Sting

Another obituary in the paper today, One more for the list of those who've already fallen. Another one of our comrades is taken down, Like so many others of our calling. We tweet our anecdotes, our commentary, Or we sing his songs in some sad tribute, W...

I read the news today oh boy About a lucky man who made the grade And though the news was rather sad Well I just had to laugh I saw the photograph. He blew his mind out in a car He didn't notice that the lights had changed A crowd of people stoo...

A thousand years, a thousand more, A thousand times a million doors to eternity I may have lived a thousand lives, a thousand times An endless turning stairway climbs To a tower of souls If it takes another thousand years, a thousand wars, The towers ris...

The palace guards are all sleeping Their fires burn into the night There's a threat of rain on the dark horizon And all that's left is a quarter moon of light He climbs up through the darkness No weapon but his surprise The greatest thief in the high Sa...

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone. It's not warm when she's away. Ain't no sunshine when she's gone And she's always gone too long anytime she goes away. Wonder this time where she's gone, Wonder if she's gone to stay Ain't no sunshine when she's gone...

With her smile as sweet as a warm wind in summer She's got me flying like a bird in a bright June sky And then just when she thinks that I've got her number Brings me down to the ground with her wintry eye That's my baby She can be all four seasons in one...

I need you to hear me I want you to feel this It should be clear as fear and plain as day I'm not going to bend now You're not gonna break me You'll never be hard enough to scratch my face I wanted to feel you I tried to belong here Well all of the ghosts and...

I looked out across The river today I saw a city in the fog and an old church tower Where the seagulls play I saw the sad shire horses walking home In the sodium light I saw two priests on the ferry October geese on a cold winter's night And all this...

Old enough to be her dad But the young men were just mad they nursed their grievances And she was flattered by his charm It wouldn't do her any harm they all had their chances He sent her flowers and limousines She was treated like a queen Anything she...

This town, this stain on the sunrise, Disguised in the mist this morning, It's 8AM, a seagull shouts a sailor's warning. This sky, this bend in the river, Slows down and delivers me, the tide rolls back, And all my memories fade to black, And yet, and...

Have you ever had the feeling That the world's gone and left you behind Have you ever had the feeling That you're that close to loosing your mind You look around each corner Hoping that she's there You try to play it cool perhaps Pretend that you don't...

Every day that goes by A new hungry baby starts to cry Born astride a painful grave Drowned in hunger's tidal wave Pick a child that you can save It'd be the only one If Africa escapes starvation Not only food but education The desert grows with every...

Sad to say our mighty ruler Is not really in the pink Hopes could not be minuscular That he'll come back from the brink Not to beat around the bush He looks like heading for his box At the risk of seeming pushy We must plan for future shocks A...

When August winds are turning, The fishing boats set out upon the sea, I watch 'til they sail out of sight, The winter follows soon, I watch them drawn into the night, Beneath the August moon. No one knows I come here, Some things I don't share, I can...

In 18 hundred and 59, the engineer Brunel, Would build the greatest ship afloat, and rule the ocean's swell. Nineteen thousand tons of steel they used to shape the mighty keel, Forged inside the smelter where they made the gates of Hell... And the name upon th...

I come from hevin which to tell The best nowells that e'er befell To you thir tythings trew I bring And I will of them say and sing. This day to you is born ane child Of Marie meik and Virgin mild That bliss it bairn bening and kind Sall you rejoice ba...

Be still my beating heart It would be better to be cool It's not time to be open just yet A lesson once learned is so hard to forget Be still my beating heart Or I'll be taken for a fool It's not healthy to run at this pace The blood runs so red to my f...

From the mountains on the moon to the mighty delta From the deserts of the West to the shining sea Beneath the canopy of stars flows the serpent river Flowing through my father's land that he left to me From the baker, to the priest, to the candle maker...

"When He is King we will give Him a King's gifts, Myrrh for its sweetness, and gold for a crown, Beautiful robes", said the young girl to Joseph, Fair with her first-born on Bethlehem Down. Bethlehem Down is full of the starlight, Winds for the spices, a...

I sat down and wrote this letter Telling you that I felt better Since you've gone and I was free I'm so happy I have so little time to spare now I'm wanted almost everywhere now I make out like Casanova Friends are always coming over I signed...

Work up early this morning and I jumped out of bed I didn't have to wear my work clothes I put on this shirt instead Its a black and white jersey, it's a thing I couldn't hide 'Cos it's almost a religion and I wear it with some pride Now the streets are all e...

Sweet dreams, form a shade O'er my lovely infant's head. Sweet dreams of pleasant streams By happy, silent, moony beams. Sweet Sleep, with soft down Weave thy brows an infant crown. Sweet Sleep, Angel mild, Hover o'er my happy child. Sleep, sleep, ha...

How many of you people out there Been hurt in some kind of love affair? And how many times did you swear That you’ll never love again? How many lonely, sleepless nights? How many lies, how many fights? And why would you want to Put yourself through all of that...

The afternoon has gently passed me by The evening spreads its sail against the sky Waiting for tomorrow, just another day God bid yesterday good-bye Bring on the night I couldn't spend another hour of daylight Bring on the night I couldn't stand...

Can she excuse my wrongs with Virtue's cloak? Shall I call her good when she proves unkind? Are those clear fires which vanish into smoke? Must I praise the leaves where no fruit I find? No, no, where shadows do for bodies stand Thou may'st be abus'd if...

I've called you so many times today And I guess it's all true what your girlfriends say That you don't ever want to see me again And your brother's gonna kill me and he's six feet ten I guess you'd call it cowardice But I'm not prepared to go on like this I c...

When Joseph was an old man, an old man was he, He courted Virgin Mary, the Queen of Galilee. When Joseph and Mary were walking one day, Here is apples and cherries so fair to behold. Then Mary spoke to Joseph so meek and so mild: "Joseph, gather me some cher...

