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WHAT ARE YOU?
What are you? what are you becoming? what have you become?
Once you sang your own song now you're dancing to the same drum
what have you become? And what is that you're wearing? money's
ugly confidence You sacrificed the poem of your imagination
for these pounds and pence Me I take the cynic's role throw
scorn on your empty mind I've seen this monotonous world make
dull what used to shine you lost interest you lost your spine
oh that spine fine fine yeah When there' nothing left on this
plate you're handed you find yourself running the gauntlet of
all of these double standards it's very thin ice over which
you're skating and after this black winter the thaw So what
are you tell me tell me what are you and what have you become
THE LIGHT
You turn out the light and the dark sucks on the embers of
the fire that shoulders in the night and these tumbling boulders
of desire come rolling off the shadows of me You say I thought
time was meant to take away the hurtin' as your lonely silhouette
closes the curtain back on the road destination uncertain so
lets get in this car and drive and this feeling I feel so strong
so powerful it can't be wrong now the whole frosted night is
just a song song for you And the moon is splashed right over
the street like my tears on your thighs so pale its just you
and me in the sheets and I hope the whole wide world is just
a jail when you're away from me And its rolling on by here come
the night turn out the light and the dark sucks on the embers
of the fire that smoulders in the night tumbling boulders of
desire rolling, rolling... rolling out the shadows of me turn
out the light
COMING DOWN
Tears falling slow from the bridge into the river below in
your eyes, I start to see a starry veil, the ocean of infinity
Moon and stars above me mingle with the blood inside my vein
these empty arms that should be holding you close through nights
of winter rain I知 trying to spell what only the wind can explain
it's colder than ever coming down I知 drowning in shallows cos
its in so deep there's neon melting in the rain took too much
powder too sleep cos when I hold you naked when I see you laugh
I got a sword to stem the rivers and cut the moon in half Frozen
stars above me mingle with the blood inside my vein empty arms
that should be holding you close through nights of winter rain
I知 trying to spell what only the wind can explain it's colder
than ever coming down We danced wild kicked off our shoes not
a cloud in the skies to confuse now the sky is cold the sea
is wide and there's nothing to be done 'cept reflecting the
sun and scratching the mountainside Frozen stars above me mingle
with the blood inside my vein empty arms that should be holding
you close through nights of winter rain I知 trying to spell
what only the wind can explain it's colder than ever coming
down
FALLING FREE
All of my senses overthrown by the might of your skin and the
lamplight on your cheek bone drawing me further in no sentence
I can speak for the wonder so unique breaking like a wave upon
the shore mercy me, I'm falling free since you opened up the
door See how the sky is made of sapphire the colours flowing
through our hands the moon is fire in your hair a million miles
beyond what science understands smell that mountain heaven I
don't remember ever feeling like this before mercy me, I'm falling
free since you opened up the door and if every window pane should
shatter if every wall should fall apart well it might hurt a
bit but would it matter this diamond in my heart there's no
need to nail it to the ground there's no need to smother it
with sense just listen to the rhythm of your heart that pounds
and trust it all to chance 'cause we're standing face to face
with the Angel of grace and don't it just taste so pure mercy
me, I'm falling free mercy me, I'm falling free mercy me, I'm
falling free since you opened up the door MADE UP MY MIND Lightening
strikes, silver motorbikes roaring down the open road, wind
on my skin I知 hungry to begin, my cup has overflown so let
fall the rain down into these desert veins taking back what
they stole these diamonds in the mine can afford to become fine
in someone else's pigeon hole So I made up my mind made up my
mind gonna move on ahead instead of lagging behind Half past
seven way up in the heaven the stars are singing in the sky
lying half dressed, your head upon my breast listening to the
ocean's lullaby standing where we are, it seems so far from
the cold light of day with the faces full of grief, and the
grinding up of teeth has been eating my belief away So I made
up my mind I made up my mind gonna move on ahead instead of
lagging behind instead of lagging now.. Cracks in the veneer
and the light so severe shining down the avenue try to join
the throng but it's feeling all wrong what are you supposed
to do shoulder that despair take a lung of dirty air turn to
watch the sun set red and the ruins of a culture of a sky that's
filled with vultures circling over your head So I made up my
mind I made up my mind gonna move on ahead instead of lagging
behind instead of lagging behind I made up my mind....
