Four o'clock in the morning
Born on the sea
The night is rattling
With burglar alarms, oh yeah
The night explode the night explode
Flower by your window side
Autumn is graceful unladen with memory
And the wonders die
Seven o'clock in the evening
Watching TV show
Kissing your dark hair it's your head
Against the sunset and the harbor below
It's the cruelest thing, the cruelest thing
That I've e...
Cast your eyes into the distance
Try to focus on it all
Find a spirit of resistance
Instead of pride before the fall
Forge some opposition
From disparate strands
It ain't the prettiest position
As a century ends
Unstable situation
Faces made of wax
Streams of melting glass
Sheets of butchered facts
The roar of the machine
Hooded hearts and jeweled hands, oh
And anger spilling out like gasoline...
Hear me God I'm on the level
Mapping silence seeing things
Cryin' laughin' like the devil
Before the might of all that's seen
I'll raise my head and wake to dream
With a clean pair of eyes
Murdered gold and colors flashin'
Time like blood like flowin' hair
Faces mergin' airplanes crashin'
Before the might of all that's true
I'll raise my head and dream anew
With a clean pair of eyes
A clean pa...
Maybe that it would do me good if I believed there were a God
Out in the starry firmament
As it is that's just a lie and I'm here eating up the boredom
On an island of cement
Give me your ecstasy I'll feel it, open window and I'll steal it
Baby, like it's Heaven sent
This ain't no love that's guiding me
Some days I'm bursting at the seams with all my half remembered dreams
And then it shoots m...
Stone blind alibi, I will eat the lie
Find the word, could break any spell that binds you
Prayers like ammonites, curl beneath the lights
How I long to bite any hand that feeds you more
Where d?it all go wrong
My Friday night enfant?
Where d?it all go wrong
My Friday night enfant?
All night buzz on a line
It?s only blood on the rime
Wrecks my head every time
It leads me on
Where d'it all go wr...
Hear the warning
Read the sign
written here
Between the lines
Whispering poison valentines
To the love in me
Pull the blade out
From the fire
Crucify my own desire
Chase it off
Down to the wire
For the love in me
Milk of kindness
Bread of dreams
Belly's bursting at the seams
Cigarettes and magazines
For the love in me
Through it all
This heart of mine
Leaving me so far behind
All this world
Ju...
As I'm leaving
A change comes on my eyes
These streets persuading me
With mumbles strange goodbyes
And through the water, through the ring
To the soul of everything
Throw my heart out on the stones
And I'm almost gone
And there's no meaning
In clothes and coffee cups
Cheap hotel furniture
Where silence never stops
And through the water, through the ring
To the soul of everything
Throw my heart...
Ashes in the Wind
i hold you close in my arms
as we take our last stroll
down the beach
TOGETHER
with seagulls screeching overhead
and waves crashing
and thrashing towards the shore
my eyes well-up
and tears stream down my face
an overwhelming sense of sadness
takes hold of me
and as we climb the mountainous sands
i think about the sound of your laughter
i remember our first piggyback ride
and...
Friday night I'm going nowhere
All the lights are changing green to red
Turnin' over TV stations
Situations runnin' through my head
Looking back through time
You know it's clear that I've been blind
I've been a fool to open up my heart
To all that jealousy, that bitterness, that ridicule
Saturday I'm running wild
And all the lights are changing red to green
Moving through the crowds I'm pushin...
Friday night, I'm going nowhere
All the lights are changing green to red
Turning over TV stations
Situations running through my head
Looking back through time
You know it's clear that I've been blind
I've been a fool, to open up my heart
To all that jealousy, that bitterness, that ridicule
If you want it, come and get it
For crying out loud
The love that I was
Giving you was never in doubt
Let...
From the very first moment I saw you
That's when I knew
All the dreams I held in my heart
Had suddenly come true
Knock me over stone cold sober
Not a think I could say or do
'Cause baby when I'm walking with you now
My eyes are so wide
Like you reached right into my head
And turned on the light inside
Turning on the light
Inside my mind hey
Come on baby its all right
Sunday, Monday day or nigh...
Wishing that something would happen
A change in this place
'Cause I?m tearing off the fancy wrapping
Find an empty package
Take for a while
Your trumpet from your lip
Loosen your hold
Loosen your grip
On your old ways
That have fallen out of step
In a changing time
Hoist a new flag, hoist a new flag
Angry sun burn down
Judging us all
Guilty of neglect and disrespect
And thinking small
And deat...
I just don't care
Don't care at all
I've banged my head too long
On these brick walls
Every seed I sow
Shudders and falls
Perishes betweens
These brick walls
And I feel like the last hair
On a head gone bald
Not much point bein' there
No, no, no point at all
How many more years?
Years 'til they fall
On the blind eyes and deaf ears
And these brick walls
These brick walls
These brick walls
These...
Brush Stroke
with one brush stroke
i attempt to paint
a picture of you
your beautiful face
the soft lines
around your eyes
your hair blowing
in the gentle wind
sparkling eyes
that stop me
in my tracks
i trace your face
with my hands
so that i may
get a more accurate
sense of how
to draw you
but after
my loving hands
touch your face
i cannot paint
a single stroke
i am so entranced
so mesmerized...
Bubbles
come join me in the tub
as i bask in the warm
water with bubbles
cradling me from
head to foot
like a warm, soft blanket
in the winter time
humming to the music
in the background
watching the candles
flicker with an orangey
blue glow
feeling so pretty
in my birthday clothes
so soft and sensual
a gentle breeze floating in
curtains swirling like gowns
twirling at a ballroom dance
contemp...
Written by David Gray
Three tower blocks glinting
in the midday sun.
Two ice cubes melting
in a glass of white rum.
