It's time to leave, if we can heave ourselves away from here
While the sun is still burning
Even though we're just learning to fly
We can get by, by and by

Was it poison that made everything die
Or was it man who planned to help, but didn't try?
The few that were chosen to lead must have chosen to lie

It's time to go if we're to show the others what we know
The route isn't easy
Even though we're just new to the game
Who's left to blame if we fail

It's time to leave if we can heave ourselves away from here
While the sun is still burning
Even though we're just new to the game
Who's left to blame
If we fail

What's you're poison?
Well here's mud in your eye
Here's to all our feathered friends that used to fly
Gone is all motion on land and in ocean and sky

Drowning Man
The Drowning man doth clutch at straws:
While he breathes through open pores
His thoughts rush back;
To daring god to show his face
And giving back his daily grace
To show he is man
Fortunes of war pass through his head
And images of comrades dead

Forgive us all our trespasses
As we do not Forgive;

Enough to see the straws for us
And all our thoughts rush back

Temple song
See the sundance in the Temple
Where the word is never needed
It's the language of the prayer , there

See where the steps are worn down
See the Flowers in the Garden
All the petals there are falling

Does it mean the world is dying?
When I see the flowers crying there
Do you have to turn away!

What Are You Doin to Me
What are you doin to me?
Why didn't you let me know?
How come my eyes didn't see?
You let the obvious show

You murdered the love that I once had for you
When you put in the boot cos the shoe wouldn't do
Well if that's how you feel woman I love you too

What are you doin to me
How can you be so unkind
You broke my heart to be free
What else did you have in mind

You led me a dance but my feet didn't see
That it wasn't the vicar that you had to tea
I'm a one woman man but you're faithful to three
I wanted you bad but you weren't any good
I knew that I shouldn't but would if I could
If you understand me I'm at least understood

What are you doin to me
Why don't you love me know more
If you felt differently
You could have told me before

You left me a nut when I wanted a screw
You left me a crossword with only one clue
I fell out with love babe when I fell out with you

Many a cloud has passed the last time I loved didn't last
Although it's goodbye the old school tie came in useful but last
You're mother and father weren't to know what we allready know

Please write to me if you have the time
Plese write to me let me know it's mine
Please write to me, Please fly to me, Please

Have a holiday, have a holiday love

Time to Dream
Hey but you're lovely and since I'm sincere
I must warn you my heart cannot make up it's mind why you're here

Sit there if you've nothing to do
I'm so very much in love but not too very much with you
All I need is what I see, I'm free when I'm away from home

I'm lonely and what is that perfume you're wearing
Forgive me for staring you you remind me of someone I know

It's your move now and what's it to be
If I said I loved you would you then help me
All I need is what I feel
I'm there but it's not real
Not like at home

My but you're heaven but I never do encores
I think it's pretentious, pretending to end for applause

What's your name, I've forgotten again
I'm in for all infinity and out of my brain
Is your coda near the end, my friends want to go back home

You're lovely if only the year was our own
We could make the nights longer but the song didn't, give me much time to dream

Sunkissed You're Not
You know you're getting very hard to please help me find the way
I'll whip right out and get the things you need and let the devil pay

I need you you need pain
I want you but you want pain

You know I'm not a Mr. Universe so what do you expect
I do my exercises every day no wonder I feel wrecked

I need you, you need pain
I want you but you want pain

And I don't want to lose what I've found again, no
I don't want to lose what I've found again, no
I don't want to lose what I've found again, no

Sunkissed you're not, devilkissed you are
I've tried to reach you but you're out too far
Sunkissed you're not, masochist you are
I'd like to make you but you're out too far
I'd like to reach you but you're out too far
I've tried to make you but you're out too far

I've nearly gone as far as I can go please give me a break
You say I'll get to like it pretty soon but how long will it take

I need you, you need pain
I want you but you want pain

And I don't want to lose what I've found again, no
I don't want to lose what I've found again, no
I don't want to lose what I've found again, no

Sunkissed you're not, devilkissed you are
I've tried to reach you but you're out too far
Sunkissed you're not, masochist you are
I'd like to make you but you're out too far
I'd like to reach you but you're out too far
I'd like to make you but you're out too far

He's strutting but he's only concerned with eating
He's strutting but he'd better not look behind him
Could be that he's sussed that there'ssomething going on
Maybe he's already seen the blade that's waiting for him
Is he really ready to run while he's still got a head

Look out
Here comes death
Watch out
Here comes death
Cut out while you can

He got away
He got away
He's in a trap

Please spare a thought for my children he pleaded (he pleaded)
I may be old but I'm needed (he's needed)
He's playing for time thought the farmer and for once he was right

Look out
Here comes a mean old farmer with a chopper in his hand
Watch out
He's got the oil all ready in his frying pan
Cut out
He's got a mind to catch you and he'll catch you if he can

Look out, here comes death
Watch out, here comes death
Cut out, while you can

He got away
He got away
He's in a trap

Who'll wake you up in the morning, he reasoned
But the thought of fried chiken was somehow too pleasing
I'll leave you to guess what ensued while I go off and eat

