I'm not looking for a mommy
Don't seem like you need a poppy
Plenty of time till you're an old lady
And the same for me before I'm an old man
We could celebrate it monthly
How we stayed individuated
Oh kid, congratulations
You held on to your dear dear dear identitiy
Even while spending so much time with me
I see two blackbirds in the yard
They are paired together
They are feeding
They are flying
They are fucking
I see two dragonflies do the same in midair
There is something
Special in the air
We wake up in the same bed
But with different bodies
God bless our separate heads
Oh desire will run about
That's what the geese were all roaring about
The fact that our love
Is not that kind of love
Not that selfish love
Says what's yours is mine
And what's mine is yours
I don't need to turn you out
You don't need to turn me into your whore
We are not some rutting pair of wild boars
We're just psyched so psyched
So psyched so fucking psyched
That's what the geese are all roaring about
That's what their hearts were all open about
Don’t play pop music
You know I hate pop music
Just sing amazing godless grace
Don’t wear bright colours
You know I hate bright colours
I never liked you for the way you dressed
Anyway
Goodbye lovers and friends
So sad to leave you
When they lie and say
"This is not the end"
you can laugh as if
we’re still together
you can laugh about it all
I hope you didn’t bring flowers
Hope you didn’t write a poem
Hope you remember every fight
I know I could be noxious
Or occasionally cruel
But only to the ones
I loved
Goodbye lovers and friends…
Don’t get inventory
Don’t fake your memory
Don’t give me virtues that I never had
Don’t get sychophantal
We never were sentimental
I know I took more than I ever gave
I don’t need to be forgiven
But a moment from the living
That’s the only thing I ask
Goodbye lovers and friends…
…you can laugh as if
we’re still together
but this really is the end
Patriots of the wasteland
Tortured 200 years
Dragging my spirit back
Deep into the dungeon again
"Oh, bring back crucifixion!"
Cry the moral Death's Head Legion
Using steel nails
Manufactured by the slaves in Asia
You won't fall for that!
Law and order is a baton in the ribs
You won't fall for that
Just like your mommy and your daddy did
Blood inside a fountain pen
Wrote you out of life again
And who knows any better than to
Kick and scratch under English weather
From a chain gang to the mill
The mill that sits on the top of the hill
Fog drowned towns are gonna have to fade
The wrong side of the scissor blade
You won't fall for that!
Law and order is a baton in the ribs
You won't fall for that
Just like your mommy and your daddy did
I'll eat my hat
Oh, I'm gonna be sick
They own the pack
We play the three card trick
Patriots of the wasteland
Tortured 200 years
Dragging my spirit back
Deep into the dungeon again
"Oh, bring back crucifixion!"
Cry the moral Death's Head Legion
Using steel nails
Manufactured by the slaves in Asia
You won't fall for that!
Law and order is a baton in the ribs
You won't fall for that
Just like your mommy and your daddy did
I'll eat the hat
I'm gonna be sick
They own the pack
We try to play the three card trick
Run, run, run, run, run, don't you know?
Where is the place where you hid the ace?
Oh, don't you know that's all we've got to deceive?
They're gonna fall for your three card trick
I used to be on an endless run.
Believe in miracles cause I'm one.
I have been blessed with the power to survive.
After all these years I'm still alive.
I'm out here cookin with the band.
I'm no longer a solitary man.
Every day my time runs out.
Lived like a fool, that's what I was about, oh.
I believe in miracles.
I believe in a better world for me and you.
Oh, I believe in miracles.
I believe in a better world for me and you.
Tattoo your name on my arm.
I always said my girls my good luck charm.
If she could find a reason to forgive,
Then I could find a reason to live.
I used to be on an endless run.
Believe in miracles cause I'm one.
A have been blessed with the power to survive.
After all these years I'm still alive.
I believe in miracles.
I believe in a better world for me and you.
Oh, I believe in miracles.
I believe in a better world for me and you.
I close my eyes and think how it might be.
The futures here today.
It's not too late.
It's not too late, yeah!
I believe in miracles.
I believe in a better world for me and you.
Oh, I believe in miracles.
I believe in a better world for me and you.
