Genesis

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A Place To Call My Own

And I've nearly found a place to call my own Waking gently feel her presence near Devil shattered, warmth is everywhere I am only a child of hers, my guardian goddess Now, I'm reaching my journey's end inside her womb And I think I've found a place to c...

A Trick of the Tail

Bored of the life on the city of gold He'd left and let nobody know. Gone were the towers he had known from a child, Alone with the dream of a life He travelled the wide open road, The blinkered arcade, In search of another to share in his life....

A Winter's Tale

The winter's bitterness is lost It's the fireside warmth that comforts me The peace for all my thoughts The night brings shadows to the street It's the time for dreams of things to come To creep inside their livesYou're concealing every feeling Can y...

Abacab

Look up on the wall, there on the floor, Under the pillow, behind the door. There's a crack in the mirror. Somewhere there's a hole in a window-pane. Do you think I'm to blame? Tell me do you think I'm to blame? When they do it you're never there....

Afterglow

Like the dust that settles all around me. I must find a new home. The ways and holes that used to give me shelter, Are all as one to me now. But I, I would search everywhere Just to hear your call, And walk upon stranger roads than this one In a world...

Aisle Of Plenty

"I don't belong here", said old Tessa out loud. "Easy, love, there's the Safe Way Home." - thankful for her Fine Fair discount, Tess Co-operates Still alone in o-hell-o - see the deadly nightshade grow ENGLISH RIBS OF BEEF CUT DOWN TO 47p LB PEEK FREANS FAMI...

Alien Afternoon

Woke up in the morning, staggered out of bed Thought about getting back again, but went downstairs instead Read the daily paper, have to know the truth Slammed the door as I ran outside Looked at my watch and cried Gotta get to work on time Gotta g...

All Change

Feel your body melt Mum to mud to mad to dad Dad diddley office, Dad diddley office You're all full of ball Dad to dam to dum to mum Mum diddley washing, Mum diddley washing You're all full of ball Let me hear your lies, we're living this up to the eyes Ooee...

All in a mouse's night

LOVING COUPLE: I can't see you but I know you're there. Got to get beside you cos it's really cold out here. Come up close to me you'll soon be warm, Hold me tightly like we're sheltering from a storm. MOUSE: Think I might go out for a stroll Into the...

Alone tonight

There's nothing here that I can understand And no one cares I'm a lonely man I touch your face and I don't know why I call your name but you're going by Now I'm alone again. I have no name for each and every day Until the year is done and fades away Th...

Am I Very Wrong

Am I very wrong To hide behind the glare from an open minded stare Am I very wrong To wander in the fear of a never ending lie Am I very wrong To try to close my ears to the sound they play so loud Am I very wrong The happiness machine is trying hard t...

Another record

It's funny you know, 'Cos there's an old rock 'n' roller He's got nowhere to go. Did you ever think of taking him in? Somebody help him, somebody please. Put another record on 'Cos he likes that song. It's funny you know, Ooh he never done nothing, d...

Anything Now

And whether you want it Or whether you hate it And try to battle it out Someday you may just come to discover It was all for the best The change has come, maybe a second chance Anything now could be there for you But whether you want it Or whether you hate it...

Anything she does

You know, You decorate the garage walls, Hang in people's halls, Live in secret drawers, If you could look around you, Wonder what you'd see. Fiction. That's all you really are I know, Editorial dreams. They can't make you real, Tell me wh...

Anyway

All the pumping's nearly over for my sweetheart, This is the one for me, Time to meet the chef, Oh boy! The running ma s out of death. Feel cold and old, its getting hard to catch my breath. Its back to ash, "now, you've had your flash boy" The rocks, in...

Apocalypse In 9, 8

With the guards of Magog, swarming around, The Pied Piper takes his children underground. Dragons coming out of the sea, Shimmering silver head of wisdom looking at me. He brings down the fire from the skies, You can tell he's doing well by the look in human e...

As Sure As Eggs Is Eggs (Aching Men's Feet)

Can't you feel our souls ignite Shedding ever changing colours, in the darkness of the fading night, Like the river joins the ocean, as the germ in a seed grows We have finally been freed to get back home. There's an angel standing in the sun, and he's crying...

Back in N.Y.C.

I see faces and traces of home back in New York City So you think I'm a tough kid? Is that what you heard? Well I like to see some action and it gets into my blood. They call me the trail blazer - Rael - electric razor I'm a pitcher in the chain gang, we d...

Ballad of big

Big Jim Cooley commanded respect, whatever he wanted he could get. The badge on his waistcoat shone in the sun. It ain't no lie, Big Jim was feared by everyone. In the saloon one evening Big took a bet with a rancher whose name I forget. He wanted a herd...

Banjo Man

Gimme a song I know, something I can relate to People never criticise the way I play Show me the way to go, I need to make a breakthrough I don't think that I can wait another day It's putting years on me, I'm a young man going grey I don't believe that I can...

Behind the lines

I held the book so tightly in my hands, I saw your picture, heard you call my name There was something strange, I could not look away I wanted to be there, I wanted to go You gave me no warning You gave no reason But I was with you Right by your side...

Blood on the rooftops

Hackett Dark and grey an English film, the Wednesday Play We always watch the Queen on Christmas Day Won't you stay? Though your eyes see shipwrecked sailors you're still dry The outlook's fine though Wales might have some rain Saved again. Let's skip...

Broadway Melody of 1974

Echoes of the Broadway Everglades, With her mythical madonnas still walking in their shades; Lenny Bruce, declares a truce and plays his other hand. Marshall McLuhan, casual viewin', head buried in the sand. Sirens on the rooftops wailing, but there's no s...

Build Me a Mountain

Do you have champagne in your dreams? Where do you dine with kings and queens? The chauffeur dresses you in lace Where have you put your plastic face? The highest cave was yours, not mine The biggest slave was yours My admiration's on the wane Is this your dy...

