Marillion

100 nights of fun and games A thousand empty glasses I feel it change And stay the same As each day passes They invite me to their gatherings In the finer parts of town They seem attracted to my indifference The irony just kocks me out And I love them as if...

Staring down from this high window At the faces in the line Cold from hours of waiting How many people can you love? When you're black and blue with bruises From collisions on the road The friction grind of travelling This is the never ending show All o...

I've got a photograph I took a picture of you I took your picture in front of my favourite view You play the part so well You look so sure and free No one could ever tell that you belong to me And 'cause you lie so well I've got to pin you down Under lock and...

Can you make it your own Can you take it by the throat Make your own luck, learn the skills Get in early for the kill It carries on Pick up the weapon Marry it, give it your name Define yourself by it Take it down 'the disco Trigger happy, pulling power Lad...

When I leave you I will leave you Things that might not help you Things that might Problems that I never solved Dreams to keep you up at night As I leave you I will leave you Things that stick for ever Things that slide Mysteries I swallowed whole Happiness I...

He looked down from the airplane A crack in the clouds opened up he saw a garden of Eden An island in the sea Starin at the birth of creation The earth and the people living, growing, naturally A state of mind.. He came down from the sky Into the noise of a m...

A voice from the past Entered my head today Fresh & alive. Full of life, passion and pain. A voice now past. A beautiful soul. Gone, gone, gone. Speaking clearly - clearer than the living Talking perfect sense Used to not being understood While talking pe...

There's something I have to tell you Before it's too late There's someone needs a timing I could be the same Got to listen to you clearly Would you understand it all Would you hold it all together Do we run up in the bar Everyone needs someone to listen to If...

Has anybody here Seen my old friend Abraham Can you tell me Where he has gone 'Cos he freed a lot of people But it seems the good die young I just turned around And he was gone Has anybody here Seen my old friend Martin Can you tell me Where he has gone 'Cos...

Drive the road to your surrender Time comes around... out of my hands Small boats on the beach at the dead of night Come and go before first light Leave me running in the wheel King of the world How do you feel? What is there to feel? So how do we now come t...

Dressed in black, no turning back We blanked out on the Great White Way Fingers in desire's crack We'd bridge and tunnel into day Abandoned to the salt of skin Abandoned to the highway Sand running in the hourglass Heat of leather and mirages So how do we now...

There's a line on her jeans that a ball-point made From a careless mistake that she can't wash away And there's a heart on her sleeve from a spill of red wine There's a piece of green in the blue of her eyes She named it after me There's a stray dog she feeds...

The pack has now fallen So bring out your dead Has Alice forgotten As the rivers run red The White Queen's running backword with a mallet to the fore The Cheshire Cat is grinning, dissolving through the floor So walk a little faster To catch up with you...

See those people there? They look after me This is a photograph of who I might be Man in a uniform, bride on his arm Mum always was a fool for money and charm He's been talkin' in his sleep again Sayin' he's sorry, callin' my name Sayin' how he's so ashame...

I was taught from much too young To never give myself away Yes I was taught for every secret There's a price you have to pay An accident of gender An accident of birth That holds me to this point of view This time and place on earth This time and place on ear...

Every day at 5 am If you?re down or in a mess Get off on Angelina When you?ve stayed up far too late Fallen through the door in a state Call her at the premium rate Tune in to on Angelina Don?t touch that dial Don?t go to bed Don?t read a book Call up instea...

I am the assassin, with tongue forged from eloquence I am the assassin, providing your nemesis On the sacrificial altar to success, my friend Unleash a stranger from a kiss, my friend No incantations of remorse, my friend Unsheathe the blade within the voice,...

I am the assassin, with tongue forged from eloquence I am the assassin, providing your nemesis On the sacrificial altar to success, my friend Unleash a stranger from a kiss, my friend No incantations of remorse, my friend Unsheathe the blade within the...

It said in the paper that 90% of the universe went missing this morning Tonight I lost 90% of what was left.. They send us up here to get us out of the way We worry, and they don't like what we say Seems obvious to us what's right and what is wrong But it see...

I went to Morisson's grave at Pere Lachaise cemetery The stony flowers and the matching graffiti were guiding me To the steps inside of me And what would you do if I got down on my knees to you What would you do if I lied to your face Could you still hold you...

Everybody knows we live in a world Where they give bad names to beautiful things Everybody knows we live in a world Where we don't give beautiful things a second glance Heaven only knows we live in a world Where what we call beautiful is just something on...

The mascara'd blonde from the Berliner bar Rises at twilight, gets dressed in a daze Black leather crackles and cold water runs As she touches the walls of memory maze And the shadows of men she has known fill her day She's held half the world in her arms so...

Today! I saw music in the sky I drove towards it in my car And I turned left and I turned right But I could never lose the light That shines towards tomorrow night Who can say what it means? What goes on in between And what gets in between It's just somethin'...

If you were a baby I would take you and run I could hide you in the folds of my heart There's a truth in the madness that I can't get beyond And a fever that won't leave me alone I don't want my heart Don't want my head Don't want my friends Don't want...

A) brief encounter A spider wanders aimlessly within the warmth of a shadow Not the regal creature of border caves But the poor, misguided, directionless familiar of some obscure scottish poet The mist crawls from the canal Like some primordial phantom of ro...

1. Vocal Under A Bloodlight Last night you said I was cold, untouchable A lonely piece of action from another town I just want to be free, I'm happy to be lonely Can't you stay away? Just leave me alone with my thoughts Just a runaway, just a runaway I'm savi...

The sky was Bible black in Lyon When I met the Magdalene She was paralysed in a street light She refused to give her name And a ring of violet bruises They were pinned upon her arm. Two hundred francs for sanctuary and she led me by the hand To a room of danc...

The quiet sadness of the people of the North Echoes silently around the cold grey places Ecstasies undared Tremble upon the edge of the tightly, respectably unfulfilled Who drink to excess in order to forget what never happened Brave faces Well dressed ordere...

