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I used to ride up on the hill
And look down at the darkened
Silhouettes of tall black windowsills
And my heart jumped every ledge
Until one bright morning when I woke
I heard bells, girl she gently spoke and said
‘Choice my man’s to breath or choke
So go die, or learn to hope’

Get back on your way at the end of the day
Under the fire and the rain
The whole big bloody parade until that
That feeling, feeling’s gone
You wake up on your own

Sometimes walls come caving in
Sometimes the world just hits your chin
And sometimes shadows haunt your back
And sometimes I feel so flat
Then like some rare eagle on the wind
Well it turns and life comes bursting in
And the earth you thought would beat you down
Lifts up and lights your ground          

Get back on your way at the end of the day
Under the fire and the rain
The whole big bloody parade until that
That feeling, feeling’s gone
You wake up on your own

/ Lifts up and sends you homeward bound
/ Lifts up and then you’re found again
/ Lifts up and turns your world around

/still scarred of love lived on the ledge
And the Earth you thought would eat you up
Well it lifts you high and fills your cup
/carries
And right then I learnt to hope / the point of hope / I knew the way ahead/ to go

/ lifts up and clears your hallowed ground

*So scared that love lived on the edge          /
Scared of love lived on the ledge / Like love lived on the ledge

/ As if my love required a ledge

bring you down
Lifts up, your heart just leaves the ground
/and how you love your ground          / high above the ground

/ and the earth you thought would end your song     ‘song’
/ lifts up and now . . . the feeling’s gone                    feelings gone

And you wonder how on Earth you
When you’re high

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This is the last time I will follow you                                                 

This is the last time I will follow you at all                

Cos woman you’re my trouble                                  

And woman I’ve been trouble and despair   

My only care                                                              

Is standing here waiting when you’re out there

 

The wind comes down and all our youth is in loose pages

The wind appeared like you and left the place I’d known

Now words have lost their meaning

The words have lost their meaning and she’s bored

And I am bored

I’m standing here waiting and you don’t call

 

I’m standing here waiting and you don’t call

I’m standing here waiting but you don’t call

I’m standing here waiting

You took my time I still love you the same

But I fell down every time that you

Came, Came, Came

Every time that you came

 

The leaves fall gently and like autumn she brings sadness

The leaves are left behind and winter’s in my bones

But I won’t stand here crying

I won’t stand here crying anymore

I’m off the floor                                                         

I’m standing here waiting for you that’s all

 

I’m standing here waiting and you don’t call

I’m standing here waiting but you don’t call

I’m standing here waiting

You took my time I still love you the same   

But I fell down every time that you

Came, Came, Came

Every time that you came

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From the city to the world below

From the strangers to the ones I know

From the darkness to the holy glow

We burn so bright

Can we outlast the show?

 

From the island to the world of dreams

From the future to the times I’ve seen          

From the righteous to the make believe

We all must leave                                          

But I just want to breathe      

 

Falling

My world’s up and I’m almost

Falling

My hands over my shoulders

Falling

I’ll dan, dance til I’m old and

Falling

Deep down, onward and 

 

From the pilot to the golden sky

From the dash until the day we die

From the laughter to the lonely cry

We all deny

Lie and multiply

 

Falling

My world’s up and I’m almost

Falling

My hands over my shoulders

Falling

I’ll dan, dance til I’m old and

Falling

Deep down, onward and 

 

Well I love you like a raging storm

And I miss you like I’m coming home

And I hold you like a fading song

You send me high, high, higher . . . until I’m 

 

Falling…    X2

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All hell’s crashing down inside

The windows to the other side

Shimmering in rooms to quiet sighs of

 

‘Oh well if it’s happening there

It isn’t here’, and god appears to deal

A different hand to different tiers

 

But this play is not over yet

Hear the music of those marionettes

Beating drums down the quiet streets

Of ignorance and vain regrets

 

And all these fears swiftly come to pass 

Presently she feels we’re past

Cups of tea and optimistic prayers

 

Cos out there’s our unholy mess

Gathering its long white dress

And marching down aisle to marry this

 

Matrimonial future bliss

Kiss the tide and hope it doesn’t lift up your

Carpet woven from apathy and token frets

All Hell!

 

But this play is not over yet

Hear the music of those marionettes

Beating drums down the quiet streets

Of ignorance and vain regrets

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Meet me

Underneath the neon light

We'll go

Wandering into the night

There's something

Underneath the beat of control

Something

A music that is beyond all

 

You go to sleep you wake up you do it again And there's a beat you make up inside of your head And every street's a river be born or be dead We are all singing this song but Nobody knows how it's going to end

 

Kiss me

In the coolness of the night

Take me

Further from the firelight

This jungle

No-one really knows where to go

Searching

For something that is beyond all

Music

A music that is beyond all

 

Break me

Up until I'm pieces of sand

Blow me up

And scatter me across the land

Our bodies

They're hairy and they're fat and they're old

I'm searching

For something that is beyond all

Music

A music that is beyond all

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Don’t send me down the hole

Don’t send me down the hole

Don’t send me down the hole

Which way will it go go?

 

You never never know

You never never know

You never know the right way

Till you’ve been wrong, no

 

And if you want to shine

As your February clears

Would your March just disappear?

