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Believe in me, I believe in you. Try to stay alive
The ghost of me, the ghost of you. Walking side by side
You can cry all night, You can cry all night
Sun still gonna come up in the morning time
Petals open when reached by sunlight
You can cry all night, You can cry all night
Sun still gonna come up in the morning time
Petals open when reached by sunlight
I seek no evil, hear no evil
Release me from this comedy of errors
I want no trouble, seek no trouble
The hand of Maradona strikes again
Petals open when reached by sunlight
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2. |
Last plane out of Saigon
03:51
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The first leaves of autumn have fallen from space
The nicotine stains
Carved into my memory
To your strange ways, I swore allegiance
Keep travelling east so it never goes dark
Follow your heart
Wherever ever the damn thing goes
I'm sorry,
Just don't wanna be alone
Ten thousand years of solitude
I'm better with you, I'm better without you
Be my lover
Last night I dreamed we could taste victory
Close to heaven, on earth heaven
Last night I dreamed we were passengers on
The last plane, out of Saigon
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3. |
Jellyfish
03:38
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We speak a language no one else understands
Have conversations in silence
You talk to me using telepathy
Then one day you stopped smiling
Go back to the start
Don't forget your broken heart
It’s gathering dust
Beneath the pawnshop counter
In the twinkle of an eye disaster strikes again
Always trouble in our paradise
I was a jellyfish washed up on the sand
Of your desert island
Starved of oxygen, surrounded by oxygen
I'll never see the ocean again
Your eyes tell me all
Your lips are too scared
Your Paddington bear
I was your dentist’s chair
In the twinkle of an eye disaster strikes again
Always trouble in our paradise
For you I'd leave my body
For you I'd leave my body
Always trouble in our paradise
Always trouble in our paradise
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Summer didn't stick around,
To see the ship it launched go down
Summer didn’t stick around,
To see the ship it launched go down without a trace
sin a riss im bo as am bos im ro
sin a riss im bo as am bos im ro
Time, waits for no one
Time, stands still for no one
I was only nineteen
Caught in a dream
Telling anyone who'll listen
I got something
That no one else has
That no one else believes
That no one else can see
But me
Winter wouldn’t go away
The Hudson River a skating rink
Winter stuck around for centuries
The cold was creeping from within our bones,
Occupied our souls
sin a riss im bo as am bos im ro
sin a riss im bo as am bos im ro
Time, waits for no one
time ,stands still for no one
I was only nineteen
caught in a dream
tellin anyone who'll listen
I got something
that no one else has
that no one else believes
that no one else can see
but me
Winter in my bones
The old enemy
Listen to seashells
They know everything
Bloodlines splintering
Hurricanes coming
Dream of emptiness
Through the centuries
White noise frenzy
Watch the summer rain
Disappear again
I was only nineteen
Caught in a dream
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5. |
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By the grace of god we can sing
By the grace of god we’ve got Martin Luther-King
By the grace of god we are free
By the grace of god we can live our wildest dreams
I know it’s hard to imagine but we’ll learn to laugh again
I know it’s hard to imagine but our stars will cross again
If I see my reflection one more time
Fall asleep
Dream of Caroline
By the grace of god we have life
By the grace of god we were born at the same time
By the grace of god you were sent
By the grace of god we can walk through walls again
I know it’s hard to imagine but we’ll learn to laugh again
I know it’s hard to imagine but we’ll fall in love again
If I see my reflection one more time
Fall asleep
Dream of Caroline
Somehow
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6. |
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Man stands
Desolate
Lonely as a cloud
All his far-flung fantasies gone
When they ripped it out
When they ripped it out
Climb the tallest tree
Watch the bloody Mary sunset
Cascade across the city
Where hope has been switched off
Like a fucking television,
You’re still out there
I don't know where
But it’s killing me
Every second it's killing me
