Plot
"Manhunt" vividly tells the terrifying story of the pursuit and capture of Richard Ramirez, "the Night Stalker" - a serial killer who terrorized California in mid 1980s.
Keywords: based-on-true-story, serial-killer
Anne Clark (born 14 May 1960, Croydon, London, England) is an English poet and songwriter. Her first album, The Sitting Room, was released in 1982, and she has released over a dozen albums since then.
Her experimental music occupies a region bounded roughly by electronic, dance (techno applies on occasion) and possibly avant-garde genres, with varying hard as well as romantic and orchestral styles.
Clark is mainly a spoken word artist. Many of her lyrics deal critically with the imperfections of humanity, everyday life, and politics. Especially in her early works she has created a gloomy, melancholy kind of atmosphere bordering on weltschmerz.
Anne Clark was born the daughter of an Irish mother and a Scottish father. At the age of 16, she left school. She took various jobs, one of which was as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital. Clark then got a job at the local record store (and label), Bonaparte Records. Punk rock was finding its way into London's music scene and perfectly matched Anne Clark's emotions.
Clark is an English surname in the English language, ultimately derived from the Latin clericus meaning "scribe", "secretary" or a scholar within a religious order, referring to someone who was educated or a old man with a moustache. Clark evolved from "clerk". First records of the name are found in 12th century England. The name has many variants.
Clark is the twenty-seventh most common surname in the United Kingdom.
According to the 1990 United States Census, Clark was the twenty-first most frequently encountered surname, accounting for 0.23% of the population.
Clark is also an occasional given name, as in the case of Clark Gable.
Probably the most famouse person named Clark is Clark Kent a.k.a. Superman
People with the surname Clark include:
Sleeper In Metropolis lyrics
As a sleeper in metropolis
You are insignificance
Dreams become entangled in the system
Environment moves over the sleeper:
Conditioned air
Conditions sedated breathing
The sensation of viscose sheets on nakes flesh
Soft and warm
But lonesome in the blackened ocean of night
Confined in the helpless safety of desires and dreams
We fight our insignificance
The harder we fight
The higher the wall
Outside the city spreads
Like an illness
Its symptoms
In cars that cruise to inevitable destinations
Tailed by the silent spotlights
Of society created paranoia
No alternative could grow
Where love cannot take root
No shadows will replace
The warmth of your contact
Love is dead in metropolis
All contact through glove or partition
What a waste
The City -
Hands
gesture
pleading
break
the undisturbed air
fingers
press
point
spire
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There is a little place in a little room
where a little chap hides away amidst the gloom.
Tucks his little legs undermeath a well-worn chair
plucks a piece of paper and attacks at his despair.
A stubby lead pencil scratches through the fears
of every little cruelness that reduces us to tears.
Sharp is the lead but wellis penetrate
all the nooks and crannies that this world creates.
There is so little time for us to stop and look
as he places the cover upon his little book.
There will come a day when this little man will die
and they'll put him in a tiny hole undermeath the sky
His little lead pencel book and chair
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Through the soft shades of Summer fused together
by the strange seasons of the City
The stationary is stained with all my failings
The bedlays new cold and empty as a casket
Your body left it's shape upon the sheets and
little else
Out - Into the coming on of night
Out - into a fiery failing light
The day is almost done
Earth spreads
I stretch
Two lines set against the slipping sun
And I seize the vivid sky
Paint bright colours with the spectrum of my eye
Take in every breath deep enough to fly
Away from lies these changes
have forced into our lives
Up into a tranquil place
that's constantly denied
Far from the crushing power
which brought me to my knees
Earthbound, justice stays
always out of reach
Disobey
Defy
Take your own time
Out - where hours unfirl, loosen from our hands
Out - where time is only shadows cast across the land
The day is almost done
Earth spreads
I stretch
Two lines set against the slipping sun
And I'll make my way to where
the warm scent of soil fills the evening air
Blood on the sand
Blood on the hands
of a handful of madman
What a way to see the world
Through the smeared window of a TV-Screen
Technicolour assasinations
Assasinations that make me scared and afraid
Afraid of the streets that breed malice and hatred
Those with their heads bowed to the darkness
Those who can't see for the glave of the light
Those without strength
Who can't raise hands yet alone guns