Burning rope

The warming sun, the cooling rain, The snowflake drifting on the breath of the breeze, The lightning bolt that frees the sky for you Yet only eagles seem to pass on through. The words of love, the cries of hate, And the man in the moon who seduced you Th...

Calling All Stations

Calling all stations Can anybody tell me, tell me exactly where I am I've lost all sense of direction Watching the darkness closing around me Feeling the cold all through my body That's why I'm calling all stations In the hope that someone hears me A si...

Can-utility and the coastliners

The scattered pages of a book by the sea Held by the sand and washed by the waves A shadow forms cast by a cloud, Skimming by as eyes of the past, but the rising tide Absorbs them effortlessly claiming. They told of one who tired of all singing, "Praise...

Carpet Crawlers

There is lambswool under my naked feet. The wool is soft and warm, Gives off some kind of heat. A salamander scurries into flame to be destroyed. Imaginary creatures are trapped in birth on celluloid. The fleas cling to the golden fleece, Hoping theyll find pe...

Congo

You say that I put chains on you But I don't think that's really true But if you want to be free from me You gotta lose me in another world Send me to the Congo I'm free to leave There's always somewhere anybody can lead Send me to the Congo you have to belie...

Counting out time

I'm counting out time Got the whole thing down by numbers All those numbers Give me guidance O Lord I need that now The Day of Judgement's come And you can bet that I've been resting For this testing Digesting every word the experts say Erogenous zones I love...

Cuckoo cocoon

Wrapped up in some powdered wool - I guess I'm losing touch Don't tell me this is dying, 'cos I ain't changed that much The only sound is water drops, I wonder where the hell I am Some kind of jam ? Cuckoo cocoon have I come too, too soon for you ? There...

Cul De Sac

Wake up now, this is the time you've waited for Far below, where shadows fester as they grow An army thousands strong, obsessed by right and wrong Sense their time is coming near So they turn towards the light from their region of the night Marching on and on...

Dance on a volcano

Holy Mother of God You've got to go faster than that to get to the top Dirty old mountain All covered in smoke, she can turn you to stone So you better start doing it right better start doing it right You're halfway up and you're halfway down And the pack on...

Dancing With the Moonlit Knight

"Can you tell me where my country lies ?" Said the unifaun to his true love's eyes "It lies with me !", cried the Queen of Maybe - For her merchandise, he traded in his prize "Paper late !", cried a voice in the crowd "Old man dies !" The note he left was sig...

Deep In The Motherlode

Get out of the way fat man, you got something to do Go fill up your hands till they're shining up at you You gotta get out while there's gold in the air It's falling like water, coming down from the hills Go West Young Man Earn a dollar a day just like your f...

Dodo

Too big to fly, dodo ugly so dodo must die Doggo with fear on its side can't change, can't change the tide Dog baiter, agitator, asking questions say he wants to know why Ain't no reason that money can't buy Mink, he pretty so mink he must die, must die Sun h...

Domino

The grey of evening fills the room No need to look outside Oh to see or feel the rain I reach across to touch her But I know that she's not there Rain keeps running down the window pane Time is running out for me Can't you see what you are doing to me...

Down and out

It's good to be here! How've you been? Check my begs boy! Where's my room? Gotta sit on the phone, that's my game Keep up the pressure all the way! I don't want to beat about the bush But none of us are getting any younger There's people out there who could t...

Dreaming While You Sleep

In and out of darkness, in and out of sleep Trying to keep my hands upon the wheel. Never saw the corner in the driving rain. I never saw her step into the street. Dreaming while you sleep Dreaming while you sleep Memories to keep Dreaming while you sleep I...

Driving the last spike

Leaving my family behind me Not knowing what lay ahead Waving goodbye, as I left them in tears Remembering all we'd said I looked to the sky, I offered my prayers I asked Him for guidance and strength But the simple beliefs of a simple man Lay in His hands, a...

Duchess

Times were good, She never thought about the future, she just did what she would Oh but she really cared About her music, it all seemed so important then, And she dreamed that every time that she performed Everyone would cry for more, That all she had to do w...

Duke's Travels

I am the one who guided you this far, All you know and all you feel. Nobody must know my name For nobody would understand, And you kill what you fear, And you fear what you don't understand. I call you for I must leave, You're on your own until the end. There...

Dusk

See my hand is moving touching all that's real And once it stroked love's body now it claws the past. The scent of a flower, The colours of the morning, Friends to believe in, Tears soon forgotten, See how the rain drives away, another day. If a leaf as fall...

Eleventh Earl of Mar

The sun had been up for a couple of hours, Covered the ground with a layer of gold. Spirits were high and the raining had stopped, The larder was low, But boy that wasn't all. Eleventh Earl of Mar Couldn't get them very far. Daddy! Oh Daddy, You Promised. Out...

Entangled

When you're asleep they may show you Aerial views of the ground Freudian slumber empty of sound Over the rooftops and houses Lost as it tries to be seen Fields of incentive covered with green Mesmerised children are playing Meant to be seen but not h...

Evidence Of Autumn

The girl from all those songs Who made everything feel right She came in like an angel, into your lonely life And filling your world with light Oh, and everybody told you "you’re oh so lucky" Curtains part revealing a country scene Clothed in green and...

Fading lights

Another time it might have been so different Oh if only we could do it all again But now, now it's just another fading memory Out of focus, through the outline still remains So far away, away, fading distant lights Leaving us all behind, lost in a changing wo...

Feeding the Fire

You are terrified by the smallest sound Because you live your life in such a sheltered world As do those who surround you Well I have seen you stung by poisonous flies And you suffer much too much from their bites There you sit in your comfort watching other p...