Ain't it a shame to go fishing on a Sunday
Ain't it a shame
Ain't it a shame to go fishing on a Sunday
Ain't it a shame
Ain't it a shame to go fishing on a Sunday
When you got Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
or Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Ain't it a shame
Ain't it a shame to have a drink on a Sunday
Ain't it a shame
Ain't it a shame to have a drink on a Sunday
Ain't it a shame
Ain't it a shame to have a drink on a Sunday
When you got Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
or Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Ain't it a shame
Ain't it a shame to beat your wife on a Sunday
Ain't it a shame
Ain't it a shame to beat your wife on a Sunday
Ain't it a shame
Ain't it a shame to beat your wife on a Sunday
When you got Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Or Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Ain't it a shame
Ain't it a shame to go fishing on a Sunday
Ain't it a shame
Ain't it a shame to go fishing on a Sunday
Ain't it a shame
Ain't it a shame to go fishing on a Sunday
When you got Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Or Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Ain't it a shame
Ain't it a shame
Ain't it a shame
Ain't it a shame
Ain't it a shame
Ain't it a shame
I dreamt we were standing
By the banks of the Thames
Where the cold grey waters ripple
In the misty morning light
Held a match to your cigarette
Watched the smoke curl in the mist
Your eyes, blue as the ocean between us
Smiling at me
I awoke alone and lonely
In a faraway place
The sun fell cold upon my face
The cracks in the ceiling spelt hell
Turned to the wall
Pulled the sheets around my head
Tried to sleep, and dream my way
Back to you again
Count the days
Slowly passing by
Step on a plane
And fly away
I'll see you then
As the dawnbirds sing
On a cold and misty morning
By the Albert Bridge
On Jubilee Street there was a girl named Bee
She had a history but she had no past
When they shut her down the Russians moved in
Now I'm too scared, I'm too scared to even walk on past
She used to say all those good people down on Jubilee Street
They ought to practice what they preach
Yeah they ought to practice just what they preach
Those good people on Jubilee Street
And here I come up the hill, I'm pushing my wheel of love
I got love in my tummy and a tiny little pain
And a 10 ton catastrophe on a 60 pound chain
And I'm pushing my wheel of love up Jubilee Street
Ah, look at me now
The problem was she had a little black book
And my name was written on every page
Well a girl's got to make ends meet even down on Jubilee Street
I was out of place and time and over the hill and out of my mind
On Jubilee Street
I ought to practice what I preach
These days I go downtown in my tie and tails
I got a foetus on a leash
I am alone now
I am beyond recriminations
Curtains are shut
Furniture has gone
I'm transforming
I'm vibrating
I'm glowing
I'm flying
Look at me now
I'm flying
Look at me now
My promise could be your fiend
A given end to your dreams
A simple movement or rhyme
Could be the smallest of signs
We'll never know what they are or care
In it's escapable view
There's no escape so few in fear
Give in a changing value
To be given your sight
Hid in a long peaceful night
A nervous bride for your eyes
A fractured smile that soon dies
A love that's wrong from your life and soul
A savage mine had begun
Hello, farewell to your love and soul
Hello, farewell to your soul
Now I know what those hands would do
No looking back now, we're pushing through
We'll change these feelings, we'll taste and see
But never guess how the him would scream
But never guess how the him would scream
But never guess how the him would scream
On the cusp of vessel 18
A look of terror in our eyes
The moonlight licked the face of danger
Innocence made us like soldiers
Untouchable and golden
The quilt of darkness dotted with our teardrops
I know you're sad I'm leaving
So this may hurt a little
But girl look from your window late tonight
You think my heart is frozen
While yours is slowly grieving
You'll see the boy you loved start burning in the sky
We were a dozen to the project
With a galaxy of questions
And all we heard was lies about the truth
No choice but be obedient
Like prisoners of war
Caught on the wrong side of morality and youth
We thought about our loved ones
Tallied 50 on our foreheads
With the pen your mother gave me in the spring
The sun beat at the windows
Within an hour james had cracked
Left the ship and died still clinging to the wings
It looks a dream
And feels the same
I could conquer it
And still feel sane
The soft hills and shores
Beguiled and silent nights
The sun waits softly
We talk a lot
Too much to say
We're still too proud
It looks a dream
And feels the same
I could conquer it
And still feel sane
The people best
Are simple here
And thoughts escape me
No fear, no judge
No burning fear
Their eyes don't pierce
Slowly worked
Smoke ringed arms
It's too hot to mention
Slowly worked
Smoke ringed arms
Luck turned an ear
I shout to time that nothing stays
Nothing lasts and damn to change
Though then I read a book a line
Which says we sleep in blind sublime
Deaf and dumb in human lands
To break and free needs different hands
To pull us to a different space
Where things are wider, out of place
It looks a dream
And smells the same
I could conquer it
And still feel sane
It looks like a dream
And smells the same
I'd submit to it
And still feel sane
I'd submit to it
And still feel sane
I'd submit to it
And still feel sane
I could be wrong
I could be right
I could be black
I could be white
I could be right
I could be wrong
I could be white
I could be black
Your time has come
Your second skin
The cost so high
The gain so low
Walk through the valley
The written word is a lie
May the road rise with you
May the road rise with you
May the road rise with you
I could be wrong
I could be right
I could be wrong
I could be right
I could be wrong
I could be right
I could be black
I could be white
I could be right
I could be wrong
I could be black
I could be white
They put a hot wire to my head
'Cause of the things I did and said
They made these feelings go away
Model citizen in every way
May the road rise with you
May the road rise with you
May the road rise with you
Anger is an energy
Anger is an energy
Anger is an energy
I could be wrong
I could be right
I could be wrong
They put a hot wire to my head
'Cause of the things I did and said
They made these feelings go away
Model citizen in every way
Your time has come
Your second skin
The cost so high
The gain so low
May the road rise with you
May the road rise with you
May the road rise with you
Anger is an energy
Anger is an energy
Anger is an energy
Anger is an energy
Anger is an energy
Oh let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dream
I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been
To sit with elders of the gentle race, this world has seldom seen
They talk of days for which they sit and wait and all will be revealed
Talk and song from tongues of lilting grace, whose sounds caress my ear
But not a word I heard could I relate, the story was quite clear
Oh, oh.
