Duke Special

Let me down baby,
I'm driving me crazy.
You need to erase all the things I have done.
I shake and I shiver,
I poison my liver.
I'm riding a river, that river is blue.
I can see what you can see, it's worrying.
I'm fading my fast towards my last, I'm hurrying.
I wish that I could passify the guilt that I feel.
I know the wrongs this vagabond has done to you.
I head rewind, well, every time that tape runs through.
Your memory is haunting me, and cuts to my bones.
I'm drunk and I'm tired,
I'm wound up and wired.
I think I've aquired a problem or two.
I quake and I quiver,
And give up my liver.
I'm riding a river, that river is blue.
I can see what you can see, it's worrying.
I'm fading my fast towards my last, I'm hurrying.
I wish that I could passify the guilt that I feel.
I'm riding this river
The river is you.

to moonn6pence from shootingstar





Rose, she ain't like the others
she spins a dervish mother
her bright brown hair and her acorn eyes
she gets me there when she hypnotises
but Brixton leaves me alone

Another drunken evening
Red wine you're so deceiving
Her photograph is my only friend
this one wild year just won't seem to end
and Brixton leaves me alone

But the sun will rise once more,
well it better
the sun will rise once more
if we let her
but Brixton leaves me alone

Just one more night in london
Home is a distant drumlin
with its 'no retreat' and 'our time has come'
well, curse those fifes and damn those drums
Belfast leaves me alone

But the sun will rise once more,
well it better
the sun will rise once more
if we let her
but Brixton leaves me alone

to moonn6pence from shootingstar






I don't love you everybody knows
Everybody knows
and I can't say I enjoy the feeling,
I could leave, well everybody goes
everybody goes
and I won't say that is not appealing

But I don't wanna feel
what everybody feels
I've got more to lose
they're not significant
I don't care whose listening
They're not in my shoes

You Know That....

Everybody wants a little something, something
everybody wants a little something good

I don't get those pop and idol shows
everybody knows
that the good things take a little longer
12 years on the cracks begin to show
scared you wanna go
but I hope that we're a little stronger

But I don't wanna feel
what everybody feels
I've got more to lose
they're not significant
I don't care whose listening
they're not in my shoes

you know that...

Everybody wants a little something, something
Everybody wants a little something good

to moonn6pence from shootingstar







Save me from the movies and someone else's dreams
while angels make their music and give my spirit wings
I just concertina and wrap around the world
Staying out til' 6'o clock and singing like a fool

I've only got this morning to live
Look at all the colours at my fingertips

I don't want to stand still
I just want to freewheel
I don't want to lose this
I don't want to stand still
I just want to freewheel
I don't want to lose this,

Save my feet from dancing with just anyone at all
Worn out shoes 'cause lotus blue keeps hanging in the hall
You're this face in the distance i hope to recognise
But it's like running through deep water trying to look into your eyes

I've only got this morning to live
Look at all the colours at my fingertips

I don't want to stand still
I just want to freewheel
I don't want to lose this
I don't want to stand still
I just want to freewheel
I don't want to lose this

to moonn6pence from shootingstar




Cant put this off forever,
I've got to tell you some time.
But when I try and say it,
My mouth just gives up and dies.

I lose my meaning when I get this feeling.

Last night I nearly died,
But I woke up just in time.
Last night I nearly died,
But I woke up just in time.

I'm not who you think I am,
I slipped a stranger inside.
It helps the nights go quicker,
But I deminish each time.

And in the morning I shake the warning.

Last night I nearly died,
But I woke up just in time.
Last night I nearly died,
But I woke up just in time.

I get this feeling
I got this feeling
I woke up
I woke up
I'm gonna wake up
Gonna wake up

I lose my meaning when I get this feeling

Oh, last night I nearly died,
But I woke up just in time.
Last night I nearly died,
But I woke up just in time.

