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There's a man I meet
Walks up our street He's a worker for the council Has been twenty years And he takes no lip off nobody And litter off the gutter Puts it in a bag And never thinks to mutter And he packs his lunch in a Sunblest bag The children call hi |
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| 4:20 | 
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| 3. |
| 3:16 |
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Alan doesn't understand her
He only thinks in numbers He only drinks in restaurants Where the girls are fully covered And he can't trust his yearnings And he doesn't like pretending His tempers stretched so much by work His heart needs gentle rending He |
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| 4. |
| 3:56 |
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It's a rain dirt town job hurts but it don't pay
All these calls they're making me and driving you insane Don't you see Don't you understand Waiting for the phone to ring to make me all I am. You're in the suburbs waiting for somewhere to go I'm down here working on some dumb show In a raintown Raintown Rain down On all those tired eyes and tears and frowns In a raintown Raintown Rain down On all those days you're not around It takes a big hearted girl from the North Country you can tell How you payed those bills and went through Heaven and hell And you You cried and you traveled and you spat but you never asked Well how long how long how long is this pain You're on for three minutes trying hard to say hello I'm down here working on some dumb show In a Raintown Raintown Rain down On all those tired eyes and tears and frowns In a Raintown Raintown Rain down On all those days you're not around Sitting at home listening to your radio Listening for your old friend talking on some dumb show What's he saying What's he saying What's he saying In a Raintown Raintown Rain down On all those tired eyes and tears and frowns In a Raintown Raintown Rain down On all those days you're not around Raintown Rain down On all those tired eyes and tears and frowns Raintown Rain down On all those days you're not around You're not around You're not around |
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| 5. |
| 3:34 |
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One day all of us will work
We'll stand outside this orchard and we'll talk When all is said, all is done We'll still be thinking about home They say that love might be the very thing If only it could be And making love is more than anything All these things like buildings And places, and memories, and faces Don't count for anything I'll gladly draw the lines of duty Watching summer turn to gold She's not content with responsibility She wants to have and then to hold They say that love might be the very thing If only it could be And making love is more than anything And all these things like buildings And places, memories, and faces Don't count for anything They say that love might be the very thing If only it could be And making love is more than anything Yea, all these things they say They say that love might be the very thing If only it could be And making love is more than anything Yea, all these things they say They say that love might be the very thing If only it could be And making love is more than anything And all these things like buildings And places, and memories, and faces Like buildings And places, and memories, and faces Don't count for anything One day all of us will work One day all of us will work One day all of us will work |
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| 6. |
| 3:41 |
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You know the agony
Of seeing it all slip away Well maybe now you'd be happy Just to talk it out straight If it's just Slipping away About the danger of Believing in plans in hand About the role that you have in this delecate plan If it's just Slipping away Let's talk it out now Let's name them one by one One by one Love's great fears Can't you see them burn Twist and turn As you walk and learn Love's great fears Can't you see them burn Twist and turn As you walk and learn Twist and turn As you walk and learn You know danger of believing that the summer's gone And with the fading light the feeling that Love is falling It's all just Slipping away If you believe in The dangers that you suppose You think it can tumble down None of us knows It's all Slipping away Let's talk it out now Let's name them one by one One by one Love's great fears Can't you see them burn Twist and turn As you walk and learn Love's great fears Can't you see them burn Twist and turn As you walk and learn Twist and turn As you walk and learn Love's great fears Can't you see them burn Twist and turn As you walk and learn Love's great fears Can't you see them burn Twist and turn As you walk and learn Twist and turn As you walk and learn Twist and turn As you walk and learn Twist and turn As you walk and learn |
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| 7. |
| 3:50 |
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There's a shadow on his photograph on Tinian '45
