When sand's close at hand
And the sea is touching me
I feel much happier than I've ever felt
And a long time goes by
And I'm floating in the sky
And I wish you could be
Wish you could be here
And if you're free, follow me
Throw a pebble in my sea
The sun will wrap you up in a pool of gold
And lights in the night, in the night
Reaching neon waves of sight
But I wish you could be
Wish you could be
Wish you could be here
The sun, the sand, the sea are waiting
On the corner, take a trip out here
Hustle, bustle, shove and fuss
Will greet you if you stay there
I'm without a care
Fresh fruit and sea fish
Are in abundance here
But they don't allow
The natives at your door selling booze
Smuggled from another shore
And I wish you could be
Wish you could be
Wish you could be here
The sun, the sand, the sea are waiting
On the corner, take a trip out here
Hustle, bustle, shove and fuss
Will greet you if you stay there
I'm without a care
Fresh fruit and sea fish
Are in abundance here
But they don't allow
The natives at your door selling booze
Smuggled from another shore
And I wish you could be
Wish you could be
Wish you could be here
[Chorus:]
We're having a lovely time, wish you were here
We're having a lovely time, wish you were here
There's miles of frankfurters and people who hurt us in Germany
We haven't played since yesterday
There's just ten more shows and one week to go
We'd all like to go
[Chorus]
Great piles of spaghetti, bad vibes like confetti in Italy
We go by train and not by plane
We'd come home by car if it wasn't too far
To drive home by car
Hope you're well at home,
Next week I'll try to phone,
Not very long to go,
I'll tell you when I'm coming home as soon as I know
[Chorus]
There's lots of French fries, disapproving eyes in the U.S.A.
We've had no shows since I don't know
There's just one thing wrong, we've been here too long
The money's all gone
[Chorus]
There's kangaroos and we're bad news in Australia
Thrown off the plane for drinking beer
So long on the plane it drove us insane
So long on the plane
Hope you're well at home,
Next week I'll try to phone
Not very long to go
I'll tell you when I'm coming home as soon as I know
[Chorus]
We've done very well, but we've been to hell and heaven as well
If you happen to live on Mars
Then I'm from Outer Space
Where we drive around in cars
And talk right out of our face
We walk around on feet
And we fly around in planes
There's this stuff called food we eat
And think with these things called brains
Greetings from the Planet Earth
To the many worlds in the Universe
Wish you were here
Hope you can come
We'll have some intergalactic funIf you happen to live on Mercury
Then I'm an alien
And I'm in a real big hurry
To see a spaceship come sailing in
I look out the window and wonder
Who's wondering back from the stars
And I love to hear the thunder
So everyone hum a few bars
Greetings from the Planet Earth
To the many worlds in the Universe
Wish you were here
Hope you can come
We'll have some intergalactic fun
Well I've been sittin' here, thinkin' about you
'Bout what it is that you, you want from me
You know it seems that I still don't know you well
Know many faces I have seen
Still I try, to make you happy
Still I try, to make you sing
Now if you're wonderin', what I think of it all
Just read the back of this postcard
The air here, breathing's great
Lord, we've cooked ourselves
Now were cookin' up an ass kickin' time (didn't we?)
This town is nuts, my kind of place
I don't want to leave
I don't never, never, never, never want to leave.
I never, never, never, never want to leave
Never, never
I see you in a
Thousand costumes
Strike many a silent pose
I heard you tell a thousand stories
Everyone in a different voice
Still I try, to make you happy
Still I try, to make you sing
Now if you're wonderin', what I think of it all
Just read the back of this postcard
The air here, breathing's great
Lord, we've cooked ourselves
Now were cookin' up an ass kickin' time (didn't we?)
This town is nuts, my kind of place
I don't want to leave
I don't never, never, never, never want to leave.
I never, never, never, never want to leave
Never, never
I'm taking my car - I never want to leave
I'm taking my car..