Young men, soldiers, Nineteen Fourteen Marching through countries they'd never seen Virgins with rifles, a game of charades All for a Children's Crusade Pawns in the game are not victims of chance Strewn on the fields of Belgium and France Poppies for young m...

Far between sundown's finish an' midnight's broken toll We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashing As majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sounds Seeming to be the chimes of freedom flashing Flashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight...

All day we fought the tides between the North Head and the South, All day we hauled the frozen sheets to scape the storm’s wet mouth, All day as cold as charity, in bitter pain and dread, For very life and nature we tacked from head to head. We gave th...

Cleare or cloudie sweet as April showring, Smooth or frowning so is hir face to mee, Pleasd or smiling like milde May all flowring, When skies blew silke and medowes carpets bee, Hir speeches notes of that night bird that singeth, Who thought all sweet ye...

What power art thou, Who from below, Hast made me rise, Unwillingly and slow, From beds of everlasting snow! See'st thou not how stiff, And wondrous old, Far unfit to bear the bitter cold. I can scarcely move, Or draw my breath, I can scarcely move...

Come again! sweet love doth now invite Thy graces that refrain To do me due delight, To see, to hear, to touch, to kiss, to die, With thee again in sweetest sympathy. Come again! that I may cease to mourn Through thy unkind disdain; For now left and fo...

Come heavy sleep the image of true death; And close up these my weary weeping eyes: Whose spring of tears doth stop my vital breadth, And tears my heart with Sorrow's sigh-swoll'n cries Come and posses my tired thoughts worn soul, That living dies, t...

There were rooms of forgiveness In the house that we share But the space has been emptied Of whatever was there There were cupboards of patience There were shelfloads of care But whoever came calling Found nobody there After today, consider me gone Roses hav...

I asked my dog what he thought the best in man He said, "The love you dispense to me twice daily from a can." I said, "Why do you think my question funny? And where would you be without my money?" I said, "There may be some quality in us you must treasure....

Lully, lulla, thow little tyne Child By, by lully, lullay, thow little tyne Child By, by, lully, lullay. O sisters too, how may we do, For to preserve this day This pore yongling for whom we singe: By, by, lully lullay? Lully, lullay, thow little tyn...

I'm a broken-hearted keelman and I'm o'er head in love With a young lass from Gyetsid And I call 'er my dove Her name's Cushie Butterfield And she sells yellow clay And 'er cousins a muckman And they call him Tom Gray CHORUS She's a big lass She...

Don't think me unkind Words are hard to find They're only cheques I've left unsigned From the banks of chaos in my mind And when their eloquence escapes me Their logic ties me up and rapes me De do do do, de da da da Is all I want to say to you De do do do, d...

You see these work boots in my hands, they'll probably fit ye now my son, Take them, they're a gift from me, why don't you try them on? It would do your old man good to see you walking in these boots one day, And take your place among the men who work upon...

A million footsteps, this left foot drags behind my right But I keep walking, from daybreak 'til the falling night And as days turn into weeks and years And years turn into lifetimes I just keep walking, like I've been walking for a thousand years Walk away...

Deep in the meadow, under the willow A bed of grass, a soft green pillow Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes And when again they open, the sun will rise. Here it's safe, here it's warm Here the daisies guard you from every harm Here your drea...

Oh! Demolition, demolition Demolition, demolition Tied to the tracks and the train's fast coming Strapped to the wing with the engine running You say that this wasn't in your plan And don't mess around with the demolition man Tied to a chair, and the bomb is...

Layli ya layli ya Hadaee mada tawila هدي مدة طويلة Wa ana nahos ana wahala ghzalti وانا نحوس انا وعلا غزالتي Wa ana nahos ana wahala ghzalti وانا نحوس انا وعلا غزالتي Wa ana nahos ana wahala ghzalti وانا نحوس انا وعلا غزالتي I dream of rain I dream of gar...

How like the fall To be gone in a day Just as the leaves had turned gold I was drawn to a sound That the wind carried down From an open window pane And oh, how like a song Or a sad melody To linger long after the end And the harmony rings With the promise of s...

Young teacher, the subject Of schoolgirl fantasy She wants him so badly Knows what she wants to be Inside her there's longing This girl's an open page Book marking - she's so close now This girl is half his age Don't stand, don't stand so Don't stand...

The sun sets across the ocean I'm a thousand mile from anywhere And my pocketbook in my heart Both just got stolen And the sun act like she don't even care The wind blows cold when you reach the top Feels like somebody's face is stuck to the bottom of my shoe...

Strange, when you leave me, rain comes down, down, down. When you withdraw from me, towers come tumbling down, down, down. Here comes the sound that I've been waiting for, The sound that tells me when you're walking out my door. Rob me blind, defenseless...

How can you say that you're not responsible? What does it have to do with me? What is my reaction, what should it be? Confronted by this latest atrocity Driven to tears Hide my face in my hands, shame wells in my throat My comfortable existance is reduced to...

?Por que estan aqui, danzando solas? ?Por que hay tristeza en sus miradas? Hay soldados tambien Ignoran su dolor Porque desprecian el amor Danzan con los muertos Los que ya no estan Amores invisibles No dejan de danzar Danzan con sus padres Sus ni?os tambien...

The fox has done running And the beast is at bay We'd run them in circles By the end of the day They chased him through brambles They chased him through the fields They'd chased him for ever But the fox would not yield And some saw her shadow...

I don't drink coffee, I take tea, my dear I like my toast done on one side And you can hear it in my accent when I talk I'm an Englishman in New York See me walking down Fifth Avenue A walking cane here at my side I take it everywhere I walk I'm...