 

You hear it on the left

You hear it on the left

You hear it on the left left

Left then the right right

 

You’re missing in the west                 

You’re missing in the west                 

You’re missing in the west                 

You followed the black kite               

 

And even in your dreams

There are lights that can’t be seen

And you’re lost in where you’ve been

 

Well I’m on my way

To where I won’t look back

I heard you say

With dismay

That we’re living on the tracks

I hear the train

Oh oh oh oh oh oh . . .

 

You’re living in a lie

You’re living in a lie

You’re living in a lie

Why do you deny-i

 

We’re swimming in the sky

We’re swimming in the sky

We’re swimming in the sky

So low and so high high         

And if you want to shine

As the sea looks to the stars

Well you’re here, but very far!

 

And I'm on my way
To where I won’t look back

I heard you say

With dismay

That we’re living on the tracks

I hear the train

Oh oh oh oh oh oh . . .

 

As your February clears

Would your March just disappear?

 

Well I’m on my way

To where I won’t look back

I heard you say

With dismay

That we’re living on the tracks

I hear the train

On my way

To where I won’t look back

I heard you say

With distain

That we’re living on the tracks

I hear the train

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

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I lost my shoes I lost my wife

I lost my keys I lost my kite

And though I’m young at heart I’m so much older               

 

Subway eyes and banked up skies                                         

And violent towns and frozen pies

And all them football crowds who lost are cold now 

 

But you’re the same as you and I’m the same as me

And hopefully we can find ways to let us be reasonably fine

Reasonably fine, at least to beat my drums in time

 

Suddenly I’ve realised

That I won’t be here when I die

And life upon this plain is somehow fleeting

 

Time and all it’s precious wine

Is somehow primed to make us whine

And fret even then when we should be sleeping

 

But you’re the same as you and I’m the same as me

And hopefully we can find ways to let us be reasonably fine,

Reasonably fine, at least to play my pretty chimes

 

Empty cries and hollow toots

And all the signs that have no use

And fingers point accusingly are sinning

 

Humourless hypocrisy

And all the crimes we didn’t see

The sigh that knows the devil might be winning

 

But you’re the same as you and I’m the same as me

And hopefully we can find ways to let us be reasonably fine,

Reasonably fine, at least to let my music shine

 

And maybe it’s the greatest test

A man’s surrounded by his death

But reaches out and tastes the sweetest honey

 

That’s how you make me feel

I love you more than death is real

It’s sad but in the end it might be funny

 

That you’re the same as you and I’m the same as me

And hopefully we can find ways to let us be reasonably fine,

Reasonably fine, at least to leave an open mind

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Sometimes I feel no armour

Sometimes I feel no ground

Sometimes I feel the sky won’t open

And turn these words around

 

At night I am woken by

Images of the flood, oh oh

I’m living on the border

I’m living on the mud

 

You say there is no order

You say there no cause

You say there is no reason to find

Happiness at all

 

Call me home  - Is anybody?

Is anybody out there and

Call me home – Is anybody?

Is anybody out there at all?

 

Have we forgot our brothers?

Have we forgot our kin?

Have we forgot who loves us dearly?

Have we forgot who’d sink or swim?

 

I went down to the water where

My heart beats slow, oh oh

The river started flowing

And I know where it goes

 

Call me home  - Is anybody?

Is anybody out there and

Call me home – Is anybody?

Is anybody out there at all?

 

Call me home…

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She hates you then she loves you more

Underneath the shadows of her thoughts

Shadows of her thoughts

She rings a bell for you

I wish that she was a statue made of gold

And nobody could

 

Bring her down

Goodness knows I just

Don't like sadness

She cries before she wakes

And so my friend

 

If you love her

Don't turn away

Don't fight it

Don't run away

We're people

And we are animals

You're thunder

And the heart is a cannibal

 

I ask you do you love me more

Than all the men that have ever come before

Ever come before

And when I'm like a storm

Kiss me, hurt me, heal me with your words

So nobody can ever

 

Bring me down

Goodness knows I just

Don't like sadness

Don't cry before you wake

No my friend

 

If you love her....

 

When love is gone

Your thoughts are calm

Your words are holy

Your days are long

Your blood gets colder

Your face is old

And the days flow by like water

You miss the stormy weather

And she was gold

Goodness knows I just

Don't like sadness

I cry before she wakes

So my friend

 

If you love her....

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I saw you walking up the wall like the exorcist

When you saw me there you called can you spare a Fift?

I used to know you when you were small how’s it come to this?

How does a happy bright boy fall into the rift? 

 

You carried weight on your shoulders won’t you see that

You are not inside your self, you put that evil back inside your self

 

I saw your Ma the other day she asked me how you were

Said ‘One day you’ll be fine, but now you do it worse’

She told me as she cried that ‘No one breaks the curse’

As I looked into her eyes my heart it nearly burst

 

You carried weight on your shoulders, won’t you see that

You are not inside your self, you put that evil back inside your self

 

And what if you breathe and see you’re good?

And what if you reach out, knock on wood?

I’m begging you please won’t you be understood?

Won’t you release I believe you could?

 

And if you ever want to dream I’ll help you see the sky

And if ever want to scream about some reason why

And if you ever break the seam that cuts through your disguise

I’ll love you when you’re seen and do my best to try

 

To carry weight off your shoulders, won’t you see that

You are not here by yourself, please, don’t put that evil back inside yourself

 

And what if you breathe and see you’re good?

And what if you reach out, knock on wood?

I’m begging you please won’t you be understood?

Won’t you release I believe you could?

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