So I find myself among
The brave south western hills
Running like a mad man on the moor!
Let the sweet Atlantic rain
Wash away my ills
The men-an-tol shone strangely in the storm
I get the strangest feeling in the air around
It's more than just a feeling
A different way of seeing
A different kind of life
.. something I believe in
Chorus
Here among the city lights
The feelings not so clean
Neon lights and faceless signs
Hide what I hold dear
But it's there to find if you have the mind
And you don't live in fear of it
I rest among what still remains
Of lives that passed before
Lighting strikes the top of zennor tor
I find myself amazed again
At man's pathetic score
Years of knowledge wasted and ignored
I get the strangest feeling in the air around
It's more than just a feeling
A different way of seeing
A different kind of life
Something I believe in
Chorus
I get the strangest feeling
It's more than just a feeling
Chorus
I get the strangest feeling
It's more than just a feeling
A different way of seeing
Something I believe in
I'm the king of all time
nothing is impossible
in my all powerful mind
It was the fifth of November
when time went back
some say that's impossible
but you + I we never looked back
wasn't it incredible
so beautiful above all
to see the fuse lit this time
to light a read bonfire
for all time
I was drinking in a night club
it felt good to be back
when Hepburn said "I love you"
+ Flynn said "make mine a double Jack"
then we planned a revolution
to make things better for all time
when Guevara said "that's crazy"
+ ordered up a bottle of wine
In there on the Big Screen
every night I've seen
the way things could be ...
The news broke after midnight
that we pulled the temple down
without a sound
But the generals they were hiding
+ the ministers, well ...
they'd all gone to ground
wealth re-distribution
became the new solution
so I got a paper bag
Here she comes, the great leveler
King and serfs bow before her
If you feel her eyes on you, run
She'll come and put her arms around you
You lie and say, she hasn't found you
You'll run to her she's there to greet you
Are you lost to us forever
Tied in lust strapped in leather
Is the cost way beyond you
Do you love her more than you love yourself
Is it just too real
Cold clear for you to feel
Is it just too real
Cold clear for you to feel
Am I far in the distance
Am I the cure or a symptom
Should I go when you tell me to
Can you tell I've never loved her
Because my life is for another
Who's up and down, but will take me there
I don't claim to understand her
But hand in hand I am with her
Bright and clear and with a future
You can come and join us if you dare
I sing, but you can't speak
I laugh, but you can't smile
L love, but you lie low
Got to let her go [unverified]
I look, you don't see
I talk, you don't hear
I walk then you will crawl low
Well, it's headlights and white lights and Black Tar Rivers
They?re dragging me around this country as it withers
The billboards, signposts, standing in the way
Tell of the state of nations, that we find today
We play and we play and we play
To every day, every day, every day
To every day
And in the front rooms in old towns far from the city
With beaten up guitars and hearts full of pity
The people gather 'round they sing songs from everywhere
They?re torn from the nation but left without a care
And they play and they play and they play
To every day, every day, every day
To every day
And we'll rid the bloody world for a moment in a word
Well, we'll rid the bloody world
'Cos the words that you heard when you were young will always stay
The one's that always stay make the world go away
The words that you heard when you were young will always stay
The one's that always stay make the world go away, and go away
Well, out of warm night and clear sky, European town
Outside the bars singing their hearts out to a crowd
With open boots, violin, banjo and a voice
The exiled busker's are happy with their choice
And they play and they play and they play
To every day, every day, every day
To every day
And we'll rid the bloody world for a moment in a word
Well, we'll rid the bloody world
'Cos the words that you heard when you were young will always stay
The one's that always stay make the world go away
The words that you heard when you were young will always stay
The one's that always stay make the world go away, and go away
Well, we play and we play and we play
In the life in front of you and me
Seems there is no logic, no place that you must be
And there are times that it gets so hard to see
To find the valid reasons for the things that come to be
But you must try to set your spirit free
You know you cannot hide from spiritual disease
And it seems you cannot please the present company
Who could claim to know the answers
Is just the way we're meant to be
Love is stronger in survivors
Survivors follow destiny
If you like we could go down to the sea
We could watch the evening tide, catch the boat to Honalee
We could fly above the dark city
Gettin' higher in the sky with every breath you breathe
And if you cry about the things you leave
It's yourself you should be asking, about what you really need
And you know it is no lie for it only takes belief
If you like we could go down to the sea
We could watch the evening tide, catch the boat to Honalee
We could fly above the dark city
Gettin' higher in the sky with every breath you breathe
And if you cry about the things you leave
It's yourself you should be asking, about what you really need
Summer UK '93
Controlled substances in hand
Flash photos on location
The final end solution, road block
Cash from chaos received
This sun burns more than you believe
The smell of C.S. gas
Confusion of the mass, cold sweat
Warning out of control
You know we know
Turning your face away
But where to go
Shake it down by any means
You know you've seen this all before
Broken words from loud hailer
Hands raised in the air and no tune
Armed surveillance last dance
Sparks fly at the first glance
Helpless face within the flame
First purge of the new game crass press
Warning out of control
You know we know
Turning your face away
But where to go
Warning out of control
You know we know
Turning your face away
The life that I have chosen
And there will be content
And the salt sea shall be frozen
Before that I repent
Repent I shall not ever
Until the day I die
For the lowlands of Holland
Have claimed my destiny
I look out onto the rolling sea
But there'll be no easy ride
It's enough to break your mind and will
There's many times we've tried
We cried together but we fought
We staked all to be free
For the lowlands of Holland
Have claimed my destiny
So you feel the wind in your hair
As we leave the old country
With seven score friends, here by our side
To keep us company
'Cos there's many more we've left behind
And some we'll never see
'Cos the lowlands of Holland
The bar was dark and quiet and still
And nothing could be heard, the dust lay undisturbed
At a table near the back, underneath a fan
Two men shared a joke about the normal folk
The cards are on the table, the winner takes it all
The game is nearly over, one man about to fall
Well, I don't believe in Heaven, I don't believe in Hell
I don't believe what I'm seeing, this is no game, can't you tell, no
"I'm calling your bluff", the first man said
The people went to war, they always wanted more
And how could I ever fail to lose?
They can't take it any more, they want to end the score
The second man showed his hand some walked barefoot across the land
And many have seen the future and are doing the best they can
Well, I don't believe in Heaven I don't believe in Hell
I don't believe what I'm seeing this is no game, can't you tell, good God!
Oh well, I don't believe in Heaven, I don't believe in Hell
I don't believe what I'm seeing, this is no game, can't you tell
The clock ticked past the final hour
Now which of the men had lost and what was the cost?
