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These are songs I've not put the lyrics in yet. If anyone wants to continue as I've been doing with the songs, cut-and-paste from here. I'm leaving out the covers though. [[User:Dancingmeerkat|Dancingmeerkat]] 15:54, 28 Sep 2005 (SAST)
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These are songs I've not put the lyrics in yet. If anyone wants to continue as I've been doing with the songs, '''cut'''-and-paste from here. I'm leaving out the covers though. [[User:Dancingmeerkat|Dancingmeerkat]] 15:54, 28 Sep 2005 (SAST)
==Flood I==
 
And her hallway<br/>
 
Moves<br/>
 
Like the ocean<br/>
 
Moves
 
 
 
At the head of the river<br/>
 
At the source of the sea
 
 
 
Sitting here now in this bar for hours<br/>
 
Trying to write it down<br/>
 
Fitting in hard with harder to come<br/>
 
Trying to fight it<br/>
 
Down the river there's a ship will carry you<br/>
 
Down river down stream<br/>
 
Down the river there's a ship will carry the<br/>
 
Dream<br/>
 
Dream of the flood<br/>
 
Down the river there's a ship will carry the<br/>
 
Dream of the flood
 
 
 
And her hallway...<br/>
 
As the water come rushing over<br/>
 
As the water come rushing in<br/>
 
As the water come rushing over<br/>
 
Flood...Flood...
 
 
 
Push the glass, stain the glass<br/>
 
Push the writer to the wall<br/>
 
It may come but it will pass<br/>
 
Some say we will fall<br/>
 
Dream of the flood...<br/>
 
Flood...
 
 
 
And her hallway...
 
 
 
Oh, maybe, in terms of surrender,<br/>
 
On a backcloth of lashes and eyes<br/>
 
In a flood of your tears, in sackcloth<br/>
 
And ashes and ashes and ashes and ashes<br/>
 
And ashes and ashes and lies...
 
 
 
<br/>
 
And her hallway...<br/>
 
Like...<br/>
 
As the water come rushing in<br/>
 
As the water come rushing over
 
 
 
Sitting here now in this bar for hours<br/>
 
While these strange men rent strange flowers<br/>
 
I'll be picking up your petals in another few hours<br/>
 
In the metal and blood, in the scent and mascara<br/>
 
On a backcloth of lashes and stars<br/>
 
In a flood of your tears, in sackcloth<br/>
 
And ashes and ashes and secondhand passion<br/>
 
And stolen guitars
 
 
 
And her hallway...<br/>
 
As the water come rushing in<br/>
 
(Like the sea)<br/>
 
As the water come rushing over<br/>
 
(Dream of the flood)<br/>
 
In a flood of your tears, in sackcloth<br/>
 
And ashes and ashes<br/>
 
And ashes and ashes<br/>
 
And ashes and ashes<br/>
 
And ashes and ashes and lies...
 
 
 
As the water come rushing in, rushing in
 
 
 
At the head of the river<br/>
 
At the source of the sea
 
 
 
And her hallway...<br/>
 
Like...
 
 
 
Flood...
 
==Flood II==
 
And her hallway Moves<br/>
 
Like the ocean Moves<br/>
 
And her hallway Moves<br/>
 
Like the sea<br/>
 
Like the sea
 
 
 
She says no no no no harm will come your way<br/>
 
She says bring it on down, bring on the wave<br/>
 
She says: nobody done no harm<br/>
 
Grace of God and raise your arms<br/>
 
She says: face it and it's a place to stay
 
 
 
This, this is the way it was<br/>
 
This, this is the way it is<br/>
 
When the water come rushing, rushing in
 
 
 
CHORUS<br/>
 
She says<br/>
 
She says anytime<br/>
 
Raise your arms<br/>
 
Flood
 
 
 
And her hallway<br/>
 
Like...<br/>
 
Like...
 
 
 
Like a million voices call my name<br/>
 
Like a million voices calling<br/>
 
Not now, not never again...<br/>
 
Sitting here now in this bar for hours<br/>
 
Strange men rent strange flowers<br/>
 
Seconds to the drop but it feels like hours and I<br/>
 
Think I'm going to...going to...
 
 
 
This, this is the way it was<br/>
 
This, this is the way it is<br/>
 
When the water come rushing, rushing in
 
 
 
CHORUS
 
 
 
And her hallway...
 
