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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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