Head for the places that
I've never gone.
I can't get through to myself.
Just can't get through to myself.
Eight beggars choking
on a slice of red pie.
Two rivers freezing
in a broken goodbye.
No hesitation,
just a kick in the eye.
I can't get through to myself.
Just can't get th...
I'm so excited
That you decided
To tell me where it is
I'm going wrong
Feel so foolish
I hadn't seen it
And there you where
You knew it all along
You're such a joker
So mediocre
You'll go a long way for sure
I can't stand these confines anymore
Break down the mirror
Feel your heart inside
Free now and running with the tide
Far from the city
And the doubts that chain
Heading out into the night ...
Caroline
Those crazy eyes that shine
The days blowing through my mind
Like falling leaves
It ain't no good
I tried hard as I could
You but just won't let
My poor heart be
The final war, a steel eyed dinosaur
Girl I want you more than I can say
But Caroline, it seems like every time
Honey all I get is further away
The state I'm in
Got goosebumps on my skin
See the water I'll jump right in
Your ...
Tears falling slow, from the bridge
Into the river below, in your eyes, I start to see
A starry veil, the ocean of infinity
Moon and stars above me, mingle with the blood Inside my vein
These empty arms that should be
Holding you close, through nights of winter rain
I'm trying to spell what only the wind can explain
It's colder than ever, coming down
And I'm drowning in shallows, 'cos it's in ...
Jane, oh now Jane
You got me like a dog, oh now Jane
It's hard biding my time
You're sitting pretty in the light
For your word know when i'm gone you'll cry for me
Cause oh, since i see those lonely eyes of fire in your skin
Well all the world i had known, turned into shadow, into stone
For your word know when i'm gone you'll cry for me
And oh when i'm gone you'll cry
All the things you used t...
Dancing with David
I am in the enchanted garden
with David
He has asked me to dance
His eyes
thoughtful and disarming
i fly to him
like a magnet rushes to its mate
his POWER is palpable
i hear the sweet melody
of a time recalled
E U P H O R I A
He whisks me up into his arms
the music floats in the air
like bubbles to the sky
He cradles me
swirling, swirling, swirling
to the sound
twirling, twi...
People stand in line
People stand in line
People stand in line
A premonition of
The killers angel eyes
An Armageddon sky
Tell it like it is
It's like the old man says
We're dead in the water now
Dead in the water
They come from miles around
They come from miles around
They come from miles around
In avarice and love
To suckle on the blood
Of some forgotten God
Sell it like it is
It's like the o...
Drunken ferry boat woman
Swayin' on your sea
If I turn on the gas fire
By the rain rattled window
Won't you sail over to me?
And the hailstorm tumbles
The rail line rumbles
You move in the porch with me
On an overcast day the pale winter city
An afternoon's debauchery
Your blouse, your skirt
I'll undo them so gently
With beautiful care
I'm a lonely man
With five bottles of wine
I'd like you to...
All my tears will dry away
All my tears will dry away
All my tears will dry away
Words don't bother me no more
Black money falling to the floor
Flags out on the balconies
Black money washing to the seas
Oh my mind What happened
To the time December
All my house got blown away
All my house got blown away
All my house and all my home
Walls of glass and walls of stone
Got blown away
Stations in t...
My panic than intent
More luck than good judgment
They're raising your body
From the ground
The dreamer has woken
The spirit has spoken
They're raising your body
From the ground
What you gonna do
When the rain comes
Through on your pretty head?
Is it so easy to pretend?
Like vision of [Incomprehensible]
The silent destroyer
They're raising your body
From the ground, from the ground
What you go...
Slowly the truth is loading
I'm weighted down with love
Snow lying deep and even
Strung out and dreaming of
Night falling on the city
Quite something to behold
Don't it just look so pretty
This disappearing world
They're threading hope like fire
Down through the desperate blood
Down through the trailing wire
Into the leafless wood
Night falling on the city
Quite something to behold
Don't it ju...
Smoke curls through my hands
These one night stands
Making me crazy, I know
Morning I'll go
Crowds in the rain all passing by
Faith gone from your eyes
Each word that flies
Taking you further away
And come that day
There ain't no easy way to cry
And as I watch you leave, I stand
Inside my house of straw
And everywhere I go I find
Things recollecting to my mind
How right it all could be
Faith g...
A man of modest
beginnings had the
nerve to try to
change the world
Fought like a lion
even though he was
cryin' in a
sea of deep despair
tried to hide the
energy
tried to hide the
light
afraid of being
turned in
grappling with his nerves
a mind working at the speed of lightening
a man with a heart of gold
just tryin' to do the right thing
bringing joy to countless thousands
and what did we do...
engineering CHANGE
i've been told that we can't
i've been told that we can't
i've been told that we can't
no use in trying
no use in trying
no use in trying
TO CHANGE THE WORLD
TO CHANGE THE WORLD
TO CHANGE THE WORLD
but wait
THIS JUST IN
hell-bent
on B R E A K I N G
all the RULES
Shattering to smithereens
MIND-warping NOTIONS
REVolutionary concepts
YES, we ARE
going to
BREAK all the rules
Wri...
Down from the doorway and into the street
I hear the mornin' bell
Over and over the pattern repeat
I hear the mornin' bell
And all the faces cold as stone
In the January chill
You have led me into world's unknown
And I'm walkin' there still
Everytime now
Everytime now
I think of you mine now
I just can't contain
I'm seven feet tall and
There's nightingale's callin'
Shootin' stars fallin'
Like ...
Without a word
You set your sights into the sun
When all the world
You put to rights was still so wrong
Pin your heart out on your sleeve
Spouting all than make believe
From your lips it seemed it might come true
Falling down the mountainside with you
The clothes you wore
The people stared, you looked so strange
To see you move
St. Vitus dance was in your veins
And never once afraid to know
Wh...
