The Waterboys

I remember johnny - hey! Johnny come lately I remember her shoes like a ballerina A girl called johnny who Changed her name when she Discovered her choice was to Change or to be changed I remember a girl called johnny Black as hell and white as a ghost Dont t...

Hold me before I go under hear me before I drown sharpen your sense of wonder listen to what I`ve found Here we are again two old lovers two old friends just when you need them a devil was standing on my shoes somehow I know how to defeat him since I tumbled i...

A man is in love how do I know? He came a walk with me and he told me so in a song he sang and then I knew a man is in love with you A man is in love how did I hear? I heard him talk too much whenever you`re near He whispered your name when his eyes where clo...

How did he come here? Who gave him the key? Slipped it in his hand So secretly And who put the colour Like lines on his face? Brought him here To a pagan place Now who shot his arrow? How high did it fly? When he tipped it with poison Did he even k...

All the things all the things she gave me All the things all the things she gave me I wrapped them up in a big brown box Tied it with ribbon drove to the docks Checked my time by the old town clock All the things... I saw the watchman he was blowing into Cu...

Lindsay was my first love she was in my class I would have loved to take her out but I was too shy to ask The fullness of my feeling was never made clear but I send her my love with a bang on the ear Nora was my girl when I first was in a group I can still se...

Well the dawn it is howlin' and the main frame shakes I feel like I've been sleeping in a cellarful of snakes My wings have been clipped and my shoes have been stuck with glue Well if you'll be my enemy I'll be your enemy too I've got goons on...

I'm starting to see a bigger picture I'm beginning to colour it in I'm starting to see a bigger picture I'm beginning to colour it in My soul the sky, my heart a sun my mind a world - my only one My thoughts the people, the world around My dreams the k...

bye bye shadowlands the term is over and all the holidays have begun now she walks on fresh fields her tracks are on the land she is everywhere and noplace when its dark and evening falls she moves among men they would seek to have her as a prize but she is in...

December is the cruelest month This time for once my cheeks are warm After long years in the monkey-house I am ready for the storm Let them throw all their cannonballs Let all their strongmen come I'm ready to go anywhere Through venom, sick and scum!...

Well here we are in a special place What are you gonna do here? Now we stand in a special place What will you do here? What show of soul are we gonna get from you? It could be deliverance, or history Under these skies so blue Could be something true, B...

I wish I was a fisherman tumbling on the sea far away from dry land and it's bitter memories casting out my sweet life with abandonment and love no ceiling bearing down on me save the starry sky above with light in my head and you in my arms I wish I was the...

Further up, further in Further up, further in I dreamed the wind came to my house These are the words fell from his mouth "The King you seek you'll find him true but only if he rides the road with you" Further up, further in Further up, further in I...

Gala hangs from the window frame Dressed in black and white Her face is colourless In the moonlight She turns around and her lips move But the words just drop away She leans on the back of a chair And her arms begin to sway She and I can hear voices T...

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...

I dreamed myself from the sultry plains To the old green square back in old maybole Rode the wind up to stornaway Paused at the peak, pacified my soul Caught the bus at the faery fort Made it to the mansion on the boyne See I come around to the ancient ways I...

I ain't here for to do any business (I got nobody special to thank/I'm not looking for glory or thanks) I'm trying to find a friend of mine Has anybody here seen Hank Well he's sure to be wearing a Stetson he's as long and as thin as a plank He's got a fistf...

Well, the mountain is steep The ditches are deep The task in hand Is making us weep But here's a promise I intend to keep Seed it in your mind And say it each night Before you sleep: We will climb higher in time You've got a head full of trouble An...

How long will I love you? As long as there are stars above you And longer if I can How long will I need you? As long as the seasons need to Follow their plan How long will I be with you? As long as the sea is bound to Wash upon the sand How long wi...

I can see Elvis Skinny like he was back in '57 Razor quiffed and leather squeezed Sideburns flickering in the breeze That blows across the veils of heaven I can see Elvis Throned like a king astride a golden Harley Smoking a reefer he just rolled Full...

You say that you will carry the torch You say that you will beat the winning drum You'll be there when the saints roll in With a back made of rubber, half made out of tin How many times does the snake crawl out of its skin? You change your spots But I wi...

Where will I wander and wonder nobody knows But wherever I'm a-going I'll go in search of a rose Whatever the will of the weather and whether it shines or snows Wherever I'm a-going I'll go in search of a rose I don't know where it's found I don't m...

