-------- The Dream of the Blue Turtles -------- -------- If You Love Somebody Set Them Free -------- Free, free, set them free Free, free, set them free Free, free, set them free If you need somebody Call my name If you want someone You can do the same If you want to keep something precious You got to lock it up and throw away the key If you want to hold onto your possession Don't even think about me If you love somebody If you love someone If you love somebody If you love someone, set them free Set them free Set them free Set them free If it's a mirror you want Just look into my eyes Or a whipping boy Someone to despise Or a prisoner in the dark Tied up in chains you just can't see Or a beast in a gilded cage That's all some people ever want to be If you love somebody If you love someone If you love somebody If you love someone, set them free Set them free Set them free Set them free You can't control an independent heart Can't tear the one you love apart Forever conditioned to believe that we can't live We can't live here and be happy with less So many riches So many souls With everything we see that we want to possess If you need somebody Call my name If you want someone You can do the same If you want to keep something precious You got to lock it up and throw away the key You want to hold onto your possession Don't even think about me If you love somebody If you love someone If you love somebody If you love someone, set them free Set them free Set them free Set them free Set them free -------- The Dream of the Blue Turtles -------- -------- Love Is The Seventh Wave -------- In the empire of the senses You're the queen of all you survey All the cities, all the nation Everything that falls your way, I say There is a deeper world than this that you don't understand There is a deeper world that this tugging at your hand Every ripple on the ocean Every leaf on every tree Every sand dune in the desert Every power we never see There is a deeper wave than this, swelling in the world There is a deeper wave than this, listen to me girl Feel it rising in the cities Feel it sweeping overland Over borders, over frontiers Nothing will its power withstand, I say There is no deeper wave than this rising in the world There is no deeper wave than this listen to me girl All the bloodshed, all the anger All the weapons, all the greed All the armies, all the missiles All the symbols of that fear, I say There is a deeper wave than this rising in the world There is a deeper wave than this, listen to me girl At the still point of destruction At the centre of the fury All the angels, all the devils All around us, can't you see? There is a deeper wave than this rising in the land There is a deeper wave than this nothing will withstand I say love is the seventh wave I say love is the seventh wave I say love is the seventh wave I say love is the seventh wave I say love is the seventh wave I say love is the seventh wave I say love Every ripple on the ocean Every leaf on every tree Every sand dune in the desert Every breath you take with me Every breath you take, every move you make Every cake you bake, every leg you break -------- The Dream of the Blue Turtles -------- -------- Russians -------- In Europe and America there's a growing feeling of hysteria Conditioned to respond to all the threats In the rhetorical speeches of the Soviets Mister Krushchev said, 'We will bury you' I don't subscribe to this point of view It'd be such an ignorant thing to do If the Russians love their children too How can I save my little boy From Oppenheimer's deadly toy? There is no monopoly on common sense On either side of the political fence We share the same biology Regardless of ideology Believe me when I say to you I hope the Russians love their children too There is no historical precedent to put Words in the mouth of the president There's no such thing as a winnable war It's a lie we don't believe anymore Mister Reagan says 'We will protect you' I don't subscribe to this point of view Believe me when I say to you I hope the Russians love their children too We share the same biology Regardless of ideology What might save us, me and you Is if the Russians love their children too -------- The Dream of the Blue Turtles -------- -------- Children's Crusade -------- Young men, soldiers, nineteen fourteen Marching through countries they'd never seen Virgins with rifles, a game of charades All for a children's crusade Pawns in the game are not victims of chance Strewn on the fields of Belgium and France Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade All of those young lives betrayed The children of England would never be slaves They're trapped on the wire and dying in waves The flower of England face down in the mud And stained in the blood of a whole generation Corpulent generals safe behind lines History's lessons drowned in red wine Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade All of those young lives betrayed All for a children's crusade The children of England would never be slaves They're trapped on the wire and dying in waves The flower of England face down in the mud And stained in the blood of a whole generation Midnight in Soho nineteen eighty four Fixing in doorways, opium slaves Poppies for young men, such bitter trade All of those young lives betrayed All for a children's crusade -------- The Dream of the Blue Turtles -------- -------- Shadows In The Rain -------- I woke up in my clothes again this morning I don't know exactly where I am And I should heed my doctor's warning He does the best with me he can He claims I suffer from delusion But I'm so confident I'm sane It can't be an optical illusion So how can you explain Shadows in the rain And if you see us on the corner We're just dancing in the rain I tell my friends there when I see them Outside my window pane Shadows in the rain -------- The Dream of the Blue Turtles -------- -------- We Work The Black Seam -------- This place has changed for good Your economic theory said it would It's hard for us to understand We can't give up our jobs the way we should Our blood has stained the coal We tunneled deep inside the nation's soul We matter more than pounds and pence Your economic theory makes no sense One day in a nuclear age They may understand our rage They build machines that they can't control And bury the waste in a great big hole Power was to become cheap and clean Grimy faces were never seen Deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen We work the black seam together We work the black seam together The seam lies underground Three million years of pressure packed it down We walk through ancient forest lands And light a thousand cities with our hands Your dark satanic mills Have made redundant all our mining skills You can't exchange a six inch band For all the poisoned streams in Cumberland Your economic theory makes no sense One day in a nuclear age They may understand our rage They build machines that they can't control And bury the waste in a great big hole Power was to become cheap and clean Grimy faces were never seen Deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen We work the black seam together We work the black seam together Should the children weep The turning world will sing their souls to sleep When you have sunk without a trace The universe will suck me into place One day in a nuclear age They may understand our rage They build machines that they can't control And bury the waste in a great big hole Power was to become cheap and clean Grimy faces were never seen But deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen We work the black seam together We work the black seam together -------- The Dream of the Blue Turtles -------- -------- Consider Me Gone -------- You can't stay there You can't stay there You can't stay there You can't stay there There were rooms of forgiveness In the house that we share But the space has been emptied Of whatever was there There were cupboards of patience There were shelf-loads of care But whoever came calling Found nobody there After today After today Consider me gone You can't stay there You can't stay there You can't stay there You can't stay there Roses have thorns Shining water's mud And cancer lurks deep In the sweetest bud Clouds and eclipses Stain the moon and the sun And history reeks Of the wrongs we have done After today After today Consider me gone I've spent too many years At war with myself The doctor has told me It's no good for my health To search for perfection Is all very well But to look for heaven Is to live here in hell After today After today After today Consider me gone Consider me gone Consider me, consider me Consider me gone, gone, gone, gone -------- The Dream of the Blue Turtles -------- -------- The Dream Of The Blue Turtles -------- Instrumental. -------- The Dream of the Blue Turtles -------- -------- Moon Over Bourbon Street -------- There's a moon over Bourbon Street tonight I see faces as they pass beneath the pale lamplight I've no choice but to follow that call The bright lights, the people, and the moon and all I pray everyday to be strong For I know what I do must be wrong Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet While there's a moon over Bourbon Street It was many years ago that I became what I am I was trapped in this life like an innocent lamb Now I can never show my face at noon And you'll only see me walking by the light of the moon The brim of my hat hides the eye of a beast I've the face of a sinner but the hands of a priest Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet While there's a moon over Bourbon Street She walks everyday through the streets of New Orleans She's innocent and young, from a family of means I have stood many times outside her window at night To struggle with my instinct in the pale moonlight How could I be this way when I pray to God above? I must love what I destroy and destroy the thing I love Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet While there's a moon over Bourbon Street -------- The Dream of the Blue Turtles -------- -------- Fortress Around Your Heart -------- Under the ruins of a walled city Crumbling towers in beams of yellow light No flags of truce, no cries of pity The siege guns had been pounding through the night It took a day to build the city We walked through its streets in the afternoon As I returned across the fields I'd known I recognised the walls that I once made I had to stop in my tracks for fear Of walking on the mines I'd laid And if I've built this fortress around your heart Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire Then let me build a bridge For I cannot fill the chasm And let me set the battlements on fire Then I went off to fight some battle That I'd invented inside my head Away so long for years and years You probably thought, or even wished that I was dead While the armies all are sleeping Beneath the tattered flag we'd made I had to stop in my tracks for fear Of walking on the mines I'd laid And if I've built this fortress around your heart Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire Then let me build a bridge For I cannot fill the chasm And let me set the battlements on fire This prison has now become your home A sentence you seem prepared to pay It took a day to build the city We walked through its streets in the afternoon As I returned across the lands I'd known I recognised the fields where I'd once played I had to stop in my tracks for fear Of walking on the mines I'd laid And if I've built this fortress around your heart Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire Then let me build a bridge For I cannot fill the chasm And let me set the battlements on fire -------- Nothing Like the Sun -------- -------- The Lazarus Heart -------- He looked beneath his shirt today There was a wound in his flesh so deep and wide From the wound a lovely flower grew From somewhere deep inside He turned around to face his mother To show her the wound in his breast That burned like a brand But the sword that cut him open Was the sword in his mother's hand Every day another miracle Only death will tear us apart To sacrifice a life for yours I'd be the blood of the Lazarus heart The blood of the Lazarus heart Though the sword was his protection The wound itself would give him power The power to remake himself at the time of his darkest hour She said the wound would give him courage and pain The kind of pain that you can't hide From the wound a lovely flower grew From somewhere deep inside Every day another miracle Only death will keep us apart To sacrifice a life for yours I'd be the blood of the Lazarus heart The blood of the Lazarus heart Birds on the roof of my mother's house I've no stones that chase them away Birds on the roof of my mother's house Will sit on my roof someday They fly at the window, they fly at the door Where does she get the strength to fight them anymore She counts all her children as a shield against the rain Lifts her eyes to the sky like a flower to the rain Every day another miracle Only death will keep us apart To sacrifice a life for yours I'd be the blood of the Lazarus heart The blood of the Lazarus heart -------- Nothing Like the Sun -------- -------- Be Still My Beating Heart -------- Be still my beating heart It would be better to be cool It's not time to be open just yet A lesson once learned is so hard to forget Be still my beating heart Or I'll be taken for a fool It's not healthy to run at this pace The blood runs so red to my face I've been to every single book I know To soothe the thoughts that plague me so I sink like a stone that's been thrown in the ocean My logic has drowned in a sea of emotion Stop before you start Be still my beating heart Restore my broken dreams Shattered like a falling glass I'm not ready to be broken just yet A lesson once learned is so hard to forget Be still my beating heart You must learn to stand your ground It's not healthy to run at this pace The blood runs so red to my face I've been to every