 
 
CHORUS
 
==Floorshow==
 
The bodies on the naked on the low damp ground<br/>
 
In the violet hour to the violent sound<br/>
 
And the darkness the blinding the eyes that shine <br/>
 
And the voices and the singing and the line on line<br/>
 
This is the floorshow the clapping hands<br/>
 
Animal flow from the animal glands<br/>
 
In the violet hour to the violent sound<br/>
 
Going round and around and around and around and around
 
 
 
I feel the bite I feel the beat I see the dancing feet<br/>
 
I feel the light I feel the heat I see the new elite<br/>
 
I see the final floorshow I see the western dream<br/>
 
I see the faces glow and I see the bodies steam
 
 
 
See them shimmy see them go<br/>
 
See their painted faces glow<br/>
 
Slow slow quick quick slow<br/>
 
See those pagans go go go go go
 
 
 
This is the floorshow the last ideal<br/>
 
It's populist got mass appeal<br/>
 
The old religion redefined<br/>
 
For the facile futile totally blind
 
 
 
Mundane by day inane at night<br/>
 
Pagan playing in the flashing light<br/>
 
In the violet hour to the violent sound<br/>
 
Going round and around and around and around and around<br/>
 
And the bodies naked on the low damp ground<br/>
 
In the violet hour to the violet sound<br/>
 
And the darkness the blinding the eyes that shine<br/>
 
And the voices singing line on line
 
 
 
See them shimmy see them go<br/>
 
See their painted faces glow<br/>
 
Slow slow quick quick slow<br/>
 
See those pagans go go go go go<br/>
 
==Garden of Delight==
 
Shimmering over all those wistful faces<br/>
 
And the promise burning brightly in their eyes<br/>
 
In this violent flesh the cut that bleeds the kiss that stings<br/>
 
Desperate snows fall from desperate skies
 
 
 
CHORUS<br/>
 
Take my hand and lead me<br/>
 
To the garden of delight<br/>
 
Take my hand and lead me<br/>
 
Home.....
 
 
 
Reflections in the liquid windswept mirror<br/>
 
The breathless world elegance and charm<br/>
 
The treasured touch, the first touch of a stranger<br/>
 
It charmed me, entranced me, no harm<br/>
 
So...
 
 
 
CHORUS
 
 
 
This child of death, kissing in the playground<br/>
 
Senses swirling, faithful to the kill<br/>
 
Playing with fire,a chance among the playsound<br/>
 
Covered in burns and turn away, they're dancing still<br/>
 
So...
 
 
 
Take my hand and lead me<br/>
 
To the garden of delight<br/>
 
Take my hand and lead me<br/>
 
To the garden<br/>
 
Of delight
 
 
 
Of delight<br/>
 
(repeat)
 
 
 
CHORUS
 
 
 
Home (home)<br/>
 
Home (home)<br/>
 
Home (home)<br/>
 
Home (home)<br/>
 
Garden of Delight
 
 
 
(alt.lyrics)
 
 
 
See the dancing laughing naked faces<br/>
 
And the promise burning brightly in their eyes<br/>
 
This violent flesh the cut that bleeds the kiss that stings<br/>
 
Desperate snows fall from shimmering skies
 
 
 
CHORUS<br/>
 
So<br/>
 
Take my hand and lead me<br/>
 
To the garden of delight<br/>
 
Take my hand and lead me<br/>
 
To the garden<br/>
 
Of delight
 
 
 
Reflections in the windswept liquid mirror<br/>
 
Of the breathelsss world elegance and charm<br/>
 
The treasured first kiss of a stranger<br/>
 
It charms entranced me i know you mean me no harm
 
 
 
CHORUS
 
 
 
This happy death, kissing in the playground<br/>
 
Senses swirling, faithful to the kill<br/>
 
I'm playing with fire dancing in the flames<br/>
 
I'm covered in burns that just won't heal
 
 
 
CHORUS
 
 
 
Of delight
 
 
 
CHORUS
 
 
 
Of delight
 
 
 
CHORUS
 
==Giving Ground==
 
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme<br/>
 
In the place, through which we wander<br/>
 
Reason turned around<br/>
 
And every fool<br/>
 
Will see his madness drowned<br/>
 
And every truth is swallowed up<br/>
 
By ... is giving ground
 
 
 
CHORUS<br/>
 
What you have lost can never be found<br/>
 
Words are just dust in deserts of sound<br/>
 
Everything is lost and your choice lies broken<br/>
 
And the truth is drowned
 
 
 
I watch<br/>
 
Surrender<br/>
 
Because I know<br/>
 
...<br/>
 
Now I know you will not see<br/>
 
The madness we have seen<br/>
 
Now I know you cannot be<br/>
 
All that your fright has been
 
 
 
CHORUS
 
 
 
Words are just dust<br/>
 
I stood but you just could not wait<br/>
 
Behind<br/>
 
Because I know you cannot be<br/>
 
All that your fright has been
 
 
 
CHORUS
 
 
 
Everything is lost in the giving ground<br/>
 
Everything is lost<br/>
 
Everything is lost in the giving ground<br/>
 
Turned around<br/>
 
Reason, turned around<br/>
 
In the giving ground<br/>
 
Ground<br/>
 
In the giving ground<br/>
 
Everything is lost<br/>
 
In the giving ground
 
==Good Things==
 
The cracks appear along the wall wall wall wall wall<br/>
 
See the people stoop back, once stood tall tall tall tall tall<br/>
 
I see the buildings crumble see the empires fall<br/>
 
But I see no more and I don't recall
 
 
 