The glasses now were empty and gone
To wash away the shame and take away the pain
One man left the table, the other with head in hands
Paid the bill for the defeated the only thing left that stands
Well, I don't believe in Heaven I don't believe in Hell
I don't believe what I'm seeing this is no game, can't you tell, no
Well, I don't believe in Heaven I don't believe in Hell
If I could choose the life I please
Then I would be a boatman
On the canals and the rivers free
No hasty words are spoken
My only law is the river breeze
That takes me to the open seas
If I could choose the life I please
Then, I would be a boatman
If I could choose the life I please
Then I would be a rower
And if the road was not for me
Then, I would choose another
Cross mountains and the valleys deep
Where I would take these weary feet
If I could choose the life I please
Then, I would be a rower
But these things they're so hard for me
I cannot choose my own destiny
And all the things that I want to see
Are so unclean
Well, I wish I could choose the life I please
But I am not a free man
Others rule my destiny
But my will's never broken
I know someday, I will be
Everything that I dreamed, I'd be
And when I live the life I please
Then, I will be a freeman
I know someday, I will be
Everything that I dreamed, I'd be
And when I live the life I please
Then, I will be a freeman
And when I live the life I please
There isn't much to gain
By living it all the same way
The years just slip away
And it's too late then to play
If you live from day to day
You can play the game your own way
There's a million things to say
In a million places
For her, it stays the same
Though a million towers have tumbled
And you can hear her pain
Voiced in a distant rumble
And when it starts to rain
All your monoliths will crumble
Well, it's always been the same
Don't you feel a little humble?
She came up to me
Said, "Wanna know a mystery?
A whole wide world for you to see
You're a player in the game"
She came up to me
Said, "Wanna know a mystery?
A whole wide world for you to see
You're a player in the game"
Well, I've nothing left to say
Except take the time to ramble
In a million different ways
There's a million paths to travel
When there's something in the way
Take your time please remember
There's hope yet in the rain
And a voice in distant thunder
She came up to me
Said, "Wanna know a mystery?
A whole wide world for you to see
You're a player in the game"
She came up to me
Said, "Wanna know a mystery?
A whole wide world for you to see
Well I married me a wife
She gave me trouble all my life
Ran me out in the cold rain and snow
The rain and snow, rain and snow
Ran me out in the cold rain and snow
She came running on down the stairs
Combing back her long blonde hair
And her cheeks were as red as a rose
As a rose, as a rose
And her cheeks were as red as a rose
As a rose, as a rose
She said I ain't got no use
For your red apple juice
And I'm not gonna be treated this way
This way, this way
And I'm not gonna be treated this way
I see you all sitting in the shade
Counting every dime I made
I'm so broke and I'm hungry too
I'm hungry too, ooh
Hungry too ooh
There's one too many, too, too many holes
Getting bigger in the garden wall
And the people looking in are getting busy, they're getting bad
They're trying to souss it all
They're trying to get to me, to take my liberty
Got to go, go, get out of here
Away way, you don't want me here
Got to go, go, get out of here, go home
I said, "This means nothing to me"
The way we were, is the way I wanna be
This means nothing to me
The way we were, is the way I wanna be
They're sending in the elite, complete with guns
To advertise the way to go
Faxing through the fax to make it clear
That they're the ones who know
They're trying to get to me, to take my liberty
Got to go, go, get out of here
Away away, you don't want me here
Got to go, go, get out of here, go home
I said, "This means nothing to me"
They way we were, is the way I wanna be
This means nothing to me
Since you came along, high above the scene
You've taken all the worry out of me
Yeah, you brought a change that chemicals can't find
I'm no longer thinking that I'm living in a medium time
And I won't let you down, no I won't let you down
You're such a pretty target for this world to kick around
And I won't let you down, no I won't let you down
Not since you dragged me from my hole in the ground
I smoked the world, drunk dry the sea
Was devoted to my mirror which I could never see
Then you came along, oh so prettily
And in the twist of a year, I was living in a dream
And I won't let you down, no I won't let you down
You're such a pretty target for this world to kick around
And I won't let you down, no I won't let you down
Not since you dragged me from my hole in the ground
And I won't let you down, no I won't let you down
You're such a pretty target for this world to kick around
And I won't let you down, no I won't let you down
Not since you dragged me from my hole in the ground
And I won't let you down, no I won't let you down
You're such a pretty target for this world to kick around
And I won't let you down, no I won't let you down
There's a young boy in the queue
Not much else for him to do
He's had a drink, he's had a few
Down the pub on Hope Street
Dear old lady, you're looking thin
Got a shopping bag with your life in
Your old man's going through the bins
So it goes out on Hope Street
Rain on me come pouring down
Clean the dirt off this old town
Tell the sun to come around
Show his face on Hope Street
There's a fight right down the street
The betting shop has got him beat
He blew his money for the week
On a horse called Hope Street
No old faces out today
Someone took them all away
Cleaning up or so they say
The dirty face of Hope Street
Rain on me come pouring down
Clean the dirt off this old town
Tell the sun to come around
Show his face on Hope Street
Rain on me come pouring down
Clean the dirt off this old town
Tell the sun to come around
Show his face on Hope Street
Everyday I look at you
Dressed up in your ties of blue
Saying there's not much you can do
Help the kids on Hope Street
They don't seem to even care
That it was you that put them there
You seem to think they like it there
Hanging out on Hope Street
Rain on me come pouring down
Clean the dirt off this old town
Tell the sun to come around
Pushed from the start
Do it right and maybe you'll take a part
Call a spade a spade
Put on your blinkers maybe then you'll be made
To walk the streets
Head full of false facts you can't get back
But you wake up one day
You wake up one day
Can't see the world the same way
All the lights have changed
Your routine's down the drain
Things will never be the same
Some call it art
But it's hard to start
When you don't know the game
But if feels so good
To be understood
By yourself again
Now you've got to fight
You ain't got no wage so you ain't got no rights
Call a spade a spade
I'm in pain, baby
A little hung over maybe
Have you seen my head?
Has anybody seen my head?
Just when did I become invisible?
Can you tell me when I became invisible?
I'm so sorry, officer
I'm so sorry, officer
Have you seen my legs?
Has anybody seen my legs?
Just when did I become invisible?
Can you tell me when I became invisible?
(Walk through walls even walk through lives)
Walk through walls, even through lives
(Walk through walls even walk through lives)
Nobody notices my disguise
(Walk through walls even walk through lives)
So tell me when did I become invisible
I was here yesterday
I'm sure I was here yesterday
Do you remember my face?
Please remember my face
Just when did I become invisible?
Tell me when did I become invisible?