single book I know To soothe the thoughts that plague me so Stop before you start Be still my beating heart Never to be wrong Never to make promises that break It's like singing in the wind Or writing on the surface of a lake And I wriggle like a fish caught on dry land And I struggle to avoid any help at hand I sink like a stone that's been thrown in the ocean My logic has drowned in a sea of emotion Stop before you start Be still my beating heart -------- Nothing Like the Sun -------- -------- Englishman In New York -------- I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear I like my toast done on the side And you can hear it in my accent when I talk I'm an Englishman in New York See me walking down Fifth Avenue A walking cane here at my side I take it everywhere I walk I'm an Englishman in New York I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien I'm an Englishman in New York I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien I'm an Englishman in New York If "manners maketh man" as someone said Then he's the hero of the day It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile Be yourself no matter what they say I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien I'm an Englishman in New York I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien I'm an Englishman in New York Modesty, propriety can lead to notoriety You could end up as the only one Gentleness, sobriety are rare in this society At night a candle's brighter than the sun Takes more than combat gear to make a man Takes more than license for a gun Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can A gentleman will walk but never run If "manners maketh man" as someone said Then he's the hero of the day It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile Be yourself no matter what they say I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien I'm an Englishman in New York I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien I'm an Englishman in New York -------- Nothing Like the Sun -------- -------- History Will Teach Us Nothing -------- If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant past Security in human systems we're told will always, always last Emotions are the sail and blind faith is the mast Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast If God is dead and an actor plays his part His words of fear will find their way to a place in your heart Without the voice of reason every faith is its own curse Without freedom from the past things can only get worse Sooner or later just like the world first day Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away Sooner or later just like the world first day Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away Our written history is a catalogue of crime The sordid and the powerful, the architects of time The mother of invention, the oppression of the mild The constant fear of scarcity, aggression as its child Sooner or later Sooner or later Sooner or later Sooner or later Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong Is to win a bloodless battle where victory is long A simple act of faith In reason over might To blow up his children will only prove him right History will teach us nothing Sooner or later just like the world first day Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away Sooner or later just like the world first day Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away History will teach us nothing History will teach us nothing Know your human rights Be what you come here for Know your human rights Be what you come here for Know your human rights Be what you come here for Know your human rights Be what you come here for -------- Nothing Like the Sun -------- -------- They Dance Alone (Gueca Solo) -------- Why are these women here dancing on their own? Why is there this sadness in their eyes? Why are the soldiers here Their faces fixed like stone? I can't see what it is that they despise They're dancing with the missing They're dancing with the dead They dance with the invisible ones Their anguish is unsaid They're dancing with their fathers They're dancing with their sons They're dancing with their husbands They dance alone, they dance alone It's the only form of protest they're allowed I've seen their silent faces they scream so loud If they were to speak these words they'd go missing too Another woman on the torture table what else can they do They're dancing with the missing They're dancing with the dead They dance with the invisible ones Their anguish is unsaid They're dancing with their fathers They're dancing with their sons They're dancing with their husbands They dance alone, they dance alone One day we'll dance on their graves One day we'll sing our freedom One day we'll laugh in our joy And we'll dance One day we'll dance on their graves One day we'll sing our freedom One day we'll laugh in our joy And we'll dance Ellas danzan con los desaparecidos Ellas danzan con los muertos Ellas danzan con amores invisibles Ellas danzan con silenciosa angustia Danzan con sus padres Danzan con sus hijos Danzan con sus esposos Ellas danzan solas Danzan solas Hey Mr. Pinochet You've sown a bitter crop It's foreign money that supports you One day the money's going to stop No wages for your torturers No budget for your guns Can you think of your own mother Dancin' with her invisible son They're dancing with the missing They're dancing with the dead They dance with the invisible ones Their anguish is unsaid They're dancing with their fathers They're dancing with their sons They're dancing with their husbands They dance alone, they dance alone -------- Nothing Like the Sun -------- -------- Fragile -------- If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one Drying in the colour of the evening sun Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains away But something in our minds will always stay Perhaps this final act was meant To clinch a lifetime's argument That nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could For all those born beneath an angry star Lest we forget how fragile we are On and on the rain will fall Like tears from a star, like tears from a star On and on the rain will say How fragile we are, how fragile we are On and on the rain will fall Like tears from a star, like tears from a star On and on the rain will say How fragile we are, how fragile we are How fragile we are, how fragile we are -------- Nothing Like the Sun -------- -------- We'll Be Together -------- I see me with you and all the things you do Keep turning round and round in my mind Forget the weather we should always be together And any other thought is unkind To have you with me I would swim the seven seas I need you as my guide and my light My love is a flame that burns in your name We'll be together, we'll be together tonight We'll be together, yeah We'll be together, yeah We'll be together, yeah I see you with me and all I want to be Is dancing here with you in my arms Forget the weather we should always be together I'll always be a slave to your charms To have you with me I would swim the seven seas I need you as my guide in my life My love is a flame that burns in your name We'll be together, we'll be together tonight We'll be together, yeah We'll be together, yeah We'll be together, yeah Call me baby You can call me anything you want Call me baby, call me, just call me I see you with me and baby makes three I see me with you and all the things you do Forget the weather we should always be together I need you as my guide and my light My love is the flame that burns in your name We'll be together, we'll be together tonight -------- Nothing Like the Sun -------- -------- Straight To My Heart -------- Well in a hundred years from now They will attempt to tell us how A scientific means to bliss Will supercede the human kiss A sub atomic chain Will maybe galvanize the brain A biochemic trance Will eliminate romance But why ever should we care When there are arrows in the air Formed by lovers' ancient art That go straight to my heart A future sugar coated pill Would give our lovers time to kill I think they're working far too much For the redundancy of touch But what will make me yours Are a million deadly spores Formed by lovers' ancient art That go straight to my heart Come into my door Be the light of my life Come into my door You'll never have to sweep the floor Come into my door Be the light of my life Come into my door Come and be my wife I'll be true. To no one but you If it's a future world we fear We have tomorrow's seeds right here For you can hold them in your hand Or let them fall into the sand But if our love is pure The only thing of which we're sure Then you can play your part And go straight to my heart If I should seek immunity And love you with impunity Then the only thing to do Is for me to pledge myself to you But they only dealt one card So for me it is not hard You're the bright star in my chart You go straight to my heart Come into my door Be the light of my life Come into my door You'll never have to sweep the floor Come into my door Be the light of my life Come into my door Come and be my wife I'll be true. To no one but you -------- Nothing Like the Sun -------- -------- Rock Steady -------- Saw an ad in the newspaper that caught my eye I said to my baby this sounds like the ticket for you and I It said volunteers wanted for a very special trip To commune with Mother Nature on a big wooden ship We took a taxi to the river in case any places were free There was an old guy with a beard And every kind of creature as far as the eye could see This old guy was the boss, he said, "I won't tell you no lie But there's more to this journey Than is apparent to the eye" He said he'd heard God's message on the radio It was going to rain forever and he'd told him to go "I'll protect you all don't worry I'll be father to you all I'll save two of every animal, no matter how small But I'll need some assistants to look after the zoo I can't see nobody better so you'll just have to do" I said, "Just tell me something before it's too late and we're gone I mean just how safe is this boat we'll be on?" "It's Rock steady, rock steady Rock steady, rock steady Rock stead, rock steady Rock steady, rock steady" It rained for forty days and forty long nights I'd never seen rain like it and it looked like our old friend Was being proved right We had no time to worry though there was just too much to do Between the signified monkey and the kangaroo We had to wash all the animals we had to feed them too We were merely human slaves in a big floating zoo She said, "Hey Baby I don't mean to be flip But it seems this old man is on some power trip" I said, "No, no sugar you must be wrong I mean look at the size of this boat we're on We're as safe as houses, as safe as mother's milk He's as cool as November and as smooth as China silk He's God's best friend, he's got a seat on the board And life may be tough but we're sailing with the lord." Rock steady, rock steady Rock steady, rock steady Rock steady, rock steady Rock steady, rock steady Woke up this morning and something had changed Like a room in my house had just been rearranged She said, "It's stopped raining and I know the guy's kind But if we stay here much longer I'm gonna lose my mind." So we said we had a mission for his favourite dove To see if there was any mercy from this great God above So to find dry land, away the white bird flew We didn't need no country just a rock would do When the dove came back to us, he threw down a twig It was manna from heaven and meant we could blow this gig "But the rock's too small," he said, "can't you see?" I said, "It's just perfect for her, it's perfect for me." Rock steady, rock steady Rock steady, rock steady Rock steady, rock steady Rock steady, rock steady Rock steady, rock steady Rock steady, rock steady -------- Nothing Like the Sun -------- -------- Sister Moon -------- Sister Moon will be my guide In your blue blue shadows I would hide All good people asleep tonight I'm all by myself in your silver light I would gaze at your face the whole night through I'd go out of my mind, but for you Lying in a mother's arms The primal root of a woman's charms I'm a stranger to the sun My eyes are too weak How cold is a heart When it's warmth that he seeks? You watch every night, you don't care what I do I'd go out of my mind, but for you I'd go out of my mind, but for you My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun My hunger for her explains everything I've done To howl at the moon the whole night through And they really don't care if I do I'd go out of my mind, but for you Sister Moon -------- Nothing Like the Sun -------- -------- Little Wing -------- Well, she's walking through the clouds with a circus mind that's running wild Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams and fairy tales, That's all she ever thinks about... Riding the wind When I'm sad she comes to me with a thousand smiles she gives to me free It's alright, she says, It's alright Take anything you want from me, anything, Fly on, little wing -------- Nothing Like the Sun -------- -------- The Secret Marriage -------- No earthly church has ever blessed our union No state has ever granted us permission No family bond has ever made us two No company has ever earned commission No debt was paid no dowry to be gained No treaty over border land or power No semblance of the world outside remained To stain the beauty of this nuptial hour The secret marriage vow is never spoken The secret marriage can never be broken No flowers on the altar No white veil in your hair No maiden dress to alter No bible oath to swear The secret marriage vow is never spoken The secret marriage can never be broken -------- The Soul Cages -------- -------- Island Of Souls -------- Billy was born within sight of the shipyard First son of a riveter's son And Billy was raised as the ship grew a shadow Her great hull would blot out the light of the sun And six days a week he would