I used to ride up on the hill
And look down at the darkened
Silhouettes of tall black windowsills
And my heart jumped every ledge
Until one bright morning when I woke
I heard bells, girl she gently spoke and said
‘Choice my man’s to breath or choke
So go die, or learn to hope’
Get back on your way at the end of the day
Under the fire and the rain
The whole big bloody parade until that
That feeling, feeling’s gone
You wake up on your own
Sometimes walls come caving in
Sometimes the world just hits your chin
And sometimes shadows haunt your back
And sometimes I feel so flat
Then like some rare eagle on the wind
Well it turns and life comes bursting in
And the earth you thought would beat you down
Lifts up and lights your ground
Get back on your way at the end of the day
Under the fire and the rain
The whole big bloody parade until that
That feeling, feeling’s gone
You wake up on your own
/ Lifts up and sends you homeward bound
/ Lifts up and then you’re found again
/ Lifts up and turns your world around
/still scarred of love lived on the ledge
And the Earth you thought would eat you up
Well it lifts you high and fills your cup
/carries
And right then I learnt to hope / the point of hope / I knew the way ahead/ to go
/ lifts up and clears your hallowed ground
*So scared that love lived on the edge /
Scared of love lived on the ledge / Like love lived on the ledge
/ As if my love required a ledge

bring you down
Lifts up, your heart just leaves the ground
/and how you love your ground / high above the ground

/ and the earth you thought would end your song ‘song’
/ lifts up and now . . . the feeling’s gone feelings gone

And you wonder how on Earth you
When you’re high

This is the last time I will follow you
This is the last time I will follow you at all
Cos woman you’re my trouble
And woman I’ve been trouble and despair
My only care
Is standing here waiting when you’re out there

The wind comes down and all our youth is in loose pages
The wind appeared like you and left the place I’d known
Now words have lost their meaning
The words have lost their meaning and she’s bored
And I am bored
I’m standing here waiting and you don’t call

I’m standing here waiting and you don’t call
I’m standing here waiting but you don’t call
I’m standing here waiting
You took my time I still love you the same
But I fell down every time that you
Came, Came, Came
Every time that you came

The leaves fall gently and like autumn she brings sadness
The leaves are left behind and winter’s in my bones
But I won’t stand here crying
I won’t stand here crying anymore
I’m off the floor
I’m standing here waiting for you that’s all

I’m standing here waiting and you don’t call
I’m standing here waiting but you don’t call
I’m standing here waiting
You took my time I still love you the same
But I fell down every time that you
Came, Came, Came
Every time that you came

From the city to the world below
From the strangers to the ones I know
From the darkness to the holy glow
We burn so bright
Can we outlast the show?

From the island to the world of dreams
From the future to the times I’ve seen
From the righteous to the make believe
We all must leave
But I just want to breathe

Falling
My world’s up and I’m almost
Falling
My hands over my shoulders
Falling
I’ll dan, dance til I’m old and
Falling
Deep down, onward and

From the pilot to the golden sky
From the dash until the day we die
From the laughter to the lonely cry
We all deny
Lie and multiply

Falling
My world’s up and I’m almost
Falling
My hands over my shoulders
Falling
I’ll dan, dance til I’m old and
Falling
Deep down, onward and

Well I love you like a raging storm
And I miss you like I’m coming home
And I hold you like a fading song
You send me high, high, higher . . . until I’m

Falling… X2

All along the street they’re holding signs that say
That I am lost and that I do not know the way
I asked the rock, sitting in a shade of grey
I asked the rock, he didn’t have a thing to say

So you are the only light I see
You are the only light I need
When everybody else is sleeping
You come along and help me breathe

When I was a stone no-one knew that I was there
I’d sing my song but no-one ever really cared
I went to the mountain face all covered in tears
I wept but the mountain didn’t seem to hear

I’ll love you until the mountain starts to cry
I’ll love you if I don’t know the reason why
I’ll love you until I do not know my name
I ask you wouldn’t you have done the same?

All hell’s crashing down inside
The windows to the other side
Shimmering in rooms to quiet sighs of

‘Oh well if it’s happening there
It isn’t here’, and god appears to deal
A different hand to different tiers

But this play is not over yet
Hear the music of those marionettes
Beating drums down the quiet streets
Of ignorance and vain regrets

And all these fears swiftly come to pass
Presently she feels we’re past
Cups of tea and optimistic prayers

Cos out there’s our unholy mess
Gathering its long white dress
And marching down aisle to marry this

Matrimonial future bliss
Kiss the tide and hope it doesn’t lift up your
Carpet woven from apathy and token frets
All Hell!

But this play is not over yet
Hear the music of those marionettes
Beating drums down the quiet streets
Of ignorance and vain regrets

Meet me
Underneath the neon light
We’ll go
Wandering into the night
There’s something
Underneath the beat of control
Something
A music that is beyond all

You go to sleep you wake up you do it again And there’s a beat you make up inside of your head And every street’s a river be born or be dead We are all singing this song but Nobody knows how it’s going to end

Kiss me
In the coolness of the night
Take me
Further from the firelight
This jungle
No-one really knows where to go
Searching
For something that is beyond all
Music
A music that is beyond all

Break me
Up until I’m pieces of sand
Blow me up
And scatter me across the land
Our bodies
They’re hairy and they’re fat and they’re old
I’m searching
For something that is beyond all
Music
A music that is beyond all

Don’t send me down the hole
Don’t send me down the hole
Don’t send me down the hole
Which way will it go go?

