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What are you?
What are you? what are you becoming? what have you become?
Once you sang your own song
now you're dancing to the same drum
what have you become?
What are you? what are you becoming? what have you become?
And what is that you're wearing? money's ugly confidence
You sacrificed the poem of your imagination for these pounds and pence
Me I take the cynic's role throw scorn on your empty mind
I've seen this monotonous world make dull what used to shine
you lost interest you lost your spine oh that spine fine fine yeah
What are you? what are you becoming? what have you become?
When there' nothing left on this plate you're handed
you find yourself running the gauntlet of all of these double standards
it's very thin ice over which you're skating and after this black winter the thaw
So what are you tell me tell me what are you and what have you become
The Light
You turn out the light and the dark sucks on the embers of the fire
My heart smoulders in the night and these tumbling boulders of desire
Come rolling off the shadows of me, rolling off the shadows of me
You say I thought time was meant to take away the hurtin'
as your lonely silhouette closes the curtain
back on the road destination uncertain
so lets get in this car and drive
and this feeling I feel so strong
so powerful it can't be wrong
now the whole frosted night is just a song song for you, you
And the moon is splashed right over the street
like my tears on your thighs so pale
its just you and me in the sheets and the whole wide world is just a jail
when you're away from me, you're away from me
Turn out the light and the dark sucks on the embers of the fire, my heart smoulders in the night tumbling boulders of desire
Come ah rolling, rolling... rolling out the shadows of me
Turn out the light
Coming Down
Tears falling slow from the bridge into the river below
And in your eyes, I start to see a starry veil, the ocean of infinity
Moon and stars above me mingle with the blood inside my veins
These empty arms that should be holding you close through nights of winter rain
I'm trying to spell what only the wind can explain
It's colder than ever coming down
I'm drowning in shallows cos its in so deep there's neon melting in the rain took too much powder too sleep
Cos when I hold you naked when I see you laugh I got a sword to stem the rivers and cut the moon in half
Frozen stars above me mingle with the blood inside my veins
These empty arms that should be holding you close through nights of winter rain
I'm trying to spell what only the wind can explain
It's colder than ever coming down
We danced wild kicked off our shoes not a cloud in the skies to confuse
Now the sky is cold the sea is wide and there's nothing to be done 'cept reflecting the sun and scratching the mountainside
Frozen stars above me mingle with the blood inside my vein
Empty arms that should be holding you close through nights of winter rain
I'm trying to spell what only the wind can explain
It's colder than ever coming down
Falling Free
All of my senses overthrown by the might of your skin
and the lamplight on your cheek bone drawing me further in,
no sentence I can speak for the wonder so unique breaking like a wave upon the shore,
mercy me, I'm falling free since you opened up the door.
See how the sky is made of sapphire the colours flowing through our hands,
the moon is fire in your hair a million miles beyond what science understands,
smell that mountain heather I don't remember ever feeling like this before,
mercy me, I'm falling free since you opened up the door,
and if every window pane should shatter,
if every wall should fall apart,
well it might hurt a bit but would it matter,
this diamond in my heart,
There's no need to nail it to the ground, there's no need to smother it with sense,
just listen to the rhythm of your heart that pounds and trust it all to chance,
'cause we're standing face to face with the Angel of grace and don't it just taste so pure,
mercy me, I'm falling free,
mercy me, I'm falling free,
mercy me, I'm falling free since you opened up the door.
Made up my mind
Lightening strikes, silver motorbikes roaring down the open road,
wind on my skin I'm hungry to begin, my cup has overflown,
so let fall the rain down into these desert veins taking back what they stole,
these diamonds in my mind can afford to become fine in someone else's pigeon hole,
So I made up my mind made up my mind gonna move on ahead, instead of lagging behind
Half past seven way up in the heaven the stars are singing in the sky,
lying half dressed, your head upon my breast listening to the ocean's lullaby,
standing where we are, it seems so far from the cold light of day,
with the faces full of grief, and the grinding up of teeth has been eating my belief away.
So I made up my mind I made up my mind gonna move on ahead instead of lagging behind, instead of lagging now..,
Cracks in the veneer and the light so severe shining down the avenue,
try to join the throng but it's feeling all wrong what are you supposed to do,
shoulder that despair take a lung of dirty air turn to watch the sun set red,
and the ruins of a culture of a sky that's filled with vultures circling over your head,
So I made up my mind I made up my mind gonna move on ahead instead of lagging behind
instead of lagging behind,
I made up my mind....