Oh, I been flying... mama, there ain't no denyin'
I've been flying, ain't no denyin', no denyin'
All I see turns to brown, as the sun burns the ground
And my eyes fill with sand, as I scan this wasted land
Trying to find, trying to find where I've been.
Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace, like thoughts inside a dream
Heed the path that led me to that place, yellow desert stream
My Shangri-La beneath the summer moon, I will return again
Sure as the dust that floats high in June, when movin' through Kashmir.
Oh, father of the four winds, fill my sails, across the sea of years
With no provision but an open face, along the straits of fear Ohh.
When I'm on, when I'm on my way, yeah
When I see, when I see the way, you stay-yeah
Ooh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah-yeah, when I'm down...
Ooh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah-yeah, well I'm down, so down
Ooh, my baby, oooh, my baby, let me take you there
My life is everything
That feeds my thirst that causes sin
My wants are all I care
No shame and guilt, there's nothing there
Look deep into my face
I sell deceit without a trace
Fear not what I can do
Unless you want it done to you, oh-ohhh!
As I climb onto your back, I will promise not to sting
I will tell you what you want to hear, and not mean anything
Then I treat you like a dog as I shoot my venom in
You pretend you didn't know that I am a scorpion, oh
My self I'm centered in
There's nothing else, there's never been
And I dream, to be left alone
With the sadness, the madness of my own
Look deep into my soul
It's black as coal like a bullet hole
Fear not, get off your knees
There's no defense, you'll do what I please, oh-oh!
As I climb onto your back, I will promise not to sting
I will tell you what you want to hear, and not mean anything
Then I treat you like a dog as I shoot my venom in
You pretend you didn't know that I am a scorpion, oh
As I climb onto your back, I promise not to sting
I tell you what you want to hear, and not mean anything
I will treat you like a dog as I shoot my venom in
'Cause you knew all along I am a scorpion, ya!
My lies, to reach the shore
I aggrandize and nothing more
My hopes, to steal away
All that you love, I'll soon betray
Look deep into my past
The pain I deal is unsurpassed
I'm not a lowly scorpion
I'm so much worse; I'm the fall of man
Pledged your faith
My heart embraced
Struggle to renew
Blurry mind
so hypnotized
Fast enough who
Wonder where you are
Tristessa
Soul takes soul
As I take eye
I will wait for you
Hang on to your life
Tristessa
I love you true
Surely I do
I love you true
Surely I do
Surely I do
Surely I do (no)
Do you ever wake up and find yourself alone?
Do you ever wake far from home?
What you believe
You'll wish to recieve
I won't believe in you
Tristessa
Tristessa
Tristessa
Guess who's working on the fiddle
Tell me who works on the fiddle
I'll tell you who works on the fiddle
Oooo ooo idle gossip
Guess whose just come off the pill
Tell me who's come off the pill
Oooo ooo idle gossip.
They must be thick, it's everywhere you go
It makes me sick, i just don't wanna know
About who's in the latest news, oh no.
Everybody wants to know the rumours
Everybody wants to know the scandal
Idle, idle,......... Gossip.
Guess who can't pay their gas bill
Tell me who can't pay the bill
I'll tell you who can't pay the bill
Oooo ooo idle gossip
Guess who I slept with last night
Tell me where you slept last night
Oooo ooo idle gossip
Everybody wants to know the rumours
Everybody wants to know the scandal
Idle, idle,......... Gossip.