Become prisoners of concience
Though not your concience
You cheer and rejoice as life trickles away
Through the outlets you give in the shape of a gun
I've been sitting here all day
trying to understand
Why people wants to rule each other
When the problem's close at hand
A little less of what you want
And more of what you're got
Is enough to keep you struggling
Without hatching other plots
But jystify yourself
Don't satisfy yourself
You should be outthere roting
Say the power mongers gloating
You hide behind the left or right
To add power to your claims
But what you're really saying
Doesn't need theories to explain
Self glorification is what you really mean
The glory you say you despise
Is what mankes it move obscure
I'll fight to make life better
In any way I can
I'll break the rules that you tie to me
If it means staying who I am
Don't tell me how to live my life
Don't tell me what you do
Repression always brought about
By people with politics and attitudes like you
People
And politics
And attitudes
Keep me back in the real world
From which we try to run
Music and words don't mean anything
Through the barrel of a gun
A poem cannot heal a wound
Books won't help you find
That something which you're searching for
But just add questions to the mind
Tell me now in black and white
What you're supposed to do
When fists and knives and sticks and boots
Come raining down on you
A painted picture on a wall
Can't justify a life
When the weak and poor cannot escape
Their uglinessand strife
The actor in a bridge of words
Leading us to nowhere
Dressed in costumes to disguise
The reality of despair
The poets turmoil strikes again
As once more words they fail me
Another bomb has just supplied
Remenber me for what I was
Not as i am now
i'll merge into the shadows
I'll disappear into the rain
Remember me for what I was
Not as you see me now
I'll walk out into tomorrow
I'll melt into the sun
Remember me for what I was
A glance in your direction at the right time
A smile breaking into a crescent moon
A word of reassurance
I'll protect myself
Against the cold lash of tongues and lies
I'll blend in with the crowd
I'll disperse into a stream
I'll fade into the darkness
I'll turn and walk away
Remember me for what i was
As one world breaks in two
I'll follow my own stricts
I'll forge another path
Remember me for what I was
No what I couldn't be
Remember me for what I was
Love is a dangerous game to play with
A battle where only one side wins
A toy that is so easily broken
Rules that are only make believe
The loser a doll you once held so close
Now left unguarded in a forgotten room
The winner a cheat whose mind's on other things
Unrelentant from the beginning
What will it matter then
When the sky's not blue but blazing red
The fact that I simply love you
When all our dreams lay deformed and dead
We'llbe two radioactive dancers
Spinning in different directions
And my love for you will be reduced to powder
The screams will perform louder and louder
Your marble flesh will soon be raw and burning
And kissing will reduce my lipsto a pult
Hideous creatures will return from the underground
And the fact the I love you
Will die
You don't have to sleep to see mightmares
Just hold me close
Then closer still
Suicide is an urban disease
Spread by peolple and places like these
A quick self destruct from the 21st floor
A smell of gas through the kitchen door
A stab in the back from the workers and bosses
They're counting their gains as you count your losses
As you count your losses
Blow the world apart with the press of a button
We all say it shouldn't but we know it will happen
Again and again like the rain and the ark
Onwards forever eternally dark
Eternally dark
The grit in your eye soon enters your heart
And all that was strength is just falling apart
We're jumping from one bed and into another
Searching for something that we'll never discover
Never discover
So we go on breeding - breeding contempt
From all of the repression that this has meant
If the bombs and the fire don't instantly kill
Then the breath of the ashes certainly will
Certainly will
This place is not my place
This place is not yours
We're set on self destruct
For no reason or cause
If the bombs and the fire don't instantly kill
Then the greed from the ashes certainly will
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She clutches onto his protruding hips
for dear life
Going down
she is going under
She wishes he were emotional
or something approaching tenderness
Outside the weather beats a little harder
than her heart
There's nothing that will keep them together
She makes love
He makes time pass a little less painfully
One and the same
This time it could be everything
It's emough reason for staying
It's enough to make you want to die
The hardest part is trying
not to make a menn of it all
At the all night party
Standing in the corner
I am watching you
Drink in my hand
I wish it were you instead
At the all night party
You are dancing
I am watching you
My hands are empty