What a brave, brave girl Never lied before Such a plain deceit Everyone would eventually know What a brave, brave girl Never loved before Placed herself in reach So he tried In his own way To find the heart Of the tight-packed rose She's gone now But oh, sh...

"A bridge is not a high place..." Staring out over the bridge A million photo flashes from the water down below Dawn light bouncing through the mist Roar of traffic and the crack of police radios When they ask her name Would she please explain She simply cho...

Best of three, the angel said As daylight burst behind his head Jacob all night wrestling with his angel Then out into the boul' St. Mich He cruises in a new Corniche Now doesn't God stand up for B-A-S-T-A-R-D-S Baby you can't lose it You'd be mad to choose...

Let's meet up and get beat up Well she tied me to the headboard with a surf leash And her wet hair hugged her body like a long-lost friend And I really tried my best to get across to her But nothing she would say could be defended Well her birthday suit it w...

Hark how the bells sweet silver bells all seem to say throw cares away Christmas is here bringing good cheer to young and old meek and the bold Ding dong, ding dong, that is the song with joyful ring all caroling, one seems to hear words of good ch...

Curl up tight into a ball Curl my body against the soil Staring up here At the cathedral wall I will sleep tonight Be a baby Forget it all Be a baby Watch the quiet stones Massive friend Cathedral wall I will sleep tonight A mother to the living A mother to...

Yeah! Slow French kissing with the Dauphin's daughter If I fall in love now I'll be floating in Seine Plastered in Paris I've had an Eiffel Gonna make my escape on the midnight train Choo, choo to you - Choo, choo to you - Charting the single Schnapping my fi...

Catalogue princess, apprentice seductress Hiding in her cellophane world in glitter town Awaiting the prince in his white Capri Dynamic young Tarzan courts the bedsit queen She's playing the actress in this bedroom scene She's learning her lines from glossy ma...

Childhood's End? And it was morning And I found myself mourning, for a childhood that I thought had disappeared I looked out the window And I saw a magpie in the rainbow, the rain had gone I’m not alone I turned to the mirror, I saw you, the child, that...

On the rebound, fumbling all the lines The light at the end of the bottle - alcoholic alphabet Through the looking glass the proof in my own reflection Five senses down and reeling on the Cinderella search On the rebound, fumbling all the lines Decay on the v...

The hole in the ozone layer Is all right by me Makes England warmer in the summer Them tropical guys had it too good too long High time they learned to sing a different song And anyway, what's wrong with the odd melanoma If it gets us all out of the coma 

Cover my eyes The light falls on her face Dangerous lines Dangerous colours and shapes Ferocious designs Connected and ready to play Buttoned up tight Crimson and Halloween-white She's like the girl in the movie when the Spitfire falls Like the girl in the pi...

They got money, they got sun They look like they're havin' fun Don't it seem it's so unfair They know something you don't know They've got a better place to go They're thin and rich and they don't care We get the dreams that we deserve The magazin...

There'll come a time when all of this is over Something else will grow and take it's place The brand new car:scrap metal in a junkyard The children playing will grow up and leave home Put it away this dream you can't stop dreaming Put it away this anger and d...

I had this dream. That monkey inside o'me. Gone skulkin away. Leavin' me seeing.. Being. Seeing Being Drinking lemon tea And feeling free Chilling in the sunshine On this dreamy street 

A man came to drill holes in the afternoon And by the evening Most of the afternoon had gone I seem to have slept through the morning But in the afternoon A morning is yet to come A girl came to help out in the kitchen And by the evening We found we were all...

In all the time that I've known you You've been so edgy and nervous I never wanted to own you I was aware of the danger Of making a bid for your favours You're such a natural stranger I made excuses and ran You're an island But I can't leave you all out at s...

A Ghost Of A Mist Was On The Field The Grey And The Green Together The Noise Of A Distant Farm Machine Out Of The First Light Came A Tattered Necklace Of Hedge And Trees On The Southern Side Of The Hill Betrays Where The Border Runs Between Where Mary Dunoon'...

I remember The enchanted English walled garden Days of summer air and honey-suckled nights The capricious dance of lavenders and cabbage-whites Made more than 3D, glowing in the evening long-shadowed sun Nowhere better. But in England, although...

The Remainers remain in their homely places Go home, wash their faces, lay down their heads As the Leavers take with them their lonely craziness Our fast-moving laughter Our fast-moving beds And our hearts slowly lose focus Like gypsies at fa...

We saw the crash on the news today, oh boy It changed our lives But did it really happen? Flyin' high in a scary sky Flyin' high in a scary sky What's going on? What's going on? What's going on? I don't know if I can believe the news I don'...

Remember a time when you thought that you mattered Believed in the school song, die for your country - a country that cared for you All in it together? If it ever was more than a lie or some naive romantic notion Well, it's all shattered now It's all shat...

Metal in the air Brimstone in the lungs Breathe deeply of it The wind is carrying the pictures The rain is muttering the names The wind-chimes in my garden ring like keys To all the stolen doors We are the grandchildren of apes, not angels Bu...

To be the prince of possession in the gallery of contempt Suffering your indiscreet discretions and you ask me to relent As you accumulate flirtations with the calculated calmness of the whore I am the harlequin - diamonded costume dripping shades of green I a...

Viva Brasil, Viva Vida Bound up in this energy ball again Laughing and bouncin' off the magic Rollin' under like a surfboard in a wave Washin' me up ...I want to do it again Entwined in her arms Spinning around and submarine beneath the deep of her Climbing...

I gazed upon you from the bleachers A creature so foreign to me With the stars and the stripes wrapped around you Well how could I know there was England below? I gazed upon you and I wondered Cheerleader with hair of red flame But that was first glance - I sa...

'Tell you what I want Essence 'Tell you what I need Essence What I'm looking for Essence Sit in silence close your eyes, feel the magic everywhere inside you Fingers toes head heart and soul, connected deep to every living thing Not just the taste, the touch,...