Lay my head on the surgeon's table Take me fingerprints if you are able Pick my brains, pick my pockets Steal my eyeballs and come back for the sockets Run every kind of test from A to Z And you'll still know nothing 'bout me Run my name through your computer...

Every bomb you make Every job you take Every heart you break Every Irish wake I'll be watching you Every wall you build Everyone you've killed Every grave you fill All the blood you spill Ohhhh can't you see You belong to me There'll be a bill to pa...

Every breath you take Every move you make Every bond you break Every step you take I'll be watching you Every single day Every word you say Every game you play Every night you stay I'll be watching you O can't you see You belong to me How my poor...

Though I've tried before to tell her Of the feelings I have for her in my heart Every time that I come near her I just lose my nerve As I've done from the start Every little thing she does is magic Everything she do just turns me on Even though my life...

Everybody laughed when I told them I wanted you, I wanted you Everybody grinned they humoured me They thought that someone had spiked my tea Everybody screamed they told me you Would cost the moon, we'll be there soon Everybody laughed till they were blue They...

You'll remember me when the west wind moves Upon the fields of barley You'll forget the sun in his jealous sky As we walk in fields of gold So she took her love For to gaze awhile Upon the fields of barley In his arms she fell as her hair came down Am...

Mobile station, Where I stand This old gas pump In my hand. The Boss don't like me Face like a weasel, All on my hands The smell of diesel. Here comes the big shot, Here he comes! From the city. God Damn! A V-8 engine She runs so pretty. Woo! Fill 'er u...

Fine knacks for ladies, cheap, choice, brave and new, Good pennyworths but money cannot move, I keep a fair but for the fair to view, A beggar may be liberal of love. Though all my wares be trash, the heart is true. Great gifts are guiles and look for gi...

Flow my teares fall from your springs, Exilde for ever: Let me morne Where nights black bird hir sad infamy sings, There let me live forlorne. Downe vaine lights shine you no more, No nights are dark enough for those That in dispaire their last fortunes...

I know we got some history We got some issues that we need to solve But is it really such a mystery? It's just the way that the world evolves Let me ask your forgiveness baby My heart is ever full of sorrow We got to move into the future maybe And think about...

Under the ruins of a walled city Crumbling towers and beams of yellow light No flags of truce, no cries of pity The siege guns had been pounding all through the night It took a day to build the city We walked through its streets in the afternoon As I returned...

E amanha a chuva levara O sangue que a luta deixou derramar Na pele a dor do aco tao cruel Jamais a nossa voz vai calar Um ato assim pode acabar Com uma vida e nada mais Porque nem mesmo a violencia Destroi ideais Tem gente que nao sente que o mundo assim F...

If blood will flow When flesh and steel are one Drying in the colour Of the evening sun Tomorrow's rain Will wash the stains away But something in our minds will always stay Perhaps this final act was meant To clinch a lifetime's argument That noth...

Manana ya la sangre no estara Al caer la lluvia se la llevara Acero y piel combinacion tan cruel Pero algo en nuestras mentes quedara Un acto asi terminara Con una vida y nada mas Nada se logra con violencia Ni se lograra Aquellos que han nacido en un mundo...

The Angel Gabriel from heaven came His wings as drifted snow, his eyes as flame "All hail" said he thou Holy Maiden Mary (to holy mary) Most highly favoured lady Gloria (Most highly favoured lady Gloria) For know a blessed mother thou shalt be All generations...

I watch the Western sky The sun is sinking The geese are flying South It sets me thinking I did not miss you much I did not suffer What did not kill me Just made me tougher I feel the winter come His icy sinews Now in the fire light The case continues Anoth...

Well, if you're travelin' in the north country fair, Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline, Remember me to one who lives there. She once was a true love of mine. Well, if you go when the snowflakes storm, When the rivers freeze and summer ends, Please s...

Ah, ye've gotta be joking, yr tekkin' the piss, I'd have to be stupid to go on wi' this, I wasn't born yesterday, or even last week, It's someone with sailing experience ye seek? I wouldn't sail with you's on the last ship aground, In a biblical flood, I'...

Have you seen but a bright lily grow Before rude hands have touched it? Have you marked but the fall of snow Before the soil hath smutched it? Have you felt the wool of beaver, Or swan's down ever? Or have smelt o' the bud o' the brier, Or the nard in th...

Many have gone before us now, Many have tried and failed somehow, Many a soul on the Queen's highway, Where many a tail light glowed, With the promise of a better life, Heading South on the Great North Road, South on the Great North Road. Only the dark...

Turned on the weather man just after the news I needed sweet rain to wash away my blues He looked at the chart but he look in vain Heavy cloud but no rain Back in time with Louis XVI At the court of the people he was number one He'd be the bluest blood they'd...

If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant past Security in human systems we're told will always always last Emotions are the sail and blind faith is the mast Without a breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast If God is dead and an actor plays h...

How insensitive I must have seemed When she told me that she loved me How unnerved and cold I must have seemed When she told me so sincerely Why she must have asked Did I just turn and stare in icy silence What was I to say? What can you say When a l...

Now that I have found you In the coolth of your evening smile The shade of your parasol And your love flows through me Though I drink at your pool I burn for you, I burn for You and I are lovers When night time folds around our bed In peace we sleep entwined...

White page, an empty field of snow My room is 25 below This cold man chasing ghosts A road lies underneath a buried boat Dogs search the under forest We scour the empty streets The fact remains until we find you Our lives are incomplete Do I hear laug...

Early one morning with time to kill I borrowed Jeb's rifle and sat on the hill I saw a lone rider crossing the plain I drew a bead on him to practice my aim My brother's rifle went off in my hand A shot rang out across the land The horse he kept running, the r...

When a man of my age shaves his face in the morning, Who is it that stares back and greets him? The ghost of his father long dead all these years? Or the boy that he was, still wet in the ears? Or the terrible sum of all of his fears, In the eyes of this stran...

