Dream Academy

Johnny was a child When the wheels of progress came And slowed things down again - Oh, when the wheat was high And a big moon sailed in a rolling sky And the stars came down so close You could touch them just like ringi And you felt so happy-sad It all seemed...

Cuddie I don't sleep right Cuz' when I close my eyes I hear cries From my potna's who lost they lives Visions of bloody brutalities realities Now stay focused and hope it don't affect my salary Calorie, they keep my pockets fat I gots to stack a grip Try not t...

I was in love with a married girl For seven years out of eight We carried on in secrecy In shadows I would wait I learned to live with her other life I wouldn't let it break us down 'Cause she said what she did behind my back Was unimportant when I was around...

Well I'm bound to tell you a story that just happened to me Bound to break down and bound not to break even I was feeling lonely like a Soledad Brother You came into my life and loved me like a mother I'm bound Caught up Aha Was bound to be Don't you know that...

Would you like to come back out just for the ride. We will have to check it in my doublemind 'Cause it's getting to the point of no return And I'm finding there's one lesson I still haven't learnt And everything I do brings me back to the same point of view Do...

When you were young, Did you ever love somebody? Like I love, I love you now. Cos now that your's older, I see you don't mind, Letting go of my hand in a crowd, You don't wanna ho-old tight. And when we kissed one night, There's a million hearts, B...

for short lived cattle crazing land with the whole world in their hands they're cutting down and burning up the land asset stripping the medicine man & all for one and every man for himself the conflict of interest lies selling off cheap avoid political h...

all of the boys in this small town follow her eyes and follow her down over the grey horizon that winter I was the lucky one I would keep up and she would run wherever the wind was running and it's cold out all the boats are moored out Gaby says they're all...

Hampstead girl on Parliament Hill Drinks in the situation Hampstead brown not dressed to kill In a thousand variations And her blue ayes See those dark shadows in the sky And her choir like voice Cries For Love And you'd do anything you could Just bring back...

All our lives spent here All our days In this confusion I hear your voice In this confusion Here All our nights end in silent dreams Inside the night Quiet And in my dreams I hear you voice And in my waking hour I want you here Here. 

Just a touch of industry, Monday morning Put on your collar and head straight out Everyone's waiting, don't be late... Uptown midday Sound of the city on slow decay See the faces behind private eyes As you pencil in their lives In the humdrum, Can you hear th...

I, I was never very young I walk like a stranger through this world No, No you don't know me Although I'm with you I'm so far away... But it wasn't the heat that Threw the night into turmoil Put the city in darkness And soldiers on the street But the car Burn...

All alone in bridge of silence I suppose you shouldn't stay, all alone in dream's asylum Don't you know we've come a long way... I suppose we were Somewhere in the sun We walked in coloured fields In places on the run. What a dream I had Dressed in coloured...

Well the truth was told, written on the mountains And it burned, driven by the wind And freedom walked without a name Through poppy fields and Remembrance Days And the words hung like winter in the air Now that the War is over, Put your hand in the hands of lo...

It was the time of year just after the summer's gone When August and September just become memories of songs To be put away with the summer clothes And packed up in the attic for another year We had decided to stay on for a few weeks more Although the season w...

I remember our first affair all the pain always rain around my eyes it'll never happen again it'll never happen again every time I leave you alone I remember times I couldn't come home it'll never happen again it'll never happen again why can't you be the wa...

Good times for a change see, the luck I've had can make a good man turn bad So please please please let me, let me, let me let me get what I want this time Haven't had a dream in a long time see, the life I've had can make a good man bad So for o...

A Salvation Army band played And the children drank lemonade And the morning lasted all day, All day And through an open window came Like Sinatra in a younger day, Pushing the town away Ah - (Chant) Ah hey ma ma ma Life in a northern town. They sat on the st...

love is real real is love love is feeling feeling love love is wanting to be loved love is touch touch is love love is you love is reaching reaching love love is asking to be loved you and me love is knowing we can be love is free free is love love is living l...

the low pressure band had broken up but not let go as holy stormy Monday broke out on the streets below if not to hear your voice is still the thing I can't replace somehow I can always see your face in the lowlands I rise up in the evening and rebuild a...

lucy September's put a hole in her arm she wonders where all daddy's money's gone lying on the bed with a wasted friend oh yeah she could have been someone with all the advantages under the sun but sad to say this is where her story ends & you stare out i...

I believe in love to the power of ten I don't believe retaliation strikes can make amends I believe, I believe again I cut down the flags on the wooden ship sail stateless keep the faith in protest Against the wind but when I look in your eyes i don't see a...

The living word that Mordechai heard That rang loud inside his head Wasn't loud enough to stop the bomb With repression ringing out again From South Africa to the shores of this land That wouldn't stop resistance holding on Mordechai Vanunu Said "Israel, don...

"All out" cried the boy And put the girl in danger Whose only weapon was to believe in love "All out" but don't say forever Too late for re-arrangement He's already thinking of another face And she's drawing on the memory she can't erase They're moving on Kee...

time itself is bringing down our ride we're on the ground we've almost made it hard to find a way to say goodbye and yet the final kiss betrayed it in the shadow of the world outside don't let it darken down your eyes you never could have second prize out in...

There's one dream in my life One that I love more Than settle down Fool around Games that only drag you down. So if you're blue and skies are grey That's when I love more The one dream in my life The one dream that's in my life The one dream in my life That...

Good times for a change see, the luck I've had can make a good man turn bad So please please please let me, let me, let me let me get what I want this time Haven't had a dream in a long time see, the life I've had can make a good man bad So for o...

He was born and raised in privilege Took everything it gave Had financial help from his father From the cradle to the grave And this enabled him to believe in the things he did try hard, God forbid he should give in to pointless wandering but he would wander...

now we broke up on valentine's day been coming for a long, long time you give what you can and then you take it away save it for st. valentine and as the sun going down begins living in a winter that was more like spring waiting for the greenhouse to set in li...

Don't walk out, listen to me when I say We've got a whole lot of magic, don't let it slip away Now there's tears on your eyes on the pages of the book If I find time to read them just to take a second look you can fall down, you can fall for the line You can...

Look out your window on any day From June to September the love parade's Out on the street where you live and you know It's just a matter of time before it takes over They've been married for so many years Now a young love serenade blows sweet nothing in her...

There's danger in the air They walk around in pairs Dancing to the Dansette Well God Almighty don't forget You came here with me. While Cindarella's getting hypnotised By the Italian with grey-green eyes I stand deliberately out of bounds Winding you up just...

Richard's on the street with all the lonely people Trying to get a job and getting nowhere So now this is what he's got Anew kind of dedication He doesn't feel lost He walks into the station And Richard takes a train to go uptown You know he's gonna find a p...

Midnight & autumn leaves are turning brown Night light I look to find you not around & the wind blows Scorn into the face of fools who Break hearts & turn their back on Love that's true But I don't want To forget the little things you do...

A pale yellow morning moon Hung over, over the workaholics on the streets of rain And high up in a window box Were blue borget-me-nots right here On the northern line Waterloo You can hear the trains pulling out From the world inside your room You said if we...