watch his poor father A working man live like a slave He'd drink every night, and he'd dream of a future, Of money he never would save Billy would cry when he thought of the future Soon came a day when the bottle was broken They launched the great ship out to sea He felt he'd been left on a desolate shore To a future he desperately wanted to flee What else was there for a ship-builder's son A new ship to be built, new work to be done One day he dreamed of the ship in the world It would carry his father and he To a place they would never be found To a place far away from this town Mm-bay mm-bay-day mm-bay Mm-bay mm-bay-day mm-bay Trapped in the cage of the skeleton ship All the workmen suspended like flies Caught in the flare of acetylene light A working man works till the industry dies And Billy would cry when he thought of the future Then what they call an industrial accident Crushed those it couldn't forgive They brought Billy's father back home in an ambulance A brass watch, a cheque, maybe three weeks to live What else was there for a riveter's son? A new ship to be built, new work to be done That night he dreamed of the ship in the world It would carry his father and he To a place they could never be found To a place far away from this town, A Newcastle ship with no coals They would sail to the island of souls Mm-bay mm-bay-day mm-bay Mm-bay mm-bay-day mm-bay -------- The Soul Cages -------- -------- All This Time -------- I looked out across The river today I saw a city in the fog And an old church tower Where the seagulls play Saw the sad shire horses Walking home in the sodium light Saw two priests on the ferry October geese on a cold winter's night And all this time The river flowed Endlessly, To the sea. Two priests came round Our house tonight One young, one old, To offer prayers for the dying, To serve the final rite One to learn, one to teach Which way the cold wind blows Fussing and flapping in priestly black Like a murder of crows And all this time The river flowed Endlessly, To the sea. If I had my way I'd take a boat from the river And I'd bury the old man I'd bury him at sea Blessed are the poor For they shall inherit the earth One is better to be poor Than a fat man in the eye of a needle As these words were spoken I swear I hear the old man laughing What good is a used up world, And how could it be worth having? And all this time The river flowed Endlessly, To the sea. All this time The river flowed Father, if Jesus exists, Then how come he never lived here? Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Teachers told us The Romans built this place They built a wall and a temple on the edge of the Empire garrison town They lived and they died They prayed to their gods But the stone gods did not make a sound And their empire crumbled Till all that was left Were the stones the workmen found And all this time the river flowed In the falling light of a northern sun If I had my way I'd take a boat from the river Men go crazy in congregations They only get better one by one One by one One by one, by one One by one I looked out across The river today I saw a city in the fog And an old church tower Where the seagulls play Saw the sad shire horses Walking home in the sodium light Two priests on the ferry October geese on a cold winter's night -------- The Soul Cages -------- -------- Mad About You -------- A stone's throw from Jerusalem I walked a lonely mile in the moonlight And though a million stars were shining My heart was lost on a distant planet That whirls around the April moon Whirling in an arc of sadness I'm lost without you, I'm lost without you Though all my kingdoms turn to sand and fall into the sea I'm mad about you, I'm mad about you And from the dark secluded valleys I heard the ancient songs of sadness But every step I thought of you Every footstep only you Every star a grain of sand The leavings of a dried up ocean Tell me, how much longer, How much longer? They say a city in the desert lies The vanity of an ancient king But the city lies in broken pieces Where the wind howls and the vultures sing These are the works of man This is the sum of our ambition It would make a prison of my life If you became another's wife With every prison blown to dust My enemies walk free I'm mad about you, I'm mad about you And I have never in my life Felt more alone than I do now Although I claim dominions over all I see It means nothing to me There are no victories In all our histories Without love A stone's throw from Jerusalem I walked a lonely mile in the moonlight And though a million stars were shining My heart was lost on a distant planet That whirls around the April moon Whirling in an arc of sadness I'm lost without you, I'm lost without you And though you hold the keys to ruin of everything I see With every prison blown to dust my enemies walk free Though all my kingdoms turn to sand and fall into the sea I'm mad about you, I'm mad about you -------- The Soul Cages -------- -------- Jeremiah Blues (Part 1) -------- It was midnight, midnight at noon Everyone talked in rhyme Everyone saw the big clock tick-in', Nobody knew, nobody knew the time Elegant debutantes smiled Everyone fought for dimes Newspapers screamed for blood It was the best of times Every place around the world, it seemed the same Can't hear the rhythm for the drums Everybody wants to look the other way When something wicked this way comes Sometimes they tie a thief to the tree Sometimes I stare, sometimes it's me Everyone told the truth All that we heard were lies A Pope claimed that he'd been wrong in the past This was a big surprise Nobody knew the time Everyone fell in love A Cardinal's wife was jailed The government saved a dying planet When popular icons failed Every place around the world it seemed the same Can't hear the rhythm for the drums Everybody wants to look the other way When something wicked this way comes Sometimes they tie a thief to the tree Sometimes I stare, sometimes it's me Sometimes I stare, sometimes it's me -------- The Soul Cages -------- -------- Why Should I Cry For You? -------- Under the dog-star sail Over the reefs of moonshine Under the skies of fall North-north-west, the stones of Faroe Under the Arctic fire Over the seas of silence Hauling on frozen ropes For all my days remaining Would north be true? All colours bleed to red Asleep on the ocean's bed Drifting in empty seas For all my days remaining Would north be true? Why should I, why should I cry for you? Dark angels follow me Over a godless sea Mountains of endless falling For all my days remaining What would be true? Sometimes I see your face, The stars seem to lose their place Why must I think of you? Why must I? Why should I? Why should I cry for you? Why would you want me to? And what would it mean to say, 'I loved you in my fashion?' What would be true? Why should I, why should I cry for you? Why should I cry? -------- The Soul Cages -------- -------- Saint Agnes & The Burning Train -------- Instrumental. -------- The Soul Cages -------- -------- The Wild Wild Sea -------- I saw it again this evening, Black sail in a pale yellow sky And just as before in a moment, It was gone where the grey gulls fly If it happens again I shall worry That only a strange ship could fly And my sanity scans the horizon In the light of the darkening sky That night, as I walked in my slumber I waded into the sea strand And I swam with the moon and her lover Until I lost sight of the land I swam till the night became morning Black sail in a reddening sky Found myself on the deck of a rolling ship So far where no grey gulls fly All around me was silence As if mocking my frail human hopes And a question mark hung in the canvas For the wind that had died in the ropes I may have slept for an hour I may have slept for a day For I woke in a bed of white linen And the sky was the colour of clay. At first, just a rustle of canvas And the gentlest breath on my face But a galloping line of white horses Said that soon we were in for a race And the gentle sigh turned to a howling And the grey sky, she angered to black And my anxious eyes searched the horizon With the gathering sea at my back Did I see the shade of a sailor On the bridge, through the wheel-house pane Held fast to the wheel of the rocking ship As I squinted my eyes in the rain? For the ship had turned into the wind Against the storm to brace And underneath the sailor's hat I saw my father's face If a prayer today is spoken Please offer it for me When the bridge to heaven is broken And you're lost on the wild, wild sea And you're lost on the wild, wild sea And you're lost on the wild, wild sea And you're lost on the wild, wild sea -------- The Soul Cages -------- -------- The Soul Cages -------- The boy child is locked in the fisherman's yard There's a bloodless moon where the oceans die A shoal of night stars hang fire in the nets And the chaos of cages where the crayfish lie Where is the fisherman, where is the goat, Where is the keeper in his carrion coat? Eclipse on the moon when the dark bird flies Where is the child with his father's eyes? He's the king of the ninth world The twisted son of the fog bells' toll In each and every lobster cage, a tortured human soul These are the souls of the broken factories The subject slaves of the broken crown The dead accounting of old guilty promises These are the souls of the broken town These are the soul cages These are the soul cages These are the soul cages These are the soul cages 'I have a wager,' the brave child spoke The fisherman laughed though disturbed at the joke 'You will drink what I drink But you must equal me, And if the drink leaves me standing, A soul shall go free' 'I have here a cask of most magical wine A vintage that blessed every ship in the line It's wrung from the blood of the sailors who died Young white bodies adrift in the tide' 'And what's in it for me, my pretty young thing? Why should I whistle when the caged bird sings? If you lose a wager with the king of the sea You'll spend the rest of forever in the cage with me' These are the soul cages These are the soul cages These are the soul cages These are the soul cages A body lies open in the fisherman's yard like The side of a ship where the iceberg rips One less soul in the soul cages One last curse on the fisherman's lips These are the soul cages These are the soul cages These are the soul cages These are the soul cages These are the soul cages And he dreamed of a ship on the sea It would carry his father and he To a place they could never be found To a place far away from this town A Newcastle ship with no coals They would sail to the island of souls -------- The Soul Cages -------- -------- When The Angels Fall -------- So high above the world tonight The angels watch us sleeping And underneath a bridge of stars We dream in safety's keeping But perhaps the dream is dreaming us Soaring with the seagulls But perhaps the dream is dreaming us Astride the backs of eagles When the angels fall Shadows on the wall In the thunder's call Something haunts us all When the angels fall When the angels fall Take your father's cross gently from the wall The shadow still remaining See the churches fall, in mighty arcs of sound And all that they're containing Yet all the ragged souls of all the ragged men Looking for their lost homes Shuffle to the ruins from the levelled plain To search among the tombstones When the angels fall Shadows on the wall In the thunder's call Something haunts us all When the angels fall When the angels fall When the angels fall These are my feet These are my hands These are my children And this is my demand Bring down the angels Cast them from my sight I never want to see A million suns at midnight Your hands are empty, the streets are empty You can't control us, you can't control us anymore When the angels fall When the angels fall -------- Ten Summoner's Tales -------- -------- If I Ever Lose My Faith In You -------- You could say I lost my faith in science and progress You could say I lost my belief in the holy church You could say I lost my sense of direction You could say all of this and worse, but If I ever lose my faith in you There'd be nothing left for me to do Some would say I was a lost man in a lost world You could say I lost my faith in the people on T.V. You could say I'd lost my belief in our politicians They all seemed like game show hosts to me If I ever lose my faith in you There'd be nothing left for me to do I could be lost inside their lies without a trace But every time I close my eyes, I see your face I never saw no miracle of science That didn't go from a blessing to a curse I never saw no military solution That didn't always end up as something worse, But let me say this first If I ever lose my faith in you If I ever lose my faith in you There'd be nothing left for me to do There'd be nothing left for me to do If I ever lose my faith If I ever lose my faith If I ever lose my faith If I ever lose my faith in you -------- Ten Summoner's Tales -------- -------- Love Is Stronger Than Justice (The Munificent Seven) -------- This is a story of seven brothers We had the same father but different mothers We keep together like a family should Roaming the country for the common good It came to pass one fateful day We found ourselves down Mexico way The town, the mayor, the P.T.A. Pleading on their knees with us all to stay We'd only stopped for a few burritos But they told us of the trouble with los banditos A poor little town in need of aid My brothers and me had never been afraid The age of chivalry is not dead Lonesome nights in a cowboy bed There'd be a bride for every man Who chased away the evil gang Love is stronger than justice Love is thicker than blood Love, love, love is stronger than justice Love is a big fat river in flood The outcome was predictable Our banditos were despicable Of blood we lost a dozen litres A small price to pay for los senoritas The town mayor was happy, but his face was glum The maidens numbered only one There weren't seven brides