Aztec Camera

Tears, just like the jewels,
Adorn their corporate crown,
Weigh on me worthless and I,
Shake them down and leave now,
And have no royal things.
You, would consecrate the ground,
I paced in pain,
And though those pavements,
Caught your sorrow stains,
They fall from me and I say,
Maybe don't fall for anything,
That says it's never gonna,
Give you everything.
I wish myself into your arms,
To know that all I need is everything.
The size of the sea, and the sun in my eyes,
And the line in my head,
Yearning for more, only for more.
These days are are bright as the days I have seen
In the wildest of dreams,
Yearning for more, only for more.
I wish myself into your arms,
To know that all I need is everything.
Hold back the night, I am tired of my sight
That won't see anymore,
More than today, threatening to stay.
Hold back the night, I am tired of my sight
That won't see anymore,
""Show me you care"", is
""Show me the door"".

Craze my hair and shine my shoes,
And kiss the kiss that I could lose,
And I looked at what I have,
And I have one wish,
And I looked back in your eyes,
And there were two words,
Backwards and forwards.
Here lies the essence of my peers,
Handshakes, hellos and golden years,
See it smiling through its teeth,
It's the whore who has to die,
Unhappy, underneath,
And it's long learned not to show it,
Get backwards and forwards.
How come when I'm gone I get the blues?
Or something special that I might confuse,
With getting gifts I'm not at liberty to use.
It's cold to the touch and older than I know,
And when the world's with me too much,
I say she comes and then it goes.
Could completeness still appeal,
To one who thinks what he should feel?
And it stares me in the face,
And holds me speechless,
And I look back in your eyes,
And see your eyes gaze,
See your eyes gaze into mine,
Forever.

I recall the biggest beach,
Throwing stones, almost alone except for,
Something just outside of reach,
And I'd swear I wouldn't say and then I'd,
Paint me up into a scene,
And throw me like a party which had,
Come and stayed and left and been,
And had still refused to end.
Chorus:
And if your head is happy, and your heart's insane,
I'll take you there,
When you throw your thunder and you snap my reins,
I'll make you care.
Since I'm scattered and deranged,
I shall seek your holy lunacy, and,
Laugh will joy and laugh with pain,
So don't say I didn't say,
Or I'll remember a Texan man,
When he spoke in major sevenths and I'd,
I'd get my gun and blow his tan,
And banish him from heaven.
Chorus
My mind has torn it's tack to you,
My feet can't wait to go,
That's why I'm coming back to you,
You know I'm coming, you know I'm coming,
You'll feel my coming like a gun from below.
Chorus

Stuck in my beat suede shoes I can't wait,
Oh what a state to be in.
I need her heart and get a Jack-jones for my sins,
She's gonna ditch that shining, sick machine
And be speeding straight my way.
But I'm churning in neutral, turning in a circle,
Just like the USA.
The secret is silver, it's to shine and never simply survive
And don't swallow substitutes and never see second prize.
'Cos I know that my might could change my mind,
And I'm told that by rights it's not my find.
I'd be a tribute to temptation in it's glory and it's grave,
But I'm churning in neutral, turning in a circle,
Just like the USA.
The secret is silver, it's to shine and never simply survive
And don't swallow substitutes and never see second prize.
'Cos I know that my might could change my mind,
And I'm told that by rights it's not my find.
I'd be a tower to your highest hopes,
That no southern star could sway,
But I'm churning in neutral, turning in a circle,
Just like the USA.
I hear those rhyming bells and heed the words they say,
And with a string of diamelles I'll steal her heart away.
'Cos I know that my might could change my mind,
And I'm told that by rights it's not my find.
In my star-bangled sailor suit,
I'd be the pioneer by day,
But I'm churning in neutral, turning in a circle,
Just like the USA.

Like a child could have the trigger
And the best man needn't fall
To understand that heaven
Could be any place at all

Just five colours set in motion
And I try again to place it
And it features are obscure
Everytime I turn to face it

But I still chase it

Oh its twists are cruel and hopeless
Like neglet has worn it thin
And it could rip the sky wide open
And let the rain come tumbling

And we wait on every whisper
Like it makes us more alive
There's a sense we didn't have
And I feel it in the other five

See the pity and the pride
In the same sea of emotion
Cut my hands and touch the tide
And expect to feel the ocean
It's just a notion

And the knife has got my number
And the number that you keep
And the knife is called division
And it's drawn when I'm asleep

Oh its twists are cruel and hopeless
Like neglet has worn it thin
And it could rip the sky wide open
And let the rain come tumbling



written by Roddy Frame

I know the place that you've had visions of
There are no windows, no sunlight there
Three stories high and there are no stairs
It's anywhere that you're alone
As a child you had a ragged doll
That used to follow you around
We made a mound on some sacred ground
And never was it seen again

Chorus:
And when you speak, I still hear the fire
Of cheated desire for diaries embossed
Of days that you've lost
How can you sleep on a mattress of wire
Oh, how can you tire
Aspiring for sure to all that is pure

So say goodbye to all those ne'er do wells
Smile in religion and then smile farewell
Your magic doesn't need the failing spells
Of those that never understand
And manners, they will find no place
With those that have no saving grace
With you I see the irony
Of anyone who has no faith

Chorus:
And when you speak, I still hear the fire
Of cheated desire for diaries embossed
Of days that you've lost
How can you sleep on a mattress of wire
Oh, how can you tire
Aspiring for sure to all that is pure

Of that I am sure

My eyes are stuck on sleepless dreams
This world is never what it seems
We've sold it short it's what were taught
Lost it in the living
Allegiance is the strangest thing
It's grown too fast, grown some wings
It's flown away, flown away

The back door to heaven is open wide to me
So when I'm wrapped up tight in a hell of the night
Can I still decide to be where the mad road goes
'Neath the shapeless glow
Or will we swop ourselves like children
For the value of our innocence
A gentleman's a golden card and a red, red rose

Transformed by some strange alchemy
You stand apart and point to me
And point to something I can't see
And it's a lousy rainbow anyway
Allegiance is the strangest thing
It's grown too fast, grown some wings
It's flown away, flown away

The back door to heaven is open wide to me
So when I'm wrapped up tight in a hell of the night
Can I still decide to be where the mad road goes
'Neath the shapeless glow
Or will we swop ourselves like children
For the value of our innocence
A gentleman's a golden card and a red, red rose

Your cheating heart will choose a way
To borrow, burn and throw away
Tomorrow same as yesterday
It's a lousy rainbow anyway

The back door to heaven is open wide to me
So when I'm wrapped up tight in a hell of the night
Can I still decide to be where the mad road goes
'Neath the shapeless glow
Or will we swop ourselves like children
For the value of our innocence
A gentleman's a golden card and a red, red rose

I feel the magic that our time has traced
Make a point of it in every place
But every place deserves a curse or two
For making me so far away from you

I saw some pictures of the world at war
Couldn't suss what all the fuss was for
I wear a picture of you wearing black
And kissing me behind the butlers back

Sometimes I get down
But it's not you that gets me down
It's just that sense of the impossible
Gratuitously handed down

But oh no, not you
Don't wipe your eyes over lies
Just let them shine their blue
On every whisper that welcomes the inconceivable
And the birth of the true

I'd sack the world and make a second start
Sack my head until I found my heart
Sack the world ane make a red parade
To burn the banks down while the bugles played

Sometimes I get down
But it's not you that gets me down
It's just that sense of the impossible
Gratuitously handed down

But oh no, not you
Don't wipe your eyes over lies
Just let them shine their blue
On every whisper that welcomes the inconceivable
And the birth of the true

On every whisper that welcomes the unbelievable
And the birth of the true

On every whisper that welcomes the inconceivable
And the birth of the true

I feel the magic that our time has traced
Make a point of it in every place
But every place deserves a curse or two
For making me so far away from you

I saw some pictures of the world at war
Couldn't suss what all the fuss was for
I wear a picture of you wearing black
And kissing me behind the butlers back

Sometimes I get down
But it's not you that gets me down
It's just that sense of the impossible
Gratuitously handed down

But oh no, not you
Don't wipe your eyes over lies
Just let them shine their blue
On every whisper that welcomes the inconceivable
And the birth of the true

I'd sack the world and make a second start
Sack my head until I found my heart
Sack the world ane make a red parade
To burn the banks down while the bugles played

Sometimes I get down
But it's not you that gets me down
It's just that sense of the impossible
Gratuitously handed down

But oh no, not you
Don't wipe your eyes over lies
Just let them shine their blue
On every whisper that welcomes the inconceivable
And the birth of the true

On every whisper that welcomes the unbelievable
And the birth of the true

On every whisper that welcomes the inconceivable
And the birth of the true

I brought you some francs
From my travelling chest
You'll spare me the thanks
'Til you know I'm the best

So, come Hogmonay
When love comes in slurs
Resolutions I'll make
And you can label them hers

We threw our hands up high
We nearly touched the sky
We clicked our heels and spat and swore we'd never let it die

All those boy wonders
Sold their medals when they saw this train
Now this boy wonders
When he'll feel the fall of honest rain
I came from high land where the hopefuls have to hesitate
Now this boy wonders
Why the words were never worth the wait

I'm waiting, waiting
In pastel paper, pink over grey
We wrap, wrap, wrap and chuck, chuck away
The poor excuse they peddle as their prose

Dry your tears, tie your tongue
And you're never sixteen
And I'll give you a glimpse
Of the hard and the clean
And my travelling chest
Will be open to you
And boy will you learn
That you haven't a clue

I even asked my best friend
But he could not explain
It hit me when I left him
I felt the rain and called it genius
Called it genius

All those boy wonders
Sold their medals when they saw this train
Now this boy wonders
When he'll feel the fall of honest rain
I came from high land where the hopefuls have to hesitate
Now this boy wonders
Why the words were never worth the wait

Words and music by roddy frame

Still, so, here we go, nighthawk calls again,
Meeting after midnight like we do
Flesh bared, never scared, know their kind too well.
"grab that gretsch before the truth hits town",
You whispered to me as they fell.