Lady Dolphin and her dolphin beau Were swimming out to sea one day All the other lady dolphins smiled But they were smiling in that subtle dolphin way So they pretended that they'd pay it no mind But she was female, of the jealous kind She couldn't stand i...

Alone with my thoughts this evening I walked on the banks of Tyne I wondered how I could win you Or if I could make you mine Or if I could make you mine The wind it was so insistent With tales of a stormy south But when I spied two birds in a sycamore...

Seven weeks have passed now since she left me, She shows her face to ask me how I am She says the kids are fine and that they miss me Maybe I could come and baby-sit sometime She says, "Are you O.K.? I was worried about you. Can you forgive me? I hope tha...

You could say I lost my faith in science and progress You could say I lost my belief in the holy church You could say I lost my sense of direction You could say all of this and worse but If I ever lose my faith in you There'd be nothing left for me to do Som...

Please sit down, just talk to me, We'll see if we can talk this through, I've tried so hard to understand it, Just tell me something that's close to the truth… I'd rather you were cruel than kind, Is all that I'm demanding, I've given up on peace of mind...

If you need somebody, call my name If you want someone, you can do the same If you want to keep something precious You got to lock it up and throw away the key If you want to hold onto your possession Don't even think about me If you love somebody, set them f...

Your beauty pulses like a distant star Once you were so near to me And now you've gone so far Wretched and affixed the word is in his stone [?] Lying now don't move nor speak no statue here alone Living here just with a memory A simple recollection that's...

In darkness let me dwell; the ground shall sorrow be, The roof despair, to bar all cheerful light from me; The walls of marble black, that moist'ned still shall weep; My music, hellish jarring sounds, to banish friendly sleep. Thus, wedded to my woes, and...

Sleeping child, on my shoulder, Those around us, curse the sea. Anxious mother turning fearful, Who can blame her, blaming me? Inshallah, Inshallah, If it be your will, it shall come to pass. Inshallah, Inshallah, If it be your will… As the wind blows, growi...

Inside the doors are sealed to love Inside my heart is sleeping Inside the fingers of my glove Inside the bones of my right hand Inside it's colder than the stars Inside the dogs are weeping Inside the circus of the wind Inside the clocks are filled with sand...

One (one) two (two) three (three) four (four) five (five) six (six) seven (seven) eight (eight) nine (nine) ten (ten) Liftoff (Liftoff) I don't want to spend the rest of my life Looking at the barrel of an Armalite I don't want to spend the rest...

Billy was born within sight of the shipyard First son of a riveter's son And Billy was raised as the ship grew a shadow Her great hull would blot out the light of the sun And six days a week he would watch his poor father A working man live like a slave He'd...

It's a lonesome old town When you're not around I'm lonely as I can be I never knew how much I'd miss you But now I can plainly see It's a lonesome old town When you're not around How I wish you'd come back to me How I wish you'd come back to me How I wish...

Did you ever hear the theory of the universe? Where every time you make a choice, A brand new planet gets created? Did you ever hear that theory? Does it carry any sense? That a choice can split the world in two, Or is it all just too immense for you?...

If the night turned cold And the stars looked down And you hug yourself On the cold cold ground You wake the morning In a stranger's coat No-one would you see You ask yourself, 'Who'd watch for me?' My only friend, who could it be? It's hard...

It was midnight, midnight at noon Everyone talked in rhyme Everyone saw the big clock ticking Nobody knew, nobody knew the time Elegant debutantes smiled Everyone fought for dimes Newspapers screamed for blood It was the best of times Every place around the...

Any shipyard man can sing when he works upon the hull, Amongst the noise and the clamour that he all but disregards, So he'll sing to himself and no one pays him any mind, He's just another crazy welder in the shipyards. But inside this welder's helmet, i...

There's a little black spot on the sun today It's the same old thing as yesterday there's a black hat caught in a high tree top there's a flag pole rag and the wind won't stop I have stood here before in the pouring rain with the world turning circles run...

Dansons tu dis Et moi, je suis Mes pas sont gauches Mes pieds tu fauches Je crains les sots Je cherche en vain les mots Pour m'expliquer ta vie, alors Tu ments, ma Soeur Tu brises mon coeur Je pense, tu sais Erreurs, jamais J'ecoute, tu parles Je n...

They say there's an underground river, That none of us can see, And it flows through winding tunnels, On its way to a tide-less sea. And across that sea is an island, A paradise we are told, Where the toils of life are forgotten, And they call it the I...

He looked beneath his shirt today There was a wound in his flesh so deep and wide From the wound a lovely flower grew From somewhere deep inside He turned around to face his mother To show her the wound in his breast that burned like a brand But the sword that...

I'm sitting here, in a boring room It's just another rainy sunday afternoon I'm wasting my time, I got nothing to do I'm hanging around, I'm waiting for you But nothing ever happens - and I wonder I'm driving around in my car I'm driving too fast, I'm d...

Let your soul be your pilot Let your soul guide you He'll guide you well When you're down and they're counting When your secrets all found out When your troubles take to mounting When the map you have leads you to doubt When there's no information And the com...

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd...

Fill my eyes O Lithium sunset And take this lonesome burden Of worry from my mind Take this heartache Of obsidian darkness And fold my darkness Into your yellow light I've been scattered I've been shattered I've been knocked out of the race But I'll get bette...

Well, she's walking through the clouds with a circus mind that's running wild Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever talks about... Riding with the wind When I'm sad she comes to me with a thousand smiles she gives...

Lo! How a Rose e'er blooming From tender stem hath sprung Of Jesse's lineage coming, As those of old have sung. It came a flower bright Amid the cold of winter When half-spent was the night. Isaiah 'twas foretold it, The Rose I have in mind; And so...