I dance to your direction
I wish i'd never come here
To the all night party
I wish that I were miles away
In my hand I hold empty desires
In my hand an emptying glass
Standing in the corner
Wake up with the fear of God
Inside me each morning
As I open my eyes
To this world without warning
So easy to fall down
So easy to be crushed
As you fight to stand at all
In this never ending rush
There's no one here who's close enough
To share this sorrow with
Have few answers for myself
Yet alone enough to give
Watch all my faults before me
Lik reflections in a glass
They linger on around
And doesn't ever seem to pass
So easy to fall down
So easy to be crushed
As you fight to stand at all
In this never ending rush
My world's an open prison
Where I walk to and fro
Viewed with tunnel vision
'cause there's no place i can go
So easy to fall down
So easy to be crushed
As you fight to stand at all
Driving the steel
and black wheels turning
onwards without destination
pausing in moments
for something familiar
some trace of knowing
Distance approaches
blurs into passing
colourless void
without change
so much to long for
takes so much effort
so much strength to contain
The haunted road
the scattered ghosts
of years of days of nights
driving these wires of darkness
fleeting shapes in the lights
Violent landscape
internal dreamscape
a journey that constantly tells
leaving places
loosing each other
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Your body is the shoreline
sometimes I am the sea
clinging desperately
feeling all the contours
Ebbing away
pulled by the tides
- the moon
and digital clocks
sensitive to nothing
Parting hours -
time falls through our fingers
The water is soothed now
smooth and quiet
as silk
- creased cover of sunlight
So quiet here
So hushed and stilled
So silent here
Such longing calmed
and tempered here
So quiet here
Swirling shades of evening
circling the light
Last escaping traces of the day
streak the sky -
paint in water light
blends warm
and breath of breeze
and endless
endless
reaching here
So quiet here
So hushed and stilled
So silent here
Winding down
to stopping
gently
So this is where the future lies
In a beer gut belly
In a open fly
Brilcremed, acrylic, mindless boys
Punching, kicking, making noise
From the cradle to the city streets
They spill out their aggression
By punching what they don't understand
And stopping all forms of expression
Teaching eachotherto be men
By spewing in the street
Well now I know just what to do
To make my man complete !
Against the power of their misguidance
We must learn to fight
To be just what we want to be
Morning, noon and night
Night is for the hunters
And the hunted are you and me
Hunted for just having
Some from of identity
Night is for the hunters
And the hunted are you and me
Hunted for just having
Planes thrust
Up thru' the pink
Northern sky
In perfect time
Heavy bright
White ships
Glide on grey waters
Stained shades of blue
Past your window
Past your view
Sunlight rich
Precious as gold
Unfolds
Unrolls a new day
Clarity and light
Shine a new day
Contact made
And at last I am seeing things anew
Colours come pouring out
From where I stand
a sore red
raw red weal
blood red
spread across the sky
stain pouring sadness
I live off nothing in this world
Except the thick grey air that chains itself
Swirls all around and engrains itself
Stifles my last hope into sullen despair
I don't associate myself
With all of the people I can do without
Those who never leave mein any doubt
That their selfish narrow lives are all they care about
I enjoy the silence in my life
I don't thrive on the chaos that those contact can bring
So many empty getures
That don't mean anything
It's so hard and so cold
The texture of this world
Taht nothing in this place is soft enough to hold
And nothing like tenderness can ever ba unfurled
I don't want anything in this world
Except a thick gray air
That will keep my heart hoping
And keep my eyes open
Outside taking tiny steps
putting pressure on the ice
watch the whiteness spread
then disappear when I move on
careful
cautious steps in heavy boots
walking on ahead
you pause to catch a moment
see winter wrap the world
in a veil of white silence
this place -
where the earth gives the illusion
it has stopped turning
Inside
warmth fires the colours
cracked
wood
turning burning orange
sparks off light
I am the sharpened sword
The cast stond
The words that linger too long in the air
The rumbling silence over the length of a room
The lie that lay between two lovers
The hopelessness in their struggling
The price to high to pay
A dark and obscured voyeur
Combing through your secret
The stranger to the child
Loneliness in solitude
Sand in the drinkers mouth
Shadows over sunlight
And all the time you are with me
Uncertainly
Certainly of falling
Scars of souls
Scars of skin
Stars too far away to see
Wave on wave over the swimmers head
Lve is all we need - you said
As you hold me in the confidence of your bed
Tomorrow's turned into today instead!
