Fyfe Dangerfield

to moonn6pence from shootingstar










If all the faces in the world
had half of your kindness
half of your sweetness
then happy i would be

I found something crying; it was my soul
I fed it milk so it wouldn't grow old
We crossed the borderline at dawn
And woke up in a field of corn
My father told me I was late
I better start oiling the gate
Said that those that rush will fall
But I don't want to wait for waves
I don't want to wait at all

Annie, let's not wait
Let's cross the river now
We could sit for years
Staring at our fears
Oh they're such pretty things
They're so cute
But our dreams are all we really need
To grow

I found something dying; it was my light
It had resigned itself to night
So I threw it out a fishing line
And said catch your will and then catch mine

Annie, let's not wait
Let's cross the river now
We could sit for years
Staring at our fears
Oh they're such pretty things
They're so cute
But in the end they're just a suit

Oh annie let's not wait
Time's not on our side
Well it never was
You know that deep inside
Oh just look at you
With your ruffled hair
Oh I love you
And that's all you need to know

Annie annie

It's not raining cats, it's not raining dogs
And pigs are not flying, or turning the cogs
The sun has no hat on, whenever it shines
And I've never seen a cat with nine lives
I'm not in a film, I'm not in a play
I saw no aliens today
I just saw you, and thought of me

And if I had you, all the stars wouldn't fall from the sky, and the moon wouldn't start to cry
There'd be no earthquakes
I'd still make mistakes
If I had you
Oh there'd still be day and night, and I'd still do wrong and right
Ooh
Blue would still be blue
But things would be easier with you

And this is no palace, the place that I live
And I am no king, but I've got things to give
And I waste so much time, thinking of time
And I should be out there, claiming what's mine
Any day I could die, just like I was born
And this bit in the middle is what I'm here for
And I just want to fill it all with joy

And if I had you, all the stars wouldn't fall from the sky, and the moon wouldn't start to cry
There'd be no earthquakes
I'd still make mistakes
If I had you
Oh there'd still be night and day, and we'd all still have to pay
Ooh
Blue would still be blue
But things would just be easier with you

Come away with me
Draw shadows on my windowpane
Come away with me
We'll fall asleep and back again

Would you recognize my face
If you saw me in this place
So far away from home

Come and dance with me
We'll samba
We'll samba in the snowy rain

I just about managed to forget you
When you appear in a dream
And you're even more beautiful there than I remember you being
So I've come to decide that fate
Is telling you to not go
And considering this
I want you to know

If the world ends
I hope you're here with me
I think we could laugh just enough
To not die in pain
If the world ends
It won't finish you
You're not the type they can capture
You flit like a fly catcher
They can't pin you down
Can't pin you down

In my dream you're playing with
Buckets of sand
And water was running through both of your hands
And I dont think
I ever heard you speaking
Cause I was too wrapped up in the dream
I was dreaming
So if the world ends
I hope you're by my side
I don't think with you here
It will be too much pain
And when you cry
Darling I wish you'd feel my love
Your heart is way beyond capture
Flitting like a fly catcher
They can't pin you down
Whoa, they can't pin you down
Can't pin you down
Can't pin you down
Can't pin you down

Little bear, little bear you're getting out of hand
Getting out of hand
I think I'm going to lose you now

Oh little bear, little bear you know me too well anyway
Too well every day
I'm going home

I'm going beneath the stars
I'm going under the soil again
And I won't be back in a long time so get out
Get out of this old house
Before I burn it down
I wouldn't want to cause you anything
That might break your lovely face
In a thousand shattered china pieces

In this bracken world of broken pieces

I love you through sparks and shining dragons, I do
Now there's poetry in an empty coke can
I love you through sparks and shining dragons, I do
Now there's majesty in a burnt out caravan

You got me off the paper-round
Just sprang out of the air
The best things come from nowhere
I love you, I don't think you care

I love you through sparks and shining dragons, I do
And the symmetry in your northern grin
I love you through sparks and shining dragons, I do
I can see myself in the refill litter bin

You got me off the sofa
Just sprang out of the air
The best things come from nowhere
I can't believe you care

Yes, I believe you
Yes, I believe you
Yes, I believe you

This is where we fall from the trees
This is where the sky covers up
Daft killers of joy, you made a man out of me

