Steve Cradock

You told so many lies
Your tongue is black with fireflies
But you spit them out and pretend you're sneezing
And every word is such a joke
With so many pasts you'd be ninety years old
Don't you wonder why the room keeps on leaving

Hey, hey - what's that I heard you say
Don't think that I would never need it
Hey, hey - what's that I heard you say
Don't think that I would ever believe it

It's just a thought and nothing more
That all your thoughts and moves are taught
And memorised each night before your sleeping
And every word is such a joke
Strung from neon masts flying flags you hope
Will win you friends and give your life some meaning

(Repeat chorus)

You told so many lies
Your tongue is stained with alibis
You've been around the world and found it pleasing
And every word is such a joke
With so many pasts you'd be a hundred years old
Don't you wonder why the room keeps on leaving

(Repeat chorus)

Your dream make up is cracked and wearing thin
your eyes are on your chin
it's getting hard for you
But to make up is only make-believe
and we don't need a scene like this

Whatever happened to the Beautiful Losers
Whatever happened to the Beautiful Losers

Your eyes closed and dreamed of places
that you and I would go
it's getting hard for me
To love you, like I used to
I don't believe "hello"
Do you?

Whatever happened to the Beautiful Losers
Whatever happened to the Beautiful Losers

No-one promised this when I was a kid
When my days were filled with carousels
Fairground rides and cockleshells
Kicking pebbles on a beach
When time couldn't reach me
And tears were just a memory left to be learned

Now days catch me without an overcoat
Five o'clock shoes full of snow
All rained out, nowhere to go

Memories are sure to find you
No matter how fast you run
Gonna catch up with you

Charlie Brown says
Oh this winter sure sure gets me down
When there ain't no friends around

I went down to Chelsea Walk
Where the sun doesn't shine at all
And I went looking for something for me
But I came back with nothing at all
Except an old man who could not see
But he said that he knew God
Chelsea Walk
Oh... Chelsea Walk
Oh... Chelsea Walk

Now I've been down to Chelsea Walk
Where the sun just refuses to shine
And I ran back to my little room
And I jumped straight into a bottle of wine
You know I'll be alright for just a day
But tomorrow I must wake
Chelsea Walk
Oh... Chelsea Walk
Oh... Chelsea Walk

Old man I must be on my way
Don't you worry I'm just scared for those who pray
In Chelsea Walk
Oh... Chelsea Walk
Oh... Chelsea Walk

Chelsea Walk...

Cool cool water where I rest my head
You keep me running to a single bed
Yellow moon rising on the riverboat wild
You keep me running like a child

Yellow moon rising on the riverboat wild
You keep me running like a child

Bobby don't know
He's got a funny way of seeing situations
Call him on the phone
And ain't it funny but he never seems to come home

Bobby don't know
He's got a funny way of seeing situations
Call him on the phone
Ain't it strange that he never seems to go home

(Repeat first verse)

It's live... make up your own words!

I feel a love that's so hard to bear
Won't you come kiss me and take this despair
Let the morning time dapple its light in your hair
Like warm running water in snow

But I fear a love of jealousy and pain
Lost in the race 'tween the foolish and vain
Come the morning time whistle and take you away
Where the sun always burns in the Winter

Oh... Here in my heart
Oh... Here in my heart

And I know that all I'm saying is wrong
Etched in the night-time and rhymed in a song
Come tomorrow I'll lighten up and drink to the ones
Who love without asking for loving

Don't forsake me, the morning time plays at the children's door
If you leave me then what would I tell them you're leaving for

(Repeat first verse)

Shirley was a lady whose teeth were made of gold
She danced before the music and everything it told

Huckleberry Grove
Where the music plays into tomorrow night
Huckleberry Grove
Only fools would need to argue or to fight

Shirley had eight children and each of them were told
You got joy for singing burning in your soul

Huckleberry Grove
Where the idiots can't ease you of your mind
Huckleberry Grove
Take a free train, leave your luggage far behind

Oh she sings shangri-la
Oh she sings shangri-la

Shirley was a lady who mostly stayed at home
But she went out dancing down Huckleberry Grove

Huckleberry Grove
Where the music plays into tomorrow night
Huckleberry Grove
You'll be groovin' on the best days of your life
Huckleberry Grove
Where the music's guaranteed to blow your mind
Huckleberry Grove
Leave your luggage, get a free train, get behind

Oh she sings shangri-la
Oh she sings shangri-la

Im not one to judge that much
And anyway I just wanna get high on you
But thirteen year old girls in hotels on the other side of the world
Seems a little much for me

Yeah, I wanna stay alive with you...

But they look you in the eye
And anyway theyll always slip a smile at you
But thirteen year old girls in rat-holes on the other side of the world
Theyre gonna lie to you

Yeah, I wanna stay alive with you...

