar and I gave up spice
I gave up everything that feels allright
Cause I feel that these addictions are a chain you have to sever
Im addicted to believing that Im going to live forever |
Ive done everything that can be done to heal this wound
Left it on its own for years
Ive done everything that can be done to heal this wound
Left it on its own for years
Couldnt touch it, didnt pick it, didnt get it wet
It didnt stop the bleeding
I bandaged it, I wrapped it, stitched it, tourniqueted it
I held it stiff & aching in the air
Held it there til I went beserk
Didnt sleep
It didnt work
Didnt stop it weeping
And the wound is your life
And your life took on a life of its own
And your life rolled on over me Bang-Bang like 56 train wheels
Every time I heard news of you
And the wound was in every lousy song on the radio
And the pain was like a tree-fern in the dark, damp, forgotten places
Darkness didnt stop her growing
New-born baby cells dividing..
Curled up tight unrolling day by day
Stretching up, stretching out
Forming the same identical shape
Clones. There aint too much sadder than
Clones - relentlessly emerging from the hairy heart of the wound
And the fern is beautiful in its own way
Uncurling in the dark
Beautiful with no one there to see it
As the would weeps & aches |
Here we are
At the beginning of the last century for man
Usin up parts of the world we havent even seen or been to
The wretched of the earth exploited by the rich few
Whats new?
If you are not outraged
You havent been paying attention
If you are not outraged
You havent been listening
God bless America, I mean it
God bless the UK, I mean it
God bless la belle France, I mean it
God help us all
Climb into the car
I know that makes you happy
The sound of your laughter
Will get you so far
Grace or disgrace
Can make you a star these days
Reality pays
Lets decide who the terrorists are
God bless America, I mean it
God bless the UK, I mean it
Hats off to China, & India
And Africa too
Eat all we can
Drink all we can
Use all we can
Dow what we can
Screw all we can
Dont miss a chance
In the last century for man
I wanna feel alive
Gas up the 4 wheel drive!..
God bless America, I mean it
God bless the UK, I mean it
God bless our children
And God help us all |
The hole in the ozone layer is alright by me
Makes England warmer in the summer
Them tropical guys had it too good too long
High time they learned to sing another song
And anyway, whats wrong with the odd melanoma
If it gets us all out of the coma |
Wide boys, wide boys, wide boys, born with hearts of Lothian
Wide boys, wide boys, born with hearts of Lothian
Wide boys, we were wide boys, born with hearts of Lothian
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 were 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
I was born with a heart of Lothian
With a heart of Lothian
And the man from the magazine wants another shot of you all
Curled up
cause 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?
cause the wide boy wants to head for the watering hole
Lets go
And the man in the mirror has sad eyes |
And it was morning
And I found myself mourning
For a childhood that I thought had disappeared
I looked out the window
And I saw a magpie in the rainbow, the rain had gone
Im not alone, I turned to the mirror
I saw you, the child, that once loved
The child before they broke his heart
Our heart, the heart that I believed was lost
Hey you, surprised? More than surprised
To find the answers to the questions
Were always in your own eyes
Do you realise that you give it on back to hеr?
But that would only be retraced in all thе problems that you ever knew
So untrue
For shes got to carry on with her life
And youve got to carry on with yours
So I see its me, I can do anything
And Im still the child
Cos the only thing misplaced was direction
And I found direction
There is no childhoods end
You are my childhood friend, lead me on
Hey you, youve survived. Now youve arrived
To be reborn in the shadow of the magpie
Now you realise, that youve got to get out of here
Youve found the leading light of destiny, burning in the ashes of your memory
You want to change the world
Youd resigned yourself to die a broken rebel
But that was looking backward
Now youve found the light
You, the child that once loved
The child before they broke his heart
Our heart, the heart that I believed was lost
So its me I see, I can do anything
Im still the child
Cos the only thing misplaced was direction
And I found direction
There is no childhoods end
I am your childhood friend, lead me on |
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
If my heart were a ball, it would roll uphill
Were alone in the world, we must do what we feel we should
Were told what is right, need hurts within us
We can see sense, we can feel what feels right
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
If my heart were a ball, it would roll uphill
If my heart were a ball, it would roll uphill
If my heart were a ball, it would roll uphill
If my heart were a ball, it would roll uphill
If my heart were a ball, it would roll uphill
If my heart were a ball, it would roll uphill
If my heart were a ball, it would roll uphill
If my heart were a ball, it would roll uphill
Hard ball, dream love, now roll, fall, clown
Space, truth, tired race, give to all, one
One church state, God fast as I could
Cry, laugh, hide, I feel no will to win
Sweet seed, you, me
Hard ball, dream love, now roll, fall, clown
Stain, truth, space, give, give, give
Give, give, give, give, give |
Theres no such thing
As an answered prayer
Theres no such thing
As the ozone layer
Theres no such thing
As an action hero
Theres no such thing
As an easy ride
Theres no such thing
As a place to hide
Theres no such thing
As a perfect day
Theres no such thing
As the pearly gates
Theres no such thing
As an ordered world
Theres no such thing
As an easy girl
No such thing
No such thing
Theres no such thing
As peace-of-mind
As a faithful wife
As the bottom line
Theres no such thing
As owning something
Its all borrowed for a time
Its all borrowed for a time
Theres no such thing
Theres no such thing
No such thing
Theres no such thing
No such thing |
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 |
OK, if Im honest, we struggled for a Z.
We nearly wrote one specially.
Yeah, we nearly wrote a song! Zaylesbury ... So, were going to do a little kind of minor ... homage is not the right word ... cabbage might be nearer. All our fingers and toes are crossed. This is Zeparated Out.
Hey hey mama, said the way you move
Im gonna make you sweat, Im gonna make you groove
Ah, ah, child, when you shake that thing
Im gonna make you burn, gonna make you sting
Ah ah, ah ah, ah ah, ah ah, ahhh
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?
Am I enough of a freak
To be worth paying to see?