(Walk through walls even walk through lives)
I can walk through walls, even through lives
(Walk through walls even walk through lives)
Nobody notices my disguise
(Walk through walls even walk through lives)
Tell me [Incomprehensible] walk through walls and even through lives
(Walk through walls even walk through lives)
I can walk through walls, even through lives
(Walk through walls even walk through lives)
But tell me when did I become
(Walk through walls even walk through lives)
Tell me when did I become
(Walk through walls even walk through lives)
Tell me when did I become invisible
When did I become divisible
And it will stop
A day that lasts forever
Just as the sun sets
It will rise at dawn for ever after
And I'm sorry
If it ain't that sweet
Just living in the world you meet
But that should never stop you
Because far away
Is close at hand
There in the drifting sands
And far away is close at hand
In the imaginations
Of every woman and every man
And I'm sorry if it ain't that cool
Just living in the world of fools
But it will stop
All that you can see
Is there to tell you
Rain must fall for the sun to shine
There down upon you
And I'm sorry if it ain't that cool
Just living in the world of fools
He thought he was drunk as can be
New white skinny rebel was he
Because he knew what mattered
It's all in a clatter of the bands he'd seen
Now, his words of wisdom would shock
Whether he meant them or not
He'd save the world, all the boys and the girls
But another single's all he'd be
That's sad, that's right
Another night of someone else's fantasy
That's sad, that's right
Another night of someone else's fantasy
He thought he was cool with his tunes
He practiced the knack in his room
And in the evenings, he'd DJ with the slider at plus eight
Believing at his feet we swoon
Now he's always there in the queue
While down on the dance floor it's you
And when he starts playing, he's up there playing
You don't notice that they're not his tunes
That's sad, that's right
Another night of someone else's fantasy
That's sad, that's right
Another night of someone else's fantasy
That's sad, that's right
Another night of someone else's fantasy
That's sad, that's right
Another night of someone else's fantasy
He thought he could measure the world
Because he loved the flag when unfurled
First he's a lawyer, excellent debater
You should have heard the mud he hurled
Now you've seen his face on TV
Leading parliamentary
When he makes decisions that meet your derision
He reminds us all that we're free
That's sad, that's right
Another night of someone else's fantasy
That's sad, that's right
Another night of someone else's fantasy
That's sad, that's right
Another night of someone else's fantasy
That's sad, that's right
Summer came around early this year
And winter swung around soon after
The scent of spring was high with fear
The autumn crows call disaster
Because the north wind blows so cold
Chilling the warmth of my desire
And the whispered words we know
Tell of a future burned with fire
And the music that now fills the street
Falls to the rhythm of marching feet
I find no comfort here
No not in this or any other year
Because the north wind blows so cold
Chilling the warmth of my desire
And the whispered words we know
Tell of a future burned with fire
Tell of a future burned with fire
The stranger asked me what do you know
And just where are you going?
I told the truth, I just don't know
If you don't mind, I'll keep on going
Because the north wind blows so cold
Chilling the warmth of my desire
And the whispered words we know
Tell of a future burned with fire
Well, I fell down from the tree of life
Hit the branches on the way
Yeah, way down to the root
Found what's been bothering me
And I'll tell you
If you can hear above the din
That I just can't get back
To where I've been
And if I ever found
All that I wanted
I've traveled the world
All the way 'round
If you ever gave me
All I ever wanted
I'd travel the world
All the way 'round
'Cause I just can't get back to where I've been
Well, I just can't get back to where I've been
Well, I just can't get back to where I've been
No, I just can't get back to where I've been
'Cause I know a place
And I want to be there
I read it in the poems
On the way down
There it lies
The unchecked country
Far beyond
Spectacle of plains
'Cause I just can't get back to where I've been
Well, I just can't get back to where I've been
Well, I just can't get back to where I've been
Well, I just can't get back to where I've been
Well, I fell down from the tree of life
Hit the branches on the way
Yeah, way down to the root
Found what's been bothering me
And I'll tell you
If you can hear above the din
No, I just can't get back
To where I've been
No, I just can't get back
To where I've been
'Cause I know a place
And I want to be there
I read it in the poems
on the way down
There it lies
The unchecked country
Far beyond
Spectacle of plains
'Cause I fell down from the tree of life
Hit the branches on the way
Yeah, way down to the root
Found what's been bothering me
And I'll tell you
If you can hear above the din
No, I just can't get back
To where I've been
No, I just can't get back to where I've been
No, I just can't get back to where I've been
No, I just can't get back to where I've been
No, I just can't get back to where I've been
If I ever found
All that I wanted
Be a beautiful dream
This is a beautiful dream
At the edge of the world nothing is said
Call a witness, conversation is dead
We pray for the coming but we don't hear a word
We're waiting around the edge of the world
The loneliest place I know is my own street
And your very own words are the hardest to eat
From the shadows of plastic where you shout to be heard
You're just sitting around at the edge of the world
The telephone is lying there on the floor
Somehow the moss just creeps round the door
And everyone's crying from a painful blow
That came down the cable centuries ago
Three men from the east correctly concurred
And left us in shackles at the edge of the world
The edge of the world, yeah, the edge of the world
They left us in pieces at the edge of the world
The edge of the world, oh, the edge of the world
We're all waiting in pieces at the edge of the world
The edge of the world, yeah, the edge of the world
We're all waiting in pieces at the edge of the world
The edge of the world, oh, the edge of the world
We're all waiting in pieces at the edge of the world
The edge of the world, yeah, the edge of the world
Dance before the storm
These are dangerous time we live in
I heard a man once say
If you're prone to flights of fancy
Your dreams can fly away
See the sights around you
Of breakdown and decay
Wrought by the greed for a better life
For which you have to pay
From Glasgow town to London
Down the motorway
There's people standing in the rain
Looking for any way
To take them down to where they're bound
It's a part of another way
It's called the art of survival
In a modern age
Dance before the storm
Don't look back to where you've been
The horror's even further
As the sands of time run thin
Dance before the storm
As the machinery breaks down
Watch the sky go black with anger
But no one makes a sound
From Albion Hill to the Old Chain Pier
You can hear a person say
Spare some change for all me pains
So if your head spins round, go underground
Away from the games they play
People down there are trying to care
And let each one have their say
It's not revolution tactics
Or cause for anarchy
Just a natural fight for a natural life
Of which systems are afraid
And if it all surrounds you
Seems like there's no escape
And there's someone stood in front of you
Saying do it in their way
Turn your eyes towards the tides
See how they never change
The sands of time will break their mime
Amid the sound and lights on a table with friends
Everybody's fine, they're all drinking wine, yeah
Was there you fell in love, in a crowded room
Not for the first but for the thousandth time, yeah
So you celebrate, you celebrate, you celebrate your love
With a little house just made for two
With all the lovely things you can buy brand new
You gonna settle down just the both of you
You gonna be a good soul from now on, yeah
And when the sap first rose back in the day
You thought you'd play it smart the trail of broken hearts, yeah
You said, they won't find you, they won't find you
They won't find you just living in a box for two
But now you celebrate, you celebrate, you celebrate your love
With a little house just made for two
With all the lovely things you can buy brand new
You gonna settle down just the both of you
So when you catch an eye
And your dancing heart starts telling you the lies
You're doing it to survive
What else could hurt so much it makes you cry
Yes, you celebrate, you celebrate, you celebrate your love
With a little house just made for two
With all the lovely things you can buy brand new
You gonna settle down just the both of you
Kick the sheets off get out of bed
Good morning, de ja vu
Is this the best thing in my head
Good morning now what to do
Look at my day
What's the first appointment
Lunch in heaven
What a disappointment
I could run away with Captain Courageous
I could live on fruit in Montego Bay
I could run a bar in a war torn front line
I could do it all, but just not today
Good morning TV what's been said
Around the world whilst I'm in bed
Nothing changes, 'cos we're still being fed
