After the Fire

I've been sitting here thinking That too much thinking's not good for my brain Am I floating or sinking? All this thinking's going to drive this poor boy insane Then why don't you stop? I really don't know Do you want to or not? But it won't let me go...

Do you remember your first Hammersmith gig How they queued up for hours in the rain Spent all they had to get as near to the front They thought it was worth it just to see you again All the excitement with the lights going down Your name was shouted like...

Young boy comes searching for the bright lights He's looking for those "streets of gold" He never finds them Down an alley there's a back street gang They say "Kid you shouldn't walk down here alone" They really take him to the cleaners They turn his poc...

You find it hard to keep from going astray You find it hard to face another day I'm here to tell you help is on it's way And I'm not talking 'bout a place to hide Or about some meditation peace inside And I'm not talking 'bout an easy ride, that's for sur...

Paint your line across the sky And I will listen for the song that you sing Take me with you when you fly Silver bird I want to ride on your wings Oh carry me home, won't you take me home Everyday is like a dream Every moment spent with you on my mind It's be...

Time and tide they wait for no-one, disbelieve it if you dare Turn around and they will be gone, and you will still be standing there Check it out Check it out, come on you know it's right God is right, check it out People say I'm like a river, cause I'...

Who's that talking? I heard someone speak to me It came from within, a voice that's crying to be free But I'm a puppet and that is all My life's the strings and that's all Free me I want to live my life as it was planned I want to take my Father's h...

Talking to a friend I turned around And saw a total stranger Hiding out for safety’s sake I found I put myself in danger There must be someway I can try to find An answer to the questions in my mind Or will I have to always spend my time Dancing in the shadow...

Zwei, drei, vier One, two, three Its easy to see But its not that I don't care so 'Cause I hear it all the time But they never let you know On the TV and the radio She was young her heart was pure But every night is bright she got She said sugar is sw...

Moving headlights shining through the rain Neon diamonds light the streets again Songs of Freedom written on the wall Words of Heroes spoken as they fall You’re telling me the same old story On and on and on You’re never going to learn to stand up on your own...

Gina - I will always be your friend When they tell you that you don't belong And nobody understands Oh Gina, you mean all the world to me I will never tie you down I will always leave you free-oh don't you cry Gina - like a bird you need to fly But the...

You've really got a hold over me I've tried running but there's nowhere to hide I don't know how you know where I'll be But you're always there before I arrive I've never known this before My heart and my brain are at war I don't understand your love Why don'...

It's high fashion, first they sell you a lie And let you think if you try perhaps they'll let you find it It's high fashion, like tomorrow I say Forever one day away, you'll always be behind it They show us pictures in a glamour book And say that next ye...

I know you've had your share of problems I know that life has been unkind But everybody feels like giving up sometimes I know that life's not always easy That's not what I am trying to say But it would hurt to see you throw it all away Because the world will...

Your love is like a laser burning right into my life You knowing my weaknesses you cut me like a knife You're separating alt the wrong things from the right It's like a laser laser love Your love is like an x-ray there is nothing I can hide You hold me...

Life in the city can be land of the lonely Who's gonna know you when you're lost in the crowd Everyone`s looking after their one and only Everyone`s frightened of talking out loud, they say You're one of the lonely people Cause nobody knows your name now...

Like the rushing of the wind, like the crashing of the sea Like the thunder when it's high, that's what your love is like to me That's what it, that's what it, that's what it's like to me Like the Power of a jet, will push you back into your seat It climb...

You don't have to tell me, I can see it in your eyes You think it's going wrong again but you're wrong and I know it You're trying to keep it from me but it's too much for you to hide You think it's going wrong again but you're wrong and I know it Didn't...

Lord now I feel that there's something I'm wanting to say A feeling that's real, don't know why that I'm thinking this way But now that I've found this is right I guess that I'd better give up this fight Lord now I feel that there's something I'm wanting t...

What kind of line is that when you say you don't understand a single word I tell you all these things, you turn around and make as if you never heard What kind of line is that you're giving me One rule for you, one rule for me Too many people try to tell...

One day as I lay down to rest In a den for my safe keeping I closed my eyelids for the best And I quickly fell to sleeping Was then I had the strangest dream Which I shall now forthtell All of a man who lived in fear For the thought of going to Hell I...

Don't want to go where the rich boys meet Don't want to play where the playboys play Don't want to live in a penthouse suite Talk like "je suis enchante dear" Don't want to play those games of luxury It's not my style, it's not my style Don't want to li...

I dreamed I saw a sailing ship Came floating on the dawn Her flags were high, her sails were set But all her crew had gone Oh -can you tell me what it means Is it really what it seems Is it only just a dream? She seemed to come so close that I Could almost to...

I think it's time we talked a while together And I mean face to face This time we don't just talk about the weather I'll pick the time and the place I think its time they told us what they're doing It's turning to a disgrace They promise us the world But all w...

Ever since my life began it's always been a bore Nothing ever happens much to me Always needed something else, that certain something more Who can tell me what that thing would be? If only I could find a way of changing what I am Maybe that's what I ne...

Sometimes all I need is just to know you're by my side That's enough to make me feel secure Sometimes all I need is just to see it in your eyes I never need to ask for any more But then you say you love me And it's more than I can stand Times like that I think...

I was drifting in space I was floating in time With the world at my feet And with you on my mind Here in the atmosphere I'm learning to fly I don't need your wings I just close my eyes And reach for the sky Am I moving too fast Am I moving at all Am I growing...

Looking up I close my eyes and suddenly I'm in the air Faster and faster still I rise, burning through the atmosphere I turn and look back as I go and see the world fall far behind Is this real I just don't know With you I'm lost in space and time Past t...

Reading signs to try and find a line where I don't know Stopped me in my stride as I decide where I should go An old friend I've never seen before calls me from the door Or is it the law? Nowhere to run, nowhere to go I'm stuck in Paris feeling low I didn't c...

Well look at me All safe and sound And both feet firmly off the ground What am I D-doing here The situations just unclear And what do you all think of that Don`t it make you want to eat your hat Or will you all just S-stop and stare And watch me flo...

I am a minute and you are an hour I am a room and you are a tower I am a motion and you are the power, you are the power I am a word and you are the line I am a poem and you are the rhyme I am a watch and you are the time you are time You make my life w...

Walking along in the light of the streetlamps The rain makes the pavements and walls seem to shine I'm aware of the fact that there's someone behind me Footsteps I hear that are other than mine I try to walk faster but the stranger stays with me Every step tha...

So many things I don't understand So many things that I need to know My life's not working out the way they planned Is there some other way I ought to go I need some time to think I need some time to think I'm just a student on the on the path of life...

Who's gonna love you when you're old and fat and ugly And everything about you's turning grey Who's gonna love you when the jokes no longer funny Who's gonna give you your own way And who's gonna love you when they've seen you in the morning With all your...

One thing leads to another, better think before you talk When it comes to hurting each other we learn to trip before we learn to walk Words can be so detrimental, quick to hurt and slow to mend So why can't we be friends? Anyone can criticise things, anyo...

Life is a circus, a crazy circus With everybody in the ring at the same time and no-one waiting for the band to start I think it's gonna blow the show apart Life is a movie, we are the actors But everybody's going round all thinking they should be the one...