Because I see<br/>
 
Nothing but the good things<br/>
 
Because I see<br/>
 
Nothing but the good things<br/>
 
Because I see<br/>
 
Nothing but the good things<br/>
 
Nothing but the good good good <br/>
 
Nothing but the good things
 
 
 
Well nothing ventured nothing lost<br/>
 
Count the changes count the cost<br/>
 
A reformation so uncertain<br/>
 
Keep your station draw the curtain
 
 
 
Because out there the snipers work the ridges<br/>
 
Building bombs and blowing bridges<br/>
 
Out there on a darkened road<br/>
 
The lines are dead and the cars explode
 
 
 
But in here<br/>
 
There's nothing but the good things<br/>
 
In here<br/>
 
Nothing but the good things<br/>
 
In here<br/>
 
Nothing but the good things<br/>
 
Nothing but the good good good good good<br/>
 
Nothing but the good things
 
 
 
I see a green sea a pleasant land land land land land<br/>
 
Nothing legal underhand<br/>
 
On the fence or in the sand<br/>
 
Well I take no chances and I take no stand
 
 
 
Against the wall <br/>
 
Against the wire<br/>
 
Against the fall <br/>
 
Against the fire<br/>
 
Against the sale<br/>
 
Against the hire<br/>
 
They say the profits high<br/>
 
But I know the cost is higher
 
 
 
Still I see<br/>
 
Nothing but the good things<br/>
 
Still I see<br/>
 
Nothing but the good things<br/>
 
Still I see here see do talk see<br/>
 
Nothing but the good things<br/>
 
Nothing but the good good good good good <br/>
 
Nothing but the good things<br/>
 
Nothing but the good things<br/>
 
Nothing but the good good good good things<br/>
 
No!
 
==Heartland==
 
Lay me down the long white line<br/>
 
Leave the sirens far behind me<br/>
 
Paint my name in black and gold<br/>
 
My heart my flame my heart my road<br/>
 
My heartland fade across the line<br/>
 
Heartland sing the faces shining<br/>
 
In the failing failing failing<br/>
 
Heartland make the places mine
 
 
 
Clearly now the past mistakes<br/>
 
The giant steps we had to take<br/>
 
The path that ever promise made to <br/>
 
Die in dream dissolve and fade
 
 
 
CHORUS<br/>
 
My heartland heartland heartland (repeat x3)
 
 
 
Behind the lines a face that glimmers<br/>
 
Still looking for a face that shines<br/>
 
In the promise in the places<br/>
 
I'm going to make them mine
 
 
 
CHORUS (repeat x40)
 
==Home of the Hitmen==
 
The sun shines on the aluminium<br/>
 
I guess this must be the home of the hitmen
 
==I Was Wrong==
 
You say stay and never leave<br/>
 
You say meant for ever<br/>
 
I could believe you, but I don't <br/>
 
You say we're almost all alone together<br/>
 
All alone <br/>
 
You say<br/>
 
You say you will<br/>
 
I know you won't
 
 
 
CHORUS<br/>
 
I was wrong<br/>
 
I was wrong to ever doubt<br/>
 
I can get along without<br/>
 
I can love my fellow man<br/>
 
But I'm damned if I'll love yours
 
 
 
In a bar that's always closing<br/>
 
In a world where people shout<br/>
 
I don't wanna talk this over<br/>
 
I don't wanna talk it out<br/>
 
I was quite impressed until I hit the floor<br/>
 
Isn't that what friends are for?<br/>
 
Pain looks great on other people<br/>
 
That's what they're for<br/>
 
CHORUS
 
 
 
(Repeat 1)
 
 
 
CHORUS
 
 
 
In a bar that's always closing<br/>
 
In a world where people shout<br/>
 
I don't wanna talk this over<br/>
 
I don't wanna talk it out<br/>
 
I was quite impressed until I hit the floor<br/>
 
Isn't that what friends are for?<br/>
 
Pain looks great on other men<br/>
 
That's what they're for
 
 
 
CHORUS
 
 
==Jihad==
 
==Jihad==
 
Two, Five, Zero, Zero, Zero<br/>
 
Two, Five, Zero, Zero, Zero<br/>

Revision as of 08:41, 11 October 2005

These are songs I've not put the lyrics in yet. If anyone wants to continue as I've been doing with the songs, cut-and-paste from here. I'm leaving out the covers though. Dancingmeerkat 15:54, 28 Sep 2005 (SAST)

Jihad

Two, Five, Zero, Zero, Zero
Jihad
(Repeat ad infinitum)

Kiss the Carpet

She got red eyes
She wear dust
I went over over over
I went bust
I kissed I kissed the carpet
I climbed the curtain
I was certain
And I said yeah
Yeah