All of my senses overthrown
By the might of your skin
And the lamplight on your cheek bone
Drawing me further in
No sentence I can speak for the wonder so unique
Breaking like a wave upon the shore
Mercy me, I'm falling free
Since you opened up the door
See how the sky is made of sapphire
The colors flowing through our hands
The moon is fire in your hair
A million miles beyond what science und...
Hey now, you got me by the tongue
I feel like there's nowhere I belong
And they're working it pretty hard
And they're selling it by the yard
But it's more than I can afford
That's all that I know
Leader, it comes as no surprise
See now, these are coins that were his eyes
Silver dollars and hands of steel
Tell me nothing can be revealed
The more you get it the less you feel
That's all that I kn...
I went looking for someone I left behind
Yeah, but no one, just a stranger did I find
I never noticed, hadn't seen it as it grew
The void between us where the flame turns blue
Different places, yeah but they all look much the same
Dreams of faces in the streets devoured by names
I'm in collision with every stone I ever threw
And blind ambition where the flame turns blue
Words dismantled, hey a...
As the bell must strike the hour
As the west must stab the sun
So our hearts must heed the flow
Of deeper tides that run
Far beyond this bare indifference
That prosperity esteems
Where the spirit raves and dances
Through our very veins
At winters edge you found me
By the fields of wild gold
My hands still filled with ashes
From fires long cold
As you pulled me from the wreckage
Of bitterness a...
I have waited the night over
For some word to come
I asked the moon o'er the clover
But the moon she is dumb
You've made me a promise
At midnight we'd go
And that we should be married
Sailing westward ho
Such words you have spoken
You have told me a lie
That it could not be broken
When you knew it must die
There's no light in heaven
That my eye can't see
That my heart is imprisoned
Let the dev...
Tuesday
My heart is brimmin'
I'm a child
In the wild wind
Dead leaves
And daylight dimmin'
No beginnin'
And no end
Inside a candle
Of defiance
Moonlight
A river of pearls
'Cause you're gonna need more
Than money and science
To see us through this world
You say it can't be done
You'd rather die of fun
Get out of the way
For me, for you
For everyone
Forever is tomorrow
Is today
Shut down the win...
Take your eyes off me
There's nothing here to see
Trying to keep my head together
And as we make our vow
Let us remember how
There's nothing good that lasts forever
Time out on the running boards
We're running
Through a world that lost its meaning
Trying to find a way to love
This running
Ain't no kind of freedom
Feel the touch of grief
You stand in disbelief
Can steal the earth from right ben...
Come a weekend
We?ll be long gone baby
Just like the old days
Letting the world flow through me
Just a parasite in the line
I'm smoking, killing the time
How long?s a piece of twine
What use is sympathy
From here you can almost see the sea
If you would hold still
Could make a clean incision
We could sit back
And watch the demolition
Little puppy dog in a box
Somebody?s picking the locks
Must w...
Come the weekend
And we?ll long gone, baby
Just like the old days
Lettin' the world flow through me
Just a parasite in the line
I'm smokin', killin' the time
How long?s a piece of a twine?
What use is sympathy?
From here you can almost see the sea
If you would hold still
Could make a clean incision
We could sit back
And watch the demolition
Little puppy dog in a box
Somebody?s pickin' the lock...
Yeah yeah
Is the answer none of the above
Crouched in a whole like a mud-streaked fugitive
And everyday a different version of
Pourin it away like a water through a sieve
Hey better realize my friend
Love in the end now you can't take it well
Gotta live
If only for a second
I see a twinklin in your eye
Gotta try
Well its flesh and blood and camaflouge
Paint it to the wall now somethings gotta ...
I got no reason but that I must
Maybe I feel like I?ve been gathering dust
I must leave this harbour for the sea
I'm too young to settle down and make a home
But I don't know where I'm wanting to be
I just know I have to be there alone
Stole my time, all my time
Stole my time for you
Pale winter sun is beatin' the ground
Why'm I throwin' away the best thing that I?ve found
My young heart's in ...
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GO van GOGH
The highs and lows of manic depression
moments of brilliance
coupled with the inability to tie one's own shoes
without completely losing patience
racing thoughts
no hunger
can't sleep
can't remember what day it is
incessant need to organize
overwhelmed by all the papers
all the books
walking fast
talking fast
forgetting...
A gutter full of rain
An empty picture frame
A house out at the edges of the city
Never noticing the war
Till it's right there at your door
An' suddenly your hands are bloody
I was seeking to possess
Now another girl's caress
Is on your flesh
The bitterness is tasted
There's nobody in your chair
No hand to touch my hair
The sun, even the air seems wasted
Let it go now
Let it all slip away
Well...
Hold on, hold on to me
Hold on, hold on to me
Sometimes there's no easy way
Got to cause somebody pain
Watching you
You hit so hard on yourself
'Cause you need someone to blame
Oh now, what will you do?
Oh now, what will you do?
Can't help the way you're feeling
Don't want to leave him so alone
Lisa cries
Her red hair streaming down
Feels like her heart is made of stone
Hold on to nothing
Hold on to coldest steel
Chill you down inside
When you see just what is real
Paste it up and tear it down
Move it on along the rushing road
Seventeen Fahrenheit
Feel the winter grow
There's nowhere to write it
There's nowhere to write it
There's nowhere to write it down
There's nowhere to write it
There's nowhere to write it
There's nowhere to write it down
There's nowhere ...
