숱한 말썽과 화재속에서도 특유의 느끼한 영국 악센트와 괴팍함을 잃지 않는 이 50대 '할아버지'가 내놓은 신작은 그야말로 대형사고 급이다. 완전한 레트롤의 획위, 혹은 그가 시시콜콜 인생 내내 떠벌리고 다녔을 뻔한 되풀이일수도 있지만 적당한 블랙유머를 놓치 않은 가사와 함께 제일 먼저 눈에 띄는 토니 비스콘티의 프로듀싱과 'dear god please help me' 에 참여한 엔니오 모리꼬네와 그의 오케스트라. 현악을 적당히 버무려 넣은 그의 음악은 뜻밖에도 스탠다드에 가깝기도 하고 또한 스미스 시절의 그를 떠오르게도 하는 묘한 분위기를 제공하고 있다. 누가 뭐래도 모리세이는 영원한 영국 팝의 아이콘이 될 듯하다. .... ....
Nobody knows what human life is. Why we come, why we go. So why then do I know I will see you, I will see you in far off places?
The heart knows why I grieve And yes one day I will close my eyes forever But I will see you I will see you in far off places.
It's so easy for us to sit together But it's so hard for our hearts to combine And why? And why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
Destiny for some is to save lives But destiny for some is to end lives But there is no end And I will see you in far off places.
If your god bestows protection upon you And if the USA doesn't bomb you I believe I will see you somewhere safe Looking to the camera, messing around and pulling faces.
Armed with wealth and good health The best of health In the future when all's well I will lie down and be counted In the future when all's well
I thank you I thank you with all of my heart I thank you I thank you with all of my heart Lee, please stand up and defend me In the future when all's well Confront what you are afraid of In the future when all's well
Every day I play a sad game called In the future when all's well Living longer than I had intended Something must have gone...right!
I thank you I thank you with all of my heart I thank you I thank you with all of my heart Lee, please stand up and defend me In the future when all's well Confront what you are afraid of In the future when all's well
Hold me closely if your will allows it In the future when all's well Paired-off, pawed, till I can barely stand it The future is ended by a long, long sleep The future is ended by a long, long sleep The future is ended by a long sleep
Step-child, you have outlived your time You represent embarrassment and failure And the Father who must be killed Is the blight upon your blighted life And his might is his legal right To ground you down
Step-child, with every petty swipe You just might find you're fighting for your life And the father who must be killed Is a step-father but nonetheless The way he chews his food Rips right through your senses
Step-child, there's a knife in a drawer in a room downstairs And you, you know what you must do So the step-child ran with a knife to his sleeping frame And slams it in his arms, his legs, his face, his neck and says "There's a law against me now" And the Father who must be killed With his dying breath, he grabs her hand And he looks into her eyes He says "I'm sorry" and he dies
"Step-child, I release you With this broken voice I beseech you"
"Why are lives so short?" The step-child thought heart pointing to the sky "No one to warn me No hand to touch me And no Bible-belters to mess with me Momma don't miss me Momma don't miss me This death will complete me" "But where I go there will be no one to meet me I know there will be no one to meet me" But still the step-child pressed the knife to her throat Heart pointing to the sky "Just as Motherless birds fly high Then... so shall I So shall I So shall I So shall I So shall I"
It's the same old S.O.S. But with brand new broken fortunes And once again I turn to you Once again I do I turn to you It's the same old S.O.S. But with brand new broken fortunes I'm the same underneath But this you, you surely knew
Life is a pigsty Life is a pigsty Life is a pigsty Life is a pigsty Life, life is a pigsty Life, life is a pigsty Life, life is a pigsty Life is a pigsty And if you don't know this Then what do you know? Every second of my life I only live for you And you can shoot me And you can throw me off a train I still maintain I still maintain Life, life is a pigsty Life is a pigsty And I'd been shifting gears all of my life But I'm still the same underneath This you surely knew I can't reach you I can't reach you I can't reach you anymore
Can you please stop time? Can you stop the pain? I feel too cold And now I feel too warm again Can you stop this pain? Can you stop this pain? Even now in the final hour of my life I'm falling in love again Again Even now in the final hour of my life I'm falling in love again Again Again Again I'm falling in love again Again Again Again
Warm lights from the grand houses blind me Haves cannot stand have-nots And my love is under the ground My one true love is under the ground And ill never be ill never be ill never be anybodys hero now ill never be ill never be ill never be anybodys hero now they who should love me walk right through me I am a ghost and as far as I know I haven't even died And my love is under the ground My one true love is under the ground And ill never be
ill never be ill never be anybodys hero now ill never be ill never be ill never be anybodys hero now ill never be ill never be ill never be anybodys lover now ill never be ill never be ill never be anybodys lover now things I've heard and ive seen and Ive felt and ive been tell me ill never be anybodys lover now it begins in the heart and it hurts when its true it only hurts because its true.
Oh a working class face glares back At me from the glass and lurches Oh forgive me, on the streets I ran Turned sickness into popular song
Streets of wet black holes On roads you can never know You never have been but they always have you Till the day that you croak It's no joke
Oh a working class face glares back At me from the glass and lurches Oh forgive me on the streets I ran Turned sickness into unpopular song
And all these streets can do Is to claim to know the real you And warn if you don't leave you will kill or be killed Which isn't very nice Here everybody's friendly But nobody's friends
Oh dear God, when will I be where I should be And when the palmist said "One Thursday you will be dead" I said: "No, not me, this cannot be Dear God, take him, take them, take anyone The stillborn The newborn The infirm Take anyone Take people from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Just spare me!"
I live a life I feel the pain To sing this song To tell the tale I wish I never even heard the song I see the world It makes me puke But then I look at you and know That somewhere there's a someone who can soothe me
To me you are a work of art And I would give you my heart That's if I had one
I see the world It makes me puke But then I look at you and know That somewhere there's a someone who can soothe me
To me you are a work of art And I would give you my heart That's if I had one, had one
To me you are a work of art And I would give you my heart That's if I had one
Lord these words I beg of you As I kneel down at my bed Because soon I will be dead Let's face it soon I will be dead And I just want to I want to see the boy happy With some hope in his pale eyes Is that too much to ask? Before I die I have one final dream For my own life I don't care anything
Lord these words I beg of you As I kneel down at my bed Let's face it soon I will be dead And I just want to I want to see the boy happy With his arms around his first love Is that too much to ask? Before I die I have one final dream For my own life I don't care anything And I just want to I want to see this boy happy Why is this such a bad thing?
At last I am born Historians note I am finally born I once used to chase affection withdrawn But now I just sit back and yawn Because I am born, born, born "Look at me now From difficult child to spectral hand to Claude Brasseur Oh blah blah blah..." At last I am born Vulgarians know I am finally born I once thought that time accentuates despair But now I don't actually care Because I am born, born, born "Look at me now From difficult child To spectral hand to Claude Brasseur Oh blah blah blah..." At last I am born At last I am born Living the one true free life born I once thought I had numerous reasons to cry And I did, but I don't anymore Because I am born, born, born At last I am born At last I am born It took me a long, long time But now I am born I once was a mess of guilt because of the flesh It's remarkable what you can learn Once you are born, born, born Born, born, born Born, born, born