1. |
Last Orders
02:37
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so wrapped up in the air you breathe,
it's filling up fast, you'd better believe,
last orders, dear friends, take a bow,
absolute health, cheers to the bar,
they say that the end is now not far,
don't cry for what's gone, live for now,
THERE'S NO TIME TO WASTE TODAY,
REMEMBER THIS TASTE TODAY,
DRINK TO WHAT'S GONE, SMASH THE GLASS,
THIS IS NO TIME TO SIT ON YOUR ARSE!
get your rocks off, rock your socks,
watch a shiny plastic fantastic box,
a digital dream with double-whipped cream,
visions appear in front of your face,
you black out the windows and join the race,
to a virtual dream that's silicon-clean,
BUT THERE'S NO TIME TO WASTE TODAY,
REMEMBER THIS TASTE TODAY,
DRINK TO WHAT'S GONE, SMASH THE GLASS,
THIS IS NO TIME TO SIT ON YOUR ARSE!
wheeling and dealing, men in their vibe,
but a hollow and pasted poster of life,
goes tick-tock away on the shelf,
do you think this is what I should be?
peel back the skin and all you'll see,
is a one and a billion noughts,
one more drink now, what do you say?
it eases the pressure but such a price to pay,
and I ain't got time for these thoughts,
what did you say, time to call it a day?
leave to where signs won't post you the past?
anchor up? out of town? out of sight?
get out fast, leave tonight.
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2. |
All Or Nothing
02:05
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I'll go a long way
I won't be meek
just try and catch my libido
a little irony
a lot of tongue in cheek
coming at you
like a torpedo
i once had a scheme for a sugar machine
well irreverence can be such a holy thing
but I worship so much I'm afraid to touch
the bubbles that burst over the dream
what you don't say may worry my day
i'm not well, my boat has sprung a leak
you bleach me to grey
and fade away
but I like what i hear when you speak
i am
what i am
come with me tonight
heaven knows
me in other clothes
I hung on the sidelines skating the wide lines
came a thousand miles and i haven't learned yet
you tore off the roses to welcome the nineties
a celibate lover makes a selfish pet
don't talk no, walk through the door
you're my favourite ashtray
for only a shilling
for lack of a filling
you don't have much to say
well excuse me ma'am
but a flat battery
affects my ability
to give out flattery
it would keep me occupied
all
for nothing
all
is nothing
it's all
or nothing
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3. |
Slipstream
03:04
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Dreaming of life
bored of a life of dreaming,
move out
onto the mind beam
wanting my time
now my time is wanting,
never seek
that's how to find
Meaning of life
is sex is life with meaning?
slide into the slipstream,
find the truth, and where we've been,
glimpse the corner of the mind
It won't be long, back where we belong,
dreams, I dream to find what's mine,
and every path I tread goes over my head,
demons in reverse ride waves through time
I remember
sliding effortless nights,
thinking of another day, sure of another day
I remember
passing effortless days,
so sure we're alive, are we sure we're alive?
Say what you think say what you feel,
NO-ONE CAN FIND US, we're all alone,
take it to the brink let your mind be still,
no-one inside us, WE'RE ALL ALONE
Cobwebs and dust, Untouched for so long,
suffer unto me, cease the flow,
decay, rust, something must be wrong,
suffer unto me before you go
pulled in time, we move closer,
to the end, we all move out,
Don't panic.
Don't shout.
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4. |
Across The Water
04:55
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How can I say
what many have said,
a thousand times before?,
my arms heavy
my heart slow
A child far from home
Lay with you and spring comes
from love high above to a storm below
kiss me, drive me now, hide all my fears
Surrender to the sea...
So vague these days, love is free,
I'll pay one day, some say
Easily yesterday brought you to me
as tomorrow will take you away...
To your love across the water,
One touch,
I'm good again, true again,
One touch,
I'm new again.
I dream of unfolding you holding me,
sea of love surrounding us
vertigo, such a long leap,
and the water is deep
Now I see you shrinking from sight,
feel the breeze beginning to cool,
there's no time to freshly excite,
who will play the Autumn fool?