Smiling like a college boy who's glad to be alive But now he owns a factory and a store in Los Alamos A wife called Beverly sells second hand Ford Motors He may have taken pictures, been caught in Albuquerque Flown in great artiste on a mushroom cloud He may be a senator or a general or a turn key But I know he looks like Spencer Tracy now And he cries all night And he cries all night And he cries all night And he cries all night And he may have been with Oppenheimer, shaken Einstein's hand Did we have to drop the bomb? You bet, to save this land He was only taking pictures around the critical mass While the troops on Tinian island sang 'Follow the bouncing ball' White Christmas He may have been a nationalist, a physicist or a pacifist But he's just taking pictures and he'll do it anyhow Well, I have seen that movie of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde And I know he looks like Spencer Tracy Now And he cries all night And he cries all night And he cries all night And he cries all night Tears falling down the streets And he cries all night And he cries all night And he cries all night And he cries all night Oh, he cries all night |
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| 8. |
| 4:29 |
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You sigh and you walk
You talk You care about nothing Sometimes you're feelin' That life has treated you wrong I've got a feeling You know what the score is Baby But it's hard when you're sitting here Surrounded by friends I've got a love That I'll cling |
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| 9. |
| 4:05 |
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And I'd tear out the pages That I've got in these books Just to find you some words Just to get some reward And I'll show you all the photographs That I ever got took And I'll play you old 45's That now mean nothing to me And you're a real gone kid And |
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| 10. |
| 3:11 |
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There he stood and there we left
Outside the flashing neon sign With the smell of cheap cigars And the hope of sweet perfume And his heart it was reeling With the thrill of it all All to do and only hours He said all this is all yours You can have it all You can take it all away From where we left off Living it all Your way If you'll stand in my shoes If you'll do what I do On a wages day On a wages day And the cap from Disneyland That his cousin she brought back Stays open in his hand From one week to another And this long narrow land Is full of possibility All to do and only hours He said all this is all yours You can have it all You can take it all away From where we left off Living it all Your way If you'll stand in my shoes If you'll do what I do On a wages day On a wages day And you can have it all You can take it all away From where we left off Living it all Your way If you'll stand in my shoes If you'll do what I do On a wages day On a wages day On a wages day On a wages day On a wages day On a wages day If you'll do what I do On a wages day |
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| 11. |
| 3:58 |
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Fergus sings the Blues
In bars of twelve or less I'm a stranger To the land To this wilderness All Things are possible But happen less and less This Is my country These Are my reasons 'Cause I look In the mirror And it throws Back the question And I whi |
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| 12. |
| 5:01 |
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Cold dawn won't comfort you
Cold coffee Won't see you through Cold sheets Won't heal your heart Your frozen fingers of your Name so tarred I know so rarely That things come your way Your ways are tender And your paths are straight Your mind's not lived i |
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| 13. |
| 3:36 |
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You're so young
And you know so much Heaven help us all From the tales you tell You're so old And innocent as hell How I love your questions You Queen of the New Year Oh you're so young And you know so much And my mind's not made up About the way forward |
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| 14. |
| 4:59 |
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You're tired and you say you're angry
You're thankful for this blessed rain And you think you'd know But your old friends have to tell you again Your books taught you all you know Your tastes and patterns and your tv shows But you can never follow where they won't let you go Sometimes it's so hard to know You want to display your charms On this bright night You want to display your charms On this bright night You want to display your charms Over these circus Christmas lights Your cares your misanthropy Your distant gaze is missing me And your jewelery that's what blinded me From the reality You want to display your charms On this bright night You want to display your charms On this bright night You want to display your charms Over these circus Christmas lights You want to display your charms On this bright night You want to display your charms On this bright night You want to display your charms Over these circus Christmas lights Over the sea Over the land and the city |
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| 15. |
| 4:10 |
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Church bells go ringing for you and I
