Here's Where The Story Ends
Can't Be Sure
I Won
Hideous Towns
You're Not The Only One I Know
A Certain Someone
I Kicked A Boy
My Finest Hour
Joy
I Feel
Goodbye
Life and Soul
More
On Earth
God Made Me
Love
What Do You Think?
24 Hours
Blood On My Hands
Medicine
Wild Horses
Summertime
Homeward
Folk Song
She
When I'm Thinking About You
I Can't Wait
Cry
Another Flavour
Leave This City
Your Eyes
So Much
Monochrome
Skin And Bones
You know, and I’ve been wondering, you know, all the way home
whether the world will see I'm a better man than others by far.
You know, I’ve had it so good, how loathsome, and not quite my style.
Work and vanity wasted my time inside, oh, you see me in a cardigan
and a dress, dress, dress that I’ve been sick on.
Oh, how are you? Can't say I really care at the end of it all,
actually, oh, well there's something I’ve found, it's that we're just flesh and blood
and well, now, just one thing I’ve found, it's that we're just flesh and blood.
And you know, and I’ve been wondering, you know, all the way home
whether the world will see I'm a better man than others by far.
Ooh, how are you? I shan't say I really care at the end of it all,
actually oh, there is something I’ve found, it's that we're just flesh and blood,
well, now, there's one thing I’ve found, it's that we're just skin and bones.
Actually oh, there's something I’ve found, it's that we're just flesh and blood
and you're nothing much more, there's something, just something I’ve found
it's that we're just flesh and blood and we're nothing much more.
Oh no, what did I do wrong, individual doubts.
Just one thing I’ve found, we're just flesh and blood,
nothing much more, something, just something I’ve found that we're skin and bones.
Here's Where The Story Ends
People I know, places I go, make me feel tongue-tied.
I can see how people look down, they're on the inside. Here's where the story ends.
People I see, weary of me showing my good side.
I can see how people look down, I'm on the outside.
Here's where the story ends, ooh, here's where the story ends.
It's that little souvenir of a terrible year which makes my eyes feel sore.
Oh, I never should have said, the books that you read were all I loved you for.
It's that little souvenir of a terrible year which makes me wonder why
and it's the memories of your shed that make me turn red, surprise, surprise, surprise.
Crazy I know, places I go make me feel so tired.
I can see how people look down, I'm on the outside.
Oh, here's where the story ends. Ooh, here's where the story ends.
It's that little souvenir of a terrible year which makes my eyes feel sore
and who ever would've thought the books that you brought were all I loved you for.
Oh the devil in me said, go down to the shed, I know where I belong
but the only thing I ever really wanted to say was wrong, was wrong, was wrong.
It's that little souvenir of a colorful year which makes me smile inside
so I cynically, cynically say, the world is that way, surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise.
Here's where the story ends, ooh, here's where the story ends.
Can't Be Sure
Give me a story and give me a bed, give me possessions.
Oh, love, luck and money, they go to my head like wildfire.
It's good to have something to live for you'll find, live for tomorrow.
Live for a job and a perfect behind, high time.
England my country the home of the free, such miserable weather.
But England's as happy as England can be, why cry?
And did you know desire's a terrible thing, the worst that I could find?
And did you know desire's a terrible thing? But I rely on mine.
England my country the home of the free, such miserable weather.
But England's as happy as England can be, why cry?
And did you know desire's a terrible thing, the worst that I could find?
And did you know desire's a terrible thing? But I rely on mine.
Did you know desire's a terrible thing, it makes the world go blind.
But if desire, desire's a terrible thing, you know that I really don't mind.
And it's my life, and though I can't be sure what I want any more, it will come to me later.
Well it's my life, and it's my life, and though I can't be sure if I want any more, it will come to me later, ah.
I Won
Ooh, let me take a candle to a cellar tonight and I'd like to take some matches there and set it alight.
I can, cause I’ve seen those kind of places before.
Ooh, I'd like to have a party in a cellar tonight and I'd love to have a party but it wouldn't be right.
I shan't, cause I’ve seen those kind of people before.