But behind the forced smile
I was only flesh and bone to you
And I will never walk up those stairs again
And I will never walk up those stairs again
We could go anywhere
Even the stars
The only living boy
And only living girl
And I will always be haunted by that moment
Woke up and she was gone
I'm not angry
I'm just sad
Cannot stand this planet
When I was a kid I used to think everything would be ok
Now I walk down the street
I want to chop the head off every person I see
If this is it
If this all there is
I don't want to play anymore
The bandstand burns tonight
And I'm going up with it
Don’t believe in waking up each day
Don’t believe in playing this game
Don’t believe the written prophecies
Don’t believe in my own destiny
Don’t believe in miracles
Strange things just happen
There are no such things just happen
There’s no such thing as miracles
But I’ll walk up those stairs again
We could go anywhere
Even the stars
The only living boy
And only living girl
We could be Adam and eve
Rulers of the earth
When I was in your arms
The whole wide world melted away
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7. |
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Summer evening Golders Green
Held you close for what seemed
Like an eternity
I still go there in my dreams
Still see you turning cartwheels
In endless circles
You were always the brightest kid in school
Alison, Alison, Alison
God knows what they've done to you
Alison, Alison, Alison
We were invincible back then
Sunday morning, London Bridge
Lost souls collided, the whole world vanished
I still go there in my dreams
Still find your fingerprints
All across my skin
You were always the brightest kid in school
Alison, Alison, Alison
God knows what they've done to you
Alison, Alison, Alison
We were invincible back then
Broken, Broken, Broken, Broken
You never smile for the camera
You never smile for the camera
You never smile for the camera
You never smile for the camera
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8. |
How to make you laugh
03:27
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Our chance lies buried with the dinosaur bones
With the reluctant heroes and the moving statues
Our chance lies destined for the ocean floor
With the men overboard and the shopping trolleys
I am a psychologist to the psychologists
I am the silver moon, friend of the stars
I am not the chosen one
I can only do miracles when I‘m drunk
I'm not the world’s funniest clown
but I know how to make you laugh
Our chance lies destined for the cutting room floor
With the forgotten lines and the bits that weren’t funny
Our chance concertinaed on the hard shoulder
With the record players and the pen and paper
I am a psychologist to the psychologists
I am the silver moon, friend of the stars
I am not the chosen one
I can only do miracles when I’m drunk
I'm not the world’s funniest clown
But I know how to make you laugh
We’ve all got our sleeping giants
Vicious streaks we hide
It’s always the quiet ones
Einsteins in disguise
I am a psychologist to the psychologists
I am the silver moon, friend of the stars
I am not the chosen one
I can only do miracles when I’m drunk
I'm not the world’s funniest clown
But I know how to make you laugh
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9. |
Witches broom
04:44
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Sanctus , sanctus dei
Kyrie et sanctus dei
Gloria domine
Libere me domine
This Hannibal Lecter
Just crying out to be held
Agnus agnus dei
Hosanna in excelcis
Keeps me walking through the streets at night
Searching eyes for you halogen spotlights
Keeps me walking through the streets at night
If I live to be nine hundred and ninety nine
Take me to the moon
On your witches broom
I’ll ride shotgun for your
On your witches broom
Verbe et gal aux tres aux
Nous ranqons les silences
Dissipes les someeille
Nous ranqons les silences
This burning ambition
The strength to carry on
Nous ranqons les silences
Hosanna in excelcis
Keeps me walking through the streets at night
Searching eyes for you halogen spotlights
Keeps me walking through the streets at night
If I live to be nine hundred and ninety nine
Take me to the moon
On your witches broom
I’ll ride shotgun for you
On your witches broom
I’ll be watching over you
On our mission to
Leave the crazies to
Their sudoku
There’s a person hiding in there
Just crying out to be held
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10. |
Shredder
03:42
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The tap still drips.
