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SHINE
I can see it in your eyes what I know in my heart is true that
our love it has faded like the summer run through so we'll walk
down the shoreline one last time together feel the wind blow
our wanderin' hearts like a feather but who knows what's waiting
in the wings of time dry your eyes we gotta go where we can
shine Don't be hiding in sorrow or clinging to the past with
your beauty so precious and the season so fast no matter how
cold the horizon appear or how far the first night when I held
you near you gotta rise from these ashes like a bird of flame
step out of the shadow we've gotta go where we can shine For
all that we struggle for all we pretend it don't come down to
nothing except love in the end and ours is a road that is strewn
with goodbyes but as it unfolds as it all unwinds remember your
soul is the one thing you can't compromise take my hand we're
gonna go where we can shine we're gonna go where we can shine
we're gonna go where we can shine (and look, and look) Through
the windows of midnight moonfoam and silver
A CENTURY ENDS
Cast your eyes into the distance try to focus on it all find
a spirit of resistance instead of pride before the fall forge
some opposition from disparate strands it ain't the prettiest
position as a century ends unstable situation faces made of
wax streams of melting glass sheets of butchered facts the roar
of the machine hooded hearts and jewelled hands and anger spilling
out like gasoline as a century ends everything I seen, everything
that I heard, ain't even the tip of the iceberg fire down memory
lane so pass me my rose tinted glasses again through a fog of
contradiction out to the lake of tears see society admiring
its own reflection chase a light that shines and disappears
careful what you say 'cos reality offends just sit back and
let your soul decay as a century ends and its easy to get weary
as you fight to get it done ‘gainst a popular theory that it's
over 'fore it's even begun strain the limit of compassion tend
a wound that never mends and honesty still out of fashion as
a century ends
DEBAUCHERY
Drunken ferry boat woman swayin' on your sea if I turn on the
gasfire by the rain rattled window won't you sail over to me
The hail storm tumbles the rail line rumbles you move in the
porch with me on an overcast day the pale winter city an afternoon's
debauchery Your blouse your skirt I'll undo them so gentle with
beautiful care I'm a lonely man with five bottles of wine I'd
like you to share The hail storm tumbles the rail line rumbles
you move through the doors with me on an overcast day the pale
winter city an afternoon's debauchery Orange street light afternoon
becomes night you drink your wine from a mug there's cats at
the backdoor the snow is two inches you roll down your tights
on the rug The hail storm tumbles the rail line rumbles you
lie on the floor with me come closer my love I'm badly in need
of an afternoon's debauchery
LET THE TRUTH STING
The hour is out of joint black sun has risen and the river
of words is flowing on through the cages of tradition and they're
handing out emptiness we'll take it cos it's given free with
this plastic innocence and these standards of living Questions
lighted questions burnin' holes into my head hanging like shadows
o'er the sun staring out like the eyes of the dead and sometimes
my soul flickers when the wind of change blows cold over the
mire of repetition down the corridors of rigmarole What I say,
what I think what I put down in ink I'm only trying to find
a way to understand and I mean no harm I'm just searching for
calm in the storm of mankind Do you find it there in the sea
of faces that drowns you everyday or in the silence and rubble
and empty spaces where children and rottweilers play is it buried
in the praise given so cheap with a meaningless movement of
the jaws in the looking glass that flatters you or in the rattle
of hollow applause Blind circle, moon and sun body willing,
mind undone one pain ending while another begins lies, ruin
disease into wounds like these let the truth sting From the
hub to the limit through the urban hollows out into the poles
of the extreme to echo through the numbness of these godless
minutes in the shadow of delusion's regime And here watching
the night as it opens like a flower and the day starts to rust
feeling time pound like a silent hammer on this empire of dust
and I'm thinking bout the bullet and the TV screen, the dollar,
and the clenched fist and if we're searching for peace how come
we still believe in hatred as the catalyst Oh through the borderline
in front and behind one pain ending while another begin lies,
ruin disease into wounds like these let the truth sing yeah
let the truth And I feel it from the pit of my stomach into
the ditch of my mind inside the chambers of my heart as I stare
half blind at these walls of cardboard at this space that I've
rented at your beauty that is crumbling though you try so hard
to prevent it On and on body willing, mind undone one pain ending
while another begins lies, ruin, disease into wounds like these
let the truth sting let the truth sting let the truth sting
GATHERING DUST
I got no reason but that I must maybe I feel like I’ve been
gathering dust I must leave this harbour for the sea I'm too
young to settle down and make a home but I don't know where
I'm wanting to be I just know I have to be there alone stole
my time, all my time stole my time for you pale winter sun is
beatin' the ground why'm I throwin' away the best thing that
I’ve found my young heart's in tatters and I’m sure that it
will be a long time healing it's so hard to see what I’m doing
this for when loneliness is all that I’m feeling stole my time,
all my time spend my time for you now the wind it is blowing
blowing leaves from the trees I’ve got no use knowing that with
time it will ease I don't know where I'm going hope I get there
soon cos my soul is hollow as the sorrowful moon na na na na...
