Mariners Way We came down the stairs And hardly said a word And all through the day That's all we heard And we wanted to know Where mariners went wrong And all through the day We played the same song
And I let the wind blow down my leg And I let the rain wash over my face 'Cause I've seen love Falling in the rain Lightening up the sun To show you that you Are here again
We lived by the door And we hardly knew what for And all through the day Nothing was heard But I still want to know Where mariners way went wrong And all the same year They play the same song
So Sad So sad, so sad So sad, so sad I didn't want to love you And you do want nothing at all So sad, so sad So sad, so sad
There's a cold break in my dream Keeps turning round everything you've said It's so naked in my brain Makes it hard to be by myself
And I didn't want to love you And I'm feeling the pain Stop watching the best things we loved in our life Was the wind and the sails And I needed to try for you That's lost on the night And it's found in the beautiful store in your eyes And it's making you cry So sad, it's so sad
So sad, so sad So sad, so sad I didn't want to love you And you do nothing at all It's so sad, so sad So sad, so sad
Expensive Chair Your face is looking like Someone you forgot you used to know You were looking for rhymes and reason They forgot the things you used to know You came to rely on good fortune Your mother's screaming low With the sky in the eye And jump through the window
You've made your own room at the top Well it's getting thin on air Still you look at me from your most expensive chair And when you're feeling fit to drop And you find there's no one there Still you look at me from your most expensive chair
You don't wanna shout about it When there's nothing you care to know Your friends they just laugh about it In the places that you never go You cannot deny your good fortune Your friends they won't let go See your hair is in place And see away from the window
You're the judge how high it hangs When your castle's made of sand Because the people who kill the king Are the people who move from within You can't rely on good fortune Your friends are crying low Kick your feet from the chair And let it slip from the gallows
The Best Bet on Chinaski Henry took out all the wrong and never thought Do you know what he'd say, it's a beautiful day Henry took out all his money and found he had none Do you know what he'd say, it's a beautiful day
And he would not buy the things that you were handing down And he would not clear it off for you and leave you lying down
Henry found the love and he found it just today Do you know what he'd say, it's beautiful day Put my face in all the things that I've never done Do you know what he'd say, it's beautiful day
And he would not follow things that others said or done And he would not follow things that you call everyone
'Cause Henry found the note and he found it hard to give away Do you know what he'd say, it's a beautiful thing Bottled up a ticket to god knows where Do you know what he said to the driver, it's a beautiful day
And he would not follow things that you were handing down And he would not buy the alternate news when the dogs were being drowned
'Cause Henry found the love and he found it today Do you know what he'd say, it's a beautiful thing And you know what he knows, that it's a beautiful day And you know what he'd say, that it's a beautiful day
'Cause Henry got it all and he found it just today Do you know what he'd say, it's a beautiful day...
This Understanding I get this understanding It's like a living breath And it grooves with the times And it swings with the tunes And it flows until you get no rest
I get this understanding It knocks at every door And it keeps you awake With sweet’s hurting ache And it keeps you coming back for more
I get this understanding On a night like tonight When we’re driving and driving And never arriving But the waiting seems oh so right
I get this understanding Like a fish when it's frying And it's you coming home When I'm been on my own And we're shaking off the world inside
I get this understanding It happens every day When the truth of the blues if my rhymes strike a chord And you can save it for a better day
I get this understanding When the music swings low And I'm there on the floor And I'm waiting for more And I never never want to go home
Flowers Renegades and shifting shades And the light's in your face And you friend's talk lying But some of them got flowers in their room
When it's on and you're falling on every floor That you're hoping to score And you're every night But some of them got flowers in their room
But some of them got flowers in their room But some of them got flowers in their room
Hear the word that the man on the stairs Knows your every affair and is holding your hand And he says some of them got flowers in their room And he screams in a face But the smile on the face is cool and it's cold And it reads vacated And some of them got flowers in their room
And some of them got flowers in their room And some of them got flowers in their room
And I take someone home and I can't be alone And there's faces to please and I walk on the knees Oh you see, I got no flowers in my room
And I laugh with my mouth and I laugh with you But the joke was a joke that I never really knew Some of them got flowers in their room
Some of them got flowers in their room Some of them got flowers in their room
Going Nowhere for a While Where do you go When it is all complicating Where do you go When you steer it all away
Where will you find The nerve to find it complicating What will you find When you steer it all away
I could go on but it's only conversation I could go on but it seems likes persuasion
Where do you go You know that it's complicating Where do you go When you steer it all away
I could go on but it's only conversation I could go on but it seems likes persuasion
Where do you go You know that it's complicating Where will you go When you steer it all away
How can you go You know that it is just persuasion How can you go When you steer it all away
The Face Smiles Back Easily It's not the way that you look Or the way that you comb your hair I know we'll always be there By the look, by the book And your troops and your devil may care I know we'll always be there I know we'll always be there
And by the way your eyes are shining through There's nothing to do but wake up in light And like the way your eyes they shine with the sun And lighten everyone who wakes up in time to see The face smiled back easily
I know we'll always be there By the look, by the book And your troops as your devil may care I know we'll always be there I know we'll always be there
It's not the way that you look Or the way that you comb your hair I know we'll always be there
Mona Lisa Eye’s I've got Mona Lisa eyes I can stare through all your lies
Maybe they will come tomorrow But it's only another day away
Look down on everything in sight Look down on everything and say goodbye And it's only another day away
I've got Mona Lisa Eyes And it's only another day away Day away...