I won the war in the sitting room, I won the war but it cost me,
I won the war and I feel proud but I don't know why it's hard to get to sleep in my house.
Ooh, I have to pull the blankets up to cover my head
and I have to pull the blankets right up but I don't know why it's hard to get to sleep in my house.
Well, you keep following the feel of the fire, it's not difficult to see
that you're young and selfish, and liberty and money, don't go.
Let me take a candle to a cellar tonight and you should see the parties we've had before
give me the time, give me the time, give me your watchword, give me whatever you like.
I won the war in the sitting room, I won the war but it cost me,
I won the war and I feel proud, but God only knows why it's hard to get to sleep in my house.
Ooh (supercilious smile), ooh (you're supercilious so).
Well you keep following the feel of fire, it's not difficult to see that you're
beautiful and young, and critical of nothing and you keep following the feel of fire.
It's not difficult to see that you're beautiful and young, but liberty and money, don't go.
Hideous Towns
Don't ask me why, don't ask me why, I’ll join the army, the Salvation Army but it didn't help.
Don't ask me why, don't ask me why, I joined the army, but it drove me balmy and it didn't help.
Hideous towns make me throw up.
Don't ask me why, don't ask me why, I went into service with the Civil Service but it didn't help.
Don't ask me why, don't ask me why, I went into service but it made me nervous and it didn't help.
Ooh, hideous towns made me throw up.
And sticks and stones may break my bones but words will just finish me off, yeah, near enough.
Oh, oh, my hopeless youth, it's so uncouth and oh, I'd like to be in history.
I said, oh, in my hopeless youth, just so uncouth so there you go and now you know,
but just please don't, don't ask me why, don't ask me why
I went to the circus, Piccadilly Circus, it was very strange.
Don't ask me why, cause I don't know why, never one to roam, I took the first bus home, and I haven't changed.
Ooh, hideous towns made me throw up.
And sticks and stones may break my bones but words will just finish me off, yeah, near enough.
Yes they do, said oh, my hopeless youth it's so uncouth
oh, my hopeless youth, it's so uncouth and oh, I'd like to be in history.
I said, oh, in my hopeless youth, just so uncouth so there you go and now you know,
but just please don't, please, please, please,
said oh, yeah, my hopeless youth just so, damn, oh, oh, yeah,
my hopeless youth is really very young, just really very young.
You're Not The Only One I Know
Where's the harm in voicing a doubt, you'll find me in the lavatory.
And where's the harm in talking out loud when I'm on my own?
What's so wrong with reading my stars when I’ll be in the lavatory?
And what is so wrong with counting the cars when I'm all alone?
You're not the only one that I know and I'm too proud to talk to you anyway.
You're not the only one that I know and I'm far too proud to talk to you any day.
So I say I'm in love with the world, and what is so wrong with voicing a doubt when I'm on my own?
It's perfectly fine to sleep in a chair from Monday 'til Saturday.
And what is so wrong with talking out loud when I'm all alone?
You're not the only one that I know and I'm too proud to talk to you anyway.
You're not the only one that I know but I'm far too proud to talk to you any day.
So they rode out west to the seaside and they gladly decided to stay.
After two hours wandering outside, ooh, the sea air drove them away, yeah.
You're not the only one that I know and I'm too proud to talk to you anyway.
You're not the only one that I know and I'm far too proud to talk to you any day.
You're not the only one but I'm far too proud you're,
son, you're young, but I know, I know, I know, I know I'm far too proud to talk to you any day
but if you do, don't you know, that I don't mind, no, no, no.
A Certain Someone
Live your life, have your say, read your stars, day by day.
If I could have anything in the world for free, I wouldn't share it with anyone else but me.
Oh, live your life, go your way and I said, oh no.
Live your life, stake your claim, wash your clothes, change your name. Ooh, and I said oh, no, no.
If I could have anything in the world for free, I wouldn't share it with anyone else but me.
Ooh, ah, you're too twisted by half, but that's far enough.
So live your life, build a home and fill it full of flowers and a bottle of old cologne.