* I'll send you a postcard from heaven's ocean
I feel like staying here in heaven's ocean
I've been dreaming for days now
Jump in the sea I do that easily
The sounds drowning what I'm seeing
Count everyone for questions I have not known
(*Repeat)
There's a storm in my thoughts now
Come wash me clean beneath the waves with me
Now we're smiling see me smiling
Silence is what I need it's only in the sea
Verse 1:
Once I thought I was more right than wrong,
Painting myself in the corner.
What I bought and why it takes so long,
Something inside of her warned her.
Chorus:
I know that it doesn't matter much
But I hope we'll, keep in touch.
I know that we won't go on as such
But I hope we'll, keep in touch.
Could it be that hard,
To send you a postcard?
Verse 2:
Fragile smile, a ragged sleeve,
Didn't laugh once to often. (pause)
Before a while, it takes to grieve,
Try to repair what I've done.
Chorus
You laugh across the kitchen,
At something in a magazine.
I frown across the table,
So blunt, I'm never seen.
Your hair falls in your eyes as you ask
";What do you mean?";
Verse 3:
See yourself never satisfied,
In the clothes that you try now.
I swore myself, I said I'd never cry.
Close to saying goodbye now.
Last Chorus:
I know that it doesn't matter much
But I'm hoping to keep in touch.
I know that we won't go on as such
But I'm hoping to keep in touch.
Could it be that hard,
To send me a postcard?
We though of different ways to relight the fire
Worked few times before
Little we knew it was only half the battle
It was way more to endure
Agreed to never stop and go the distance
Love without a heart
That flowing feeling on an air balloon just
Ain't there between us
Listen, in our hour blessed us
That'll do for us
We just can't seem to repair this
Forget that touch
Like the sun in the sky
If I escape when I look in your eyes
I can't face you and say goodbye
It's never easy
So I'll just send you a postcard
By the time you receive it
I bet I'm on your 'hate you' list
Send you a postcard
Hope you can read it
Cause my teardrops ran and blurred the ink
Send it on a postcard
Give it a shot
My mind is sure
But my heart is not
This is so hard, to be so far
P.S. with a lipstick kiss
Send it on a postcard
So keep telling each other it will get better
But I still feel the weight
It's heavy on my brain like a thousand tons of
Falling hail, it rained
The miles we went to get is up a twisted
Now would that get it again
The wind's too strong to hold us any longer
When it's over, it's over
Listen, in our hour blessed us
That'll do for us
We just can't seem to repair this
Forget that touch
Like the sun in the sky
If I escape when I look in your eyes
I can't face you and say goodbye
It's never easy
So I'll just send you a postcard
By the time you receive it
I bet I'm on your 'hate you' list
Send you a postcard
Hope you can read it
Cause my teardrops ran and blurred the ink
Send it on a postcard
Give it a shot
My mind is sure
But my heart is not
This is so hard, to be so far
P.S. with a lipstick kiss
Send it on a postcard
I want you to know
When the plane took off
I was wishing that I had a parachute
Cause there was one side of my head
Screaming feelings of a breath and I saw the truth
We can start over new
You know what comes next when we do
We make the same U-turn that led us both stranded here
So I'll just send you a postcard
By the time you receive it
I bet I'm on your 'hate you' list
Send you a postcard
Hope you can read it
Cause my teardrops ran and blurred the ink
Send it on a postcard
Give it a shot
My mind is sure
But my heart is not
This is so hard, to be so far
P.S. with a lipstick kiss
Send it on a postcard
Oh, no, no, no, I'll
Send it on a postcard
Yes, I know I was kinda wrong
Send it on a postcard
Send it on a postcard
Cause I couldn't look at you
You have spoken
The photo's fading
And nothing is going right
A shooter's hand
To turn a cheek to
A cough in an empty room at night
Leaves are eyes
That look inside
A secret society
Here's victory now if
That's what you're into
Just take it away from me
"May God strike me dead"
she shouted from her bed
I said "Look at your mouth
It's bleeding now and so all pours out
Too easily you choose
My version of the truth
When all I ask of you
Is send me a postcard when you get there"
A monkey's tooth
A lukewarm bath
A stray dog out in the driveway
Here's Albany in a photo finish
Just wipe the dust away
"May God strike me dead"
she shouted from her bed
I said "Look at your mouth
It's bleeding now and so all pours out
Too easily you choose
My version of the truth
When all I ask of you
Is send me a postcard when you get there"
Yeah, when you get down there
Send me a postcard
Yeah, when you get down there
Wherfore art thou
Johnny Carson?