Is she conscious Is she really wide awake? Is she conscious Of her beaatiful mistake? Is she conscious As she moves among the crowd? She’s got thw world upon a piece of string She’s got thw world upon a piece of string It’s so He was ugly and she...

Of my body England is the spine the backbone and the trunk My shoulders span the mighty Tyne London sprawls across my rump Cornwall my crooked ancient leg Wales two hands held apart Scotland is my dreaming head Ireland is my heart 

Can I believe my ears? is this really you? Pacing the floor with one eye on the door watching the winners go through Why do you hang back now? why d'you hesitate? You fires don't burn for he who waits Out of all of the people that I ever knew If one...

Now he's brought down the rain and the indian summer is through You'll be dancing down the country in the morningtime if I know you You ain't calling me to join you and I'm spoken for anyway but you'll be killing my heart when you go away Shall we gather by t...

Though I try Hard as I can to fly free That lonesome old wind keeps blowing me I would stay Where your loving warms me night and day Close to thee But that lonesome old wind keeps blowing me You say this time I must be out of my mind Oh and I'm sure...

I was longing to be wooed I was ready to be humbled by the words that you had written by the syllables you mumbled yeah, I was ready in my heart to have my heart invaded by the fervour of your passion yes, I came to be persuaded But when I heard your...

Will You take me slowly Will You lead me all the way Will You sing me Your songs until I am ready for the Love that kills You have known me in the sheets and folds of many lifetimes You were there when I was made And I will speak to You in the language...

When you walk in the room love walks in with you And I'm so in love with you, with you We've come through weeks and months and days of years And left behind a trail of tears The moon is silver and the night is blue And this blanket's big enough for two...

There's a black wind blowing A typhoon on the rise Pummeling rain Murderous skies! I'm gonna take my books I'm gonna wear my coat I'm gonna find my scarf And wrap it around my throat And you can Come with me Through the driving snow We're gonna ride...

She waited at the door till all his saddest words were spoken Then she threw them with some seasoning in his face Duke went rambling in his grief, like a vagabond or thief Trying to find the love he sought some other place He walked down the river highway...

Come here Her communique arrived with its expression of her feeling I swear I had no idea she'd been holding in conceiling Such a storm of words unsaid Though absurd as it appears Had been blowing in her head For twenty-seven years I knew I had to face...

Man looks up on a yellow sky And the rain turns to rust in his eye Rumours of his health are lies Old england is dying His clothes are dirty shade of blue And his ancient shoes worn through He steals from me and he lies to you Old england is dying Still he s...

Everything is rags And there's nobody to blame but me And it would be so easy If there was no one to hurt but me But now everything that I do Coming out of me will just tear through you In and out of you Up and down your life like a curse Cast by the o...

When I left my home and my family My mother said to me "Son, it's not how many Germans you kill that counts It's how many people you set free!" So I packed my bags Brushed my cap Walked out into the world Seventeen years old Never kissed a girl Took...

You go yours And I'll go mine The many ways we'll wend Many days And many ways Ending in one end Many a wrong and its curing song Many a road and many an inn Room to roam but only one home For all the world to win So you go yours And I'll go mine...

Ooooh! let me see the savage I want to see the savage coming crashing through your face I want to be there when the savage comes I want to be there when the savage comes When your savage earth heart cuts through I wanna be a witness or a victim to...

Flashman's in the belfry shouting as loud as he can Samson's up all night again talking about himself What a wonderful man And I'm just wild about Ronnie And Ronnie's just wild about me I saw him selling winter coats on the Portobello Road I thought I be...

Seven o'clock in the morning And I'm riding the overnight train I've got ten tonnes of luggage But I left it behind when I came I look at my watch Says September 17 We're riding past some place Where I've never been And I'm waving through the window...

Something that is gone Something that is gone Something that I had just yesterday But where I must have laid it I really couldn't say Something that was right But now is wrong Something that is gone Something that I lost Something that I lost Someth...

Here is the smell of seafood pie a broken tower on the open sky a chain of islands rolling west in sight of the house where we are guests A rambling old river twists through the fields ancient names imprinted on shields Gifts arrive for a baby girl bor...

Man gets tired spirit don't Man surrenders spirit won't Man crawls spirit flies Spirit lives when man dies Man seems spirit is Man dreams the spirit lives Man is tethered spirit free What spirit is man can be 

The lights are on in Standun's And the spell has been broken The roadside teahouse door Is wide open A sign on the wall Says "American also spoken" As Spring comes to Spiddal The village girls go walking By without their coats The Irish gaelic colleg...