And this is where the glass leaves the lens
Splintering a chemistry of friends
I'll treasure you always

You know I love you

And this is where we wake in the ditch
This is where our bodies sing no more
Fallen apples on the floor, pecked at by redwings

So pour another whisky out for me
It'll be the last bottle we share
As I drift into nowhere

Know that I loved you

But love was not enough to hold my grip
Can't you just feel my fingers slip
Into those oceans in the sky where people swim
Oceans in the sky calling me in
Oceans in the sky I tell myself
Though I'm not kidding anybody else
They know I'm leaving
They know that I'm leaving this behind

So I'm leaving my best friend
Just for the hell of it
Just for the sake of it
But how much I loved you

Sit down my love of all good spaces
And breathe my love let's all be spent
I'm going to tell you both a story
About some memories that i dreamt

See i've lost love in many places
Not least the streets of san paolo
And friends especially, i didn't make them
A ten floor window to her home
Sometimes i could cry for miles
Sometimes i could cry for miles
Sometimes i could cry for miles
But i don't

So hush the shadows in the oak tree
Be still you curl upon the moor
My heart has fallen upon the wayside
I cannot claim her anymore
So don your duffel coats quite slowly
And this sad jury has ajurned
While on the streets of old san paolo
I watch my baby being burned

Sometimes i could cry for miles
Sometimes i could cry for miles
Sometimes i could cry for miles
But i don't

Sometimes i could cry ah sometimes
Drop my bags and run for miles
And sometimes i could live my life
But i wont, but i won't

Have you ever been thrown across the water
Have you ever been thrown across the water
Have you ever been thrown across the water
Till there's no skin left on your bones

Thrown across water
Thrown across water
Thrown across water
Like a stone

Get me a doctor
Get me a doctor
Who will get rid of my bones

Get me a lover
Get me a lover
Who will leave my head alone

Get me a soldier
Get me a soldier
Who will fight me in this war

Get me an exit
I need an exit
I need a window or door

Thrown across water
Thrown across water
Thrown across water
Like a stone

Get me a lawyer
Get me a lawyer
Who will sue the world for me

Get me a person
Get me a person
Get me a person
Who isn't me

Cuz i'm getting tired
I'm getting tired
Of my stupid little face

Cuz i don't belong here
I don't belong here
Don't belong in this horse race

Thrown across water
Thrown across water
Thrown across water
Like a stone

Woke up with a shoe in my mouth
Should I head north or south?
You got me out on the lake
And I bank all my dreams on an earthquake

And I felt love come in through my windowpane
Tripping up the high road
Tearing down the low
And I saw life chanting out the mantra
If you want it, let it go
If you want it, sow

Words can't express what it means
And yes I believe you

And I felt love coming through my windowpane
Tripping up the high road
Tearing down the low
And I saw life chant
Shouting out the window
If you want it, let it go
If you want i, so...

Oh come in through my windowpane
Won't you come in through my windowpane
Come in through

You're feelin' old

It's 1 o'clock on a Friday morning,
I'm trying to keep my back from the wall.
The prophets and their pawns have had another success
And I'm wondering why we bother at all.

And I think of you on cold winter mornings, darling
They remind me of when we were in school,
Nothing really mattered when you called out my name
In fact nothing really mattered at all

And I think about how long it will take them to blow us away
But I won't get me down!
I'm just thankful to be facing the day.
Cause days don't get you far when you're young.

It's 5 o' clock on a Friday morning
One hundred telephones shake and ring
One of those was someone who knew you

And I'll still think of you on cold winter mornings, darling
They'll still remind me of when we were in school
When they could never have persuaded me,
That lives like yours, were in the hands of these erroneous fools

And to those of you who mourn your lives through one day to the next
Well let them take you next!
Can't you live and be thankful you're here?
See - it could be you, tomorrow, next year.

The world is our carpet now
The world is our dancefloor now
Remind me how to dance again
The world is our carpet now

The world is just waiting now
No staring out windows now
Our train stopped moving hours ago
We're here, we're here, we're here

Yes we're here
Free to run and cry
Obliged to try
And nothing here's worth winning without a fight

When I can't move
I'll enjoy the still for a while
And lose myself in waves
And mountains and the sky
And I'm back here quick as lightning

'Cause we are just seconds
Seconds in a day

It's a dancefloor now
No staring out windows now
Our train stopped moving
Hours ago
We're here, we're here, we're here
What do I do?