Yeah, if I could have anything in the world for free, I wouldn't share it with anyone else but me
except perhaps a certain someone, except perhaps a certain someone,
except perhaps a certain someone, just to be shown another way out.
You're too twisted by half, but that's far enough.
Oh, I'd be careful living in a block of flats and I never take the lift to the top, no I never take the lift to the top.
Ah, you're too twisted by half, but that's far enough.
Take a swim round, take a look down, I’ll never believe what we've found.
We figured it out, we figured it out, we lived in a house, in a cold room.
I Kicked A Boy
When the weather's fine, when it's sunny outside, think about the time I kicked a boy 'til he cried.
Oh, I could've been wrong, but I don't think I was, he's such a child.
When I am alone, I remember so well, how merrily I tripped a boy so he fell.
Oh I could've been wrong, but I don't think I was, he's totally wild.
And I’ve been wondering lately just who's gonna save me.
Now I have a cold, and no story to tell, I'd marry you but I'm so unwell
and I could've been wrong, well, I don't think I was, he's totally wild.
And I’ve been wondering lately just who's gonna save me.
Yes you should've been wise, oh, hysterical child, where'd you learn to do that?
My Finest Hour
When the world, it shows me up, my clothes, they show me up, I never knew this before.
The finest hour that I’ve ever known was finding a pound on the Underground.
When my words came stumbling out then I went tumbling out, I’ve never been hit before.
The finest hour that I’ve ever known was finding a pound on the Underground
And I keep hoping you are the same as me and I’ll send you letters and come to your house for tea.
We are who we are, what do the others know?
But poetry is not for me, so show me the way to go home.
When the words came stumbling out of my mouth and I went tumbling out (here, no, no, no, no).
But I keep hoping you are the same as me and I’ll send you letters and come to your house for tea.
We are who we are, what do the others know
but poetry is not for me, so show me the way to go, oh, I'm going home.
But I’ll keep hoping you are the only one, yes, and I’ll send you letters, oh, wouldn't it be such fun?
Oh, we are who we are, whatever the others say,
but poetry is not for me, as much as I'd like to stay, oh, I just want to go home.
You're, you're, you're too young, should've been, you, you're, you're too young.
It should've been, you too, you're too, you're too young,
it should've been, you, you, you're too young, you should've been Safe here.
Bribed the judge and then sat down, ooh, you're, you're, you're too young.
Joy
The Lone Ranger sold his wardrobe, the Lone Ranger sold his bad dog.
Well, you saw him and you could hardly know cause times change, I know.
Some days he's more than humble, on some days he's cold and mad, mad as hell.
Well, you saw him and you can hardly know, it's so strange And well I, I know.
Those lakes of golden water, those lakes of gold are all running out.
Well, you saw him and you could hardly know, it's so strange and well I, I know.
Joy, joy, joy, work, work, work harder, sure as the hours.
joy, joy, joy, work, work, work harder, you say.
I Feel
I feel fine, don't wake me up yet, oh, the young and the old they get everything and it's my turn.
I'm here, I'm someone to know, I'm calling the tune but I'm losing the words.
Laughingly I take the fevered applause of the people by the riverside,
I'm walking, walking on water, God knows why I'm losing the words.
I am a man, well, nearly, celebrate life, be good to yourself, don't wake me like that.
I was dreaming and I'd rather carry on, give me a love and hate on both my hands.
I’ll show you what I'm made of, wasting my breath when I say that, don't wake me like that.
I was dreaming and I'm tired of everyone, here's hoping that you'll go now, so long, leave me alone.
Give me a love and hate on both my hands, I’ll show you what I'm made of, wasting my breath when I say that,
love hates, a pair of hands, that's where I began, just be good, good to yourself.
I feel fine, don't wake me up yet cause I feel tired, don't be like that.
We don't need to work any more now, open that ground up and slip down.
Goodbye
I vow that it's goodbye. I vow that it's goodbye and God bless.
Why did we have to assume we're exactly the same? Oh no, talking about yourself.
I vow that it's goodbye to the old ways. Those stories were a good read, they were dumb as well.
I could never be seen falling down on my knees crawling, oh no, talk about a sell.
