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Debauchery - david gray


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 share
And the hailstorm tumbles
The rail line rumbles
You move through the doors with me
On an overcast day the pale winter city
An afternoon's debauchery
Orange street light
Afternoon becomes night
You drink your wine from a mug
There's cats at the back door
The snow is two inches
You roll down your tights on the rug
And the hailstorm tumbles
The rail line rumbles
You lie on the floor with me
Come closer, my love, I'm badly in need
Of an afternoon's debauchery
And the hailstorm tumbles
The rail line rumbles
You lie on the floor with me
Come closer, my love I'm badly in need
Of an afternoon's debauchery
An afternoon's debauchery

david gray

A Century Ends
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...
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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...