We're sailing in a strange boat heading for a strange shore We're sailing in a strange boat heading for a strange shore Carrying the strangest cargo that was ever hauled aboard We're sailing on a strange sea blown by a strange wind We're sailing on a strange...

And I will stroll the merry way and jump the hedges first and I will drink the clear clean water for to quench my thirst And I shall watch the ferry-boats and they'll get high on a blue ocean, against tomorrow's sky And I will walk and talk in gardens all...

I have heard the big music And I`ll never be the same Something so pure Hey! Just called my name I have drowned in the big sea Now I find I`m still alive And I`m comin` up for ever Hey! Shadows all behind me Ecstasy to come I have Climbed the big...

Do you see them coming through fields of snow? Do you see them riding through fields of snow? One rides for a woman who has no name One rides for a king And one just rides and rides and rides and rides For the girl in the swing They race like phantoms i...

I’ve burned my bridges And I’m free at last All my chains are In the past The new life starts here (I was trying to get happy I thought it was hard Until I found that In my own back yard The new life starts here) The day is wide open The sky is blue The worl...

Come with me on a journey beneath the skin Come with me on a journey beneath the skin We will look together for the Pan within Close your eyes, breathe slow and we'll begin Close your eyes, breathe slow and we will begin to look together for the Pan...

There were three old gypsies came to our hall door they came brave and boldly-o And one sang high and the other sang low and the other sang a raggle taggle gypsy-o It was upstairs downstairs the lady went put on her suit of leather-o And there was a cry...

I stood upon the balcony with my brand new bride The clink of bells came drifting down the mountainside When in our sight something moved - lightning eyed and cloven hooved - The great God pan is alive! He moves amid the modern world in disguise It’s possible...

I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut and peeled a hazel wand, And hooked a berry to a thread; And when white moths were on the wing, And moth-like stars were flickering out, I dropped the berry in a stream And caught a l...

What is between the star and the sea? A bird as bright as a bird can be What is between the bird and me? Only a star, only the sea Only a star, only the sea 

Come away, human child to the water Come away, human child to the water and the wild With a faery, hand in hand for the world's more full of weeping than you can understand Where dips the rocky highland of Sleuth Wood in the lake There lies a leafy island w...

I'm the three day man It's three days too long Everything is in its right place but Something is wrong Time is on wheels And my legs shake I have to live with every decision That you make And that doesn't mean That I'll be your slave It doesn't mean...

I'm too tired to deceive you I can't pretend there's nothing wrong Who'll be the first to say it - that the thrill is gone and we'll never get it back And when we talk of old acquaintance and speak like two strangers all day long the only four words th...

I pictured a rainbow You held it in your hands I had flashes But you saw the plan I wandered out in the world for years While you just stayed in your room I saw the crescent You saw the whole of the moon The whole of the moon You were there in the tu...

I pictured a rainbow you held it in your hands I had flashes but you saw the plan I wandered out in the world for years while you just stayed in your room I saw the crescent you saw the whole of the moon the whole of the moon you were there in the tu...

These things you keep You'd better throw them away You wanna turn your back On your soulless days Once you were tethered And now you are free Once you were tethered Well now you are free That was the river This is the sea! Now if you're feelin' weary If you'v...

this light is for the world this light is for the world send out from this wooden frame a beacon made of holy flame like a bridge across the morning sky from candle to the hills of high this light is for the world this light is for the world send it out wit...

Your love feels Like trumpets sound I said your love feels Like trumpets sound Your life is like a mountain Yes, your life is like a mountain And your heart is like a church With wide open doors And to be with you Is to find myself in the best of drea...

Andy tooks us down upon the keyside To board the silver boat Upon the Wind and Waves And Daniel he harrelted the boat And directed her well Across the Wind and Waves And Johnny took us on the boat He held the sails, he tied the ropes Upon the Wind and...

You just stepped into the maintrack climbed down off the fence Words are your weapon lies are your defence I know what you want and I see what you see You're looking for somebody but he isn't me Find yourself another because we will not be lo...

When will we be married Molly when will we be wed When will we be bedded in the same bed When will we be married Molly when will we be wed When will we be bedded in the same bed You have your eye on Jimmy long Jimmy Lee You have your eye on Jimmy anda fine ma...

Now he's brought down the rain and the indian summer is through In the morning you'll be following your trail again Fair play to you You ain't calling me to join you and I'm spoken for anyway But I will cry when ye go away I will cry when ye go away Your bea...

Let's go baby Where the action is Let's go baby Where the action is They say the sweetest victory is in defeat And you can fool the whole world with just one tweet My sister could jive, she had money, was cute 'Til she got crushed alive under summer's...