On little white lies and stale white bread
Look at my day
What's my next appointment
Dinner in hell
What a disappointment
I live for you and you live for me
For four hours every day
Another social misery for hours and hours
(Every day)
I could free my mind
Become a rich mans guru
I could take the time
To feed the world
Could drink all day
Until I find
All the answers
I could do it all
Oh, there was once a man who had lost his own smile
And he wandered the country mile after mile
Never quite knowing what he wanted to find
For his heart, it lay heavy with the weight of his mind
And he looked at the land through the tears in his eyes
For he knew that there were those who would will her to die
And he wept for his mother as he lay at her feet
And he heard a voice singing him softly to sleep
I'll be your queen, I'll be your mother, I'll be your mystical child
Be your best friend, your lover, your wife for all time
Will there ever be another, in this life of mine
Will there ever be another, like my mystical child
So, he climbed a high hill and he looked out to sea
And he heard a voice calling out softly to him
Open your heart boy for it needs to be free
And the next time you're crying come running to me
So, he walked through the valleys the trees and the fields
And he came to a river where she waited for him
And they looked at the water of life flowing by
Time after time you fail to agree
About the things to believe in
The thoughts of the ancients just could not be
Without changes in rhythm and time
If you put all the prophets, mystics and saints
In one room together
There'd be so much more reason
Than ever was born out of all of the conflicts of time
Anybody out there, anybody out there
Well, I wouldn't mind but you fail to agree
About the things that you're doing
The thoughts of the ancients never could be
Without changes in context and time
Anybody out there, anybody out there
Gonna hear the sounds of a dispossessed voice
Lend them your voice
Fools and their leaders, they have no doubts
The truth is they're believers, they stand and shout
In the courts of the deceivers let there be no more doubt
In the name of your justice and time
Anybody out there, anybody out there
Gonna hear the sounds of a dispossessed voice
Lend them your voice
Anybody out there, anybody out there, anybody out there
You're there in black and white
Hundreds watch you every night
You've been starring in a film on every weekend
On video and stills with all of your friends
You're there in black and white
Hundreds watch you every night
You cannot hide
You cannot hide
You cannot
'Cos we can see you every where in the daytime
We can see you every where in the nighttime
We can see you every where for a lifetime
We can see you every where
You're great in every scene
You very natural
It's as if you cannot see
The spotlight on you
But when you fluff a line
The director says, you're doing time
You cannot hide
You cannot hide
You cannot
'Cos we can see you every where in the daytime
We can see you every where in the nighttime
We can see you every where for a lifetime
We can see you every where
When you're walking home
In the evening after dark
Remember don't hide
Show your best side
'Cos you're the star in a film
You cannot hide
You cannot hide
You cannot hide
You cannot hide
You cannot hide
You cannot hide
You cannot
'Cos we can see you every where in the daytime
We can see you every where in the nighttime
We can see you every where for a lifetime
Belaruse no longer feels the sun
But it's under the skin of everyone
Belaruse, forgotten by the blind
That is until the next time
Remember all your yesterdays
In the deep blue
Before the world came
And rested there on you
And if the sun and moon were both to doubt
Sure enough they'd both go out
When you can't walk in your field
Feel water in your hands
You've been touched by the doubt of man
Remember all your yesterdays
In the deep blue
Before the world came
And rested there on you
Remember all your yesterdays
In the deep blue
Before the world came
Gunshots shatter in the peace of night
Just another fire fight
For the people of this little town
But for the dying soldier
Well, he's feeling ten years older
As he's lying face down on the ground
All the words that are in his head
And all the words his mother said
As she would put him to bed back home
Your daddy well, he died in the Falklands
Fighting for another man's cause
And your brother, he was killed in the Last War
And your mother well, she's lying home alone
Every day she sees your face
On the picture on the fireplace
With your brother, as he was leaving school
Then a day came five years ago
You said, "Mother, I need to know"
And you spoke the words, your brother spoke before
"I seen the things my Daddy's done
And I've seen the medals Daddy's won
And I know that this is what he would have wanted for me"
But, your daddy well, he died in the Falklands
Fighting for another man's cause
And your brother, he was killed in the Last War
And your mother well, she's lying home alone
Now she wonders at it all
Just in whose name do these brave young heroes fall
And how many more are going to answer that call
They're going to fight and die in another country's war
They're going die for a religion they don't believe in at all
They're die in a place they should never have been at all
Oh, never have been at all
'Cause your daddy well, he died in the Falklands
Fighting for another man's cause
And your brother, he was killed in the Last War
And your mother well, she's lying home alone
And your daddy well, he died in the Falklands
Fighting for another man's cause
And your brother, he was killed in the Last War
When I dream, I get pictures of the world I've never seen
I'm playing parts upon the silver screen
I'm anything my dream wants me to be
The picture always ends with you and me
There are times that you need to look a little deeper down inside
You might not always like the things you find
You may find you're running out of time
But the truth is always there for you to find
There's an angel watching over me
We've got angels, the kind that
Burns and I can't see
There's an angel watching over me
When the nightmares come
And the hounds of hunt surround me
When the thick comes on
Let the devil sends his dogs to find me
When the nightmares come
And the hounds of hunt surround me
Let the thick come on
Let the devil sends his dogs to find me
When I dream, I get pictures of the world I've never seen
I'm playing parts upon the silver screen
I'm anything my dream needs me to be
The picture always ends with you and me
There's an angel watching over me
We've got angels the kind that
Burns and I can't see
There's an angel watching over me
There's an angel the kind that
Burns and I can't see
It keeps watching over me, watching you and me
Now you're walking the well-healed ground
Upon a fragile course
The Gin Lane talk has been getting you down
'Cos the hero Blake could not be found
And yes, there's a lot of faking going down
The smoke that clouded your eyes
Was a daily event
And those weren't ghosts, they were only men
Just the beauty that you sensed
Could heal all indifference
Beneath the cruel lives and the hard face
I can't believe what I have found
I touched the spirit of this ordinary town
And in the summer heat, under the crowded sheets
They were feathering the beds
I felt the spirit of this place we'd left for dead
The darkened streets for a guide
We search vainly for your sight
The tension rising on every side
You find comfort in its might
But that sun burns more than she lights
Beneath the cruel lives and the hard face
I can't believe what I have found
I touched the spirit of this ordinary town
And in the summer heat, under the crowded sheets
They were feathering the beds
I felt the spirit of this place we'd left for dead
Further down in this town
You hear the common word of mouth
That back-street talk, just a hollow sound
'Cos the hero Blake could not be found
And yeah, there's a lot of faking going down
Beneath the cruel lives and the hard face
I can't believe what I have found
I touched the spirit of this ordinary town
And in the summer heat, under the crowded sheets
They were feathering the beds
As the blood flowed, Lorraine knew
There'd be nobody coming, nobody's coming
As the blood flowed, Lorraine knew
There'd be nobody coming
The call came in
Lorraine shot down
Her husband pulled the trigger
And then he blew his brains out
At the other end
The police took a call
They didn't believe
That he was dead at all
So they wouldn't help her
And she knew
It had been twenty years
Since they fell in love
He's brought a lot of pain
But now he's brought a lot of blood
And he's taken more
Than his share
"We can't lose a life"
The police chief said
"There's an armed man in there
Who'd be better off dead"
As Lorraine bled from the legs
As the blood flowed, Lorraine knew
There'd be nobody coming, nobody's coming
As the blood flowed, Lorraine knew
That there'd be nobody coming
Speak to me now
But all she could say was
I don't want to die like this
So they said they're on their way
[Incomprehensible] heard
That she was Lorraine
So they didn't let her die with even her name
As she left us all in pain
As the blood flowed, Lorraine knew
There'd be nobody coming, nobody's coming
As the blood flowed, Lorraine knew
Jesus, Mother, Mary, God
All of you who claim to know the soul
What's your view?