Fireside Song

As daybreak breaks the mist upon the earth It came to pass that beauty settled there forever more And as the steam clings close to things to come It came to pass that solid rock did part for humble life Once upon a time there was confusion Disappointment, fea...

Firth of Fifth

The path is clear Though no eyes can see The course laid down long before. And so with gods and men The sheep remain inside their pen, Though many times they've seen the way to leave. He rides majestic Past homes of men Who care not or gaze with joy, To see r...

Fly On A Windshield

There's something solid forming in the air, The wall of death is lowered in Times Square. No-one seems to care, They carry on as if nothing was there. The wind is blowing harder now, Blowing dust into my eyes. The dust settles on my skin, Making a crust I cann...

Follow You Follow Me

Stay with me, My love I hope you'll always be Right here by my side if ever I need you Oh my love In your arms, I feel so safe and so secure Everyday is such a perfect day to spend Alone with you I will follow you will you follow me All the days and nights t...

For absent friends

Sunday at six when they close both the gates A widowed pair, still sitting there Wonder if they're late for church And it's cold so they fasten their coats And cross the grass, they're always last Passing by the padlocked swings The roundabout still turning A...

Frustration

Little bit of flesh to dig my teeth in You are the long-nosed queen Floating up and down Woman! body draped in wire All you seem to do is swallow me Get away! I am the mad, mad scientist Soon i'll build the perfect female friend To comfort me, to satis...

Get 'Em Out By Friday

"Get 'em out by Friday! You don't get paid till the last one's well on his way. Get 'em out by Friday! It's important that we keep to schedule, there must be no delay." Mark Hall of Styx Enterprises (otherwise known as "The Winkler") "I represent a firm of ge...

Gloomy Sunday

Sunday is gloomy My hours are slumberless Dearest the shadows I live with are numberless Little white flowers will never awaken you Not where the black coach of sorrow has taken you, has taken you Angels have no thoughts of ever returning you Would they...

Going Out to Get You

I can pacify your violence I can guarantee no pain Feel the ugly force of motion Deep inside your guilty brain Going out to get you Going out to get you Going out to get you Pulpit of the Python Chasing out the innocents defiled Leave your weapon in the cool...

Guide vocal

Am the one who guided you this far All you know and all you feel Nobody must know my name For nobody would understand And you kill what you fear I call you for I must leave You're on your own until the end There was a choice but now it's gone I said you would...

Hair On The Arms And Legs

See him digging, see him weeding Every single day of the year Coffee at eleven, four-thirty tea His security is built on routine But inside his mind there's a lot going on Planning the world but it just don't do no good I say, what's the use? Population, sta...

Hairless Heart

That night he pictured the removal of his hairy heart And to the accompaniment of very romantic music He watched it being shaved smooth By an anonymous stainless steel razor. 

Happy the Man

Happy the man - he lives a simple life He doesn't have much - it doesn't worry him Where you go - where? Yeah, yeah, yeah, nowhere Like a nun with a gun - I'm wonderful fun Laughing all through - just watching you Seems a very stupid game... But I don't care...

Harlequin

Came the night a mist dissolved the trees And in the broken light colours fly, fading by Pale and cold as figures fill the glade Grey is the web they spin, on and on, and on and on Through the flame still summer lingers on Through her pictures soon shatter Al...

Harold the Barrel

News: A well-known Bognor restaurant-owner disappeared early this morning Last seen in a mouse-brown overcoat, suitably camouflaged They saw him catch the train Man-in-the-street: "Father of three it's disgusting" "Such a horrible thing to do" Harold the Barr...

Hearts On Fire

In life there are those decisions Which direction you should take It's only later that you realize All those simple mistakes you make I don't like being alone Don't wanna be by myself But since you've gone that's all I can think oF I can't think of nothing els...

Heathaze

No cloud, a sleepy calm Sunbaked earth that's cooled by gentle breeze And trees with rustling leaves Only endless days without a care Nothing must be done Silent as a day can be Far off sounds of others on their chosen run As they do all those things they fee...

Here Comes The Supernatural Anaesthetist

Exhausted by all this conjecture, our hero gets the chance in a lifetime to meet his hero: Death. Death is wearing a light disguise, he made the outfit himself. He calls it the "Supernatural Anaesthetist." Death likes meeting people and wants to travel. Death...

Hey!

I'll tell you the story Of how my life ran Well, at first it was easy But it finished so hard Hey! You started me going Hey! I was so happy Hey! You started a going inside me I need your love right now Promises broken The things I believed in You were so nic...

Hidden in the World of Dawn

Pastel colours bring the sky to life Cleanse the night with a breath of dawn Silence broken when a baby cries Piercing the mist that cloaks the cool outside The streets are beginning to move gently now Daylight lays on the ground Dew drops trickle down leaves...

Hold On My Heart

Hold on my heart Just hold on to that feeling We both know we've been here before We both know what can happen Hold on my heart 'Cause I'm looking over your shoulder Ooh, please don't rush in this time Don't show her how you feel. Hold on my heart Th...

Home By The Sea

Creeping up the blind side, shinning up the wall stealing through the dark of night Climbing through a window, stepping to the floor checking to the left and the right Picking up the pieces, putting them away something doesn't feel quite right Help me someone...

How Dare I Be So Beautiful

Wandering through the chaos the battle has left, We climb up a mountain of human flesh, To a plateau of green grass, and green trees full of life. A young figure sits still by a pool, He's been stamped "Human Bacon" by some butchery tool. (He is you) Social Se...

I Can't Dance

Hot sun beating down Burning my feet just walking around Hot sun making me sweat Gators getting close, hasn't got me yet Ref. I can't dance, I can't talk. Only thing about me is the way I walk I can't dance, I can't sing I m just standing here selling Everyth...