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5. |
These Days (start again)
03:18
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The morning hour is always raining
a thousand faces like a river of dreams
the faces in the crowd, follow a trend
grey bleached faces fraying at the seams
the underground city needs a friend
We forget who we are, go running in the past
if we want to get there got to slow down fast
in a tower of power I gaze at Mona Lisa
she's dying by the hour, leaning like a Pizza
got to pass this phase, leave the maze
TEAR it UP, START AGAIN
(THESE DAYS it'S A CLICHE)
show us a new way
TEAR it UP, START AGAIN
(THESE DAYS it'S A CLICHE)
BRING ON THE NEW DAY
Another action replay, today's the same
your face in the crowd
never makes a sound
go to work on a train, play the game
we fly so high, till we hit the ground
TEAR it UP, START AGAIN
(THESE DAYS it'S A CLICHE)
show us a new way
TEAR it UP, START AGAIN
(THESE DAYS it'S A CLICHE)
BRING ON THE NEW DAY
We talk around the facts of living on air
the world is square and nobody cares
we run around in circles going nowhere
but the dream is real if we'd only dare
TEAR it UP, START AGAIN
(THESE DAYS it'S A CLICHE)
show us a new way
TEAR it UP, START AGAIN
(THESE DAYS it'S A CLICHE)
BRING ON THE NEW DAY
I flew to the moon on a one-way trip
just to shine like the shooting stars
get me back soon to the mothership
or the next rocket going to mars
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6. |
A New Life
01:16
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No future
when your eyes meet mine
freeway screams
a new kind of life
we'd do anything, how we'd shine
Let's break the cage
leave tonight
We'll blaze a trail across the sky
to a street so real the bones crack
when memory's proud nostalgia begs
Run through the door, never look back
Stain on a mirror
the prison is a room
of patterns which cling to suffocate
as emotion melts to a shadow-wing
there's an atmosphere here
of lovehate
Once I was nailed in a cage of dreams
The lost years, they had me tied
I ran, I had to leave it behind
my dream-street where love could ride
Run faster now, don't look behind at
darkened grime from seeds of crime
a cage of steel used to steal my words
but I'll be more than this,
in time.
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7. |
Trouble
02:15
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I woke up this morning,
my head was a bubble,
my legs WERE doubled,
MY FEET WALKED out of the door,
searching the RUBBLE,
I think I'm in trouble,
I think I'm in deep,
SLEEP TO DREAM
DREAM OF SLEEP
head full of buses,
planes and trains,
lost in a maze
carried away,
turning the sheets
connections to meet, to me eet,
winding roads and platforms compete,
I think I'm in trouble,
I think I'm in deep,
SLEEP TO DREAM
DREAM OF SLEEP
uncovered a person barely alive,
AND discovered ONE another,
outside OF THE LINEs,
retention of fees, no customer pleased,
shamed by the wrath of the god of unease,
I think I'm in trouble,
I think I'm in deep,
SLEEP TO DREAM
DREAM OF SLEEP
I think I'm in trouble,
I think I'm in deep,
SLEEP TO DREAM
DREAM OF SLEEP
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8. |
Nine To Five
03:02
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Alarm bells ring, you wake at eight,
Get in line boy don't be late,
(Eight more hours, you'll soon be away),
I see it all through this tiny lens,
you stay up late with your books and pens,
(the world is mad - run away run away),
Time moves fast when your day's all done,
Progress is slow there is nowhere to run,
(you feel knee-deep in feet of clay),
little by little we stretch our wings,
louder and louder the songbird sings.
(one day soon fly away fly away)
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9. |
Downtime
03:30
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CRAWL TO MY ROOM,
what do i find?
TIME AFTER TIME?
down below
the predators prowl
they DRIVE too FAST
Spin around
such Passionate clowns
chasing the CLOCK
around and around and around
I Sometimes think we're all
SPELLBOUND,
we WALK BLINDLY IN
to LOVE LIKE FIRE,
LITTLE do we KNOW
that we're SPELLBOUND,
we BATHE IN THE FLAMES
and cling to pain,
BATHE IN THE SUN
while dreaming of rain
I sometimes think we're all
HELLBOUND,
we STRUGGLE
we STRUGGLE with words
but LANGUAGE is leaky,
where once we CUPPED THOUGHT in our HANDS,
Lay down and rest
dream of a LIFE OF EASE,
Throw it in a box
who's words were these?
I sometimes think we're all
SPELLBOUND
BEES will DANCE
BIRDS shall fly,
building BRIDGES to BURN when they dry,
We BATHE IN THE SUN
while dreaming of rain,
BATHE IN THE FLAMES
and cling to pain
I Sometimes think
we're all HELLBOUND
Time will tear down this mystery
in Time
we all slip
to history
Time will heal
so come close
come quick...
...Catch my disease
I some, times think
we're all, HELLBOUND
I some, times think
we're all, SPELLBOUND
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10. |
Words Pour (always more)
04:44
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this grey sky
a wall of bricks
chaos riding high
i'll creep away
from these crowded times
slip away
a thousand lives
a thousand cries
go down in a blaze
when conformity fails
watch me go down
not holding the rails
on the information highway you and i
we are the children of the stars
children of the stars
reducing down with words
seducing sideshow lust
soon it will all crumble
crumble down to dust
i write a little
each and every day
try to write it all away
there's always more
more than there was
before
I write each day
words pour like rain.
every line and phrase
beats on my brain.
millenium prophet
with a chemical guitar.
jiving with a guru
might have gone too far
mopping up the murder
burying the day
jiving with a guru
try to light the way
Let's get way out of this place
I hear you say.
Leave this monument of mayhem
far away.
it's just another long-distance summer.
and justice
is a dirty word
my day dream lover
i hear them come to claim me.
i have to run for cover.
a thousand cries
slip away
a thousand lives
go down in a blaze when conformity fails
watch me go down
not holding the rails
soon it will all crumble
crumble down to dust
so i write a little each and every day
i try to write it all away
there's always more
always more
there's more I try to write it all away
there's always more
always more
more than there was
than there was
there was
before...