Holding you
When you reach for me
in the middle of the night
or in the wee hours
of the morning
That is when i feel happiest
Because you are free
Because you are vulnerable
Nevertheless
you still reach out to me
no time to analyze the situation
no time to think about the pros and cons
no contrivance
Just understanding what you want
what you need
You just want to be close to me
because you know...
Just a little something for the pain
Hospital food getting you down?
Honey, now I'm not one to complain
But, but this hangin' around
Is wearing me out
So patch me up, boys, take me home
Are you not hearing a word I say?
She sounds so different on the phone
I just sink like a stone
Back to the day
Tell me something
Tell me something
I don't already know
Tell me something
Tell me something
I don...
Three days spent staring at your photograph
Read your letter made me laugh
But there's a shadow on the path
Till I know, if your love is real
'Cause it's not as if a lot was said
Falling in and falling out of bed
But now the worlds turned on its head
Till I know, if your love is real
Spent a long time now persuading myself
That I don't need no one, nobody else
That I'd felt all there was to fe...
a beauty so bold and free
living ever so quietly
in this emerald paradise
i have heard from many a lad
that the 'Irish Rose' is also known
as the goddess of Irish descent
who walks with a spring in her step
and is filled with song and dance
she is indeed a symbol of strength
and perseverance and is fiercely proud
of her heritage but there is
something that makes this regal
lady quite unique an...
In the bitter violent night
The stars wear sour grins
In the vastness of the black sky
I?m cradled in your arms
Unbridled by alarm
And I know the end is nigh
It's all over, bar the shoutin'
One thing's for sure
It's all over now
It's all over now
Confusion wanders in
Strides the evening like a king
Chaos and turmoil prevail
Bedlam reigns, hope is drowned
But strangely we settle down
Resigned t...
I can't stand to fly
I'm not that naive
I'm just out to find
The better part of me
I'm more than a bird???I'm more than a plane
More than some pretty face beside a train
It's not easy to be me
Wish that I could cry
Fall upon my knees
Find a way to lie
About a home I'll never see
It may sound absurd???but don't be naive
Even Heroes have the right to bleed
I may be disturbed???but won't you conc...
Pay no mind to it, oh let it blow
Break you up inside if you don?t let it go
Jeez what are you like, honey? I don?t know
Recommended by my bank
And everybody in the tank
First of all I?d like to thank
This might take while, honey, hey don?t blink
Missing by a mile now we?re here on the brink
Not a day goes by honey, I don?t think
I could be your volunteer
We?ll make the whole thing disappear
S...
Slow voices speakin' through a hurricane
Said that I wanted but I lied
You're looking good, hey man, I can't complain
Ghost on the road at night
Seen him out walking he's just skin and bones
I don't see nothin' in her eyes
Some call it Hell, felt like a home from home
I'm dreaming different skies
I don't know where I, I don't know what I
Supposed to do now, get it on all night
I don't know whe...
I love your nervous fingers
Won't you fumble all night long
But the morning they are stingers
To rise and stumble on
And down the crooked pavement
The wind rolls my thoughts like a leaf
The brill bell chimes
And fortune smiles, with its broken teeth
And the many rivers run
Grateful for the rain
I'd be grateful for one morsel
Of your loving again
Summer, restless summer
Won't let sleeping dogs ...
Make me a boat, away I'll float
Into the stillness of a pure blue sky
There's nothin' here to hold me now
And I got no more tears to cry
Grant me a wish, just one more kiss
Oh, baby, kiss me till the daylights through
These are days of make believe
But there ain't nothin' any fool can do
Pin another dream on me
'Cos the night is bearin' down
Baby, let's got all the way this time
Sing me the tr...
Oh, Mary Jane
She step on a train
Head for the city lights
Yearning inside
To swim with the tide
And taste it, alright
Bag on her shoulder
Breathing the cold
There by the metal tracks
She saw it all shine
And swore in her mind
She'd never go back
And she don't mind the late night
Late night radio
She don't mind the late night radio
She don't mind the late night
Late night radio, na na
Couldn't...
That the sky would lift
That I?d find my place
That I?d see your face in the door
And the sun would glint
On a time well spent
On a time that ain?t no more
Takes the broken hearts
In the vacant lots
To see the fruit that rots on the trees
Had to turn my head
Leave it all for dead
But it?s in my mind always
Honey, lately, I?ve been way down
Load on my mind
Honey, lately, I?ve been way down
Load...
"I care little for my body", she said
"I couldn't care less about my soul?
And as she led me upstairs in whispers
My whole summer turned cold
I'll lead you upstairs, I'll lead you upstairs
If you've got no worries then I've got no cares
I'll lead you upstairs
I told her people had been talking
About how dark she was inside
She said, "My hopes are buried in the soil
Deep in the earth outside"
A...
The hour is out of joint
The black sun has risen
And the river of words
Is flowing on through
The cages of tradition
And they're handing out emptiness
Well, take it 'cause it's given
Free with this plastic innocence
And these standards of living
And questions lighted questions
Burnin' holes into my head
Hanging like shadows over the sun
Staring out like the eyes of the dead
And sometimes my so...
Was there in your cage
When your lion got tamed
Was up on your stage
When your childhood flamed
The sorrow and rage
But it ain't no game to me now
All the lights in London shining now
Slow ye down and stay awhile
All the lights in London shining now
Standing in line
With these abstract gifts
Counting the time
As the dragnet shifts
A quarter to nine
And the gray cloud lifts away now
All the lig...
My good friends speak
Like they did last year
Last night's just a blur
Through a head full of beer
My good friends speak
Like they did last year
And last year's just a blur
Through a head full of beer
Where's your wisdom
Put that broken bottle down
Let the wind in your sails
Take you out of this town so sad
I think I'm dying
And and if life's just a living room
Then I'm in the hall and I'm gla...