Enough
Enough
Theyre pointing and laughing
Theyre pointing and laughing at me
Thank you! Well see you tomorrow, my friends... |
Hold your breath till you feel it begin
Here it comes
Get used to it
But you sleep like a ghost with me
Its as simple as that
So tell me Im mad
Roll me up and breathe me in
Come to my madness
My opium den
Come to my madness
Make sense of it again |
I am the assassin, with tongue forged from eloquence
I am the assassin, providing your nemesis
On the sacrificial altar to success, my friend
Unleash a stranger from a kiss, my friend
No incantations of remorse, my friend
Unsheathe the blade within the voice, my friend
Who decorates the scarf with the fugi knot
Who camouflaged emotion in a thousand yard stare
Who gouged the notches from the family tree
Who hypnotised the guilt in career rhythm trance
Assassing, assassing, assassing, assassing
Listen as the syllables of slaughter cat with calm precision
Patterned frosty phrases rape your ears and sow the ice incision
Apocalyptic alphabet casting spell the creed of tempered diction
Adjectives of annihilation bury the point beyond redemption
Venomous verbs of ruthless candour plagiarise assassins fervour
A friend in need is a friend that bleeds
Let bitter silence infect the wound
You were a sentimental mercenary in a free fire zone
Parading a Hollywood conscience
You were a fashionable objector with a uniform fetish
Pavlovian slaver at the cash till ring of success
A non com observer - I assassin the collector - defector
So you resigned yourself to failure, my friend
And I emerged the chilling stranger, my friend
To eradicate the problem, my friend
Unsheathe the blade within the voice
I am the assassin
I am the assassin
And what do you call assassins who accuse assassins anyway, my friend? |
Make a drug of my senses
Ill get you out of your head
Im sick for you
Love wastes us together
Love holds us together
Love folds us together
Flowers |
Maybe youre just too upset inside
To give it to me straight
Maybe youve become too angry and too close to crying
To say anything I can understand
Or maybe youre just coming in over my head
Maybe youre just too upset inside
Too upset inside
How can it hurt if I dont understand
How can it hurt if I dont understand
Youre never gonna square with me I know
So what is there to say?
Theres a million words that we could share tonight
Why do you walk away?
And I could write you off and its over with
Like a damaged car I cant afford to fix
But everything inside me wants to heal your pain
You wont explain, you wont explain
How can it hurt if I dont understand
How can it hurt if I dont understand
How can I help if I dont understand
How can it hurt, how can it hurt
Well I dont understand |
Wide boys, wide boys, wide boys, born with hearts of Lothian
Wide boys, wide boys, born with hearts of Lothian
Wide boys, we were wide boys, born with hearts of Lothian
These hearts of Lothian
Its six oclock in the tower blocks
The stalagmites of culture shock,
And the trippers of the light fantastic, bowdown, hoedown
Spray their pheremones 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
I was born, with a heart of Lothian
With a heart of Lothian
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 here anyway?
Do we really need a playback of the show?
Cos the wideboys want to head for the watering holes
Watering holes, watering holes
Lets go
And the man in the mirror has sad eyes |
But he who dies with the most toys....
Is still dead
He who dies with the most toys....
Is still dead
You have to be cool
You have to be hip
You have to be chic
You have to be rich
You have to be young
Whatever that is
You have to listen to whats in & whats happenin
But
He who dies with the most toys....
Is still dead
You have to keep up
Take the right drugs
Know when to be cagey
Know when to shut up
You have to talk fast
Know who to thank
Drive the right car to the right bank
But
He who dies with the most toys....
Is still dead
Poison your life
As you turn the knife
He who dies with the most toys....
Is still dead |
When I hit the streets back in 81
Found a heart in the gutter and a poets crown
I felt barbed wire kisses and icicle tears
Where have I been for all these years?
I saw political intrigue, political lies
Gonna wipe those smiles of self-satisfaction from their eyes
I will wear your white feather
I will carry your white flag
I will swear I have no nation
But Im proud to own my heart
I will wear your white feather
I will carry your white flag
I will swear I have no nation
But Im proud to own my heart
My heart, this is my heart
We dont need no uniforms, we have no disguise
Divided we stand, together well rise
We will wear your white feather
We will carry your white flag
We will swear we have no nations
But were proud to own our hearts
We will wear your white feather
We will carry your white flag
We will swear we have no nations
But were proud to own our hearts
These are our hearts
These are our hearts
You cant take away our hearts
You cant steal our hearts away
I cant walk away
No more |
Look at it as though youve never it seen before
Try and forget it
So you can see it
Taste it like youve never tasted it before
Try and forget it
So you can remember it
See it like a baby
See it like a baby
See it like a baby
See it like a baby
Love her like youve never fallen in love before
Fall out of love with her
So you can remember
And love him like youve never been with him before
Try and forget it
So you can remember it
See it like a baby
See it like a baby
See it like a baby
See it like a baby
See it like
See it like
See it like a baby
See it like
Taste it like
Feel it like |
Even if the good old days were good
Even if the old days were golden days
The past is a terrible place to live
Misguided missiles, skin creams and cars
Loaded with dreams, pretty faces Im loaded with stories
Im loaded with dreams
Loaded with ambition
Im loaded with live ammunitions
Saving up for linda, saving up for pam
Saving up for naomi, I can therefore I am
Savin up for mary, savin up for jane
1000 pieces all over the room
Lets do it again
Icon therefore I am
Loaded with dreams, loaded with life
I only wish you knew
How hard it is for me to spare
This kind of thing with you
And if you sense a smokesceen here
A trick of dry ice |
Feeling you shake
Feel your heart break
Thinking if only, if only, if only, if only
And the salt water runs
Through your veins and your bones
Telling you no not this way, not this way, not this way
And you would give anything
Give up everything
Offer your life blood away
For yesterday
No one leaves you
When you live in their heart and mind
And no one dies
They just move to the other side
When were gone
Watch the world simply carry on
We live on laughing and in no pain
Well stay and be happy
With those who have loved us today
Finding the answer
Its a human obsession
But you might as well talk to the stones and the trees and the sea
Cause nobody knows
And so few can see
Theres only beauty and caring and truth beyond darkness
No one leaves you
When you live in their heart and mind
And no one dies
They just move to the other side
When were gone
Watch the world simply carry on
We live on laughing and in no pain
Well stay and be happy
With those who have loved us today
And we wont understand your grief
Because time is illusion
As this watery world spins around
This timeless sun
Will dry your eyes
And calm your mind
No one leaves you
When you live in their heart and mind
And no one dies
They just move to the other side
When were gone
Watch the world simply carry on
Its okay, we will stay and be happy
Stay and be happy
With those who have loved us today |
I dont know what youre doing here
When theres murder on the street
I appreciate your concern
But dont waste your time on me
Im ashes on the water now
Somewhere far away
You think you came here just in time
But youre twenty years too late
You wont have long to wait
Easy, you said I was easy. This world sharpens teeth. Eat your words... |
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 |
When the taxis gather in mock Solemnity
Funeral hearses court the death of virginity
Was it paradise lost or paradise found?