This bright sky is singing for you and I All the land goes laughing into that glad goodbye All the land goes laughing into that glad goodbye Oh my America my new found land Oh my America my new found land Church bells go ringing and strangers cry People keep bring their sad,sad smiles Time wont even listen to why we had to lie Time wont even listen to why we had to lie Oh my America my new found land Oh my America my new found land Listen to the wave crash Listen to the wave on the wide sound She's far and she's wide and she's one small step away She's far and she's wide and she's one small step away Church bells keep ringing for you and I We rush,we live,we laugh for some time night These green fields and roads go rolling in your eye These green fields and roads go back and back and back Oh my America my new found land Oh my America my new found land Church bells go ringing for you and I This bright sky is singing for you and I All the land goes laughing into that glad goodbye All the land goes laughing into that glad goodbye Oh my America my new found land Oh my America my new found land |
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| 16. |
| 3:14 |
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You're taking down the signs
Now the time has come and the cleansing's coming You're turning down the lights In this cruel light symbols mean nothing You're taking down the signs Turning round your eyes From dreams that seem so bright Flying hope like kites Hold loved ones tight And turning to the light of that long window to love And you forget about the years About the planting and the dying and the growing And you forget about your cares But you remember that they've been forgotten By the people sent to London They're taking down your cares Drinking off your tears Gambling on your fears For things that cost so dear And won't be paid for years Hoping you won't stare down that long window to love They'd burgle all your sanity if it would let them hold you under They'd knock on your door so hard the frame would crack under the strain Its just the same ,just the same, Its just the same ,just the same You're taking down the signs Now the time has come and the cleansing's coming You're turning down the lights In this cruel light symbols mean nothing You're taking down the signs Turning round your eyes From dreams that seem so bright Flying hope like kites Hold loved ones tight And turning to the light of that long window to love |
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| 17. |
| 3:34 |
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I now describe my country
As if to strangers This train is full of songs Of local winners And the wind surrounds the towers And the flags they are blowing And the bunting and the distance Stretches over our sound And when he teases the children He calls them orphans And he cries for all the flowers Of the forest In his head there is no reason To be sad about the garden But his heart bleeds very often For things forgotten like little orphans |
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| 18. |
| 2:46 |
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What do you get when you fall in love,
A girl with a pin to burst your bubble, That's what you get for all your trouble, I'll never fall in love again, I'll never fall in love again. What do you get when you kiss a girl? You get enough germs to catch pneumonia, After you do, she'll never phone ya' I'll never fall in love again, I'll never fall in love again. Don't tell me what it's all about, 'Cause I've been there and I'm glad I'm out, Out of those chains, those chains that bind you, That is why I'm here to remind you, What do you get when you fall in love, You only get lies and pain and sorrow, So for at least until tomorrow, I'll never fall in love again, I'll never fall in love again. What do you get when you give your heart, You get it all broken up and battered, That's what you get, a heart that's shattered, I'll never fall in love again, I'll never fall in love again. |
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| 19. |
| 4:14 |
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Send me back all the thing she ever wrote
Tell me secrets of her days when she was young Show me nights when she laughed So innocent I'll be happy Waiting till they come Love the people that she smiled upon Walk with me in streets Where she once stood Say if it could be that we once passed like strangers Long before the love we ever new 'Cause I've been longing For a new world waiting I've been hoping To be sent I've been picking up All the love we squandered Until you Hold me in your swaying arms again One day I can see us walking Arm and arm in sheltered Kelvin way Talking and tripping and teasing And heading for the best part of the day When your head Falls softly on my pillow No fear will make you cry or turn you grey And we will wake So early in the morning Knowing you'll never Never Never go away 'Cause I've been longing For a new world waiting I've been hoping To be sent I've been picking up All the love we squandered Until you Hold me in your swaying arms again I've been longing For a new world waiting I've been hoping To be sent I've been picking up All the love we squandered Until you Hold me in your swaying arms again Until you Rest me in your swaying arms again In your arms In your swaying arms Your swaying arms Hold me Bless me now Hold me Hold me now Hold me hold me hole me In your arms Your swaying arms Your swaying arms Hold me |
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| 3:37 |
