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| 1. |
| 4:51 | 
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Wishing that something would happen
A change in this place 'Cause 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 find the same things Tired ideas Birds without wings Birds without wings Birds without wings And these are just thoughts On 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 Without the courage To give a new thing a chance Grounded by this ignorance (and the cat comes) We're just Birds without wings Birds without wings Birds without wings |
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| 2. |
| 4:12 |
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I love your nervous fingers
Won't you fumble all night long Let the morning air sting us To rise and stumble on And down the crooked pavements The wind blows my thoughts like a leaf The brittle bell chimes And fortune smiles with it's broken teeth And the many-rivered land Grateful for the rain I'd be grateful for one morsel Of your lovin' again Summer restless summer Won't let sleeping dogs lie Your barbed voice Re-awakens time gone by Owls face fine boned Parched land dry stone Thunders muttered promise Impatient gull on the scented wind Your grey eyes startling Rain nearly upon us And the many-rivered land Grateful for the rain I'd be grateful for one morsel Of your lovin' again And the many-rivered land Grateful for the rain I'd be grateful for one morsel I'd be grateful for one morsel I'd be grateful for one morsel Of your lovin' again |
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| 3. |
| 3:51 |
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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 out the shadows in me Rolling out the shadows in me Rolling out the shadows in me You say I thought time was meant to take away the hurting As your lonely siluete 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 cant be wrong Now the whole frosted night is just a song A song for you A song for you A song for you Now the moon is splashed right over the street Like my tears on your thighs so pale It's 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 You're away from me And it's rolling on by Here come the night You turn out the light And the dark sucks on the embers of the fire My heart smoulders in the night And these tumblin boulders of desire And we're rolling And we're rolling Rolling rolling rolling Rolling rolling rolling rolling rolling Ahh rolling Rolling rolling rolling Rolling out the shadows in me You turn out the light |
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| 4. |
| 4:22 |
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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 well 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 Dont 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 Weve gotta go where we can shine For all that we struggle For all we pretend It dont come down to nothing Except love in the end And ours is a road That is strewn with goodbyes But as it unfolds As it all unwinds Remember your soul is the one thing You cant compromise Take my hand Were gonna go where we can shine Were gonna go where we can shine Were gonna go where we can shine (and look, and look) Through the windows of midnight Moonfoam and silver |
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| 5. |
| 4:57 |
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I just don't care
Don't care at all I banged my head too long On these brick walls Every seed I sow Shudders and falls Perishes between 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 'til they fall All the blind eyes and deaf ears Hey, and these brick walls [Chorus: ] These brick walls These brick walls These brick walls And I'm long past worrying And I'm way past being appalled I know history is hurrying, oh And time can't be stalled So don't try to run, no Before you can crawl Just wait And the time will come Yeah, for these brick walls [Chorus: ] Brick walls, brick walls, yeah |
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| 6. |
| 3:30 |
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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 |
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| 4:13 |
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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 The traffic 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 The afternoon filled with rain and storm 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 |
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| 8. |
| 3:22 |
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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 |
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| 9. |
| 2:42 |
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Four o'clock in the morning
Moon on the sea The night is rattling With burglar alarms 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 harbour 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 |
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| 10. |
| 6:14 |
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Tears falling slow.
From the bridge into the river below. In your eyes I start to see. A starry veil and the oceans of infinity. Moon and stars above me. Mingle with the blood inside my veins. Empty arms that should be Holding me close through nights of winter rain. And I'm trying to spell what only the wind can explain. It's colder than ever coming down Now I'm drowning in shallows Cause I'm in so deep There's neon melting in the rain I took too much powder to sleep When I hold you naked When I hear your 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 Empty arms that should be Holding you close through nights of winter rain And I'm trying to spell what only the wind can explain It's colder than ever coming down coming down coming down coming down coming down coming down coming down coming down We danced wild Kicked off our shoes Not a cloud in the the sky to confuse. Now the sky is cold and the sea is white And there's nothing to be done except reflecting the sun And scratching the mountain side Frozen stars above me Mingle with the blood inside my veins Empty arms that should be Holding you close through nights of winter rain And I'm trying to spell what only the wind can explain It's colder than ever coming down coming down coming down coming down coming down coming down coming down coming down |
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