If I lean my weight on it
If I fix my heart to the line
Might find a way from it
To some easy time
My skins all white with it
I'm up so high when I fall
I fall so far from it
Ain't nowhere at all
Early morning sun
Shine it and I'm gone
To plane out and on the lake
Hey hey, yeah yeah
To glide out on the wing
Turn around and sing
The fear now taking hold
Hey hey, yeah
I'll bring you love but it'...
At the Lorelei
Sing it sweet for me tonight
All my dreams to long tonight
If only i could be the one
Hold on tight I need ya son
Wouldn't even fire the gun
If only I could be
Tie your heart and soul
To the lightning pole
Still it ain't no guarantee
In the firing line
Find your eyes aren't blind Pretty soon i'm free
At the Lorelei
Sing it sweet for me tonight
All my dreams to long tonight
If on...
We are lovers girl, me and you
small faced lovers girl oh
you know its true
Get through the winter time
and the spring sun starts to grow
I'm your white faced lover girl
oh don't you know
You're so warm with me
i never feel the cold
what have you done with me i've never felt this old
come through the orange summer
and stand and watch the red leaves fall
maybe by next summertime
we'll have forg...
It's like this
It's all in here
Just one kiss
Will make that clear
So let the flower open
Let the ship sail
Don't need no meaningless token
To hear the nightingale
For everything that's been
For all that's yet to come
Brow full of moonbeams
Singing loves old song
Beauty threads it's needle
In every eye a light will shine
From the graveyard to the cradle
All the bells of wonder chime
No further...
Lucky bags, me and you
And all the aces wild
Summer, summer salting through
Spin, dance and jive
Trimming back the hedgegrove
That has grown so high
They say that beauty sleeps inside
Oh my, oh my
It doesn't matter what you knowing
Even less the games you play
You better have those colors showing
When tomorrow comes your way
Lucky bags, you and me
And a sheet of blue tears
And a net of crimson...
Its a sad old world
That's turning tonight
As I slide through the streets
Moonlight and memory burning
And in my hand your broken dream
My watery eyes
I sing for you this lullaby
Let the shadow fall from your window
Let the morning light fill your head
Stand up and let the wild wind blow
Right into your soul till the night is dead
All these useless emotions
Churning round
As I search these bar...
Well I don't want nowhere to go
There's nothing there I need to know
Cause everyday is just the same
In deeper blue, or madder rain
Count the numbers
Check the sums
Hand it father down to son
Better find someone to blame
For madder rain
Madder rain
Madder rain
Madder rain
I don't want no one to see
The fear I hide inside of me
The tear that fall now on my shoe
A thousand miles away from you
No...
Lightening strikes, silver motorbikes
Roaring down the open road, wind on my skin
I'm hungry to begin, my cup has overflown
So let fall the rain down into these desert veins
Taking back what they stole
These diamonds in the mine
Can afford to become fine
In someone else's pigeon hole
So I made up my mind
Made up my mind
Gonna move on ahead
Instead of lagging behind
Half past seven way up in th...
Hey, mornin', sit in the mornin' sun
Evenin', watchin' the shadow come
Through the bright streets of London
I feel the rain upon my eyes as I wonder
At this spell that I'm under
Magdalena, since you came along
Meet me with your arms of snow and
Meet me with your mouth undone
Burnin' up from head to toe, yeah
Magdalena, you're gone
Dreamin', we're drinkin' the night away
Talkin' way past the br...
Losing my sense of direction
Losing my nerve
Losing my faith in change
That god never serves
Just a regular, regular person
Regular dreams
Ice in the forehead now
Feeling my blood steam
In a mighty wrong time
In a mighty wrong time
Fill a room full of starving children
Numerous poor
Beam it live by satellite
To a million homes
What to do with this sense of proportion
I do with my eyes
Ice in t...
Oh, can't make it on my own
In this life
I tried to hold it but its gone
Too fast
This life
I hold my hand upon my heart
Girl I don't know where to start
Wasting all my time
Lipstick, vodka, nicotine
All the things that might have been
Monday morning falling
Down
On this life
Blind, so stupid
Didn't see with my eyes
This love
So bright in front of me
In your face, your face
I put my head upon ...
What on earth is goin' on in my heart?
Has it turned as cold as stone?
Seems these days I don't feel anythin'
'Less it cuts me right down to the bone
What on earth is goin' on in my heart?
'Cause my oh my, you know just don't stop
It's in my mind, I wanna tear it up
And tryin' to fight it, tryin' to turn it off
But it's not enough
It takes a lotta love
It takes a lotta love my friend
To keep y...
The city gates at twilight
And a red ship sinking
Behind winter's grey wall
Ice in the wind
But a fire in the embers
Of my heart
As darkness falls
In a candlelit room
Where your eyes are laughing
Smoking in the red chair
And nothing in the world
'cept the beating of my heart
Against the nerves of the air
And I know there's a light
At the end of the tunnel
'cause I taste it on your lips
And I f...
Weight on my shoulders
But I'm walking so tall
Out into the new horizon
Wonder in everything
No matter how great or small
Howlin' like the midnight
Howlin' like the midnight sun
And this ain't no pale reflection
This is the real thing
New horizon
New horizon within
And your heart ain't yours to control
No matter how tight the reigns
Love will find it's own direction
A time to reap, a time to s...
A million to one outsiders
Night blindness can't see
Your bright eyes are what
The time is twenty five past eternity
Here listenin' to the sorrow
Comin' closer now further away
What we gonna do?
When the money runs out
I wish that there was somethin' left to say
Where we goin' to find the eyes to see
A brighter day?
I'm sick of all the same romances
Lost chances, cold storms
Proppin' mountains...