My Brother Sarah My brother Sarah Doesn't know what clothes to wear It's a dilemma To get the stuff to match your hair
But mother and father Sister and brother Say they just don't know
My brother Sarah Really wish you understood Why he's got to show it For it to be any damn good
But mother and father Sister and brother Say they just don't know
My brother lies awake at night Wishing this world could just be right
But mother and father Sister and brother You and all the others Say you just don't know
On and On Even while I've got my word it goes on and on On and on, it goes on and on Seen my fortune and I lift my words and they are everything Oh oh, they are everything
Sailing boats and open roads can seem to pass you by But sailing boats and open roads can pass you in disguise
Seen my days and oh I swear they go on and on Oh oh, they go on and on Have luck and it seems to work and it says everything Oh oh, it goes on and on
Suspended Motion When she spoke her face was framed with suspended motion Laughing at all her friends and their mothers notion I raised to try to see if I could believe her Knowing her thoughts could not be one to
Everybody's doing something Very slowly doing nothing
When she woke she spoke about the latest dance craze Spinning me round her thumbs - transpelled and two-faced I came round; my shoes were glued to the edge of the dance floor Flapping my feet in the air, just happy to be there for more
Everybody's doing something Very slowly doing nothing
The Inheritors Brother don't lose that fire-stick no way The night is coming thin Might tire to light that stick Brother don't lose that stick no way
Don't lose that heating fork no way Darcoming down Need someone to eat off the ground Need something to eat day
Brother don't lose your bares no way Don't know which side we're on Blue then it's green then it's brown Mine's hard and it's red and it's coming my way
We all feed together And we all tread the same land And if the man can't be the child Then the devil will take the man
Get you behind me quick Hey brother don't lose that stick Need something to light my way today
Brother don't start no slowing down today Come here with your big ideas Shooting inbetween your ears Come here with your big ideas today
Free on the Wind She makes another straight line See yesterday she don't cry She's getting time to take time anyway
So she'll take my giving She's taking never giving I never waste my winnings anyway
Free on the wind... blow She never feels that way She hides behind her one mistake and it
She makes it all worth living And time is unforgiving Her life is not for living everyday
And I try to make some laughter It's all that I've been after So I get what I'm after in other ways
Free on the wind... blow She never feels that way She hides behind her one mistake and it
It gets my heart She never feels that good I don't know if she ever could
Gonna get me a lot of loving No time to fix a broken heart
These are the Ones These are the days You have been given These are the ones These are the ones
These are the times We have been given These are the ones These are the ones
And my dreams are holding And my heart is open
These are the times They won't be forgiven These are the ones These are the ones
These are the days Please don't forsake them These are the ones Is everyone
And my dreams are holding And my heart is open
And my dreams might shatter Still my heart it matters
These are the days They won't be forgiven These are the ones
Hello Monday Hello Monday my old friend I come with you to talk again And then again I'm still waiting There's no point in hanging on Watching the sun go down Spinning round and round
Ah... Monday morning I don't know if you are coming Ah... Monday morning I don't know if you are coming
Hello Monday my old friend I come with you to talk again And then again I'm still waiting What's point in hanging on Watching the sun go down Spinning round and round and round and round
Ah... Monday morning I don't know if you are coming Ah... Monday morning I don't know if you are coming for me Oh for me, for me... Ah... Monday morning I don't know...