MYSTERY OF LOVE
The city gates at twilight and a red ship sinking behind winter's
grey wall ice in the wind but a fire in the embers of my heart
as darkness falls in a candlelit room where your eyes are laughing
smoking in the red chair and nothing in the world 'cept the
beating of my heart against the nerves of the air And I know
there's a light at the end of the tunnel 'cause I taste it on
your lips and I feel a weight that can bend me double you lift
it with your fingertips so often it happens that words prove
useless in the face of how it feels so it is as the mystery
of love keeps growing the more my heart reveals Temptations
endless whispers try to keep it in perspective so much to distract
walking on a wire while your juggling desire it's all part of
your balancing act and it gets hard to know just what you believe
as the argument rages on but for all of the talk it's only true
to say that if you have no hope there is none A tangle of tongues
flesh flowers and thistles of conscience, spittle and skin we
can't change the past so we'll raise this cup to our lips and
drink it all in and meantime back in civilisation the rain is
cold as steel but the mystery of love it just keep growing the
more my heart reveals As sure as the rose the bright day blooms
as surely still it fades and the night kindles stars on empty
winds and ghosts along the collonades and slow but sure the
sands are falling as the bridge burns beneath the wheel and
the mystery of love it just keeps growing the more my heart
reveals the more my heart reveals
LULLABY
Its a sad old world that's turning tonight as I slide through
the streets moonlight and memory burning and in my hand your
broken dream My watery eyes I sing for you this lullaby let
the shadow fall from your window let the morning light fill
your head stand up and let the wild wind blow right into your
soul till the night is dead All these useless emotions churning
round as I search these bare walls for a clue and all the time
the truth is flashing in my mind that when a heart gets broken
there's nothing you can do My watery eyes I sing for you this
lullaby let the shadow fall from your window let the morning
light fill your head stand up and let the wild wind blow right
into your soul till the night is dead And I知 packing my belongings
hey I値l be gone before the noon arrives cos I know there's
no use pretending soon it'll all be alright But hey let the
shadow fall from your window let the morning light fill your
head stand up and let the wild wind blow right into your soul
till the night is dead See the dawn break gold when the night
is dead Hear the bells
NEW HORIZONS
Weight on my shoulders but I知 walking so tall out into the
new horizon wonder in everything no matter how great or small
howlin' like the midnight howlin' like the midnight sun and
this ain't no pale reflection this is the real thing new horizon
new horizon withinAnd your heart ain't yours to control no matter
how tight the reigns love will find it's own direction a time
to reap, a time to sow and many a time to cry in vain but now
the time to celebrate the glory of this imperfection same thing
that's scrawled across the stars is written under our skin new
horizon new horizon withinThings come too easy, I get suspicious
things come too slow, I get bored if it don't work out I get
superstitious but if it does, oh my word So I知 gathering all
the remnants of beauty from this wilderness in spin and now
I知 gonna light my own flame 'cause I知 charged with the radiance
of the dawn that's been so long breaking now there ain't nowhere
there ain't nowhere I won't write your name there's a time to
search for understanding sometime you just gotta sing new horizon
new horizon withinBaby there's no need to get precious when
you know that everything must change complacency, it can be
so vicious turn this love into a cageSame thing that's scrawled
across the stars is written under our skin new horizon new horizon
within
LOVES OLD SONG
It's like this it's all in here just one kiss will make that
clear so let the flower open let the ship sail don't need no
meaningless token to hear the nightingale For everything that's
been for all that's yet to come brow full of moonbeams singing
loves old song Beauty threads its needle in every eye a light
will shine from the graveyard to the cradle all the bells of
wonder chime no further complication here for the queen or for
the pawn night of such revelation the Jew is trembling on the
thorn For everything that's been for all that's yet to come
brow full of moonbeams singing loves old song Loves old song
playing in our hearts binding it together pulling it apart Loves
old song playing pure and bold time has come to read what's
written in your soul Yeah yeah yeah Out in the fields of bloody
slumber shadows fleeing from the sun without aim and without
number these children of oblivion For everything that's been
for everything痴 that come a brow full of moonbeams singing
loves old song Loves old song playing in our hearts binding
it together pulling it apart Loves old song playing pure and
bold time has come to read what's written there in your soul
Yah yah yeah whoa oh oh For everything that's been for everything痴
that come brow full of moonbeams singing loves old song
FLESH
As the bell must strike the hour as the west must stab the
sun so our hearts must heed the flow of deeper tides that run
far beyond the bare indifference that prosperity esteems where
the spirit raves and dances through our very veins At winters
edge you found me by the fields of wild gold my hands still
filled with ashes from fires long cold you pulled me from the
wreckage of bitterness and blame flung open the page and put
some flesh on the bones of my dreams On the streets the blossom
snowing and the drum is beating slow and I hear you speak so
clear well I知 slicing through the fear setting all the beacons
blazing, baby oh! it's staring out plainer than ever brighter
than all the fools gold that gleams it's simply now or never
putting flesh on the bones of my dreams Putting flesh on the
bones of my dreams putting flesh on the bones of my dreams And
they can plunder the cave of sorrows they can strip the gallery
bare try to build a fence around the visions in our heads, choke
every spark in a cloak of despair but we got something they
can't stifle with their price tags and picture frames got a
flower for every rifle putting flesh on the bones of my dreams
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