One lifetime is long enough
Is long enough to wait
The rain like silver in my ears
Fat nothing on my plate
A bucketful of Babylon
A belly full of hate
Go to sleep my one true love
And may your dreams be sweet
Then we?ll be running
See its face beneath the glass
It murmurs on the breeze
Like a long black Cadillac
It passes ?neath the trees
What is it you?re waiting for?
Sweet love is on its kne...
You're in my mind baby, now and always
You're in my mind baby, now and always
The road I'm walking might fall away
You're in my mind baby, now and always
A bonfire smoking into a low sky
The sparks they fly up into a low sky
Would that these demons let me rest
They're with me Lord till the day that I die
Feast my eyes on sacred lies
I'll wind that blows in from all directions
I'll wind that bl...
The city air is poison
But it tastes so sweet
Blowing through your windows this morning
And the sirens in the distance
And the traffic in the street
To my ear it sounds like music for me
And there's no needle in my arm
But I feel so high
No I won't ever come down
But I'm walking through the sunlight
And its brokeness that greats me
In the doorways of this ancient town
And roll it over
Roll it ...
Gonna close my eyes
Girl and watch you go
Running through this life darling
Like a field of snow
As the tracer glides
In its graceful arc
Send a little prayer out to ya
?Cross the falling dark
Tell the repo man
And the stars above
That you're the one I love
Perfect summer's night
Not a wind that breathes
Just the bullets whispering gentle
?Mongst the new green leaves
There's things I might hav...
Raisin' up my voice to the wall and to the sky
It seeks no explanation, it waits for no reply
Really it is nothing, just a cry to the wilds
I'm delirious with chaos, I'm wonder struck with awe
In my soul, I'm dreaming only of your velvet shore
When I'm walking there, my face untangles like a child's
And only the lonely, only the lonely
Lonely could know me
I've been talkin' all night long, the...
Our Moment of Truth
is my mind playing tricks on me
or did i just see a flicker of love in your eyes
is my imagination getting away from me
or did i just see a flicker of love in your eyes
when our eyes met i felt a mutual understanding
somehow we both knew it was our moment of truth
when our fantasies collided with reality
a shared epiphany if you will
a moment when we both knew
that we were ...
No need to stress
And no need to worry
Soon we'll need no
Time or money
Goin' in over my head
Hear the sound of the sea
On the pebble
Just can't help get
Sentimental
Goin' in over my head
Goin' in over my head
Goin' in over my head
Goin' in over my head
Goin' in over my head
Goin' in over my head
Goin' in over my head
All the striving
All the suffering
Maybe it was
All for nothing
Goin' in ove...
Sometimes you make me happy
Sometimes you make me sad
Sometimes you make me happy
Mostly you just make me mad
Baby you just make me mad
Linger on
Your pale blue eyes
Linger on
Your pale blue eyes
Thought of you as my mountaintop
Thought of you as my peak
Thought of you as everything
I've had but that I couldn't keep
I've had but that I couldn't keep
Linger on
Your pale blue eyes
Linger on
Your...
PASSION
And so
I will TRY to articulate
the hardest poem of ALL
I will TRY to express
what love is
That is what I feel
for David
I imagine that some day
i will TOUCH him
hold him
No words need be spoken
sometimes
It's hard to believe
that we will merge
in a SEA of passion
He lives so far away
so many callings
so many chores
But i suspect
that one day
we will indeed
dance
in the enchanted garde...
Please forgive me if I act a little strange
For I know not what I do
Feels like lightning running through my veins
Everytime I look at you
Everytime I look at you
Help me out here, all my words are falling short
And there's so much I want to say
Want to tell you just how good it feels
When you look at me that way
When you look at me that way
Throw a stone and watch the ripples flow
Moving out ...
Random Thoughts
LIGHTENING struck my heart
Moving in and out
of consciousness/subconsciousness
faster, faster, faster
thoughts scatter
race for truth
books, books, books
papers, papers, papers
an angel showed me the way
Pegasus
inside out
I Ching
slow, slow, slow
am I alone?
Moving in and out
of consciousness/subconsciousness
London
to a world
that's lost its way
David - I remember
What I alre...
The dawn in all its majesty
Is stealing me away
The dawn in all its honesty
Is turning me to clay
And through the bears of iron rain
Way beyond and back again
I hear the voice of Eden cry
Lift me up, I'm walking on high
It's real love
Real love
This world in all its clarity
Is glorious, is fake
This world in all its vanity
Is more than I can take
And down the road the iron wheels
Chain my hear...
Weighin' that silver, there with your hands
In no position to make demands
Got what you wanted, whoa, very nice
But every kiss must have a price
I'm gettin' tired of being denied of
Sayin' the same old things
And those tears aren't gonna mend
These broken wings
Red moon
All that I've witnessed, hard to believe
I can still find it in me to be so naive
Cry on your pillow into the night
'Cause sa...
If the silence doesn't kill it
Then illusion will
Well we're staring at the sky
But the moon ain't gonna pay our bills
And now we're laughing bout it loud
When oh you know it ain't no joke
To see them kick the rose with glitter
Trade your dreams for smoke
And there's teardrops in the treetops
The wind is whistling through the mountain's teeth
A song for every wounded dove
But we're out further...
Sail away with me honey
I put my heart in your hand
Sail away with me honey
Now, now, now
Sail away with me
What will be will be
I wanna hold you now
Now, now
Crazy skies all wild above me now
Winter howlin' at my face
And everythin' I held so dear
Disappeared without a trace
Oh all the times I've tasted love
Never knew quite what I had
Little darling if you hear me now
Never needed you so bad...