Free, free to run and cry
Obliged to try
And nothing is worth winning without a fight
Oh yes we're here
Free to go insane
Joy and pain are fighting in the corridors inside

When I can't move
I'll savour the pause for a while
And lose myself in waves
And mountains and the sky
And I'm back here quick as lightning
'Cause we are just seconds
Seconds in a day

When you love someone
And you trust someone
None of the world can tell you that they're lying

Then you lose someone
And the bee gets stung
And the only real thing you wanna see it do is die

Hear the animals sing:

Big heart
Big hug
Big dog
That's what I want

So let's not pretend
We're the best of friends
All of the world that we've been crying

And the pressure's on
Now the red light's on
See me break down
See me break down
See me break down
See me break down

It's not over
It's all over

Sick and tired of your pretty face
So sick of it
Sick and tired of it

Get out, get on
Big dog, I don't know what I want
You're the soul in my shoes
But I can't get along with you

It's not over
It's over

Nothing is everything now

Big heart
Big hug
Big dog
That's what I want

All the notebooks in the world can never hold the lives I hold
But I've gotta make them real
It's like covering a bird in solid steel
All of these thoughts that I conceal
Through silence

All the hearts in this red world can never hold the love I hold
But I'm throwing it away
It's like swimming in oceans made of clay
Swimming in circles 'round the bay
So blindly

Well feed me out to the lions
My hearts a lion
Feed me out to the lions

well I make excuses pass the buck
I play the crowd but it's down to me not luck
When the lights are on

The dreaming clouds they're living in
They try to hide their master fear
But their tears they catch on fire
And as they drop they dance with my desire
Don't think a plane could get much higher
(plane could get much higher)
Higher than I do

Just on imagination, just on hope
Just on the thought that you will someday have a face
Give me a beat and real sound
Maybe some feet will reach cold ground
To find you

Well feed me out to the lions
If I say this one more time
Feed me out to the lions

I beg, I hope, I wish, I pray
But that's not gonna send me on my way
When the lights come on

When the train comes to stop
Oh, I don't wanna move
And blunder back into it all

When the plane come to land
I wanna stay inside
And rise up to the clouds again

Cause dealing with the real world
Is sometimes not too fun
When baby says she loves you
Whilst holding up a gun

Thank goodness
I've got imaginary creatures
Laying on the advice
By my side
By my side

When the film credits roll
I stay right till the end
Then wander the streets with my eyes ablaze

All I really want to do
Is go straight back and watch it again
Playing a different person every time

Oh, cause living in the real world
Can sometimes get so strange
When you fall in love with statues
And cockatiels in a cage

Well, it seems I've got imaginary lovers
They say they're protecting the space
By my side
By my side

So the skin has turned its back on me again
And it's back to playschool for me and my childhood friend
Well get over it!

And the words don't leave my mouth till I've had a dram
So I sit in the corner and watch you like the man I am
Well get over it!
Get over it!

D'you want my side, my side of the story?
D'you want my side, my side of the story?
Well I want you, want you like I'm eighteen
But I'm tied, tied to my baby
To my baby
Oh!

In another life I'd be drenched in sweat with you
But it's this life darlin', and in this life we make do
Oh get over it!
G-g-g-g-get over it!

Oh, d'you want my side, my side of the story?
D'you want my side, my side of the story?
Well I want you, want you like I'm eighteen
But I'm tied, tied to my baby
To my baby
My blessed baby


Oh here's my side, my side of the story
Well I'm so tired, sick tired of the story!
Oh I want that thing that turns the grass green
Oh I'd kill my life for, what could I be
What could I be?

(Oh yeah, get over it, oh yeah, oh get over yeah, get over it, get over me, get over, get over me, me, me...)