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You've got a lot of
Tings to say about the Big world and the High skies so you Walk a little in a Long mile to be Sure your eyes can see the Right sights I see a Pale girl in a Blue room with a Pink dress and a Wide smile I see a Pale girl in a Blue room with a Pink dress and a Wide smile You've got a little Way to go before you Find the knowledge that you're Searching for so you'll Turn the big world Upside down To find the things that you Never wanted I see a Pale girl in a Blue room with a Pink dress and a Wide smile I need a Pink smile on a Dark night from the Right girl to be Sure it's right You've got three million things to get mad about Another hundred things to get glad about Junk food The whole world over's good as standing round So baby twist and shout baby Find out baby Find out baby Find out baby So it's April and the Tings you say don't Seem as certain as on Hogmanay when we Kissed at midnight and a Wee wee Bells had Gave me courage for my My heart to tell I see a Pale girl in a Blue room with a Pink dress and a Wide smile I need a Pink smile on a Dark night from the Right girl to be Sure it's right I see a Pale girl in a Blue room with a Pink dress and a Wide smile I need a Pink smile on a Dark night from the Right girl to be Sure it's right You need the right girl Hmmm You need the right girl Come on come on come on come baby You need the right girl I'm working on a You need the right girl Twist and shout Come on come on baby |
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| 2. |
| 3:36 |
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I will love you when the morning is ascending
I will love you when the moon is riding high I will love you when we only have pretending When our home becomes a cover from the sky Well my eyes have seen the dust and then the ashes And the lowland and whit |
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| 3:45 |
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The day that Jackie jumped the jail
The day that Jackie jumped the jail There was a big explosion just as he got off the motorway And thirty thousand fireworks took the piss out of Princes Street Gardens So he drove up to the Budgie for a livener See the smell of cabbages first thing in the morning The sun will be up again And you you will be loved again After the sausages and cream of the barley There was aframe or two to be had at the "Imperial" on Mitchell Street Five years ago he'd buried her memory with a snooker cue on a daft wee student's head Still he remembered everything The sun will be up again And you you will be loved again And the wind And the rain And the wind And the rain Falls around I don't know I don't know Ooh yeah Ooh yeah As he walked down Hope Street he thought about the last time they'd been together He'd been wearing a green parka and he'd bought her yellow stilettos That squeezed her toes He'd told her the whole story as she took him into the wee penn behind Sloan's And let him feel her all over For the last time Ten minutes later the meat wagon picked him up The sun will be up again And you You You You will be loved You will be loved You will be loved again And the wind And the rain And the wind And the rain Falls around All over this town Ooh yeah Ooh yeah Falls around All over this town All over this town Falls around All over All over Ooh yeah All over |
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| 4:37 |
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Down on the flag stones
Accordions, sweet trumpets rise Rusty memories of sin and doubting Mingle in around the Queen Street, traffic noise Would that all the love in the world Watch me through the night? You know, the preacher All he preaches is vanity Maybe, at last you'll see A brighter star than you will shine one day Hymns and words and busy planets Said, "The preacher have come and gone" Even your smile will one day die away When your wealth and words are forgotten Would that all the love in the world Stay with me tonight? You know, the preacher All he preaches is vanity Maybe, at last you'll see A brighter star than you will shine one day Maybe, at last you'll see A brighter star than you will shine one day Maybe, at last you'll see A brighter star than you will shine one day Shine |
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| 5. |
| 5:47 |
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Oh the rush hour is over
And the night has been trying To drive us and chase us away But we're lovely and drunk now And our laugh dosen't Rattle or fray And the friday folk Are coming round Let the wildness Have its way Oh sweet autumn With your dark surprise And your short days all smudged with gold You covered up Worn paths for us So no story could be told And sent the dark Come tumbling down So the wildness Can't grow cold So the morning Would never know Of the wildness Of the wildness Driving me on again Of the wildness Of the wildness Shaking me Letting me know There were two of us driving We were six miles out And a Hundred miles to go Still the morning lies waiting And the light falls On your travel map I'm still here hoping For the wildness To relax For the wildness To go back Of the wildness Of the wildness Driving me on again Of the wildness Of the wildness Shaking me Letting me know I said yeah Can you Feel it I went up to your house one night I took 59 in the rain And I saw your tiny face shine So calm and so bright And so gay I called in I called out I couldn't see any other name I woke One morning With the wildness Once again With the wildness Shining in Of the wildness Of the wildness Driving me on again Of the wildness Of the wildness Shaking me Letting me know Of the wildness Of the wildness Driving me on again Of the wildness Of the wildness Shaking me Letting me know Of the wildness Of the wildness baby Driving me on again Of the wildness Of the wildness Shaking me Letting me know |