She got red eyes
She wear dust
I went over over over
I went bust
I kissed I kissed the carpet
I climbed the curtain
I was certain
But I said
Next Time I look before I
Next time the carpet
Next time I look before I
Kiss the carpet should I
Kiss
Kiss
Kiss

Lights

The lights shine clear through the sodium haze
The night draws near and daylight fades
Ignore the voices discard the day
For the brand new darkness for the bright new way
Hit
Well there have been better plans
But none that I could ever understand
Emerald signal the green on black
The lights say move say never look back
And so I find a place where I've never been seen
Find another place where the red turns green
Where the emerald glistens through the darkness again
Where the emerald glistens through the rain

The lights shine clear through the sodium haze
The night draws near and the daylight fades
But there's a voice in the distance quiet and clear
Saying something that I never ever wanted to hear

Well there have been better plans
But none that I could ever understand
I see the emerald signal see the green on black
I see the light say move say never look back
And so I find another place where I'll never been seen
Find another place where the red turns green
Where the emerald glistens through the darkness again
Where the emerald glistens through the rain rain rain
And I'm happy here
In the rain
In the rain
In the rain rain rain
I'm happy here
In the rain
Where the emerald
Glistens
Through the rain

Lucretia

I hear the roar of a big machine
Two worlds and in between
Hot metal and methedrine
I hear empire down
I hear empire down

I hear the roar of a big machine
Two worlds and in between
Love lost, fire at will
Dum-dum bullets and shoot to kill, I hear
Dive, bombers, and
Empire down
Empire down

I hear the sons of the city and dispossessed
Get down, get undressed
Get pretty but you and me,
We got the kingdom, we got the key
We got the empire, now as then,
We don't doubt, we don't take direction,
Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me

We look hard
We look through
We look hard to see for real
Such things I hear, they don't make sense
I don't see much evidence
I don't feel. I don't feel. I don't Feel

A long train held up by page on page
A hard reign held up by rage
Once a railroad
Now it's done...

I hear the roar of a big machine
Two worlds and in between
Hot metal and methedrine
I hear empire down...

We got the empire, now as then,
We don't doubt, we don't take reflection,
Lucretia, my direction, dance the ghost with me...

Marian (version)

In a sea of faces, in a sea of doubt
In this cruel place your voice above the maelstrom
In the wake of this ship of fools I'm falling further down
If you can see me, Marian, reach out and take me home.....

CHORUS
I hear you calling Marian
Across the water, across the wave
I hear you calling Marian
Can you hear me calling you to
Save me, save me, save me from the
Grave...
Marian

Marian, there's a weight above me
And the pressure is all too strong
To breathe deep
Breathe long and hard
To take the water down and go to sleep
To sink still further
Beneath the fatal wave
Marian I think I'm drowning
This sea is killing me

CHORUS

Was ich kann und was ich konnte (What I can do and what I could do)
Weiss ich gar nicht mehr (I just don't know anymore)
Gib mir wieder etwas schones (Give me something beautiful again)
Zieh mich aus dem meer (Drag me from the sea)
Ich hore dich rufen Marian (I hear you calling Marian)
Kannst du mich schreien horen (Can you hear me calling?)
Ich bin hier allien (I am here alone)
Ich hore dich rufen Marian (I hear you calling Marian)
Ohne diene hilfe verliere ich mich in diessem ort (Without your help I am lost in this place)

CHORUS
(repeat Marian til end)

More

Some people get by
With a little understanding
Some people get by
With a whole lot more
I don't know
Why you gotta be so undemanding
One thing I know
I want more
I want more

(and I need all the love that I can't get to)
(and I need all the love I can get)
(and I need all the love that I can't get to)

D'you get scared to feel so much?
To let somebody touch you?
So hot, so cold, so far so out of control
Hard to come by, and harder to hold

Some people get by
With a little understanding
Some people get by
With a whole lot more
I don't know
Why you gotta be so undemanding
I want more

(and I need all the love I can get)
(and I need all the love that I can't get to)
(and I need all the love I can get)
(and I need all the love that I can't get to)

There are parts of me that don't get nervous
Not the parts that shake
You won't get what you deserve
You are what you take
Learning to cry for fun and profit
I'm not done yet
Counterfeit dollars or the English zloty
Anything I can get

Some people get by
With a little understanding
Some people get by
With a whole lot more
I don't know
Why you gotta be so undemanding
One thing I know
I want more

(and I need all the love I can get)
(and I need all the love that I can't get to)
(and I need all the love I can get)
(and I need all the love that I can't get to)

All the love that you can get
All the love
That I can't get to...

Neverland (a fragment)

I had a face on the mirror
I had a hand on the gun
I had a place in the sun and a
Ticket to Syria

I had everything within my reach
I had monkey and stuff
Each and every call
Too much but never enough
Tear it up and watch it fall

Nine While Nine

And it's passing strange
And I'm waiting for the train
Caught up on this line again
And it's passing slowly
Killing time but it's
Better than living in what will come and I've
Still got some of your letters with me and I
Thought sometimes or I read too much
And I think you know let's
Drink to the dead lying under the water and the
Cost of the blood on the driven snow and the
Lipstick on my cigarettes
Frost upon the window pane
Nine while nine and I'm waiting
For the train.....

