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Sell, Sell, Sell (1996) |
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Faster, Sooner, Now
Hey now, you got me by the tongue,
I feel like there's nowhere I belong,
And they're working it pretty hard and they're selling it by the yard
But its more than I can afford, that's all that I know
Leader, it comes as no surprise
See now, these are coins that were his eyes
Silver dollars and hoods of steel, tell me nothing can be revealed,
The more you get it the less you feel that's all that I know
Starts a shivering in my spine and a fever I can't define,
It gets colder the higher you climb that's all that I know
You kill me with every word you say,
I'm dead now, along with faith and chivalry
Silver dollars and hoods of steel tell me nothing can be revealed,
The more you get it the less you feel that's all that I know
Colder the higher you climb, colder the higher you climb colder the higher you climb,
that's all that I know
Late Night Radio
Oh Mary Jane, she step on a train head for the city lights
Yearning inside to swim with the tide and taste it, alright
Bag on her shoulder breathing the cold there by the metal tracks
She saw it all shine and swore in her mind she'd never go back
And she don't mind the late night late night radio,
she don't mind the late night radio
she don't mind the late night late night radio na na
Couldn't have dreamed the things that she seen there on the avenue
She stared right into a million eyes that looked her right through
Telling Red Joe the places she'd go and wiping the table clean
She got no idea the demon of fear or what a broken heart mean
And she don't mind the late night late night radio
she don't mind the late night radio
she don't mind the late night late night radio
na na na na na not at all na na na na na not at all
na na na na na not at all na na
New York was dark dirty and stark burning with yellow wings
Everyday come with fever and hum who knows what it brings
Walking a wall without a thought to fall and hit the ground
Sweet Mary Jane with eyes like the rain alive to the sound
And she don't mind the late night late night radio,
she don't mind the late night radio
she don't mind the late night late night radio
Sell, Sell, Sell
I beg to differ to break the chain,
to draw a line right through tomorrow and cancel every claim,
I've seen reflections beneath my skin,
and drums beating for battle in the eyes of children,
And turning it over right down where the eye don't see no colour,
where the war don't make a sound,
ice on the shoulder noel praise the Lord above and sell sell sell
Oh violent flowers you fill the screen,
betray your mother and change your name,
so tall and fickle and blind as snow, running headfirst for oblivion,
cause you've nowhere else to go.
And turning it over right down where the eye don't see no colour,
where the war don't make a sound,
ice on the shoulder noel praise the Lord above and sell sell sell
In chill of winter in dead of night, each so familiar with the hunger that they got no appetite,
they talk of loving I hear her say, that as fast as I can give it he's taking it away,
And turning it over right down where the eye don't see no colour,
where the war don't make a sound,
ice on the shoulder noel praise the Lord above and sell sell sell
Holding On to Nothing
Hold on to nothing hold on to coldest steel, it chills you down inside when you see just what is real,
paste it up and tear it down move it on along the rushing road,
17 Fahrenheit feel the winter grow,
There's nowhere to write it there's nowhere to write it there's nowhere to write it down,
there's nowhere to write it there's nowhere to write it there's nowhere to write it down,
nowhere to write it down write it down
Step down the alley walking against the stony crowd, trying not to listen but they shout so loud,
chew you up and spit you out, crush you between its finger and its thumb,
the world in all its anger oh and there's always more to come
There's nowhere to write it there's nowhere to write it there's nowhere to write it down,
there's nowhere to write it there's nowhere to write it there's nowhere to write it down,
nowhere to write it down write it down
Everytime
Down from the doorway and into the street, I hear the morning bell,
Over and over the pattern repeat, I hear the morning bell
And all the faces cold as stone in the January chill, you have led me into worlds unknown,
and I'm walking there still
Everytime now, everytime now, I think of you mine now, I just can't contain,
I'm seven feet tall and there's nightingales calling, shooting stars falling,
like jewels in the rain.
I ask myself I ask myself can this life be the same, that spun me round and put me down,
And fill me up with shame and all the heads are turning now down the Tottenham court road,
Cause I just can't help but sing it out case I just might explode,
Everytime now everytime now I think of you mine now, I can't comprehend,
The saxophones blowing cherry trees growing right here in my hand,
A dance in the moonlight so high on a June night, magazines strewn right over the chair
Your spine a white ladder, your eyes singing sadder, nothing else seems to matter,
As soon as you're there.
And everytime now, everytime now I think of you mine now, I just can't contain
I'm seven feet tall and there's nightingales calling, shooting stars falling like jewels in the rain
Everytime now everytime now everytime now everytime and la la la na etc.
Magdelena
Morning, sit in the morning sun, evening, watching the shadow come,
through the bright streets of London I feel the rain, upon my eyes as I wonder,
at this spell that I'm under, Magdalen since you came along
Meet me with your arms of snow and meet me with your mouth undone,
I'm burning up from head to tow eh Magdalena when you're gone
Dreaming, we're drinking the night away, talking, way past the break of day
through the bright streets of London I feel the rain upon my eyes as I wonder
at this spell that I'm under, Magdalen since you came along
Meet me with your arms of snow and meet me with your mouth undone
I'm burning up from head to tow eh Magdalena when you're gone
Nananananananananananananana Nananananananananananananana
Meet me with your arms of snow and meet me with your mouth undone
I'm burning up from head to tow eh Magdalena when you're gone
Smile
I'm falling by the wayside, I'm sinking with the sun,
Everything I do is wrong wrong wrong,
Gazing at the billboards staring down the broken lines,
Sleeping on the backseat I could not believe,
you were right up there beside me tugging at my sleeve,
and putting up your lipstick just like you did a thousand times,
And something in your eyes that makes me smile oh yeah
Something in your eyes that makes me smile oh yeah
I wake up in the darkness its more than I can stand,
I'm reaching out to touch it, it breaks up in my hand,
I've never known the headlights to shine so cold,
I'm waiting for the morning to steal over the hills,
I'm urging for the road to speed these wheels,
I'm watching for the sunrise turning all the teardrops gold,
Cause something in your eyes that makes me smile oh yeah,
something in your eyes that makes me smile oh yeah
And something in your eyes that makes me smile oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah etc.