Did we gain respect or were we holding ground?
You had found true love, or so you believed
And the wide boys tattooed your hearts upon their sleeves
So when you think its time to go
When you think its time to go
Dont be surprised, the heroes never show
And the patter merchants selling false impressions
Tipping eyes at the waitress with American expressions
Tie angels to the bar with sweet Martinis and their charms
Theyre lying on every word and every arm
Theyre turning down their noses to the best lines
And the cheap wines
And the wide boys
They wear their love bites for their crimes |
Everybody knows we live in a world
Where they give bad names to beautiful things
Everybody knows we live in a world
Where we dont give beautiful things a second glance
Heaven only knows we live in a world
Where what we call beautiful is just something on sale
People laughing behind their hands
As the fragile and the sensitive are given no chance
And the lеaves turn from red to brown
To be troddеn down
To be trodden down
And the leaves turn from red to brown
Fall to the ground
Fall to the ground
We dont have to live in a world
Where we give bad names to beautiful things
We should live in a beautiful world
We should give beautiful a second chance
And the leaves fall from red to brown
To be trodden down
Trodden down
And the leaves turn green to red to brown
Fall to the ground
And get kicked around
You strong enough to be
Have you the courage to be
Have you the faith to be
Honest enough to stay
Dont have to be the same
Dont have to be this way
Cmon and sign your name
You wild enough to remain beautiful?
Beautiful
And the leaves turn from red to brown
To be trodden down
Trodden down
And we fall green to red to brown
Fall to the ground
But we can turn it around
You strong enough to be
Why dont you stand up and say
Give yourself a break
Theyll laugh at you anyway
So why dont you stand up and be
Beautiful
Black, white, red, gold, and brown
Were stuck in this world
Nowhere to go
Turnin around
What are you so afraid of?
Show us what youre made of
Be yourself and be beautiful
Beautiful |
Feeling you shake
Feel your heart break
Thinking if only, if only, if only, if only
And the salt water runs
Through your veins and your bones
Telling you no not this way, not this way, not this way
And you would give anything
Give up everything
Offer your life blood away
For yesterday
No one leaves you
When you live in their heart and mind
And no one dies
They just move to the other side
When were gone
Watch the world simply carry on
We live on laughing and in no pain
Well stay and be happy
With those who have loved us today
Finding the answer
Its a human obsession
But you might as well talk to the stones and the trees and the sea
Cause nobody knows
And so few can see
Theres only beauty and caring and truth beyond darkness
No one leaves you
When you live in their heart and mind
And no one dies
They just move to the other side
When were gone
Watch the world simply carry on
We live on laughing and in no pain
Well stay and be happy
With those who have loved us today
And we wont understand your grief
Because time is illusion
As this watery world spins around
This timeless sun
Will dry your eyes
And calm your mind
No one leaves you
When you live in their heart and mind
And no one dies
They just move to the other side
When were gone
Watch the world simply carry on
Its okay, we will stay and be happy
Stay and be happy
With those who have loved us today |
Huddled in the safety of a pseudo silk kimono
Wearing bracelets of smoke, naked of understanding
Nicotine smears, long, long dried tears, invisible tears
Safe in my own words, learning from my own words
Cruel joke, cruel joke
Huddled in the safety of a pseudo silk kimono
A morning mare rides, in the starless shutters of my eyes
The spirit of a misplaced childhood is rising to speak his mind
To this orphan of heartbreak, disillusioned and scarred
A refugee, refugee |
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 |
Is it wrong to talk to myself even when theres nobody else
Im just checking out that Im not gone under the water
Thrown on the beach like a seal ready for slaughter
Cant you understand that the way things were planned
It never worked out so I just went crazy
I took to the drink, like something says its maybe
I aint got no excuse and thats really the news
Got nothing else to say, that its my way, its always my way
I seem to be running away so often
Ill try anything once and thats the way we should be
But its always the same getting caught up again in a habit
A habit I just cant shake off the way it always turned out
Can you understand its the way I choose to be
Everything seems so easy this way but Im going under fast
Slipping away
Am I so crazy |
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?
Do you remember barefoot on the lawn with shooting stars?
Do you remember the 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 want to 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 itll prove that I was wrong |
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! |
So were going to play an XTC song for X, because we didnt have one. This is Senses Working Overtime.