Chorus:
And when I'm safe and sound with nothing left to send,
The bugle sounds again.

The cards are on the table now and every other cliche


Somehow fits me like a glove.
You know that I'd be loathe to call it love.
For strength will come to tower above
The things that I have learned to love
And just as I'm about to say 'amen',
The bugle sounds again.

The vampires made a killing, filled their pockets up with shillings
Saying 'someone has to pay' and you were still in hiding
Singing 'come and cry beside me' so I ran away.

And when I'm safe and sound with nothing left to send,
The bugle sounds again.

Tears, just like the jewels,
Adorn their corporate crown,
Weigh on me worthless and I,
Shake them down and leave now,
And have no royal things.
You, would consecrate the ground,
I paced in pain,
And though those pavements,
Caught your sorrow stains,
They fall from me and I say,
Maybe don't fall for anything,
That says it's never gonna,
Give you everything.
I wish myself into your arms,
To know that all I need is everything.
The size of the sea, and the sun in my eyes,
And the line in my head,
Yearning for more, only for more.
These days are are bright as the days I have seen
In the wildest of dreams,
Yearning for more, only for more.
I wish myself into your arms,
To know that all I need is everything.
Hold back the night, I am tired of my sight
That won't see anymore,
More than today, threatening to stay.
Hold back the night, I am tired of my sight
That won't see anymore,
""Show me you care"", is
""Show me the door"".

Jock's got a vote in Parochia
10 long years and he's still got her
Paying tax and and doing stir
Worry about it later
And the wind blows hot and the wind blows cold
But it blows us good so we've been told
Music's food 'til the art-biz folds
Let them all eat culture

The past is steeped in shame
But tomorrow's fair game
For a life that's fit for living
Good morning, Britain

20 years and a loaded gun
Funerals, fear and the war ain't won
Paddy's still a figure of fun
It lightens up the danger
Corporal sneers at a Catholic boy
And he eyes his gun like a rich man's toy
He's killing more than Celtic joy
Death is not a stranger

Taffy's time's gonna come one day
It's a loud sweet voice and it won't give way
A house is not a holiday
Your sons are leaving home, Neil
In the hills and the valleys and far away
You can hear the song of democracy
The echo of eternity
With a Rak-a-Rak-a feel

The past is steeped in shame
But tomorrow's fair game
For a life that's fit for living
Good morning, Britain

From the Tyne to where to the Thames does flow
My English brothers and sisters know
It's not a case of where you go
It's race and creed and color
From the police cell to the deep dark grave
On the underground's just a stop away
Don't be too black, don't be too gay
Just get a little duller

But in this green and pleasant land
Where I make my home I make my stand
Make it cool just to be a man
A uniform's a traitor
Love is international
And if you stand or if you fall
Just let them know you gave your all
Worry about it later

The past is steeped in shame
But tomorrow's fair game
For a life that's fit for living
Good morning, Britain

The past is steeped in shame
But tomorrow's fair game
For a life that's fit for living
Good morning, Britain

Words and music by roddy frame

Well, when I've questioned
All I could and come undone
And only sadness stands
Between me and the sun
When loving leaves and leaves me
Waiting on the one
And my heart can't hide
And when seduction separates
Me from surprise
I open my eyes and
I let your love decide
I let your love decide
I let your love decide

Well, when I saw you in the spring
You caught my eye
Eluded me and made me wonder why
An unassuming, undermining kinda guy
Could not be on your side


And when your brown eyes and my blue
Did so collide
I sat by your side and I shied away
And I let your love decide
I let your love decide
I let your love decide

Well, if the world was like I wished
When I was young
When all the things that I had thought
Could still be done
When we could win the wars
And wars could still be won
And I didn't miss you
And when the world was opening up
Like a father to his son
And I could kiss you
Well, let your love decide
Well, let your love decide
So let your love decide

From the mountain tops
Down to the sunny street
A different drum is playing a different kind of beat
It's like a mystery
That never ends
I see you crying and I want to kill your friends

I hear your footsteps in the street
It won't be long before we meet
It's obvious
Just count me in and count me out
And I'll be waiting for the shout
Oblivious

Met Mo and she's okay
Said no one really changed
Got different badges but they wear them just the same
Down by the ballroom
I recognized
That flaming fountain in those kindred caring eyes

I hear your footsteps in the street
It won't be long before we meet
It's obvious
Just count me in and count me out
And I'll be waiting for the shout
Oblivious

I hope it haunts me 'til I'm hopeless
I hope it hits you when you go
And sometimes on the edge of sleeping
It rises up to let me know
It's not so deep, I'm not so slow

They're calling all the shots
They'll call and say they phoned
They'll call us lonely when we're really just alone
And like a funny film
It's kinda cute
They've bought the bullets and there's no one left to shoot

I hear your footsteps in the street
It won't be long before we meet
It's obvious
Just count me in and count me out
And I'll be waiting for the shout
Oblivious

I hear your footsteps in the street
It won't be long before we meet
It's obvious
Just count me in and count me out
And I'll be waiting for the shout
Oblivious

I've been searching
Seems like so long
For perfection
In a world made wrong
Here it's hard to be strong
Seems like we're heading
Down and down and down
But that's love

In my life, a million dreams take over
Paradise, a million miles away

You've been hurting

And I can see
As the world turns round and round
You spin with me
And when you're down
Don't you know I'm down too
But up or down
There's nowhere else I'd rather be
Than with you

In my mind, a million dreams take over
Paradise, a million miles away

In my life, a million dreams take over
Paradise, a million miles away

But walking down this lonely road
I stop and think of you
And I can see now
'cos I believe now
Paradise is true
Paradise is you

Once I was happy in happy extremes
These bitter tokens are worthless to me

So you appear and say how I've grown
Fill me up with faces I've known.
In this light they're far from divine
I'll save them up and spend them when I have time.

The salted taste of all your tears and woes
Sent me in haste my melancholy rose
Those tasteless lips were closed
You watched me come, you'll see me go.

Once I was happy in happy extremes
Packing my bags for the path of the free
From pillar to post I am driven it seems
These bitter tokens are worthless to me

Just like June the curtains are closed
The ghost of shame he sits here and sighs
I'll love the flames like I've loved the cold
I'll learn to love the life of the "could I, could I, could I"

So I don't cross my fingers any more
You looked for rags and found them at your door
How could you ask for more
Than everything you've heard before?

Once I was happy in happy extremes
Packing my bags for the path of the free
From pillar to post I am driven it seems
These bitter tokens are worthless to me

Once I was happy in happy extremes
Packing my bags for the path of the free
From pillar to post I am driven it seems
These bitter tokens are worthless to me

Once I was happy in happy extremes
Packing my bags for the path of the free
From pillar to post I am driven it seems
These bitter tokens are worthless to me

Words and music by roddy frame

When the rainy season comes
I hang my head
For all the things I've seen
And done and said
And then I wonder why
I hold my head up high
And feel the rain

The storm came creeping
Like a song I ought to know
And caught me sleeping deep in thoughts
I thought should grow
And then I opened up
Prepared to fill my cup
And sing it slow

But in the darkness I could see the demons leap
They were the devils I had come upon in sleep
And as I made to sing
The devils spread their wings
And sang like angels
So sweet

So when the rainy season comes
I hang my head
For all the things I have seen and done
And sung and said
And when my tears are dry
I hold my head up high and feel the rain

Well, baby I never said
I was gonna be jesus
Though you're searching
For a saviour in your mind
Never said I'd be dealing down any forgiveness
So let me save your precious time

And when your tears are dry
Forever wave goodbye to chasing rainbows
When the rainy season comes
I hang my head
For all the things I have seen and done
And sung and said
And when my tears are dry
I hold my head up high
And feel the rain

Words and music by roddy frame

Ran a redlight
Running lonely
Through Gaudi's soft confusion
Hey, hey my Barcelonian
Such a gentle jones
Running through my bones
Placa Reial calls
It calls, it calls
It calls the night home.