The cactus dies
Consciences bounce off satellites
The spider still hangs inside the brass church bell
Because the flies are attracted to the blood of Christ
Still talk with a lisp,
Smoke 40 a day
Can’t think of what to say,
‘Til three days later
When the moments passed
Sailed into the sunset
Drunk at the wheel of the Mary Celeste
And your head
Falls off like a coconut
I was a prisoner
At the mercy of impossible dreams
My heart still screams for a human
Human being
Lost in your gaze,
King’s Cross station
Where boy meets girl
Clash of titans
Going thru the shredder
Positive equals negative
Life owes no favours and I ask for none
But I lost the battle for your funny looks
A torn out page in your history book
All the hairs on the back of my neck stand up
When I walk through the valley of your vampire love
Synchronized swimming with meaningless words
Cleverly disguised as the secret of the universe
Dying in the arms of a praying mantis
Hidden in the body of a Greek goddess
I was a prisoner
At the mercy of impossible dreams
My heart still screams for a human
Human being
Lost in your gaze
King’s Cross station
Where boy meets girl
Clash of titans
Going thru the shredder
If only they could speak
But no one heard their screams
Front London to eternity
Between this world and the next
You’ll never be eclipsed
From London to the unwritten
Lost in your gaze,
Kings cross station
Where boy meets girl
Clash of titans
Going thru the shredder
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11. |
Road to Damascus
05:04
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Lightning strikes the elephants
Beijing morning, fifteenth December
I was cold and I was naked
Were you there, were you anywhere
Snow falls on the desert sand
Love remains mystery
You can star in
My side of the mountain
The sun goes down the last time
You can star in
My movie
You can hear the whales singing
If you listen underwater
On the cliff top, I was waiting
Did you care, were you ever there
Snow falls on the desert sand
Love remains mystery
You can star in
Way over the horizon
The hands of god don't stretch that far
You can star in
My movie
You can star in, you can star in, our movie
You can star in, play the heroine, in our movie
You can star in, you can star in, our movie
You can star in; play the heroine, in our movie
We're on the road to Damascus now
You and me in the final scene
Standing under the rain machine
We're on the road to Damascus now
Through the sea of tranquility
Standing under the rain machine
We're on the road to Damascus now
You and me in the final scene
Standing under the rain machine
We're on the road to Damascus now
You and me in the final hour
You and me in the final hour
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12. |
Beehive mind
03:20
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The lion tamer’s irresistible whisper, the pantomime villain, is only a kitten
The beckoning voices at sixes and sevens, all tomorrows mysteries written in her lipstick
The flower that cannot blossom, grows at the bottom, of the mid Atlantic valley, in the mid Atlantic ocean
Waits for that moment when the whirlpools above it, and a tunnel of light, forms clear to the sky
Baby you’re the meeting of the Nile and the Amazon
You are the point of no return
The greatest of them all
Victoria falls falling over Niagara Falls
You are the honey
You are the honey
In my beehive mind
The penniless orphan, now entering orbit, the sherbet fountains, the candy floss clouds
The sugar capped mountain, the chocolate ocean, swimming with dolphins, we bleed serotonin
There was a scarecrow, on a barren hillside, and I’ll wait here ‘til I die, or my conscience springs to life
When the last man standing, has stood on a landmine, and a tunnel of light, forms clear to the sky
Baby you’re the meeting of the Nile and the Amazon
You are the point of no return
The greatest of them all
Victoria falls falling over Niagara Falls
You are the honey
You are the honey
In my beehive mind
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13. |
Mid air collisions
04:14
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When I woke up this morning there was blood on my hands
There’s a look in your eye that could start Vietnam
Rain is falling but there isn’t a cloud in the sky
Watch the pink flamingos go in search of summertime
Only Ghosts can have mid air collisions
Christmas cracker jokes worn, cigarette paper thin
This is my ultimatum to Laura Palmer
UFOs can have outer body experiences
The river of life, I saw the river of life
Within those fuck-me eyes
Imagined orchestras dictate the music of our hearts
Trembling in unison, echo back from the stars
Smile if you love winter, making angels in the snow
Each unique flake a miracle, a fragment of our souls
Only Ghosts can have mid air collisions
Christmas cracker jokes worn, cigarette paper thin
This is my ultimatum to Laura Palmer
UFOs can have outer body experiences
The river of life, I saw the river of life