What's the point in hanging on After the sun is gone I'm hanging on and on and on and on
Another Girl’s Name Go take your bags away Get out of my home Get out of my life I don't want you hanging round And I don't want you to be my wife When I go to the cafe I sit in the seat that faces the mirror I look at my face today And I look such a wreck today
I knew you well for five minutes and one day O-oh no way, Josie
I don't ugly views And I'm not interested in family muse And is boring and conversation pours Even when we're in bed I wanna rearrange your head Put down the covers And get you up against the wall Shoot good babe
Well I knew you well for five minutes and one day O-oh no way, Josie
You follow where it's going Can't you see I was breaking How'd you know the love making wasn't only faking
You get out of my home And you get out of my life You didn't hang around much girl 'Cause now you're someone else's wife I go to the cafe And I sit in the seat that faces the mirror Well I look at my face today And I look so good today
Well I knew you well for five minutes and one day O-oh no way, oh no way, oh no way, Josie
Best Friends and Lovers Best friends and lovers Can be the same thing One or the other They both bear a ring
Best friends and lovers No need to feel pain One or the other Will be there again
Best friends you're dancing And lovers disappear Best friends and lovers They last in the years
Best friends and lovers Being jealous or vain There's one or the other As heaven in play
Best friends and lovers Being jealous or vain There's one or the other As heaven in play
Best friends and lovers They can be fools Each to the other But never cruel
Crazy Lowdown Ways Well I got a problem and it just won't wait I've been getting on one With the man who guards your gate
When he says you're sleeping In your hideaway It is what he's keeping back That gives your game away
Come quit your crazy lowdown ways You're walking astray Come quit your weary worn out ways You're walking astray
And i'd like to say That I like this More than i do today
Yes I've got a problem like you've never seen I've been getting bothered By the man who locks your screen
When he says you're hiding And in your room you'll stay It is what he's holding back That says what he can't say
Come quit your crazy lowdown ways You're walking astray Come quit your weary worn out ways You're walking astray
And i'd like to say That I like this More than I do today I'm just a lazy man
Who has to hear the truth And I hear what's true from you Come quit your crazy lowdown ways You're walking astray
Come quit your weary worn out ways You're walking astray Come quit your crazy lowdown ways Come quit your weary worn out ways You're walking astray
And i'd like to say That I like this More than I do today
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I Was You get it all through your way You get it all you never fail To get all that's mine for you So I give you what you want me to
You make it up with ease you do And everybody runs to you Then you're grabbing my easy love Then your making out that you're in love
So make it up and try and see How's it really gonna be
You making it in time for you You make it so it's lost on you You can't afford this easy touch You feel you cope and then you've had enough
So take it up and try and see How's it really gonna be
I wonder if you ever see All that you mean to me If I hush it up will you begin
Yesterday Today I'm feeling something Could be nothing There's something new And I feel excited Close to frightened There's something new
And I just can't face the change There's something new When today ain't yesterday what can I do
I feel emotion Endless commotion And set in sail I feel excited Close to frightened That it might fail
What can I do?