Standin' at the door
Of the Pink Flamingo
Crying in the rain
It was a kind of so so love
And I'm gonna make sure
It doesn't happen again
You and I had to be
The standing joke of the year
You were a run around
A lost and found
And not for me I feel
Take your hands
Off me, please
I don't belong to you, you see
And take a look in my face
For the last time
I never knew you
You never knew me
Say he...
I beg to differ to break the chain
To draw a line right through tomorrow
And cancel every claim
I've seen reflections beneath my skin
And drums beating for battle
In the eyes of children
And turning it over right down
Where the eye don't see no color
Where the war don't make a sound
Ice on the shoulder, Noel
Praise the Lord above and sell, sell, sell
Oh, violent flowers, you fill the screen
Be...
I can see it in your eyes
What I know in my heart is true
That our love it has faded
Like the summer run through
So we'll walk down the shoreline
One last time together
Feel the wind blow our wanderin' hearts
Like a feather
But who knows what's waiting
In the wings of time
Dry your eyes
We gotta go where we can shine
Don't be hiding in sorrow
Or clinging to the past
With your beauty so preciou...
Take this silver lining
Keep it in your own sweet head
And shinin' when
The night is burnin' red
Shine it in the twilight
Shine it on the cold, cold ground
Shine it till these walls come
Tumbling down
We were born with our
Eyes wide open
So alive with wild hope now
Can you tell me why?
Time after time
They drag you down
Down in the darkness deep
Fools in their madness all around
Know that the ...
While I was watching, you did a slow dissolve
While I was watching, you did a slow dissolve
While I was watching, you did a slow dissolve
Did I imagine or do the walls have eyes
Did I imagine, they held us hypnotized
Did I imagine or do the walls have eyes, eyes
Life in slow motion, somehow it don't feel real
Life in slow motion, somehow it don't feel real
Life in slow motion, somehow it don't...
Falling by the wayside
I'm sinking with the sun
Everythin' I do
Is wrong, wrong, wrong
Gazing at the billboards
Staring down the broken lines
Sleeping on the backseat
I could not believe
You were right up there beside me
Tugging at my sleeve
Puttin' on your lipstick
Just like you did a thousand times
And somethin' in your eyes
Make me smile, oh yeah
And somethin' in your eyes
Make me smile, oh...
Sock MONKEY
Rules
The little fella
first gained popularity
in the
Midwestern region
of the U.S.
made from
quot;Red Heelquot; socks
It was the sock that America wore
to work
compliments of Rockford, Illinois
A symbol of working class families
just tryin'
to make a livin'
just tryin' to make ends meet
didn't need no shiny doll
didn't need Barbie's disco gear
just want to hold my sock monkey
just...
Sweet Nothings
when you stroke my face with your hands
when you whisper in my ear
when you hug me from behind
when you look at me
with that beautiful loving smile
oh, those sweet nothings
mean everything
when they're coming from you
coming from you
elizabeth
copyright 2006
Swimming in the Blankets
When you reach for me
in the wee hours of
the morning
that is when i truly
understand what the word
quot;tendernessquot; means
Caught somewhere between
consciousness and sleep
when you reach for me
you are so free
so vulnerable
i love swimming in the blankets with you
no time to analyze the situation
no time to think about the pros and cons
no contrivance
just understa...
Swimming in the Blankets
When you reach for me
in the wee hours of
the morning
that is when i truly
understand what the word
tenderness means
Caught somewhere between
consciousness and sleep
when you reach for me
you are so free
so vulnerable
i love swimming in the blankets with you
no time to analyze the situation
no time to think about the pros and cons
no contrivance
just understand what yo...
I'm young but already
There's doubt in my eyes
And I never learned how to pray
So make me feel better
Tell me more lies
Carry me further away
From the blue television
And the idiots kissing
And making excuses
For all that failed
Break it down now
Break it down
Break it
The wind like a dagger
Is tearing my sails
I'm young but already
There's doubt in my eyes
And I never learned how to pray
So m...
HOSPITAL FOOD
Just a little something for the pain
Hospital food getting you down?
Honey now I'm not one to complain
But this hangin' around
Is wearing me out
So patch me up boys take me home
Are you not hearing a word I say?
She sounds so different on the phone
I just sink like a stone
Back to the bay
Tell me something
Tell me something
I don't already know
Tell me something
Tell me something...
A web of light divine
Screen to block my view
Head without control
Our tree grown askew
Cynical mass and fruitless passions
Mouthing the words with time
Slowly as the bond unfastens
Catch sight of the mountain in this climb
And I'm spitting out that sentimental syrup
That they like to pour on bitter pills
Wind in my hair, foot in the stirrup
And I'm leaving for the dark hills
Head long the hou...
The Haunted House
Have YOU ever BEEN
to A HAUNTED HOUSE?
bET YOU have
a place you didn't understand
a place that frightened you
Did you SEE?
Did you HEAR?
Did you THINK?
that you knew what was around the corner
think back to a time
to a place where you felt you had been before
but couldn't understand why you felt that way
De'ja' voo
Did you hear the noise?
Did you SEE the light?
BATs flying wa...
You turn out the light
And the dark sucks on the embers of the fire
That shoulders in the night
And these tumbling boulders of desire
Come rolling off the shadows of me
You say I thought time was meant to take away the hurtin'
As your lonely silhouette closes the curtain
Back on the road destination uncertain
So lets get in this car and drive
And this feeling I feel so strong
So powerful it ca...
I finally belong
The lonely night is gone I won't forget it
And all the love you show
I gotta let you know
You won't regret it
Now you're in my heart
We'll never be apart No-o-o
And it might take the longest time
Til we're finding the rainbow's end
But it don't matter rain or shine
If we're finding the rainbow ...
Free the love that's burning in my soul
The thorn was in my side In loneliness I...