Mystery of Love
The city gates at twilight and a red ship sinking behind winter's grey wall,
ice in the wind but a fire's in the embers of my heart as darkness falls,
in a candlelit room where your eyes are laughing smoking in the red chair,
and nothing in the world 'cept the beating of my heart against the nerves of the air,
And I know there's a light at the end of the tunnel 'cause I taste it on your lips,
and I feel a weight that can bend me double, you lift it with your fingertips,
so often it happens that words prove useless in the face of how it feels,
so it is as the mystery of love keeps growing the more my heart reveals,
Temptations endless whispers try to keep it in perspective so much to distract,
walking on a wire while your juggling desire it's all part of your balancing act,
and it gets hard to know just what you believe as the argument rages on,
but for all of the talk it's only true to say that if you have no hope there is none,
A tangle of tongues flesh flowers and thistles of conscience, spittle and skin,
we can't change the past so we'll raise this cup to our lips and drink it all in,
and meantime back in civilisation the rain is cold as steel,
but the mystery of love it just keep growing the more my heart reveals,
As sure as the rose the bright day blooms as surely still it fades,
and the night kindles stars on empty winds and ghosts along the collonades,
and slow but sure the sands are falling as the bridge burns beneath the wheel,
and the mystery of love it just keeps growing the more my heart reveals,
the more my heart reveals....
Lullaby
Its a sad old world that's turning tonight as I slide through the streets,
moonlight and memory burning and in my hand your broken dream,
My watery eyes I sing for you this lullaby,
let the shadow fall from your window let the morning light fill your head,
stand up and let the wild wind blow right into your soul till the night is dead,
All these useless emotions churning round as I search these bare walls for a clue,
and all the time the truth is flashing in my mind that when a heart gets broken there's nothing you can do,
My watery eyes I sing for you this lullaby let,
the shadow fall from your window let the morning light fill your head,
stand up and let the wild wind blow right into your soul till the night is dead,
And I'm packing my belongings, hey I'll be gone before the noon arrives,
cos I know there's no use pretending soon it'll all be alright,
But hey let the shadow fall from your window let the morning light fill your head,
stand up and let the wild wind blow right into your soul till the night is dead,
See the dawn break gold when the night is dead,
Hear the bells
New Horizons
Weight on my shoulders but I'm walking so tall out into the new horizon,
wonder in everything no matter how great or small, howlin' like the midnight, howlin' like the midnight sun,
and this ain't no pale reflection, this is the real thing,
new horizon new horizon within,
And your heart ain't yours to control no matter how tight the reigns,
love will find it's own direction a time to reap, a time to sow and many a time to cry in vain,
but now the time to celebrate the glory of this imperfection,
same thing that's scrawled across the stars is written under our skin,
new horizon new horizon within
Things come too easy, I get suspicious, things come too slow, I get bored,
if it don't work out I get superstitious but if it does, oh my word.
So I'm gathering all the remnants of beauty from this wilderness in spin and now I'm gonna light my own flame,
'cause I'm charged with the radiance of the dawn that's been so long breaking,
now there ain't nowhere there ain't nowhere I won't write your name,
there's a time to search for understanding, sometime you just gotta sing,
new horizon new horizon within,
Baby there's no need to get precious when you know that everything must change.
complacency, it can be so vicious turn this love into a cage,
Same thing that's scrawled across the stars is written under our skin,
new horizon new horizon within
Flesh
As the bell must strike the hour, as the west must stab the sun,
so our hearts must heed the flow of deeper tides that run,
far beyond the bare indifference that prosperity esteems,
where the spirit raves and dances through our very veins.
At winters edge you found me, by the fields of wild gold,
my hands still filled with ashes from fires long cold,
you pulled me from the wreckage of bitterness and blame,
flung open the page and put some flesh on the bones of my dreams.
On the streets the blossom snowing and the drum is beating slow,
and I hear you speak so clear well I'm slicing through the fear setting all the beacons blazing, baby oh!
it's staring out plainer than ever, brighter than all the fools gold that gleams,
it's simply now or never putting flesh on the bones of my dreams,
Putting flesh on the bones of my dreams, putting flesh on the bones of my dreams.
And they can plunder the cave of sorrows, they can strip the gallery bare,
try to build a fence around the visions in our heads, choke every spark in a cloak of despair
but we got something they can't stifle with their price tags and picture frames,
got a flower for every rifle putting flesh on the bones of my dreams