Feeling you shake Feel your heart break Thinking if only, if only, if only, if only And the salt water runs Through your veins and your bones Telling you no not this way, not this way, not this way And you would give anything Give up everything Offer...

When your day is long and the night, the night is yours alone, When you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on Don't let yourself go, 'cause everybody cries n everybody hurts sometimes Sometimes everything is wrong. Now it's time to sing alon...

I saw a blue umbrella in Princes Street Garden Heading out west for the Lothian Road An evening news stuffed deep in the pocket Little did I know that even a heavy load I found us walking Grierson's dockyards Where the only thing working was foreign film...

What I have here in my heart Is like faith, but not faith For those without faith also have What I have here in my heart What I have here in my hand Is like feeling but deeper That's why I am here What I have here in this room Is knowledge without proof What...

Don't ask me why I'm doing this You wouldn't understand You're asking the wrong questions You couldn't understand A bridge is not a high place The fifty second floor Icarus would know A mountain isn't far to fall When you've fallen from the m...

Don't ask me why I'm doing this You wouldn't understand You're asking the wrong questions You couldn't understand A bridge is not a high place The fifty second floor Icarus would know A mountain isn't far to fall When you've fallen from the m...

It's always a struggle To let somebody go It's a natural desire To own your lover, I know And you can screw a man down Until he takes to drinking He'll give you all of his money You still won't know what he's thinking Take me to the fantastic place Keep the...

Armalite, street lights, nightsights Searching the roofs for a sniper, a viper, a fighter Death in the shadows he'll maim you, he'll wound you, he'll kill you For a long forgotten cause, on not so foreign shores Boys baptised in wars Morphine, chill scream, ba...

Have you ever met a lady, screaming angst potential? Have you ever dreamed of romance, no matter how experimental? Have you ever felt an alien drifting back into your hometown? Did you think you were buying safety when you bought that piece of ground? She sai...

Fugazi Vodka intimate, an affair with isolation in a Blackheath cell Extinguishing the fires in a private hell Provoking the heartache to renew the licence Of a bleeding heart poet in a fragile capsule Propping up the crust of the glitter conscience Wrapped i...

Garden party held today Invites call the debs to play Social climbers polish ladders Wayward sons again have fathers Hello, Dad, hello, dad Edgy eggs and queuing cumbers Rudely wakened from their slumbers Time has come again for slaughter O on the lawns by sti...

When I was young it all seemed like a game Living here brought no sense of shame But now I'm older I've come to understand Once we had houses Once we had land They rained down bullets on us as our homes collapsed We lay beneath the rubble terrified Hoping.. D...

Saw you walking on your velvet lawn Is it lonely on the moon? You took a dive and swallowed all you could Did you drink too much too soon? Nothing left for you to fight about And no one wants to see you try The nearest neighbours are a mile away Does the ocea...

I let the genie out of the box I let the genie out of the box I'm scared of everything I am I let the genie out of the box I'm scared of opening the can I let the genie out of the box I had this recurring dream I was living another life In another country In...

Turn your life upside down Take a car into town Wait until the world's asleep And tear it up and never stop again Take a train to the sea Stay up all night ..and be It only takes a fraction of a second To turn your life upside down Take a train to the sea Be...

Is it wrong to talk to myself even when there's nobody else I'm just checking out that I'm not gone under the water Thrown on the beach like a seal ready for slaughter Can't you understand that the way things were planned It never worked out so I just went...

They try to trace her in the town Appeal for information on the local news Someone must have missed her by now A mother or a father or a friendly face to talk her down She's heading for the great escape Heading for the rave Heading for the permanent holiday ....

I. Heorot's Plea And Grendel's Awakening Midnight sun bids moors farewell, retreats from charging dusk Mountains echo curfew's bell - signal ending tasks They place their faith in oaken doors, cower in candlelight The panic seeps through bloodstained floors a...

When you're driving through the city I hope all your lights are green And the boy you choose to live with Well, I hope he's never mean When you stop a while to think I hope your thoughts don't drag you down When you've had too much to drink I hope the room do...

I used to be half empty, But now I'm half full. I used to be half empty, But now I'm half full. I used to be half empty, But now I'm half full. I'm half full, I'm half full, I'm half full. I used to be half empty, But now I'm half full. I'm half full,...

The greatest blessing that we have Is the dawn of each new day A chance to finish what we started And made a mess of yesterday As day comes out of night A chance to get it right A chance to start again A chance to get it right The people here Full of love and...

Well I hear that you were looking out to hunt me down And I guess you're used to having everything you want But you know that love can be as hard as sticks and stones I tell you nothing else can be as hard as love can Well I hear you got my number and you wan...

Light switch, yellow fever, crawling up your bathroom wall Singing psychedelic praises to the depths of a china bowl You've got venom in your stomach, you've got poison in your head You should have listened to the priest at the confession When he offered you t...

I. Wide Boy Wide boys, wide boys, wide boys, born with hearts of Lothian Wide boys, we were wide boys, born with hearts of Lothian Wide boys, we were wide boys, these hearts of Lothian It's six o'clock in the tower blocks Stalagmites of culture shock And the...

Did you ever feel that just by jumping on a plane All your cares would drop away And you'd be born again Returning to a nature child Happy wild and free But forgetfulness is a river And you know where the river leads Holidays in Eden Life before the fall See...

I was out in the cold of a North London street A cog in the hurrying world Above the walls and the gate police I caught a glimpse of a Holloway girl She was reachin' out of a window From a space just a few inches wide 'Till the hand of justice pulled her back...

I feel so strange what's wrong with me You've got a problem that you can't see But I've got a feeling all the rumours are true I see the girl's got a hook in you You carry on believing That you can take or leave it Now who are you deceiving Cause when its own...

I've been feeling kind of down and loose Like a Rosicrucian pope Head down deep in the womb of time Carrying a message of hope My hands steady as a hangman's hands Surer than the hangman's rope I could sleep for invisible years Carrying a message of hope For t...