Retired and never coming back
A backroom basement
A sixty watt bulb
There's nothing that I lack
"May God strike me dead"
she shouted from her bed
I said "Look at your mouth
It's bleeding now and so all pours out
Too easily you choose
My version of the truth
When all I ask of you
Is send me a postcard when you get there"
Yeah, when you get down there
Send me a postcard
Yeah, when you get down there
Send to me a postcard from anywhere
Send to me a postcard from anywhere
I never thought there were corners in time
Till I was told to stand in one
One straight line head on into the other
Maybe standing in the corner looks like where it's got to come.
But I pretend one wall is the past and one is the future
And I just stand here like the present looking for a
Good place to run
Every fish that swims upstream now that's a catch
Because the full mouth never wants to stop cooking.
The map may be flat, the globe may be patched
But the long line keeps right on hooking
Circles in the ring of fire, where do you go
On a night that is clear and warm?
Oh where do you go?
I never thought there were corners in time
Till I was told to stand in one
I've heard circles moving right through corners
And they don't even know they've been around and around before
Ringing, ringing against each other on a singing chain
Like a flying magnet hyperdrive has never seen any reason
To remain the same.
Because I felt it I believe it
Because there are things I've never seen that I believe
So I'm going to place my face right in the triangle door
Till I can move right on through instead of just standing here
Looking at the floor.
And it rains again tonight, I can think light years ahead
Or I could put myself back a thousand years ago
As if I'd always been here before or as if I am still to be born
I'm a slow loser, but I'm a fast learner
That much I know
Anyone can go
That much I know
Anyone can go
That much I know
Anyone can go.
Lost sight of ground, never been so down
Nothing here to stand on
It's a war-weary road another faceless tombstone
Nothing here to stand on
Turn to face the wind may never get out
Forever caught in a spin, no better place to begin
Can't find the phone, can't hear to listen
Can't take along what we're missing
Just as well to write this postcard from Helland
The bar clock says three a.m
Fallout shelter sign above the door
In other words, don't come here anymore
Too many miles between I heard a dead man scream
Nothing here to stand on
Each and every step reeling out more or less
Nothing here to stand on
I turn to face the wind may never get out
Forever caught in a spin no better place to begin
I turn to face the wind may never get out
Forever caught in a spin no better place to begin
Tried to stay, tried to run
There's never been enough reason to believe in anyone
This trickle-down theory has left all these pockets empty
And the bar clock says three a.m.