I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)

It's one o'clock and time for lunch,dum dee dummmm dee dum. When the sun beats down and I lie on the bench I can always hear them talk. There's always been Ethel: "Jacob, wake up! You've got to tidy your room now." And then Mister Lewis: "Isn't it time that h...

If That's What You Need

Talking makes us human That's what I was told So why do I find it so difficult To let my feelings unfold Had I the courage to tell you I promise you this If that's what you need I'll be the river, I'll be the mountain, always beside you If that's what...

Ikhnaton And Itsacon And Their Band of Merry Men

Wearing feelings on our faces while our faces tooka rest, We walked across the fields to see the children of the West, But we saw a host of dark skinned warriors standing still below the ground, Waiting for battle. The fight's begun, they've been released....

Illegal Alien

Got out of bed, wasn't feeling too good With my wallet and my passport, a new pair of shoes The sun is shining so I head for the park, With a bottle of Tequila, and a new pack of cigarettes I got a cousin and she got a friend, Who thought that her aunt k...

Image Blown Out

People moving about the town upside down, you know why Little bits of coloured glass in the sky Children pushing Mummy down to the park, in a pram Look out the pavement's changing to jam See them running Now where are they going to To follow them, leads you n...

In Hiding

Pick me up, put me down Push me in, turn me round Switch me on, let me go I have a mind of my own In hiding Far from the city of night And the factories of truth I stand upon the mountain A million miles from my home And the faces of fear I have freedom to th...

In limbo

Please take me away Far from this place Leaving me here Take me away To the furthest star in the sky Take me away To the deepest cave of the night Take me away Voices of love, here am I In the sad sad world of fear Take me away >From the power of my ambiti...

In the Beginning

Ocean of motion Squirming around and up and down Pushing together Scattering mountains all around you That is the sound of a new born world And a light from a curious sky It has begun You're in the hands of destiny Thrashing with violence Hurling its lava up...

In the cage

I got sunshine in my stomach Like I just rocked my baby to sleep I got sunshine in my stomach But I can't keep me from creeping sleep Sleep, deep in the deep Rockface moves to press my skin White liquids turn sour within Turn fast - turn sour Turn sweat - tur...

In the Rapids

He dives down into the cold water. At first he is thrown onto the rocks, and pulled under the water by a fast moving channel, which takes him right past John, down river. Moving down the water John is drifting out of sight, Its only at the turning point Tha...

In the Wilderness

Leaving all the world to play They disappear And the leaves have gathered dust to run like deer Tearing pieces from our lives to feed the dawn Mist surrounds the seagulls, christened by the storm Music, all I hear is music Guaranteed to please And I look for...

In Too Deep

All that time I was searching Nowhere to run to It started me thinking Wondering what I could make of my life And who'd be waiting Asking all kind of questions To myself But never finding the answers Crying at the top of my voice No one listening...

Inside And Out

INSIDE Brother Seems they're letting him out next year He's behaving himself, I hear Governor Conway says it will be fine Just as long as he can toe the line It's the same old story But it says here "Mum you're not to worry" 'Cos some you lose and some you l...

Invisible Man

Well I've been waiting, waiting here so long But thinking nothing, nothing could go wrong, ooh now I know She has a built in ability To take everything she sees And now it seems I'm falling, falling for her. She seems to have an invisible touch yeah She...

Invisible touch

Well I've been waiting, waiting here so long But thinking nothing, nothing could go wrong, ooh now I know She has a built in ability To take everything she sees And now it seems I'm falling, falling for her. She seems to have an invisible touch yeah She...

It

Rael cannot look away from those eyes, mesmerized by his own image. In a quick movement, his consciousness darts from one face to the other, then back again, until his presence is no longer solidly contained in one or the other. In this fluid state he observes...

It's gonna get better

Reach out, hands in the air Don't care just what they're saying Hold out, just keep on hoping Against hope it's gonna get better Don't worry, there's no hurry for you, For me everything's gonna come around Shout out, someone will listen to you, To me, some...

It's Yourself

Stepping out the back way Hoping nobody sees Feeling can be easy Think how I feel What will (can) you say? What will you do? Why cant you see? Its yourself I love (dont you know Im not asking You must have made up your mind Is it worth the pain youre caus...

Jesus He Knows Me

You see the face on the TV screen comming at you every Sunday see that face on the billboard that man is me On the cover of the magazine there's no question why I'm smiling you buy a piece of paradise you buy a piece of me I'll get you everything you wanted...

Just a job to do

It's no use saying that it's alright, it's alright But where were you after midnight, midnight Heard a Bang, Bang, Bang - down they go It's just a job you do Cos the harder they run, and the harder they fall I'm coming down hard on you Now no one saw wh...

Keep It Dark

Found that man reported missing, He wandered in his home. It don't seem to bad if you consider Just what he's been through. Seems he met up with a gang of thieves, Who mistook him for a man of means, They locked him up then found he had no money, So they let...

Land Of Confusion

I must have dreamed a thousand dreams Been haunted by a million screams But I can hear the marching feet They're moving into the street Now, did you read the news today? They say the danger has gone away But I can see the fire's still alight They're burning i...

Leck Mich Am A, B, Zeh

ich glaub ich dreh am rad ich hab die ganze scheiße satt ich treff nen typ total der hammer nen süßer po son richtig strammer ich denk mir klasse alles drum alles dran und wir fang zu quatschen an labern locker über alles und ich spür im falle eines falles...

Let Us Now Make Love

Please, I beg you hear this humble voice Please, pale orchid flower, music of my soul Alone, upon the windswept way Descends the nightingale She swoops to soothe my aching brow Let us now make love Please, I beg you hear this humble voice Please, my emerald g...

Like it or not

Ah, don't you know, I've been on my own But I'm coming home And I'd like you to be there I feel a little cold in the air And you're not anywhere You're just another face, I used to know But there was still a chance to hold on to our love Cos I gave you everyth...