Hotel hobbies padding dawns hollow corridors Bell boys checking out the hookers in the bar Slug-like fingers trace the star-spangled clouds of cocaine on the mirror The short straw took its bow The tell tale tocking of the last cigarette Marking time in the p...

This house aches I whistle it's tune After so much noise Freedom is silence Half the house is missing Taken half of me with it I had imagined this Hurting in a different way Hurting in a different way I still have the hi-fi Quiet at all volumes As my dull th...

Maybe you're just too upset inside To give it to me straight Maybe you've become too angry and too close to crying To say anything I can understand Or maybe you're just coming in over my head Maybe you're just too upset inside Too upset inside How can it hurt...

I saw three ships come sailing in On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day I saw three ships come sailing in On Christmas Day in the morning And what was in those ships all three On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day? And what was in those ships all three On Ch...

Something is coming out of the rain, magic It's happening again, like the last time I don't know how it happens, but I know what to do Coming up from the ground, I think it's you I will walk on the water You sent me the red sun and the purple sky Cirrus clou...

Even if the good old days were good Even if the old days were golden days Even if the good old days were good The past is a terrible place The past is a terrible place to live Misguided missiles Skin creams and cars Loaded with dreams Loaded with dreams Comp...

Did you ever fall in love Did you ever fall in love Did you ever fall in love Did you ever dream of falling If my heart were a ball It would roll uphill We are alone in the world We must do what we feel we should We are told what is right Need hurts within u...

I'd be really pleased to meet you if only I could remember your name But I got problems with my memory ever since I got a winner in the fame game. I'm a citizen of Legoland travellin' incommunicado And I don't give a damn for the Fleet Street afficionad...

When footlights dim in reverence to prescient passion forewarned My audience leaves the stage, floating ahead perfumed shift Within the stammering silence, the face that launched a thousand frames Betrayed by a porcelain tear, a stained career You played this...

As you lie there on your bed Beneath the face of Louise Brooks With your makeup and your teddy bear And your C.S. Lewis books Bad seed You're a bad seed You're a decadent in chrysalis Waiting sleepily to emerge When you'll visit every seedy need Of your rando...

I left a note each day under your pillow That I wrote in invisible ink All you have to do is breathe on them And you might read them written there in pink You might find out what's inside me Maybe it's something that might amuse As you watch my words appearing...

You're only human So am I It's such a shame we have these secrets and lies That get discovered from time to time Whatever rises eventually falls The world turns and it turns on us all You can't live life without making mistakes You can't live trying to...

We are jigsaw pieces aligned on the perimeter edge Interlocked through a missing piece We are renaissance children becalmed beneath the Bridge of Sighs Forever throwing firebrands at the stonework We are Siamese children related by the heart Bleeding from the...

Many's the time I've been thinking about changing my ways But when it gets right down to it it's the same drunken haze I'm serving a sentence to write life's sentences It's only when I'm out of it I make sense of this Just for the record I'm gonna put it down...

Do you remember chalk hearts melting on a playground wall Do you remember dawn escapes from moon washed college halls Do you remember the cherry blossom in the market square Do you remember I thought it was confetti in our hair By the way didn't I brea...

How long can you stand Tightening up Avoiding the fight Avoiding the truth Tighten the smile Tighten the lie Will you get what you want To be cursed with your dreams I hope for your sake Something gets in the way How long can you stand Living under the lens T...

If the time will come when I'm alone Got no place to go If you see me one night on my own Rain pouring on Trying to be free And my mind keeps on flying And my spirit comes to meet me I'm as high as I can be She's calling out to me And there's someone...

You pick out your credit cards and check into the night A dozen tequilas and you're feeling alright So you swim to the disco, out of your depth, jaded gigolo Your lucky charms are tarnished so you leave alone But there's one place left to go before the taxi ho...

I was walking in the park dreaming of a spark When I heard the sprinklers whisper, Shimmer in the haze of summer lawns. Then I heard the children singing, They were running through the rainbows. They were singing a song for you. Well it seemed to be a song for...

Well I gave up cocaine and I gave up smack I gave up drinking alcohol and smoking crack I gave up living on the never never But I can't give up believing that I'm going to live forever Well I gave up computer games I gave up meat I gave up watching TV in my f...

Our wide eyes Aren't naive They're a product of a conscious decision The welcoming smile is the new Cool The key left in the outside of the unlocked door Isn't forgetfulness It's a challenge to change your heart There's always a price to pay Living in...

It all began with the bright light The bright light and the noise The chaos of the senses and the scream of desire Touching and being touched A million loose ends to tie up Ticking of the clock and the cradle rock The colours stand still And then they move aro...

A love song with no validity Pretend you never meant that much to me Numb, a Valium child, bored by meaningless collisions A lonely stretch of headlight, diamonds trapped in black ice A mirror cracked among the white lines I just wanted you to be the first on...

Some of us want a fast car Some of us want to stand and gaze Some of us pine for the great outdoors Some of us won't leave the house for days Some of us have died for their freedom Some are quite happy in the cage Some think a wild time Is what they want at n...

in: Song, Green Songs, Language/English, and 4 more Marillion:Mad Lyrics StarIconGreenLangIcon EDIT SHARE Mad This song is by Marillion and appears on the live album Anorak In The UK (2002). Tell me I'm mad How should I know? Tell me I'm mad I hav...

I have been here many times before In a life I used to live But I have never seen these streets so fresh Washed with morning rain I have seen this face a thousand times Every morning of my life But I never saw these eyes so clear Free of doubt and pain Like...

I'm the man of a thousand faces A little piece of me in every part I take I hold the tape for a thousand races A different point of view in every speech I make Cut me a piece of my divided soul Cry me a river, call it rock and roll Give me an attitude and watc...

Watching the people on the street today she couldn't help but smile Watchin' the town go walking by all shaded eyes and alibis Strange how much pain you can hide away beneath a well-cut suit This is the day she walks away And the lights of the city pushin...