now the wind it is blowing blowing leaves from the trees I’ve
got no use knowing that with time it will ease I don't know
where I'm going hope I get there soon cos my soul is hollow
as the sorrowful moon na na na na... the night is raining on
my weary head taking me back see the sun spread its wings of
gold as the dawn unfurls hear the song that the moon sings to
the darkened world feel the fire lighting in the bitter cold
see the light that shines through the windows of your soul
WISDOM
Time no good wisdom
no good patience no good to me anymore now night has fallen
on the stair some things you do you can never repair seems I'm
always pretending things aren't there when they are and the
leaves are nearly off the trees and the traffic's thick past
yellow windows and I'm lost inside the frozen headlights thinking
of you time no good wisdom no good patience no good to me anymore
and the trees are looking like bones and the afternoon's filled
with storm and rain I'm staring out of this metal train thinking
of you and the trees are looking like bones and the afternoon's
filled with storm and rain and I’m tangled up in memory's thorns
no way through time no good wisdom no good patience no good
to me anymore trees like bones, yellow windows memories, thorns,
oh and you time no good wisdom no good patience no good to me
anymore
LEAD ME UPSTAIRS
I care little for my body she said I couldn't care less about
my soul and as she led me upstairs in whispers my whole summer
turned cold I'll lead you upstairs I'll lead you upstairs If
you've got no worries then I've got no cares I'll lead you upstairs
I told her people had been talking about how dark she was inside
she said my hopes are buried in the soil deep in the earth outside
and with one twist of the world she brought me to her side she
asked me for the truth one time and I all I did was lie I'll
lead you upstairs I'll lead you upstairs If you've got no worries
then I've got no cares I'll lead you upstairs
LIVING ROOM
my good friends speak like they did last year last night's
just a blur through a head full of beer my good friends speak
like they did last year and last year's just a blur through
a head full of beer where's your wisdom put that broken bottle
down let the wind in your sails take you out of this town so
sad I think I'm dying and if life's just a living room then
I'm in the hall and I'm glad and if life's just a living room
then I'm in the hall and I'm glad Oh I'm glad, I'm glad, I'm
glad now the dawn it has broke still the night don't clear memories
falling in the mornin' rain I'm up too close, to see it clear
and last year's just a blur through a head full of beer and
where's your wisdom put that broken bottle down let the wind
in your sails take you out of this town so sad I think I'm dying
and if life's just a living room then I'm in the hall and I'm
glad and if life's just a living room then I'm in the hall and
I'm glad Oh I'm glad, I'm glad, I'm glad
BIRDS WITHOUT WINGS
wishing that something would happen a change in this place
'cos I'm tearing off the fancy wrapping find an empty package
take for a while your trumpet from your lip loosen your hold
loosen your grip on your old ways that have fallen out of step
in a changing time hoist a new flag hoist a new flag angry sun
burn down judging us all guilty of neglect and disrespect and
thinking small and death by boredom and death by greed if we
can't stop taking more than we need but across the fractured
landscape I see the same things tired ideas birds without wings
birds without wings birds without wings and these are just thoughts
of lack lustre times I've no interest in excuses you can find
like you've had a hard day now you're too tired to care now
you're too tired to care you've had a hard day well across the
fractured landscape I see the same things tired ideas broken
values many with the notion that to share is to lose a hollow
people bound by a lack of imagination and too much looking back
without the courage to give a new thing a chance grounded by
this ignorance (and the cat comes) We're just, birds without
wings birds without wings birds without wings
ITS ALL OVER
In the bitter violent night the stars wear sour grins in the
vastness of the black sky I’m cradled in your arms unbridled
by alarm 'cos I know the end is nigh It's all over bar the shoutin'
one things for sure its all over now its all over now confusion
wanders in strides the evening like a king chaos and turmoil
prevail bedlam reigns, hope is drowned ah but strangely we settle
down resigned to the sinking ship on which we sail It's all
over bar the shoutin' one things for sure its all over now its
all over now our love's just smithereens too much beer in my
head another night is getting late I don't know which way to
go there's just this long white road and I can't think straight
no I can't think straight It's all over bar the shoutin' one
things for sure its all over now its all over now
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