Hey, hey, the clouds are whey
Theres straw for the donkeys
And the innocents can all sleep safely
All sleep safely
My, my, sun is pie
Theres fodder for the cannons
And the guilty ones can all sleep safely
All sleep safely
And all the world is football-shaped
Its just for me to kick in space
And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste
And Ive got one, two, three, four, five
Senses working overtime
Trying to take this all in
Ive got one, two, three, four, five
Senses working overtime
Trying to taste the difference tween a lemon and a lime
Pain and pleasure, and the church bells softly chime
Hey, hey, night fights day
Theres food for the thinkers
And the innocents can all live slowly
All live slowly
My, my, the sky will cry
Jewels for the thirsty
And the guilty ones can all die slowly
All die slowly
And all the world is biscuit-shaped
Its just for me to feed my face
And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste
And birds might fall from black skies
And bullies might give you black eyes
And buses might skid on black ice
But to me theyre very, very beautiful
Beautiful
And all the world is football-shaped
Its just for me to kick in space
And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste
And Ive got one, two, three, four, five
Senses working overtime
Trying to take this all in
Ive got one, two, three, four, five
Senses working overtime
Trying to tell the difference tween the goods and crimes
Dirt and treasure
And theres one, two, three, four, five
Senses working overtime
Trying to take this all in
Ive got one, two, three, four, five
Senses working overtime
Trying to taste the difference tween a lemon and a lime
Pain and pleasure, and the church bells softly chime |
Id be really pleased to meet you if I could remember your name
But I got problems of the memory ever since I got a winner in the fame game
Im a citizen of Legoland travellin incommunicado
And I dont give a damn for the Fleet Street aficionados
But I dont want to be the back-page interview
I dont want launderette anonymity
I want my hand prints in the concrete on Sunset Boulevard
A dummy in Tussauds youll see
Incommunicado, incommunicado
Im a Marquee veteran, a multimedia bona fide celebrity
Ive got an allergy to Perrier, daylight and responsibility
Im a rootin-tootin cowboy, the Peter Pan, the street credibility
Always taking the point with the dawn patrol fraternity
Sometimes it seems like Ive been here before
When I hear opportunity kicking in my door
Call it synchronicity call it deja vu
I just put my faith in destiny - its the way that I choose
But I dont want to be a tin can tied
To the bumper of a wedding limousine
Or currently residing in the where are they now file
A toupee on the cabaret scene
I want to do adverts for American Express cards
Talk shows on prime time TV
A villa in France, my own cocktail bar
And thats where youre gonna find me
Incommunicado, incommunicado
Sometimes it seems like Ive been here before
When I hear opportunity kicking in my door
Call it synchronicity call it deja vu
I just put my faith in destiny - its the way that I choose
Incommunicado, incommunicado
Its the only way |
I found smog at the end of my rainbow
I found my thoughts shift slowly into phase
Declared the constitution of the walkway
I realise its time to plan the day
Im a Market Square hero gathering the storms to troop
Cause Im a Market Square hero speeding the beat of the street pulse
Are you following me, are you following me?
Well suffer my pretty warriors and follow me
I got a golden handshake that nearly broke my arm
I left the ranks of shuffling graveyard people
I got rust upon my hands from the padlocked factory gates
Silent chimneys provide the silent steeples
Cause Im a Market Square hero gathering the storms to troop
Cause Im a Market Square hero speeding the beat of the street pulse
Are you following me, are you following me?
Well suffer my pretty children and follow me, follow me
I am your Antichrist show me allegiance, Are you following me?
I am your Antichrist pledge to me defiance, Are you following me?
Suffer my pretty warriors, Suffer my fallen child, Are you following me?
The time has come to conquer and Ill provide your end
We march
I give peace signs when I wage war in the disco
Im the warrior in the ultra violet haze
Armed with antisocial insecurity
I plan the path of destiny from this maze
Cause Im a Market Square hero gathering the storms to troop
Cause Im a Market Square hero speeding the beat of the street pulse
Are you following me, are you following me?
Well suffer my fallen angels and follow me
Im the Market Square hero, Im the Market Square hero
We are Market Square Heroes, to be Market Square Heroes |
I think I have become one of the hollow men
As I shine on the outside more these days
I can feel the outside feeding on my inside
Leaves a growing darkness in its place
I think I have become one of the hollow men
I think I have become one of the lonely
Now that everybody talks to me
I feel I have become one of the empty
Hollow men can stop you with the twinkling of an eye
Hollow men can take you without even reaching out
Hollow men have got you long before you realise
The poison paralyses
I think I have become one of a pair of men
Its a feeling Ive been having for some time
I look down upon myself and watch my movements
A blind eye sees the fragile vandalised
Watch this cold world dishing up these endless hollow men
Find us anywhere you look
Come and meet our friends
Stand us in our silly clothes
Put our batteries in
Line us up like fairground ducks
Watch us grin and grin
See the lies behind our eyes
See the will to win
Well buy you and well sell you
But perhaps well save your skin
Sit quietly and listen to the breeze
The hollow and the lonely listen too
Sniff the air for something we can use
Were tin-hard and we rattle when were shaken |
A love song with no validity
Pretend you never meant that much to me
Numb, a Valium child, bored by meaningless collisions
A lonely stretch of headlight, diamonds trapped in black ice
A mirror cracked among the white lines
I just wanted you to be the first one
I just wanted you to be the first one
Ashes are burning, burning
Ashes are burning, burning
A lifestyle with no simplicities
But Im not asking for your sympathy
Talk, we never could talk, distanced by all that was between us
A lord of the backstage, a creature of language
Im so far out and Im too far in
I just wanted you to be the first one
I just wanted you to be the first one
Bridges are burning, burning
Bridges are burning, burning |
I was walking in the park dreaming of a spark
When I heard the sprinklers whisper
Shimmer in the haze of summer lawns
Then I heard the children singing
They were running through the rainbows
They were singing a song for you
Well it seemed to be a song for you
The one I wanted to write for you, for you
Lavenders blue, dilly dilly, lavenders green
When I am King, dilly dilly, you will be Queen
A penny for your thoughts my dear
A penny for your thoughts my dear
I.O.U. for your love, IOU for your love
Lavenders green, dilly dilly, lavenders blue
When you love me, dilly dilly, I will love you
A penny for your thoughts my dear
A penny for your thoughts my dear
IOU for your love, IOU for your love
For your love |
Absence makes the heart go mad
All the solid things become mirages
The certain things, sand running in the hour glass
Running away I scream along the ledge
As the windows back and close
I run around try to prove the sunrise
I believe in belief but its proof I need
Can you show me its me?
Can you show me its me?
Traveling makes the mind go vague
All the special faces fade away
Spinning like a heat haze shimmering
Please send Polaroids or an ear in the post
A map to the treasure, a key to the closed
I need you like hell, can you help me again?
Can you show me its me
Can you show me its me
I run dry, I run out, I run cold, I need help
Trying to prove the sunrise
Trying to prove the tides
Trying to prove the blue moon sky
And is it you? Is it you? |
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 |
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 |
One oclock and time for lunch
When the sun beats down and I lie on the bench
I can always hear them talk
Theres always been Ethel:
Jacob, wake up! Youve got to tidy your room now
And then Mister Lewis:
Isnt it time that he was out on his own?
Over the garden wall, two little lovebirds - cuckoo to you!
Keep them mowing blades sharp...
I know what I like, and I like what I know
Getting better in your wardrobe
Stepping one beyond your show
Sunday night Mister Farmer called, said:
Listen son, youre wasting your time
Thеres a future for you in the firе escape trade
Come up to town!