Lilywhite Lilith

The chamber was in confusion - all the voices shouting loud. I could only just hear, a voice quite near say, "Please help me through the crowd" I Said if I helped her thru' she could help me too, but I could see that she was wholly blind. But from her pale fac...

Living forever

All that time I was searching I'm feeling so confused today It seems they've changed the rules again Cos in my life I'm trying hard To do it all so I can remain Healthy and sane I'll live forever Always one more tomorrow Living forever Always one more tomorro...

Looking for someone

Looking for someone I guess I'm doing that Trying to find a memory in a dark room Dirty man, you're looking like a Buddha I know you well Yeah Keep on a straight line I don't believe I can Trying to find a needle in a haystack Chilly wind, you're piercing lik...

Los Endos

There's an angel standing in the sun. There's an angel standing in the sun, Free to get back home. 

Lurker

Meanwhile lurking by a stone in the mud Two eyes looked to see what I was and Then something spoke and this is what It said to me....... Clothes of brass and hair of brown Seldom need to breathe Don't need no wings to fly Ooh and a heart of stone And a fear o...

Mad man moon

Was it summer when the river ran dry, Or was it just another dam. When the evil of a snowflake in June Could still be a source of relief. Oh how I love you, I once cried long ago, But I was the one who decided to go. To search beyond the final crest, Th...

Mama

I can't see you mama But I can hardly wait Oh to touch and to feel you mama Oh I just can't keep away In the heat and the steam of the city Oh its got me running and I just can't brake So say you'll help me mama 'Cause its getting so hard - oh Now I can't kee...

Man of our times

I'm one of many, I speak for the rest but I don't understand Tonight, tonight, oh tonight, tonight He brings another day, another night, another fight Well there's another day done and there's another gone by He's a man of our times, a man of our times Tonight...

Man On The Corner

See the lonely man there on the corner, What hes waiting for, I dont know, But he waits everyday now. Hes just waiting for something to show. And nobody knows him, And nobody cares, cos theres no hiding place, Theres no hiding place - for you. Looking everyw...

Many Too Many

Many too many have stood where I stand Many more will stand here too, I think what I find strange is the way you built me up Then knocked me down again. The part was fun but now it's over, Why can't I just leave the stage? Maybe that's because you securely lo...

Match of the Day

There's the Reds and there's the Greens Super slicks and has beens, They're accompanied by three men dressed in black, One's a whistle, two are flags, and quite often they're the drags Kick the ball into the goal, they put it back. Yes Match of the Day's The...

Me and sarah Jane

The fires are burning in another land Don't start counting, don't start counting Colder and colder the ice is moving closer And gets me down Going round and round and down the same old track Pack on my back, going swiftly nowhere Heart in my ear beating like...

Me and Virgil

Ma would never say what happened And we knew better than push too hard We knew we had all the chores to tend to Like fixing fences and helping her Washing dishes and making coffee Me and Virgil'd chop some wood But we'd stop our swinging Just to listen to her...

Misunderstanding

There must be some misunderstanding There must be some kind of mistake I waited in the rain for hours And you were late Now it's not like me to say the right thing But you could've called to let me know I checked your number twice, don't understand it So I we...

More fool me

Here I am Who while away the mornings Since you've gone Too long have I lain alone Not knowing which way to turn And there you are Quite sure that you were right Knowing full well That I'd be the first one To go down And you'd be the one who was laughing Exc...

Never A Time

There is never a time to say cos it seems to me we've lost our way so we carry on, down the road and we live our lives haunted by all the things we say and do keep on missing, when I'm alone with you No there's never a time to change you don't get a chance to...

No about us

A little piece of something Falling gently down down down No one understands you like I do I'd rather be beside you Everything we know so well Tell me what you feel now Show me what you think of it It's not about us anymore It's all about the reasons That we...

No Reply At All

Talk to me, you never talk to me. Ooh, it seems that I can't speak. But I can hear my voice shouting out. But there's no reply at all. Look at me, you never look at me, Ooh, I've been sitting, staring, seems so long. But you're looking through me Like...

No Son Of Mine

Well the key to my survival Was never in much doubt The question was how I could keep sane? Trying to find a way out Things were never easy for me Peace of mind was hard to find And I needed a place where I could hide Somewhere I could call mine I didn't thi...

Not About Us

A little piece of something Falling gently down down down No one understands you like I do I'd rather be beside you Everything we know so well Tell me what you feel now Show me what you think of it It's not about us anymore It's all about the reasons That we...

Nowhere Else To Turn

Would it be asking too much of you? To let me stay tonight Until I find my way back home again Life's been so simple lately I don't want it to go away There is precious little left for me to say I've got nowhere else to turn Will you help me tonight?...

On The Shoreline

Well there's a place where two worlds collide The pile of stone against the pull of the tide You can stay with your feet on the ground Or step into the water, leave the dry behind On the shoreline Meet me on the shoreline Where you can only swim if you try W...

One day

Don't get me wrong I think I'm in love But the feeling in the word is more Than your crystal eyes will ever see in me Don't get me wrong Open your eyes Although I cannot show my heart I'll watch and hope while you are near to me One day I'll capture you And c...

One eyed hound

Mister you've been caught at last Chasing dogs in the moonlight This man committed a sin This man he never can win Mister you've got one more chance If you catch the hound when the sun shines This man committed a sin This man he never can win And it's all gon...

One For The Vine

Fifty thousand men were sent to do the will of one His claim was phrased quite simply, though he never voiced it loud I am he, the chosen one In his name they could slaughter, for his name they could die Many there were believed in him, still more were s...

One man's fool

As the buildings crumble, tumble to the ground And the dust-filled smoke rises in the air You know that somebody somewhere looks with pride, they're satisfied To all who think they know To everyone that knows that they're right D'you ever wonder why D'you nev...