This is a story of seven brothers We had the same father but different mothers We keep together like a family should Roaming the country for the common good It came to pass one faithful day We found ourselves down Mexico way The town, the mayor, the P.T.A. Ple...

In the empire of the senses You're the queen of all you survey All the cities all the nations Everything that falls your way There is a deeper wave than this That you don't understand There is a deeper wave than this Tugging at your hand Every ripple on the o...

Fatal fascination for the seedy part of town Walk down the street and your head spins round Don't be seen alone without your friends at night Take a gun or a knife to the low life Don't have to be born into this society Pay for love but the hate comes free Br...

Hush child Let your mommy sleep in to the night until we rise Hush child Let me soothe the shining tears that gather in your eyes Hush child I won't leave I'll stay with you to cross this Bridge of Sighs Hush child I can't help the look of accusation in your...

See the shark has teeth like razors, All can read his open face; And Macheath has got a knife, but Not in such an obvious place! See the shark, how red his fins are As he slashes at his prey; Mack the Knife wears white kid gloves which Give the minimum away!...

A stones's throw from Jerusalem I walked a lonely mile in the moonlight And though a million stars were shining My heart was lost on a distant planet That whirls around the April moon Whirling in an arc of sadness I'm lost without you I'm lost without y...

Yo la veo caminar Por las nubes va ¿Donde andará? Mariposa libre que sueña Que quiere ser Y no piensa en nada más Solo en vivir Si estoy triste viene a mi Mil sonrisas trae Las da porque si Y me dice esta bien, todo bien Estoy aquí y soy de ti Soy...

Just a castaway An island lost at sea Another lonely day With no one here but me More loneliness Than any man could bear Rescue me before I fall into despair I'll send an SOS to the world I'll send an SOS to the world I hope that someone gets my x3 Message in...

'Se/ mo laoch, mo Ghile Mear 'Se/ mo Chaesar Gile Mear Suan na/ se/an ni/ bhfuaireas fe/in O/ chuaigh i gce/in mo Ghile Mear Grief and pain are all I know My heart is sore My tears a'flow We saw him go. .. No word we know of him, ochon 'Se/ mo laoch...

There's a moon over Bourbon Street tonight I see faces as they pass beneath the pale lamplight I've no choice but to follow that call The bright lights, the people and the moon and all I pray every day to be strong For I know what I do must be wrong Oh...

In the moonlight When the shadows play When the thought of what could happen Takes your breath away Sighs and whispers Quiet laughter in the air Unspoken invitations everywhere In the moonlight All the words you say Make it relatively easy To be swept away In...

A un passo da Gerusalemme E a un solo un miglio dalla luna Sotto un cielo di milioni di stelle Ho il cuore perso in un pianeta lontano Che gira intorno e cade gui 'Con archi di tristezza, Io muoio per te, muoio per te! E se il mio regno diventa sabbia E ca...

In the quiet time of evening When the stars assume their patterns And the day has made his journey And we wondered just what happened To the life we knew before the world changed When not a thing I held was true But you were kind to me and you reminded me That...

The very thought of you makes My heart sing, Like an April breeze On the wings of spring. And you appear in all your splendor, My one and only love. The shadow's fall ans spread their Mystique charms in the hush of night, While you're in my arms. I feel your l...

Ne me quitte pas Il faut d'oublier Tout peut s'oublier Qui s'enfuit déjà Oublier le temps Des malentendus Et le temps perdu A savoir comment Oublier ces heures Qui tuaient parfois A coups de pourquoi Le coeur du bonheur Ne me quitte pas Ne me qui...

Well it's five in the morning and the light's already broken And the rainy streets are empty for nobody else has woken Yet you turn towards the window as he sleeps beneath the covers And you wonder what he's dreaming in his slumbers There's a clock upon the...

I can't stand it for another day When you live so many miles away Nothing here is gonna make me stay You took me over, let me find a way I sold my house I sold my motor, too All I want is to be next to you. I'd rob a bank Maybe steal a plane You took me over...

The man who only lives for making money Lives a life that isn't necessarily sunny Likewise the man who works for fame There's no guarantee that time won't erase his name The fact is, the only work that really brings enjoyment Is the kind that is for girl...

Lay my head on the surgeon's table Take my fingerprints if you are able Pick my brains, pick my pockets Steal my eyeballs and come back for the sockets Run every kind of test from a to z And you'll still know nothin' 'bout me Run my name through your computer...

Now Winter comes slowly, Pale, Meager, and Old, First trembling with Age, and then quiv'ring with Cold; Benum'd with hard Frosts, and with Snow cover'd o'er, Prays the Sun to Restore him, and Sings as before. 

I'd never imagined before That the world could be turned on it's head I'd never have thought To be here in this place I'd never have dreamt that in love I'd be lost and so easily led I guess I was caught By that hint of a smile on her face I thought I was hap...

Optimists say, The future's just a place we've never been. Histories say, We're doomed to make the same mistakes again. Between the two I can't decide, Really I must choose a side. I guess I’ll wake up smarter, One fine day. Apologists say, The weat...

One world is enough, for all of us One world is enough, for all of us It's a subject we rarely mention But when we do we have this little invention By pretending they're a different world from me I show my responsibility One world is enough, for all of us One...

Peggy's Song (feat. Rachel Unthank) Ye promised me my Jackie, On the day that we got married, Ye'd build a boad of dreams for me someday. A vagueromantic notion, That we'd sail off to some ocean, But in my dreams we'd get there one fine day. He hasn...

In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs. Of every head he's had the pleasure to know. And all the people that come and go Stop and say hello. On the corner is a banker with a motorcar, The little children laugh at him behind his back. And th...

I've had a question that's been preying on my mind for some time I won't be wagging my tail for one good reason It has to be a crime This dog house never was the place for me, Runner up and second best just ain't my pedigree I was so happy, just the two of u...