But I remembered a voice from the past
Gambling only pays when youre winning
I had to thank old Miss Mort for schooling a failure
Keep them mowing blades sharp...
I know what I like, and I like what I know
Getting better in your wardrobe
Stepping one beyond your show
When the sun beats down and I lie on the bench
I can always hear them talk
Me, Im just a lawnmower
You can tell me by the way I walk |
I saw three ships come sailing in
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day
I saw three ships come sailing in
On Christmas Day in the morning
And what was in those ships all three
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day?
And what was in those ships all three
On Christmas Day in the morning?
The Virgin Mary and Christ were there
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day
The Virgin Mary and Christ were there
On Christmas Day in the morning
And all the angels in heaven shall sing
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day
And all the angels in heaven shall sing
On Christmas Day in the morning
And all the bells on Earth shall ring
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day
And all the bells on Earth shall ring
On Christmas Day in the morning
And all the ships come sailing in
On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day
And all the ships come sailing in
On Christmas Day in the morning |
Raise your eyes to Englands skies
Theres more up there than butterflies
Alice smile and
Shes just about ready
She doesnt matter want it to know
The Hatter laughs his box aright
To the edition of the movie of the terminal night
So take Britannia by the hand
Waltz her through this problem land
Kiss the apocalypse goodbye, goodbye
Ill have the last waltz with you
Well dance until the end
Ill have the last waltz with you
Until midnight chimes again
Round and round and round and round we go
Ill have the last waltz with you
Well dance until the end
Ill have the last waltz with you
Until midnight chimes again
Round and round we go
Round we go
Waves digest white cliffs of Dover
Blind man looks for a four-leaf clover
Peter Pans showing his youth
The mortgage never never learn
The madcap laughs he knew the score
With all the pussycats he fled the shore
Never to return |
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! |
Oh, I just dont know where to begin
Love doesnt wait forever
Its now or never
But she keeps em hangin on
You said youre so alone
She says she cant go home without a chaperon
Accidents will happen
They only hit and run
You used to be a victim now youre not the only one
Accidents will happen
They only hit and run
I dont want to hear it cause I know what Ive done
Theres so many fish in the sea
That only rise up on the sweat and smoke of mercury
But they keep you hangin on
They say youre so young
Your mind is made up but your mouth is undone
Accidents will happen
They only hit and run
You used to be a victim now youre not the only one
Accidents will happen
They only hit and run
I dont want to hear it cause I know what Ive done
Its the damage that we do we never know
Its the words that we dont say that scare me so
Theres so many people to see
So many people to hangin on and add to your collection
But they keep you hangin on
Until you well hung
Your mouth is make up but your mind is undone
Accidents will happen
Theyre only hit and run
You used to be a victim now youre not the only one
Accidents will happen
They only hit and run
I dont want to hear it cause I know what it
I know what it
I know what it done
I know, I know, I know, I know |
A ghost of a mist was on the field
The grey and the green together
The noise of a distant farm machine
Out of a the first light came
A tattered necklace of hedge end trees
On the southern side of the hill
Betrays where the border runs between
Where Mary Dunoons boy fell
Easter here again, a time for the blind to see
Easter, surely now can all of your hearts be free
Out of the port of Liverpool
Bound for the North of Ireland
The wash of the spray and horsetail waves
The roll of the sea below
And Easter here again, a time for the blind to see
Easter, surely now can all of your hearts be free
What will you do?
Make a stone of your heart?
Will you set things right?
When you tear them apart?
Will you sleep at night?
With the plough and the stars alight?
What will you do?
With the wire and the gun?
Thatll set things right
When its said and done?
Will you sleep at night?
Is there so much love to hide?
Forgive, forget
Sing Never again |
Catalogue princess, apprentice seductress
Hiding in her cellophane world in glitter town
Awaiting the prince in his white Capri
Dynamic young Tarzan courts the bedsit queen
Shes playing the actress in this bedroom scene
Shes learning her lines from glossy magazines
Stringing all her pearls from her childhood dreams
Auditioning for the leading role on the silver screen
Patience my tinsel angel
Patience my perfumеd child
One day they really lovе you
Youll charm them with that smile
But for now its just another Chelsea Monday
Drifting with her incense in the labyrinth of London
Playing games with faces in the neon wonderland
Perform to scattered shadows on the shattered cobbled aisles
Would she dare recite soliloquies at the risk of stark applause
Shell pray for endless Sundays as she enters saffron sunsets
Conjure phantom lovers from the tattered shreds of dawn
Fulfilled and yet forgotten the St. Tropez mirage
Fragrant aphrodisiac, the withered tuberose
Patience my tinsel angel, patience my perfumed child
One day they really love you, youll charm them with that smile
But for now its just another Chelsea Monday
[Hello John, did you see The Standard about four hours ago?
Fished a young chick out of The Old Father
Blond hair, blue eyes. She said she wanted to be an actress or something
Nobody knows where she came from, where she was going
Funny thing was she had a smile on her face
She was smiling, what a waste]
Catalogue princess, apprentice seductress
Buried in her cellophane world in glitter town
Of Chelsea Monday |
I am the assassin, with tongue forged from eloquence
I am the assassin, providing your nemesis
On the sacrificial altar to success, my friend
Unleash a stranger from a kiss, my friend
No incantations of remorse, my friend
Unsheathe the blade within the voice, my friend
Who decorates the scarf with the fugi knot
Who camouflaged emotion in a thousand yard stare
Who gouged the notches from the family tree
Who hypnotised the guilt in career rhythm trance
Assassing, assassing, assassing, assassing
Listen as the syllables of slaughter cat with calm precision
Patterned frosty phrases rape your ears and sow the ice incision
Apocalyptic alphabet casting spell the creed of tempered diction
Adjectives of annihilation bury the point beyond redemption
Venomous verbs of ruthless candour plagiarise assassins fervour
A friend in need is a friend that bleeds
Let bitter silence infect the wound
You were a sentimental mercenary in a free fire zone
Parading a Hollywood conscience
You were a fashionable objector with a uniform fetish
Pavlovian slaver at the cash till ring of success
A non com observer - I assassin the collector - defector
So you resigned yourself to failure, my friend
And I emerged the chilling stranger, my friend
To eradicate the problem, my friend
Unsheathe the blade within the voice
I am the assassin
I am the assassin
And what do you call assassins who accuse assassins anyway, my friend? |
Did anyone see my last marble
As it rolled out and over the floor?