Within those fuck-me eyes
There’s a place for people like you
Called last in the human race
Seek and destroy all you hold close to your
Heart held together by sellotape
That’s my boy follow the trickle of blood
That’s my boy follow the river of pain
Only Ghosts can have mid air collisions
Christmas cracker jokes worn, cigarette paper thin
This is my ultimatum to Laura Palmer
UFOs can have outer body experiences
The river of life, I saw the river of life
Within those fuck-me eyes
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14. |
We stand alone
03:08
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Girl I love only you, in the battle of hearts and minds, just you
But we couldn’t sing in tune, shattered glass, cleared the room, Just you
We stand alone at the end of it all
A stone’s throw from Nirvana
Ever since you went away
The world will never be the same
They sent an army for you
They named a street after you, just you
Girl I hunger for only you
In the battle of hearts and minds, just you
We stand alone at the end of it all
A stones throw from Nirvana
Ever since you went away
The world will never be the same
And I waited outside all night in the rain, but you never came back, so I waited again
And I waited like a handprint, waited like a headstone, waited like a cactus, waited like a broken home
Waited for the sun like a midwinter dawn and I saw your face on a milk carton
And you looked real young, like you’d never hurt anyone
I waited through the storm and I waited through the fire
Waited eight miles high just to stay alive
And I waited as the crows peck out my eyes
And the bluebottles swarm, and their children are born
And I wait ‘til my bones bleach white in the sun
And I waited as Santa Anna whistles through my rib cage
Scorpions hide in side my broken elevator
Outside all night in the rain, ‘til my dying day I’ll wait again
We stand alone at the end of it all
Have symbiotic existence
Ever since you went away
The world will never be the same
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15. |
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Stop
When the music dies we stop
Smoke hangs like a cloak over the city
As silence rolls in from the sea
Small wonder your eyes turn misty
When you think of the years that you lost
They said, that you were protected from above,
But this isn't Hollywood
Then they found parts of you all over London
The last of the mojitos
Volcanoes grows tentacles
Mountains become islands
In the shadows of her shadow
Little changes from year to year, for lovers of the disappeared
Just can’t imagine a tomorrow, on the sunny side of sorrow
Where were the architects of our destruction, where was the silent revolution
Where was crime scene investigation, when we were sucked into the escalator
Last thing
I remember was falling down stairs
Still doing handbrake turns in my dreams, wondering
How come the gods are all at Martha’s vineyard now
When we've fallen asleep at the wheel
There’s this smouldering vacuum where tomorrow was
for one night only, the universe is ours
From the rings of Jupiter to Hollywood Boulevard
Baby tonight we are fucking in the stars
The last of the mojitos
The future becomes impossible
Oceans unite as one
In the shadow of her shadow
Little changes from year to year, for lovers of the disappeared
Just can’t imagine a tomorrow, on the sunny side of sorrow
Where were the architects of our destruction, where was the silent revolution
Where was crime scene investigation, when we were sucked into the escalator
Together, together, together, together
Together, together, together, together
Together we will shatter on the rocks far below
Together we can make it into Madame Tussaud’s
Where was Howlin Wolf, where was sitting bull, where were the gods of the sun and the moon
Where was Krishna, where were the Kray twins, where were Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra
Where was Nostradamus and the headless horseman, your gentle love in the fragile morning
The ugly ducklings and the screaming orphans, where were their fathers and there fathers before them
Where was Blackbeard and the skull and crossbones where was Chaplin, where was Sherlock Holmes,,,
Where was Zorro and the man from del Monte, where was Mr. Miyagi and the dead poets society
Together we are greater than the second coming
Together we are greater than the fire of London
Together we will climb the devil’s staircase
Together we will enter, smokers’ paradise
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16. |
Shoelaces
03:19
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For all the world to see
From dusk to dawn you count along
The speaking clock on speakerphone
Can’t live on lucky strike and lucky strike alone
You can’t play scissor paper stone on your own
You were just goin through the motions
Couldn't even tie your own shoe laces
The door to your cage was open
But you were too scared to fly out, and away
All day every day the fat lady sings
One arm tied on with a piece of string