Let me take you by the hand
Show how it isn't planned
What they say about you
People who wander blindly following
All manner of false illusions
In the search for truth
Let me take you by the hand
Hope that you might understand
What's in front of you
And I hope that all your dreams
All of your dreams
All your dreams will come true
And I hope that all your dreams
All of your dreams
All your dreams will come true
Jesus, Mother, Mary, God
All of you who claim to know the soul
What's their view?
Let me take you by hand
Show how the it's all been planned
Despite the things you do
And the millions following blindly
All manner of false illusion
[Unverified] let them suffer in shame
[Unverified] below
So much better and it's right
All this in your name
And I hope that all your dreams
All of your dreams
All your dreams will come true
And I hope that all your dreams
All of your dreams
All your dreams will come true
Jesus, Mother, Mary, God
All of you who claim to know the soul
What's your view?
Let me take you by the hand
Show you that the futures planned
No matter what you do
By people who wander blindly
With no reason and no direction
With bloodstains on their hands
Let me take you by the hand
Show you how it isn't bad
What's in front of you
And I hope that all your dreams
All of your dreams
All your dreams will come true
And I hope that all your dreams
All of your dreams
Seized and charged and don't you know it
You were caught for a crime but you didn't do it
These city walls that call you stranger
Your surprise local death will bring answers
Is there a chorus line wherever you go
Telling you you're right, messing with your reason
Clear blue skies wherever you go
Rivers of ice, messing with your reason
Join the queue to stand in line
For second hand love and broken mind
Well the [Incomprehensible] survivor, knows it's time
When he's caught by a friend who's wading through wine
Is there a chorus line wherever you go
Telling you you're right, messing with your reason
Clear blue skies wherever you go
Rivers of ice, messing with your reason
Director's words comfort you
Telling you you're right, messing with your reason
Is there a chorus line wherever you go
Telling you you're right, messing with your reason
Clear blue skies wherever you go
Rivers of ice, messing with your reason
Director's words comfort you
Half an hour is gone and here we belong
Living it so it can't be wrong
'Cos I was born the wrong way round
Growing up while coming down
But I didn't even know this
When you took me by the hand
That you talk ever so lightly
Lately and you walk ever so slowly
I didn't know and I didn't care
What there was that could catch your breath
But a moment gone is a moment caught
And in half an hour I was taught
That I didn't need to know this
When you walked out of the night
That you talk ever so lightly
Lately and you walk ever so slowly
I didn't move and I didn't breath
To be there where you were
I didn't think 'cos I didn't know
That half an hour spent
And all of the days and all of the ways
Will be there when you are gone
'Cos you talk ever so lightly
Lately and you walk ever so slowly
Half an hour's gone and we're still together
Walking now beneath the weather
All the dreams, all the pains
All that's come back again
We don't need to be there
When it comes on, oh, so low
Because you talk ever so lightly
Lately and you walk ever so slowly
Come on this time but not for us
To be there when we're gone
And all of the world and all of the days
Are just half an hour long
And all of the lives of all of the Gods
Will envy us our song
'Cos you talk ever so lightly
Lately and you walk ever so slowly
I met you in 82, over a crate of beer and not a few
I cracked a can and so did you, we're going to change the world
The ghetto kings of downside town
The estates and parks of our hallowed ground
Doing anything that we found, and on the river flowed
You'd take a drink from Rev. Jimmy Jones
You'd cross the street on the path the gunman roams
Thrown aside and left to waste, that was you, you knew your place
Wander round, get off your face, and on the river flowed
On and on the river flow, we are the undertow
On and on the river flow, we are the undertow
I don't know how you made it through all the smoke and brew you do
It sure has left its mark on you but you're still with us today
Life goes on and 'round we go and words can kill these things I know
Sometimes you cut deeply so, but on the river flows
You'd set the table for barber Sweeney Todd
You'd clip the wings of any rising God
But man can't live on hope alone, it can be cut all that is grown
Broke your spirit but not your bones and on the river flows
[Unverified]
You're working now, forced to the race
I know it left a bitter taste
But the rising tide had covered your face
Nothing you could do
But I still remember the day you said
That the river flowing through my head
Would take me far or leave me dead
I spy with my little eye, the sun shining brightly
The clouds rolling by the last days of winter
Now seem so far away and everything looks green
When it used to be gray and I've watched the change
Like the changing in my mind and I chased the leaves
Like the words I never find, like the people I knew
Who I sometimes see today some still bright like fire
And some faded away
I turn on the radio and someone's playing a song
I turn on the news, hear what's going on
I turn on my back when I'm full of beer
And I turn off the news when I don't want to hear
And I've seen a girl who looks so very sad
Nothing left but a memory of all the times she's had
And I've seen a man who looks so sad inside
Nothing left but the memories from which he cannot hide
So I learned to fight with a weapon called the word
And I learned to rise my voice so that I'd be heard
And I learned to fight with a weapon called the word
Do you wake up every day
In a world that seems crazy
A world you love to hate
Are you scared or do you feel pretty safe
Do you think you have nothing
Or do you think you've got it made
Chorus
You know it feels like your going insane
I've done everything you told me
To take away the pain
Then you change my medication again
Its getting harder to tell
Just who or what's insane
Do your nightmares tear you apart
Do you wake up screaming shouting in the dark
The demons keep you awake
Does the clock tick more slowly with
Every breath you take
Chorus
Does each day seem like the rest
You turn on the morning coz turning offs the best
Do you think that it will never change
Or does mass self delusion medal with your brain
Chorus
You see I think I know it all
I think I know the way
You've given me the power
By making me insane
This is the tale of old England
We've got rocks and coke
We've got kids that smoke
Pram pushers and devil's folk in old England
What's the weather, sunshine or rain?