Lay down, and rest your head, Stretch your body across my bed, Just close your eyes, I'll take you there. That open highway's waiting where, You'll know me just like I know you, Where every gospel word is true. I'll drive this car, I'll be your guide, J...

Am I asking for the moon ? Is it really so implausible ? That you and I could soon Come to some kind of arrangement I'm not asking for the moon I've always been a realist When there's really nothing more Than a simple rearrangement With one roof above our...

There are two young lovers, they're pledged to each other's hands, They meet by the river, to talk of their marriage plans. "I'm confessing," he said, "I've signed for a soldier, I'm leaving tomorrow for some foreign land." She watches the pretty young so...

Tardund verel tõstan käed, hinges metsakuradi hääl. Südames mul voolab veri justkui maru, justkui mässav meri. Võõra risti all põlvili ei lange - olen kange. Uku paedest müürid laon, terasest käised taon. Minu veri vaid teraselt langeb! Raiun kui ra...

Saw an ad in the newspaper that caught my eye I said to my baby this sounds like a ticket for you and I It said volunteers wanted for a very special trip To commune with Mother Nature on a big wooden ship We took a taxi to the river in case any places were fre...

Roxanne You don't have to put on the red light Those days are over You don't have to sell your body to the night Roxanne You don't have to wear that dress tonight Walk the streets for money You don't care if it's wrong or if it's right Roxanne You don't have...

In Europe and America, there's a growing feeling of hysteria Conditioned to respond to all the threats In the rhetorical speeches of the Soviets Mr. Krushchev said we will bury you I don't subscribe to this point of view It would be such an ignorant thing to d...

Take off those working clothes Put on these high heeled shoes Don't want no preacher on the TV baby Don't want to hear the news Shut out the world behind us Put on your long black dress No one's ever gonna find us here Just leave your hair in a mess I've bee...

If somebody up there likes me somebody up there cares Deliver me from evil save me from these wicked snares Not into temptation, not to cliffs to fall On to revelation, and lesson for us all She walked into the room on the arm of my best friend I knew whatever...

Finding the world in the smallness of a grain of sand And holding infinities in the palm of your hand And Heaven's realms in the seedlings of this tiny flower And eternities in the space of a single hour Send your love into the future Send your love in...

"Seven Days" was all she wrote A kind of ultimatum note She gave to me, she gave to me When I thought the field had cleared It seems another suit appeared To challenge me, woe is me Though I hate to make a choice My options are decreasing mostly rapidly Well w...

Well now everybody's talkin' 'bout the seventh son But in the whole round world there is only one, and I'm the one, yes, I'm the one I'm the one, I'm the one, I'm the one they call the seventh son Well I can tell your future before it comes to pass And I can...

I woke up in my clothes again this morning I don't know exactly where I am And I should heed my doctor's warning He does the best with me he can He claims I suffer from delusion But I'm so confident I'm sane It can't be no optical illusion How can you...

He deals the cards as a meditation And those he plays never suspect He doesn't play for the money he wins He don't play for respect He deals the cards to find the answer The sacred geometry of chance The hidden law of probable outcome The numbers lead a dance...

Shape of my heart He deals the cards as a meditation And those he plays never suspect He doesn't play for the money he wins He doesn't play for respect He deals the cards to find the answer The sacred geometry of chance The hidden law of a probable o...

She's a soulful flower in the garden She's bobbing in the sunlight And flirting with her eyes The way she walks by I see a wave of colour Moving like an angel Trailing butterflies Give me water Give me inspiration I want to speak now, but I can't fi...

She don't like to hear me sing She don't want no diamond ring She don't want to drive my car She won't let me go that far She don't like the way I look She don't like the things I cook She don't like the way I play She don't like the things I say But oh the ga...

Ah, me name is Jackie White and I'm foreman of the yard, And ye don't mess with Jackie on this quayside. Why I'm as hard as iron plate, woe betide ye if yr late, When we have to push the boat out on a spring tide. Now ye could die and hope for Heaven, but...

Show some respect on this deck for the dear departed, Gather ye's round let's be bound by the work we started, Save all your strength for the length of the task before us, Think on that ship on the slipway they can't ignore us. It's what he would have wan...

Me veo aqui alli siempre junto a ti En todo lo que pienso tu estas Que importa el tiempo si los dos estamos juntos Si contigo puedo so?ar Acercate a mi y en mis sue?o dime si Y pide lo que quieras de mi Mi amor es asi un fuego por ti Si estamos juntos, y si...

Sister moon will be my guide In your blue shadows I would hide All good people asleep tonight I'm all by myself in your silver light I would gaze at your face the whole nigh through I'd go out of my mind, but for you Lying in a mother's arms The primal...

Oh, the sisters of mercy They are not departed or gone They were waiting for me When I thought that I just can't go on And they brought me their comfort And later they brought me this song Oh, I hope you run into them You, who've been traveling so long...

Me first day in the shipyard, the gaffer says to me, "I want ye to go to the store lad and get a few things, ye see? Now here's a list, can ye read lad? Can ye read it back to me? And me and the boys'll listen while were having wah morning tea." Now readi...

Well someone told me yesterday That when you throw your love away You act as if you just don't care You look as if you're going somewhere But I just can't convince myself I couldn't live with no one else And I can only play that part And sit and nurse m...

They're seriously saying it's prolonging me life, If I'll only submit to the surgical knife? But what are the odds on a month or a week? When the betting shop's closing its doors, so to speak. When you're tied to a pump and a breathing machine, With their X-ra...

There's a saying old says that love is blind Still we're often told "seek and ye shall find" So I'm going to seek a certain girl I've had in mind Looking everywhere, haven't found her yet She's the big affair I cannot forget Only girl I ever think of with...

