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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...
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 some...
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 ...
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 yo...
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...
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 w...
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 ...
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 Spar...
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 burnin...
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 fra...
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 ...
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 Dream...
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 w...
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...
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 wit...
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 f...
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...
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 leat...
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...
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 bl...
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 Spr...
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...
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 ...
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 T...
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 ...
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 I...
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 cam...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 f...
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...
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 pa...
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...
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. E...
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 ringi...
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 thin...
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 se...
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...
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 o...
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...
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...
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...
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 transla...
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 saf...
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 anonym...
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 ...
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 empt...
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, bu...
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, d...
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? Traveli...
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...
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 d...
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 ...
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...
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 good...
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 y...
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 ...
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 Ea...
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 Aud...
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 cam...
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...
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 ...
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 lik...
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...
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 kno...
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 s...
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 bee...
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...
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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 Getti...
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 worl...
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 s...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 He...
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 ...
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...
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 you...
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...
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 ...
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 ther...
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 hear...