Men Of Such Opinion Summer death, slow step Walk behind the mother of the thirteen year old brown-eyed boy Attitudes, attitudes Sloganized by middle boots The men who slogged the brown-eyed boy
And it's the end of everything that you've been told about Decency, honesty And it's the end of holding back and breaking bones and building bombs And hanging witch-hunts conducted by men of such opinion
And it's the end of building roads to load the dead to someone else's field And it's the end of falling back on breaking backs and aching handshakes And playing fields conducted by men of such opinion
But the fathers cross two bows And fire so heaven knows that only righteous folk With righteous taste hold the keys to sitting grace To conduct and to proclaim decisions made of such opinions
And it's the time of summer days When children sing about the killing fields Winter melts the snow and knees will crack on rock And the iron on earth beneath the dearth bequeathed Penchant by men of such opinion
Take You Back Resting so alone Way back home Waiting for a long Way to go
Nothing if I take you back I'd rather never take you back for you
Waiting so fast For a way to go Wrestling with the past Long way to go
Nothing if I take you back I'd rather never take you back for you
I got more than I can have can't really say I get more than I can use day to day I get more time to take you back I'd rather never take you back for you
Waiting so alone Long time ago Waiting so hard On the radio
Wasting if I take you back I'd rather never take you back for you
I got more than I can have can't really say I get more than I can use day to day I get more time to take you back I'd rather never take you back for you
Come Home She knew all the answers That I have to say Taking all her chances And never seem to pay
It's the risk you're taking To see it time to time She is not for changing But you were all for trying
Now/Well come home, come home She is dying to meet you So I'll have to greet you Come home, come home She is dying to meet you So I'll have to greet you
She is cool in high brow And you're not society She is going places Where you never are to be
It's the risk you're taking To see her all the time It's a game your playing Keeps you hanging on her line
She is far away now Goes to a store and buys You were left behind here In your room you'll sit and die
It's the risk you're taking To see her time to time She is not for changing But you were still for trying
Song for the Front Row These are the best times That you'll ever have Don't throw it away because You're younger that he is
He's your father And he'll help you If you give him He's your father He'll deserve you If you give him time
These are the best times So we'll march in time The sun is too ripe to let The moon shine on your eyes
These are the straight ways Don't make it long Don't get yourself lost because You're following someone else's song
If you Get Your Way She is home Tellin' she's the one Who makes you well She makes you feel okay
She is home Tellin' she's the one Who makes you go And sends you on your way
But she's getting something You start to feel She blows the faster deal
She is there Making up the face To hide the scar You won't lurk beneath it
She is there She's got more than anyone And so I've always thought she must deserve it
And if you get your way I may blow the faster deal
Everyone Hope's say I’m one I wish you well I hope you feel okay (repeat)
And if you get your way Feel the way you're feeling
I Need a Love Song I'm gonna take a walk by the lemonade lake Let my feet get wet and the grass in my face Rolling up in the summertime setting ablaze Throwing stones and laughing on the way home lah, lah, lah, lah...
I'm on a night-time hunting on the horn of a car But the brakes seem stuck on a winter song Scattered back, slip around and I'm mouthing a glass Harbour lights remind you of another song
I never knew my daytime slipping away Too many seeds to sow and I can't look at my face I need a sound to make me jump around on my toes I need a song, I need a love song
Hoping Your Making it Too Don't let my feet get off the ground Today I'm glad to be standing here But all the time I spent tunnelling down To some place where I'm not so clear
I've been holding out for this time Standing straight in my own line Was hoping you're making it too
All the hours we were learning to fly We're chasing night-lights round the room I can never repay when I learnt from you I know you're seeing it your own way too
Your head just went for another walk But it's coming home and it hangs in the hall Your head in your hand as you're suffering But you I know what state you're in
Fall on my knees and my hair rolls around But even on my knees I know I can stand If it's coming home it's coming for you I can see me standing with Dunston and you
I've been holding out for my neighbour Standing straight for my brother Was hoping you're making it too
I Never Believed it Too Your gonna make another wiseman You’ve got a lot to say about everyone And all the things you say will come back You know they’ll let you down before you ever know
Cause you never believed it Never gave it a chance Because no one ever told you how to dance No you never believed, never wanted it Could’nt see it, never got it
Don’t you Know I Never believed it too
I’ve been around a lot but since I’ve been away You can make it up the broadside I don’t believe you but it’s good to have you say
But you never believed it Never gave it a chance Because no one ever told you how to dance No you never believed, never wanted it Could’nt see it, never got it
Perfect Stranger If you cut me off I would surely bleed If you cut me down I’d bend at your Knees If I promised the world Would you promise me Would you be the Perfect Stranger