Get dressed in your bed
All seems the same
But isn't mad
But it was not pride
Tell me, tell me
Tell me what you understand
Show me, show me
Show me a better plan
In some ways
It's someone else's plan
Hearing it can't smile
You ask me to stay
You ask me to stay
You ask me to stay
But there's a million reasons to leave
Find a job, find a plan
Find a home, find a dog
Settle down, out of town
Find a dream, shut it down
Please please don't point it that way
Just to trigger everything all once
And you'll be unafraid
I wish that I didn't notice
But it never was that way
This island statue
God is gone, gone, gone
Tell me, tell me
Won't you understand?
Show me, show me, show me
You ask me to stay
You ask me to stay
You ask me to stay
But there's a million reasons to leave
Show me what to say
Show me what to be
Show me where to see
Show me what to do
Find a job, find a plan
Find a home, find a dog
Settle down, out of town
Find a dream, shut it down
I don't wanna be here down with you
I don't wanna live a day without your lovely love
But I wait for your loss
Can't wait for little things
And the mysteries of love are not for us
It's the little things that are tearing us up
As the telephone emits a brittle sigh
Only one of us will reach it in time
What are you not telling me?
What are you not telling me?
As I blow away the dandelion clock
Will the miracle reveal itself?
Like an amateur under the sickle moon
Did I give away control too soon?
Just bred for the birds in second hand furs
An occasional touch, an occasional word
No the mysteries of love are not for us
It's the little things that are tearing us up
What are you not telling me?
What are you not telling me?
What are you not telling me?
What are you not telling me?
When you are old enough to read these words
Their meaning will unfold
These words are all that's left
And though we've never met, my only son
I hope you know
That I would have been there to watch you grow
But my call was heard and I did go
Now your mission lies ahead of you
As it did my so long ago
To help the helpless ones who all look up to you
And to defend them to the end
Defender
Ride like the wind
Fight proud, my son
You're the defender
God has sent
Father,father,father
I look up to you and heed thy call
This letter ends my search
I'll live your dream now passed on to me
And I now wait to shake the hand of fate
Like the dusk awaiting dawn
So wizards cast your spell
With no heart to do me well
So it is written, it shall be
Defender
Ride like the wind
Fight proud, my son
You're the defender
God has sent
Oh Love, oh love
Won't you rain on me tonight?
Oh life, oh life
Please don't pass me by
Don't stop, don't stop
Don't stop when the red lights flash
Oh ride, free ride
Won't you take me close to you
Far away, far away
Waste away tonight
I'm wearing my heart on a noose
Far away, far away
Waste away tonight
Tonight my heart's on the loose
Oh lights and action
I just can't be satisfied
Oh losers and choosers
Won't you please hold on my life
Oh hours and hours
Like the dog years of the day
Old story, same old story
Won't you see the light of day
Far away, far away
Waste away tonight
I'm wearing my heart on a noose
Far away, far away
Waste away tonight
Tonight my heart's on the loose
Talk myself out of feeling
Talk my way out of control
Talk myself out of falling in love
Falling in love with you
Oh love, oh Love
Won't you rain on me tonight
Oh ride, free ride
Won't you take me close to you
Far away, far away
Waste away tonight
I'm wearing my heart on a noose
Far away, far away
Waste away tonight
Tonight my heart's on the loose
Far away, far away
Waste away tonight
I'm wearing my heart on a noose
Far away, far away
Waste away tonight
Tonight my heart's on the loose
Tonight my heart's on the loose...
Tonight my heart's on the loose...
Changing your strut when you know I'm behind you
Changing your ways cause you don't know what to do
I only wanna tell you
How I feel inside
If only you could listen
Try to change your mind
So I walk right up to you
And you walk all over me
And I ask you what you want
And you tell me what you need
Can't you feel it all come down
Can't you hear it all around
At the place where lost is found
That great love sound
Talking to you makes me wanna shake and shout
Touching you makes me wanna come right out
You could never want me
The same way I want you
I'm love tornado struck
I don't know what to do
One hand holds another
Tangled fingers tell a tale
I know every single
Line across your face so well
We don't wanna
We don't wanna
Wanna walk alone forever
We don't wanna
Live without each other in the end
Where our dreams go
Where our dreams go
Where our dreams go
Where our dreams go
Where our dreams go
Where our dreams go
Where our dreams go
Where our dreams go
We follow
One hand breaks another
Broken bones can always mend
Loss will be the blessing
That will turn us back again
But we don't wanna
We don't wanna
We don't wanna
Wanna walk alone forever
We don't wanna
Be without each other in the end
Where our dreams go
Where our dreams go
Where our dreams go
Where our dreams go
Where our dreams go
Where our dreams go
Where our dreams go
Where our dreams go
(oooh where our dreams go, wherever it may take us, there we will follow)
Where our dreams go, where our dreams go, where our dreams go, where our dreams go, where our dreams go,
(Where our dreams go, ooooh where our dreams go, wherever it may take us, there we will follow)