Oh, as the heavens shudder baby, I belong to you.
Oh they said you get what you deserve and all they said was true.
So is this what it's come to? Am I cold or just a little bit warm?
Oh, well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death, yeah.
Life and Soul
Here dive below, here I go, we're on the shore, down by the sea, here I go.
Water under's cool, we're the life and soul, here on the shore, we're going to be, here I go.
It's all my sea, all my blue.
More
Burning questions, we are told they've gone out, time you learned your lesson, we all know that.
Tell me boys are you out there? The flesh is weak and the mind slow, by now, you could say there's a problem.
And it rained down on me and it seemed to get into me,
it poured down over me, I'm wet through but I still want more.
Peace, love now what? Don't go telling me you've had them, oh, delighted, we all know.
We won't be alive any more and by now you could say there's a problem.
And it rained down on me, and it seemed to get into me.
I'm soaked to my skin, I'm wet through, I really ought to be in, will you let me have a sign?
And somebody ought to reply, we'll take anything at all, understand me?
Fun times we have known, that's what we're like, we've just taken them all
and I still don't remember how I got home, don't tell me where we're going, now I know we won't be alive any more.
On Earth
And she's walking on the edge of a knife and she knows it's the death of her.
Sarah, you live and you learn, you're invisible.
And she's walking on the edge of a crowd, late at night you can never tell.
Town from town, sounds of England swallow you down, makes you want to laugh.
Could a heaven on earth be ours here and now?
And she says "what's in my palm? Read between the lines, give me something to savor.
Can you do that? Cause I’ll believe anything.
And I say, when you're hoping for some more from your life, shouldn't wonder you've had enough.
And in my town, sounds of England swallow you down and a heaven on earth is all ours but not now.
I tell you when a heaven on earth is all ours, come on down.
God Made Me
Looking for an insult, there's a trickle in my head. Seeing it's worth the effort I forgive myself.
Talks that we had, talks that we had are becoming a blur, if only I could love my neighbor.
Waiting here for the next time with a bottle in my hand, doing it for the exercise, I forget myself.
And the face that you had, face that you had is becoming a blur, but how was I supposed to know that?
Because God made me, that's all they told me before, and how about you?
And it's off to work we go, now you can forget about a labor of love. It just won't wash anymore.
And we'd love to be good, love to be good but we'd rather be bad, but how was I supposed to know that?
Because God made me, that's all they told me before, and how about you?
Because God made people, that was the luck of the draw, we do what we want.
God made me, that's what they told me before, who knows what they'll say today?
Because God made me for his sins, imagine my eyes when I first saw we can do what we want.
How could I know? How could I know about it?
Love
Picture myself as a thin white child, back to the day I was born on.
They slapped me into line as it crossed my mind, I’ve felt better, I’ve felt worse.
This is my life and it's all very well but never, never, never, again,
as they say "we've been robbed," and don't you know that this time?
Love, love, love, just love yourself like no one else.
Love, it's enough, they can say what they like but they still can't take that.
Distance myself from the things I'd like but everyone has something I need.
don't let me wake up and find all those others leaving me behind.
Well, if you don't have a clue about life, then I'm happy, happy, happy to say, oh, neither have I
although I'm not going to shrug my shoulders and suck my thumb this time, cause there's something I deserve.
Love, love, love, just love yourself like no one else.
Love, it's enough, they can say what they like but they still can't take that.
Picture my house in a postcard town, picture a bomb in the sky. History at the door who could ask for more?
I’ve felt better, I’ve felt better so kill me with love, love, love, just love yourself like no one else.
Love, it's enough, they can say what they like but they still can't take your
love, love, love, just love yourself like no one else.
Time's so scarce where I come from,
they say what they like but they still can't take your
love, love, love, just love yourself like no one else…
What Do You Think?
I need a night off but I’ll take all year, will you take any message?
I need a night off, I can't stay here, I'm sure to find a way out of this.
I need a night off just read my lips, are you getting the message?
I'm sick as a dog but I’ll just say this, you're as sick as I am.
So what do you think about me? What do you think about me?