If I pulled you away From your never dying space Would you feel lost and cold Or the coming summer’s day If I wrote for you my own Would you crawl away Would you be the Perfect Stranger
Once I was waiting, Anticipating The rest of my life with you Now, I’ll listen, listen What else can I do If I graze my knees I will surely cry I beg you please Would you push me to the side If I stayed around all night Would you say goodbye
Would you be the Perfect Stranger Would you be the Perfect Stranger
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St Cecelia St Cecelia I am older Please be nearer Please be right St Cecelia Oh my best days but my love is soaring light
I am not OK I just let it seem that way So, St Cecelia Please light a candle To guide me throught this night
St Cecelia Do you remember? When you sent me grace and light Like a diamond A million diamonds You shone upon a million nights
St Cecelia Do you remember? When you sent me grace and light Like a diamond A million diamonds You shone upon a million nights
I am not OK I just guess it seems that way So, St Cecelia Please light a candle To guide me throught this night
It gets a little bit nearer Its just getting nearer
We Rise When you fear for the strong And you fear no one knows this Its the big ol time boys And it's coming your way Which field will you turn when you don't know where we going Were going to have their way boys There going to have their way boys
And we rise, yes we rise, Oh we rise even when the sun does'nt shine And we rise, yes we rise, Oh we rise When your world is blowing down your eyes
Curfews on the right, Jailbreaks on the left It was a long ol time ago Now theres there nothing left Which quiet place will you turn To sing the song you first owned There going to have their way boys There going to have their way boys
And we rise, yes we rise, Oh we rise even when the sun does'nt shine And we rise, yes we rise, Oh we rise When your world is blowing down your eye
Questions There's a Question Everybodies shouting out a question There's a Question everybodies shouting out a question
Have you got an answer Politician Have you got an answer Mathematician
There's a Question Ringing out a clear loud question It's a question Giving you a worn out head It's a question
Do you have an answer Theologian A better answer than a Politician There's a Question
There's a Question Ringing out loud in space There's a Question Ringing out over the stage There's a Question
Do you have an answer Politician Do you have an answer Mathematician Do you have an answer Theologian Do you have an answer Science Man Do you have an answer Peter Pan Father and Son, A Mother and Daughter, Son of man
On and on and on and on and on and on and on
Will you take her Love Will you take her Love Will you take her only Will you take her only and nobody else
What you have to give you'll give to no other you'll give to no other not even in time
All who know are true gee the bells are ringing gee the bells are ringing the sun it did shine
Will you keep her near In days of rain and thunder She'll go when thunder shelter her dear
Is it set with gold set with gold and diamonds Set with diamonds or humble and plain the jug from which she drank now is overflowing for you its flowing over and made out of clay
Rock on which you stand Rounded rock of ages Rounded rock of ages and true where you stand Nothing is so sure Time can be cruel to you Hurt you and cruel you and fool you, Love you and trust
What've we've seen today Let no man put us under No man tear us under and now we must pray.
I Wanna see the Bright Lights tonight I'm so tired of working every day Now the weekends gone I'm going to throw my troubles away If you've got the cup of mist you'll do allright I wanna see the bright lights tonight
Meet me at the station don't be late I need to spend some money and it just wont wait Take me to the dance and hold me tight I wanna see the bright lights tonight
There's crazy people running all over town There's a silver band just marchin up and down And the big boys just spoiling for a fight I wanna see the bright lights tonight
Meet me at the station don't be late I need to spend some money and it just wont wait Take me to the dance and hold me tight I wanna see the bright lights tonight
A couple of drunken nights rolling on the floor Is just the kind of mess I'm looking for I'm gonna dream til monday comes in sight I wanna see the bright lights tonight
Meet me at the station don't be late I need to spend some money and it just wont wait Take me to the dance and hold me tight I wanna see the bright lights tonight Take me to the dance and hold me tight I wanna see the bright lights tonight
Me I’m Left Unsure Just a little bit of you means a lot to me Just a little bit of hope drives a vail if tears Just a little bit of care deep down inside makes the whole world stare at the brilliant night
And it keeps on growing, growing, growing its all I want to be true can it wait, its this way, its that way, it's confusion get ahead now and the lights are shining get a move on if you are arriving its all timing, its all timing
See the day come and last grab it twice for sure come what may it won't last tomorrow is the door but me i'm left unsure
And it keeps on growing, growing, growing its all I want to be true can it wait, its this way, its that way, it's confusion get ahead now and the lights are shining get a move on if you are arriving its all timing, its all timing
See the day come and last grab it twice for sure come what may it won't last tomorrow is the door but me i'm left unsure
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