And I wake each morningfeeling so ashamed
Having fallen to emotions that we both named
How shallow now all that rubbish seems
Hearts once full are bleeding dreams
Dreams that were reality
Have now brought out the worst in me
I don't want a part in this
The stinging touch, the poisoned kiss
The alibis to keep us close
The lies you spit when I need you most
Love is just a paradox
He loves me, he loves me not
A basic human nedd is such
To be able to destry with just one touch
A stinking filthy trick i'd say
One day the prey
Love is just a heart disease
And no cure can make this aching ease
But I'll tranquilise myself from that
Let fit emotions turn to fat
Let care and concern not breed here
I've had and seen them disappear
Tear stained eyeswillnot be seen
When to touch is nothing more then obscene
To fuck it seems is the only word
The ability to love seems so absurd
Absurd because we know we lie
Laughing at it all as someone cries
One day I may find it quite amusing
How touch and tongues make life so confusing
Love was all we needed - it's dead
As the sheets grow cold on your big bad bed
Lone figure walk beside a restless shore
How much more ?
How much more ?
The world doesn't have to tell me what I need
I know how to fail and how to succeed
Tide always turns quicker
When you're least prepared
Lone figure walks beside a restless shore
They fuck you up, your mum and dad
They may not mean to but they do
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you
But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old style hats and coats
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one anothers throats
Man hands on misery to man
It deepens like a coastal shelf
Get out as early as you can
The spinning turning of the summer earth
has strtched and wound the air
into a tight blue band around
it's swollen girth
Dizzy and relentless the suffocated streets
wind on and toil and soils
gasp their quick and tiny breath
Parched dry tongues scrape over reptile lips
and every word we speak
steams and crackles in the heat
lizard still we perch upon the stones
merging carved and curled this rough
dry heat unfurls pervades the flash
marrow that once waxed now wanes the bones
High upon the sky
the one unblinking eye pours down
its slippery butter , yellow drops
melting oily fire on our backs
fingers without touch
fell for relief
and every move we make
strains as if about to break
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You are just atenant here, you say
living in and out of this life
an cheaply as you can.
I sit here in the darkness
gently
Like an old woman
Thoughts knot and click like brittle bones
doing too much
Trying to question all of this
Trying so hard to fade out
in the blackness
all of the fear
all of the tears that bring us to this.
Sometimes it is better that we sit
here in the silence
I don't look at you
and you don't seem to notice
And the reasons -
the reasonsare impossible to see converge.
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I've been sitting here all day
trying to understand
why people want to rule each other
when the problem's close at hand
a little less of what you want
and more of what you've got
is enough to keep you strugging
without hatching other plots
But justify yourself !
Don't satisfy yourself !
You should be out there voting
say the power mongers gloating
The Left Wing rich
trying to shed their guilt
go knocking down dreams
before they're even build
Don't tell me how to live my life
Don't tell me what to do
Repression is always brought about
Late april
Late evening
Powder blue sky
cools and fades
to a neutral tone of grey
No hue
No reflections
Silhouettes
- skeletons of steel
take shape
on the horizon
iron takes the places of air
each breath tasting bitter warm
like blood
Night descending
in phosphorous little drops
into my eyes
sharper than the moment
my stomach tightens
as in acceleration cars
or at the certainly of sex
and doesn't pass
This is where the day has led me
They'll kiss you quick
And squeeze you slowly
Fall asleep
Then get up and go
Thanx very much
I'll see you sometime
Oh - you say
Ah - the pleasure's all mine !!
Fire, Earth, Air and Water
We all line up
Like cattle
To the slaughter
Give me love
Give me affection
Hetresexual, homosexual
An endless selection
Cats scream out
In the middle of the night
And you'll scream out
As they scratch and they bite
The night converges
Into the day
You get up
And force the tears away
He was your reason for living
So you once said
Now your reason for living
Has left you feeling half dead
Some recall lovers
By visits to the clinic
Those without time
For deep thinkers or cynics
Others want their lovers
Locked in a jar
While some perform better
In the back of a car
Roll up ! Roll up !