Did anyone see my last marble As it rolled out and over the floor? It fell through a hole in the corner Of a room in a town on a tour It's lonely without your last marble I miss it not rattling around As I lie in my bed there's a space in my head Where there...

When I was a child I had marbles They brought admiration and fame They were pretty to look at and marbles Was always my favourite game We played all the summer days In the stony alleyways In the playground after class We would trade the coloured glass More va...

There were almost four hundred until the black day I discovered how high they would fly to the sky If you used them for tennis instead of a ball.. Zinging glass satellites crueller than fate Whacked with a racket up into the blue I'd smashed all the greenhous...

That was almost the end of my marbles Confiscated, I choked back the tears I hung onto a handful of favourites That disappeared over the years Did anyone see my last marble I swear that I had it before Sometimes I think I should go see a shrink In case he can...

O' you go the high road an' I'll take the low road, an' I'll be in Scotland before ye for me and my true love we'll never walk again on the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond. You'll take the acid an' I'll take the dope an' I'll be stoned before ye for me an'...

I found smog at the end of my rainbow I found my thoughts shift slowly into phase Declared the constitution of the walkway I realise it's time to plan the day I'm a Market Square hero gathering the storms to troop Cause I'm a Market Square hero speeding the be...

I wonder if my rope's still hanging from the tree By the standing pool where you drank me And filled me full of thirsty love And the memory of water? I wonder if a king still fishes there His back towards the burned-out air His laughing catches singing loud T...

Absence makes the heart go mad All the solid things become mirages The certain things Sand running in the hour glass Running away I scream along the ledge As the windows back and close I run around try to prove the sunrise I believe in belief But it's proof I...

It's getting late for scribbling and scratching on the paper Something's gonna give under this pressure And the cracks are already beginning to show It's too late The weekend career girl never boarded the plane They said this could never happen again Oh,...

Two hundred fates entwined inside the plane We watched as England dropped away from us again I wasn't waiting I wasn't sure what I would find I was prepared to let it happen on its own this time I had a feeling I was floating into time spent amongst friends Re...

But he who dies with the most toys.... is still dead. He who dies with the most toys.... is still dead. You have to be cool You have to be hip You have to be chic You have to be rich You have to be young Whatever that is You have to listen to what's in and wh...

When the darkness takes me over Face down, emptier than zero Invisible you come to me ..quietly Stay beside me Whisper to me "Here I am" And the loneliness fades Some people think I'm somethin' Well you gave me that, I know But I always feel like nothing When...

You landed in my life Like a new and brighter light That made all my past seem in the shadow I always used to believe That beauty was skin deep But I need a new world to describe you And the time that it took to take down the wall Was the time that it took fo...

There's no such thing As an answered prayer There's no such thing As the ozone layer There's no such thing As an action hero There's no such thing As an easy ride There's no such thing As a place to hide There's no such thing As a perfect day There's no such...

I wanted it til I got it I wanted it til I got it Believed in it til I saw it I needed it til I had it I guess I live to regret it I dreamed of it til I got it Believed in it til I saw it I needed it til I had it I wanted it til I got it I wanted it til I got...

In the after-silence fighting leaves behind I try to think it over But my mind's gone blind I lost the right to argue somewhere down the line I had to tell She told me to Go to Hell And here I am In the gaping hole Home truths tear in a home Married to this...

When you look into the mirror Do you see a face you hardly recognise If you look into the sun too long Do the things you see begin to burn your eyes Paper lies Just to express what he's thinking Must a man take all the mail will bring? Are we living on...

You sound truly heartbroken You can do it. You're a pro Agony from every pore. And such control The orchestra swoops and the drum samples roll You hold the high scream into the key change for the outro It's another number one And that's exactly where you're co...

Marillion Ocean cloud He's seen too much of life And there's no going back The loneliness calls him And the edge which must be sharpened He’s losing it. And he knows. But there’s a fighter in his mind and his body’s tough The years have been unkind but kind...

She's older than me I don't care about them talking Why can't they see I've got all that I need All the pretty young things Seem suddenly boring When I look in her eyes All the world is behind Every line on her on her face Is a place and a memory When our fi...

When we were young we used to say Things would be different One fine day The walls would crumble Nations sing as one We live in hope, 'cause so far It hasn't come Listenin' to the pouring rain Waiting for the world to change Beginning to wonder if we'll wait i...

Marillion Out of this world Three hundred miles an hour on water In your purpose-built machine No one dared to call a boat Screaming blue Out of this world Make history This is your day Blue Bird At such speeds... things fly What did she say?... I know the p...

Good morning! When you look into the mirror Do you see a face you hardly recognise If you look into the sun too long Do the things you see begin to burn your eyes Paper lies Just to express what he's thinking Must a man take all the mail will bring Are we l...

Strung out below a necklace of carnival lights Cold moan, held on the crest of the night I'm too tired to fight. So now we're passing strangers, at single tables Still trying to get over Still trying to write love songs for passing strangers All...

Lids that close and time that slows the rapid eye There is no dreaming in the grave You'll never look into those eyes again In this world, In this world So bend your head The way that flowers bend their heads I'll pour upon it my love like rain Bend y...

You carry me around Like loose change jingle-jangling At the bottom of your bag You don't seem to feel it though As you swing down the street Walking that unique birthday-candle glow In broad daylight In broad daylight And you don't even know.. the way...

„Pseudo silk kimono” Huddled in the safety of a pseudo silk kimono wearing bracelets of smoke, naked of understanding. Nicotine smears, long, long dried tears, invisible tears. Safe in my own words, learning from my own words, Cruel joke, cruel joke. Hudd...

Washing machine, pinstripe dream Stripped the gloss from a beauty queen Found our nest, in the Daily Express Met the vicar in a holy vest Brought up the children Church of E Now I vegetate with a colour TV Worst ever thing that ever happened to me Oh, for D.I....