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| 5:21 |
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I wouldn't want to be you
Mostly not even near you When you're gone they will curse you And raise the tide against you I no longer care now For what you said was fair now I just don't go there now I just don't go Maybe there's a way not to make it hurt To cover up the words like you covered up the dirt Ever since you left It just gets worse Living out in your town Now let's say it like it is I just don't know where to begin It's a different way of living It's so strange to what we've been First we speak for ourselves now And people know who we are now And they wake up and they live now Yes they wake up and they live Maybe there's a way not to let it hurt Tell it out in pictures And songs and words Do what we should not To make it worse Living out in your town Maybe there's a way not to let it hurt Tell it out in pictures And songs and words Do what we should not To make it worse Living out in your town Living out in your town Living out in your town Living out in your town |
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| 7. |
| 3:57 |
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All my worries
All my care Is held in check For you not there Evening comes And darkness falls We sit round And curtain out The black night There is a time Away From here Seasons pass So quickly come And steal the days Your work has done They leave the fields So bare and grey I long to hold You there and say It won't change There is a time Away From here There is a time Away From here Will we be lovers Or will we still be Will we be lovers Or will we still be Will we be lovers Or will we still be Still be still be |
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| 8. |
| 5:11 |
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Way out there in the wilderness
Of love and pain Under the gentle arches we rode The silver streets Couldn't see a difference between gold or Wooden cross Could never see where we're falling Came in to love Then hounded by love Hounded by the very thing you dreamed up Chased inside the walls you tried to breach Sent crashing to your knees Only tender love Understood the need you need with Understood the time it took To take you where nothing ever was Never was there once nothing And everything once was Not dead but still and ready to be born anew Looking back now it all Seems so clear Like staring so long unseeing for someone to light inside a Darkened room Then try your tender love Push you back till there's nowhere left Nowhere to feel nothing anymore Nothing that will comfort you more More than tender love Understands the need you need with Understand the time it takes to get home and have a love again More than tender love Understands the need you need with Understand the time it takes To get home and have a love Then try your tender love Push it till there's nothing left Nowhere to feel nothing anymore Nothing that will comfort you more Then hounded by love Hounded by the very thing you dreamed up Chased inside the walls you tried to breach Sent crashing to your knees Then only tender love Understood the need you need with Understood the time it took To take you where nothing ever was |
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| 9. |
| 4:51 |
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I was right and you were wrong girl
Nothing lasts forever Inside every one of us There`s only so long I believe the longest day girl The lovely light of may girl If asked if I could ever leave I never saw a change But I will What I say What I do I was |
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| 10. |
| 2:46 |
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We went as we know how
As far as the wind and the sky would allow Waking from sleep Alive to the noise we came After the turn of the year With only the sky as a silver seer Of anything restively turning And slowly beginning Now even the weatherman's smiling He never could see it this good Why are we so afraid That under the indigo sky We'll sing and we'll drink and we'll cry After the falling apart After the noise and the guilt and the hurt We woke from sleep And saw that it wasn't a dream Was it a trick of the light That there in the spirit damned demon night We lit a fire And crowded all around it Now even the weatherman's smiling He never could see it this good Why are we sore afraid That under the indigo sky we lay down and we died Under the indigo sky We lay down and we died |
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| 11. |
| 4:46 |
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There was a night