Chorus:
And then her eyes
Like spanish horses
Danced alive as language died
They danced
Like spanish horses
As saddened skies
Descended on the night
We saw two ships set sail
And the lights danced


On the water, they danced
They danced
Like spanish horses

Trying to exorcise
The thought that daytime dies
Race, run and stumble
Fall into dark
See the fire, see the spark
Then you fall, then you fall
So free and humble
You tumble.

Chorus

You're born from bloody revolution
You're lost to simplicity
And small solutions
So you burn
When you're born
Then you burn
Burn, burn...

I'm in love with everything
That breaks the grip of caution
On our getting up and leaving
For a bigger day, still some say
That all you need is money
To be free from what is poor
Well that's the lie of looking up
From somewhere down.
Chorus:
Because the sun will show to testify
That all the time between belongs to you and I,
To be still on fire,
And when the strongest words have all been used
And all the new ones sound confused,
To be still on fire.
Somewhere in the middle
We could see through all the people
And be playing second fiddle
And be feeling sore,
Shown the door.
To chase out all the child in you
Is throwing out the baby for the
Chance to make it easy to be more.
Chorus

Words and music by roddy frame

Sand seperates the sea
From me on my desert island
Sun obliterates the sky
And i, I'm just like anyone
No matter how I try
I wanna see the sun.

And it shines
To luminate the distance
Illustrate the difference
Between you and me
And it collides with clouds
That set the sky free
Indicating right, indicating wrong
I'm just like anyone
I wanna see the sun.

Moon through many stages move
And light love
Like a silent l.d.
Swoon and every single kiss
You ever lit like this
Is gonna feel like bliss
So just reflect the sun
And guide everyone.

And it shines
To luminate the distance


Illustrate the difference
Between you and me
And it collides with clouds
That set the sky free
Indicating right, indicating wrong
So just reflect the sun
And guide everyone.

A cable car above the bay
Below the stars saying "are you okay? "
To the one you love.
It sings like a song
As it strings you along
You suspend your belief
There's no need, baby I've gone there
Stars shone there.

And they shine
To luminate the distance
Illustrate the difference
Between you and me
See them collide with clouds
That set the sky free
Indicating right, indicating wrong
And just like anyone
I wanna see the sun
I wanna see the moon
I wanna see the stars
I wanna see them shine.

Words and music by roddy frame

I look around me and what do I see?
Sadness surrounds me, alone as can be
With too much time and too much distance.
These chains that bind me
They won't set me free,
I look behind me and coming for me
Is my best friend, she's my resistance.

Chorus:
So if you find yourself alone and so unkind,
And if you've asked yourself, over and over,
And even if your heartbeats hurt like goodbyes,
Try, try, try
Open your mind, spend some time,
With the gentle kind



I was torn between the darkness and the light,
Lost to all belief that it could turn out right.
But my quiet friend turned me round,
Made me see again.
Took my hand, said nothing much,
No lesson learned, just a gentle touch
And I am coming round,
I am coming round again.

Chorus

Cos' in a hard world, with fastness and an eye on the money,
I heard a soft voice, saying "never worry, hold on honey"
When my world was gone, a whisper kind of eased my mind.
And I am holdin' on,
To the gentle kind.

Walk out to winter, swear I'll be there.
Chill will wake you, high and dry
You'll wonder why.

We met in the summer and walked 'til the fall
And breathless we talked, it was tongues.
Despite what they'll say, it wasn't youth, we'd hit the truth

Faces of Strummer that fell from your wall
And nothing was left where they hung
So sweet and bitter, they're what we found
So drink them down and

Walk out to winter, swear I'll be there.
Chill will wake you, high and dry
You'll wonder why.
Walk out to winter, swear I'll be there.
Chance is buried just below the blinding snow.

You burn in the breadline and ribbons and all
So walk to winter
You won't be late, you'll always wait
This generation, the walk to the wall
But I'm not angry, get your gear
Get out of here and

Walk out to winter, swear I'll be there.
Chill will wake you, high and dry
You'll wonder why.
Walk out to winter, swear I'll be there.
Chance is buried just below the blinding snow.

Walk out to winter, swear I'll be there.
Chill will wake you, high and dry

Walk out to winter, swear I'll be there.
You'll find,
Snowblind
This is life
This is life

Words and music by roddy frame

Vocals & guitars roddy frame. keyboards rob mounsey, peter beckett. drum
Programming jimmy bralower. drums dave wecki. bass synthesizer robby
Kilgore. background vocals tawatha agee, jill dellabate, roddy frame and
Dan hartman. produced by russ titleman. engineered by josh abbey and eric
Calvi.

Now love is a burning ring
At the bottom of our being
Done down and disconnected
It lies like a sleeping thing
Our task is to awaken
Our mission it is clear
With lips and arms and unity
We've overcome our fear

Chorus:
That day will come


When everybody is a number one
Until that day
Thy never will be done

Some boss lickin' guy
Who said he was your friend
Tried to put me down
But I'll still be around
And for the people who would try
Just to take it apart
Let me tell it from the start
For the second time

Chorus

If I was a poet
I think I'd throw a stone
In anger and confusion
I would not be alone

Chorus

Words and music by roddy frame

The sun dying on a dusty room,
Tv lying to me through the gloom,
Even remote control can't change this mood,
Get outta london while the getting's good,
Get outta london while I know I could,
Get outta london.

Train's come just ride and believe,
The engine running's all the music I need,
I've got a fear of the past and a hunger to feed,
Get outta london and you shall be free,
Get outta london and it's guaranteed,
Get outta london.

I walked the avenue of dumb signs,
Meant nothing and it felt fine,


Then I remembered what was really mine,
A silver shiver running down my spine.

Down where the streets are pave with sick schemes,
The river's running like a snake through a dream,
The politicians gaze across it's slime,
I need another way to waste my time,
Get outta london, get outta london.

I saw the spectre of charity,
And he didn't seem brotherly,
Popping up what should be blown away.
A brotherhood of man in disarray,
I got hit by the dreamers disease,
Where your big ideas,
Don't make connection with your buckling knees,
And saw the greed and agreed that it sucked,
But they said, "don't laugh at money cos it's bad luck"
Get outta london, get outta london.

Jock's got a vote in Parochia
10 long years and he's still got her
Paying tax and and doing stir
Worry about it later
And the wind blows hot and the wind blows cold
But it blows us good so we've been told
Music's food 'til the art-biz folds
Let them all eat culture

The past is steeped in shame
But tomorrow's fair game
For a life that's fit for living
Good morning, Britain

20 years and a loaded gun
Funerals, fear and the war ain't won
Paddy's still a figure of fun
It lightens up the danger
Corporal sneers at a Catholic boy
And he eyes his gun like a rich man's toy
He's killing more than Celtic joy
Death is not a stranger

Taffy's time's gonna come one day
It's a loud sweet voice and it won't give way
A house is not a holiday
Your sons are leaving home, Neil
In the hills and the valleys and far away
You can hear the song of democracy
The echo of eternity
With a Rak-a-Rak-a feel

The past is steeped in shame
But tomorrow's fair game
For a life that's fit for living
Good morning, Britain

From the Tyne to where to the Thames does flow
My English brothers and sisters know
It's not a case of where you go
It's race and creed and color
From the police cell to the deep dark grave
On the underground's just a stop away
Don't be too black, don't be too gay
Just get a little duller

But in this green and pleasant land
Where I make my home I make my stand
Make it cool just to be a man
A uniform's a traitor
Love is international
And if you stand or if you fall
Just let them know you gave your all
Worry about it later

The past is steeped in shame
But tomorrow's fair game
For a life that's fit for living
Good morning, Britain

The past is steeped in shame
But tomorrow's fair game
For a life that's fit for living
Good morning, Britain

Words and music by roddy frame

Well you can get grades, toe the line,
Keep your behind above the water in the meantime,
Join the corporate pyramid,
I couldn't blame you if you did,
Until you sell out your brother while your sister falls,
Playin' daddy, doing the company crawl,
You don't deserve your daughter's kiss, I know it's sad,
That's how it is.

Well, uptown there's been more than an oilspill,
Another woman beaten, raped, blood spilled, male hate,
The paper's couldn't wait, racism, sell this.


Well there's excusin' in what I'm saying,
It's just that there's a million colours praying,
For real justice.
That's how it really is.

You just get born, keep on keepin' on,
Defend yourself against the worries,
Try and have fun.
Party on until your number's picked,
But beware cos the fight is fixed,
It was them but it could be you next,
Paranoia saves lives,
So if you wanna exist,
Get your head round this...
That's how it is.