for seven brothers I knew I had to get rid of the others Love is stronger than justice Love is thicker than blood Love, love, love is stronger than justice Love is a big fat river in flood Mother told me I was the clever one The seventh son of a seventh son It all ended so happily I settled down with the family I look forward to a better day But ethical stuff never got in my way And though there used to be brothers seven The other six are singing in heaven For love is stronger than justice Love is thicker than blood Love, love, love is stronger than justice Love is a big fat river in flood Love is stronger than justice Love is thicker than blood Love, love, love is stronger than justice Love is a big fat river in flood Love is a big fat river in flood -------- Ten Summoner's Tales -------- -------- Fields Of Gold -------- You'll remember me when the west wind moves Upon the fields of barley You'll forget the sun in his jealous sky As we walk in fields of gold So she took her love for to gaze awhile Upon the fields of barley In his arms she fell as her hair came down Among the fields of gold Will you stay with me, will you be my love Among the fields of barley? We'll forget the sun in his jealous sky As we lie in fields of gold See the west wind move like a lover so Upon the fields of barley Feel her body rise when you kiss her mouth Among the fields of gold I never made promises lightly And there have been some that I've broken But I swear in the days still left We'll walk in fields of gold We'll walk in fields of gold Many years have passed since those summer days Among the fields of barley See the children run as the sun goes down Among the fields of gold You'll remember me when the west wind moves Upon the fields of barley You can tell the sun in his jealous sky When we walked in fields of gold When we walked in fields of gold When we walked in fields of gold -------- Ten Summoner's Tales -------- -------- Heavy Cloud No Rain -------- Turned on the weather man just after the news I needed sweet rain to wash away my blues He looked at the chart, but he looked in vain Heavy cloud, but no rain Back in time with Louis XVI At the court of the people he was number one He'd be the bluest blood they'd ever seen When the king said, 'Hi' to the guillotine The royal astrologer was run out of breath He thought that maybe the rain would postpone his death He look in the sky, but he look in vain Heavy cloud, but no rain Well the land was cracking and the river was dry All the crops were dying when they ought to be high So to save his farm from the banker's draft The farmer took out a book on some old witchcraft He made a spell and a potion on a midsummer's night He killed a brindled calf in the pale moonlight He prayed to the sky, but he prayed in vain Heavy cloud, but no rain The sun won't shine till the clouds are gone The clouds won't go till their work is done And every morning you'll hear me pray 'If only it would rain today' I asked my baby if there'd be some way She said she save her love for a rainy day So I look in the sky, but I look in vain Heavy cloud, but no rain -------- Ten Summoner's Tales -------- -------- She's Too Good For Me -------- She don't like to hear me sing She don't want no diamond ring She don't want to drive my car She won't let me go that far She don't like the way I look She don't like the things I cook She don't like the way I play She don't like the things I say But oh, oh, the games we play She's too good for me She's too good for me She don't like the jokes I make She don't like the drugs I take She don't like the friends I got She don't like my friends a lot She don't like the clothes I wear She don't like the way I stare She don't like the tales I tell She don't like the way I smell But oh, oh, the games we play She's too good for me She's too good for me Would she prefer it if I washed myself more often than I do? Would she prefer it if I took her to an opera or two? I could distort myself to be the perfect man She might prefer me as I am. Oh, She don't want to meet my folks She don't want to hear my jokes She don't want to fix my tie She don't want to even try She don't like the books I read She don't like the way I feed She don't want to save my life She don't want to be my wife But oh, oh, the games we play She's too good for me She's too good for me She's too good for me She's too good for me She's too good for me -------- Ten Summoner's Tales -------- -------- Seven Days -------- Seven days, was all she wrote A kind of ultimatum note, she gave to me She gave to me When I thought the field had cleared It seems another suit appeared to challenge me Woe is me Though I hate to make a choice My options are decreasing mostly rapidly Well, we'll see I don't think she'd bluff this time I really have to make her mine It's plain to see, it's him or me Monday, I could wait till Tuesday If I make up my mind Wedn'sday would be fine Thursday's on my mind Friday'd give me time Saturday could wait But Sunday'd be too late The fact he's over six feet ten Might instil fear in other men But not in me The mighty flea Ask if I am mouse or man The mirror squeaked, away I ran He'll murder me in time for his tea Does it bother me at all? My rival is Neanderthal It makes me think Perhaps I need a drink I.Q. is no problem here We won't be playing Scrabble for Her hand, I fear I need that beer Monday, I could wait till Tuesday If I make up my mind Wedn'sday would be fine Thursday's on my mind Friday'd give me time Saturday could wait But Sunday'd be too late Seven days will quickly go The fact remains, I love her so Seven days So many ways But I can't run away I can't run away Monday, I could wait till Tuesday If I make up my mind Wedn'sday would be fine Thursday's on my mind Friday'd give me time Saturday could wait But Sunday'd be too late Do I have to tell a story Of a thousand rainy days Since we first met? It's a big enough umbrella But it's always me that ends up Getting wet. Yeah, Yeah. -------- Ten Summoner's Tales -------- -------- Saint Augustine In Hell -------- If somebody up there likes me Somebody up there cares Deliver me from evil Save me from these wicked snares Not into temptation, not to cliffs of fall On to revelation, and lesson for us all She walked into the room On the arm of my best friend I knew whatever happened Our friendship would end Chemical reaction, desire at first sight Mystical attraction, turned out all my lights The minute I saw her face The second I caught her eye The minute I touched the flame I knew it would never die The minute I saw her face The second I caught her eye The minute I touched the flame I knew it would never die I don't know if it's pain Or pleasure that I seek My flesh was all too willing My spirit guide was weak I was deadly certain His thoughts for me weren't kind A switchblade in his pocket Murder on his mind Blessed St. Theresa the whore of Babylon Madonna and my mother all rolled into one You've got to understand me I'm not a piece of wood Francis of Assisi Could never be this good [The less I need the more I get Make me chaste but not just yet It's a promise or a lie I'll repent before I die] The minute I saw her face The second I caught her eye The minute I touched the flame I knew it would never die The minute I saw her face The second I caught her eye The minute I touched the flame I knew it would never die [Spoken] Relax, have a cigar, make yourself at home. Hell is full of high court judges, failed saints. We've got Cardinals, Archbishops, barristers, Certified accountants, music critics, They're all here. You're not alone You're never alone, not here you're not. OK break's over... [The less I need the more I get Make me chaste but not just yet It's a promise or a lie I'll repent before I die] The minute I saw her face The second I caught her eye The minute I touched the flame I knew it would never die The minute I saw her face The second I caught her eye The minute I touched the flame I knew it would never die -------- Ten Summoner's Tales -------- -------- It's Probably Me -------- If the night turned cold And the stars looked down And you hug yourself On the cold cold ground You wake the morning In a stranger's coat No-one would you see You ask yourself, 'Who'd watch for me?' My only friend, who could it be? It's hard to say it I hate to say it But it's probably me When your belly's empty And the hunger's so real And you're too proud to beg And too dumb to steal You search the city For your only friend No-one would you see You ask yourself, 'Who could it be?' A solitary voice to speak out and set me free I hate to say it I hate to say it But it's probably me You're not the easiest person I ever got to know And it's hard for us both to let our feelings show Some would say I should let you go your way You'll only make me cry If there's one guy, just one guy Who'd lay down his life for you and die It's hard to say it I hate to say it But it's probably me When the world's gone crazy, and it makes no sense And there's only one voice that comes to your defence And the jury's out And your eyes search the room And one friendly face is all you need to see If there's one guy, just one guy Who'd lay down his life for you and die It's hard to say it I hate to say it But it's probably me I hate to say it I hate to say But it's probably me I hate to say it I hate to say But it's probably me I hate to say it I hate to say But it's probably me -------- Ten Summoner's Tales -------- -------- Everybody Laughed But You -------- Everybody laughed when I told them I wanted you, I wanted you Everybody grinned they humoured me They thought that someone had spiked my tea Everybody screamed they told me you Would cost the moon, we'll be there soon Everybody laughed till they were blue They didn't believe my words were true Everybody laughed but you It's easy to lose touch with all the friends You like so much or liked so much Everybody laughed they couldn't take me seriously Abandoned me Sometimes I would read of things they'd done in magazines They made the scene Everybody left with such important things to do But I'm not blue Everybody left but you Everybody left but you Many years have passed And some have fallen by the way I heard them say Everybody dreamed but those who fell Are sleeping now, they're sleeping now Everybody climbed like ivy to the top most branch It was their chance Everybody grasped till they were through It's all they thought that they could do Cause everybody fell Everybody fell Everybody fell but you -------- Ten Summoner's Tales -------- -------- Shape Of My Heart -------- He deals the cards as a meditation And those he plays never suspect He doesn't play for the money he wins He don't play for respect He deals the cards to find the answer The sacred geometry of chance The hidden law of a probable outcome The numbers lead a dance I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier I know that the clubs are weapons of war I know that diamonds mean money for this art But that's not the shape of my heart He may play the jack of diamonds He may lay the queen of spades He may conceal a king in his hand While the memory of it fades I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier I know that the clubs are weapons of war I know that diamonds mean money for this art But that's not the shape of my heart And if I told you that I loved you You'd maybe think there's something wrong I'm not a man of too many faces The mask I wear is one Well, those who speak know nothin' And find out to their cost Like those who curse their luck in too many places And those who fear are lost I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier I know that the clubs are weapons of war I know that diamonds mean money for this art But that's not the shape of my heart That's not the shape, the shape of my heart That's not the shape, the shape of my heart -------- Ten Summoner's Tales -------- -------- Something The Boy Said -------- When we set out on this journey There were no doubts in our minds We set our eyes to the distance We would find what we would find We took courage from our numbers What we sought, we did not fear Sometimes we'd glimpse a shadow falling Then the shadow would disappear But our thoughts kept returning To something the boy said as we turned to go He said 'You'll never see our faces again, You'll be food for a carrion crow'. Every step we took today Our thoughts would always stray From the wind on the moor so wild To the words of the captain's child Something the boy said Something the boy said Something the boy said Something the boy said In the circles we made with our fires We talked of the pale afternoon The clouds were like dark riders Flying on the face of the moon We spoke our fears to the captain And asked what his son could know For we would never have marched so far To be food for a crow Every step we took today Our thoughts would always stray From the wind on the moor so wild To the words of the captain's child Something the boy said Something the boy said Something the boy said Something the boy said When I awoke this morning The sun's eye was red as blood The stench of burning corpses Faces in the mud Am I dead or am I living? I'm too afraid to care, I'm too afraid to know I'm too afraid to look behind me At the feast of the crow We spoke our fears to the captain And asked what his son could know For we would never have marched so far To be food, for a crow Something the boy said... -------- Ten Summoner's Tales -------- -------- Nothing 'Bout Me -------- Lay my head on the surgeon's table Take my fingerprints if you are able Pick my brains, pick my pockets Steal my eyeballs and come back for the sockets Run every kind of test from A to Z And you'll still know nothin' 'bout me Run my name through your computer Mention me in passing to your college tutor Check my records, check my facts Check if I paid my income tax Pore over everything in my C.V. But you'll still know nothin' 'bout me You'll still know nothin' 'bout me You don't need to