Smiling faces asking for a change
Watch the news
Could grow great again, again
From the harvest to the flatlands
We're for sale in old England
From the back streets to the old lanes
We're for sale in old England
In old England
Where every penny's pinched in old England
What's the weather, sunshine or rain?
Smiling faces asking for a change
Watch the news
Could we grow great again
From the harvest to the flatlands
We're for sale in old England
From the back streets to the old lanes
We're for sale in old England
In old England
Well, here's a hand in my pocket
There's a fight for my life
He was sitting on the fence
When they moved to the right
The sham is a shame
And there's always the rain
And everybody's loving it
From the harvest to the flatlands
We're for sale in old England
From the back streets to the old lanes
We're for sale in old England
From the harvest to the flatlands
We're for sale in old England
From the back streets to the old lanes
We're for sale in old England
Well, the year it's 1991
It seems that freedom is dead and gone
The power of the rich is held by few
They keep the young paralyzed
Educated by your lies
Keep the old ones happy with the news
Tell the singer not to song a song
Tell the poet that she's wrong
In the courts you'll win the case with lies
'Cause you sold them down the river-o
Do I belong to some ancient race
I like to walk in ancient places
These are things that I can understand
Well, I don't believe in your modern way
Don't care about the things you say
Your policies have failed the test of time
'Cause you sold them down the river-o
Now, now in a land not far away
There's men in prison because they say
The color of your skin is not a question
Did you rally to their side?
No, you sat back and let them die
Don't know how you get to sleep at night
At night
Do I belong to some ancient race
I like to walk in ancient places
These are things that I can understand
Well, I don't believe in your modern way
Don't care about the things you say
Your policies have failed the test of time
Your money market goes round and round
The pound goes up, the dollar goes down
When the [Incomprehensible] you come down
You need the power for your new towns
You get scared when the night comes down
Won't you tell me where it is that we are bound?
Do I belong to some ancient race
I like to walk in ancient places
These are things that I can understand
Well, I don't believe in your modern way
Don't care about the things you say
Your policies have failed the test of time
Saturday to Sunday's waste
Then Monday's soon around
It's time to leave the nightlife first
And catch the last bus out of town
And the sentiment of the last song that I heard
Stays with me as if I'd written every word
I thought I saw an open door
With a bright light shining through
But what it was I don't recall
But I think you've seen it too
And these are the days and the ways I've known
Dreaming that this bird has flown
Chorus
And if you burn your fingers in the fire
Remember me and my desire
It might be easier this way
Could be easier that way
It's got to be easier this way
If you're trying to change the world
I saw a film just made for me
Said you've got to walk the line
The day will come when I feed the flames
I'm just biding my time
These are the days and the ways I've known
Just dreaming that this bird has flown
There's nothing new
In this sad story
The slaughter of innocence
Without glory
At the foot of your hill
Without warning
The center of operations
They attack in the morning
Now you can lie
Like a lamb before them
You can dance in the dawn
You can even ignore them
But with your skin on file
There's no escape
PC Keens got the snap shots
And he knows your face
And the press will declare
That you are all mad and insane
And you'll be accused
Of not playing the game
You'll stand in the court
And declare your bravery
For fighting all this
That brings us all slavery
But they won't even see you
They won't even hear you
Because you are the truth
So nothing can save you
And the southern intelligence unit will say
Thanks to you PC Keen
Now it sees that night is day
My uneasy focus has slipped away
Drunk from the poison cup brings sheer relief to me
Head full of the news, twenty-first century
Bring along your old banjo, I want to hear you play
Gonna play an old sad song to blow away the day
One that trips off the tongue, I wanna hear what you say
Everybody sing along, now everybody pray
Because the first time that we had, it wasn't what we wanted
This time that we had, it wasn't what we wanted
First time that we had, it wasn't what we wanted
This time that we had, it wasn't what we wanted
Changing weather blows away
But the slaughter and the showbiz
These are here to stay
So bring along your old banjo, I want to hear you play
Gonna play an old sad song to blow away the day
Everybody sing along, now everybody pray
Because the first time that we had, it wasn't what we wanted
This time that we had, it wasn't what we wanted
First time that we had, it wasn't what we wanted
This time that we had, it wasn't what we wanted
This time that we had, it wasn't what we wanted
This time that we had, it wasn't what we wanted
So I find myself among
The brave south western hills
Running like a mad man on the moor!
Let the sweet Atlantic rain
Wash away my ills
The men-an-tol shone strangely in the storm
I get the strangest feeling in the air around
It's more than just a feeling
A different way of seeing
A different kind of life
.. something I believe in
Chorus
Here among the city lights
The feelings not so clean
Neon lights and faceless signs
Hide what I hold dear
But it's there to find if you have the mind
And you don't live in fear of it
I rest among what still remains
Of lives that passed before
Lighting strikes the top of zennor tor
I find myself amazed again
At man's pathetic score
Years of knowledge wasted and ignored
I get the strangest feeling in the air around
It's more than just a feeling
A different way of seeing
A different kind of life
Something I believe in
Chorus
I get the strangest feeling
It's more than just a feeling
Chorus
I get the strangest feeling
It's more than just a feeling
A different way of seeing
She's the maid of the river
So beautifully plain
As fresh as the country
That gave her her name
As crisp as the snow
And as swift as the rain
She shone like the sun
Before all of our games
She shone like a jewel
But her price was not gold
She cried more than most
When her story was told
But her people were evil
Left her baron and cold
And her heart went to market
Where her body was sold
Chorus
I said hey hey won't you take me away
Because I can't see the point
In the dawn of the day
When so many killers gonna take you away
And leave little left except hatred
She's the goddess of love
The goddess in green
The goddess of all
That I've ever seen
Goddess of hope
The goddess in brown
The goddess of all
That you've burned to the ground
Chorus
There's all kind of hatred
Flows out of man's hands
There's the hatred that strangles
The throat of a man
But the worst of all hatred
Is that which is planned
Against what we have
In this goddess of land
Wasting time in nowhere very special
Seems almost a part of it these days
I know every crack along the pavement
And I remember what you said in '88
Chorus
You said
Its time to leave this town
The world keeps turning round
The only thing that keeps me here is you
Drinking in the same bar that I met you
Without you it wouldn't be the same
We'd talk for hours and hours
About different places
You said that you would see them all some day
Chorus
You were always so good with words
The tales you told we heard
The things you said to me that day
Will never fade in memory
The time is unforgiving
You know that I will make it when I can
No matter just what window you look out of
The view just never ever seems to change
And I swear that we ain't getting any younger
But we'll chase all of our dreams all the same
Chorus
So you fancy a drink, just the one,
To clear your head, it won't be long,
It's a beautiful day to waste away,
There's plenty of time for another one.