It's called love
And every cruelty will cloud it
And his lie, his lie
True love could never allow it
'Cos it's a lie that we have ceased to believe
We've said goodbye but it won't take its leave

Why should it take the tears of a woman
To see how men are

P. E. R. S. P. E. C. T. I. V. E.
It's no mystery
What you don't know always gets you
It will hurt you and desert you
So you'd better seeThat it's a damage ever done by degrees
And some will take eternity to believe

Why should it take the tears of a woman
To see how men are

'Cos love is a giving with no need of return
It lends itself to everything
And maybe someday man will see
That love is a lesson money never taught us to learn
Love is the power to have
Without the premise that there's nothing for free

And sometimes when we're just getting by and getting along
It's like we're scared to see that something is wrong

Why should it take (why should) the tears of a woman (the tears of a woman)
To see how men are (To see how men are)

Why should it take (why should) the tears of a woman (the tears of a woman)
To see how men are (To see how men are... To see how men are)

P. E. R. S. P. E. C. T. I. V. E.
It's no mystery, s'no mystery (no mystery)

(P. E. R. S. P. E. C. T. I. V. E.
It's history
You better see
P. E. R. S. P. E. C. T. I. V. E...)

As the city asleep
Shares it's dreams and desires
Every wish that we keep
Will trace a line to other times, other places
Though the song of the proud
Howls and dies, never fall for defeat
Take a trip to reprieve
Every hour they leave
From killermont street

Drink a drink to before

And our memories spill
Adding on as they pour
From our saturdays and secret sensations
Drink a drink to tonight
Whisky words tumble down in the street
With the pain that they cure
Sentimentally yours
From killermont street

And with collar upturned
I made it south to see
That the love I had spurned
Was just the hate in me

As the ships and the steel
Slip away to the cry of 'compete'
There's a message for us
We can get there by bus
From killermont street

Words and music by roddy frame

Vocals & guitars roddy frame. bass & keyboard programming jeff bova. drums
Jimmy bralower. background vocals scott parker. produced by roddy frame.
Engineered by josh abbey.

I've seen that recipe
Lawmen and royalty
And nothing on earth can take that taste
And make it something sweet
I saw the news today
A broken everything with years to pay
And nobody else can save us now
And that's alright by me
'cos I say

Chorus:
We make love in the face of it all
Feel the freedom and the purity
And what we need is not security
Something more than a law


We walk at night in a blind wind
Through the streets where the rich ones lived
And what we want's beyond the will to win
Something more than a law

I feel the rain on me
I'm soaked in memory
And never will I betray that love
'cos that's not love by me
I know prosperity
But he could never be a part of me
The snow and the stone
Feeling never at home
Well she's my poetry
'cos I say

Chorus

And when we're lonely
It's more than lonely
So we turn around to say something bigger than us
But then who do you blame when your love is gone?

Words and music by roddy frame

All the madness in the mirror,
The tremblin' and the tears.
It takes a long time comin' out,
It's comin' out of here.
I've been wandering your london town,
And it's wearin' out my shoes.
It's a long road comin' down,
Comin' down with the blues.

But when you hold me and really make love to me,
I know that love is true forgiveness.
Time on my mind is time spent with you,
But it's time that I can't find,
With the notting hill blues.

Lovers pass me on the gate,


Like distant cousings, removed,
Holding hands, it seems like an act of fate,
And I'm almost moved.
But love has left me standing still,
With no directions and no clues,
No speech to let my feelings loose.
A celebration of the blues.

But when you hold me and really make love to me,
I know that love is true forgiveness.
Out on the road I was down with the crew,
Now I'm all alone, on the run,
With the notting hill blues.

And it's a lonely, lonely time,
Sadness preys upon my mind,
A telephone and a bottle of booze,
But who do you call? when your tongue tied,
Up all night.

One and one is one I hear
But it breaks my heart to come so near
And find division standing in our way
As London burns I lie awake
And wrestle with this passive state
But a broken heart is useless in these days

When I close my eyes to trouble
Baby I see you
And now I have the need to double
Everything I do
So I close my eyes and make a wish
Yeah, dream a dream for me
That one and one will someday be free

Oh boy I know
The crucial blow
They deal us every day
I feel it too
But need for you
To chase your blues away
But if my heart
Should come apart
My love should turn inside
I'll understand
You're just a man
I'll still be on your side

Words and music by roddy frame

Over my head, over my head
And I can't break free from these chains
Over my head go the things that we said


And I long to be above pain

When your heart is broken
Mine's in two
And I'm over my head in blue
Over the love of you.

I've been searching
Seems like so long
For perfection
In a world made wrong
Here it's hard to be strong
Seems like we're heading
Down and down and down
But that's love

In my life, a million dreams take over
Paradise, a million miles away

You've been hurting

And I can see
As the world turns round and round
You spin with me
And when you're down
Don't you know I'm down too
But up or down
There's nowhere else I'd rather be
Than with you

In my mind, a million dreams take over
Paradise, a million miles away

In my life, a million dreams take over
Paradise, a million miles away

But walking down this lonely road
I stop and think of you
And I can see now
'cos I believe now
Paradise is true
Paradise is you

Summer in the city where the air is still
A baby being born to the overkill
Well who cares what people say
We walk down love's motorway

Ambition and love wearing boxing gloves
And singing hearts and flowers

But somewhere in my heart
There is a star that shines for you
Silver splits the blue
Love will see it through
And somewhere in my heart
There is the will to set you free
All you've got to be
Is true

A star above the city in the northern chill
A baby being born to the overkill
No say, no place to go
A TV, a radio

Ambition and love wearing boxing gloves
And singing hearts and flowers

But somewhere in my heart
There is a star that shines for you
Silver splits the blue
Love will see it through
And somewhere in my heart
There is the will to set you free
All you've got to be
Is true

Who could heal
What's never been as one
And our hearts have been torn
Since the day we were born
Just like anyone

From Westwood to Hollywood
The one thing that's understood
Is that you can't buy time
But you can sell your soul
And the closest thing to heaven is to rock and roll

But somewhere in my heart
There is a star that shines for you
Silver splits the blue
Love will see it through
And somewhere in my heart
There is the will to set you free
All you've got to be
Is true

Somewhere in my heart
There is a star that shines for you
Silver splits the blue
Love will see it through
And somewhere in my heart
There is the will to set you free
All you've got to be
Is true

Words and music by roddy frame

Awake,
In winter's crystal hours,
And give to what gets you in the end,
For the sake of a love that just devours,
And smiles and takes,
And lays you down again.

Run free
The moon is always female,
Straight to what's still and will not bend,


Don't wait for the sunshine to surround you,
Consume and fake,
And let you down again.

Cos' life is short,
And you better get smart,
To the people who know nothing,
And surround you.

Stand straight,
In what kills you and confounds you,
And break it's chains,
And still believe.

We were two in a million,
Stars like the ones in the sky,
A love scene and a vision,
We saw the world and we waved goodbye.
Watched the fireworks falling,
We kissed and innocence died.
The sound of certainty calling,
A world that wouldn't be satisfied.

I said,
You only get one hit, that's the beauty of it,
What's the good in crying?
It's always been that way, at the end of the day,
You gotta keep on trying.
Life's a one take movie and I don't care what it means,
I'm saving up my tears for the crying scene.

Tears fall and they haunt me,
The sad words of a song,
It's like necessity wants me,
Sometimes I long just to belong.
I dream of demons and money,
I see the straights in the rain,
I gotta keep on movin',
Before they drag me down again...

You only get one hit, that's the beauty of it,
What's the good in crying?
It's always been that way, at the end of the day,
You gotta keep on trying.
I said, life's a one take movie and I don't care what it means,
I'm saving up my tears for the crying scene.

I said,
You only get one hit, that's the beauty of it,
What's the good in crying?
It's always been that way, at the end of the day,
You gotta keep on trying.
Life's a one take movie and I don't care what it means,
I'm saving up my tears for the crying scene.
The crying scene
The crying scene

Words and music by roddy frame

I look around me and what do I see?
Sadness surrounds me, alone as can be
With too much time and too much distance.
These chains that bind me
They won't set me free,
I look behind me and coming for me
Is my best friend, she's my resistance.

Chorus:
So if you find yourself alone and so unkind,
And if you've asked yourself, over and over,
And even if your heartbeats hurt like goodbyes,
Try, try, try
Open your mind, spend some time,
With the gentle kind



I was torn between the darkness and the light,
Lost to all belief that it could turn out right.
But my quiet friend turned me round,
Made me see again.
Took my hand, said nothing much,
No lesson learned, just a gentle touch
And I am coming round,
I am coming round again.

Chorus

Cos' in a hard world, with fastness and an eye on the money,
I heard a soft voice, saying "never worry, hold on honey"
When my world was gone, a whisper kind of eased my mind.
And I am holdin' on,
To the gentle kind.

Our love's the sound
Of broken skies
Too blind to see
What lies inside
We love what shines
Before our eyes
Why can't we learn
What hides?