Everyone around me is driving me mad, here I go along this road.
Feeling I don't want to slow down, these days of obsession.
I need a night off because life's too dear, let me show you my photographs.
See me work, see me rest, see me play, oh, I'm sure I had it better back then. So what do you think about me?
I couldn't live without me but everything about me is driving me mad.
Here I go along this road, feeling I don't want to slow,
run so hard, I lose my breath, one thing I don't want to know now.
These days of obsession, delirious and uncertain still and will they always stay uncertain still?
24 Hours
Few true cares have I as the world turns round.
I was blind but now I'm still blind, too few cares have I as the world turns sour.
I was blind but now I'm still blind, I liked you for 24 hours in your house.
And when the time has come to live again, I shall.
And I liked you for 24 hours in your house, and now the time has come to live again, I shall.
I liked you but that was before, why me?
I never knew then and I don't know now, oh, the things you do all come back to you.
That's why I hung back but I’ll say what I like now.
Blood On My Hands
When people say it's sad, you know it can't be bad
and on any other day I'd be soul destroyed but now I can't afford to listen to a word they say.
And of all the times we had, oh, the ultimate late night, didn't taste right, true words that I should know.
Blood on my hands, when you looked around I couldn't be found. A crime's a crime, I’ll have to pay.
Now I find that I'm thigh deep, too young for the worst of my mind,
you whispered behind me, "if I may make so bold."
Call it young and wild but I ran a mile in a minute and there's no going back. True words that I should know.
Blood on my hands, when you looked around I couldn't be found. A crime's a crime, I’ll have to pay.
True words I said to myself as the wind chilled my bones. "Home alone, you call that a late night?"
When people say you're dead, you know you caught their eye
and on any other day I'd be soul destroyed but that's just not the way now.
I don't mind telling you nothing is quite what it seems.
True words that I should know.
Must have been blood on my hands, when you look around I couldn't be found.
A crime's a crime but I don't mind, true words that I should know well
but surely by now I could say to myself,
"the days are getting longer so I better get stronger fast" surely by now?
Medicine
Dig down to the earth here outside, lose my mind here any day now.
Don't be sad, we're only half way there, oh no, that's what I call home.
You remember the hills we slithered down. "I'm not going anywhere," you lied.
Hell on my own, hell here on my own and don't go imagining that time is medicine.
Mark those days and swallow your pills, proud of my wise head on young shoulders.
Too bad there was nothing there at all.
Hell on my own, hell here on my own and it was such a really cold hand.
I held as the wind sighed, "I'm not going and how could I lie?"
Just be glad there's no way back there,
I need another look at before though heaven knows how I'd ever make my way back there.
And I need another look at before although heaven knows how I'd ever make my way back there.
Now I know it's hopeless and I realize it's nowhere, hell here on my own.
Wild Horses
Childhood living is easy to do, the things you wanted, I bought them for you.
Graceless lady, you know who I am. You know I can't let you slide through my hands.
Wild horses, couldn't drag me away. Wild, wild horses couldn't drag me away.
I watched you suffer a dull aching pain. Now you decided to show me the same.
No sweeping exits or off stage lines could make me feel bitter or treat you unkind.
Wild horses, couldn't drag me away. Wild, wild horses couldn't drag me away.
I know I've dreamed you a sin and a lie. I have my freedom but I don't have much time.
Faith has been broken tears must be cried. Let's do some living after we die.
Wild horses, couldn't drag me away. Wild, wild horses we'll ride them someday.
Wild horses, couldn't drag me away. Wild, wild horses we'll ride them someday.
Summertime
Do some people wind up with the one that they adore in a heart-shaped hotel room, it's what a heart is for?
The bubble floats so madly, will it stay sky-high? Hello partner, kiss your name bye-bye. Ooh, sometimes.
Romantic Piscean seeks angel in disguise, Chinese-speaking girlfriend, big brown eyes.
Liverpudlian lady, sophisticated male, hello partner, tell me love can't fail.
And it's you and me in the summertime, we'll be hand in hand down in the park.
With a squeeze and a sigh and that twinkle in your eye and all the sunshine banishes the dark.