Meet me on the other side
Meet me on the other side
I'll see you on the other side
See you on the other side
Honey now if I'm honest
I still don't know what love is
Another mirage folds
Into the haze of time recalled
Now the floodgates cannot hold
All my sorrow all my rage
A tear drop falls on every page
Meet me on the other side
Meet me on the other side
And maybe I ought to mention
Was never...
The draft blew cold under the door
When we threw wour clothes to the kitchen floor
The broccoli boils in the pan on the gas stove where you stand
Won't you take this spatula in your hand?
Let the rice burn
It cannot deter my love for you
we have no concern
under the hem of the night
under the hem of the night
Out on the roof over havoc streets
Where the sky is a blanket each sweet kiss
so melo...
This years love had better last
Heaven knows it's high time
I've been waitin' on my own, too long
And when ya hold me like you do
It feels so right, oh now
I start to forget
How my heart gets torn
When that hurt gets thrown
Feelin' like you can't go on
Turning circles, time again
Cut like a knife, oh now
If ya love me, got to know for sure
'Cos it takes somethin' more this time
Sweet, sweet li...
Three tower blocks glinting in the midday sun
Two ice cubes melting in a glass of white rum
Head for the places that I've never gone
I can't get through to myself
Just can't get through to myself
Eight beggers choking on a slice of red pie
Two rivers freezing in a broken goodbye
No hesitation, just a kick in the eye
I can't get through to myself
Just can't get through to myself
And we do alot ...
Ever since your fingertips, ever since your eyes
Talking with the light on, bluer skies
Even if I wanted to, how can I explain?
Coming through my head now this tidal wave
All your favorite eyelashes, all your bluest skin
Bring them and I'll meet you in that room again
Even if I told it true, how could they believe?
Coming through my head now this tidal wave, tidal wave
Coming over waterloo, dr...
Don't know where you gone
But it seem like a mighty long way now
Don't know where you gone
But it seem like a mighty long time
Since I seen your face
So I dream and I'll dream of that day now
See you coming honey
With that sunny sky
Everywhere I go
Everything that I do and I say now
Nothing ringing true
It don't matter how hard that I try
Cause all I want is you
So I wish and I wish and I pray...
Watch the twilight from my head
Hanging on a brighter thread
Little darling, 'till I see you once again
Tell the man to fill my cup
Honey I ain't gonna stop
Little darling, 'till I see you once again
Pinch me if I'm dreaming
I'm some where I've never been
You lead me by my hand into the flame
Just the rain now on my head
And the past, what use is that?
Little darling, 'till I see you once again
Feel the weight I've been
Passing time all those
Crazy faces run through my mind
And this song has brought a teardrop to my eye
Can't tell the bottle from the mountain top
No, we're not right
See this world but I
Can't relate, hey but
Everything must, accelerate
Betty Ford, ohh, won't you be my Valentine?
Can't tell the bottle from the mountain top
No, we're not right
Can't tell the bottle fro...
Ghost on the highway
Bird with metal wings
Ghost on the highway
Bird with metal wings
Crowd all around me
I just don't hear a thing
Ghost on the highway
Bird with metal wings
What am I doing wrong?
What am I doing wrong?
What am I doing wrong?
What am I doing tell me?
You don't telephone
You don't telephone
You don't telephone
You don't telephone me
Stand in the doorway
There in yellow light
D...
What are you becoming? What have you become?
Once you sang your own song
Now you're dancing to the same drum
What have you become?
And what is that you're wearing?
Money's ugly confidence
You sacrificed the poem of your imagination
For these pounds and pence
Me, I take the cynic's role
Throw scorn on your empty mind
I've seen this monotonous world
Make dull what used to shine
You lost interest...
Down in the parking window
I want to make my way
Into the faces flooded
The window spitting gold
But it is so cold
They make my teeth all chatter
Hate it
I like it
I don't know what it is
What should it matter if the sun don't rise
Its midnight forever in my Janie's eyes
What should it matter if it comes on spring
When I'm finding winter in everything
I've lived in this cold wind city
All Of my life
Walking around still looks the same
Same people coming and going
Doesn't feel right
See it all now from so far away
What should it matter if the earth may slide
Sky break in pieces ...
Jane, oh now Jane
You got me like a dog
Gone in chain
Its called biding my time
Your sitting pretty in a lie
I know when I'm gone you'll cry for me
Cause all sense I see
Those lonely eyes defying your skin
Well all the world I ignore
Turned shadow into stone
My lord
I know when I'm gone you'll cry for me
And oh when I'm gone you'll cry
All the things you used to tell me
Made me feel so sure
No...
White ladder
Water and wine
Forever
Crying oh time
Don't wanna
Feel tonight
There's no rhyme or reason to love
This sweet love
White river
Thunder and war
How many
Time, oh no
Don't wanna
Feel no more
There's no rhyme or reason to love
This sweet, sweet love
To the night another body
To the night another name
To the night another Valentine
Burning flame
To the night another body
To the night a...
Time, no good
Wisdom, no good
Patience, no good
To me anymore
Now night has fallen on the stair
Some things you do, you can never repair
Seems I'm always pretending
Things aren't there when they are
And the leaves are nearly off the trees
And the traffic's thick past yellow windows
I'm waitin' in the frozen headlights
Now, thinking of you
Time, no good
Wisdom, no good
Patience, no good
To me a...
Started talkin' then the line went dead
Never heard a single word you said
Babe I said I'd give my right arm
Every day that I decide on
Baby, baby, you're the world to me
I woke up, the room was cold
You're lookin' tired, feelin' old
Cursin' all the changes I've to say
The more I cursed into the flood
The less it seemed to do me good
Clearer became my mind I could say
Baby, baby, you're the wo...