Chorus
You know you shouldn't do it
But can't see no reason why,
So you blow your mind yeah yeah ah ha.
Make mine a short, I'm getting there
But where is it i couldn't care
There must be something I haven't tried
Perhaps that bottle before my eyes.
Chorus
Through the haze the sun goes down
It's getting late, let's hit the town
Call some friends to paint it red
Feed the animal in your head.
Chorus
They throw you out, you hit the night
Go to a club, you feel all right
You get a pill, just take half
Then take the rest of it for a laugh.
Chorus
The rest is blank and that's the worst
An empty head for an empty purse
You had a laugh or so you think
But in the morning you just stink.
You know you shouldn't do it
But can't see no reason why,
So you blow your mid yeah yeah ah ha.
So you fancy a drink, it's just the one
Julie was a lonely girl
She said, "She was born that way"
She always felt that way
She left home at age sixteen
Got a job what you're supposed to do
That's what you've got to do
She fell in love and settled down
In a council place
There on the edge of town
She'd feel alone in a crowded room
Cry when she heard a happy tune
Well, it would be nice to holiday
Till they took her job away
They just took her life away
Doing nothing isn't fun
When you've nothing from witch to run
Yeah, nowhere left to run
She'd visit the social every day
Every time be turned away
Every time be turned away
She'd feel alone in a crowded room
Cry when she heard a happy tune
A hundred stairs to her new room
Over glass and blackened spoons
Children grow old so soon
Past the kids who gather there
Pain masked by narcotic stares
But no one really cares
Her dreams were cut up and bled dry
A million voices in her cry
Julie waits, her world is her windows
And Julie hates, just what she doesn't know
But Julie hates, she hates the world below
You know the sky is blue
And the wind cuts right through
The sun shines on you alone
Every step takes you nearer, nearer home
And I love the river
That carries us on
In one direction
Bringing me nearer, nearer home
But you haven't made it yet
No you still haven't made it yet
The sky turns gray
And the river runs high
Running faster
Passes you by
Ghosts of life
Are following you
With a bit of luck
You can make it through
I thought I heard you sigh
When you thought that you were there
But the world turns for you alone
Every step takes you nearer, nearer home
But you haven't made it yet
No you still haven't made it yet
The sky turns gray
And the river runs high
Running faster
Passes you by
Ghosts of life
Are following you
With a bit of luck
We can make it, make it through
But you haven't made it yet
Car horns and rumba music
Through the city's broken heart
Is this the devil's
Own back yard
It was forty years ago
That the gangster he fell
To a rag, bag of men
The world remembers well
Happy Birthday Revolution
Happy Birthday Revolution
I'm standing here
Watching the world fall apart
Watching the world fall apart
Our leader he was young
Gallant and divine
It was the age
Of blood and romance
They shot him in Bolivia
No tear did we cry
For how many men
Can choose the way that they die
Happy Birthday Revolution
Happy Birthday Revolution
I'm standing here
Watching the world fall apart
Watching the world fall apart
We paint him on buildings
With sadness in his eyes
If we suffer hungry days
Then we call it sacrifice
Some say his dream is full of holes
We have dignity and pride
We have independence
Or is it just a Yankee lie
Happy Birthday Revolution
Happy Birthday Revolution
I'm standing here
Watching the world fall apart
Watching the world fall apart
Happy Birthday Revolution
Happy Birthday Revolution
Happy Birthday Revolution
Happy Birthday Revolution
Happy Birthday Revolution
I'm standing here
Watching the world fall apart
Watching the world fall apart
You smile at the rain while counting your change
That's what you do
Take a walk in the town that saw you drown
That's what you do
Chance come and make me
These times are for taking
Gold and silver
All that you've got
Dance before me in a glass
To closest that I ever got
Rubies, diamonds are
All that you've got
Crawling over broken glass
Well, can't you love?
The lights are erased, get out of my way
So much to do
The bills that you pay are here to stay
One more for you
Love please believe me
These times are for taking
Gold and silver
All that you've got
Dance before me in a glass
To closest that I ever got
Rubies, diamonds are
All that you've go
Crawling over broken glass
Won't get you love
Won't buy you love
Brass and tin for your sins
Thank you
Messages come, messages sent
That's what you do
Looking so tired, hired and fired
That's what you do
Breath don't forsake me
These times are for taking
Gold and silver
All that you've got
Dance before me in a glass
To closest that I ever got
Rubies, diamonds are
All that you've got
Crawling over broken glass
Won't get you love
Won't buy you love
Come onto me
It's easy for a long life
Don't be denied forever
Under the night
Come along to be this free
Is what you want too
Breaking the line forever
Under the sun
It will be done together
For each to be one
Come along to be is easy
Taking the stars
Across the road
At the end of this place
It's not far and anyone can go there
It's waste ground
There's no name on this place
But it always has and always will be there
There's no fence, no walls, no fools
Just the summer sun
And what you choose
But was it only yesterday
Tomorrow came and handed you the tools
To burn it down
Your forgotten ground
The golden bough with a rope lies there
For you to climb higher and higher
But by this rope you can hang
If you've forgotten why it was you came there
And you burn it down
Your forgotten ground
When you are old and see this
Know this is cold
That when the sun rises
Tall shadows will hold
The ground you loved
To you is broken taken from you
And I carve my name and then you wrote yours
The black smoke will rise up to cover the stars
Nothing said to be forever except for the night
I never was a violent man
Said the man in the bar with his head in his hands
He's trying his best to understand the 'cause of his dismay
But the years of gin have broken him
They've left him cold where he's fitted in
But it's too late now to turn around and find another way
And the lights in the late night lock-in
Have faded away when he gets in
The girl from fifteen years ago
Has packed and gone away
That's never how it used to be, what happened to all that energy
You took one too many liberties, I'm tired of being afraid
So after the fight she took flight hiding swollen eyes and a wounded pride
The best years of her life denied is sold for liquid shares
And the lights in the late night lock-in
Have faded away when he gets in
The girl from fifteen years ago
Has packed and gone away
And the victims of their world
Are advertised on posters
Just a beach and a pretty girl
You just take this potion
It's another week till his check comes through
He's got a fiver left to spend on food
The doors of the bar are open and he breaks another rule
But he sits on the stool that bears his name
He's got a favorite glass an' is called the same
He's never been kept waiting, 'cause he pays the landlord's wage
And the lights in the late night lock-in
Have faded away when he gets in
The girl from fifteen years ago
Has packed and gone away
The lights in the late night lock-in
Have faded away when he gets in
The girl from fifteen years ago
It's simple because it is the people
Fighting for and claiming what remains
And dreaming, this is not dreaming
This is the exodus from the game
Chorus
Dance beneath the stars
We the sound system
We the collective
With an open heart
We the solution
Should be respected
At midnight the pharises plant the poison
False evidence to bring all back in line
It's no method just dealing out bad justice
When no one here's committed any crime
Chorus