Free-runs in a town where the boys and girls are settling down for the night
To make up and make eyes at you

Yeah, I wanna stay alive with you

What are you gonna do today Mrs Jones
Are you gonna chase the pain away Mrs Jones
Or leave it sitting there waiting outside your door
Hoping to find the things you hoped would tell you more
About the dreams that seem to slip away

What are you gonna do today Mrs Jones
Are you going to face the bills to pay Mrs Jones
Or leave them sitting there waiting outside your door
Hoping to find the things you hoped would tell you more
About the dreams that seem to slip away

It's not as if Mr Jones could help in anyway
It's not as if Mr Jones the bills that he could pay

(Repeat first verse)

Saturday afternoon
The sunshine pours like wine
Through your window
But i know that golden june can turn an empty grey
'gainst your window
And i feel like
I'm on the outside of a circle

And if i walk by the trees
I catch the falling leaves
If the wind blows
But i know that all this means
Is whiling on the hours
Watching side-shows

And i feel like



I'm on the outside of a circle

Will i turn my coat to the rain
I don't know
But i'm going somewhere
I can warm my bones

Fare you well
I'll carry me away
And sing to those i know
Upon their birthdays

I won't feel like like i'm on the outside...
I won't feel like like i'm on the outside...
I won't feel like like i'm on the outside of a circle

When you're starting to choke take some pills with your coke
It's inspirational
When you're life is a mess light one more cigarette
It's so logical

Well it's something your mother can't abide
But it's something that i freely prescribe
Take yourself for a ride
It never felt so good
As the night that you and i played Robin Hood
Stealing from the backrooms of our minds
Remembering a time when we were five
A time i thought we'd left behind

When you're starting to cry
I'll come and sit by my side
And I will love you so
When the nightmares come
I will try to be fun, even though;
I'm so scared you know

Well it's something your mother can't abide
But it's something that i freely prescribe
Take yourself for a ride
It never felt so good
As the night that you and i played Robin Hood
Stealing from the backrooms of our minds
Stealing from a time when we were five
A time i thought we'd left behind
Stealing from the backrooms of our minds
Stealing from a time when we were five
A time i thought we'd left behind

When you're starting to choke take some pills with your coke
It's hysterical

And the clock struck fifteen hours ago; it is shining
And the man who is wasting on the wall
Looks a lot like Jesus
And a little bit resembling
the man in the mirror in the hall

And I rose-trayed sailors
And you still shining
And I'm till waiting to got
And I lied for sailors
And I lied for certain
And I lied to everyone I know

Oh I'd believe in God and I'd believe in loving
but I don't speak to anyone who knows
And I need four 50's and three yellow lemons
And someone to take me home

And I'd forgotten the one who was sailing
on the water down beside where you don't go
And it's strange to tell
that the one who is shining
is someone I forgot I used to know

And the clock struck fifteen hours ago

I never saw it as the start its more a change of heart
Rapping on the windows, whistling down the chimney pot
blowing off the dust in the room where I forgot I laid my plans in solid rock

Stepping through the door like a troubadour whiling just an hour away,
looking at the trees on the roadside feeling its a holiday.
You and I should ride the coast and wind up in our favourite coats just miles away.

Roll a number write another song like Jimmy heard the day he caught the train.
He sipped another rum and coke and told a dirty joke
Walking like Groucho sucking on a number 10
Rolling on the floor with the cigarette burns walked in
I'll miss the crush and I'm home again.
Stepping through the door with the night in store whiling just an hour away,
step into the sky in the starbright feeling its a brighter day.

You and I should ride the tracks and find ourselves just wading through tomorrow
and you and I when we're coming down we're only getting back
and you know I feel no sorrow.
When you find that things are getting wild don't you need days like these

For all of her diction; her self medication
She fell down and dented her nose
And laughed at the coroners
Desperately warning her
Watch now the way that it goes
And she knows...

She's living at the top of the world

In need of salvation she spoke to her mother
Who died in the service of king
What is the meaning of wallflowers receiving a glance
It would mean everything
And she thinks...

She's living at the top of the world

Three minutes later she looked in the mirror
And cracked half a smile at her toes
And she knows, she knows...

She's living at the top of the world

Spark and Cindy live by their own means
They wouldn't have if I only
know'd where they'd been
And I want to make things a part of my life
And I want to see that
things are going to be right
But if you can't even
stand on your feet
And if you don't own the
air that you breathe
Then it's not for me to say

But I wouldn't live that way
and I wouldn't stand apart
And I wouldn't find the real
and I wouldn't play a part
And I wouldn't find in love
so misguided by some fool
And just what I'm trying t say
makes my head spin round the room

(Repeat from 3rd line onwards)

Besides Yourself
Before I let you all go
Before I pull you from this show
Before I wave to you
I'd like to say to you
I wish you never to be alone

*Besides yourself what can you say
Millions apart and miles away
Besides yourself what do you need
Some feel no pain while others bleed

So if you're going to save my words
Make sure it's this time you deserve
Before I walk away
I know your every day
Will play before you on it's own

*Repeat

And I'm not saying I'm not saying any wrong by you
And I'm not saying I'm not talking my time for you

*Repeat

(Submitted by Caroline Young)

Sonny signed his name up for tomorrow
And laughed with all this friends
At all the little men who borrow tunes
They heard just yesterday
Davey got us down but we got away
And drank to all the days
That we had whiled away
Just playing Robin Hood a little out of phase
And then the nightmares come
And you get blown away
(when your friends go away, on last chorus)