Fallout shelter sign above the door
It's pouring outside and my roof is leaking
I just let the raindrops bleed out the ink
From my notebook sheets and
Today is a Thursday and then it's three days late
I marked on the calendar and circled today's date
This is the last straw, this isn't life here
I'm packing my dreams up and leaving my nightmares
And they say, go west till you feel the sunset
And there you're becoming a star
So I traded my skinny jeans for dreams and Limousines
And I'm gone
I'll send you a postcard saying I'm alright
I'll write on the back that I'm in love with life and
And sign my name in the stars
My radio's turned up, a full tank in my car
And I promise we'll be together
I'll never say never, I'll always remember, goodbye
'Cause I gotta go, oh, oh, oh
I'll send you a postcard
Smashing on the gas, 95 on the highway
Got about a thousand more miles to go
I might make it by Friday
The road's never ending, I'm never so patient
The choice is now all mine for my destination
They ask why I'm rushing, my dreams are waiting
So fasten your seat belt 'cause I'm gonna make it
And they say, go west till you feel the sunset
And there you're becoming a star
So I traded my skinny jeans for dreams and Limousines
And I'm gone
I'll send you a postcard saying I'm alright
I'll write on the back that I'm in love with life and
And sign my name in the stars
My radio's turned up, a full tank in my car
And I'll promise we'll be together
I'll never say never, I'll always remember, goodbye
'Cause I gotta go, oh, oh, oh
I'll send you a postcard, yeah, I'll send you a postcard, yeah
To whom it may concern, whoever this gets to
There's no looking back, I took off my rear view
Got my hopes on the passenger side
There's only room for two
And I'll, I'll send you a postcard saying I'm all right
I'll write on the back that I'm in love with life
And sign my name in the stars
My radio's turned up, a full tank in my car
And I promise we'll be together
I'll never say never, I'll always remember, goodbye
'Cause I gotta go, ho, oh, oh
You sent a pretty postcard
From a far and lonely sea
A dancer and a mandolin
They looked like you and me
I've been awake for hours and hours
I should be fast asleep
I lost the place and out it fell
Your postcard from the beach
Sometimes when I'm talking to myself
I'll swear it's all a dream
November babies and northern winds
The scars you said I'd keep
But if you'd never come here
You'd never have had to leave
And all the bones upon the beach
They all sung out to me
Grab it into your hands, don't let go and grab it
But look the way it curls out of your fingers
I used to wish I was the cigarette inside your mouth
You'd roll me up and breathe me in
But then you'd blow me out
And I would float and curl my way
A vapour trail the end of me
All that's left a place that's kept
There is a house in the picture
Inside the house is a room
Once round it is a short circuit
When times are hard I think about you
When times are hard I think about you
Four walls, one has a window
One has a door, which I go out of
I just thought you'd like to know
I don't think you're listening
I don't think you're listening
I don't think you're listening
I think I'll tell you again
This clock shows only mythical hours
These books show only fictional days
One system is only as good as another
When times are hard I think about you
When times are hard I think about you
Four walls, one has a window
One has a door, which I go out of
I just thought you'd like to know
I don't think you're listening
I don't think you're listening
I don't think you're listening
I think I'll tell you again
You pack your case and you're leaving
You live your life in a different place
So many miles in between us
Give anything just to see your face
When you come home I'll be waiting
Imagination's gonna pull me through
Yeah yeah
I will send you
All my love
In a postcard
All my love
I spend my time thinkin' of you
My nights and days turned into grey
I can't hold moments together
Winter¹s come since you've been away
My heart is yours now forever
I feel my love must be a part of you
Yeah yeah
I will send you
All my love
In a postcard
All my love
I realize why I miss you
It seems so strange everything's unchanged
I feel I'm caught in a silence
I feel my life has been rearranged
When you come home I'll be waiting
When you left you took my heart with you
Yeah Yeah
I will send you
All my love
In a postcard
You pack your case and you're leaving
You live your life in a different place
So many miles in between us
Give anything just to see your face
When you come home I'll be waiting
Imagination's gonna pull me through
Yeah yeah
I will send you
All my love
In a postcard
All my love
I spend my time thinkin' of you
My nights and days turned into grey
I can't hold moments together
Winter箂 come since you've been away
My heart is yours now forever
I feel my love must be a part of you
Yeah yeah
I will send you
All my love
In a postcard
All my love
I realize why I miss you
It seems so strange everything's unchanged
I feel I'm caught in a silence
I feel my life has been rearranged
When you come home I'll be waiting
When you left you took my heart with you
Yeah Yeah
I will send you
All my love
In a postcard
Oh, I do like to be beside the sea
Drinking bear sits in Silver's Arcade
Sips imaginary lemonade
Amusement Pork!
Writing letters home
What a lovely view-EE-ooo (blah blah blab blab) (Dear
Mom)
"What the Butler Saw" was a bit of a drag
The captain says he's going to heave, too
Bored with Bingo, we went for a swim
Fat sea cows with gorgonzola skin
Semi-nude!