Open Door

I see your smiling face, by the open door There's the morning light Shining in your hair, and in your eyes And just a little way behind that smile of yours I see another one, oh so far away If only for one second, I could hold you close to me When the Master...

Pacidy

Pacidy, my love Glowing ember of evening Your eyes are frozen with guilt I read my fate on your cheeks The smoldering coals of a passion Once a meadow of hope Days of minstrels and bright steeds Autumn nights and silk sheets Your tender battle shadow on me Sc...

Papa He Said

Oh Papa he said you must turn the lights down low Oh Papa he said that way no one will ever know And Papa he said what kind of trouble are you in? Well Papa he said you must go down on your knees Oh Papa he said you must do what it takes to please Papa he sai...

Paperlate

Paperlate, paperlate, paperlate, paperlate Paperlate, i'm sorry but there's no one on the line Paperlate, i'm sorry but rest easy, no news is good news It's too easy to live like clockwork Tick tock watching the world go by And a change would take too long so...

Pigeons

Who put fifty tons of shit on the Foreign Office roof? Who suffers from nine known diseases? Who gets up in the morning when the sun comes up And makes their beds, paper clips, bus tickets All around their heads? Who congregate around Trafalgar Square Taking p...

Please don't ask

Please don't ask me how I feel, I feel fine Oh I cry a bit, don't sleep too good, but I'm fine When can I see you? When can I touch you? Again and again I ask myself was I wrong? Oh but time's a healer, and heaven knows I've been strong Maybe we could try May...

Provocation

All in the church Who had fired in the mud Like water Will flow in their dreams Scratch, sacrifice Switch on, soft plans Switch on, one pass Hold mine 

Riding The Scree

He rushes to the cliff and scrambles down the rocks. It takes him a long time to get down to the water, trying to keep up with the current at the same time. As he nears the water's edge he sees John losing strength. Struggling down the slope, There's not mu...

Ripples

Bluegirls come in every size Some are wise and some otherwise, They got pretty blue eyes. For an hour a man may change For an hour her face looks strange - Looks strange, looks strange. Marching to the promised land Where the honey flows and takes you by the...

River Of Constant Change

The path is clear Though no eyes can see The course laid down long before. And so with gods and men The sheep remain inside their pen, Though many times they've seen the way to leave. He rides majestic Past homes of men Who care not or gaze with joy,...

Robbery, assault, and battery

The streets were deserted though the police were alerted They considered the phone call a hoax Furtively glancing the jauntily prancing The youth caught the guards unaware Slipping between them he ought to have seen the The eyes and their owner so near With t...

Run out of Time

Ooh hear me, ooh hear me Time to tell the truth, no more lying By the light of a candle Through the base of a wineglass You could almost take me for the real thing But I know in my heart of hearts I could never live up to what you want me to be In the heat of...

Say it's allright Joe

Say it's alright Joe I need another drink To blow on the glass so I know I'm alive Play me a song Joe To fill the hours till morning Then never again will I bother you Ooh, build myself a tower No way in no way out Then my friends can visit me Once in a while...

Scenes from a night dream

Little Nemo rubbed his eyes and got out of bed Trying hard to piece together a broken dream His visions lifelike and full of imagination It's strange to think they come from such a tiny head Dragons breathing fire, but friendly Mushrooms tall as houses Giant...

Sea Bee

Hey sea bee Fly through the waters of sadness That part you away from me Hey sea bee You'll freeze in the wind That gently is blowing you away from me Fly to me quickly Suffing your gold wings I'll find you comfort You know you're gonna fall down Down, down...

Second Home By The Sea

Images of sorrow, pictures of delight Things that go to make up a life Endless days of summer longer nights of gloom Just waiting for the morning light Scenes of unimportance like photos in a frame Things that go to make up a life As we relive our lives in wha...

Seven stones

I heard the old man tell his tale: Tinker, alone within a storm, And losing hope he clears the leaves beneath a tree, Seven stones Lay on the ground. Within the seventh house a friend was found. And the changes of no consequence will pick up the reins from no...

She's So Beautiful

Cool as ice yet brittle as glass A nervous wreck with a sweet facade You're breaking up You're breaking up now baby You're breaking up your life Into little pieces Baby Vanity arrived with fame How she loved to see her name She is beautiful, very beautiful Lo...

Shipwrecked

I'm a million miles from anywhere, where can I be Somewhere out on the ocean Just take a look at the horizon, what can you see There's nothing there for me I feel shipwrecked, I might as well be shipwrecked I'm helpless and alone, drifting out to sea I can't...

Sign Your Life Away

Well I heard you sold them America You said it was built to last Price is right, the time is now You said it was going fast Well I've got my beliefs And I don't agree with a single word you say A convincing smile, a twist of truth You seem to get your way An...

Silent sun

The silent sun that never shines She is the warmth of my lonely heart The motion of a turning wheel Can't you stop it and look around Baby, you feel so close I wish you could see my love Baby, you've changed my life I'm trying to show you A tiny stone that h...

Silver rainbow

Rivers flow uphill Blue turns into grey Winter follows springtime Morning ends the day Beyond the silver rainbow If you're walking home beside her And you know what time it is And if you avoid the puddles in your way You haven't been there either To the land...

Since i lost you

It seems in a moment, your whole world can shatter Like morning dreams they just disappear Like dust in your hand falling to the floor How can life ever be the same 'Cause my heart is broken in pieces Yes my heart is broken in pieces Since you've been gone I...

Small talk

Don't talk back to me, don't talk back to me Don't talk back to me, don't talk Going round in circles, hearing too many points of view Just words to tire me out, small talk I could do without I would be amazed if you returned to see things my way Now that you...

Snowbound

Lay your body down upon the midnight snow Feel the cold of winter in your hair Here in a world of your own In a casing that's grown To the children's delight That arrived on the night Here they come to play their magic games Carving names upon your frozen han...