read no books on my history I'm a simple man, it's no big mystery In the cold weather, a hand needs a glove At times like this, a lonely man like me needs love Search my house with a fine tooth comb Turn over everything 'cause I won't be home Set up your microscope, and tell me what you see You'll still know nothin' 'bout me You'll still know nothin' 'bout me You'll still know nothin' 'bout me etc. You'll still know zip a-bout me -------- Mercury Falling -------- -------- Mercury Falling -------- I rise from my bed, Collect my thoughts together I have to hold my head It seems that she's gone And somehow I am pinned by The Hounds of Winter Howling in the wind I walk through the day My coat around my ears I look for my companion I have to dry my tears It seems that she's gone Leaving me too soon I'm as dark as December I'm as cold as the Man in the Moon I still see her face As beautiful as day It's easy to remember Remember my love that way All I hear is that lonesome sound The Hounds of Winter They follow me down I can't make up the fire The way that she could I spend all my days In the search for dry wood Board all the windows and close the front door I can't believe she won't be here anymore I still see her face As beautiful as day It's easy to remember Remember my love that way All I hear is that lonesome sound The Hounds of Winter They follow me down A season for joy A season for sorrow Where she's gone I will surely, surely follow She brightened my day She warmed the coldest night The Hounds of Winter They got me in their sights I still see her face As beautiful as day It's easy to remember Remember my love that way All I hear is that lonesome sound The Hounds of Winter They harry me down -------- Mercury Falling -------- -------- I Hung My Head -------- Early one morning with time to kill I borrowed Jeb's rifle and sat on the hill I saw a lone rider crossing the plain I drew a bead on him to practice my aim My brother's rifle went off in my hand A shot rang out across the land The horse he kept running, the rider was dead I hung my head, I hung my head I set off running to wake from the dream My brother's rifle went into the stream I kept on running into the salt lands And that's where they found me, my head in my hands The sheriff he asked me "Why had I run" Then it came to me just what I had done And all for no reason, just one piece of lead I hung my head, I hung my head Here in the courthouse, the whole town is there I see the judge high up in his chair "Explain to the courtroom what went through your mind And we'll ask the jury what verdict they find" I said "I felt the power of death over life I orphaned his children I widowed his wife I beg their forgiveness I wish I was dead" I hung my head, I hung my head Early one morning with time to kill I see the gallows up on the hill And out in the distance a trick of the brain I see a lone rider crossing the plain He's come to fetch me to see what they done We'll ride together til Kingdom come I pray for God's mercy for soon I'll be dead I hung my head, I hung my head -------- Mercury Falling -------- -------- Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot -------- When you're down and they're counting When your secrets all found out When your troubles take to mounting When the map you have leads you to doubt When there's no information And the compass turns to nowhere that you know well Let your soul be your pilot Let your soul guide you He'll guide you well When the doctors failed to heal you When no medicine chest can make you well When no counsel leads to comfort When there are no more lies they can tell No more useless information And the compass spins The compass spins between heaven and hell Let your soul be your pilot Let your soul guide you He'll guide you well And your eyes turn towards the window pane To the lights upon the hill The distance seems so strange to you now And the dark room seems so still Let your pain be my sorrow Let your tears be my tears too Let your courage be my model That the north you find will be true When there's no more useless information And the compass turns to nowhere that you know well Let your soul be your pilot Let your soul guide you Let your soul guide you Let your soul guide you upon your way -------- Mercury Falling -------- -------- I Was Brought To My Senses -------- Alone with my thoughts this evening I walked on the banks of Tyne I wondered how I could win you Or if I could make you mine Or if I could make you mine The wind it was so insistent With tales of a stormy south But when I spied two birds in a sycamore tree There came a dryness in my mouth Came a dryness in my mouth For then without rhyme or reason The two birds did rise up to fly And where the two birds were flying I swear I saw you and I I swear I saw you and I I walked out this morning It was like a veil had been removed from before my eyes For the first time I saw the work of heaven In the line where the hills had been married to the sky And all around me every blade of singing grass Was calling out your name and that our love would always last And inside every turning leaf Is the pattern of an older tree The shape of our future The shape of all our history And out of the confusion Where the river meets the sea Came things I'd never seen Things I'd never seen I was brought to my senses I was blind but now that I can see Every signpost in nature Said you belong to me I know it's true It's written in a sky as blue As blue as your eyes, as blue as your eyes If nature's red in tooth and claw Like winter's freeze and summer's thaw The wounds she gave me Were the wounds that would heal me And we'd be like the moon and sun And when our courtly dance had run Its course across the sky Then together we would lie And out of the confusion Where the river meets the sea Something new would arrive Something better would arrive I was brought to my senses I was blind but now that I can see Every signpost in nature Said you belong to me -------- Mercury Falling -------- -------- You Still Touch Me -------- Another night finds me alone In my dreams You still touch me Your picture by my telephone In that smile You still thrill me Now if I sleep, I sleep here alone In my bed tonight You still haunt me And if I'm falling I'm falling like a stone In my nightmares You still hold me And after all that we've been through Now I'm wondering If you still blame me If only half of this was true That you believe of me You still shame me Dark rain will fall until I see your face I close my eyes I seem to hear the raindrops saying You won't come back You still touch me And when I'm sick at heart and low In my prayers You still heal me When I'm so sure this isn't so In my complacency You still shake me I wonder if you feel the same way as I do And you'd come back You still touch me Another night finds me alone In my bed tonight You still haunt me You still hold me You still touch me -------- Mercury Falling -------- -------- I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying -------- Seven weeks have passed now since she left me She shows her face to ask me how I am She says the kids are fine and that they miss me Maybe I could come and baby-sit sometime She says, "Are you O.K.? I was worried about you Can you forgive me? I hope that you'll be happy." I'm so happy that I can't stop crying I'm so happy I'm laughing through my tears I saw a friend of mine He said, "I was worried about you I heard she had another man, I wondered how you felt about it?" I'm so happy that I can't stop crying I'm so happy I'm laughing though my tears Saw my lawyer, Mr Good News He got me joint custody and legal separation I'm so happy that I can't stop crying I'm laughing through my tears I'm laughing through my tears I took a walk alone last night I looked up at the stars To try and find an answer in my life I chose a star for me I chose a star for him I chose two stars for my kids and one star for my wife Something made me smile Something seemed to ease the pain Something about the universe and how it's all connected The park is full of Sunday fathers and melted ice cream We try to do the best within the given time A kid should be with his mother Everybody knows that What can a father do but baby-sit sometimes? I saw that friend of mine, he said, "You look different somehow" I said, "Everybody's got to leave the darkness sometime" I'm so happy that I can't stop crying I'm laughing through my tears I'm laughing through my tears I'm so happy that I can't stop crying I'm laughing through my tears I'm laughing through my tears -------- Mercury Falling -------- -------- All Four Seasons -------- With her smile as sweet as a warm wind in summer She's got me flying like a bird in a bright June sky And then just when she thinks that I've got her number Brings me down to the ground with her wintry eye That's my baby She can be all four seasons in one day And when the night time comes with no interference To our warm summer love with all its charms But like a thoroughbred horse she can turn on a sixpence And I find that I'm back in Mistress Winter's arms That's my baby She can be all four seasons in one day How will I know? How can I tell? Which side of the bed she takes when the day begins She can be kind She can be cruel She's got me guessing like a game show fool She can change her mind like she changes her sweaters From one minute to the next it's hard to tell She blows hot and cold just like stormy weather She's my gift from the Lord or a fiend from hell That's my baby She can be all four seasons in one day Watching the weatherman's been no good at all Winter, spring, summer, I'm bound for a fall There are no long term predictions for my baby She can be all four seasons in one day How will I know? How can I tell? Which side of the bed she takes when the day begins She can be kind She can be cruel She's got me guessing like a game show fool If it's a sunny day I take my umbrella Just in case the raindrops start to fall You could say that I'm just a cautious fellow I don't want to be caught in a sudden squall That's my baby She can be all four seasons in one day That's my baby She can be all four seasons in one day -------- Mercury Falling -------- -------- Twenty Five To Midnight -------- Train I ride don't be slow If your whistle can blow Fifteen miles down the track Tell them I'm coming back Counting poles counting sheep Don't be slow I won't weep If your wheels on the line Were to put me on time Just a year to the day Since I went upon my way To seek my fortune and fame Be a star, change my name And that's it more or less Til this midnight express I know I can't be late Cause she said she won't wait She'll just go marry Jack So there's no turning back And it's 25 to midnight and fifteen miles of track Band I had got a break Just one chance we had to take Told my girl I'd be back Left her with my friend Jack New York City for a spell Things didn't turn out so well Every dive that we played We were lucky we got paid Mr Train driver please If your speed you increase Every cent I have now Will be yours this I vow And that's it more or less Til this midnight express I know I can't be late Cause she said she won't wait She'll just go marry Jack So there's no turning back And it's 25 to midnight and fifteen miles of track We called ourselves the Latino Lovers Hawaiian shirts and top forty covers I didn't think I could sink this low When drugs and booze ate all my dough This isn't how it was meant to be There's no such thing as a meal that's free If I was ever to get out alive I have to get home on time Train I ride don't be slow If your whistle can blow Fifteen miles down the track Tell them I'm coming back And that's it more or less Til this midnight express I know I can't be late Cause she said she won't wait She'll just go marry Jack So there's no turning back And it's 25 to midnight and fifteen miles of track And it's 25 to midnight and fifteen miles of track -------- Mercury Falling -------- -------- La Belle Dames San Regrets -------- Dansons tu dis Et moi, je suis Mes pas sont gauches Mes pieds tu fauches Je crains les sots Je cherche en vain les mots Pour m'expliquer ta vie, alors Tu ments, ma Soeur Tu brises mon coeur Je pense, tu sais Erreurs, jamais J'ecoute, tu parles Je ne comprends pas bien La belle dame sans regrets Je pleure, tu ris Je chante, tu cries Tu semes les graines D'un mauvais chene Mon ble s'envole Tu en a ras le bol J'attends, toujours Mes cris sont sourds Tu ments, ma Soeur Tu brises mon coeur Je pense, tu sais Erreurs, jamais J'ecoute, tu parles Je ne comprends pas bien La belle dame sans regrets -------- Mercury Falling -------- -------- Valparaiso -------- Chase the dog star Over the sea Home where my true love is waiting for me Rope the south wind Canvas the stars Harness the moonlight So she can safely go Round the Cape Horn to Valparaiso Red the port light Starboard the green How will she know of the devils I've seen Cross in the sky, star of the sea Under the moonlight, there she can safely go Round the Cape Horn to Valparaiso And every road I walked would take me down to the sea With every broken promise in my sack And every love would always send the ship of my heart Over the rolling sea If I should die And water's my grave She'll never know if I'm damned or I'm saved See the ghost fly over the sea Under the moonlight, there she can safely go Round the Cape Horn to Valparaiso -------- Mercury Falling -------- -------- Lithium Sunset -------- Fill my eyes O Lithium sunset And take this lonesome burden Of worry from my mind Take this heartache Of obsidian darkness And fold my darkness Into your yellow light I've been scattered I've been shattered I've been knocked out of the race But I'll get better I feel your light upon my face Heal my soul O Lithium sunset And I'll ride the turning world Into another night See mercury falling... -------- Brand New Day -------- -------- A Thousand Years -------- A thousand years, a thousand more, A thousand times a million doors to eternity I may