I can imagine nothing more tedious Than trying to have fun with you again Maybe it's just something in my mind But I hate feeling like I'm trying all the time It's a kind of lie When we pretend that we're still friends I'm sure you're not exactly short of peo...

Such a pretty girl - the anger didn't hide it..did it? You shaved you head, pulled a face Dressed yourself up without grace It didn't hide a lifetime's damage It didn't hide a lifetime's fears Against your better judgement 'Put your whole self up for sale The...

Reality is something that you rise above We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run The fearful fall foul of fate as often as the reckless You don't need money to be rich anyhow Spending yourself is what...

Did you cry when they dragged you home Put a lock on the door and the telephone Was a runaway girl all they could see Have the nights and the days that you've come through Made the right seem wrong and the false seem true Was a runaway girl all they could see...

So here I am once more In the playground of the broken hearts One more experience, one more entry in a diary, self-penned Yet another emotional suicide Overdosed on sentiment and pride Too late to say I love you Too late to restage the play Abandoning t...

Getting close to seasons end I heard somebody say That it might never snow again In England Snow flakes in a new-born fist Sledging on a hill Are these things we'll never see In England We'll tell our children's children why We grew so tall and reached so hi...

Everybody knows that we live in a world where they Give bad names to beautiful things Everybody knows that we live in a world where we don't Give beautiful things a second glance Heaven only knows that we live in a world where what We call beautiful is ju...

Look at it as though you've never seen it before Try & forget it So you can see it Taste it like you've never tasted it before Try & forget it So you can remember it See It Like A Baby See It Like A Baby Love her like you've never fallen in love bef...

"We didn't lie to you, folks. We told you we had living, breathing, monstrosities. You'll laugh at them, shudder at them, and yet, but for the accident of birth, you might be even as they are. They did not ask to be brought into the world, but into the world t...

Storm clouds cruising cross the blue skies Shadows float across the fields of barley I find myself an island in an island I have to sort things out just my way And all I find is my bar To laugh to me I say Like all you know is true Is for every time we...

She Chameleon Sheltering her ego on the edge of a floodlights arc She'll contemplate seduction, she'll calculate the catch When she moved, her presence speared me When she spoke, her words ensnared me Watch the lizard, watch the lizard, Watch the lizard with t...

A hand held over a candle in angst fuelled bravado A carbon trail scores a moist stretched palm Trapped in the indecision of another fine menu And you sit there and ask me to tell you the story so far This is the story so far Shuffling your memories dealing yo...

This rock-star trip. Some serious ship White-knuckle journey blackened my eye and cut my lip Better to be a doctor or a man who walks the earth Hedonistic laughing boys What's any of it worth?.. Look at myself Look at myself Escaped to the car Drove to a bar...

One day I'll play you sounds that can't be made They'll sing in you from somewhere inside your head You'll never hear them from the earth or the air You'll never hear them from the outside world You'll hear it happen inside you You'll hear it happen insi...

There's a hot hard hurt Burning under her skin And it pricks her like thorns And it's needles and pins And it twists in her body And I know what it is And I'm paying in pain But it's the cost of the high 'Till the weight of the secret And the weight of the li...

I heard the battle raging on the other side of the wall Buried my head in a pillow and tried to ignore it all Every night when I hear you I dream of breaking down your door An avenging knight in shining armour to rescue you from it all From the family business...

I was flicking through the channels on the tv On a sunday in milwaukee in the rain Trying to piece together conversations Trying to find out where to lay the blame But when it comes right down to it theres no use trying to pretend For when it gets right down...

Everything to decide It's time I came up with some answers before I can carry on It's time I made my mind up before we can go along And I thought it was so simple And I knew that it could be so fine I know that the places that everything comes Rose beds scat...

Now when you climb into your bed tonight And when you lock and bolt the door Just think about those out in the cold and dark 'cause there's not enough love to go 'round No there's not enough love to go 'round And sympathy is what we need my friends And...

Now when you climb into your bunk tonight And when you draw the little curtains And eat your load-out sandwich Just think about those out in the hot dog van 'Cause there's not enough bus to go 'round No there's not enough bus to go 'round And Mickey D i...

What a time this is Everything changing Faster than the eye can blink Faster than we can stop and think What will the future hold? Well whatever.. I won't ask you to care But say you'll be there If you can't love me tonight Just remember the light Remember th...

At that time of the night When streetlights throw crosses through window frames Paranoia roams where the shadows reign Oh, at that time of the night At that time of the night Your senses tangled in some new perfume Criticism triggers of a loaded room Oh, at th...

We flew here to see you My feelings and I I looked down on the city From up in the sky The sun was reflecting From the roofs and the water Spring had come early In the parks and the old town I came with a mission To patch up a dream We walked and I talked and...

I dreamed I rolled on the ocean floor In the sunken bones of a broken ship On the shadow line where whispers creep To the world above from the world beneath On waves of silver I dreamed of gold 'Till I lost the peace that dreaming gives I dreamed of the momen...

I'm scared of opening the can Scared of changing who I am 'Might've taken all I can I'm scared of everything I am Are you a natural woman? I know I've got it comin.. The scent in the air And the water running The damage! She said she's not telling it today S...

A hundred nights of fun and games A thousand empty glasses We all change and stay the same With every day that passes The Helter Skelter on the pier Swings out over the sea A red and yellow fairground on the ocean Get your thrills and spills for 50p I watch...

Goodnight my love I'm so alone And so surrounded By your sweet memory I cannot sleep For all these dreams They come to play Till dawn comes stealin' them away.. The fruit of the wild rose Hangs here with summer gone Voluptuous crimson As the days become colde...

Heading for the great escape Heading for the rave Heading for the permanent holiday Heading for the winter trip Heading for the slide Heading for the dignified walk away Heading for the open road Goodbye to all that Heading for the automatic overload Standin...