It fell through a hole in the corner
Of a room in a town on a tour
Its lonely without your last marble
I miss it not ratting around
As I lie in my bed theres a space in my head
Where there used to be colours and sound... |
When the taxis gather in mock solemnity
Funeral hearses court the death of virginity
Was it paradise lost or paradise found?
Did we gain respect or were we holding ground?
You had found true love, or so you believed
And the wideboys tattooed your hearts upon their sleeves
So when you think its time to go
When you think its time to go
Dont be surprised, the heroes never show
And the patter merchants selling false impressions
Tipping eyes at the waitress with American expressions
Tie angels to the bar with sweet martinis and their charms
Theyre lying on every word and every arm
Theyre turning down their noses to the best lines
And the cheap wines
And the wideboys
They wear their lovebites for their crimes |
Manys the time I ran with you down
The rainy roads of your old town
Many the lives we lived in each day
And buried altogether
Don’t laugh at me
Dont look away
Youll follow me back
With the sun in your eyes
And on your own
Bedshaped
And legs of stone
You’ll knock on my door
And up well go
In white light
I dont think so
But what do I know?
What do I know?
I know!
I know you think Im holding you down
And Ive fallen by the wayside now
And I dont understand the same things as you
But I do
Dont laugh at me
Dont look away
You’ll follow me back
With the sun in your eyes
And on your own
Bedshaped
And legs of stone
You’ll knock on my door
And up well go
In white light
I don’t think so
But what do I know?
What do I know?
I know!
And up well go
In white light
I dont think so
But what do I know?
What do I know?
I know! |
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 black room
Full of strange aromas
And noises and candles
And 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
She was enchanted....
And 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
Oh, by the way,
Welcome to your first party |
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 hеart
But you broke mine
Kayleigh, is it too latе 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?
Do you remember
Barefoot on the lawn with shooting stars?
Do you remember
The 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 want to 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 itll prove that I was wrong
I was walking in the park
Dreaming of a spark
When I heard the sprinklers whisper, shimmer
In the haze of summer lawns
Then I heard the children singing
They were running through the rainbows
They were singing a song for you
Well it seemed to be a song for you
The one I wanted to write for you, for you, you
Lavenders blue, dilly dilly, lavenders green
When I am King, dilly dilly, you will be Queen
A penny for your thoughts my dear
A penny for your thoughts my dear
I.O.U. for your love
I.O.U. for your love
Lavenders green, dilly dilly, lavenders blue
When you love me, dilly dilly, I will love you
A penny for your thoughts my dear
A penny for your thoughts my dear
I.O.U. for your love
I.O.U. for your love
Lavender dreams dilly, dilly, lavenders true
When you miss me dilly dilly, I did miss you
A penny for your thoughts my dear
A penny for your thoughts my dear
I O U for your love
I O U for your love
For your love
For your love
For your love
Oh I´m gonna turn back to you
Gonna find my way back to you
For your love
For your love
For your love
For your love
I´m always walking in the park
Always dreaming of a spark
For you
Wide boys, wide boys, wide boys, born with hearts of Lothian
Wide boys, wide boys, born with hearts of Lothian
Wide boys, we were wide boys, born with hearts of Lothian
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 were 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
I was born with a heart of Lothian
With a heart of Lothian |
Light switch, yellow fever, crawling up your bathroom wall
Singing psychedelic praises to the depths of a china bowl
Youve got venom in your stomach, youve got poison in your head
You should have listened to the priest at the confession
When he offered you the sacred bread
He knows, you know, he knows, you know
H e knows, you know, but hes got problems
Fast feed, crystal fever, swarming through a fractured mind
Chilling needles freeze emotion, the blind shall lead the blind
Youve got venom in you stomach, youvе got poison in your head
When your consciencе whispered, the vein lines stiffened
You were walking with the dead
He knows, you know, he knows, you know, he knows, you know
Hes got experience, hes got experience, he knows, you know
But hes got problems, problems, problems
He knows... slash wrist, scarlet fever, crawled under your bathroom door
Pumping arteries ooze their problems through the gap that the razor tore
Youve got venom in your stomach, youve got poison in your head
You should have listened to your analysts questions
When you lay on his leather bed
He knows, you know, he knows, you know
H he knows, you know, but hes got problems
Blank eyes, purple fever, streaming through the frosted pane
You learned your lesson far to late from the links in a chemist chain
Youve got venom in your stomach, youve got poison in your head
You should have stayed at home and talked with father
Listen to the lies he fed
He knows, you know, he knows, you know
He knows, you know, but hes got problems
He knows, you know, he knows, you know, he knows, you know
Hes got experience, hes got experience, he knows, you know
You know, you know, you know |
Baby, cant you see Im calling
A guy like you
Should wear a warning
Its dangerous, Im fallin
Theres no escape
I cant wait, I need a hit
Baby, give me it
Youre dangerous, Im lovin it
Too high, cant come down
Losing my head
Spinning round and round
Do you feel me now
With a taste of your lips
Im on a ride
Youre toxic Im slipping under
With a taste of a poison paradise
Im addicted to you
Dont you know that youre toxic
And I love what you do
Dont you know that youre toxic
Its getting late to give you up
I took a sip from my devils cup
Slowly
Its taking over me
Too high, cant come down
Its in the air
And its all around
Can you feel me now
With a taste of your lips
Im on a ride
Youre toxic Im slipping under
With a taste of a poison paradise
Im addicted to you
Dont you know that youre toxic
And I love what you do
Dont you know that youre toxic
Dont you know that youre toxic
With a taste of your lips
Im on a ride
Youre toxic Im slipping under
With a taste of a poison paradise
Im addicted to you
Dont you know that youre toxic
With a taste of your lips
Im on a ride
Youre toxic Im slipping under
With a taste of a poison paradise
Im addicted to you
Dont you know that youre toxic
Intoxicate me now
With your lovin now
I think Im ready now
I think Im ready now
Intoxicate me now
With your lovin now
I think Im ready now |
A hand held over a candle in angst fuelled bravado
A carbon trail scores a moist stretched palm
Trapped in the indecision of another fine menu
And you sit there and ask me to tell you the story so far
This is the story so far
Shuffling your memories dealing your doodles in margins
You scrawl out your poems across a beermat or two
And when you declare the point of grave creation
They turn round and you to tell them the story so far
This is the story so far
And you listen with a tear in you eye
To their hopes and betrayals and your only reply
Is Slàinte Mhath
Princes in exile raising the standard Drambuie
Parading their anecdotes tired from old campaigns
Holding their own last orders commanding attention
We sit here and listen to all of the story so far
This is the story so far
Take it away
Take it away
Take it away
Take me away
Take me away
Take me away
Take me away
Take me away
From the dream on the barbed wire at Flanders and Bilston Glen
From a Clydeside that rusts from the tears of its broken men
From the realisation that all weve been left behind
Is to stand like our fathers before us in the firing line
Waiting on the whistle to blow
We stand here waiting on the whistle to blow
They promised us miracles, and the whistle still blows
Broken promises but the whistle still blows
Waiting on the wistle to blow
We stand here waiting on the wistle to blow |
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 |
Joladadijoladadijoladadijoladadi
Joladadijoladadi-jo-o-ooh!