She said do you remember a time when angels
Do you remember a time when fear
In the days when I was stronger
In the days when you were here she said
When days had no beginning
While days had no end when
Shadows grew no longer I
Knew no other friend but you
Were wild
You were wild.....

Frost upon these cigarettes
Lipstick on the window pane and I've
Lost all sense of the world outside but I
Can't forget so I call your name and I'm
Looking for a life for me and I'm
Looking for a life for you and I'm
Talking to myself again and it's
So damn cold it's just not true and I'm
Walking through the rain
Trying to hold on waiting for the train and I'm
Only looking for what you want but it's
Lonely here and I think you knew and I'm
And I'm waiting
And I wait in vain
Nine while nine and I'm waiting
For the train..... (repeat last verse x2)

No Time To Cry

It's just a feeling
I get sometimes
A feeling
Sometimes
And I get frightened
Just like you
I get frightened too
but it's...

CHORUS

(no no no) No time for heartache
(no no no) No time to run and hide
(no no no) No time for breaking down
(no no no) No time to cry

Sometimes in the world as is you've
Got to shake the hand that feeds you
It's just like Adam says
It's not so hard to understand
It's just like always coming down on
Just like Jesus never came and
What did you expect to find
It's just like always here again it's...

CHORUS

Everything will be alright
Everything will turn out fine
Some nights I still can't sleep
And the voices pass with time
And I keep
(repeat)
No time for tears
No time to run and hide
No time to be afraid of fear
I keep no time to cry

CHORUS

On The Wire

Now the ground comes up too fast
Too fast to meet you
In clouds of dust erupting
Thick around your feet, be careful
In the rubble in waiting
Wall to wall where you tread
Now the quick and the dead and the same old
Fates come calling cards away
How do you think it came to pass you
By the hard way by desire
How do you think it came to pass you by?
On the wire

I don't sleep so I don't dream
So I don't wake up frightened
Everything is what it seems if
You look deep enough tonight and
See.....

On the wire
On the wire
On the wire
I will not fall

(repeat)

(repeat x4)

Poison Door

Behind the door
The poison door
We search the still hours
Looking
For a place to hide(For a place to hide)
Behind the door
Where dreams collide(Where dreams collide)
Behind the door
The poison door
We sit in silence waiting
For a deadly friend
Behind the door
Where dreams descend(Where dreams descend)
And the shadows smile

Lips dark and wild
The shadows smile
And kiss the sky
Behind the door
The poison door
The puppets dance on a burning floor
Like dying flames
Behind the door
Shoot me down again

(repeat to first break)

And kiss your memory goodbye
And the shadows smile
But their lips are ssss...

And the shadows smile
Lips dark and wild
And the shadows smile
Kiss your memory goodbye
And the shadows smile
Lips dark and wild
And kiss the sky

Possession

Carrion child,
Prey for me,play your
Wild card, see the house come down around your
Head, home to me, so much dreaming
Some say m growing cold and
Taking over
Nothing, cuts, two ways.....
Possession: taking over
Stand these pictures on your shelf
And wear your heart upon my sleeve,
Wear a dress that you can see through,
See yourself inside;
I'll be your imagination,
Tear apart what you believe,
Make a mess of your conviction,
Take away my pride and leave,
Nothing, but the debris,
Cuts, two ways,
Carrion child,
Prey for me, play your
Wild card, see the house come down around your
Possession: taking over.....
Possession: shake shake shake shake shake shake;
Possession: taking over.....
Somehow the fact takes over, and the fiction coming through,
Somehow I do my crying breaking down for you,
This way doubt takes over, contradiction coming through,
This way I do my lying, making up and making out for you.....
Possession: taking over
Child (nothing)
Prey for me (but the debris)
Play your wild card (cuts two ways)
Some say I'm growing cold and
Taking over.....Down around your
Head (nothing)
Home to me (but the debris)
So much dreaming, see the house come down around your
Possession: shake shake shake shake shake shake shake
Possession: taking over.....
Possession: shake shake shake shake shake shake shake
Possession: taking hold

Rain from Heaven

We forgive as we forget
As the day is long
As the day is long
Rain from Heaven

We forgive as we forget
As the day is long
As the day is long
(Repeat x6)

We forgive as we forget
As the day is long
As the day is long
Rain from Heaven
(Repeat)

As the water flows over the bridge(We forgive as we forget)
As we walk on the floodland(As the day is long)
As we walk on the water (As the day is long)
We forget
We forget
Rain from heaven (Rain from Heaven)
(Repeat to fade)