Little red fry-up whatever happened toyou

Little red fry-up whatever happened to you
Little red fry-up whatever happened to you
Little red fry-up whatever happened to you

Rainbow
(Red, green, yellow, blue, indigo, orange, violet, rainbow)
In and out of the rainbow
Feel the colours colliding
They have covered everything
Rainbow

(Red, green, yellow, blue, indigo, orange, violet, rainbow)
In and out of the Rainbow
Found the place you were hiding
We discovered everything
Rainbow

Red Autumn leaves are beginning to glide to the ground
Like our affair they are fading the curtain is down
Once they were green like my envy, they've turned to a yellow my cowardice blue now I reminisce
I saw a rainbow through tears though there wasn't a sun

(Red, green, yellow, blue, indigo. orange, violet, rainbow
In and out of the rainbow, what's the use of pretending
I have just imagined you
Rainbow

Joie de Vivre
Blue dawnrise from starlit skies
First life wakes in mud-rich lakes
Follow many
Follow none

Shoreline maze of webfoot ways
We are many
We are one
We are one

Earth still clings while man grows wings
Seeks his fate where new gods wait
follow many
follow none

Fleetwing dives claim sea spun lives
We are Many
We are one
We are one

Southern skies where the condor flies
Red sunrise from the East
Bitter breast of the new found West
Spyglass guest at the feast
The feast
The feast

Vivid lights of the northland heights
Age old rites of the wild
Inner space of a new born race
Blue veined face of the child
The child
The child

Red Light
It's really no use your crying Those crocodile tears don't make lying a game that you can win
You're bound to lose again

When I first found out that you'd cheated I felt like finding out, and messing up the one who was to blame
But he was just a name

I saw the red light in your window
Read your alias on the door

You've been a really bad girl babe the way that you've been putting it about
You've been a really naughty little girl but I can't bring myself to put you out
I've seen the teeth marks and the capital gains
Who gives a damn here's my share, take my heart and keep the change

I've seen the bracelet and the diary of names
Who gives a damn here's my share, take my heart and keep the
Change if you can do without the things I can't get you mink coats, diamond rings and cash for you to burn

The kind of stuff you earn
Fact is woman I'm in love with you A paradox, I'm hooked on a hooker but I'm quite prepared to pay
As long as you will stay

Saw the red light in your window
Read your alias on the door

Theme for an Imaginary Western
When the wagons, leave the city
For the forest, and further on
Painted wagons, in the morning
Dusty roads, where they have gone
Sometimes travelling, through the darkness
Met the Summer, coming home
Fallen faces, by the wayside
Looked as if they might have known

O the sun was in their eyes
And the desert that dries
In the country towns
Where the laughter sounds

O the dancing and the singing
And the music when they played
O the fires that they started
O the girls with no regret
Sometimes they found it
Sometimes they kept it
Often lost it on the way

Even Fought each other to possess it
Sometimes died in sight of day

O the Sun was in their eyes
And the desert that dries
In the country towns
Where the laughter sounds
Waheyhey

Beware of the stress signs
The body's alarm
Two weeks ought to cure it
On animal farm

(Get down, get down, get down, get down ,get down, get down, down, down, down, down, down)

Thereis the peace of the quiet and the country air
Your attitude changes
You begin to care
A curb on excess is encouraged by nurses
And the urge to remonstrate is stifled when your dinner plate is gone

Don't let it deter you
Switch on the charm
The inmates will love you
On animal, on animal, on animal farm

(Get down, get down, get down, get down, get down, get down,down, down, down, down, down)

There is the peace of the quiet and the country air
Your attitude changes
You begin to care
A curb on excess is encouraged by nurses
And the urge to remonstrate is stifled when your dinner plate is gone

Don't let it deter you
Switch on the charm
The inmates will love you
On animal farm

Say you'll come with me
It'll do you no harm
I know that you'll like it
On animal farm
I know that you'll love it
On animal farm
I know that you'll like it

On animal farm

Newsworth
(Newsworth)
So tell me
(Newsworth)
What's really news after all
The king broke a string, did that warrant five curtain calls

(Newsworth)
Excuse me
(Newsworth)
Your news has taken a dive
The artists are gone
Now who is the fastest alive

Your pretence is there
But your envy's showing its face
You dropped your guitar
The ball point's taking its place
Your ego suffered a blow
When your idol showed his disdain
You say that you're unbiased well you must think that we're green

(Newsworth)
I've heard that
(Newsworth)
A newsworth lives in his pen
May I suggest
It's likely that he lives in one then

(Newsworth)
What happens
(Newsworth)
After you lie down at night
In your case the lying's not reclining you can lie best upright

We quite understand
You can't always be kind

Please take extra care
And think before you malign

You've come a long way
Since the broom and the tea bag days

So drop the Sunday paper stuff
One page of ads is one too much
When it comes to slagging, we play rough

Did you think we were green

Well we're not

You're a
(Newsworth)
You're a
(Newsworth)
You're a
(Newsworth)

The Flattery Stakes
Get what you want while you can
I'm a generous man but no fool
The sequins were sewn on by hand by my mother
The false eye is a jewel