And up in your room your walls are cold
You find your head is holding out
For the welcome of a better day
And then the nightmares come
And you get blown away
And up in your room
Your walls are getting colder
Like you're getting on a roller coaster
You can't find the breaks
Stevie burned the sky when he flew away
And left us things to say
When all the world was falling down
Around our shoulders; cold and grey
Harry carried on in his usual way
And Minnie went inside
He came out once and we both cried
And Minnie blew my head away


When you're giving everything away
Everybody lets you pay
You're saving up for a better day
Seeing things in a better way
When you know you've got to live
There's nothing you won't give
To hear the phone and not let it ring
Every Monday morning
Shughie found love and he almost cried
We laughed and wondered why
We loved the sky and found the space
And gazed out over Stevie's plane

I don't want to be another big star
Picking at your cars
Stealing at your clothes
Finding out what you don't know
You don't know

I don't want to be your big star
Picking your calls; saying I don't know
I don't want to be your suitor
Lacking at your feet
Trying to love the things you need

And you know I've heard this before
And you know I've heard it some more
Won't you give me a chance
To break down your door
But I sit
Oh Oh
I still sit here

I don't want to be a tailor
Pricking at your thumb
Washing all the tears away
Some words
Oh no I believe they don't feel you
Picking up your dirt
Washing all your dreams away

*Repeat

(Submitted By Caroline Young)

She nails down moon beams
And talks in double time
Stumbling down to where ever she goes
I live in the meantime
And i get frustrated
So I put my wager on Debris Road

It keeps me running down Debris Road
]I'm not so scared but its something I cling to
All the places I wanna go
They wont cast a shadow on my Debris Road

I get frustrated looking for meanbeams
They always fall where I never go
'Cos I like the daylight and I like a good life
Running so fast down Debris Road

(Repeat Chorus)

Someone got moonfaced and someone gets tearful
Talking so much they really dont know
Staying up all night singing songs till daylight
And striking a match with the devil below

(Repeat Chorus)

(submitted by Caroline Young, biggest OCS fan in the world)

I think everybodys after me
They want to know just what I feel
Pushing wires under my nose
Everybody's standing on my toes
Telling the world what i should know

You said you'd seen life from near the floor
You opened every closing door

Thankyou for always being there
All the nights in which we shared
And we know we're always there

If it ever gets you down
You know I'll always be around
Coz too much just aint enough

(whistle)

We - we who are your property
Whose every single move you see
We dont mind your prying eyes
We dont mind all your lies
Or the headlines that you write

(Submitted by Caroline Young, biggest OCS fan in the world...cheers)

Get Blown Away
And when she blows the candle flame to smoke
She says a prayer for all of those who live in houses and in homes
And Monday she'll go down town standing naked in the road
You may know what I am
But who I am you don't know

She'll run across the mustard dust sand
Scream down the wind
And the sea is in a cold
Like when in holiday homes
And houses like sweet confectionary
And sandcastles and drinking wine
Hungry dinners perfectly timed

And mother and father glowing young
Happy to be each other together
When she blows the candle out
She goes to bed and lies and drags through her head
The day that went way of every day
But tomorrow she'll fly a plane
Over the fields where the houses aren't built yet

She smiled sweetly across the room
Through the lunch time smoke
And I loved her for a second
And discarded the queen and I know
How sweetness turns sour
And leaves they turn to brown
And then to earth and dust
And settle in this town
You get blown away...

(Repeat 1st Half)

She smiled sweetly across the lunch time smoke
And I loved her for a second and discarded the queen and I know
When men are being little boys again
And women cruel step mothers of old
And this is the invention
The adventure of my own
I get blown away...

(Submitted By Caroline Young)

We're just half a dream away
Sitting on our fences
Building up defences
Making up rules by which we play

We're just half way down the road
Staking our positions
But stupid superstitions
Only give fools too heavy a load

The magpie screeched and my window is shattered
Her body's bruised but her soul's not battered
The fireman tried but the hose was frozen
The cupboard's bare but the door needs closing

We spend half our time away
From being where we want to
And seeing who it's fun to
Not blaming ourselves for our mistakes

We spend half a dream away
Just looking out of windows
Waiting for a signal
Waiting for night to return to day

The tree was bare but the birds were singing
The milk turned sour but my thirst needs quenching
The meat was dead and I need me feeding
The room was cold but the night was freezing

The rainbow frowned when the sun was shining
A baby's snatched on a beautiful morning
A dog runs wild and the brakes are screaming
A church on fire is struck by lightning
The dead man's hands had beautiful fingers
The princess frowned at her lovers mistress
She went insane and poisoned the children
A teacher's drowned and a child is laughing

We're just half a dream away...