Only the Lonely
I'm raising up my voice to the walls and to the sky,
it seeks no explanation it waits for no reply,
really it is nothing just a cry to the wilds
I'm delirious with chaos, I'm wonderstruck with awe, in my soul I'm dreaming only of your velvet shore
When I'm walking there my face untangles like a child,
And only the lonely only the lonely, lonely could know me
I've been talking all night long, here's nothing more to say,
So I'm searching every mirror for a trace of yesterday,
but the air it holds no traces where the eagles were flying,
I'm haunted by the skyline the concrete and the rain,
the window speaks of winter, so I'll set my heart again,
somewhere in the dust a curlew is crying,
And only the lonely, only the lonely, lonely could know me,
I'm talking all night long talking all night,
There's a copper moon that's buried, where solitude expands,
and distant planets moving they're weighing on my hands,
they're darkening my pages,
and there's daylight in my fingers but it's snowing in my bones,
been sucking on the echo of a thousand telephones,
and when we meet again we will be strangers.
And only the lonely, only the lonely, lonely could know me,
and only the lonely, only the lonely, lonely could know me,
What am I doing wrong?
Ghost on the highway, bird with metal wings,
Ghost on the highway, bird with metal wings,
crowd all around me just don't hear a thing,
Ghost on the highway, bird with metal wings,
What am I doing wrong? x 3 What am I doing, Tell me,
You don't telephone, you don't telephone, you don't telephone, you don't telephone me
Stand in the doorway, there in yellow light,
Down in the doorway, bathed in morning light
Saw you before me, thought maybe it might
Down in the doorway under yellow light
What am I doing wrong? x 3 What am I doing, Tell me,
You don't telephone, you don't telephone, you don't telephone, you don't telephone me
You never spoke a word but its over
I saw the way you turned your head,
you never spoke a word but its understood
What am I doing wrong? x 3 what am I doing tell me
She don't telephone, she don't telephone, she don't telephone, she don't telephone me ,
Sitting here late at night,
sitting here late at night,
my heart is aching, heard it all before
What am I doing wrong x 3, what am I doing tell me
Gutters full of Rain
A gutter full of rain, an empty picture frame, a house out at the edges of the city
Never noticing the war, til it's right there at your door, and suddenly your hands are bloody
I was seeking to possess now another girl's caress is on your flesh the bitterness is tasted
There's nobody in your chair no hand to touch my hair the sun even the air seems wasted
Let it go now, let it all slip away and we'll start it all over again,
Me like a million others before trying to make sense of the rain,
Were these twenty years a dream, was it ever as it seemed, get to wonder if it really existed,
Cause the thief who stole my life, has taken to my faith, I can see now how the world gets twisted,
Let it go now let it all slip away and we'll start it all over again,
Me like a million others before trying to make sense of the rain,
In spite of all the shame sometimes I hear your name, I think of us when we were younger
Then I'm shutting out the noise and I'm trying to hear the voice, that used to tell me love was stronger
Light another cigarette but the one I got's still lit, I can't seem to keep my fingers steady
Never noticing the war til it's right there at your door and suddenly your hands are bloody
Forever is Tomorrow is Today
Tuesday my heart is brimming, I'm a child in the wild wind,
dead leaves and daylight dimming, no beginning and no end,
inside a candle of defiance moonlight a river of pearls
Cause we're going to need more than money and science to see us through this world
You say it can't be done you'd rather die of fun, get out of the way
For me for you for everyone, forever is tomorrow is today
Shut all the windows, shut all the doors, we're keeping it all out of sight,
we're keeping it all it's tearing us apart
you don't know your good from your bad from your black
from your blood from your wrong from your right, so you camouflage your heart
I don't want no other distractions there's too much here to see,
faint hearts or jaded reactions contraptions of history
You say it can't be done you'd rather die of fun get out of the way,
for me for you for everyone forever is tomorrow is today
Shut all the windows shut all the doors I'm keeping it all out of sight,
I'm keeping it all it's mine and mine alone
Corrosion collision I need a vision to tear off the cloak of the night and shatter eyes of stone.
You say it can't be done you'd rather die of fun get out of the way,
for me for you for everyone forever is tomorrow is today,
forever is tomorrow is today forever is tomorrow is today
Folk Song
I have waited the night over for some word to come,
I asked the moon o'er the clover but the moon she is dumb
You have made me a promise at midnight we'd go
And that we should be married sailing westward ho
Such words you have spoken you have told me a lie
That it could not be broken when you knew it must die
There's no light in heaven my eye can see
That my heart be imprisoned while the devil go free go free
Like honey the ocean in the morning breeze,
I'll take my tears to the water that the rivers may freeze,
There's no light in heaven can shine for me,
that my heart be imprisoned while the devil go free go free
What folly is beauty what trick of the skin,
desire it's fancy and ruin its whim,
your child within me and what can I do,
my blood fill with needles that he look like you
There's no light in heaven my eye can see
That my heart be imprisoned while the devil go free
My heart be imprisoned while the devil go free, no light in heaven, no light for me