have lived a thousand lives, a thousand times An endless turning stairway climbs To a tower of souls If it takes another thousand years, a thousand wars, The towers rise to numberless floors in space I could shed another million tears, a million breaths, A million names but only one truth to face A million roads, a million fears A million suns, ten million years of uncertainty I could speak a million lies, a million songs, A million rights, a million wrongs in this balance of time But if there was a single truth, a single light A single thought, a singular touch of grace Then following this single point, this single flame, The single haunted memory of your face I still love you I still want you A thousand times the mysteries unfold themselves Like galaxies in my head I may be numberless, I may be innocent I may know many things, I may be ignorant Or I could ride with kings and conquer many lands Or win this world at cards and let it slip my hands I could be cannon food, destroyed a thousand times Reborn as fortune's child to judge another's crimes Or wear this pilgrim's cloak, or be a common thief I've kept this single faith, I have but one belief I still love you I still want you A thousand times the mysteries unfold themselves Like galaxies in my head On and on the mysteries unwind themselves Eternities still unsaid 'Til you love me -------- Brand New Day -------- -------- Desert Rose -------- I dream of rain I dream of gardens in the desert sand I wake in pain I dream of love as time runs through my hand I dream of fire Those dreams are tied to a horse that will never tire And in the flames Her shadows play in the shape of a man's desire This desert rose Each of her veils, a secret promise This desert flower No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this And as she turns This way she moves in the logic of all my dreams This fire burns I realise that nothing's as it seems I dream of rain I dream of gardens in the desert sand I wake in pain I dream of love as time runs through my hand I dream of rain I lift my gaze to empty skies above I close my eyes, this rare perfume Is the sweet intoxication of her love I dream of rain I dream of gardens in the desert sand I wake in pain I dream of love as time runs through my hand Sweet desert rose Each of her veils, a secret promise This desert flower No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this Sweet desert rose This memory of Eden haunts us all This desert flower, this rare perfume Is the sweet intoxication of the fall -------- Brand New Day -------- -------- Big Lie, Small World -------- I sat down and wrote this letter Telling you that I felt better Since you'd gone and I was free I'm so happy I have so little time to spare now I'm wanted almost everywhere now I make out like Casanova Friends are always coming over I signed my name as if I meant it Sealed it with a kiss and sent it The letter had improved my mood Happy in my solitude But halfway home I changed my tune And when I saw my lonely room The mirror caught my eye When I sit down I cry Big lie, small world Big lie, small world I had to intercept that letter Telling you that I was better I raced to catch the postman's van He was leaving as I ran I miss the bus I miss the train I end up walking in the rain Big dog chased me down the street I hadn't had a bite to eat Feeling sorry for myself Wishing I was someone else I walked across the city 'Cause I couldn't stand your pity Big lie, small world Big lie, small world The place you live looks opulent And obviously a higher rent Than our cosy little room I had this sense of doom The landlord says you're out of town That your new boyfriend's always around The hour was getting late So I sit down and wait Here's the postman with my letter Coming down the path, he'd better Give that thing to me I have to make him see Begging doesn't do the trick He thinks that I'm a lunatic And then who comes upon the scene But your new boyfriend Mr. Clean I hit the postman, hit your lover Grabbed the letter ran for cover The police arrived in time for tea Said they'd like to question me I can only curse my fate I have to face the magistrate It hasn't been the best of days I'd like to fly away Big lie, small world Big lie, small world -------- Brand New Day -------- -------- After The Rain Has Fallen -------- The palace guards are all sleeping Their fires burn into the night There's a threat of rain on the dark horizon And all that's left is a quarter moon of light He climbs up through the darkness No weapon but his surprise The greatest thief in the high Sahara Enters the room where a sleeping princess lies All your money, your pretty necklace This is my work on such a night There's a storm coming over the mountain I'll be gone long before the morning After the rain has fallen After the tears have washed your eyes You find that I've take nothing, that Love can't replace in the blink of an eye He was as gentle as the night wind As no lover had been before And the rings she wore for her bride groom Slipped from her fingers and fell to the floor Take me with you, take me with you Before my lonely life is set I've been promised to another To a man I've never even met After the rain has fallen After the tears have washed your eyes You'll find that I've take nothing, that Love can't replace in the blink of an eye After the thunder's spoken, and After the lightning bolt's been hurled After the dream is broken, there'll Still be love in the world She said take me to another life Take me for a pirate's wife Take me where the wind blows Take me where the red wine flows Take me to the danger Take me to the life of crime Take me to the stars Take me to the moon while we still have time After the rain has fallen After the tears have washed your eyes You'll find that I've taken nothing, that Love can't replace in the blink of an eye After the thunder's spoken, and After the lightning bolt's been hurled After the dream is broken, there'll Still be love in the world Still be love in the world -------- Brand New Day -------- -------- Perfect Love...Gone Wrong -------- I've had a question that's been preying on my mind for some time I won't be wagging my tail for one good reason It has to be a crime This doghouse never was the place for me, Runner up and second best just ain't my pedigree I was so happy, just the two of us Until this alpha male Turned up in the January sale He won't love you Like I love you, It won't be long now before that puppy goes astray And what I like about this guy the most?.......... He'd be my favourite lamppost Devil take the hindmost I know it's hard, but you have to make a change, you see I've neglected the primordial for too long believe me I am aware, I can see that you are in pain, but it will ease Because it's a man more than a dog that I need close to me So stop growling, my choice is made, it's like that Don't overdo it, your attitude may take you away from me You have to understand, since you say you love me so much Now there are three of us, him you and me It's a shaggy kind of story Would I tell you if I thought it was a lie? But when the cat's away the mouse will play, I wouldn't dish around here There's something fishy round here I howl all night and I sleep all day It takes more than biscuit baby to chase these blues away I've got a long enough leash I could almost hang myself It's a dogs life loving you baby But you love someone else Now he's moved by basket I'd like to put him in a casket I'll wear my best collar to his funeral Your bad faith, I wish it would end Separate myself from you, today is trotting in my head Me no, I can't take it anymore, you're just a dog, it's too stupid The situation still had me looking to be very clear It's clear that I love her it's a fact, your selfishness worries me After all these evenings spent alone together Everything has an end, and it's the end of the party For you, because soon there will be just him and me, him and me. To have found this perfect life And a perfect love so strong Well there can't be nothing worse Than a perfect love gone wrong You said I wasn't just your Christmas toy I'd always be your boy I'd be your faithful companion And I would follow you through every thick and thin Don't need nobody else And we don't need him -------- Brand New Day -------- -------- Tomorrow We'll See -------- The streets are wet The lights have yet To shed their tawdry lustre on the scene My skirt's too short My tights have run These new heels are killing me My second pack of cigarettes It's a slow night but there's time yet Here comes john from his other life He may be driving to his wife But he'll slow down take a look I've learned to read them just like books And it's already half past ten But they'll be back again Headlights in the rainy street I check, make sure it's not the heat I wink, I smile, I wave my hand He stops and seems to understand The small transaction we must make I tell him that my heart will break If he's not a generous man I step into his van The say the first is the hardest trick After that it's just a matter of logic They have the money I have the time Being pretty's my only crime You ask what future do I see I say it's really up to me I don't need forgiving I'm just making a living Don't judge me You could be me in another life In another set of circumstances Don't judge me One more night I'll just have to take my chances And tomorrow we'll see A friend of mine he wound up dead His dress was stained the colour red No next of kin no fixed abode Another victim on this road The police just carted him away But someone took his place next day He was home by thanksgiving But not with the living Don't judge me You could be me in another life In another set of circumstances Don't judge me One more night I'll just have to take my chances And no it's just not in my plan For someone to care who I am I'm walking the streets for money It's the business of love, 'hey honey' C'mon, don't leave me lonely, don't leave me sad It'll be the sweetest five minutes you ever had Don't judge me You could be me in another life In another set of circumstances Don't judge me One more night I'll just have to take my chances And tomorrow we'll see -------- Brand New Day -------- -------- Prelude to the End Of The Game -------- Instrumental. -------- Brand New Day -------- -------- Fill Her Up -------- Mobil station where I stand This old gas pump in my hand My boss don't like me, got a face like a weasel Oil on my hands and the smell of diesel Here come a big shot from the city V8 engine, she runs so pretty 'Fill her up son, unleaded I need a full tank a gas where I'm headed' Up in the front seat a pretty red head 'We're going to Vegas we're gonna get wed' 'So fill her up son, don't be staring That's a real diamond she be wearing' I'm gonna take my baby one day I'm gonna fill her up and head west I'm going find some money all right See those tail lights heading west I got no money to invest I got no prospects, or education I was lucky getting a job at this gas station That old cash box on the top shelf The boss is sleeping, I'll just help myself Let's consider this as just a loan I can sort it out later on the 'phone I'm gonna pick my girl up tonight I'm gonna fill her up and head west I'm gonna show her all the bright lights We're gonna say we lived 'for we come home And as I head through the woods on the way back The evening sun is slanting through the pine trees real pretty It's like I'm walked into a glade of heaven And there's music playing This money is cold in my hand And a voice somewhere is saying 'Why would you wanna take that stolen thing And What real happiness can bring?' You're gonna fill her up with sadness You're gonna fill her up with shame You're gonna fill her up with sorrow Before she even takes your name You're gonna fill her up with madness You're gonna fill her up with blame You're gonna live with no tomorrow You're gonna fill her up with pain You're gonna fill her up with darkness You're gonna fill her up with night You gotta fill her up with Jesus You gotta fill her up with light You gotta fill her up with spirit You gotta fill her up with grace You gotta fill her up with heaven You got the rest of life to face You gotta fill her up the right way You gotta fill her up with care You gotta fill her up with babies You gotta fill her up and swear You're gonna love that girl forever You're gonna fill her up with life You're gonna be a loving husband She's gonna be your loving wife You gotta fill her up with gladness You gotta fill her up with joy You gotta fill her up with love You gotta fill her up with love -------- Brand New Day -------- -------- Ghost Story -------- I watch the western sky The sun is sinking The geese are flying south It sets me thinking I did not miss you much I did not suffer What did not kill me Just made me tougher I feel the winter come His icy sinews, Now in the firelight The case continues Another night in court The same old trial The same old questions asked The same denial The shadows closing round Like jury members I look for answers in The fire's embers Why was I missing then That whole December? I give my usual line, I don't remember Another winter comes His icy fingers creep Into these bones of mine These memories never sleep And all these differences A cloak I borrow We kept our distances Why should it follow that I must have loved you? What is a force that binds the stars? I wore this mask to hide my scars What is the power that moves the tide? Never could find a place to hide What moves the earth around the sun? What could I do but run and run and run? Afraid to love, afraid to fail A mast without a sail The moon's a fingernail And slowly sinking Another day begins And now I'm thinking That this is indifference Was my invention When everything I did Sought your attention You were my compass star You were my measure You were a pirate's map Of buried treasure If this was all correct The last thing I'd expect The prosecution rests It's time that I confessed I must have loved