Do some people wind up with the one that they abhor in a distant hell-hole room, the third world war?
But all I see is films where colorless despair meant angry young men with immaculate hair. Ooh sometimes.
Get up, a voice inside says there's no time for looking down. Only a pound a word and you're talking to the town.
But how do you coin the phrase though that will set your soul apart just to touch a lonely heart.
And it's you and me in the summertime, we'll be hand in hand down in the park.
With a squeeze and a sigh and that twinkle in your eye and all the sunshine banishes the dark.
And it's you I need in the summertime as I turn my white skin red.
two peas from the same pod, yes we are, or have I read too much fiction?
Is this how it happens? How does it happen? Is this how it happens? Now, right now.
Homeward
You’ve stolen my heart and I want you to remember now what’ll I do living alone?
You’ve stolen my heart and it hurts me to remember now where’ll I go to living alone?
And a butterfly in the wind is drifting like I do,
it’s dumb, I know what I want to say but I can’t even take one breath.
As night falls I hear voices on the radio, ooh, I’ll follow their dreams and wake up alone.
And a butterfly in the wind is drifting like I do
it’s dumb, I know what I want to say, but I can’t even take one breath.
So now still burning silently away, a storm without the thunder.
Folk Song
Summer sky and a throat bone dry and the fields are all gold.
Dusty lane with a song in my brain and it stoned me to my soul.
I climb higher move towards the fire, blazing sun.
Silver trees and a whispering breeze are my sight and my sound.
The thought of heaven couldn’t drag me from the path when I’m wandering here alone.
I climb higher move towards the fire, so blazing sun.
Watch until it dies slow falling from the sky, pale fading sun.
She
She’s all weak and her heart beats so, she can’t speak with the lights so low.
Just to be one of a crowd, feet scuttling across the floor, spinning lights round and round, it’s adolescent war.
She craves noise and the music blares girl calls to a boy (and my heart is true, oh to you). He just stands and stares.
Just to be one of a crowd, feet scuttling across the floor, spinning lights round and round, it’s adolescent war.
Shoes grind, kick like crazy and arms tangling up with hair.
Shaking them up and down again and hearts pounding everywhere.
She slows down, has the music gone or has she stayed too long?
When I'm Thinking About You
Over the rooftops, a plane in the sky, beat of a bass drum, cars passing me by.
Under a bridge dark then back into light, a river of raincoats and a forest of faces.
Still for a moment then red into green, slow shuffling shoes whisper sight unseen.
Row upon row of houses return an empty stare, let me daydream for a little while longer.
Ah, hope I’ll never wake when I’m thinking about you.
Yeah, hope I’ll never wake cause now I’m thinking about you.
Two-minute hailstorm then melts into rain, oh, sing me a rainbow, it’s sunny again.
Swallows overhead while the traffic snarls below, could I, could I, keep dreaming for a little while longer?
Ah, hope I’ll never wake when I’m thinking about you.
So that you know, I never want to wake cause now I’m thinking about you.
When you’re searching your soul, when you’re searching for pleasure, how often, pain is all you find.
But when you’re coasting along and nobody’s trying too hard,
you can turn around and like where you are.
Yeah, and I hope I never wake when I’m thinking about you.
And I close my eyes, dear, now I’ll never, never wake, why should I stop thinking about you?
I Can't Wait
Lying awake, dead of night and eyes that never close. Flowers decay, a still life calls for a change, I can’t wait, forever.
Miles away, dead of night and it’s quiet as the grave.
When there’s more in your head than you find in your life, calls for a change. I can’t wait, forever.
And the days and the hours and the years keep turning in my mind, I’ve been waiting forever.
Cry
And I'm standing on a platform, now I'm staring from a train
and all the trees roll back beside but I'm so oblivious to the dark to the light, it's all the same.
You gave me so much and now it's of the earth and it makes me cry,
it makes me cry, it makes me cry, it can make me cry.
And you're standing here beside me in a picture in a frame
and your voice could never fade it's so familiar, things you said in my head, every day.