When the moon's in the sky I like it
When the moon's in the sky we like it
It's not gonna give us bad advice
So go and dance with your thunder and lightning
Where the paradise birds are fighting
Let's shake things up a bit tonight

Are you coming out tonight?
Are you coming out tonight?
Cos we're going out tonight
And we won't be cattle on your farm tonight

Ask yourself why
Come on, ask your man why
Cos you're ugly and you lie
And you kriss kross kriss kross
It's a lie
So bye bye bye bye bye bye

Are you coming out tonight?
Well come out with us tonight
Cos there's wrong and there is right
And we know which one we are tonight

Ah don't start crying now
Don't go crying now
Cos the moon is gonna dance for us tonight
Don't go dying now
You're not dying now
And the sky is just not close to us tonight

And as for you, friend
High in your high home
Watching us all falling down like rain
I hope you're happy
Feel really holy
Cos your godliness has taken every single thing I loved on earth tonight

Oh I won't let you leave me
You're all I've got, believe me
Stay
Don't close your eyes
Nobody really dies
They all just end up in the sky
So far away

There's something
Oh, so unusual
About the way you say you're sorry
Over and over again

There's something
Oh, so unusual
About the way you say you're sorry
Over and over again

One love, one last kiss
One last man prowling the sky
One dream, one last kiss
One last love, lost in the sky

There's something
Oh, so unusual
About the way you say you're sorry
Over and over again

Dry those tears in your eyes
Let your heart cry
Dry those tears in your eyes
Let your heart cry

One love, one last kiss
One last man prowling the sky
One dream, one last kiss
One last love, lost in the sky

One love, one last kiss
One last man prowling the sky
One dream, one last kiss
One last love, lost in the sky

How can you look at me and smile
After all and everything you said
There are things about you
That don't fit together in my head

Because you lie
And you cry
And you cry

And you lie
And you lie
And you lie
And you cry

And you lie
And you cry
And you lie
And you lie

So, Cinderella sold her soul
There's no such thing as rock and roll
We all stood in the queue and sold our hearts

I think there was an accident
They came as quickly as they went
Now I'm half a million miles up in the sky

Standing on the last star
Standing on the last star
Spinning around

Standing on the last star
Standing on the last star
Feeling down
Trying to find the ground

Don't cry
Don't cry
I know it'll be alright

I've been trying
I've been trying
To tell myself that all night

If this is the end of history
The final account
Nobody to pin your hopes on
No money to count
Not even lips to say goodbye

Standing on the last star
Standing on the last star
In the sky

Standing on the last star
Standing on the last star
There's no decent reason why

Standing on the last star
Standing on the last star
Waiting to die
Somebody left the taps on in the sky

Oh, tell me

Will nothing in the world ever make you happy?
Will nothing in the world ever make you happy?
Is nothing in the world gonna make you happy?
Is nothing in the world gonna make you happy?

Will nothing in the world ever make you happy?
Will nothing in the world ever make you happy?
Is nothing in the world gonna make you happy?
Is nothing in the world gonna make you happy?

Will nothing in the world ever make you happy?
Will nothing in the world ever make you happy?
Is nothing in the world gonna make you happy?
Is nothing in the world gonna make you happy?

All the world is laughing
All the world is dancing
I'm sat here, romancing
Nobody, on my own

Won't you take me home?
Take me home
Take me home

Don't know where I'm going
Or who I am no more
Lying on the carpet, beating,
Beating, lying down on the floor

Take me home
Take me home
Take me home
Take me home
Take me home

When all the world's been dreaming
I've been burning all my feelings
I wish that I was dreaming too
I wish I was asleep

Oh, take me home
Take me home
Take me home
Take me home
Take me home

Words are never easy
Words are seldom true
Words are never simple darling
When they're aimed at you

Words are never gentle
Words are never plain
Words are never what they think they are
That's the problem with pain

Words are never my own
Try well as they might
They break me into pieces, darling
From the greatest of heights

I left you in the morning
When the tears stained my smile
I left you in the morning, darling
For a long, long while

Oh and I think life would be so much easier if they had no words
And I think life would be so much happier if I knew no words
I'd smile at you when I was happy
And shed a tear when I was sad
Yeah, I think life would be so much easier if I was half the drunken man

Don't blame it on me
Oh, blame it on the words
Don't blame it on me
Oh, blame it on the words

Blame it on the words
Blame it on the words
Blame it on the words