Joladadijoladadijoladadijoladadi
Joladadijoladadi-jo-o-ooh!
Oooooh-oooooh-oooooh-oooooh... |
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 |
I work all night, I work all day
To pay the bills I have to pay
Aint it sad
And still there never seems to be
A single penny left for me
Thats too bad
In my dreams I have a plan
If I got me a wealthy man
I wouldnt have to work at all
Id fool around and have a ball
Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich mans world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich mans world
All the things I could do
If I had a little money
Its a rich mans world
A man like that is hard to find
But I cant get him off my mind
Aint it sad
And if he happens to be free
I bet he wouldnt fancy me
Thats too bad
So I must leave, Ill have to go
To Las Vegas or Monaco
And win a fortune in a gamе
My life will never bе the same
Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich mans world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich mans world
All the things I could do
If I had a little money
Its a rich mans world
Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich mans world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich mans world
All the things I could do
If I had a little money
Its a rich mans world
Its a rich mans world |
Pretty soon youll be able to remember her
Lying in the garden singing
Right where shell always be
The door is always open
This is the place that I loved her
And these are the friends that she had
Long may the mountain ring
To the sound of her laughter
And she goes on and on
In her soft wind I will whisper
In her warm sun I will glisten
Till we see her once again
In a world without end
We owe it all to Frank Sinatra
The song was playing a shе walked into the room
After thе long weekend
They were a lifetime together
Appearing in the eyes of children
In the clear blue mountain view
The colouring in the sky
And painting ladders to heaven
And she goes on
In her soft wind I will whisper
In her warm sun I will glisten
Till we see her once again
In a world without end
In her soft wind I will whisper
In her warm sun I will glisten
And I always will remember
In a world without end
She goes on
She goes on
She goes on |
So this is where she stands at night
On this cold avenue of lights
The red and greens but mostly reds
For you hes stopping
In seeing him she knows him less
His stick is wet, shes half undressed
And all and all theyre both obsessed
With so much nothing
I know its hard for you to see
What lies behinds a mystery
If words could speak theyd mean even less
When the king is half undressed
She dots her Is with a smiley face
A work of art in all but taste
The fool deserves the bed hes made
Where idiots slumber
Divine she is to aire this fate
A crack of smile through all this hate
Means nothing more in this nervous state
Of so much nothing
I know its hard for you to see
The truth behind is misery
If words could speak theyd mean even less
When the king is half undressed
Blue autumns
Sunshine kisses
Hearts and flowers
And broken wishes
I know its hard for you to see
What lies behinds a mystery
If words could speak theyd mean even less
When the king is half undressed
I know its hard for you to see
The truth behind is misery
If words could speak theyd mean even less
When the king is half undressed |
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 feel 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 cubes 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 |
When I was a young boy
I wanted to sail around the world
Thats the life for me, living on the sea
Spirit of a sailor, circumnavigates the globe
The lust of a pioneer, will acknowledge no frontier
I remember you by, thunderclap in the sky
Lightning flash, tempers flare
Round the horn if you dare
I just spent six months in a leaky boat
Lucky just to keep afloat
Aotearoa, rugged individual
Glisten like a pearl, at the bottom of the world
The tyranny of distance, didnt stop the cavalier
So why should it stop me, Ill conquer and stay free
Ah cmon all you lads, lets forget and forgive
Theres a world to explore, tales to tell back on shore
I just spent six months in a leaky boat
Six months in a leaky boat
Ship-wrecked love can be cruel
Dont be fooled by her kind
Theres a wind in my sails
Will protect and prevail
I just spent six months in a leaky boat
Nothing to it leaky boat |
Good morning
Good morning
Good morning
Good morning
Good morning
Nothing to do to save his life, call his wife in
Nothing to say but What a day, hows your boy been?