Chorus:
Waiting on the last train
Flicking through the highlights
Livin' in a suitcase
Positively uptight
Kissing in the full moon
Drowning in the sunshine
Walking on a tightrope
And everything is gonna be just fine
'Cos I believe in your heart of gold
Automatically sunshine
Yeah glitter, glitter everywhere
Like working in a goldmine
And we believe that there's a heart beats on
In the dark of the closedown
Yeah glitter, glitter everywhere
Like working in a goldmine

And time not tied
Is time to feed
We lose our pride
We spill our seed
The worst of us
Escape so slow
The best of us
Just goes

Chorus

They'll make you work for everything
Never let it roll
Never let it swing
Take control and let your heart sing

Tears, just like the jewels,
Adorn their corporate crown,
Weigh on me worthless and I,
Shake them down and leave now,
And have no royal things.
You, would consecrate the ground,
I paced in pain,
And though those pavements,
Caught your sorrow stains,
They fall from me and I say,
Maybe don't fall for anything,
That says it's never gonna,
Give you everything.
I wish myself into your arms,
To know that all I need is everything.
The size of the sea, and the sun in my eyes,
And the line in my head,
Yearning for more, only for more.
These days are are bright as the days I have seen
In the wildest of dreams,
Yearning for more, only for more.
I wish myself into your arms,
To know that all I need is everything.
Hold back the night, I am tired of my sight
That won't see anymore,
More than today, threatening to stay.
Hold back the night, I am tired of my sight
That won't see anymore,
""Show me you care"", is
""Show me the door"".

Craze my hair and shine my shoes,
And kiss the kiss that I could lose,
And I looked at what I have,
And I have one wish,
And I looked back in your eyes,
And there were two words,
Backwards and forwards.
Here lies the essence of my peers,
Handshakes, hellos and golden years,
See it smiling through its teeth,
It's the whore who has to die,
Unhappy, underneath,
And it's long learned not to show it,
Get backwards and forwards.
How come when I'm gone I get the blues?
Or something special that I might confuse,
With getting gifts I'm not at liberty to use.
It's cold to the touch and older than I know,
And when the world's with me too much,
I say she comes and then it goes.
Could completeness still appeal,
To one who thinks what he should feel?
And it stares me in the face,
And holds me speechless,
And I look back in your eyes,
And see your eyes gaze,
See your eyes gaze into mine,
Forever.

I recall the biggest beach,
Throwing stones, almost alone except for,
Something just outside of reach,
And I'd swear I wouldn't say and then I'd,
Paint me up into a scene,
And throw me like a party which had,
Come and stayed and left and been,
And had still refused to end.
Chorus:
And if your head is happy, and your heart's insane,
I'll take you there,
When you throw your thunder and you snap my reins,
I'll make you care.
Since I'm scattered and deranged,
I shall seek your holy lunacy, and,
Laugh will joy and laugh with pain,
So don't say I didn't say,
Or I'll remember a Texan man,
When he spoke in major sevenths and I'd,
I'd get my gun and blow his tan,
And banish him from heaven.
Chorus
My mind has torn it's tack to you,
My feet can't wait to go,
That's why I'm coming back to you,
You know I'm coming, you know I'm coming,
You'll feel my coming like a gun from below.
Chorus

Stuck in my beat suede shoes I can't wait,
Oh what a state to be in.
I need her heart and get a Jack-jones for my sins,
She's gonna ditch that shining, sick machine
And be speeding straight my way.
But I'm churning in neutral, turning in a circle,
Just like the USA.
The secret is silver, it's to shine and never simply survive
And don't swallow substitutes and never see second prize.
'Cos I know that my might could change my mind,
And I'm told that by rights it's not my find.
I'd be a tribute to temptation in it's glory and it's grave,
But I'm churning in neutral, turning in a circle,
Just like the USA.
The secret is silver, it's to shine and never simply survive
And don't swallow substitutes and never see second prize.
'Cos I know that my might could change my mind,
And I'm told that by rights it's not my find.
I'd be a tower to your highest hopes,
That no southern star could sway,
But I'm churning in neutral, turning in a circle,
Just like the USA.
I hear those rhyming bells and heed the words they say,
And with a string of diamelles I'll steal her heart away.
'Cos I know that my might could change my mind,
And I'm told that by rights it's not my find.
In my star-bangled sailor suit,
I'd be the pioneer by day,
But I'm churning in neutral, turning in a circle,
Just like the USA.

Like a child could have the trigger
And the best man needn't fall
To understand that heaven
Could be any place at all

Just five colours set in motion
And I try again to place it
And it features are obscure
Everytime I turn to face it

But I still chase it

Oh its twists are cruel and hopeless
Like neglet has worn it thin
And it could rip the sky wide open
And let the rain come tumbling

And we wait on every whisper
Like it makes us more alive
There's a sense we didn't have
And I feel it in the other five

See the pity and the pride
In the same sea of emotion
Cut my hands and touch the tide
And expect to feel the ocean
It's just a notion

And the knife has got my number
And the number that you keep
And the knife is called division
And it's drawn when I'm asleep

Oh its twists are cruel and hopeless
Like neglet has worn it thin
And it could rip the sky wide open
And let the rain come tumbling



written by Roddy Frame

I'm in love with everything
That breaks the grip of caution
On our getting up and leaving
For a bigger day, still some say
That all you need is money
To be free from what is poor
Well that's the lie of looking up
From somewhere down.
Chorus:
Because the sun will show to testify
That all the time between belongs to you and I,
To be still on fire,
And when the strongest words have all been used
And all the new ones sound confused,
To be still on fire.
Somewhere in the middle
We could see through all the people
And be playing second fiddle
And be feeling sore,
Shown the door.
To chase out all the child in you
Is throwing out the baby for the
Chance to make it easy to be more.
Chorus

Heard it said it's a stupid thing, everything that I follow through.
Never got to our god, you see. abandoned with the taste of the new.
And everytime that whistle blows I'm stranded in my shoes.

Chorus:
Get me back on board, pull me up with grace
Get me back on board, let me be embraced.

'cos even after all those words I want you for my own.
Touch me when the sun comes up and tell me that we're home.

We'll take a train to the graves again
That we can learn the value of life.


Kick the snow with our shoe-heels, shivers give me a smile in the night.
Hey, honest to goodness girl,
I'd kiss you with the lips of the lord.
But to be honest to goodness, I feel I have to wait for the word.
And everytime that whistle blows, I'm stranded in my shoes.

Chorus

'cos I'm always, always trying to be the archetypal free.
The strangest something went to sleep, I buckled at the knees.
So here we go, digging through those dustbins, giving things new names.

Chorus

Words and music by roddy frame

Chorus:
I put all the love and beauty
In the spirit of the night
And I'm holding my ticket tight.
Stupidity and suffering
Are on that ticket, too
And I'm going down the dip with you.

I swear I'm touched but then I'm tired
Everyone who tries to tie me.
'cause I seem to realize
That my cup overflows.
And then I tumble down and take your hand
And no one even knows.
With the broken backs
And the pack of macks
Sayin' that's the way it goes.


Chorus

'cause I been facin' all the red
Me, I'm chasin' all the orange.
And while the bourgeois breed
All you need is greed
And that quiet remembrance day.
I'm gonna pull that chain
'til the heavens rain
And I see them wash away.

'cause I've bound myself to virtue
But I'm bound to be amused.
If it's less than this
You know I can't approve.
I've been hangin' with the hollow men
Who never got the groove
And I'm going down the dip with you.

Chorus

Words and music by roddy frame

The moment's here
Hold it and we'll keep it clear
Just like a crush
I wonder when I feel your rush
Losing nothing but pride
I got game enough to go for a ride
And I'm riding like a buoy on a wave
Yes I'm searching for the one on a wave
But I'm cold as I'm wet
'cos I know it's no one I've ever met
So I'm leaving all my lessons today
Yes I'm throwing all my lessons away
'cos it's one half open
It's one half shut
Like a life, like a knife
But the world wouldn't cut
It's like one mouth open
One mouth shut
A kiss I could miss
Like a kick in the gut
I just get haywire


Haywire

Par for the course
We've had it till I just got hoarse
From night down to day
It doesn't change with what I say
Ooh confidence why did you desert me then
When I could've kicked I snuggled up to think again
But I'm still on the make
When you give I have to take take take
And I'm riding like a buoy on a wave
And I'm learning all my lessons today
So let that voice be untamed
Let it cry and let some names be named
We'll be wired with the force of a wave
We'll be leaving with the force of a wave
It's like
"but how can I help it, if they break then they break
When my hands are untied they're entitled to shake"
It's like
I look to leicester's left-it-lad
And the sickness was singing and the song it was sad
It should be haywire
Haywire

Words and music by roddy frame

I laughed until it got too dark.
Somewhere else her voice will bark.
Someone else will be involved.
Someone stronger still.

Chorus
I'm lost here by myself, and lost outside myself
But we were not to blame, we're not the same.