After lunch, we grabbed our trunks
And we all got cramp!
Trousers rolled, the sea is cold
But it's good for chillblains
On the prom, white plimsolls and blue shorts
Brass band playing by the tennis courts
Love-fifteen! Love fifteen year olds
What a lovely view-EE-ooo, I've written at last
What's the rudest one? Just for a laugh
Just married and it sticks out for a mile!
We wish you were here
We wish you were here
We wish you were here
We wish you were here
We wish you were here
We wish you were here
We wish you were here
We wish you were here
We wish you were here
We wish you were here
We wish you were here
We wish you were here
We wish you were here
It rained yesterday, so we stayed indoors
The food's all right, I'm okay, hope you are same
Wish you were always, your loving son Anthony
This is where I am.
Where are you?
Message in a bottle or a time bomb?
It's hard to think it matters when everything is on,
A delay line three weeks long.
This is a picture I never saw.
And these are words I never said.
This is a lie I could never tell.
This is where I am, where are you?
You’ve got a lot of nerve coming around here acting like
You’re someone else
Cos no two-bit player’s gonna have it over me
So when you’re out playing games and you get caught don’t
Expect my help
Cos when the rules get dirty they can be a bit hard to
Read
You’ve got love for everything that I don’t want
But you mean a lot more to me
You’d better send me a postcard
And tell me what it’s like in the real world
Learning your lessons
You had a lot of fun but you’ll be back soon
Now you never thought the day would come you were left
All by yourself
But turn a couple more pages and the ending’s there to see
So when the roof’s caving in and you get caught don’t
Expect my help
Because all the money in the world won’t buy you what you need
You told me all about the things that you couldn’t believe
And tied them up hoping that they wouldn’t breathe
There’s food on the table but it’s going cold
You lost your appetite for life as you were getting old
The questions that you had you kept them to yourself
And went about your life to increase your wealth
The years of prediction all come down to this
Every time I open a message from you
I cry a little bit because I miss everything we used to be
Oh baby are you coming back for me?
What’s the point, I know you couldn’t even if you wanted to
No, no, no, Noooooooo
So I’ll send a postcard to you
To let you know that I’ve been missing you dear
Have you been missing me too?
Oh a postcard cuz I wish you were here
Every day when I think about your sweet face
It takes me back to that place
Where we danced, kissed, talked, laughed and had a good time
But then fate got in the way of everything we should be today
I cried when you said goodbye
But I still love you anyway
So I’ll send you a postcard to help you find your way back to me
Oh a postcard so that you’ll never leave
The colorful leaves fall slowly
When there’s no one to dance in them with me
Snow is colder when there’s no warm heart by my side
And my heart cracks a little bit farther with each goodbye
Cuz there’s no one to hold me and catch my tears no
My guitar feels all alone with no one to help me play it
My hands feel empty with no one to touch them slowly
Oh no one to help the pain ease and help my heart forget
Oh whoa why aren’t you with me?
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Every day when I think about your sweet face
It takes me back to that place
Where we danced, kissed, talked, laughed and had a good time
But then fate got in the way of everything we should be today
I cried when you said goodbye
But I still love you anyway
So I’ll send you a postcard to help you find your way back to me
Oh a postcard so that you’ll never leave
When we eventually reunite
I’ll right into your eyes
I’ll hold the postcard in my hands and I’ll never say goodbye (no)
Oh when we, when we, when we reunite
Every day when I think about your sweet face
It takes me back to that place
Where we danced, kissed, talked, laughed and had a good time
But then fate got in the way of everything we should be today
I cried when you said goodbye
But I still love you anyway
So I’ll send you a postcard to help you find your way back to me
I think it's time that I got off the kitchen floor
But is there really any point at all?