You never never know
You never never know
You never know the right way
Till you’ve been wrong, no

And if you want to shine
As your February clears
Would your March just disappear?

You hear it on the left
You hear it on the left
You hear it on the left left
Left then the right right

You’re missing in the west
You’re missing in the west
You’re missing in the west
You followed the black kite

And even in your dreams
There are lights that can’t be seen
And you’re lost in where you’ve been

Well I’m on my way
To where I won’t look back
I heard you say
With dismay
That we’re living on the tracks
I hear the train
Oh oh oh oh oh oh . . .

You’re living in a lie
You’re living in a lie
You’re living in a lie
Why do you deny-i

We’re swimming in the sky
We’re swimming in the sky
We’re swimming in the sky
So low and so high high
And if you want to shine
As the sea looks to the stars
Well you’re here, but very far!

And I’m on my way
To where I won’t look back
I heard you say
With dismay
That we’re living on the tracks
I hear the train
Oh oh oh oh oh oh . . .

As your February clears
Would your March just disappear?

Well I’m on my way
To where I won’t look back
I heard you say
With dismay
That we’re living on the tracks
I hear the train
On my way
To where I won’t look back
I heard you say
With distain
That we’re living on the tracks
I hear the train
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

I lost my shoes I lost my wife
I lost my keys I lost my kite
And though I’m young at heart I’m so much older

Subway eyes and banked up skies
And violent towns and frozen pies
And all them football crowds who lost are cold now

But you’re the same as you and I’m the same as me
And hopefully we can find ways to let us be reasonably fine
Reasonably fine, at least to beat my drums in time

Suddenly I’ve realised
That I won’t be here when I die
And life upon this plain is somehow fleeting

Time and all it’s precious wine
Is somehow primed to make us whine
And fret even then when we should be sleeping

But you’re the same as you and I’m the same as me
And hopefully we can find ways to let us be reasonably fine,
Reasonably fine, at least to play my pretty chimes

Empty cries and hollow toots
And all the signs that have no use
And fingers point accusingly are sinning

Humourless hypocrisy
And all the crimes we didn’t see
The sigh that knows the devil might be winning

But you’re the same as you and I’m the same as me
And hopefully we can find ways to let us be reasonably fine,
Reasonably fine, at least to let my music shine

And maybe it’s the greatest test
A man’s surrounded by his death
But reaches out and tastes the sweetest honey

That’s how you make me feel
I love you more than death is real
It’s sad but in the end it might be funny

That you’re the same as you and I’m the same as me
And hopefully we can find ways to let us be reasonably fine,
Reasonably fine, at least to leave an open mind

Sometimes I feel no armour
Sometimes I feel no ground
Sometimes I feel the sky won’t open
And turn these words around

At night I am woken by
Images of the flood, oh oh
I’m living on the border
I’m living on the mud

You say there is no order
You say there no cause
You say there is no reason to find
Happiness at all

Call me home – Is anybody?
Is anybody out there and
Call me home – Is anybody?
Is anybody out there at all?

Have we forgot our brothers?
Have we forgot our kin?
Have we forgot who loves us dearly?
Have we forgot who’d sink or swim?

I went down to the water where
My heart beats slow, oh oh
The river started flowing
And I know where it goes

Call me home – Is anybody?
Is anybody out there and
Call me home – Is anybody?
Is anybody out there at all?

Call me home…

She hates you then she loves you more
Underneath the shadows of her thoughts
Shadows of her thoughts
She rings a bell for you
I wish that she was a statue made of gold
And nobody could

Bring her down
Goodness knows I just
Don’t like sadness
She cries before she wakes
And so my friend

If you love her
Don’t turn away
Don’t fight it
Don’t run away
We’re people
And we are animals
You’re thunder
And the heart is a cannibal

I ask you do you love me more
Than all the men that have ever come before
Ever come before
And when I’m like a storm
Kiss me, hurt me, heal me with your words
So nobody can ever

Bring me down
Goodness knows I just
Don’t like sadness
Don’t cry before you wake
No my friend

If you love her….

When love is gone
Your thoughts are calm
Your words are holy
Your days are long
Your blood gets colder
Your face is old
And the days flow by like water
You miss the stormy weather
And she was gold
Goodness knows I just
Don’t like sadness
I cry before she wakes
So my friend

If you love her….

I saw you walking up the wall like the exorcist
When you saw me there you called can you spare a Fift?
I used to know you when you were small how’s it come to this?
How does a happy bright boy fall into the rift?

You carried weight on your shoulders won’t you see that
You are not inside your self, you put that evil back inside your self

I saw your Ma the other day she asked me how you were
Said ‘One day you’ll be fine, but now you do it worse’
She told me as she cried that ‘No one breaks the curse’
As I looked into her eyes my heart it nearly burst

You carried weight on your shoulders, won’t you see that
You are not inside your self, you put that evil back inside your self

And what if you breathe and see you’re good?
And what if you reach out, knock on wood?
I’m begging you please won’t you be understood?
Won’t you release I believe you could?

And if you ever want to dream I’ll help you see the sky
And if ever want to scream about some reason why
And if you ever break the seam that cuts through your disguise
I’ll love you when you’re seen and do my best to try

To carry weight off your shoulders, won’t you see that
You are not here by yourself, please, don’t put that evil back inside yourself

And what if you breathe and see you’re good?
And what if you reach out, knock on wood?
I’m begging you please won’t you be understood?
Won’t you release I believe you could?