I get up to get back down,
People's voices seem to drown me out
When I am in two minds.
Who could hide a love so blind?


Chorus

I cared for you in our one dream,
A one way rush to what I'd seen.
A desert free from threats, mundane,
A tunnel for our love.

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From the mountain tops
Down to the sunny street
A different drum is playing a different kind of beat
It's like a mystery
That never ends
I see you crying and I want to kill your friends

I hear your footsteps in the street
It won't be long before we meet
It's obvious
Just count me in and count me out
And I'll be waiting for the shout
Oblivious

Met Mo and she's okay
Said no one really changed
Got different badges but they wear them just the same
Down by the ballroom
I recognized
That flaming fountain in those kindred caring eyes

I hear your footsteps in the street
It won't be long before we meet
It's obvious
Just count me in and count me out
And I'll be waiting for the shout
Oblivious

I hope it haunts me 'til I'm hopeless
I hope it hits you when you go
And sometimes on the edge of sleeping
It rises up to let me know
It's not so deep, I'm not so slow

They're calling all the shots
They'll call and say they phoned
They'll call us lonely when we're really just alone
And like a funny film
It's kinda cute
They've bought the bullets and there's no one left to shoot

I hear your footsteps in the street
It won't be long before we meet
It's obvious
Just count me in and count me out
And I'll be waiting for the shout
Oblivious

I hear your footsteps in the street
It won't be long before we meet
It's obvious
Just count me in and count me out
And I'll be waiting for the shout
Oblivious

Words and music by roddy frame

What do you mean by beauty lain
I hope you know the consequences
'cos beauty wounds will make us strong
With truth we'll test our old defenses
And all my friends will make amends
They're green and grey and gold and groovy
And reconciled they'll shake and smile
Smile at me as though they knew me

And judge this world through jaundiced eyes
They're sold too soon and none too wise
Their big blue God is in the sky
Orchid girl don't spend your money

They asked me what the meek would get


Pictured me afraid to answer
I told them that when thought's entombed
Then love will show it's root in cancer
The sweet disorder in your eye
Has drawn me here through graves and gardens
I'm going in you're going in here are your smokes
Your jokes you're getting soaked I'm angry and my
Fists are pocketed

We'll judge this world through jaundiced eyes
We're sold too soon and none too wise
The big blue God is in the sky
He takes the blame and never cries
But orchid girl you'd make my day
You'd blow their cloud of crap away
If you would just refuse to pay

Orchid girl you'd make my day

Once I was happy in happy extremes
These bitter tokens are worthless to me

So you appear and say how I've grown
Fill me up with faces I've known.
In this light they're far from divine
I'll save them up and spend them when I have time.

The salted taste of all your tears and woes
Sent me in haste my melancholy rose
Those tasteless lips were closed
You watched me come, you'll see me go.

Once I was happy in happy extremes
Packing my bags for the path of the free
From pillar to post I am driven it seems
These bitter tokens are worthless to me

Just like June the curtains are closed
The ghost of shame he sits here and sighs
I'll love the flames like I've loved the cold
I'll learn to love the life of the "could I, could I, could I"

So I don't cross my fingers any more
You looked for rags and found them at your door
How could you ask for more
Than everything you've heard before?

Once I was happy in happy extremes
Packing my bags for the path of the free
From pillar to post I am driven it seems
These bitter tokens are worthless to me

Once I was happy in happy extremes
Packing my bags for the path of the free
From pillar to post I am driven it seems
These bitter tokens are worthless to me

Once I was happy in happy extremes
Packing my bags for the path of the free
From pillar to post I am driven it seems
These bitter tokens are worthless to me

Words and music by roddy frame

Here come a million johnny yens again
Hard pushed, hard bitten, that's a show
They've got their tickets and they're spying out
For somewhere safe where they can go
Like a big black train they're coming through
Singing hey
We do the queen's tattoos
Singing hey
We do the queen's tattoos

Chorus
You must have seen our scene
We've been on the news
Singing hey
We do the queen's tattoos



That kind of love gets all the biggest kicks
From martin fry and mills and boone
But it's got no guts
It's got no big kicks
My love and I will kill it soon
You gotta melt your guns
They're playing our tune

Chorus

My love and I will kill it soon
You gotta melt your guns
They're playing our tune
Singing hey

Chorus

Words and music by roddy frame

Silver shone the rooftops, I heard the words 'you will',
And realized that in your eyes, the force of love could kill.
So go and get your wages, get what you deserve,
When hope held out of it's hands today, you laughed and turned and fled.

Chorus:
Release, 'cos I wanted the world, and all I could get to
Was a gun or a girl.
Release, now I've thrown them away
I'm here and I'm hungry and I hope I can stay.

The loch is overflowing, the sun has shed it's light
And all that's left to warm your breast's the wine we stole tonight.
Bottle merchants both of us, overdosed on keats, we smashed them all


And watched them fall like magic in the streets.

Chorus

Standing in our new boots, we've lost the urge to hide,
We left it with the souvenirs that forced us to decide.
How we'd storm the palace, meet me at the gates,
There's plenty bread and water here for anyone who waits.

Chorus

But you can't remember where you squandered your hope
A fistful of dollars and a fistful of dope,
With your hands in your hair and your hair in your face,
You'd better summon your soul because we're leaving this place,
With a red, red flag for a souvenir.

I brought you some francs
From my travelling chest
You'll spare me the thanks
'Til you know I'm the best

So, come Hogmonay
When love comes in slurs
Resolutions I'll make
And you can label them hers

We threw our hands up high
We nearly touched the sky
We clicked our heels and spat and swore we'd never let it die

All those boy wonders
Sold their medals when they saw this train
Now this boy wonders
When he'll feel the fall of honest rain
I came from high land where the hopefuls have to hesitate
Now this boy wonders
Why the words were never worth the wait

I'm waiting, waiting
In pastel paper, pink over grey
We wrap, wrap, wrap and chuck, chuck away
The poor excuse they peddle as their prose

Dry your tears, tie your tongue
And you're never sixteen
And I'll give you a glimpse
Of the hard and the clean
And my travelling chest
Will be open to you
And boy will you learn
That you haven't a clue

I even asked my best friend
But he could not explain
It hit me when I left him
I felt the rain and called it genius
Called it genius

All those boy wonders
Sold their medals when they saw this train
Now this boy wonders
When he'll feel the fall of honest rain
I came from high land where the hopefuls have to hesitate
Now this boy wonders
Why the words were never worth the wait

Words and music by roddy frame

Still, so, here we go, nighthawk calls again,
Meeting after midnight like we do
Flesh bared, never scared, know their kind too well.
"grab that gretsch before the truth hits town",
You whispered to me as they fell.

Chorus:
And when I'm safe and sound with nothing left to send,
The bugle sounds again.

The cards are on the table now and every other cliche


Somehow fits me like a glove.
You know that I'd be loathe to call it love.
For strength will come to tower above
The things that I have learned to love
And just as I'm about to say 'amen',
The bugle sounds again.

The vampires made a killing, filled their pockets up with shillings
Saying 'someone has to pay' and you were still in hiding
Singing 'come and cry beside me' so I ran away.

And when I'm safe and sound with nothing left to send,
The bugle sounds again.

Walk out to winter, swear I'll be there.
Chill will wake you, high and dry
You'll wonder why.

We met in the summer and walked 'til the fall
And breathless we talked, it was tongues.
Despite what they'll say, it wasn't youth, we'd hit the truth

Faces of Strummer that fell from your wall
And nothing was left where they hung
So sweet and bitter, they're what we found
So drink them down and

Walk out to winter, swear I'll be there.
Chill will wake you, high and dry
You'll wonder why.
Walk out to winter, swear I'll be there.
Chance is buried just below the blinding snow.

You burn in the breadline and ribbons and all
So walk to winter
You won't be late, you'll always wait
This generation, the walk to the wall
But I'm not angry, get your gear
Get out of here and

Walk out to winter, swear I'll be there.
Chill will wake you, high and dry
You'll wonder why.
Walk out to winter, swear I'll be there.
Chance is buried just below the blinding snow.