you I must have loved you -------- Brand New Day -------- -------- Brand New Day -------- How many of you people out there Been hurt in some kind of love affair? And how many times did you swear That you'd never love again? How many lonely, sleepless nights? How many lies, how many fights? And why would you want to Put yourself through all of that again? Love is pain I hear you say Love is a cruel and bitter way of Paying you back for all the faith you ever had in your brain How could it be that what you need the most Can leave you feeling just like a ghost? You never want to feel so sad and lost again One day you could be looking Through an old book in rainy weather You see a picture of her smiling at you When you were still together Or you could be walking down the street And who should you chance to meet? But that same old smile you've been thinking of all day? Why don't we turn the clock to zero honey I'll sell the stock we'll spend all the money We're starting up a brand new day Turn the clock all the way back I wonder if she'll take me back I'm thinking in a brand new way Turn the clock to zero sister You'll never know how much I missed her I'm starting up a brand new day Turn the clock to zero boss The rivers wide we'll swim across We're starting up a brand new day It could happen to you Just like it happened to me There is simply no immunity There's no guarantee I say love is such a force if you find yourself in it You need some time for reflection You say, baby wait a minute, wait a minute Turn the clock to zero honey I'll sell the stock we'll spend all the money We're starting up a brand new day Turn the clock to zero Mac I'm begging her to take me back I'm thinking in a brand new way Turn the clock to zero boss The river's wide we'll swim across We're starting up a brand new day Turn the clock to zero buddy Don't wanna be no fuddy duddy We're Starting up a brand new day I'm the rhythm in your tune I'm the sun and you're the moon I'm the bat and you're the cave You're the beach and I'm the wave I'm the plough and you're the land You're the glove and I'm the hand I'm the train and you're the station I'm the flagpole to your nation I'm the present to your future You're the wound and I'm the suture You're the magnet to my pole I'm the devil in your soul You're the pupil I'm the teacher You're the church and I'm the preacher You're the flower I'm the rain You're the tunnel I'm the train Stand up all you lovers in the world Stand up and be counted, every boy and every girl Stand up all you lovers in the world We're starting up a brand new day You're the crop to my rotation You're the sum of my equation I'm the answer to your question If you follow my suggestion We can turn this ship around We'll go up instead of down You're the pan and I'm the handle You're the flame and I'm the candle I'm the bee and your the flower You're the princess in the tower I'm the mast and your the sail I'm the hammer your the nail) Stand up, all you lovers in the world Stand up and be counted, every boy and every girl Stand up, all you lovers in the world We're starting up a brand new day -------- Sacred Love -------- -------- Inside -------- Inside the doors are sealed to love Inside my heart is sleeping Inside the fingers of my glove Inside the bones of my right hand Inside it's colder than the stars Inside the dogs are weeping Inside the circus of the wind Inside the clocks are filled with sand Inside she'll never hurt me Inside the winter's creeping Inside the compass of the night Inside the folding of the land Outside the stars are turning Outside the world's still burning Inside my head's a box of stars I never dared to open Inside the wounded hide their scars, inside this lonesome sparrow's fall Inside the songs of our defeat, they sing of treaties broken Inside this army's in retreat, we hide beneath the thunder's call Outside the rain keeps falling Outside the drums are calling Outside the flood won't wait Outside they're hammering down the gate Love is the child of an endless war Love is an open wound still raw Love is a shameless banner unfurled Love's an explosion, Love is the fire of the world Love is a violent star A tide of destruction Love is an angry scar A violation, a mutilation, capitulation, love is annihilation. Inside the failures of the light, the night is wrapped around me Inside my eyes deny their sight, you'd never find me in this place Inside we're hidden from the moonlight, we shift between the shadows Inside the compass of the night, inside the memory of your face Outside the walls are shaking Inside the dogs are waking Outside the hurricane won't wait Inside they're howling down the gate Love is the child of an endless war Love is an open wound still raw Love is a shameless banner unfurled Love's an explosion, Love is the fire at the end of the world Love is a violent star A tide of destruction Love is an angry scar The pain of instruction Love is a violation, a mutilation, capitulation, Love is annihilation. I climb this tower inside my head A spiral stair above my bed I dream the stairs don't ask me why, I throw myself into the sky Love me like a baby, love me like an only child Love me like an ocean; love me like a mother mild Love me like a father, love me like a prodigal son Love me like a sister, love me like the world has just begun Love me like a prodigy, love me like an idiot boy, Love me like an innocent, love me like your favorite toy Love me like a virgin, love me like a courtesan, Love me like a sinner, love me like a dying man. Annihilate me, infiltrate me, incinerate me, accelerate me, mutilate me, inundate me, violate me, implicate me, vindicate me, devastate me Love me like a parasite, love me like a dying sun Love me like a criminal, love me like a man on the run Radiate me, subjugate me, incubate me, recreate me, demarcate me, educate me, punctuate me, evaluate me, conjugate me, impregnate me, designate me, humiliate me, segregate me, opiate me, calibrate me, replicate me -------- Sacred Love -------- -------- Send Your Love -------- Finding the world in the smallness of a grain of sand And holding infinities in the palm of your hand And Heaven's realms in the seedlings of this tiny flower And eternities in the space of a single hour Send your love into the future Send your love into the distant dawn Inside your mind is a relay station A mission probe into the unknowing We send a seed to a distant future Then we can watch the galaxies growing This ain't no time for doubting your power This ain't no time for hiding your care You're climbing down from an ivory tower You've got a stake in the world we ought to share You see the stars are moving so slowly But still the earth is moving so fast Can't you see the moon is so lonely She's still trapped in the pain of the past This is the time of the worlds colliding This is the time of kingdoms falling This is the time of the worlds dividing Time to heed your call Send your love into the future Send your precious love into some distant time And fix that wounded planet with the love of your healing Send your love Send your love There's no religion but sex and music There's no religion but sound and dancing There's no religion but line and colour There's no religion but sacred trance There's no religion but the endless ocean There's no religion but the moon and stars There's no religion but time and motion There's no religion, just tribal scars Throw a pebble in and watch the ocean See the ripples vanish in the distance It's just the same with all the emotions It's just the same in every instance There's no religion but the joys of rhythm There's no religion but the rites of Spring There's no religion in the path of hate No prayer but the one I sing Send your love into the future Send your precious love into some distant time And fix that wounded planet with the love of your healing Send your love Send your love There's no religion but sex and music There's no religion that's right or winning There's no religion in the path of hatred Ain't no prayer but the one I'm singing Send your love Send your love -------- Sacred Love -------- -------- Whenever I Say Your Name -------- Whenever I say your name, whenever I call to mind your face Whatever bread's in my mouth, whatever the sweetest wine that I taste Whenever your memory feeds my soul, whatever got broken becomes whole Whenever I'm filled with doubts that we will be together Wherever I lay me down, wherever I put my head to sleep Whenever I hurt and cry, whenever I got to lie awake and weep Whenever I kneel to pray, whenever I need to find a way I'm calling out your name Whenever those dark clouds hide the moon Whenever this world has gotten so strange I know that something's gonna change Something's gonna change Whenever I say your name, Whenever I say your name, I'm already praying, I'm already praying I'm already filled with a joy that I can't explain Wherever I lay me down, wherever I rest my weary head to sleep Whenever I hurt and cry, whenever I got to lie awake and weep Whenever I'm on the floor Whatever it was that I believed before Whenever I say your name, whenever I say it loud, I'm already praying Whenever this world has got me down, whenever I shed a tear Whenever the TV makes me mad, whenever I'm paralyzed with fear Whenever those dark clouds fill the sky, whenever I lose the reason why Whenever I'm filled with doubts that we will be together Whenever the sun refuse to shine, whenever the skies are pouring rain Whatever I lost I thought was mine whenever I close my eyes in pain Whenever I kneel to pray, whenever I need to find a way I'm calling out your name Whenever this dark begins to fall Whenever I'm vulnerable and small Whenever I feel like I could die Whenever I'm holding back the tears that I cry Whenever I say your name, whenever I call to mind your face I'm already praying Whatever bread's in my mouth, whatever the sweetest wine that I taste Wherever I lay me down, wherever I rest my weary head to sleep Whenever I hurt and cry, whenever I'm forced to lie awake and have to weep Whenever I'm on the floor Whatever it was that I believed before Whenever I say your name, whenever I say it loud, I'm already praying Whenever I say your name, No matter how long it takes, One day we'll be together Whenever I say your name, let there be no mistake that day will last forever -------- Sacred Love -------- -------- Dead Man's Rope -------- A million footsteps, this left foot drags behind my right But I keep walking, from daybreak 'til the falling night And as days turn into weeks and years And years turn into lifetimes I just keep walking, like I've been walking for a thousand years Walk away in emptiness, walk away in sorrow, Walk away from yesterday, walk away tomorrow, If you're walking to escape, to escape from your affliction You'd be walking in a great circle, a circle of addiction Did you ever wonder what you'd been carrying since the world was black? You see yourself in a looking glass with a tombstone on your back Walk away in emptiness, walk away in sorrow, Walk away from yesterday, walk away tomorrow, Walk away in anger, walk away in pain Walk away from life itself, walk into the rain All this wandering has led me to this place Inside the well of my memory, sweet rain of forgiveness I'm just hanging here in space Now I'm suspended between my darkest fears and dearest hope Yes I've been walking, now I'm hanging from a dead man's rope With Hell below me, and Heaven in the sky above I've been walking, I've been walking away from Jesus' love Walk away in emptiness, walk away in sorrow, Walk away from yesterday, walk away tomorrow, Walk away in anger, walk away in pain Walk away from life itself, walk into the rain All this wandering has led me to this place Inside the well of my memory, sweet rain of forgiveness I'm just hanging here in space The shadows fall Around my bed When the hand of an angel, The hand of an angel is reaching down above my head All this wandering has led me to this place Inside the well of my memory, sweet rain of forgiveness Now I'm walking in his grace I'm walking in his footsteps Walking in his footsteps, Walking in his footsteps All the days of my life I will walk with you All the days of my life I will talk with you All the days of my life I will share with you All the days of my life I will bear with you Walk away from emptiness, walk away from sorrow, Walk away from yesterday, walk away tomorrow, Walk away from anger, walk away from pain Walk away from anguish, walk into the rain -------- Sacred Love -------- -------- Never Coming Home -------- Well it's five in the morning and the light's already broken And the rainy streets are empty for nobody else has woken Yet you turn towards the window as he sleeps beneath the covers And you wonder what he's dreaming in his slumbers There's a clock upon the table and it's burning up the hour And you feel your life is shrinking like the petals of a flower As you creep towards the closet you're so careful not to wake him And you choose the cotton dress you bought last summer There's a time of indecision between the bedroom and the door But the part of you that knows that you can't take it any more There's the promise of the future in the creaking of the floor And you're torn if you should leave him with a number And in your imagination you're a thousand miles away Because too many of his promises got broken on the way So you write it in a letter all the things you couldn't say And you tell him that you're never coming home She starts running for the railway station praying that her calculation's right And there's a train just waiting there to get her to the city before night A place to sleep a place to stay will get her through another day She'll take a job she'll find a friend she'll make a life that's better The passengers ignore her just a girl with an umbrella And there's nothing they can do for her, there's nothing they can tell her There's nothing they could ever say would change the way she feels today She'd live the