Girl you’ll be a woman before you can count to ten
You can’t make little rabbits on the wall, when the night falls
You were just goin through the motions
Couldn't even tie your own shoe laces
The door to your cage was open
But you were too scared to fly out, and away
Spell out her name in the clouds,
Aeroplane, aeroplane
Spell out her name in the clouds,
Aeroplane, aeroplane
For all the world to see
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17. |
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Someone switch the moonlight on
In the graveyard, the graveyard of champions tonight
Nine lives lost in the battle for life
There’s a threatening sky, a threatening sky above the world tonight
If you think that this is the end
If you think you have reached happiness
At the end of the rainbow, there’s a barbed wire fence
This woman I love, this woman I trust
Just can’t be apart
You were a black belt in breaking hearts
Any fool can make the connection
You were a weapon of mass destruction
You were a black belt in breaking hearts
You were the moment of impact
I am the silver dust you scratch off the losing ticket
You tasted just like victory
Rocky three, rocky three, sweet hill sixteen
If you think that this is the end
If you think you have reached happiness
At the end of the rainbow, there’s a barbed wire fence
This woman I love, this woman I trust
Just can’t be apart
You were a black belt in breaking hearts
Any fool can make the connection
You were a weapon of mass destruction
You were a black belt in breaking hearts
At the end of the rainbow, there’s a barbed wire fence, No no
On that hill in cowboy heaven
That’s where I’ll wait for you
Where we used to lie and watch the ocean
Swallowing the sun like a sidewalk magician
That’s where ill wait for you
When the jukebox plays our favourite tune
That’s where ill wait for you
Yesterdays long gone
Someone switch the moonlight on
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18. |
Judas loves you
05:15
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There's a battle we once fought, our Stalingrad
The moment when my lips, touched your lips
But we don't talk about that now, our Nazareth
The moment when my kiss, found your kiss
It doesn't take a scientist
To figure out
No-one loves the boy who cried wolf now
Only Judas, can save us from everything we've done
Here's hopin, we live to see the rising sun
Judas loves you, I'm sorry it happened this way
Here's hopin, we live to fight another day
On the cliff above Brighton beach, you frightened me
The moment when my love, reached your love
All our Eastern promises, turn to cosmic dust
The moment when my blood, touched your blood
It doesn't take a scientist
To figure out
No-one loves the boy who cried wolf now
Only Judas, can save us from everything we've done
Here's hopin, we live to see the rising sun
Judas loves you, I'm sorry it happened this way
Here's hopin, we live to fight another day
Tete a tete
Breath to breath
Jesus wept
Insanity crept
From belly to belly
From death to glory
Sid to Nancy
Johnny to June
Nightingale to Siegfried Sassoon
Matching tattoos to jealous moon
Army of me to army of you
Eternal youth to eternal youth
Chainsmoking, chainsmoking, chainsmoking, chainsmoking
Cause there’s no one else like you in the world
All I wanna do is cry cry cry, Oh oh o ho oh
Cause there’s no one else like you in the world
All I wanna do is cry cry cry, Oh oh o ho oh
Only Judas, can save us from everything we've done
Here's hopin, we live to see the rising sun, only
Judas loves you, I'm sorry it happened this way
Here's hopin, we live to fight another day
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19. |
Millionaire
02:57
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You could be a millionaire
Just take a bath and cut your hair
You could be a millionaire
Better wake up now, sleepyhead
You're always gonna be there, a space invader in my hula hoop head
I'll always be your milky bar kid, your desert island disc
just as long as the big hand, chases the little hand
The tree where we carved our names, is all that remains
You could be a millionaire
Just brush your teeth and say your prayers
You could be a millionaire
A circle in a world of squares
You're always gonna be there, a space invader in my hula hoop head
I'll always be your milky bar kid, your desert island disc
just as long as the big hand, chases the little hand
The tree where we carved our names, is all that remains
We could be millionaires
We could be millionaires
You're always gonna be there, a space invader in my hula hoop head
I'll always be your milky bar kid, your desert island disc
Just as long as the big hand, chases the little hand
In heaven or on terra firma, we lost the argument
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20. |
Goldmine
03:41
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There’s a square moon in the sky tonight
There’s a ghost train with your name in lights