Hundred Mile High City
So I said I'm on the roam so I need a car
And I know that I'm getting alive
And I say I got faith and a season
And I say that's where I'm going to

I get a need and I'm wanting to please it
I gotta face and I'm wanting to feel it
The more I feel is the more that I need it
The more I need is the less I believe it

Well I want a good love by my side
Keep on getting out of love and my pride
And I know I keep hurting my love yeah
But I know it ain't killing

Sonny went and flipped away and said he had to go
How could you ever say he never stayed alone
And how could I belong with anyone you know
Come on every line's a line I'll never know

*Oh......it's a beautiful thing
Oh......it's a beautiful thing

Sometimes I can get along alone enough
Backing everyone away and never have enough
And how could I be playing every line for you
Look at the things today that I can never choose

*Repeat

Sometimes I could never ever ever fade again
Sometimes I could never ever ever fade again
Sometimes I could never ever ever fade again

And how could I be playing every line for you
Look at the things today that I can never choose

*Repeat

They wouldn't have if I'd only known where they'd been
And I want to make things a part of my life
And I want to see that things are going to be right
But if you can't even stand on your feet
And if you don't own the air that you breathe
Then it's not for me to say

But I wouldn't live that way
And I wouldn't stand apart
And I wouldn't find the real
and I wouldn't play a part
And I wouldn't find in love
So misguided by some fool
And just what I'm trying trying to say
Makes my head spin round the room

(Repeat from 3rd line onwards)

Tele He's Not Talking
Tele he's the one he knows what to say
Knows how to find his own way
He knows the roads by night and by doorways
But watching the light in a hall
Won't change a thing or say at all
What it is that he says

Still he says that I don't know
Still he says that I don't know

*I don't why I think about so much
When I don't know what it is I can't say
And I wouldn't change a thing if I believe you all
And scream it in your face

Still I'd say hey I don't know
Still I'd say hey I don't know

Tele deals the cards and draws an ace
And finds himself miles away
Where skies ain't bruised by towers and fumes
Children ain't too young to play
Would I change a thing
I'd change it all
But we're born different days

Still I'd say hey I don't know
Still I'd say hey I don't know

*Repeat

Would I change a thing
I'd change it all when I'm miles away
Would I change a thing
I'd change it all but we were born on different days

I'd change a thing
I'd change it all when I'm miles away...

(Submitted by Caroline Young)

Travellers Tune
Where do you go buttoned in your favourite coat
Stepping out to a different world
And you might be home late
And where are you now
Staring at your favourite box
The one with the traveller's cross
On the road past the gate

*But if you find yourself standing on the corner
While you're thinking of a different world
Then you might see me waiting on the corner
Staring through you in your different world

And if I could swim
Then I'd get out and find my boat
Sail away to my favourite coast
And let you all in
And if I could do all the things you're asking for
Then maybe I'd find your door
And bring it home to you

*Repeat

So where do we go
Like two Christophers in the snow
Yeah we're blind but we want to know
Just to say I love you
And all of our lives
We'll sail through the suns and moons
To sing our Travellers Tune
Just to say I love you

*Repeat

(submitted By Caroline Young)

So I said I'm on the roam so I need a car
And I know that I'm getting alive
And I say I got faith and a season
And I say that's where I'm going to

I get a need and I'm wanting to please it
I gotta face and I'm wanting to feel it
The more I feel is the more that I need it
The more I need is the less I believe it

Well I want a good love by my side
Keep on getting out of love and my pride
And I know I keep hurting my love yeah
But I know it ain't killing

I get a need and I'm wanting to please it
I gotta face and I'm wanting to feel it
The more I feel is the more that I need it
The more I need is the less I believe it

So I said I'm on the roam so I need a car
And I know that I'm staying alive
And I say I got faith and a season
And I say that's where I'm going to

I get a need and I'm wanting to please it
I gotta face and I'm wanting to feel it
The more I feel is the more that I need it
The more I need is the less I believe it

I get a need and I'm wanting to please it
I gotta face and I'm wanting to feel it
The more I feel is the more that I need it
The more I need is the less I believe it

Free blue deep ocean
Bed of evolution
Forgive the ignorance
Of man with money in his hand

How can we freely agree
I hang my head for you

Isolated junkyard
Letting out the garbage
Eating through the core of life
Sweet fragrance irritates
In a stale room death awaits
Persecute your own self pride
Suffocate the new high
Ride a thorny mule that cries
Dig your grave and jump right in
Like a Judas pay the price
Thirty pieces for a ride
Here's the fire now take a chew
Do yourself a favour
Educate your mind
Get yourself together
Oh there ain't no time
Do yourself a favour
Educate your mind
Get yourself together
Oh there ain't no time

Shredded know-how gives away
Species of the human race
Those funky winds of ups and downs
Hall of grit is known too well
Heaven still is your hell
Poison slowly slowly drowns
Let the devil step right in
Lucifer's your only friend
Ain't a soul gonna pity you
Hurdle over time to death
With open arms it waits I bet
Don't you wish you could reach ground
Do yourself a favour
Educate your mind
Get yourself together
Oh there ain't no time
Do yourself a favour
Educate your mind
Get yourself together
Oh there ain't no time
Let the devil step right in
Lucifer's your only friend
Ain't a soul gonna pity you
Hurdle over time to death
With open arms it waits I bet
Don't you wish you could reach ground
Do yourself a favour
Educate your mind
Get yourself together
Oh there ain't no time
Do yourself a favour
Educate your mind
Get yourself together
Oh there ain't no time

She never has to stop and think
Never makes you lose a thing
She is so enchanting
I always have to stop a while
Cross my hands and close my eyes
I am so demanding
When she smiles she opens wide
Touching you inside to lie
Life can be so shaking handed
Nervously you're shaking signs
Life is better taken blind
Still you're left so disenchanted
Giving it all away
Giving it all away
You always have to stop and think
Desperately to find something
That is even handed
I never want to think a thing
That shatters almost everything
Life can leave you hanging