Waking up this morning felt the same
Better sleep while life is so mundane
It could have been yesterday that I locked the door
I blocked the windows up so I can't be sure
Now I haven't even got the will to eat
I'm lame and self-obsessed, that I will concede
I'd like to light a cigarette but I cannot
The lighter's dead and the gas has been cut off
I'm the one you always seem to read about
The fire inside my eyes has long gone out
There's nothing left for me to say or do
I'm going to make the same mistake
Same thing i did just yesterday
I know i'm running out of time
This is the wrong place for my kind
Say what you want to i don't care what your'e thinking
Send me a postcard i don't care what your'e writing
Always been talking, about making dreams come true
I won't be there to take it away from you
Nobody wanted you to go
Even your daddy told me so
But you're so eager in your way
I change the subject every day
Say what you want to i don't care what your'e thinking
Send me a postcard i don't care what your'e writing
Always been talking about making dreams come true
I won't be there to take it away from you
Say what you want to i don't care what your'e thinking
Send me a postcard i don't care what your'e writing
Always been talking about making dreams come true
Dear biggest mistake
I got the postcard that you sent me
I guess you not coming home
It sounds like things are great
And you're better of without me
You needed some time to grow
But that doesn't make it easier
Cause I'm living in a world of hurt
As I lay awake
I make a point to check the night sky
And wonder where you are
Because it's only been four days
Since your postcard came to find me
And I know you can be that far
And though I see your face when I try to sleep
Pretending I'm okay
I'm not about to cry and rain on your dreams
Instead I'll hide my pain
I'm not me, I'll be truthful
You'll be sorry when I'm gone
But I'm way too far lost
Dear my worst regret
I hear your voice with every sunset
The though of you keeps me warm
And even if I say
Everything that's wrong was my fault
I know you're not coming home
But that doesn't make it easier
Here come greetings from the fires of dusk From all the places you never dared to walk You never saw the silent battle zones Beneath towers and beyond your gardens
Was born a walker Into this world I walk
And what's to miss about the old ball and chain? Imaginary top of the food-chain ways I found more truth in a cheap bottle of wine I found more life by a burning barrel
Was born a walker And so away I walk Was born a walker And this world I stalk
Run by my friend If you think you are free Duck my friend, and cover If you think you are safe
[Talking @ 3:13] (What if our mission is...)
(What? What?)
If you happen to live on Mars
Then I'm from Outer Space
Where we drive around in cars
And talk right out of our face
We walk around on feet
And we fly around in planes
There's this stuff called food we eat
And think with these things called brains
Greetings from the Planet Earth
To the many worlds in the Universe
Wish you were here
Hope you can come
We'll have some intergalactic fun
If you happen to live on Mercury
Then I'm an alien
And I'm in a real big hurry
To see a spaceship come sailing in
I look out the window and wonder
Who's wondering back from the stars
And I love to hear the thunder
So everyone hum a few bars
Greetings from the Planet Earth
To the many worlds in the Universe
Wish you were here
Hope you can come
There’s a breeze in the air
Clawing for attention and the blink of an eye
Well I had a clue way before it took a hold of me, but
Lost in my dreams I believed in my divinity
Once upon a time there was a girl who sang poems
Woven for the shivers of the tattered children’s
corners
And she is scolded my intentional lack of concentration
She pointed out my gibberish was leaving smudges at the
edges
And I said “bask in the glorious blur of shattered
borders
And don’t be surprised at my callousness to callers
I’m coming closer to the light so bright
And the story that I’ve written to them all ends in a
postcard
Postcard, postcard, postcard”
Well the walls crashing down and I’m trapped by
indecision
The choice is all mine, it overwhelms my sense of
vision and the sweetness,
The sweetness of my freedom was buried and the breeze
spreads the dust like disease
The story that I’ve written to them all ends with a
postcard, a postcard
The story that I’ve written to them all ends with a
postcard, a postcard
The story that I’ve written to them all ends with a
postcard
And that cryptic written message says I wish you were
here
The story that I’ve written to them all ends with a