Well turn the dust to soil
Turn the rust of hate back into passion
It's not water into wine but it's here
And it's happening
Massive but passive to bring the peace back
Respect here, respect for all the people
Good copper (jah?) lawyer all good minds
Can see there is no evil
The only wrong is fighting changing times
When Johnny comes marching home again, hurah tada
He's coming by bus or underground, hurah tada
The world no doubt will shed a tear to see his face so beaten in fear
And it's just around the corner in the English civil war
Still at the stage of clubs and fists, hurah tada
When that well known face got beaten to bits, hurah tada
Your face was blue in the light of the screen
As we watched the speech of an animal scream
The new party army was marching right over our heads
There you are, ha ha, I told you so, hurah tada
Says everybody that we know, hurah tada
But who hid the radio under the stairs
And who got caught out on their unawares
When that new party army came marching right up the stairs
When Johnny comes marching home again, hurah tada
Nobody understands this can happen again, hurah tada
The sun is shining and the kids are shouting loud
But you've got to know it's shining through a crack in the cloud
And the shadows keep on falling when Johnny comes marching home
All the girls go oh get his coffin ready
(Nick Burbridge)
Dirty Davey's down the front and he's met the coppers there
They'll be taking you in cos they hate your skin
And he's dragged away by the hair
CHORUS
It's a kick in the head and a prison bed
And you tell me it's the law
Well Davey's out on two weeks bail and he's down the town to score
When it all falls in and he's pinned by the chin
And they'vve rusted every floor
CHORUS
Davey's down the old grey squat
And he's lying with his lass
When there's a brick through the pane
ANd he's out on the lane
With the bailiffs and the glass
CHORUS
The court comes up on Monday morning and Davey's in the dock
He can't stop his tears when he gets two years
And you can't turn back the clock
CHORUS
Well Davey's had it up to here
Banging his head on the wall
So he tied his pants to the prison bars
And he's hung till he's clear of it all
CHORUS
There's a law for the rich and a lwa for the poor
And a law for Dirty Davey
His body's gone but his soul lives on
Here's to you Dirty Davey
Corrupt, corrupt from the bottom to the top
And you tell me it's the law
Fired forty rounds in the center of town
He thought to bring the world around
Sleepless nights with God and Christ
The New Messiah
Burn the world to change the days
Can be done in better ways
But to make news and front page
You've got to aim higher
They didn't build Jerusalem
They didn't find the land
For reasons of security
They couldn't find the plans
And we're left standing, watching from below
No new songs, no new heroes
Standing on the sidelines watching the flow
Waiting for the day the circle's broken
Took the mic to save day
The rock star's going to have his say
Interpret things in any way as if it matters
'Cause nothing's black and nothing's white
Nothing appears to be quite right
It'll be this way until the day, the circle's shattered
I hear an old song yesterday about a better world
You know the story well, they're all the same
The boy gets the girl
And we're left standing watching from below
No new songs, no new heroes
Standing on the sidelines watching the flow
Waiting for the day the circle's broken
From the tips of your fingers, the rest is numb
You begin to feel the warmth of the sun
It's taking away been taking away
All you once knew
Taking it back takes all you've got
No time to sit and watch it rot
Believe it's yours and not the lies
Or all hell to you
They didn't build Jerusalem
They didn't find the land
For reasons of security
They couldn't find the plans
And we're left standing, watching from below
No new songs and no new heroes
Standing on the sidelines watching the flow
I thought I heard something calling me
I've seen the pictures on TV
And I made up my mind that I'd go and see
With my own eyes
It didn't take too long to hitch a ride
With a guy going south to start a new life
Past the place where my friend died
Two years ago
Down the 303 at the end of the road
Flashing lights - exclusion zones
And it made me think it's not just the stones
That they're guarding
Hey, hey, now can't you see
There's nothing here that you can call free
They're getting their kicks
They're laughing at you and me
As the sun rose on the beanfield
They came like wolf on the fold
And no, they didn't give a warning
They took their bloody toll
I seen a pregnant woman
Lying in blood of her own
I seen her children crying
As the police tore apart their home
And no they didn't need a reason
It's what your votes condone
It seems they were committing treason
By trying to live on the road
And I say
Hey, hey, now can't you see
There's nothing here that you can call free
They're getting their kicks
They're laughing at you and me
Hey, hey, now can't you see
There's nothing here that you can call free
They're getting their kicks
They're laughing at you and me
Bastards
Remember what you heard
Hey, hey, now can't you see
There's nothing here that you can call free
They're getting their kicks
Everybody knows the story
They've got the details, what the score is
But if you want the truth, girl
You may need more than a day
You need to move just a little closer
These walls have ears if you didn't know, girl
There're certain things that you need to know
Before you go on your way
It seems the world is a little busy
Selling lies on for a living
That in a blinking of an eye
The truth has slipped away
And the writings on the wall
To see
It lives on even though you think it's dead and gone
The legacy love leaves behinds was never easy, never kind
It lives on even though you think it's dead and gone
The legacy love leaves behinds was never one to mind
Moving on to the next installment
(In)
Case the bar room jury dies of boredom
The vultures are waiting
For the next meal of the day
Another tale that's sad and sorry
And another love that went so wrong
And all the inside guts and glory
That pushed it all along
It's hard to find the word to say
You just let the days go by, come what may
All the things that we should have done
Just happened anyway
And the writing written on the wall
For everyone to see
It lives on even though you think it's dead and gone
The legacy love leaves behinds was never easy, never kind
It lives on even though you think it's dead and gone
The legacy love leaves behinds was never one to mind
It lives on even though you think it's dead and gone
The legacy love leaves behinds was never easy, never kind
It lives on even though you think it's dead and gone
It's four o'clock in the morning
We're still putting the world to rights
The whiskey's started talking
There's a fire in your eyes
Conspiracy lies heavy
In every word you breathe
Contentious bones - widely known
Watering the seeds
Be sure to send a postcard
When you get there let me know
You know that I won't stop you when you go
It's five o'clock in the morning
And you're glad to be alive
The booze has finished working
The world is on your side
It's clear to see the tyranny
Was all some kind of plot
You secretly confide in me
Where there's brass there's muck
Be sure to send a postcard
When you get there let me know
You know that I won't stop you when you go
Be sure to send a postcard
When you get there let me know
I hope that you can make it on your own
It's six o'clock in the morning
There's nowhere left to hide
Now we've seen the dawn in
All that's left is our good-byes
It's hard to see the sanity
In what we call our lives
Sometimes it seems that you just need
To follow what's inside
Be sure to send a postcard
When you get there let me know
You know that I won't stop you when you go
Be sure to send a postcard
When you get there let me know