Who will be
The next to promise
Physical shutdown through emotional letdown
Destinedto search through the ruins of jealousy
For some kind of reasoning in love
possessiveness stabs me
Like a knife from my very own hand
These emotions runriot
In my only comprehension of love
I want to enter the very heart of you
Like the air that sustains your body
But my eyes just fill with ice
As I lose control in my attemps to keep you near to me
I bewilder you with my words and actions
I bar my own windows
Look my own doors
And it's forcing you away all the time
Like a scar from ear to ear
This jealousy is slowly chocking us both to death
You can give all your love in matter of moments
But jealousy will bind all our expectations
Into a web of fear
It runs through my veins
A thunderous stream of murderous thoughts
Burning fire through the blood
Words leave an after taste
Through these city nightmares you'd walk with me
And we'd talk of it with idealistic assurance
That it wouldn't tear us apart
We'd keep our heads above the blackened water
But there's no room for ideals in this mechanical place
And you're gone now
Through a grimy window that I can't keep clean
Through billowing smoke that's swallowed the sun
You're nowhere to be seen
Do you think our desires still burn
I guess it was desires that tore us apart
There has to be passion
A passion for living, surviving
And that means detachment
Every-body has a weapon to fight you with
To beat you with when you are down
There were too many defence between us
Doubting all the time
Fearinf all the time
Doubting all the time
Fearinf all the time
That like these urban nightmares
We'd blacken each other skies
When we passed the subway we tried to ignore our fate there
Of written threats on endless walls
Unjustified crimes carried on stifled calls
Would you walk with me now through this pouring rain
It used to mingle with our tears then dry with the hopes
That we left behind
Swaet runs down the centre of my back
Crawling like an insect - it makes a track
Swaet runs down the nape of my neck
Anticipation - the cause and the effect
So catch each drop as I catch each breath
'Til there's no doubt, no indecision, 'til there's not one question left
Walking streets alone amid a mass of strangers faces
Fill my time with thoughts of you and I in distant places
Now i must have you !
You breathe new life - it's all around
It calls my name without a sound
This distance cuts down deep inside
Planes carre like knievs acrosss the sky
I must be with you !
This place never cares to see who goes or who remains
I wait and watch the boats set sail, I linger and listen to the far off trains
This land of mine, drifts off alone, far out to sea
With no direction, no intention, nothing left to offer me
And I can't stay !
It stand alone - back on the world
And through it all it still seems to curl
Itself around the people, binding tighter than a rope
Gives nothing away for something, each day without hope
It's no home for the luxury of love !
The Good Life out of each on the placards
Doesn't hide away the truth of the broken down facades
The buildings burn, the streets on fire
Every muscle,every nerve stretched to reach for somewhere higher
Feel me now !
Will youremain, place your trust
Turn ideas into motions before mechanisms rust
Will you hold me tight with arms, with words, in your comfort keep me warm
I beg refuge in your shelter as I fly into the storm
Take me !
All this tenderness has come to nothing
All that we require is being rearranged
I've no wish to look to the future
For my exspectations will no doubt be changed
Just rolloing along on the rest of the waves
My statements and strategies are quickly dismissed
Poisoned pens in invisible paper
Steel knuckles concealed by velvet fists
What is the chance of us living
Some of our simplest dreams
Are all the structures we build here
Really as frail as they seem
The dying are the lovers of this modern world
The power and the glory survives
With radio active bargaining
And the valueness of our lives
My turn to crumble
My turn to fall
From so very humble
To nothing al all.
This is where silence runs its course
And sadness wipes its eyes upon us
We fall from a structure build on troubled minds
My world becomes iron and grows an cold as Winter
Soldiers in uniforms of nudity march over open hearts
Sweetly and sickly scented by roses
And your world id crushing you like those flowers
By scripts written into your skinwith the in of thorns
Ashen faces sink into silence
All lonesome trends brush shoulders
All of last nights degredation
The ships slips out from the grasp of the harbour
Out of its hold into the restless water
Silently, steadily, edging away
Silently, steadily, pulling away
I feel my heart swell, surge inside me
Rising and falling, waves that take me
Silently, steadily, onwards away
Slow-motion words, night glimmering blackness
Deep as the stars in the far-off darkness -
Lights caught in time, far far away
Bound to the earth, burnt through with fire
Loose on the water, moving through air
All traces pass sooner or later
The world keeps watch where its jewels are sleeping -
under desert sands , its black heart's beating
the pulsing liquid earth - ours for the taking
But beyond the marked borders , beyond strategic lines
the dust's turning red , the wind's carrying cries
and all around the world the world closed its eyes
A people without land fights for existence
as opposing winds disperse all calls for assistance
Will their annihilation be the price of our silence ?