As purple as this With a love so close We longed to be missed Summer '89 And everything stood Sure and free and there To be finished I long to be there As bright as the sky At Bethlehem's gate September again You come so quick So sudden your strength So strong your kiss The world groans and strains For the hope of a time Like a prayer that Is wished and willed To exist Like knocking so hard And trying to get through To Bethlehem's gate I'm chiding the heart That the body will live To question the power And the gift of birth To stand and grow and die On the wasteland That scorns the high temples We build And stand in the way And darken the sky At Bethlehem's gate Stand in the way And darken the sky At Bethlehem's gate |
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| 12. |
| 4:24 |
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There's no direction
And no way through There is no reason To pay back what is through You never owned intentions Never knowed no way back Never knowed no way back But I know you're only asking And I know you might just care You only ring my number For the answer that's not there You know the cost of everything And the value of nothing The only thing that's certain Is you're bound to love again And he just came from Eden Where the fruit was on the tree And he passed me some and signalled That the world was there to see And it seemed so wide and opened And it seemed to be so free It seemed to be so free Well you opened up the cage And you let us fly away You saw us as we carried All the gifts that you now see You know the cost of everything But you value what you yearn The only thing that's certain Is you're bound to love again Bound to love again Bound to love again Bound to love again Bound to love again You know the cost of everything And the value of nothing The only thing that's certain Is you're bound to love again I know you're only asking And I know you might just care You only ring my number For the answer that's not there You know the cost of everything And the value of nothing The only thing that's certain Is you're bound to love again You're bound to love again Bound to love again |
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| 13. |
| 4:00 |
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By the light of the waning moon
Under a blueblack sky They talked the slow way home Of years passed closely by They caught only a casual look From strangers with things to do Only a loveless heart Could feel anything less than sure That they're still in the mood Still in the mood After the time has passed They were still in the mood You'd take the chimes of midnight To be the drum of your heart's desire And you'd change all you're golden rings For one time on the wheel of fire So take off your shabby coat Let all the leaves fall down Leave this stuff till morning And then come gently round To be still in the mood Still in the mood When the sun has come up We'll be still in the mood We're still in the mood Still in the mood After the time has passed We are still in the mood |
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| 14. |
| 5:13 |
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Would the rain, the frozen rain
Be as cold upon your forehead As the tears that plough your beaten face again Would the rain Could your hands, your grubby hands Pull your coat around your shoulder Steel yourself against the weather of the day Could your hands Here i stand Just the same Jesus do these hands still feel the rain Here we go, winter long Like sun bleeds down the valley Or a black and oily river moves so slow Here we go Here i stand Just the same Jesus do these hands still feel the rain Here i stand Just the same Jesus do your hands still feel the rain |
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| 15. |
| 4:51 |
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I can't go with you
And I can't let you go You can't be with me So I won't let it show I don't want you to know So I'll just have to let you go I'm going to love you so much better You'll forget the error of my ways I'm sending you the good I wished I'd given you Oh how I miss you Rae Some day you might well laugh at this As memories of love all shift and time slips away So don't cry honey You can't see everything But the wind still dries your tears And the sun will keep you living I just want you to see My love's unseen but still keeps seeking I'm going to love you so much better You'll forget the error of my ways I'm sending you the good I wished I'd given you Oh how I miss you Rae Some day you might well laugh at this As memories of love all shift and time slips away Oh Rae Oh Rae |
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| 16. |
| 4:13 |
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There's me and daddy out at Lunan Bay
Now looking dandy stepping out Saturday I can still see the buses Lined up to take the dancing home That's me on the stairs suitcase in hand Kidding on but knowing that one day he planned To leave all that behind And see what the big smoke's saying These are just some photographs talking Make it look easy To imagine just walking Back into someone's arms And feeling Homesick Homesick Homesick Maybe you have a question too You recognise a face in unfamiliar shoes You don't see a man just someone broken down Standing in front of you This could be just a photograph talking I make it look easy To get up and start walking Back out of these arms And feeling Homesick Homesick Homesick I'm just Homesick Homesick Homesick |
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| 4:16 |
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