When we set out on this journey There were no doubts in our minds We set our eyes to the distance We would find what we would find We took courage from our numbers What we sought we did not fear Sometimes we'd glimpse a shadow falling The shadow would disappea...

How like the fall To be gone in a day Just as the leaves had turned gold I was drawn to a sound That the wind carried down From an open window pane And oh, how like a song Or a sad melody To linger long after the end And the harmony rings With the promise of s...

SOUL CAKE Chorus:A soul, a soul cake, please good missus a soul cake. An apple, a pear, a plum, a cherry, any good thing to make us all merry, A soul, a soul cake, please good missus a soul cake. One for Peter, two for Paul, three for Him who made us all....

Even when the darkest clouds are in the sky You mustn't sigh and you mustn't cry Spread a little happiness as you go by Please try What's the use of worrying and feeling blue When days are long keep on smiling through Spread a little happiness till drea...

Late at night in summer heat. Expensive car, empty street There's a wire in my jacket. This is my trade It only takes a moment, don't be afraid I can hotwire an ignition like some kind of star I'm just a poor boy in a rich man's car So I whisper to the engine,...

Well in a hundred years from now They will attempt to tell us how A scientific means to bliss Will supercede the human kiss A sub atomic chain Will maybe galvanize your brain A biochemic trance Will eliminate romance But why ever should we care When there ar...

Southern trees bear a strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. Pastoral scene of the gallant South Bulging eyes and the twisted mouth Scent of magn...

With one breath, with one flow You will know Synchronicity A sleep trance, a dream dance A shaped romance Synchronicity A connecting principle Linked to the invisible Almost imperceptible Something inexpressible Science insusceptible Logic so inflexible Caus...

Did you ever have a dream that you were running? Where the ground is like a wheel beneath your feet? And no matter how you tried you just weren't moving In whatever race you're running you'd be beat? In whatever race you're running you'd be beat? They te...

My sisters and I Have this wish before we die And it may sound strange As if our minds are deranged Please don't ask us why Beneath the sheltering sky We have this strange obsession You have the means in your possession We want our tea in the Sahara with you...

I bought a toothbrush and toothpaste A flannel for my face Pajamas, a hairbrush, new shoes and a case I said to my reflection, "Let's get out of this place" Past the church and the steeple The laundry on the hill Billboards and the buildings Memorie...

Bed's too big without you Cold wind blows right through my open door I can't sleep with your memory Dreaming dreams of what used to be When she left I was cold inside That look on my face was just pride No regrets, no love, no tears Living on my own was the le...

Let me watch by the fire and remember my days And it may be a trick of the firelight But the flickering pages that trouble my sight Is a book I'm afraid to write It's the book of my days, it's the book of my life And it's cut like a fruit on the blade of a k...

As I in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow, Surprised I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow ; And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near, A pretty babe all burning bright did in the air appear ; Who, scorchëd with e...

The dream of the blue turtles... x 2 [instrumental] 

If I should close my eyes, that my soul can see, And there's a place at the table that you saved for me. So many thousand miles over land and sea, I hope to dare, that you hear my prayer, And somehow I'll be there. It's but a concrete floor where my head...

Mercury falling I rise from my bed Collect my thoughts together I have to hold my head It seems that she's gone And somehow I am pinned by The Hounds of Winter Howling in the wind I walk through the day My coat around my ears I look for my companion I have to...

In the snow there Stands a hurdy gurdy man, With his frozen fingers Plays as best he can. Barefoot on the ice He shuffles to and fro And his empty plate It only fills with snow. No one wants to hear His hurdy gurdy song, Hungry dogs surro...

Ten below and falling fast Those days of summer were long past My horoscope said you'd come back I have my doubts, you see And as I watched the mercury And thought about the prophecy A new moon and an early thaw I watched the door for you If...

It’s all there in the gospels, the Magdalene girl Comes to pay her respects, but her mind is awhirl. When she finds the tomb empty, the stone had been rolled, Not a sign of a corpse in the dark and the cold. When she reaches the door, sees an unholy sight,...

Aye, the footmen are frantic in their indignation, You see, "The Queen's took a taxi herself to the station!" Where the porters, surprised by her lack of Royal baggage, Bustle her and three corgis to the rear of the carriage, For the train it is crammed with...

The lowest trees have tops, the ant her gall The fly her spleen, the little spark his heat; The slender hairs cast shadows, through but small, And bees have stings, although they be not great; Seas have their source, and so have shallow springs; And love...

Walking this high road are warriors from an olden time Curse on this land and the days far behind us Dragons we’ve slain, rescued many maiden’s fair And no man ever dared break our stride Or the brotherhood that binds us. Brothers are we, marching on the road...

In the streets around here there was nobody tougher than me, I was quick with me fists and fast with me footwork as you can plainly see, But while fighting was useful for getting your way, Among the toughs of the town where you could hold sway, There had to be...

No earthly church has ever blessed our union No state has ever granted us permission No family bond has ever made us two No company has ever earned commission No debt was paid no dowry to be gained No treaty over border land or power No semblance of the world...

Oh, the snow it melts the soonest when the winds begin to sing, And the corn it ripens fastest when the frost is settling in, And when a woman tells me my face she'll soon forget, Before we'll part, I'll wage a croon, she's fain to follow't yet. Oh, th...

The boy child is locked in the fisherman's yard There's a bloodless moon where the ocean died A shoal of nightstars hang fire in the nets And the chaos of cages where the crayfish lie Where is the fisherman, where is the goat? Where is the keeper in his carri...

I saw it again this evening, Black sail in a pale yellow sky And just as before in a moment, It was gone where the grey gulls fly If it should happen again I shall worry That only a strange ship could fly And my sanity scans the horizon In the light of a dark...