Red Skies Disappear

Out of our hands
Something's calling
Catch me crying
Calling your name
Marian
Do no more than
Watch you try and understand me
Well i've found
It worth the ***
All around me
All around me
Marian
Take my hand
Lay beside me on the burning sand

CHORUS
Marian
Only you can
Say the words i need to hear
Marian
Only you can
Make these red skies disappear

Marian

CHORUS

Marian
Can you hear me calling?
Touch me now
In my hour of need
Speak to me softly
Lay down beside me
Marian
I think you know
I need you near me
Don't try to understand
The sun is falling
Burning sand
Can you hear me calling?
Marian

CHORUS

Ribbons

I'm lying on my back now
The stars look all too near
Flowers on the razor wire
I know you're here
We are few
And far between
I was thinking about her skin
Love is a many splintered thing
Don't be afraid now
Just walk on in
(Flowers on the razor wire)
(Walk on in)
Her eyes were cobalt red
Her voice was cobalt blue
I see no purple light
Crashing out of you
So just walk on in
(Flowers on the razor wire)
(Walk on in)
Her lovers queued up in the hallway
I heard them scratching at the door
I tried to tell her
About Marx and Engels, God and Angels
I don't really know what for
But she looked good in ribbons
So just walk on in
She looked good in ribbons
So just walk on in

Tie a red red red red red red ribbon
Love is a many splintered thing
Tie a red red red red ribbon
Don't be afraid
Just walk on in

Just walk on in
(Incoming...)
(Incoming...)
Just walk on in
Just walk on in
Flowers on the razor wire
Just walk on in...
INCOMING!

A Rock and a Hard Place

And she came to look for me
Sold me name and innocence
Took my key
And told me to follow her
Down from igor with her bangles and her reference
One from the church from the valley of the
Well she wanted a haven and a place to hide
So I gave her an alibi took her inside but

A rock and a hard place await for for me
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
Everything I ever did right or wrong
Hid out of sight where I belong, belong

And I didn't have the heart to tell her
Why
And there wasn't a part of me that
Didn't want to say goodbye but

Cause and effect go hand in hand with
The devil may care but I don't mind and I
Thought she'd never quite understand so I
Left her there that night but will she
Find me? I don't think so, no
When you go, you go alone
And I'm gone.............
far away (x4)

And I didn't have the heart to tell
Why
And there wasn't a part of me that
Didn't want to say goodbye but...

CHORUS (to fade)

Some Kind of Stranger

And yes I believe in what we had
But words got in the way
And only yesterday
As I was leaving
Lord knows I've tried to say but I've
Heard a million conversations
Going where they've been before
Seen the way that careful lingers
Undecided at the door

CHORUS
And all I know for sure
All I know for real
Is knowing doesn't mean so much
When placed against the feeling
The heat inside
When bodies meet
When fingers touch

All my words are secondhand and
Useless in the face of this
Rationale and rhyme and reason
Pale beside a single kiss
And I've heard so many things I
Fail to understand at all
I'd settle anytime for
Unknown footsteps in the hall outside

CHORUS

Because the world is cruel and
Promises are broken
Don't try to tell me
Anything don't try to tell me
You'll be true to me you know the
Real truth is never spoken
And I know the world is cold but
If you hold on tight to what you
Find you might not mind too much though
Even this must pass away and
Memories may last for years but
Names are just for souvenirs
Some kind of angel let me
Look into your eyes
Don't give me whys and wherefores
Reason or surprise
I don't care for words that don't belong
And I don't care what you're called
Tell me later if at all
I can wait a long long time
Before I hear another love song

Come here I think you're beautiful
My door is open wide
Some kind of angel come inside

Come here I think you're beautiful
I think you're beautiful beautiful
Some kind of angel come inside

Come here I think you're beautiful
I think you're beautiful
Some kind of angel come inside

Come here I think you're beautiful
My door is open wide
Some kind of stranger come inside

Come here I think you're beautiful
I think you're beautiful beautiful
Some kind of stranger come inside

Come here I think you're beautiful
I think you're beautiful
Some kind of stranger come inside

(repeat last three verses to fade)

Something Fast

All the things
We never needed
I don't need them now
All the things
Were always confidential
And hidden from me anyhow

You can stand all night
At a red light anywhere in town
Hailing maries left and right
But none of them slow down
I seen the best of men go past
I don't want to be the last
Gimme something fast

God knows everybody needs
A hand in their decision
Some of us are not so sure
I seen his own held out
For a ride on television
I think he's still in Baltimore

You can stand all night
At a red light anywhere in town
Hailing maries left and right
But none of them slow down
I seen the best of men go past
I don't want to be the last
Gimme something fast

Temple of Love

1
With the fire from the fireworks up above me
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain at hand
You run for cover in the temple of love
You run for another but still the same
For the wind will blow my name across this land

2
In the temple of love you hide together
Believing pain and fear outside
But someone near you rides the weather
And the tears he cried will rain on walls
As wide as lovers eyes