You gave me so much and now it's of the earth and it makes me cry,
it makes me cry, it makes me cry, it can make me cry.
You're with me so much, though you're never with me anymore.
And it makes me cry, it makes me cry, it makes me cry, it can make me cry.
Oh, it makes me cry, it makes me cry, yeah, it makes me cry, it can make me cry.
Another Flavour
Fashion, the timing’s all wrong. They taste another flavour and pretty soon you’re gone.
Fashion, this time it’s too late. You knew you’d have to pay for this one day.
He loves me now, he loves me not. He loves me once again, usual story, another surprise.
Ooh yeah, ooh yeah.
Fashion, this time it’s alright, they tickle you with a feather, they tell you you’re sublime.
Turn on, to each their own, usual story, another surprise. Ooh yeah, ooh yeah.
Fashion, the timing was wrong, your friends are fair weather, you knew it all along.
Turn on, to each their own, it’s doing my mind in another surprise. Ooh yeah, ooh yeah.
Don’t let them black you out for the evening, sad-happy sufferer, no, no, no.
Don’t let them crack you, try not to feel it, as long as they’re watching your show this time.
Leave This City
Gone forever, the writing on the wall, they’ve boarded-up the cinema.
Strawberry dreams and the dust-filled beams, shut down in a modern town.
See you walking, see you talking.
Recollection on streets you used to know, forgotten pleasure smolder.
Images fade but the town won’t let them go, sleepwalking, see you talking.
Feel the city inside you, ooh, leave this city behind you.
Drive wherever the roads will take you to, down beside a river, frozen brown.
January days and their scarecrow trees, so cold, feel your ears burn.
See you walking, see you talking.
Feel the city inside you, ooh, leave this city behind you.
Past and present, they converge on every side.
The wires all get tangled when now and then collide.
Bittersweet taste of a time and another place before.
Sleep walking, see you talking.
Feel the city inside you, ooh feel this city define you. Yeah, leave this city behind you…
Your Eyes
You ask me why, I’ll tell you then, two worlds collide, we bury them.
We’re far too drunk to see these things as they are.
You painted me and I sat quite still, a tiny room in Notting Hill.
It was far too dark to look at things as they are.
I’ve seen the light vanish out of your eyes, oh no, from your eyes, oh, so goodbye.
You tell me now I’m young and wild, you spare the rod and you spoil the child.
I’d love to stay but I think I’m off to Japan anyway.
I’ve seen the light vanish out of your eyes, oh no, from your eyes, oh, so goodbye.
From your eyes, aah oh no, where has it gone? Your eyes have lost their shine.
So Much
Dream and fantasize, Slave to your desire, you'll buy anything.
Curse and criticize, middle-aged and at your door
and they're selling you the son of God, It's so hard to ignore.
You want so much and then you want some more, somehow your appetite grows.
you'd just love what you can't possess, you know it's out there somewhere.
Read and memorize, make a wish come true and you can telephone free,
eyes and ears and mouth and nose in a face that you compose but it cuts you like never before
It's so hard to ignore, you want so much and then you want some more. Somehow your appetite grows.
you'd just love what you can't possess, you know it's out there somewhere.
It's so hard to ignore, you'd really love so much and then you'd go spoil yourself with more.
Strange how your appetite's grown till you're just lying in a corner upstairs looking out there, somewhere.
Monochrome
It’s 4 in the morning July in ’69, me and my sister, we crept down like shadows.
They’re bringing the moon right down to our sitting room, static and silence and a monochrome vision.
They’re dancing around, slow puppets silver ground and the world is watching with joy.
We hear a voice from above and it’s history and we stayed awake all night.
And something is said and the whole room laughs aloud. Me and my sister, looking on like shadows.
the end of an age as we watched them walk in a glow, lost in space, but I don’t know where it is.
They’re dancing around, slow puppets, silver ground and the stars and stripes in the sand.
We hear a voice from above and it’s history and we stayed awake all night.
They’re dancing around, it sends a shiver down my spine and I run to look in the sky and
I half expect to hear them asking to come down.
Oh, will they fly or will they fall? To be excited by a long late night.