There is no rose of such virtue As is the rose that bare Jesu; For in this rose contained it was Heaven and earth in little space; Alleluia. There is no rose... By that rose we may well see That he is God in persons three Alleluia. There is no rose... Th...

Why are there women here dancing on their own? Why is there this sadness in their eyes? Why are the soldiers here Their faces fixed like stone? I can't see what it is that they dispise They're dancing with the missing They're dancing with the dead They dance w...

We rode all night across an endless desert We had no moon to light our way And though a million stars were slowly turning We lacked the consciences to pray Our horses running like a devil chase us Their feet, they hardly touched the ground Yes, I'm familiar w...

You've got the mouth of a she wolf Inside the mask of an innocent lamb You say your heart is all compassion But there's just a flat line on your cardiogram Yet you always made a profit baby If it was a famine or a feast Yes, I'm the soul of indiscretion, I w...

Everyone I know is lonely My God's so far away And my heart belongs to no one So now sometimes I pray Please take this space between us And fill it up some way I've been waiting for my brothers Since fucking Christmas day There's a song that everyone'...

The streets are wet The lights have yet To shed their darkened luster on the scene My skirt's too short My tights are run These new heels are killing me A second pack of cigarettes It's a slow night, but there's time yet Here comes the john from his...

Train I ride don't be slow If your whistle can blow Fifteen miles down the track Tell them I'm coming back Counting poles counting sheep Don't be slow I won't weep If your wheels on the line Were to put me on time Just a year to the day Since I went...

If I caught the world in a bottle And everything was still beneath the moon Without your love would it shine for me? If I was smart as Aristotle And understood the rings around the moon What would it all matter if you loved me? Here in your arms where t...

Chase the dog star Over the sea Home where my true love is waiting for me Rope the south wind Canvas the stars Harness the moonlight So she can safely go Round the Cape Horn to Valparaiso Red the port light Starboard the green How will she know of the devils...

Giant steps are what you take Walking on the moon I hope my legs don't break Walking on the moon We could walk forever Walking on the moon We could live together Walking on, walking on the moon Walking back from your house Walking on the moon Walking back fro...

I cannot get to my love if I would die; The water of tyne runs between her and me And here I must stand with a tear in my 'ee, Both sighing and sickly, my sweetheart to see I cannot get to my love, if I would die; The water of tyne runs between her and me...

This place has changed for good Your economic theory said it would It's hard for us to understand We can't give up our jobs the way we should Our blood has stained the coal We tunneled deep inside the nation's soul We matter more than pounds and pence Your eco...

I see me with you and all the things you do Keep turning round and round in my mind Forget the weather we should always be together And any other thought is unkind To have you with me I would swim the sevens seas To have you as my guide and my light My love i...

Weep you no more, sad fountains; What need you flow so fast? Look how the snowy mountains Heav'n's sun doth gently waste. But my sun's heav'nly eyes View not your weeping That now lies sleeping, Softly, softly, now softly lies sleeping. Sleep is a rec...

Good people give ear to me story, Pay attention, and none of your lip, For I've brought you five lads and their daddy, Intending to build ye's a ship. Wallsend is wor habitation, It's the place we was all born and bred. And there's nay finer lads in the nation...

So high above the world tonight The angels watch us sleeping And underneath a bridge of stars We dream in safety's keeping But perhaps the dream Is dreaming us Soaring with the seagulls Perhaps the dream Is dreaming us Astride on the backs of eagles When the...

Turn on my V.C.R., same one I've had for years James Brown on the Tammy show, Same tape I've had for years I sit in my old car, same one I've had for years Old battery's running down, it ran for years and years Turn on the radio, the static hurts my ear...

If he loved you Like I love you I would walk away in shame I'd move town I'd change my name When he watches you When he counts to buy your soul On your hand his golden rings Like he owns a bird that sings When we dance, angels will run and hide their wings...

Whenever I say your name, whenever I call to mind your face Whatever bread's in my mouth, whatever the sweetest wine that I taste Whenever your memory feeds my soul, whatever got broken becomes whole Whenever I'm filled with doubts that we will be together Wh...

Under the dog star sail Over the reefs of moonshine Under the skies of fall North, northern west, the Stones of Faroe Under the Arctic fire Over the seas of silence Hauling on frozen ropes For all my days remaining But would north be true? Why shoul...

Wilt thou unkind thus reave me Of my heart, of my heart, And so leave me, and so leave me? Wilt thou unkind thus reave me Of my heart, of my heart, And so leave me, and so leave me? Farewell! Farewell! But yet or e'er I part, O cruel, Kiss me, sweet,...

Round, like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel. Never ending or beginning, On an ever spinning wheel Like a snowball down a mountain Or a carnaval balloon Like a carousel that's turning Running rings around the moon Like a clock whose hands are...

Wrapped around your finger The police You consider me the young apprentice Caught between the scylla and charybidis Hypnotized by you if I should linger Staring at the ring around your finger I have only come here seeking knowledge Things they wouldn't te...

Always this winter child, December's sun sits low against the sky Cold light on frozen fields, The cattle in their stable lowing. When two walked this winter road, Ten thousand miles seemed nothing to us then, Now one walks with heavy tread The space b...

Another night finds me alone In my dreams You still touch me Your picture by my telephone In that smile You still thrill me Now if I sleep, I sleep here alone In my bed tonight You still haunt me And if I'm falling I'm falling like a stone In my ni...

Life was a song You came along I lay awake the whole night through If I should dare To think you care This is what I'd say to you You were meant for me And I was meant for you Nature fashioned you And when she was done You were all those good things Rolled...

You’ll walk unscathed through musket fire, No ploughman’s blade will cut thee down, No cutlass pull will mark thy face, And you will be my ain true love, And you will be my ain true love And as you walk through death’s dark vale, The cannon’s thunder ca...