I think I have become one of the hollow men As I shine on the outside more these days I can feel the outside feeding on my inside Leaves a growing darkness in it's place I think I have become one of the hollow men I think I have become one of the lonely Now th...

The world's gone mad And I have lost touch I shouldn't admit it But I have. It slipped away while I was distracted I haven't changed I swear I haven't changed How did this happen? I didn't feel myself Evaporating... My body has gone But my eyes remain Hoverin...

A ragged man came shuffling through A puppet king on the 4th of June And butterflies from all around Settled on his paper crown A pretty sight it seemed to be An avenue of eternal peace But he said, "What is here can soon burn down..." "I'm the king of sunset...

Here we are At the beginning of the last century for man Usin' up parts of the world we haven't even seen or been to The wretched of the earth exploited by the rich few What's new? If you are not outraged You haven't been paying attention If you are not outra...

Just when I thought I'd seen the last of you You come here scratchin' at my door Your pain and anger's in the howling dark Of every corridor I walk So tell me more about the love that you rejected Tell me more about the trust you disrespected I s...

Hotel hobbies padding dawns hollow corridors a typewriter cackles out a stream of memories Drying out a conscience, evicting a nightmare Opening the doors for the dreams to come home We live out lives in private shells Ignore our senses and fool ourselves to t...

We are the Leavers And the road rolls beneath us We sleep as we're driven We arrive before dawn We wait in grey truck-stops For the night to release us Then slip in from ring-roads And our work starts again Unloading our cargo The thrills of the nigh...

The Remainers remain in their homely places Go home, wash their faces, lay down their heads As the Leavers take with them their lonely craziness Our fast-moving laughter Our fast-moving beds And our hearts slowly lose focus Like gypsies at fa...

We are the Leavers And the world turns beneath us We're somewhere above you Vapour trails in the sky Days and nights scrambled Hurtling to somewhere From somewhere forgotten Somewhere forgotten We're born out of recklessness The thirst for...

Our lives slowly unravel Like wool pulled from sweaters We'll knit something new somewhere else, so forget us We are the Leavers You'll stay and we'll travel You'll know where you are, always We'll be vague in our jumble of days We can never be sure Bu...

The Remainers are leaving their homely places With excited faces, drawn to the night Preparing their minds for a break from the sensible life As the leavers bring with them their noise and light, their wild wonder cure-all of crazy religion In one sacred r...

I am the man from the planet Marzipan Good to see you My eyes are screwed up tight, unaccustomed to the light And all my arms and all my legs are much too long Much too long My head is in a state, unaccustomed to the weight I wear this mild expression, I'm an...

(i. Fuck Everyone and Run) We are the new Kings Sailing our seas of diamonds and gold We are the new Kings Seldom seen, elsewhere and unknown We are the new Kings Buying up London from Monaco We do as we please While you do as you're told Fuck every...

We are the new Kings Sailing our seas of diamonds and gold We are the new Kings Seldom seen, elsewhere and unknown We are the new Kings Buying up London from Monaco We do as we please While you do as you're told Fuck everyone and run Fuck everyone an...

We are the new Kings We had the keys to Old Russia's locked doors We are the new Kings Here on the corporation's top floor If you cross us we'll buy you and you can retire Your children set up for life Think about it Greed is good We are the new King...

We saw the crash on the news today, oh boy It changed our lives But did it really happen? Flyin' high in a scary sky Flyin' high in a scary sky What's going on? What's going on? What's going on? I don't know if I can believe the news I don'...

The only unforgivable thing Hauls itself out of bed Looks over my shoulder At the BloodyEnglishWeather The only unforgivable thing Waits for me in the corner of the room Laughs as I clean my teeth Laughs as I rub at my eyes The only unforgivable thing Is curl...

Air full of feathers Fluttering distant laughter Air full of signs and strange magic Planets aligned in warning Trap door sprung beneath me And I'm falling But I'm rising.. Downwards into blue sky I'm rising Downwards into blue sky Re-entering the earth Comet...

She bought a bottle of cider From the shop at the corner They didn't stop her Thought she was older She took a bus ride To a name and a number A house full of music And a hatful of wonder And some of the people that she thought that she knew Were never like...

What do you do when your roots have dissolved and broken down And the soil that you grew in when you were small Has become nothing more than dirt in some dirty town When you list all the qualities that you despise And you realise You're describing yourself A...

The alarm by the bed Wrings the dreams from my head It's a new day Leave the flakes in the bowl Milk unopened, I'm gone But I'm still late Join the fight for a cab Take our place in the jam And watch the clock again There is a man in my head I think he came f...

She loves him But she doesn't want him She used to burn for him But now that's changed She knows he knows And she says it isn't so What else can she say? But when he reaches out She turns away When he talks about it She says he's cruel So he apolog...

On top of the world like a flag on a mountain Feeling so high you can feel so alone Unable to breathe at the height that you flew Staring on clouds with no view of below On top of a girl like a dream in a hotel Falling towards something out of control Un...

You may not recall the moment that you asked me But your invitation was clear You'll pretend you've never met me but it's far to late Now I'm here Cause I'm the one who knows what scares you I'm the one who loves you best I'm the thirteenth at the table I'm t...

The rain auditions at my window, its symphony echoes in my womb My gaze scans the walls of this apartment To rectify the confines of my tomb I'm the cyclops in the tenement, I'm the soul without the cause Crying 'midst my rubber plants, ignoring beckoning door...

I've done everything that can be done to heal this wound Left it on it's own for years I've done everything that can be done to heal this wound Left it on it's own for years Couldn't touch it, didn't pick it, didn't get it wet It didn't stop the bleeding I b...

Everything crashed His wife left him He lost all his money And most of his friends He lay awake all night Lonely and desperate Contemplating starting again These chains are all your own These chains are comfortable Four in the morning Sat in the kitchen Keys...

...If you could only see what I've seen with your eyes A wise man once said A flower is only A sexual organ Beauty is cruelty And evolution A wise man once said that everything could be explained with mathematics He had denied His feminine side Now where is t...