Today I find all my world is slowly turning blue
How about you
I walk around with my head in the sky and it is blue
How about you
Today I find all the things I held so high are in the ground
I don't know why, I don't know where
I don't know why you really care
I only know that my world's turning blue
How about, how about you
Today I see a million faces in shades of fading blue
How about you
I felt so sure familiar places and children's skies are blue
How about you

Is she coming home, I'll leave the light on
But through times and space she'll go
If she's coming home she won't tell me
And I wonder if I should know
Wonder if I should feel something
Wonder if I should know
But it's dark in here
Tip-toe softly do not wake her
As she sleeps so very slow
Dim the light on her day-dream
But her dreams you'll never know
See her fading dress and frame it's colours
For a memory you'll long to know
Drape the covers in her bedroom
But life freezes with melting snow
Ah...is she coming home...

You keep your pretty girls
Chained inside the dungeon
And diamonds and pearls
You keep them a'coming
Give them all of your affection
You keep your naughty boys
Locked inside the kitchen
And when they make a noise
A swish of your hand keeps them
Screaming out for your affection
I don't know the why's or wherefores
I don't what's wrong or right
I just know at night
You give them all of your affection
You keep your servants down
Swinging from the gallows
And when they come round
Oh you smile and you say hello
Give them all of your affection
You give them all of your affection
You give them all of your affection

And it looks like one of those days
When my valentine ain't so funny yeah
Ain't so funny yeah
And it looks like one of those days
When I'm holding the same old conversation
Losing concentration
And it looks like one of those days
When I'm holding the same old conversation
And it looks like one of those days
When I'm losing all my concentration

Every morning traffic
Every night I've had enough
Every day compromise
Life's no surprise after much
'Someday people' lock themselves away
Saving up for another empty
Penny pinching rainy heaven day
No-one talks at night
They scream and fight and say too much
My wife dreams all day
My life says it has heard enough
Rainy heaven days...

I want to say yes to what you say
If there's a movement then I want to sway
Get a piece of the action, uh huh
And I want to see you in the crowd
And I want to point your face out very loud
Get a piece of the action, uh huh
Don't you want a piece of the action
Don't you want a piece of the action
Yeah...oh yeah...
'Sex-o-fact' it slips in vogue
Sells a star, furnishes your home
You get a piece of the action, uh huh
Violence on the silver screen
You got the most fashionable death since James Dean
You get a piece of the action, uh huh

I want to say yes to what you say
If there's a movement then I want to sway
Get a piece of the action, uh huh, uh huh
I want to see you in the crowd
And I want to point your face out very loud
And get a piece of the action, uh huh, uh huh: Don't you want a piece of the action?
Don't you want a piece of the action?
Yeah...oh yeah...oh yeah...oh yeah
'Sex-o-fact' it slips in vogue
Sells a star, furnishes your home
You get a piece of the action, uh huh, uh huh
Violence on the silver screen
You got the most fashionable death since James Dean
You get a piece of the action, uh huh, uh huh
{

}
Oh yeah
I'll say yes to what you say
If there's a movement than I want to play
Get a piece of the action, uh huh, uh huh
And I want to see you in the crowd
And I want to point your face out very loud
Get a piece of the action, uh huh, uh huh
{

}
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah...oh yeah, yeah
Oh yeah

Third shade of blue
The sky and you
Like the rain over the sea
Third shade of red
The lover's bed
Crimson blood and rose


Third shade of green is all that you feel
Just like my love but half as unreal


Just like my love


Just like my love

Emily Chambers would make it pay
Everyone knew she'd turn out that way
She turned her back and she'll be okay
But she's not okay at all

Every night with the radio on
Emily fears that the day won't come
The moon is there to do her harm
She's not all right at all

Don't get arrested
Don't buy a machine gun
You're on the run
And you're not on the scene
You're not so cool
And you're not a jerk
You may be a villain
But no Patty Hearst
You're Emily Chambers
And what's worse
Is a whipping wind
And a box in a hearse
And a trigger in your head
And a pen in your hand
And the pain in the verse
And the flat drying land
And the thin of the air
And a pain that hurts
You're Emily Chambers in the universe

Repeat first verse

Every night with the lamplight on
Emily fears that the day has gone
The moon is there to do her harm
She's not all right at all

Repeat chorus

Emily Chambers would make it pay
Everyone knew she'd turn out that way...

mother and stan don't
blame yourself for rose
she was out there
playing in the road
better to let her know
not to forget
all that schooling goes
right through their head

they take back all when
and you give them loving
fall you to your knees
then give back nothing
but looking through love
you know there's
something so real

father and son you're
in this one so deep
I could always lull
myself to sleep
but I will cry to let
you always know
all my life I need
your time to grow

I am the news and I'll say no more
I am the stranger at your door
I am the deep beneath the sea
the threat of flood tide rising
I am the banks bearing refugees
always a cause not solution
a constant fear or a fleeting joy
the only friend who needs using