Walk out to winter, swear I'll be there.
Chill will wake you, high and dry

Walk out to winter, swear I'll be there.
You'll find,
Snowblind
This is life
This is life

You said you're free, for me that says it all
You're free to push me and I'm free to fall
So if we weaken we can call it stress
You've got my trust, I've got your home address
And now the only chance that we could take
Is the chance that someone else won't make it all come true

We're making tracks that show our touch and go
And now it's touch and come, and you should know
But then four years won't mean that much to me
When I've been smothered in the sympathy you bleed

Just close your eyes again
Until these things get better
You're never far away
But we could send letters

While you were gone I reached another town
They couldn't help me, but they showed me round
And now I've seen what you can't understand
I'd try to lead you but I'd crush your hand

Because the people in the village know
It doesn't matter where you choose to go
The end's the same

I found some blood I wasn't meant to find
I found some feelings that we'd left behind
But then some blood won't mean that much to me
When I've been smothered in the sympathy you bleed

Just close your eyes again
Until these things get better
You're never far away
But we could send letters

I found some blood I wasn't meant to find
I found some feelings that we'd left behind
But then some blood won't mean that much to me
When I've been smothered in the sympathy you bleed

Just close your eyes again
Until these things get better
You're never far away
But we could send letters

Words and music by roddy frame

How does it feel
To have time on your side
And never worry too much?
Never alone, kicking at stones
As though you're never been touched
Touched by the feeling
That nothing is real
It's all an illusion
Wheels in the drive
One of the guys
With nothing to prove

Beautiful girl, how in the world
Could you be suffering so
Life's lost it's appeal
And maybe I feel
A little more than you know
Why should I care
When everyone has their share
Perhaps your hearts like my own
You may despair but you're never alone
Long as the shore summons the sea
To hold and to heal


We're borne on our way to bloom and decay
And this is the deal
Can you feel the love stopping the wheel
Beautiful girl
Simple and still heaven, revealed

Watching the water
That flows in the river
I've been feeling so sad
Seems like the things that today has to give
Are not as good as I had
Changes are coming
Don't know if I'm ready
Is my head in the clouds
River keep
Running away from it

Long as the shore summons the sea
To hold and to heal
We're borne on our way to bloom and decay
And this is the deal
Can you feel love stopping the wheel
Beautiful girl
Simple and still you're heaven revealed

Words and music by roddy frame

When day has lost it's dark
When shadows cease to fall
I wish and wonder
You walk into the room
The air is turning blue
I'm turning to you
And all my time
Is open wide

Chorus:
And you, you say you'll do one thing
And then you do two things
Smile and the birds sing and everything
And you, you're painting the sky blue
Growing the grass green
Sending the sea crazy

You sway and my head swims
You swam onto my shore
Closed your fingers


Smiled and blew
And shone your heart
And my heart flew
And fell for eyes that shone
They close and I'm all gone
And you've left here

I'm burning blue
For someone who
Flew too near

Chorus

Closed your fingers
Smiled and blew
And shone your heart
And my heart flew
You say you'll do one thing
And then you do two things
Smile and the birds sing
It's crazy

Words and music by roddy frame

I've seen it before
So sad and unsure
Trying to make it happen
To four on the floor
But what do you do
With someone like you
Debutantes shiver in lace
And pray for disgrace
Crossing the tracks
Then hurrying back
Suitably late
You learn what to do
Just wrap it in blue
Tie it up and take it home

I wanna hear the sound
Of the tears you're crying
I wanna be around
When your tears are drying
Wanna say the things
That I know I ought to
But never said before
'cos I thought you knew
Are you all in blue
For a reason
Believing what you're feeling is true
Or is it just a shade this season

Baby blue.

Swans splash on silvery lakes
But the ice never breaks
Watching the conversation crawl
Reassuringly fake
I'm spinning in space
And feeling this place
Moulding you with money and time
Holding you although you are mine

I wanna hear the sound
Of the tears you're crying
I wanna be around
When your tears are drying

Wanna say the things
That I know I ought to
But never said before
'cos I thought you knew
Are you all in blue
For a reason
Believing what you're feeling is true
Or is it just a shade this season
Baby blue.

Pretty girl don't wait for me
You'll see his sunshine
Sometime come shining

Words and music by roddy frame

Waited winter long
For her sweet face
Sang my winter song
To a suitcase
Saw the surest thing
I had ever known
Find her own place

Watched my numbers turn
On a glass wall
Felt my bridges burn
On a last call
As her clear blue gaze
Set my heart ablaze
In a snowfall

I caught the fastest train
That my feet could find
Rode the wind of change
Couldn't change my mind
I got laid just to see


My reflection burning bright
I got paid and I prayed
Everything would turn out right
And then I sang my winter song

I caught the fastest train
That my feet could find
Rode the wind of change
Couldn't change my mind
I got laid just to see
My reflection burning bright
I got paid and I prayed
Everything would turn out right
And then I sang my winter song

And then a small voice sang inside of me

And for miles and miles
My eyes could see
Then everything I knew
Was wrong with me
And then a snowflake fell imperfectly

Words and music by roddy frame

The sun that drowns everything in gold
Feeling it taking hold, holding her hand
The hue of her hair, colouring every care
Willing to share, who'd understand?

As faith breaks down
In the shadow of a cold cathedral

Chorus:
Make a wish for the one you love
As the storm sets the leaves in motion
Let it blow on the breeze of a deep blue ocean
Love's a bird in the human hand
Feel it breathe as your fingers open
Would it stay here and sing

If it's wings were broken?
That's the method of love

By chance she calls
Shatters the mood I'm in
Letting the light shine in
Bathe me in grace
The trials of time
Course though this heart of mine
Feel her erase
Every trace

And stand by me
In the deluge of the slings and arrows

Chorus

Words and music by roddy frame

Everybody's walking through the city all alone
But no one talks about it
I am just a simple, unassuming kind of man
So neither do i
But I walk like the rest and try to do my best
'til I'm beaten, 'til I'm blue
And it shines like the sun inside of everyone
Like the neon that I see in the rain
On the avenue

Everybody's dreaming 'bout a city in the sky
Where we can live without love
I am just a simple, unassuming kind of guy
So so do i


But to feed you from a shell, fill you up and wish you
Well.
That's my reason, it's what I do
And it shines in the guise of egyptian sparkling eyes
In the basement of a hotel
Paradise
On the avenue

And if the hotel burns down
We'd probably drown 'neath the firemens' hoses
Holy moses!
I would still believe that paradise
Was there with you
Never blue
Stuck like glue
On the avenue

Words and music by roddy frame

Born on a junk heap in the sea
Cursed with the notion to be free
White and bright and twenty one
But in my heart I'm on the run
I kissed the lips of eau de vie
I tasted sugar and debris
But in the early morning light
I saw the day destroy the night

Life is a long walk home

Chorus:
Was it the moonlight
That left you gasping
Grasping, something, beyond a boy or a girl


Just let it all blow
Untie your heartstrings
No, don't cling to this phenomenal world

I lost my senses in the spring
Of someone's life that I left behind
And though I search through everything
A sense of loss is all I find
Her face is every work of art
She haunts the city high and low
But I can't live inside her heart
And so I had to let it go

And make my heart my home

Chorus

Words and music by roddy frame

When the rainy season comes
I hang my head
For all the things I've seen
And done and said
And then I wonder why
I hold my head up high
And feel the rain

The storm came creeping
Like a song I ought to know
And caught me sleeping deep in thoughts
I thought should grow
And then I opened up
Prepared to fill my cup
And sing it slow

But in the darkness I could see the demons leap
They were the devils I had come upon in sleep
And as I made to sing
The devils spread their wings
And sang like angels
So sweet

So when the rainy season comes
I hang my head
For all the things I have seen and done
And sung and said
And when my tears are dry
I hold my head up high and feel the rain

Well, baby I never said
I was gonna be jesus
Though you're searching
For a saviour in your mind
Never said I'd be dealing down any forgiveness
So let me save your precious time

And when your tears are dry
Forever wave goodbye to chasing rainbows
When the rainy season comes
I hang my head
For all the things I have seen and done
And sung and said
And when my tears are dry
I hold my head up high
And feel the rain

Words and music by roddy frame

Sand seperates the sea
From me on my desert island
Sun obliterates the sky
And i, I'm just like anyone
No matter how I try
I wanna see the sun.

And it shines
To luminate the distance
Illustrate the difference
Between you and me
And it collides with clouds
That set the sky free
Indicating right, indicating wrong
I'm just like anyone
I wanna see the sun.

Moon through many stages move
And light love
Like a silent l.d.
Swoon and every single kiss
You ever lit like this
Is gonna feel like bliss
So just reflect the sun
And guide everyone.

And it shines
To luminate the distance

Illustrate the difference
Between you and me
And it collides with clouds
That set the sky free
Indicating right, indicating wrong
So just reflect the sun
And guide everyone.

A cable car above the bay
Below the stars saying "are you okay? "
To the one you love.
It swings like a song
As it strings you along
You suspend your belief
There's no need, baby I've gone there
Stars shone there.

And they shine
To luminate the distance
Illustrate the difference
Between you and me
See them collide with clouds
That set the sky free
Indicating right, indicating wrong
And just like anyone
I wanna see the sun
I wanna see the moon
I wanna see the stars
I wanna see them shine.

Words and music by roddy frame

Sand seperates the sea
From me on my desert island
Sun obliterates the sky
And i, I'm just like anyone
No matter how I try
I wanna see the sun.

And it shines
To luminate the distance
Illustrate the difference
Between you and me
And it collides with clouds
That set the sky free
Indicating right, indicating wrong
I'm just like anyone
I wanna see the sun.