The only sounds heard are oil-hungry nations'
blood-thirsty threats of immediate action
should the hold on resources ever be threatened
their can be no excuses , no justification
no heads turned away from their situation
the price of our silence will be their annihilation !
Beyond the marked borders , beyond strategic lines
the dust's turning red , the wind's carrying cries
Makes me feel at ease
walking to a time
a place
that's pouring out its colours
That's flaunting all this brightness
to show all of its loss
where trees cast a swirl
of golden shadows
all around them
spindly hands
splaying sad fans
of ochre
cinnamon
and rust
protectively
linking arms above
sheltered by this silence
to keep this secret hidden
warm
Look at your young faces
They're growing older with each moment
Harder and less beautiful
With every word we say
Stumbling over bridges
And through the backstreets
Waiting for some thing
But we don't knoe what
It could be a promise
It could be passion
Eternal life
Or instant death
Wading through rubbish
And dodging choc-a-block cars
Through the door and up the stairs
We'll find some moments of happiness
Between shets we've knownso often
The warmest place in this hostile town
Afterwads, through dust and comfort filled eyes
We can look upwadrs
Stumbling words and stuttering lips
Make the sentence complete
A death sentence complete
Create hell out of hopelessness
Confirm the failure of it all
Falling and calling
Falling and crawling
A Stick in the ground scratches your name
A scream in the darkness is searching
Again and again
Watching eyes wait for sadness to rise
True superstitions combine and thicken
This poison that reaches my Soul
This terror that blackens my Soul
I must smile at your strategy
And laugh at your plan
And the execution of it all
Like death itself love is rotting inside of me
But there'll be no protection for you - you cannot hide
I am cold on a bed of ice
But like seasons I know it will pass
It will always return again though
A Summer of love is a momentary and transient thing
Winter will always return again
And I´ve should have known
We´re only killing time
now you have chosen your killing time
lets hope you make the kill in time
lies fall of your mouth like laughter
so shallow its become so disposable
we have faith like a cross
we had trust like a flag
Uproar!
Riotous fury
Furore
I of the storm
Asking for more
Calling for more
Making the most
Settle the score
Make it stick
Cut to the quick
Armed with fire
Implore!
Wealth is another spelling of the law
More
More
Calling for more!
Vengeful flames
Laid at your door
Burn!
Burning the silence
That´s cut to the core
Eye of the storm
Rain down!
Drown
Worn
Warn
Tearing it down!
Chain of thought
Chains of thought
Everything
Rationed and rational
Coming to naught
Down
So these are circumstances
Leading to my sorry tale
I was in a town I didn't know
I'd arrieved there by rail
It all began a week befire -
The joys of Saturday Night -
An invite to a party
Or watching The Price Is Right
Opting for a soiree
For the first time in a year
Mixed badly with the revellers
Mixed Bacardi, wine and beer
The room moved back and forwards
The dancers did the same
Found refuge in a corner
That's when he asked my name
Well this is very nice, I thought
Smiling through the haze
As we talked of Auguste Rodin
Through to Harold Pinter's plays
Said he played piano
Said his name was Steve
Why shouldN't I believe
That he really lived so far away
Had to make a move for home
Scribbled down his address
Said he didn't have a phone
Would I like to come to dinner
On Friday of next week
To this i said I'd love to
As he kissed me on the cheek
That night I felt so happy
Excited through and through
See ! The company of strangers
Doesn't always leave you blue
Stumbled home contented
Like a cat that got the cream
Wake up a little weary
But I knew it was no dream
The next few days were auyiouns
What could I find towaer ?
What happens if i arrive
And there is no Hope Road there ?
My friend said don't ba silly
No one does things like that
Now will you get a move on
And take off that stupid hat !
