Wishing that something would happen, a change in this place
'cos I'm tearing off the fancy wrapping, find an empty package
take for a while your trumpet from your lip
loosen your hold loosen your grip, on your old ways that have fallen out of step
in a changing time
hoist a new flag
hoist a new flag
Angry sun burn down, judging us all
guilty of neglect and disrespect and thinking small
and death by boredom, and death by greed, if we can't stop taking, more than we need
but across the fractured landscape, I see the same things
tired ideas, birds without wings
birds without wings, birds without wings
And these are just thoughts, of lack lustre times
I've no interest, in excuses you can find
like you've had a hard day now you're too tired to care
now you're too tired to care
you've had a hard day
well across the fractured landscape, I see the same things
tired ideas broken values, many with the notion, that to share is to lose
a hollow people bound by a lack of imagination and too much looking back
wihout the courage to give a new thing a chance
grounded by this ignorance, (and the cat comes)
We're just, birds without wings
birds ithout wings, birds without wings
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 Shine
I can see it in your eyes, what I know in my heart is true
that our love it has faded like the summer run through
so we'll walk down the shoreline one last time together
feel the wind blow our wanderin' hearts like a feather
but who knows whats waiting in the wings of time
dry your eyes, we gotta go where we can shine
Don't be hiding in sorrow or clinging to the past
with your beauty so precious and the season so fast
no matter how cold the horizon appear or how far the first night
when I held you near you gotta rise from these ashes
like a bird of flame, step out of the shadow
we've gotta go where we can shine
For all that we struggle, for all we pretend
it don't come down to nothing, except love in the end
and ours is the road, that is strewn with goodbyes
but as it unfolds, as it all unwinds
remember your soul is the one thing, you can't compromise
take my hand
we're gonna go where we can shine
we're gonna go where we can shine
we're gonna go where we can shine
(and look, and look)
Through the windows of midnight, moonfoam and silver
Brick Walls
I just don't care
Don't care at all
I've banged my head too long
On these brick walls
Every seed I sow
Shudders and falls
Perishes betweens
Ah these brick walls
And I feel like the last hair
On a head gone bald
Not much point being there
No point at all
How many more years?
Years 'till they fall
On the blind eyes
And deaf ears
And these brick walls
These brick walls
These brick walls
These brick walls
Ah these brick walls
And I'm long past worrying
And I'm way past being appalled
I know history is hurrying up
And time can't be stalled
So don't try to run, no
Before you can crawl
Just wait and the time will come
Hey for these brick walls
These brick walls
These brick walls
These brick walls
Ah these brick walls
Ah, umhm
Brick walls
Brick Walls
Yeah
The Rice
The draft blew cold under the door
When we threw wour clothes to the kitchen floor
The broccoli boils in the pan on the gas stove where you stand
Won't you take this spatula in your hand?
Let the rice burn
It cannot deter my love for you
we have no concern
under the hem of the night
under the hem of the night
Out on the roof over havoc streets
Where the sky is a blanket each sweet kiss
so melodramatic embroidered by shadows
by the fridge I reminice
Let the rice burn
It cannot deter my love for you
we have no concern
under the hem of the night
under the hem of the night
we stagger in the doorway and all of the sudden
the drum of the rain on the heather hills
now everything's changed and our silence is bitter
and you are all unhinged
Let the rice burn
It cannot deter my love for you
we have no concern
we have no concern
oh we have no concern
under the hem of the night
Wisdom
Time no good, wisdom no good
Patience no good to me anymore
Now night has fallen on the stair,
Some things you do you can never repair
Seems I'm always pretending
Things aren't there when they are
And the leaves are nearly off the trees
and the traffic's thick past yellow windows
and I'm lost inside the frozen headlights
thinking of you
Time no good, wisdom no good
Patience no good to me anymore
And the trees are looking like bones
and the afternoon's filled with storm and rain
I'm staring out of this metal train
thinking of you
And the trees are looking like bones
and the afternoon's filled with storm and rain
and I'm tangled up in memory's thorns
no way through
Time no good, wisdom no good
Patience no good to me anymore
Trees like bones, yellow windows
memories, thorns, oh and you
Time no good, wisdom no good
Patience no good to me anymore
Lovers
We are lovers girl, me and you
small faced lovers girl oh
you know its true
Get through the winter time
and the spring sun starts to grow
I'm your white faced lover girl
oh don't you know
You're so warm with me
i never feel the cold
what have you done with me i've never felt this old
come through the orange summer
and stand and watch the red leaves fall
maybe by next summertime
we'll have forgotten it all
ah, we are lovers girl, me and you
small faced girl, you know it's true
come through the orange summer
and stand and watch the red leaves fall
maybe by next summertime
we'll have forgotten it all
4 Am
Four o'clock in the morning
Born on the sea
The night is rattling
With burglar alarm oh yeah
The night explode
The night explode
Flower by your window side
Autumn is graceful
Unladen with memory
And the wonders die
Seven o'clock in the evening
Watching TV show
Kissing your dark hair
Its your head against the sunset
And the harbor below
Its the cruelest thing
The cruelest thing
That I've ever known
Just time and circumstance
Taking their toll
As the storm beats and rolls
Your bed was a warm bed
Warm bed in the cold room
Always the same pictures on the wall
With some love in the morning
With your dog at your pillow
And a half empty bottle of baby oil
Oh seven o'clock in the evening
Born around the sea
Night is rattling
With burglar alarms
Oh their ringing out for me
The cruelest thing
The cruelest thing
That I've ever known
Time and circumstance
Taking their toll
As the storm beat and roll
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