Squonk

Like father like son Not flesh nor fish nor bone A red rag hangs from an open mouth. Alive at both ends but a little dead in the middle, A-tumbling and a-bumbling he will go. All the King's horses and all the King's men Could never put a smile on that fa...

Stagnation

Here today the red sky tells his tale, but the only listening eyes are mine There is peace amongst the hills, and the night will cover all my pride. Blest are they who smile from bodies free, seems to me like any other crowd who are waiting to be saved. Wait,...

Supper's Ready

Walking across the sitting-room, I turn the television off. Sitting beside you, I look into your eyes. As the sound of motor cars fades in the night time, I swear I saw your face change, it didn't seem quite right. ......And it's hello babe with your guardian...

Taking It All Too Hard

No not this confused again No not the same mistakes again. Youre taking it all to heart Youre taking it all too hard Why cant you see whats going on? I know youd never admit You would ever be to blame Everythings a game to you The old days are gone And theyr...

Tell Me Why

Mothers crying in the street Children dying at their feet, tell me why, ooh tell me why People starving everywhere There's too much food but there's none to spare, Tell me why, oh tell me why Can you see that shaft of sunlight can you see it in my eyes...

That's All

Just as I thought it was going alright I find out I'm wrong, when I thought I was right s'always the same, it's just a shame, that's all I could say day, you'd say night tell it's black when I know that it's white s'always the same, it's just a shame, that's a...

That's Me

Every morning when the people are out And I'm free move around on my own I look into the sun and I see a reflection Of a sad and lonely shrivelled man That's me, that's me And I know it's how I'm always gonna be Nothing to do, nothing to say Nothing to hope,...

The Battle Of Epping Forrest

Along the Forest Road, there's hundreds of cars - luxury cars Each has got its load of convertible bars, cutlery cars - superscars For today is the day when they sort it out, sort it out Cos they disagree on a gangland boundary Cos they disagree on a gangland...

The Chamber Of 32 Doors

At the top of the stairs, theres hundreds of people, running around to all the doors. They try to find themselves an audience; their deductions need applause. The rich man stands in front of me, The poor man behind my back. They believe they can control the g...

The Cinema Show

Home from work our Juliet Clears her morning meal. She dabs her skin with pretty smells Concealing to appeal. I will make my bed, She said, but turned to go. Can she be late for her cinema show? Romeo locks his basement flat, And scurries up the stair. With h...

The Colony of Slippermen

[Leaving by the same door from which he had come in, he finds some sort of freaks ghetto on the other side. When they catch sight of him, the entire street of distorted figures burst into laughter. One of the colony approaches him. ] Rael: “Baba-dee Bap” I w...

The Conqueror

He climbs inside the looking glass And points at anything he hates He calls to you, "Hey look out son There's a gun they're pointing at your pretty face" And the heads they are a rolling Cos the conqueror is on his way And the justice day is coming For the co...

The Day The Light Went Out

When they went to bed that night no-one would have believed That in the morning light would not be there The dark hung heavy on the air like the grip of a jealous man No place was there known to have been spared Then panic took control of minds as fear hit eve...

The dividing line

There's always been a dividing line But you chosse, you choose, yes you choose not to see it And then you wonder why you fall It cuts through the heart of every city If you climb to the top of the highest building You can see where it falls 'cause the str...

The Fountain Of Salmacis

From a dense forest of tall dark pinewood Mount Ida rises like an island. Within a hidden cave, nymphs had kept a child: Hermaphroditus, son of gods, so afraid of their love. As the dawn creeps up the sky, The hunter caught sight of a doe. In desire for conque...

The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging

"It's the last great adventure left to mankind" - Screams a drooping lady offering her dreamdolls at less than extortionate prices, and as the notes and coins are taken out I'm taken in, to the factory floor. For the Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging - All r...

The Guaranteed Eternal Sanctuary Man

I know a farmer who looks after the farm. With water clear, he cares for all his harvest. I know a fireman who looks after the fire. You, can't you see he's fooled you all. Yes, he's here again, can't you see he's fooled you all. Share his peace, Sign the leas...

The knife

Tell me my life is about to begin Tell me that I am a hero, Promise me all of your violent dreams Light up your body with anger. Now, in this ugly world it is time to destroy all this evil. Now, when I give the word get ready to fight for your freedom Now - S...

The lady lies

The man steps out in the moonlight At the sound of a scream from below. He thinks he is a warrior So he picks up his sword and goes. From the mouth of the monster He rescues the maiden fair. But we know she's a demon Come to lure him to demon's lair....

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Early morning Manhattan, Ocean winds blow on the land. Movie-Palace is now undone, The all-night watchmen have had their fun. Sleeping cheaply on the midnight show, It's the same old ending - time to go. Get out! It seems they cannot leave their dream. There'...

The Lamia

The scent grows richer, he knows he must be near, He finds a long passageway lit by chandelier. Each step he takes, the perfumes change From familiar fragrance to flavours strange. A magnificent chamber meets his eye. Inside, a long rose-water pool is shroude...

The Light Dies Down On Broadway

He follows a small path running along the top, and watches the tube bobbing up and down in the water as the fast current carries it away. However, as he walks around a corner Rael sees a sky-light above him, apparently built into the bank. Through it he can se...

The Magic of Time

The magic of time that surrounded the world In the mist and the cloud of new life The seas had been filled and the air made clean Awaiting the change on the ground Sunlight in the daytime and the dew came at night And the rain fell to dampen the earth And the...

The Musical Box

Play me Old King Cole That I may join with you All your hearts now seem so far from me It hardly seems to matter now And the nurse will tell you lies Of a kingdom beyond the skies But I am lost within this half-world It hardly seems to matter now Play me my...