I'm wonderful, so marvellous. but flattery's superfluous

But when I'm lonely
What's left but a void

So get what you can while you want
I'm a generous man who said fool
The toupee was fashioned by craftsmen, draughtsmen
The cigar is a ruse

I'm meticulous, ridiculous and totally fastidious

But when I'm lonely
I haven't a friend

So get if you want what you can
I'm a generous fool some say man
I'll meet you outside on the pitch with the others
Or one afternoon with a band
Or one afternoon with a band

But when I'm lonely
Who's real and who's who

Get what you want while you can
(If you want it you can get it )
Get what you can while you want
(If you want it you can get it)
Get if you want what you can

Waltz for a Fallen Idol
Yesterday was a friend
The place where the growing pains end
I have a choice but why choose
Both sides of the coin and I lose

The book of excesses
I've read and I've practiced
The older I've got
The younger I've acted
Woh
(I want to go back in life)
Patiently I wait all wishing wells
Who'll wait for me

Yesterday was a friend
But now there's the burnt candle ends
The scars of laughter and blues
That even a facelift can't lose

The book of excesses
I've read and I'vepracticed
The older I've got
The younger I'veacted
Woh
(I want to go back in life)

Silently I weep at matinees
Who'll weep with me

Who'll wait for me
Who'll wait for me
Who'll wait for me
Who'll wait for me

The Ass's Ears
Someday soon we'll hear the cry of our conscience
Youthful indiscretion has been blamed
Caught between the broken glass of a promise
And integrity too weak to make a frame
Make a frame

We've eyeballed everything with wishful thinking
And midased everyone who could be touched
The ass's ears were handed down among us
Never has apollo laughed so much
Laughed so much

As usual we're too late to pay the piper
And anyway there is no tune to call
If fancy dress is worn at the finale
Who'll come as a mushroom to the ball
To the ball

Doldrums
Becalmed again my heart is the sea
I sit and wait in vain for the doldrums are me

Adrift again my mind is the sail
Though I'm at rest I'm awake through no fault of my own

Fickle woman turns a page
What was still is now a racing sea
I feel the shifting tide
I want to brave it out
But I still remember fear
So little time to love
Let alone the time to die
I wonder should I leave or could I try again

Becalmed again my heart is the sea
I sit and wait but in vain for the Doldrums are me

(Lower away)
(Lower away)

O Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Then on the tuesday after by a clever slight of hand
You made the waters flow, you told the firmament to stand
By evening you were happy things were going as you planned

O Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

On wednesday you were quite inspired by something on your mind
From mud and sand you made the land with mountains ranged behind
And made it like a garden laid with plants of every kind

O hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

You noticed that on thursday that all the earth was black
And made the sun to light her front the moon to light her back
The night you set with starts to glow like jewels in a sack

O Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

When friday came you made the birds the sky to populate
With little fish you filled the sea and gave to each a mate
They showed a swift obedience when you bad them copulate

O hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

But such success led to excess on saturday at noon
For then you made the tribe of man a billion years too soon
Before they barely learned to crawl he trampled on the moon

Well hallelujah anyway
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

On Sunday when you told the man a sabbath day to keep
You little guessed what he was at while you were sound asleep
In just one day he threw away your labour of a week

Well hallelujah anyway hallelujah
Hallelujah anyway hallelujah
Hallelujah anyway hallelujah
Halelujah anyway hallelujah
Hallelujah anyway hallelujah

And so begins the second week and you arise from rest
Did you expect to find him waiting in his monday best
The tree is dead, the bird has flown, and burned the sacred nest

Well hallelujah anyway hallelujah
Halelujah anyway hallelujah
Hallelujah anyway hallelujah
Hallelujah anyway hallelujah
Hallelujah anyway hallelujah
Hallelujah anyway hallelujah
Hallelujah anyway hallelujah

No Room-But a View
The minister steps right over him, from theatre to the car
His colleague thinks the outstretched hand is one offence too far

Whatever happened to make this place, the only place called home
The loneliness that burns so deep, the friends who never come

The shadow in the doorway barely moves
Denied the right to security
Days can turn to endless years
As empty as
As empty as
as empty as etermity, yea

One day the dreams inside his head
The warmth of love on a winters night

Long summer days of laughter

May turn his darkness
Turn his darkness
Turn his darkness into light

In The Night
Blues, in the night
As I'm sitting here, all alone
Deep, in the night
All is still, but my heart
Then you come to mind
As your light, breaks the dark
And now comes the thought
You're still right here
For you and I just know
That you'll never ever leave me
Although you cannot see me in my tears through your tears

You're in my heart
Stay in my heart forever
You're in my head
Stay in my head forever

On Suite
She's socially aware
Of the sunlight in her hair
She knows that truth
Is the daughter of time
All lies a crime
That undermine
The fortunes of this and every time
So much just falling

Her valentyne she keeps
No more for foolish youth she weeps
But rules her heart
With clearing head
Frustrations said
Past failures shed
Her story still so far from dead
And never fading

Her Valentyne she keeps
No More for foolish youth she weeps
But rules her heart
With clearing Head
Frustration said
Past failures shed
Her story still so far from dead
And never fading