I am the news and I'm in your face
and I'll take my profit from your faith
I am the face beneath the mask
the catalyst of explosions
I am the crop bearing crippled genes
I an an inside connection
a constant friend on a changing screen
your history and direction

you're the truth
you're a soothe
be the blues
be my best friend
don't give me some truth
I need the news again

I am the news and I'm every spin
I am what is and what's not in
I am the trump card I'm the ace
I am the news and I'm in your face
I am the ocean's biggest roar
I am the smallest twist of fate
I am the ending of a play
I am the opening curtain

I'm going away to see my own
And tread my earth
I've got no ordinary gain
By to set my worth
I get enough and I get too late
And if I fall down on the road
Then I won't get grazed

I cannot let you take my time
Or till my earth
You've had enough of life to see
That it shakes my nerve
All of these things I can't get straight
And if I'm falling to the road
Then I won't get grazed

I've had two of them or three
And I just get hurt
I watch me crawling down the road
Trying to guess my worth
I know not what I'm trying to say
But if I'm falling on this road
Then I won't get grazed

I watch you running down the road
So I get mine worked out
But you watch me falling on the run
And you have me called out
All of these things they get so strange
Just kill me falling on the road
But I won't get grazed (x4)

I'm going away to see my own
And tread my earth
I've got no ordinary gain
By to set my worth
I get enough and I get too late
And if I fall down on the road
Then I won't get grazed

I cannot let you take my time
Or till my earth
You've had enough of life to see
That it shakes my nerve
All of these things I can't get straight
And if I'm falling to the road
Then I won't get grazed

I've had two of them or three
And I just get hurt
I watch me crawling down the road
Trying to guess my worth
I know not what I'm trying to say
But if I'm falling on this road
Then I won't get grazed

I watch you running down the road
So I get mine worked out
But you watch me falling on the run
And you have me called out
All of these things they get so strange
Just kill me falling on the road
But I won't get grazed (x4)

Jane she got excavated
By a trader dealing in old lines
Then she got a paper
From a mailer telling her more lies

Chorus (sing first half on first chorus):
So here we go
Down an endless road where we know
Nothing good here will ever grow
We're wasting our own time
And better know
Everyday life will carry on
Everyday when you're not so strong
You're wasting your own time

Says she knows more than she lets on
That's how she gets on when she is outside
When the wind comes on harder
She needs a shelter of their warm lies

Repeat chorus

She was taken last Sunday
To a safe place dealing in this line
Then she got her papers
From a faceless who won't tell her one more time

It's warm outside
But I can hear the snow
Falling on my window
I had to go away
To somewhere deeper down
I know it's my mistake
To take off out of this town
And June becomes July

This road's on fire
And my train's running slow
It rains against my window
I had to get away
To somewhere no-one knows
I know it's my mistake
To take off now in this way
And June becomes July

The air is thin
When you're above the clouds
I see them from my window
It's strange to get away now
To somewhere no-one goes
I know it's my mistake
But I don't even know now
And June becomes July
And June becomes July

you're a southern man
you're a northern soul
you're a westerner
you've got an eastern soul
but you're no-one at all

you're a rich man
you're a poor man
you're a this man
then you're that man
but you're no-one at all

you're a liar you're a winner
an expert and a beginner
but you're no-one at all

when the wind blows
that's when you know
that your nose grows
and your face shows
that you're no-one at all

you're hand rock
with your own space
you're a disgrace
but you've got your grace
but you're no-one at all

you're a hard space
but you get things done
if the day is lost
then the night is won
but you're no-one at all

you're a loner and
you're on only one
you're a red man
then you're a blue man
but you're no-one at all

all the people under broken homes
don't want to fight no more
all the people nursing shattered bones
don't want to fight no more
but there's no profit in peace
so we've got to fight some more

and all those who are in foreign lands
don't want to fight no more
and all those who lost their feet or hands
don't want to fight no more
but there's no profit in peace boys
we've got to fight some more

**
hey we don't want to fight no more
hey, hey, hey, we don't want to fight no more
but there's no profit in peace boys
we gotta fight some more

and all those just trying to play their part
don't want to fight no more
and all those who own a human heart
don't want to fight no more
but there's no profit in what you want
so we must fight some more

and all those who got an axe to grind down
don't want to fight no more
and all those who got their burning lives
don't want to fight no more
but there's no profit in ever being right
so we must fight some more

chorus

and all the people under broken homes
don't want to fight no more
and all the people never going home
don't want to fight no more
but there is profit in the land you own
so we must fight some more

and all those who got a tired face
don't want to fight no more
and all those who're lost without a trace
don't want to fight no more
but there is profit in the love of hate
so we must fight some more

if anyone rises at 6.31
and fakes all day that
they're having their fun
they never did get it right
since they got is so low

to anyone drinking the morning away
the afternoon will prove a mistake
they never will get it right
now they've got it so low

and we laugh and we drink
and we teach ourselves not to think
'and we find it hard not to think
we never did get it right
since we got it so low

to all of the faces that
freeze for you there
in your memory when you try not to care
they never disappear down the slow road

for all of those people
sho bleed by the side
and split fron their tongues
and sharpen their knives
they never will get a life now
they've got it so low

chorus

cornfields and pig-tails and
fish in the stream
the night that the boys stole
a billion dollar dream
fron the high jink school
for girls down the road

stories are smoke trails
and some may be true
you're listening to me
but I'm talking to you
I hope you never fall from grace
if you get it so low

double chorus
'last chorus only

Straighten your collar and smile
'Cause you've never been lazy
'Cause you in a style
Call the shots every day