There was a boy who came into this world At the hands of a holy woman in a holy place He wore a red coat and walked a bulldog Saw them reflected in the mirror of the lakes Lived in the shadow of the mountains With the smells of disinfectant, dusty old leather...

The cars leave their trails of hot and cold light inside my head Like burned-in long exposure pictures The wheels spin slowly backwards Strobing in the amber light And the rain comes down and washes my brain But it don't get clean This town has turned me into...

This train is my life Speeding through the night We have been to these places For barely a moment Wide awake Sometimes sleeping Sometimes watching Sometimes dreaming Through stroby stations Too fast to know their names Too fast to know if we came o...

Three boats down from the candy, vacant deck chairs on a floodlit beach Three boats down from the candy, rollers coast invade the deepest sleep Three boats down from the candy, carnal dancer let their senses preach It's a social disease, it's the new moral can...

Here today Gone this afternoon Another tune we almost remember What's the story Sex and drugs again Business as usual The clock's already ticking La la la la When he was young Staring at the TV He watched the fun happenin' to other people Now they scream As t...

In our house Two's a crowd You threw me out Of my own life You seem want to be a friend In our house Two's a crowd No more trouble No more strife You seem to be at your wits end I tore apart my oldest friend How my heart jumped And may head thumped As this h...

The little corn flies are messing with my nerve endings Just like you My little corn fly She comes with the sunlight and the perfect summer days And she never stays Just like you My corn fly The little corn flies are messing with my nerve endings Just like yo...

We are led by the light at the end of the tunnel We are guided by the fires of our burning dreams We're inspired by our ideals and driven by conscience To cross what the cynics perceive as naive We the people want it straight for a change We the people are get...

There are scars in our eyes From a thousand goodbyes That was great You can write But I won't reply You know we are the Leavers - I'll tell you a secret... It's better to leave us alone It's been terrific to know you But we really can't stay...

Torch Song Read some Kerouac and it put me on the tracks to burn a little brighter now Something about roman candles fizzing out, shine a little light on me now Found a strange fascination with a liquid fixation, alcohol can thrill me now It's getting late...

Baby, can't you see I'm calling A guy like you Should wear a warning It's dangerous I'm fallin' There's no escape I can't wait I need a hit Baby, give me it You're dangerous I'm lovin' it Too high Can't come down Losing my head Spinning 'round...

The love that pounds your heart through your chest every night Until the bed jumps beneath you and scares you white Trap the spark and hold it there You can't. You can't Goose-bumps that don't fade away They can't remain I've opened the box and I've touched...

She took my hand and said "Let's go together" "You and me against the world" And so we stuck it out through still and stormy weather And so we tumbled down the years I took her hand and said "Let's go together" Just you and me against the world Let's go toget...

Tux on, tux on, tux on, tux on, tux on He has eyes down at the bingo on that lucky Friday night The match was rained off Saturday but the panel came in bright And on Sunday your mates were toasting you with champagne down the pub And on Monday you went to Lon...

It used to rain Dreary and grey Most every day but not any more We come out of our homes We lie down Under the cloud that never comes We roll in the radiation And we make love Under the sun Under the sun The polar ice is melting 'Suits me fine We go to the b...

I lie awake at night Listening to you sleeping I hear the darkness breathe And the rain against the window After all this time Cynical and jaded All the stones are diamonds All the blues are faded Everything I've been through All I've seen and heard Spend so...

On promenades where drunks propose to lonely arcade mannequins Where ceremonies pause at the jewelers shop display Feigning casual silence in strained romantic interludes Till they commit themselves to the muted journey home And the pool player rests on anothe...

When the taxis gather in mock Solemnity Funeral hearses court the death of virginity Was it paradise lost or paradise found? Did we gain respect or were we holding ground? You had found true love, or so you believed And the wideboys tattooed your hearts upon t...

We need to talk About the way You've been behaving We need to talk About the Christmas lights In your clothes We need to talk About the stranger In the kitchen We need to talk About the scissors And the silver foil I thank God You're so fabulously...

And if the bottle's no solution Why does it feel so warm And if that girl is no solution Why did she feel so warm And if to feel is no solution Why do I feel Why do I feel so tired Why do I feel so broken Why do I feel so outside Why do I seem so blind I'm so...

When I hit the streets back in '81 Found a heart in the gutter and a poet's crown I felt barbed wire kisses and icicle tears Where have I been for all these years? I saw political intrigue, political lies Gonna wipe those smiles of self-satisfaction from thei...

The different shades of white Are in my head tonight What happened to the colours of fire? What happened to the colours? She is painting forty different shades of white On white paper On white paper Glowing happiness arrived the day Baby came to stay...

Where do we go from here? Where do we go from here, where do we go from here Where do we go from here, where do we go from here They boarded up the synagogues, Uzis on a street corner You can't take a photograph of Uzis on a street corner The DJ resigned today...

Remember a time when you thought that you mattered, Believed in the school song, die for your country - a country that cared for you All in it together? If it ever was more than a lie or some naive romantic notion Well, it's all shattered now It's all shattere...

I woke up in a city full of snow And history and beauty and Christmas-lights and cold With angels that come when all is lost In golden light at dead of night They take you home And I woke up I woke up Woke up in a city that doesn't sleep You woke me up, You w...

Things come wrapped up in time Like the past in a present Or the perfect line in a song They take their time And when they're gone They take their time with them And you can't have them back Because the time for them has gone And their time has gone with the...

I saw you there last night In the latest place You were taking in the scenery Hungry for a new face Seems what I said to you Didn't change your mind You could open your eyes, realise You don't need anyone Who's always on the phone You don't need anyone Who wo...

You're gone. As suddenly as you came to me Like nightfall followed dawn without a day between You're gone and suddenly I can't see I'm in the shadow of you I'm in the shadow of you I can see you in my minds rose-tinted eye.. Somewhere you're drifting by Your...