CHORUS
In the temple of love: Shine like thunder
In the temple of love: Cry like rain
In the temple of love: Hear my calling
In the temple of love: Hear my name

3
And the devil in black dress watches over
My guardian angel walks away
Life is short and love is always over in the morning
Black wind come carry me far away

4
With the sunlight died and night above me
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain inside

5
You run for cover in the temple of love
You run for another it's all the same
For the wind will blow and throw your walls aside
With the fire from the fireworks up above
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain

6
You run for cover in the temple of love
I shine like thunder cry like rain
And the temple grows old and strong
But the wind blows longer cold and long
And the temple of love will fall before
This black wind calls my name to you no more

7
In the black sky thunder sweeping
Underground and over water
Sounds of crying weeping will not save
Your faith for bricks and dreams for mortar
All your prayers must seem as nothing
Ninety-six below the wave
When stone is dust and only air remains

CHORUS 2
In the temple of love: Shine like thunder
In the temple of love: Cry like rain
In the temple of love: Hear the calling
And the temple of love is falling
Down

(end of single version. extended version's additional lyrics follow)

CHORUS

(repeat verse 7)

the only haven you can trust

(repeat verse 3)

With the fire from the fireworks up above
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain you

(repeat verse 6)

(repeat verse 2)

CHORUS 2


Torch

And now the torch
And shadows lead
Were it not so black and not so hard to see
How can it help you when you don't know what you need
How can anybody set you free?

Would he walk upon the water
If he couldn't walk away?
And would you
Would you carry the torch
For me?

And what if I gave you the key
To the doors of your design...
Lit the corridors of desire?
Where if not so black
And not so hard to see
What use to you then any fire?

Would he walk upon the water
If he couldn't walk away?
And would you
Carry the torch for me?

Would he walk upon the water
If he couldn't walk away?
And would you
Would you carry the torch for me?

Would you carry the torch
For me?
Would you carry the torch
For me?
Would you carry the torch
For me?

Train

Train (x3)

Take a last decision and the cars to move it
Past information
Tunnel vision and the scars to prove it
Everybody got a reservation
Far beyond the black horizon
Beyond the things you know
Everybody got a destination
Everybody got a place to go

Take a walk downtown to where the victims go
Take your shadow to the end to the very last window
Everybody got friends got shot upside and over
Down the line
Everybody got assignations
I got mine

Take a one-way ticket to the chain-reaction
Out a hole between the ground and sky
Make a railway track for the main attraction
Cross my heart and take a ride
Far beyond the black horizon
Beyond the things you know
Everybody got a destination
Everybody got a place to go

Under the Gun

You don't have to say you're sorry
To look on further down the line
Into the sun
Too close at heaven
Love is fine
But you can't hold it like a...

Two worlds apart two together
Into that good night kiss away
One takes the hard, one the other
Kiss away

Are you living for love?
Are you living for love?
When the road gets too tough
Is your love strong enough?

Are you living?
Are you living for love?
Are you living for love?
(Repeat)

Do you feel your head is full of thunder?
Questions never end?
Empty nights alone?
No wonder
It all comes back again

Are you living for love?
Are you living for love?
I've been under the gun
I've lost and I've won
(Repeat)

(two, three, four)

Forget the many steps to heaven
It never happened and it ain't so hard
Happiness is a loaded weapon and a
Short cut is better by far
Explosive bolts, ten thousand volts
At a million miles an hour
Abrasive wheels and molten metals
It's a semi-automatic, get in the car
Corrosive heart and frozen heat

We're worlds apart where we could meet

Where the street fold round and the motors start
And the idiot wields the power
Where the chosen hold the highest card
On the field of honour where the ground is hard
So the highest hand is joking wild
And the house soon fold and no one stand
I put my finger on and dialled
The tower, the moon, the gun and
Nine nine nine, singer down
Cloudburst and all around
The first are last, the blessed get wired
The best is yet to come
I put my finger on and fired
Heat-seeking, out of the sun
You can set the controls for the heart or the knees
And the meek'll inherit what they damn well please
Get ahead, go figure, go ahead and pull the trigger
Everything under the gun

Valentine

The razor bites and the shriek subsides
He arches clutching at his sides
Across the floor across the tiles
The man is dead and the razor smiles
A shiny love song a quick incision
Cut him down on television

A people come to this
Beyond the age of reason
A people fed on famine
A people on their knees and
People eat each other
A people stand in line
Waiting for another war and
Waiting for my valentine

For a million empty faces
For a million hollow smiles
Cancer for my education
Watch the body hit the files
Waiting for another war and
Waiting for my valentine

Vision Thing

Twenty-five whores in the room next door
Twenty-five floors and I need more
I'm looking for the can in the candy store
Two thousand Hamburg four
And colours I ain't seen before

It's a small world and it smells funny
I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money
Take back what I paid
For another motherfucker in a motorcade