There’s a dark past catching up with you
There’s a boomerang you've forgotten you once threw
You kiss me like a Hollywood movie you kiss me
We make love in the forest while the trees slow dance above us
I return there, I return alone to the scene of our euphoria
Desecration, emptiness, loneliness cuts like a chainsaw
This one for the fat and the ugly
This one goes out to all the nobodies
Lost souls, weirdos and frankensteins
We are standing on a fucking goldmine
There are sharks coming from miles around
There are big cats on your paper round
There’s a town called nobody cares for you
There’s a victory parade waiting there for you
Earth calling, is there anyone, we just got out we just got born
Before my eyes, like Lazarus, you disappear, you turn to dust
I never knew such nothingness, tyrannosaurus nothingness
Just take me now, just call my bluff, I've seen too much, I've seen enough
This one for the fat and the ugly
This one goes out to all the nobodies
Lost souls, wierdos and frankensteins
We are standing on a fucking goldmine
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21. |
Mountain of strange
04:28
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That girl she hated the telephone
Smashed it off the wall like it was her kid brother
The endless voices, stolen kisses, like desert orchids
You were all my Christmases
As long as there’s still blood in my veins
I’ll tear down mountains
‘Til I reach your mountain of strange
You’ll never fall asleep with your head on my chest again
I promise that Ill wave to you
When I’m going round the bend
Butterfly wings
Stagger drunk in the halogen
Moonlight in the
The lost cities of your caress
The unexplained mysteries
There’s a stranger in your favourite jeans
There was a signpost pointing to the sky
Ill never reach your dizzy heights
Not in a thousand lifetimes
The endless winters in the whites of your eyes
There was a signpost pointing to the sky
Butterfly wings
Stagger drunk in the halogen
The lost cities of your caress
The unexplained mysteries
There’s a stranger in your favourite jeans
You don’t have to be in prison to be in prison
Any creed any colour any religion
Man, woman and the little children in the London dungeons
There’s people hanging upside down
Beneath cites bridges and underpasses
Forming stalactites of tears like human chandeliers
This is not the heaven that we saw on television
Where was Steve McQueen where was Marillion
Where was Roman Polanski and his amazing rain machine
Seven million goldfish swimming in vicious circles in vicious streets
Where were the virgins as far as the eye could see
Butterfly wings
Stagger drunk in the halogen
Moonlight in the spider webs
In the burnt out cinema
Your ghost still plays the Wurlitzer
We’re falling off the radar screens
We’re falling off the radar screens
Way out where the sunset ends
Beyond our logic and comprehension
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22. |
Lupara bianca
06:28
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You promised me shared destiny, you promised centuries
Told of riches unspeakable, beyond my wildest dreams
No more the man I used to be, before you got your claws into me
Your eyes like flying saucers, my bloody Mary
And every day was Christmas day, from that moment on
You promised me slave’s loyalty, you promised the cotton fields
But the Christmas tree stood naked, as the day it was first born
A halo of needles, circle its skeleton
Promise me Tarzan and Jane, Anthony and Cleopatra
Promise Adam and Eve, and I still won’t believe
Promise Hiroshima, promise Casablanca
And I still won’t get born, and I still won’t be human
Regiments of warrior hooded crows swoop low, to watch the end unfold
Vampires scream into the night, feasting on our souls
Beneath the silent disco glitter ball, we waltz on eternally
And I turn to spaghetti, when she breathed on me
God watches safe from a hill above the all lopsided battle
Tommy machine gun tongues crackle like the fifth of November,
I remember the stealing from grandmothers years, often-times I can’t sleep
I paint a portrait of her ashes, of my shadow boxer’s dreams
Promise me Tarzan and Jane, Anthony and Cleopatra
Promise Adam and eve, and I still won’t believe
Promise Hiroshima, promise Casablanca
And I still won’t get born, and I still won’t be human
Promise Atlantis, Lupara Bianca
Promise Valhalla, promise moonlight sonatas
Promise her witches fingernails, draw blood along my spine
And I still won’t have blood, and I still won’t have feelings
Promise the dream, napoleon and Josephine
And I still can't be killed, and I’ll still be immortal
Promise the force, will be with us wherever we go
And the nightmare crescendos and we still can’t be woken
You dragged me by the hair, took me by the scruff of the neck
A thousand drunken nights we played kiss-chase to the death
I played the starving peasants, I played Mary Antoinette
Your snow white skin like porcelain, You promised me the end
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