Nothing to do, its up to you
Ive got nothing to say but Its okay
Good morning
Good morning
Good morning
Going to work, dont want to go, feeling low down
Heading for home, you start to roam, then youre in town
Everybody knows theres nothing doing
Everything is closed, its like a ruin
Everyone you see is half asleep
And youre on your own, youre in the street
After a while you start to smile, now you feel cool
Then you decide to take a walk by the old school
Nothing has changed, its still the same
Ive got nothing to say but Its okay
Good morning
Good morning
Good morning
People running round, its five oclock
Everywhere in town is getting dark
Everyone you see is full of life
Its time for tea and meet the wife
Somebody needs to know the time, glad that Im here
Watching the skirts you start to flirt, now youre in gear
Go to a show, you hope she goes
Ive got nothing to say but Its okay
Good morning, good morning, good
Good morning, good morning, good
Good morning, good morning, good
Good morning, good morning, good
Guten morgen, guten morgen, gut
Guten morgen, guten morgen, gut
Guten morgen, guten morgen, gut
Guten morgen, guten morgen, gut
Guten morgen, guten morgen, gut
Guten morgen, guten morgen, gut
Gewozei teuer
Guten morgen, guten morgen, good morning |
You landed in my life
Like a new and brighter light
That made all my past seem in the shadow
I always used to believe
That beauty was skin deep
But I need a new word to describe you
And the time that it took to take down the wall
Was the time that it took for me to fall
Hopelessly weak
No one can take you away from me now
Dont worry if they take me away
No one can take you away from me now
Don’t matter how long we have to wait
The days before you came
Were really all the same
A greyness I used to call freedom
Endless nights out with the boys
The boasting and the noise
To think that I ever believed them
No one can take you away from me now
Dont worry if they take me away
No one can take you away from me now
Dont matter how long we have to wait
I don’t care what they think
Youre all I believe in
I carry you here
And theres something of you
In everything that I love
No one can take you away from me now
Dont worry if they take me away
No one can take you away from me now
Dont matter how long we have to wait
No one can take you away from me now
Dont worry if they take me away |
If you were a baby I would take you and run
I could hide you in the folds of my heart
Theres a truth in the madness that I can’t get beyond
And a fever that wont leave me alone
I dont want my heart
Don’t want my head
Dont want my friends
Dont want my bed
I cant live with myself
I cant live with myself
Cant take no help
I try to want to
But I cant get beyond you
I will stare from the window
At the shapes in the rain
As the space between us drives me insane
I cant live with myself
I can’t live with myself
Can’t take no help
Dont want no one else
If I was a child
I would refuse to leave
I would sit down on the street
Kick my legs and scream
I’m not much of a man
But I know how I am
I know this wont fade away
I will pretend and be strong
But I wonder where I belong
And the feeling comes in waves
A hole in my body, aching
Like a heart dying
A soul crying
Exhausted and insecure
Took all you have and I still want more
So I reach out to hold you
But all I do is hurt you
Hurt you
I cant live with myself
I cant live with myself
Can’t take no help
I try to want to
But I cant get beyond you
If I was a child I would take you and run
And I say I dont know... But I know
And I say Ill go
You just spent the whole day
Driving away |
You may not recall the moment that you asked me
But your invitation was clear
Youll pretend youve never met me but its far to late
Now Im here
Cause Im the one who knows what scares you
Im the one who loves you best
Im the thirteenth at the table
Im the uninvited guest
Im the Banquo at your banquet
Im the cuckoo in your nest
Im your fifteen-stone first-footer
Im the uninvited guest
I was there when you said insincеre I love yous
To a woman who wasnt your wife
And I frontеd you the money
That you ran away and blew
On the biggest regret of your life
Cause Im the one who knows what scares you
Im the who loves you best
Im the thirteenth at the table
Im the uninvited guest
Im the Banquo at your banquet
Im the cuckoo in your nest
Im your New Years resolution
Im the uninvited guest
Im the face you hoped youd never see
But always knew you would
Im the one thing you knew you shouldnt do
But did because you could
Im the evil in your bloodstream
Im the rash upon your skin
And you made a big mistake all right
The day you let me in
And you can fly to the other side of the world
You know youll only find
Ive reserved the seat behind you
We can talk about old times
Cause Im the one who knows what scares you
Im the who loves you best
Im the thirteenth at the table
Im the uninvited guest
Im the Banquo at your banquet
Im the cuckoo in your nest
Im your fifteen-stone first-footer
Im the uninvited guest
Let me in!
Im your New Years resolution
Im the uninvited guest |
Drive the road to your surrender
Time comes around... out of my hands
Small boats on the beach at the dead of night
Come and go before first light
Leave me running in the wheel
King of the world
How do you feel?
What is there to feel?
So how do we now come to be
Afraid of sunlight?
Tell me girl why you and me
Scared of sunlight?
Been in pain for so long
I cant even say what hurts anymore
I will leave you alone
I will deny
I will leave you to bleed
I will leave you with your life
So how do we now come to be
Afraid of sunlight?
Tell me girl why you and me
Scared of sunlight?
All your spirit rack abuses
Come to haunt you back by day
All your Byzantine excuses
Given time, given you away
Dont be surprised when daylight comes
To find that memory prick your thumbs
Youll tell them where we run to hide
Im already dead
Its a matter of time
So how do we now come to be
Afraid of sunlight
How do we now come to be
Afraid of sunlight
Day-Glo Jesus on the dash
Chalk marks on the road ahead
Friendly fire in hostile waters
Keep the faith
Dont lose your head
So how do we now come to be? |
Blackberry Way absolutely pouring down with rain
Its a terrible day
Up with the lark, silly girl I dont know what to say
She was running away
But now Im standing on the corner
Lost in the things that I said
What am I supposed to do now?
Goodbye Blackberry Way
I cant see you, I dont need you
Goodbye Blackberry Way
Sure to want me back another day
Flowers in the park overgrowing but the trees are bare
Theres a memory there
Boats on the lake, unattended now for all to drown
Im incredibly down
Just like myself they are neglected
Turn with my eyes to the wall
What am I supposed to do now?
Goodbye Blackberry Way
I cant see you, I dont need you
Goodbye Blackberry Way
Sure to want me back another day
Run for the train, look behind you for she may be there
Said a thing in the air
Blackberry Way, See the battlefield of careless sins
Cast to the winds
So full of emptiness without her
Lost in the words that I said
What am I supposed to do now?
Goodbye Blackberry Way
I cant see you, I dont need you
Goodbye Blackberry Way
Sure to want me back another day
Goodbye Blackberry Way
I cant see you, I dont need you
Goodbye Blackberry Way
Sure to want me back another day |
Now when you climb into your bed tonight
And when you lock and bolt the door
Just think of those out in the cold and dark
Cause theres not enough love to go round
No theres not enough love to go round
And sympathy is what we need my friends
And sympathy is what we need
And sympathy is what we need my friends
Cause theres not enough love to go round
No theres not enough love to go round
Now half the world hates the other half
And half the world has all the food
And half the world lies down and quietly starves
Cause theres not enough love to go round
No theres not enough love to go round
And sympathy is what we need my friends
And sympathy is what we need
And sympathy is what we need my friends
Cause theres not enough love to go round
No theres not enough love
No theres not enough love to go round |
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?
Do you remember?
Barefoot on the lawn with shooting stars
Do you remember?
The loving on the floor in Belsize Park
Do you remember?
Dancing in stilettoes 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 want to 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 itll prove that I was wrong |