In a long black car
With the prettiest shit
From Panama
When the sirens wail
And the lights flash blue
My vision thing come
Slamming through

It's a small world and it smells bad
I'd buy another if I had
Back
What I paid

For another motherfucker in a motorcade
Slamming through
Slamming through

What do we need to make our world come alive?
What does it take to make us sing?
While we're waiting for the next one to arrive?
One million points of light
One billion dollar Vision Thing

Another black hole in the killing zone
A little more mad in the methedrome
One blinding flash of sense
Just like the president's
Well, I don't mind
Out of my mind
Blizzard king
Bring it on home

It's a small world and it smells bad
I'd buy another if I had
Back
What I paid
For another motherfucker in a motorcade

And a vision thing
And a vision thing
And a ...
Sha la la la

What do we need to make our world come alive?
What do we need to make us sing?
While we're waiting for the next one to arrive?
One million points of light
One billion dollar Vision Thing

Sha la la la

Walk Away

And in the summer when the clouds show through
I might go the same way too if
You and I could talk together
Well what am I supposed to do with
You and I would walk together
Then with always close around and
Now you gaze toward the doorway
When the weather comes falling down

CHORUS
And when the rain comes down
Would you choose to walk or stay
Would you choose to walk
Would you choose to stay
Would you
Walk walk walk walk walk away
(away) (away) away away (away) away
away away walk away
Would you choose to walk away

And when the rain comes down
Would you choose to walk or stay
Would you choose to walk
Would you choose to stay
Would you
Walk walk walk walk walk away

Though when the day is nearly
Through I might see the same way too if
You would name the things
That bring you down on me so I could say it's
Not quite true if you don't really
Know or understand the circumstance
Behind then I might clear your
Mind and you won't have to go so

CHORUS

Watch

Here's the story
No time to lose (like the present)
Now I've lost my friends
Now I've lost friends
It's not my party,
Never will be
Feeling out-of-place,
I'm not happy
A touch of the storm cloud...
Roughage in a comradeship and conversations
Conversations, everything's so run-of-the-mill
We stand still...

And time slips back,
And time slips back...
Back to the garden,
Time slips back
Back in the dark rooms
Time slips back
Back in the dark room
Back to the dark age
Put me on the rack
We stand still
Time slips back
Recount movements
Recount movements
Watch us grow
Watch us fall from grace
Watch us fall flat on our face
But you always fall on your feet
Tell me how you always
Fall on your feet
Tell me how
Tell me how
Tell me how
Oh tell me how

When You Don't See Me

When you don't see me...

It's not a matter of going to grow
It's not a matter of time or how I feel
I'm throwing off the shadow of a better man now
What you see is what you never had
Get real
Get another

I don't exist when you don't see me
I don't exist when you're not here
What the eye don't see won't break the heart
You can make believe when we're apart
But when you leave I disappear
When you don't see me...

Oh, it's kind of different when your there
You can lease the peace of mind
You bought a mask, I put it on
You never thought to ask me
If I wear it when you're gone
Get real
Get another

I don't exist when you don't see me
I don't exist when you're not here
What the eye don't see won't break the heart
You can make believe when we're apart
But when you leave I disappear
When you don't see me...

You never learned
You bought me
Everything and less
I turned
You couldn't let me move
I guess, I don't deny, it don't disprove
What you see is what you lost
If I were you I wouldn't try
Get real
Get another

I don't exist when you don't see me
I don't exist when you're not here
What the eye don't see won't break the heart
You can make believe when we're apart
But when you leave I disappear
When you don't see me...

Wide Receiver

You say
Where is my believer
Waiting for the sign
Those feet off the ground
...
... the skies go wild
Tattered and torn your feet never bleed
You say never mattered ...
... is over and the hour is ...

And where's your wide receiver
Over the line

Where's your wide receiver
Over the border
Where's your wide receiver
Over the line
Where's your wide receiver
Over the edge and
Too far forward
Where's your wide receiver
Over the line
(Repeat to fade)

You Could Be The One

All gods children give good phone
I called Jesus, he's not home
So I'm so pleased to talk to you
Trees and walks I love them too
Threatened species they adore me,
Flower children never bore me
But all the this you share
Are better left unsaid
When you can give me there
And run your fingers through my hair

CHORUS
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, You could be the one
We can meditate
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, You could be the one
Let's call it fate
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, You could be the one
To get your flowers pressed
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, You could be the one
Just get undressed

I'm so glad to find you here
Mystic people they're so dear
I don't like the rest
Your signs the best
Whatever it is
I'm most impressed
I don't need to understand
The laying on of hands
I'm in a hurry to get my collar straight
Life is short and I can't wait
But don't worry about the state
Of this pretty little thing in the armour plate

CHORUS

I'm so pleased that you believe
Just open up a little let the good times in
We're, going fo a ride
Destiny can't be denied
But all those precious things are better left unsaid
When you can keep me here
And run your fingers though my hair

CHORUS

Love, is all you need.