Soul Driver
Don't hurry
It's my timing
It's not your worry
And I'm taking my time
And laying my roots
Since I've been so far away

You're such a practical man
You work so hard for your living
You make me understand
That it's all in the giving

Chorus repeated over and over

You are the one you makes a difference
But I am the one who makes the waves
All down the line this makes us different
So all our dreams may stay awake

You know sometimes things get so strange
And all we do may go astray
Wrapped in your youth these things won't harm you
And they don't hit you like a train

Say... won't you see her
I heard she's waiting at your door
Oh I hope you won't keep near her
I know she's bound to want it all

She's uncommon, she has one face
And her heart beats to your tune
When she speaks, she speaks of only your name
Then she repeats it like a fool

Hey... you can't say you don't want her
You know you let her through your wall
Oh I hope you don't keep near her
I know she's bound to want it all

Repeat 1st verse

She knew all the answers
That I have to say
Taking all her chances
And never seem to pay

It's the risk you're taking
To see it time to time
She is not for changing
But you are all for trying

Now come home, come home
She is dying to meet you
So I'll have to greet you
Come home, come home
She is dying to meet you
So I'll have to greet you

She is cool in high brow
And you're not society
She is going places
Where you never are to be

It's the risk you're taking
To see her all the time
It's a game your playing
Keeps you hanging on her line

Well come home, come home
She is dying to meet you
So I'll have to greet you
Come home, come home
She is dying to meet you
So I'll have to greet you

She is far away now
Goes to a store and buys
You were left behind here
In your room you'll sit and die

It's a risk you're taking
Seeing her time to time
She is not for changing
But you were still for trying

Now come home, come home
She is dying to meet you
So I'll have to greet you
Come home, come home...

Well i got a problem
and it just won't wait
I've been getting on one
With the man who guards your gate
When he says you're sleeping
In your hideaway
It is what he's keeping back
That gives your game away
Come quit your crazy lowdown ways
You're walking astray
Come quit your weary worn out ways
You're walking astray

And i'd like to say
That i like this
More than i do today

Yes i' got a problem
like you've never seen
I've been getting bothered
By the man who locks your screen
When he says you're hiding
And in your room you'll stay
It is what he's holding back
That says what he can't say

Come quit your crazy lowdown ways
You're walking astray
Come quit your weary worn out ways
You're walking astray

And i'd like to say
That i like this
More than i do today

I'm just a lazy man
Who has to hear the truth
And i hear what's true from you

Come quit your crazy lowdown ways
You're walking astray
Come quit your weary worn out ways
You're walking astray
Come quit your crazy lowdown ways
Come quit your weary worn out ways
You're walking astray

And i'd like to say
That i like this
More than i do today

La la la
La la la
La la la
La la la

Up through all the streets you go
But little girl don't find her name
And we're all gone down roads to homes
Where everybody finds their game

Just behind the street she goes
Where she'll be found behind her wheel
Cos it's the only place she knows
That makes her know just how she feels

Cos you're the biggest thing
That I see
You've got me where you want me
You hunt me down, you haunt me
And beg me to believe

All too fast to where she goes
But who'll be first to find her name
And holding on in Hollywood
But holding on don't make the grade

Just about when it's allright
There's you and I : we'll find our way
But it's holidays not Hollywood
And holidays don't suit my game.

Cos you're the biggest thing
That i see
You've got me where you want me
You hunt me down and haunt me
And beg me to believe

Hollow days and hollow nights
But everyone they find their way
It hightlights you when things ain't right
And makes you want to find your place

Cos you're the biggest thing
That i see
You've got me where you want me
You hunt me down, you haunt me
And beg me to believe

Cos you're the biggest thing
That i see
You've got me where you want me
You hunt me down,you haunt me
And beg me to believe

I want more than me and you
The more I want the more it scares me
I will put my faith in you
won't you be my missionary
I can't ... can't get back to the baseline
Had too much of waiting up
Had too much of things I tell you
It's the only way and it's love
Fill my cup oh I've said too much
I can't... can't get back to the baseline (2x)
I've been on freight train buzz
So I'm trying to tell you
the only thing I need is your love
But I can't...(4x)
I can't back to the baseline
It's the way of feeling good
It is all that's necessary
I guess that it's from above
I'm no fool but I guess too much
I can't... can't get back to the baseline (2x)
(Repeat chorus)
Fare you well and I will choose
When I've found it I will tell you
I belong to the same as you
won't you be my missionary
I can't... can't get back to the baseline (2x)

Give me a letter
The sooner the better
I'm out of here

Give me a card
I'm not waiting hard
To hear you

All I'm trying to do
Is all you want to say

Give me a letter
The sooner the better
I'm away from you

Trying so hard
I'm not taking a car
And I'll lose you

All I want to do
Is all I'm trying to say

What I'm trying to say
Is what I'm trying to do

Repeat first two verses

What I'm trying to say
What I'm trying to do
Is keeping up with you

If I gave you my heart
Where would you be
Would it mean nothing
If not for me

If I gave you my eyes
What would they see
Would they see nothing
If not for me

But I gave you my hand and my sign and my soul on the earth
And I gave up on truth when I heard about the words
I lived out of love when I gave it away
And I sold off my soul when there's no one to pay