Moon through many stages move
And light love
Like a silent l.d.
Swoon and every single kiss
You ever lit like this
Is gonna feel like bliss
So just reflect the sun
And guide everyone.

And it shines
To luminate the distance


Illustrate the difference
Between you and me
And it collides with clouds
That set the sky free
Indicating right, indicating wrong
So just reflect the sun
And guide everyone.

A cable car above the bay
Below the stars saying "are you okay? "
To the one you love.
It sings like a song
As it strings you along
You suspend your belief
There's no need, baby I've gone there
Stars shone there.

And they shine
To luminate the distance
Illustrate the difference
Between you and me
See them collide with clouds
That set the sky free
Indicating right, indicating wrong
And just like anyone
I wanna see the sun
I wanna see the moon
I wanna see the stars
I wanna see them shine.

Words and music by roddy frame

The sun dying on a dusty room,
Tv lying to me through the gloom,
Even remote control can't change this mood,
Get outta london while the getting's good,
Get outta london while I know I could,
Get outta london.

Train's come just ride and believe,
The engine running's all the music I need,
I've got a fear of the past and a hunger to feed,
Get outta london and you shall be free,
Get outta london and it's guaranteed,
Get outta london.

I walked the avenue of dumb signs,
Meant nothing and it felt fine,


Then I remembered what was really mine,
A silver shiver running down my spine.

Down where the streets are pave with sick schemes,
The river's running like a snake through a dream,
The politicians gaze across it's slime,
I need another way to waste my time,
Get outta london, get outta london.

I saw the spectre of charity,
And he didn't seem brotherly,
Popping up what should be blown away.
A brotherhood of man in disarray,
I got hit by the dreamers disease,
Where your big ideas,
Don't make connection with your buckling knees,
And saw the greed and agreed that it sucked,
But they said, "don't laugh at money cos it's bad luck"
Get outta london, get outta london.

Jock's got a vote in Parochia
10 long years and he's still got her
Paying tax and and doing stir
Worry about it later
And the wind blows hot and the wind blows cold
But it blows us good so we've been told
Music's food 'til the art-biz folds
Let them all eat culture

The past is steeped in shame
But tomorrow's fair game
For a life that's fit for living
Good morning, Britain

20 years and a loaded gun
Funerals, fear and the war ain't won
Paddy's still a figure of fun
It lightens up the danger
Corporal sneers at a Catholic boy
And he eyes his gun like a rich man's toy
He's killing more than Celtic joy
Death is not a stranger

Taffy's time's gonna come one day
It's a loud sweet voice and it won't give way
A house is not a holiday
Your sons are leaving home, Neil
In the hills and the valleys and far away
You can hear the song of democracy
The echo of eternity
With a Rak-a-Rak-a feel

The past is steeped in shame
But tomorrow's fair game
For a life that's fit for living
Good morning, Britain

From the Tyne to where to the Thames does flow
My English brothers and sisters know
It's not a case of where you go
It's race and creed and color
From the police cell to the deep dark grave
On the underground's just a stop away
Don't be too black, don't be too gay
Just get a little duller

But in this green and pleasant land
Where I make my home I make my stand
Make it cool just to be a man
A uniform's a traitor
Love is international
And if you stand or if you fall
Just let them know you gave your all
Worry about it later

The past is steeped in shame
But tomorrow's fair game
For a life that's fit for living
Good morning, Britain

The past is steeped in shame
But tomorrow's fair game
For a life that's fit for living
Good morning, Britain

Words and music by roddy frame

Well you can get grades, toe the line,
Keep your behind above the water in the meantime,
Join the corporate pyramid,
I couldn't blame you if you did,
Until you sell out your brother while your sister falls,
Playin' daddy, doing the company crawl,
You don't deserve your daughter's kiss, I know it's sad,
That's how it is.

Well, uptown there's been more than an oilspill,
Another woman beaten, raped, blood spilled, male hate,
The paper's couldn't wait, racism, sell this.


Well there's excusin' in what I'm saying,
It's just that there's a million colours praying,
For real justice.
That's how it really is.

You just get born, keep on keepin' on,
Defend yourself against the worries,
Try and have fun.
Party on until your number's picked,
But beware cos the fight is fixed,
It was them but it could be you next,
Paranoia saves lives,
So if you wanna exist,
Get your head round this...
That's how it is.

Words and music by roddy frame

All the madness in the mirror,
The tremblin' and the tears.
It takes a long time comin' out,
It's comin' out of here.
I've been wandering your london town,
And it's wearin' out my shoes.
It's a long road comin' down,
Comin' down with the blues.

But when you hold me and really make love to me,
I know that love is true forgiveness.
Time on my mind is time spent with you,
But it's time that I can't find,
With the notting hill blues.

Lovers pass me on the gate,


Like distant cousings, removed,
Holding hands, it seems like an act of fate,
And I'm almost moved.
But love has left me standing still,
With no directions and no clues,
No speech to let my feelings loose.
A celebration of the blues.

But when you hold me and really make love to me,
I know that love is true forgiveness.
Out on the road I was down with the crew,
Now I'm all alone, on the run,
With the notting hill blues.

And it's a lonely, lonely time,
Sadness preys upon my mind,
A telephone and a bottle of booze,
But who do you call? when your tongue tied,
Up all night.

Words and music by roddy frame

Over my head, over my head
And I can't break free from these chains
Over my head go the things that we said


And I long to be above pain

When your heart is broken
Mine's in two
And I'm over my head in blue
Over the love of you.

Words and music by roddy frame

Awake,
In winter's crystal hours,
And give to what gets you in the end,
For the sake of a love that just devours,
And smiles and takes,
And lays you down again.

Run free
The moon is always female,
Straight to what's still and will not bend,


Don't wait for the sunshine to surround you,
Consume and fake,
And let you down again.

Cos' life is short,
And you better get smart,
To the people who know nothing,
And surround you.

Stand straight,
In what kills you and confounds you,
And break it's chains,
And still believe.

You don't have to tell me what you're still looking for,
Two arms to hold you and a voice to say "That's alright, you can spend the night"
Well, come around.

'Cos I've been there and these are the notes from the overground,
The World Saxophone Quartet, the smell of violets
And a passing friend won't let you down.

Listen to the rhythm of the rain falling,
Say you're gonna change your foolish ways.
Make a promise, break a promise in the same day,
It goes the same way, anyway.
So you pray for silence and its sadness and its violence
To be washed away,
One day.

I understand that state you've reached of being unreachable,
Somewhere out there where only the music plays.
Loneliness and being alone don't always mean the same,
Who needs the movie? You can see the music anyway.

A Sketch For Winter, a Burgundy and sanctuary can make me stay,
When I feel that way.
And if my words don't say the things that they were meant to say,
And if confusion comes and carries all my words away,
And if you still don't understand, I wanna hold your hand,
And look at it this way...

Someone singing's better than the war they're winning
Winging its way, your way or my way, any day, anyway,
Stray

We were two in a million,
Stars like the ones in the sky,
A love scene and a vision,
We saw the world and we waved goodbye.
Watched the fireworks falling,
We kissed and innocence died.
The sound of certainty calling,
A world that wouldn't be satisfied.

I said,
You only get one hit, that's the beauty of it,
What's the good in crying?
It's always been that way, at the end of the day,
You gotta keep on trying.
Life's a one take movie and I don't care what it means,
I'm saving up my tears for the crying scene.

Tears fall and they haunt me,
The sad words of a song,
It's like necessity wants me,
Sometimes I long just to belong.
I dream of demons and money,
I see the straights in the rain,
I gotta keep on movin',
Before they drag me down again...

You only get one hit, that's the beauty of it,
What's the good in crying?
It's always been that way, at the end of the day,
You gotta keep on trying.
I said, life's a one take movie and I don't care what it means,
I'm saving up my tears for the crying scene.

I said,
You only get one hit, that's the beauty of it,
What's the good in crying?
It's always been that way, at the end of the day,
You gotta keep on trying.
Life's a one take movie and I don't care what it means,
I'm saving up my tears for the crying scene.
The crying scene
The crying scene

Words and music by roddy frame

I look around me and what do I see?
Sadness surrounds me, alone as can be
With too much time and too much distance.
These chains that bind me
They won't set me free,
I look behind me and coming for me
Is my best friend, she's my resistance.

Chorus:
So if you find yourself alone and so unkind,
And if you've asked yourself, over and over,
And even if your heartbeats hurt like goodbyes,
Try, try, try
Open your mind, spend some time,
With the gentle kind



I was torn between the darkness and the light,
Lost to all belief that it could turn out right.
But my quiet friend turned me round,
Made me see again.
Took my hand, said nothing much,
No lesson learned, just a gentle touch
And I am coming round,
I am coming round again.

Chorus

Cos' in a hard world, with fastness and an eye on the money,
I heard a soft voice, saying "never worry, hold on honey"
When my world was gone, a whisper kind of eased my mind.
And I am holdin' on,
To the gentle kind.