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11. |
Passing Storm
02:46
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Moonwalk in the city, pale yellow rancid light
it gets cold these Autumn nights, but I don't mind
they say it look like rain
turn on the water brain
a storm will pound
shake this building down
fading fast, feeling sick
Bring a doctor!
fix me quick
We're living in steel, there are no more dreams,
propped up by machines, you know what I mean
perfume sickly on the air disguises stale despair
despising thickly all the moments going spare
fading fast, feeling sick,
Bring a doctor
fix me quick
Revolving on a roundabout, nice and sleazy,
streets dirty, greasy, cracked paving, it ain't easy
you have to push hard to get things done
life shouldn't be a task to be dragged in the mud
fading fast, feeling sick,
Bring a doctor
fix me quick
People in their boxes, eyes of blinding white
I want you tonight
light's too bright,
I want to go to bed, but I have to stay awake
don't give up, there's far too much at stake
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12. |
Sunglasses
00:45
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I wear my sunglasses when it rains,
if I were blind, I'd need no shade.
the sun shines my eyes are closed,
as night arrives I put on my pose,
I wear my sunglasses when it rains,
some people say I'm crazy,
feel my eyesight fade.
maybe I See the world, in a better way.
Where are you going?
what have you become?
bump into things I'm so cool,
walk in a daze not much to say,
you don't know who you're talking to,
who sees where they are anyway?
Where are you going?
what have you become?
abstraction
attraction
all my invention..
eyes open, mouth closed.
all talk but no action is not my intention!
...eyes open, mouth closed.
I wear my sunglasses when it rains,
some people say I'm crazy,
feel my eyesight fade, maybe I.
See the world.
in a better way.
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13. |
This Crowded House
03:51
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Encircle the shrine
a house of sticks
stone walls around a dream
of red tide,
Your chastity elects.
to keep it inside,
this crowded house.
with the door shut tight,
where night is a game
that's lost in the day,
It's dumb to pretend,
when mamma's away.
She once had a dream,
things not what they seem,
lightning strikes,
spearing her shame,
thunder clouds came,
calling her name.
Saw a great white boat,
on a dead calm sea,
of old shrunken dreams,
inside screams,
leave her to fear
lock her
away.
he said
The madness I need within you
is my chance to win you
i will put my madness in you
My madness comes alive in you
My madness is inside you
In my madness
I would die.
for you.
old shrunken dreams,
inside screams,
leave her to fear
lock her away.
keep it inside,
door shut tight,
leave her to fear
lock her away.
put my madness
in you
Go down to the line,
make no sound,
brightly sprightly build the fire,
you nightly light the funeral pyre.
Flames flicker, fingers burned,
in bitter sweet tears to swallow her pain.
leave her to fear
lock.
her.
away.
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14. |
S is For...
00:48
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Today I see a face,
Staring from a mirror,
Outside my control,
S is for suffering,
suffocating laughter
Realisation appears,
to alter the years,
each grey day,
making a mockery,
Laughing in screams
Blessed this posession,
advantageous disease,
Built on private thought,
And the wall...
how tall?
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15. |
On A Bench In The Rain
03:46
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drinks a bottle of Chianti
dives into Danté
he talks like cocaine, on a bench in the rain
he says 'Listen close to my lies'
our 'Friends' are as silent as spies
he's still attached to that world of hate,
the platitudes flake from his skin, so fake,
no we won't talk to him about our fate.
words are disguise, they hide and forsake
a stop-at-home boy, playing with toys,
- try to shoot me down, now go ahead.
you don't have a clue so you make a noise
out of sight and sound you're good as dead.
I drink a bottle each day, the best Moet
(you, have an ugly-face}
now go away
here come the clouds, right over your head,
you severed a link, and lost a friend
I don't think you heard, when they said
life is a jewel but I'll keep cool
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16. |
A Dark Age
04:11
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Dark is the night now, since you're gone.
I'm no longer sure, what, I should do,
I'm left here standing without a song,
In discordant, beams of blue.
So I keep searching, the lines on my face.
To find that absent clue.
Things were said, things were done.
Now I no longer believe in you.
no longer believe.
in you.
They pay my way now, on this rat race,
and I find that nothing's new,
When these wide eyes. met your wild face.
a symphony in black and blue.
Dark are the days now, all hammers and tongs,
I think I know what I have to do.
uh broken gauge of the rights and wrongs.
You could shine a light right through.
You could shine a light.
right through.
Dark are the days now, I hurry along,
And the cage it hurries too.
A reddened rage now, where thought belongs,
I'm gaining fast, it's the end of you.
I'm never gonna liv again.
I'll never liv again.
I'm never, gonna liv again.
I never wana liv again.
I'll never
liv again
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17. |
Epilogue
07:05
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A blue dream
blew in
across the water
far from home
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