Last night I nearly died
Last night I nearly died
Last night I nearly died

Take a Picture if it helps you sleep
The expose me as your royal Creep
For now I've torn it we're not the same
The're a sun that's breaking through my window Pane
It's burning up my face, yes it's doing it again
No cover up
No room for hiding
No Cover up
My Faith is Sliding
No civer up
Just sharp reminding of the fake i was
There are face that we should not know
There are places we're not meant to go
If you try to Find mee you will never win
For behind each layer lies another skins
I'd love to let you in, if you find a way in
No Cover up
Just so much trouble
No cover up
I'm Bent in double
no cover up
Just wreck and rubble of the person i was
I am Broken and i stand accused
Is there someone who can let me loose
If you find the answer make careful not
I could use your pardon and a lot of hope
I'm Getting to that part at the end of the rope
No cover up
I feel the burning
No cover up
Nor time for turning
No cover up
I hope I'm learning some honesty
some honesty

Paint my picture if you must,
Please remember to be kind.
'Cause darling,
your broken heart was never on my mind.
Paint me with a building heart
Like some cruel valentine
But darling, your broken heart was never on my mind.
And when you feel the clash, and you don't want me around,
Could you endure the rasp as kisses filled with fibreglass rain down
Heavy as a hummingbird
But more difficult to find
Well darling, your broken heart was never on my mind.
Clumsy as a ragtime clown
Or a dancing Frankenstein
Well darling, your broken heart was never on my mind
So pull this canvas down beneath that angry moon
As you endure the sound of one more singer singing out of tune.
Out of tune.
So paint my picture, well, if you must
Not forgetting to be kind
Cause darling, your broken heart was never on my mind.

I could go to London, I could go to London
I could go to London, I could go to London
I could go to London, I could go to London
I could go to London, I could go to London

I packed a lung with smoke, crossed the line
There?ll be no glory train for me this time
Now just where do I begin
After all I?ve taken in

I bought your fire trees, your Sunday bells
Spoke your Holy Ghost, drunk your wells
Now that tongue has had to go
Sight and centigrade in tow

Take me crawling from the corner

Would you lay your love on me?
Could you shake me ?till I?m clean?
A salvation tambourine

I heard from Canada the day she died
The clowns are killing me to join their side
Certain I can?t pay the fare
Bloodshot vision keeps me here

Take me crawling from the corner

Would you lay your love on me?
Could you shake me ?till I?m clean?
Would you lay your love on me?
Could you shake me ?till I?m clean?
A salvation tambourine

I could go to London, maybe that?s where you are
I could go to Paris, I could look from the Tower
I could go to London, maybe that?s where you are
I could go to America, I could go to America

I could go to London, maybe that?s where you are
I could go to Paris, I could jump from the Tower
I could go to London, maybe that?s where you are
I could go to Jerusalem, I could go to Jerusalem

I could go to Jerusalem, I could go to Jerusalem
I could go to Jerusalem, I could go to Jerusalem
I could go, I could go, I could go, I could go
I could go to Jerusalem, I could go, I could go, I could go

It's not like I ever claimed to know
What shadows were pressing on your soul
It's just I wish you'd pause for breath
And didn't have to go

I saw you were spinning from the sky
It burned in the corner of my eye
I sat there frozen and in that moment
You bid your soul goodbye

I, I was only wondering
If you would ever change your mind
You could give it up but something might happen
It's all too much but something might happen
You'll break this cup but something might happen

I know what it's like to feel alone
To always be looking for your home
To stand upon a riverbank
Try to make your demons go

I, I was only wondering
If you could ever change your mind
You could give it up but something might happen
It's all too much but something might happen
You'll break this cup but something might happen

So break this cup 'cause something might happen

to moonn6pence from shootingstar





Wake up Scarlett,
It's been a long night and a high price,
It's Up, I'm Done
See your soul sway in the daylight

Did I steal your sense of wonder,
Innocence and Sight
I'm strung up like a highwayman
Who didn't get it right

I feel like I'm Falling down
I feel like I'm Falling down
I'm hard as the hardest ground

Stand up Scarlett
Seal this bad scene with the ocean,
Burn up, Return,
And I'll build with you a dwelling
and the sadness will be healing,

Tripping through the birdsong
just as guilty as a gun
I'm dropping like a suicidal
planet in the sun

I feel like I'm Falling down
I feel like I'm Falling down
I'm cold as the coldest ground