If I gave you my hand
What would it write
Would it say nothing
Or say it's alright

If I gave you my arms
Would they hold you tight
First blood (?) in morning
Or bid you goodnight

And I gave you my strength and my worth and I gave you my gift
And I moved on the first and I left us to drift
And I reap from the soil and I build hopes from wood
It's a new better life and we have to ensure

And I gave you my dream of the world and you stole the key
You sang to the wind in the whole ??? sea
And I feel my weight and I guard my soul
And I found my beliefs when I found my control
I gave you my hand and my soul on the earth
And I gave up on the truth when I heard about the words
So I lived out of love when I gave it away
And I sold off my soul when there's no one to pay

I'm in my field
I'm in my stream
And i'm love
I'm in my tree

I take a walk
Nine hundred miles
I cross the stile
I'm in my field

And i'm in love
And it's for free
I'm in my field
I'm in my field

I'm in my field
I'm in my stream
And i will yield
I'm in my field

And i'm in love
Across the stile
Come in my field
Just you and me

We'll take a walk
Nine hundred miles
And i'm in love
We'll count the stars

I'm in my field
I'm in my stream
Well i'm in love
Just you and me

I'm in my field
I'm in my stream
Well i'm in love
I'm in my tree

I take a walk
Nine hundred miles
I cross the stile
I'm in my field

The mechanical wonder is
It's just a noise in my room
And i'm chasing the wonder and
It's just a hole in my tune

And the radio plays but it
But it don't sing a song
And the mechanical thunder is
What is all going wrong

And i walk down the road and i
I awake in a tune
But the mechanical thunder is
It's just a noise in my room

And we rode it once
On a thundering night
So i'll walk with you
Where the locks take flight

Oh machines make our lives today
And i like them the best
But the mechanical thunder is
It's just a noise in my head

And the radio plays at me
But it don't sing a song
But the mechanical wonder is
How it's all going wrong

And they rode it once (

I'm gonna sail on my boat and keep it afloat forever
Nobody's gonna tell me how it won't stay together
I got a waiting ticket won't you sail it
Nobody's who's staying asleep knows what I'm saying

I'm gonna throw out a rope and keep it afloat it's granted
?????? independence
I'm gonna wake and take us all to where oh
Nobody's gonna talk me down by stormy weather

Got to sail my boat
Got to keep afloat
I get the need to keep on when I'm sailing

I'll sail across don't make it a choice I'll plan it
Nobody ever thought you wouldn't take you for granted
I'll tie the ropes that keep me afloat and sailing
Nobody ever taught me teach what I'm playing

Gonna lift up my voice and sing you a song romantic
??????? independence

Repeat Chorus

Hold on in love take it to where you never
Nobody's gonna tell me how it won't stay together
I've got a freedom ticket lets go sailing
Nobody's who's staying asleep knows what I'm saying

Repeat Chorus twice

This England made me
Between a war and a rocket span
You've found a crib it saves me
And teach me wrong and right
And the world was talking
Never got it's chance to say
When there's too much talking
Nobody hears a word you say
You won't see
And baby now I won't hear
It's blind communications
Only lasts throughout the year
And half of what we're saying
Is half way to the truth
It's blind communications
For a million hearts and fools

I am a witness
To a land of a million fools
All placing bets on life
They hate the ones who lose
And all the lonely
Never get the chance to say
That the one and only
Will be the chance to even play
You won't see
And baby now I won't hear
It's blind communications
Only lasts throughout the year
And half of what we're saying
Is half way to the truth
And blind communications
For a million hearts and fools

Hello Monday
The weekend's just a blur
I've been burning bridges
And now I'm begging at your door
So keep on working
Cos it's a chance for me to play
But too much talking
When you believe the words I say
You won't see
And baby now I won't hear
It's blind communications
Only lasts throughout the year
And half of what we're saying
Is half way to the truth
And blind communications
For a million hearts and fools

By the way you went
You take it all
And make another sender

By the way it often takes you by surprise
You know the mender
And oh you play it strange

And anyway
We all got a little bit of something
We all got more than we bargained for
Got a need for something
But you and I we made it more

Ain't gonna make another play today
I know, I'm waiting on a sender
Ain't gonna take my weight until you wait
I know, I need another mender
But it's to you I'm making a surrender

And you make another
Tell you wanna weigh another breakdown
Kicking up and had enough
That all it just seems so relentless
And oh you play it strange

Repeat pre-Chorus

You are amazing
It's the truth
And it's often fading
Without you

I don't feel the wind blow
I don't feel the hard rock
I don't feel it when it breaks your heart
I don't feel it all get
To far from the start

You are a lady
It's the truth
And it's often shady
Behind you

I don't feel the hollow
I don't feel it all broke
I don't need it when you make your mark
I don't live in malice
I need a morning heart

Standing here and hollow
It's the only thing broke
And it shakes you and it makes you start
Like a singing widow
Which won't mend your heart

You are amazing
It's the truth