life she'd always dreamed if he had only let her Now in her imagination she's a million miles away When too many of his promises got broken on the way So she wrote it in a letter all the things she couldn't say And she told him she was never coming home She told him she was never coming home I wake up in an empty bed a road drill hammers in my head I call her name there's no reply it's not like her to let me lie It's time for work it's time to go but something's different I don't know I need a cup of coffee I'll feel better I stumble to the bathroom door, her make up bag is on the floor It really is a mess this place it takes some time to shave my face I'm not really thinking straight she never lets me sleep this late I'm almost done and then I see the letter In his imagination she's a universe away Too many of his promises got broken on the way So she wrote it in a letter all things she couldn't say And she told him she was never coming home, She told him she was never coming home, She told him she was never coming home I'm gonna live my life And she told him she was never coming home I'm gonna live my life in my own way -------- Sacred Love -------- -------- Stolen Car (Take Me Dancing) -------- Late at night in summer heat. Expensive car, empty street There's a wire in my jacket. This is my trade It only takes a moment, don't be afraid I can hotwire an ignition like some kind of star I'm just a poor boy in a rich man's car So I whisper to the engine, flick on the lights And we drive into the night Oh the smell of the leather always excited my imagination And I picture myself in this different situation I'm a company director, two kids and a wife I get the feeling that there's more to this one's life There's some kind of complication, he tells her he's alone Spends the night with his lover, there's a trace of her cologne And the words of his mistress, as she whispers them so near Start ringing in my ear Please take me dancing tonight I've been all on my own You promised one day we could its, what you said on the phone I'm just a prisoner of love always hid from the light Take me dancing, please take me dancing tonight I imagine his wife, she don't look nothing like a fool She picks the kids up form some private school She remembers what he told her, he was late and worked alone But there's more than a suspicion in this lingering cologne And the kid's just won't be quiet and she runs a traffic light And she drives into the night Please take me dancing tonight I've been all on my own You promised one day we could it's what you said on the phone I'm just a prisoner of love always hid from the light Take me dancing, please take me dancing tonight So here am I in a stolen car at a traffic light They go form red to green and so I just drive into the night Please take me dancing tonight I've been all on my own You promised one day we could it's what you said on the phone I'm just a prisoner of love always hid from the light Take me dancing, please take me dancing tonight -------- Sacred Love -------- -------- Forget About The Future -------- I know we got some history We got some issues that we need to solve But is it really such a mystery? It's just the way that the world evolves Let me ask your forgiveness baby My heart is ever full of sorrow We got to move into the future maybe And think about a new tomorrow She said you know I used to love you baby But you're thinking way too fast So forget about the future And let's get on with the past So they called a 'nited nations summit To negotiate for peace on earth And it may be idealistic baby But I know what peace of mind is worth Everybody aired their grievances And they threw away the suture They opened up all the wounds of the past As they failed to find their way to the future They said we'd better check the weather chart Before we tie our colors to this mast It's just too hard thinking about the future baby So let's just get on with the past She said we'd better check the horoscope honey Just in case this feeling wasn't meant to last It's just too hard thinking about the future So let's just get on with the past How many times you ever hear me say I'm as flawed as any other human being? There simply has to be a different way And a whole new way of seeing Are we doomed by all our history? Is our love really beyond repair? It's getting close to midnight baby And we ain't got time to spare Just when I think I'm home and dry And she's given up the fight There's an unmistakable optimism In romantic music and candlelight There's this lingering perfume The merest ghost of the past She says wait a minute baby You're moving way too fast We'd better check the weather chart Before we raise this mast We'd best consult our horoscope In case this feeling wasn't meant to last Let's just forget about the future And get on with the past -------- Sacred Love -------- -------- This War -------- You've got the mouth of a she wolf Inside the mask of an innocent lamb You say your heart is all compassion But there's just a flat line on your cardiogram Yet you always made a profit baby If it was a famine or a feast Yes, I'm the soul of indiscretion, I was cursed with x-ray vision, I could see right through all the lies you told, When you smiled for the television And you can see the coming battle You pray the drums will never cease And you may win this war that's coming But would you tolerate the peace? Investing in munitions And those little cotton flags Invest in wooden caskets In guns and body bags, guns and body bags Your daddy was a businessman And it always made good sense You know the war can make you rich my friend In dollars, pounds and cents In the temple that was Mammon's You were ordained the parish priest Yes you may win this coming battle But could you tolerate the peace? Invest in deadly weapons And those little cotton flags Invest in wooden caskets In guns and body bags You're invested in oppression Investing in corruption Invest in every tyranny And the whole world's destruction I imagine there's a future When all the earthly wars are over You may find yourself just standing there On the white cliffs of Dover You may ask, what does it profit a man To gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul? Is that your body you see on the rocks below As the tide begins to roll? And you invested in this prison From which you never got released You may have won this war we're fighting But would you tolerate the peace? There's a war on our democracy A war on our dissent There's a war inside religion And what Jesus might have meant There's a war on mother nature A war upon the seas There's a war upon the forests On the birds and the bees There's a war on education A war on information A war between the sexes And every nation A war on our compassion A war on understanding A war on love and life itself It's war that they're demanding Make it easy on yourself And don't do nothing -------- Sacred Love -------- -------- The Book Of My Life -------- Let me watch by the fire and remember my days And it may be a trick of the firelight But the flickering pages that trouble my sight Is a book I'm afraid to write It's the book of my days, it's the book of my life And it's cut like a fruit on the blade of a knife And it's all there to see as the section reveals There's some sorrow in every life If it reads like a puzzle, a wandering maze Then I won't understand 'til the end of my days I'm still forced to remember, Remember the words of my life There are promises broken and promises kept Angry words that were spoken, when I should have wept There's a chapter of secrets, and words to confess If I lose everything that I possess There's a chapter on loss and a ghost who won't die There's a chapter on love where the ink's never dry There are sentences served in a prison I built out of lies. Though the pages are numbered I can't see where they lead For the end is a mystery no-one can read In the book of my life There's a chapter on fathers a chapter on sons There are pages of conflicts that nobody won And the battles you lost and your bitter defeat, There's a page where we fail to meet There are tales of good fortune that couldn't be planned There's a chapter on god that I don't understand There's a promise of Heaven and Hell but I'm damned if I see Though the pages are numbered I can't see where they lead For the end is a mystery no-one can read In the book of my life Now the daylight's returning And if one sentence is true All these pages are burning And all that's left is you Though the pages are numbered I can't see where they lead For the end is a mystery no-one can read In the book of my life -------- Sacred Love -------- -------- Sacred Love -------- Take off those working clothes Put on these high heeled shoes Don't want no preacher on the TV baby Don't want to hear the news Shut out the world behind us Put on your long black dress No one's ever gonna find us here Just leave your hair in a mess I've been searching long enough I begged the moon and the stars above For sacred love I've been up, I've been down I've been lonesome, in this godless town You're my religion, you're my church You're the holy grail at the end of my search Have I been down on my knees for long enough? I've been searching the planet to find Sacred love The spirit moves on the water She takes the shape of this heavenly daughter She's rising up like a river in flood The word got made into flesh and blood The sky grew dark, and the earth she shook Just like a prophecy in the Holy Book Thou shalt not covet, thou shalt not steal Thou shalt not doubt that this love is real So I got down on my knees and I prayed to the skies When I looked up could I trust my eyes? All the saints and angels and the stars up above They all bowed down to the flower of creation Every man every woman Every race every nation It all comes down to this Sacred love Don't need no doctor, don't need no pills I got a cure for the country's ills Here she comes like a river in flood The word got made into flesh and blood Thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not kill But if you don't love her your best friend will All the saints up in heaven and the stars up above It all comes down, it all comes down It all comes down to love, Take off your working clothes Put on your long black dress And your high heeled shoes Just leave your hair in a mess I've been thinking 'bout religion I've been thinking 'bout the things that we believe I've been thinking 'bout the Bible I've been thinking 'bout Adam and Eve I've been thinking 'bout the garden I've been thinking 'bout the tree of knowledge, and the tree of life I've been thinking 'bout forbidden fruit I've been thinking 'bout a man and his wife I been thinking 'bout, thinking 'bout Sacred love, sacred love... -------- Sacred Love -------- -------- Send Your Love -------- Send your love into the future Send your love into the distant dawn Inside your mind is a relay station A mission probe into the unknowing We send a seed to a distant future Then we can watch the galaxies growing This ain't no time for doubting your power This ain't no time for hiding your care You're climbing down from an ivory tower You've got a stake in the world we ought to share You see the stars are moving so slowly But still the earth is moving so fast Can't you see the moon is so lonely She's still trapped in the pain of the past This is the time of the worlds colliding This is the time of kingdoms falling This is the time of the worlds dividing Time to heed your call Send your love into the future Send your precious love into some distant time And fix that wounded planet with the love of your healing Send your love Send your love There's no religion but sex and music There's no religion but sound and dancing There's no religion but line and colour There's no religion but sacred trance There's no religion but the endless ocean There's no religion but the moon and stars There's no religion but time and motion There's no religion, just tribal scars Throw a pebble in and watch the ocean See the ripples vanish in the distance It's just the same with all the emotions It's just the same in every instance There's no religion but the joys of rhythm There's no religion but the rites of Spring There's no religion in the path of hate No prayer but the one I sing Send your love into the future Send your precious love into some distant time And fix that wounded planet with the love of your healing Send your love Send your love There's no religion but sex and music There's no religion that's right or winning There's no religion in the path of hatred Ain't no prayer but the one I'm singing Send your love Send your love -------- Sacred Love -------- -------- Shape Of My Heart (Live) -------- He deals the cards as a meditation And those he plays never suspect He doesn't play for the money he wins He don't play for respect He deals the cards to find the answer The sacred geometry of chance The hidden law of a probable outcome The numbers lead a dance I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier I know that the clubs are weapons of war I know that diamonds mean money for this art But that's not the shape of my heart He may play the jack of diamonds He may lay the queen of spades He may conceal a king in his hand While the memory of it fades I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier I know that the clubs are weapons of war I know that diamonds mean money for this art But that's not the shape of my heart And if I told you that I loved you You'd maybe think there's something wrong I'm not a man of too many faces The mask I wear is one Well, those who speak know nothin' And find out to their cost Like those who curse their luck in too many places And those who fear are lost I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier I know that the clubs are weapons of war I know that diamonds mean money for this art But that's not the shape of my heart That's not the shape, the shape of my heart That's not the shape, the shape of my heart