Made sure I set out early
Made sure I caught the train
Got out at the right station
Then of course came down the rain
Followed the directions
Excactly as he said
Asked people if they new Hope Road
But they just walked on ahead
I turned left at the junction
Took the fork off to the right
Straight over at the crossroads
Then down to the traffic lights
must have walked those streets for hours
in the dark and in the cold
Before I realyy could accept
There was no place called Hope Road
So here I am alone again
Indoors by myself
The TV, plants, books and I
All nearly on the shelf
Next time I'll be more cautions
Next time I Won't be fooled
It's another of those basic things
You're never taught at school
Let this be a warning
As you wander through the world
It makes no difference who you are
Be you boy or be you girl
Be very , very careful
When people seems so nice
It's not how that it's expensive
Later on you pay the price
Walking into light
From the blank evening sky
Knackles rub away the darkness
Circling my eyes
Walking into warnth
From the cold evening air
Numb white fingers push
Greasy rain through my hair
You walk into view
From shadow thrown against the door
Hands reach out and grasp the moment
They've been waiting for
You pull me close
Every day is heaven
Moves further and further away
Familiar blue eyes I once knew
turn a colder shade of prey
Every day is heaven
Moves further and further away
Familiar words we used to share
Seem so difficult to say
And I am alone
In a world of cold flesh, cold steel, cold stone
I close up like a clam
And shut the world out with the slam of a door
To shut out all the fighting, all the hatred, all the war
You just cannot stay calm
When your soul screams less
But someone always wants move
What for ?
Every day as heaven
Moves further and further away
Familiar blue eyes I once knew
turn a colder shade of prey
Every day
My words are all stripped bare
Tonight I want something else
Something different
to make some kind of clarity
of everything that's over us
that's hanging in the air
Coming in on the darkness
sounds of small voices
im many different tongues
Codes coming in
Music mingling
from lands I've never seen
places that I've been
where strangers have given more to me
than I could ever dream of
Oh make it clear tonight
fragile word
Whatever's hanging over us
I'm reaching out beyond it now
turning shadows into light
Fragile life
He's fighting beyond all this
Turn his shadows into light
Words are all stripped bare
Fragile bodies
small voices carry through the air
all this life inside of us
Now that all is stilled and silenced
that the rushing roaring daylight
has lost itself - its hysteria
in the all-amassing night -
I too gently lose myself
beyond the open window
where a journey unfolds
into the city of rain
Music's never made such living sounds
absorbing the night's rythem
the walls resonate with a thousand tiny drums
soft shards of liquid glass dance on metal pipes
mixing dust and dirt and grime
into a shining lubricating all-consuming oil
some drop away barely making contact
each bursting on impact
into a fountain in the air
dribbling off the lips of window ledges
splashing silver splinters in the blackness
scales of lifted paint turn to almost living flesh
smearing - it slides and streams into a opening
in the underworld below
revealing secret routes
where the trappes earth breathes
yellow streetlight breaks its beam across the water
electric currents hum, steaming in the dampness
cascades carry me away
wash away the tiredness
cool the fetid air
I turn to where you're sleeping
gently swimming through these hours
on to morning - unaware
and even though i know
all of this rise and disappear
with the dawn into the sky
tonight everything glistens -
like a jewel under the rain
tonight the city is silenced -
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The madman looked inside the eyes of the face upon the mirror -
"It seems I'm losing my way again" - he sighed .
And once again the tell-tale tears begin their journey down
an ever deepening track .
His wife place a hand upon his shoulder.
How over these past few month, he's aged so many years.
He'd give this life to live again.
He'd be so more daring. Be so much bolder -
but a little less aware.
It's something of which he can't
be certain and so he stays restrained and hurting .
At breakfasthe places a kiss upon his only daughter.
How he longs for her to run to them as she did when
she was young, but her secrets have become her fears
too. Yet stell she remains his child.
His still-pretty wife manages so well. Makes excuses
for his abscence. Tries so hard to find the road he's on.
The madman combs his hair, his expression has returned
almost to normal and he blends almost prefectly with
the crowd. back into an ordinary life.