The Mystery of the Flannan Isle Lighthouse

Flannan Isle lies in the South by the Point of Kedgeree Forty-seven miles from land in the roughest part of the sea On the finest day the sea is black They say no one has ever come back from there They say the wicked spirits haunt the lighthouse in the night...

The Only People

there was a girl of fourteen she gone leave a letter. my life is lucky to have you. I can walk, breathe, look better ... has two not the best, but I have no more to say. I'm saying in the same way. you three, i love you you'r my life I think of the...

The Return Of The Giant Hogweed

Turn and run Nothing can stop them Around every river and canal their Power is growing Stamp them out We must destroy them They infiltrate each city with their thick dark warning odour They are invincible They seem immune to all our herbicidal battering Long...

The Serpent

Dark night, planets are set Creator prepares for the dawn of man You're waking up, the day of incarnation Said you're waking up to life Images he made to love Images of gods in flesh Man is wonderful, very wonderful Look at him Beware the future Here is my w...

The Shepherd

Rise up! Take your lyre and sing Listen! To the news I bring Frosty breath on the window See a friend in the snow that gently falls Feel the truth in those sad eyes See the smile that's so rare Just like the love She waits for... And she plays a game...

There must be some other way

You're no longer part of my life I must remind myself again Too much has happened to us to cause each other pain It's over now, there's too much guilt we share Once there would have been a time for talking and learning There must be some other way To get wher...

Throwing It All Away

Need I say I love you Need I say I care Need I say that emotions, Something we dont share I dont want to be sitting here Trying to deceive you Cos you know I know baby That I dont wanna go. We cannot live together We cannot live apart Thats the situation Ive...

Time table

A carved oak table tells a tale Of times when kings and queens sipped wine from goblets gold, And the brave would lead their ladies from out of the room to arbours cool. A time of valour, and legends born A time when honour meant much more to a man than life...

Tonight, Tonight, Tonight

I’m coming down, coming down like a monkey, but it’s alright Like a load on your back that you can’t see but it’s alright Try to shake it loose, cut it free, let it go, get it away from me. Cos tonight, tonight, tonight i’m gonna make it right Tonight, to...

Try a Little Sadness

[edit] If you see another staring straight at you Take his life and change it – that's what you always do You're still in the days of childhood Where everything is wrong and no good I can see what you're trying What you're trying to be Let me tell you now Try...

Turn It On Again

All I need is a TV show, that and the radio Down on my luck again, down on my luck again I can show you I can show you some of the people in my life I can show you I can show you some of the people in my life It's driving me mad just another way of passing the...

Twilight Alehouse

Is it really true what they're saying Are you really sure there's nobody come for me When I'm walking home there is no-one Once there was a house, full of laughter - so warm Trying to pretend there is someone Someone who will care when I need it I will now re...

Uncertain weather

A day of uncertain weather Captured in a frame forever A face in a faded photograph He must have had a life Maybe with a family And people who meant everything to him A sinner, a saint, a soldier Caught up in a war he never Had a chance to start or build a l...

Undertow

The curtains are drawn Now the fire warms the room. Meanwhile outside Wind from the north-east chills the air, It will soon be snowing out there. And some there are Cold, they prepare for a sleepless night. Maybe this will be their last fight. But we're safe...

Vancouver

She packed her bags and dressed Long before the sunrise No one knew She told them many times About how she would teach them And now it's time Standing quietly by the door Her face is numb with fear She stops and then goes on "Leave forever - it's now or never"...

Vision of angels

Standing in a forest gazing at the son Looking at the trees but there's not even one See a rippling stream that smiles and then goes by Run to feel its comfort but the water's dry I see her face and run to take her hand Why she's never there I just don't unde...

Watcher Of The Skies

Watcher of the skies watcher of all His is a world alone no world is his own He whom life can no longer surprise Raising his eyes beholds a planet unknown Creatures shaped this planet's soil Now their reign has come to end Has life again destroyed life Do the...

Way of the world

If you take the tears from crying eyes Will the hurt just disappear Put a weapon in the hand of a frightened man Will he show no fear So we stand and we watch while the city lights go out one by one Mother Nature sits on the other side with a loaded gun...

Where the Sour Turns to Sweet

We're waiting for you Come and join us now We need you with us Come and join us now Look inside your mind See the darkness is creeping out I can see in the softness there Where the sunshine is gliding in Fill your mind with love Find the world of future glory...

White mountain

Thin hung the web like a trap in a cage, The fox lay asleep in his lair. Fang's frantic paws told the tale of his sin, Far off the chase shrieked revenge. Outcast he trespassed where no wolf may tread, The last sacred haunt of the dead. He learnt of a truth wh...

Who Dunnit

Was it you or was it me? Or was it he or she? Was it A or was it B? Or was it X or Z? Was it you or was it me? Or was it he or she? Was it A or was it B? Or was it X or Z? Was it you or was it me? Or was it he or she? Was it A or was it B? Or was...

Willow Farm

If you go down to Willow Farm, to look for butterflies, flutterbyes, gutterflies Open your eyes, it's full of surprise, everyone lies, like the focks on the rocks, and the musical box. Oh, there's Mum & Dad, and good and bad, and everyone's happy to be her...

Window

Slowly I stretch out my arms, freely Shadows of night disappear Rise from the slough of despond, find the pathway Guiding us forward through pastures of dream day Days to enjoy, peace I knew once before me Dawning to dusk on the hills until morning Come see me...

You Might Recall

What was it you said to me Back in the days when things looked fine 'bout how we would be together Until we left the earth behind Oh, it's funny how things can change Cos there was a time I thought I'd be the one Who'd leave and start again But now I'd st...

Your Own Special Way

Go far enough and you will reach A place where the sea runs underneath We'll see our shadow, high in the sky Dying away in the night I've sailed the world for seven years And left all I love behind in tears Won't you come here, wherever you are I've be...