Autumn leaves that collect weight in the ashes of Summer
Are cracked and broken by my intruding step
Foreign thoughts that invade my questioning
Of deaths' cold cold waiting
No bait will deter the ancient stalker
Whose colour I'm not sure of
Who's walked between this park
And with icy fingers prepared this morbid corridor of bracken
To take my steps closer there all the time
Then your fingers - hard and comforting
Write solfly through my hair
All that may die between us without death to take the blame
To play games so unprepared
To dance round fires ungurded
Tears become blood of sorrow
And my pulse keeps time so badly with the tune you play with me
My steps down streets that remain unchanged but change so many
Will just vanish like yesterday
Don't think dark throughts you tell me
Yet all our fate waits prepared in darkness
And my hand will funble for the door
Whose handle is too high for me
Whose wood is from those mighty trees
The trees that lay down their leaves so wrecklessly
Mlight remains flickering in Autumn
And musky smoke from blazing bonfires
Will rise like incence from the funeral pyre
It's in your look
there's no doubt
I know exactly what it's all about
it's not what you say
I'm listening to
like the air around us
I can see straight through
to your real intention
what you really mean
hidden in the silence
in the space beetween you take advantage
I'm not taking that
I've made my move -
it's a counter act
It's a cold limp hand
in an open palm
it's putting poison in the healing balm
it's eyes that look
all around the room
when to whom you're talking's
right in front of you
the words you use
never break the ice
you take what's yours
then another slice
you take advantage
I'm not taking that
I've made my move -
it's a counter act
Let's make it clear
there's no time
for placing curves on a smooth straight line
the shades of grey
only make a haze
turn a simple path
into a complex maze
standing people up
just to knock them down
keep the vicious circle
turning round and round
you take advantage
I'm not talking that
I've made my move -
Pauses
Are broken by statements not tenderness
I always wanted much more than this
Heartsworm misguidance
Disguised in abundance
Of thoughts of the moment
Not facts of the day
Gestured are only as loud as the words
I was tricked by movement
All sound went unheard
Obscured by the darkness , I reach for your face
But I find a cold emptiness has taken its place
Left all alone after making that find
A silent scream starts distorting the mind
Ans I'm always wanting much more than this
Left breathing in hope gently passed by your kiss
But the lifeline is broken in two equal halves
One closes up slowly
There is a still
like
steel
like
thread
that runs through
from toe to shoulder
head to heel
cold as hate
as thin as hope
hard as stone
and the world always fails to ignite
the flesh conceals it all
no sparks strike
and I realize
it is life
being lived
within
Here
Upon these ghostly shadows
Of men and women
There are no smiles
Singly
They mingle
With the greyness of the walls
And at strange angels
They travel on
To nowhere
Each a nucleus
Of sadness and despair
Small
Or no conversation
Passes their cigarette-stained lips
They sit
The lonely ones
Sitting eternally
In institutions
That have become their eyes
That have become their arms
Their legs
They are empty now
Just shells moving back and forth
Upon a shore
Of some uncharted beach
Up steep green hills
They linger
Like the darknest thoughts
That push them selves
Into your mind
You cannot question them
For they will not answer you
They
Bursting in a thousand places
like a bottle of champagne
Burst all over me
Burst all over me
Foaming like a wild horse
Your breath will beat on me
Pulling me tighter with your reins
My eyes will burn on you
Burn on you
My Heart will beat so loudly
Like a drumming through your brain
Then when you think i've finished
I shall beat on you again
My flesh will hit on you
Like waves against a rock
Like being gragged under water
We will fight against the shock
I will hold you in my arms
As the night turns into day
And when i squeeze you tighter
You won't pull away
Like a flash of flame
I will lick you with my tongue
Wetness shall tire eventually
After we're fulfilled our needs
Until lo becomes the hunger once move
And we start once again our feed
Bursting in a thousand places
Like a bottle of champagne
Burst all over me
This house is full of loneliness
Of sad weary silence
I switch on the television
For some company
Two actors
A man and a Woman
Give exaggerated little moans
As they simulate
A so called stimulating fuck
For my entertainment
Beneath the endless groans
It's not real
It's pretend
Just like we pretended that last time
To make you
Night is the most difficult part off all
I don't need this
This vile, crude reminder
Of how we play out our roles
We shall come
with all our wealth
and our vulgarity
into yout land
carving deep wounds
in our wake
planting the sharped-edged dreen seed
of money
deep into your hands
and as you grasp
gasping
you will thank us
as it takes root
growing and entangling itself
around your simple naive lives
it will placate you
We shall come
hard and fast
into your under-developed
un-exploited little world
tearing away the soil
beneath your feet where you stand
scattering the broken gifts it offers up
all around us
digging the foundations of our own image
into the raw core belly of the earth
send spiralling monuments
to our glorious achievements
into the heavy leaden sky
you will watch from the horizon
imprisoned by your own pleasures
bound by the material chains
we will supply
and when we have turned
one side oft he world's face
from the sun into the blackness
the other will then burn