The Game
A sense of duty
was my one intention
and an ugly beauty
was my own invention
Pride a proud refusal
and I refuse
to need your approval
Too many seekers
Too few beacons
But through the fog
we'll keep on beaming
Through the crying hours
of your glitter years
all the living out
of your tinsel tears
and the midnight trains
I never made
'cos I'd already
played...the game
Everybody's
got their own good reason
why their favorite season
is their favorite season
Winter winners
and those summers sons
aren't good for everyone
aren't good for everyone
Spring has sprung
and autumns well done
so well done
And it's a better thing
that we do now
forgetting everything
the whys and hows
While you reminisce
about the things you miss
you won't be ready
to kiss...goodbye
The earth is a world
The world is a ball
A ball in a game
with no rules at all
And just as I wonder
at the beauty of it all
you go and drop it
and it breaks and falls
I'll never understand
why you thought I would
need to be reassured
and be understood
When I always knew
that your bad's my good
and I was ready
ready...to be loved
Born under Mars
With Jupiter rising
Fallen from stars
That lit my horizon
I'll never understand
why you thought I would
need to be reassured
and be understood
When I always knew
that your bad's my good
and I was ready
ready...to be
Through the crying hours
of your glitter years
all the living out
of your tinsel tears
and the midnight trains
I never made
'cos I'd already
played
it's a better thing
that we do now
forgetting everything
the whys and hows
While you reminisce
about the things you miss
you won't be ready
to kiss...goodbye
Over You
Jump right in
take the call
were you pushed
or did you fall?
Fell apart
Feeling low
happy ride
the merry-go
And I always hear them singing
and complaining about the world
but my chiming bells are ringing out
the word the word the word
Love rebounds
heart goes snap
Is she ever
coming back?
Let her down
break her fall
never ever
Felt so small
Chorus:
And I always hear them singing
and complaining about the world
and my chiming bells are ringing out
the word the word the word
Feeling good again
always hoped I would
never believed
that I ever could
Felling blue again
never wanted to
Under the weather
And it's over you
Over you (the hole in the holy)
(and the crack in our hearts)
Over you (it's love and love only)
(that sets our world apart)
Over you (worlds apart)
(joined at the heart)
Jump right in
take the call
Were you pushed
Or did you fall?
Fell apart
Feeling low
Happy ride
the merry-go
(chorus)
(repeat) Feeling good again...
Over you (the hole in the holy)
(and the crack in our hearts)
Over you (it's love and love only)
(the sets our worlds apart)
(repeat) Feeling good again...
Over you (and a dream is a means)
(to an end of the things)
Over you (that will tempt you away)
(From the path to the true way in)
(repeat) Feeling good again...
Over you (x2)
Bedbugs and Ballyhoo
Buffalo and bison
bison and buffalo
Cannonball and rifle
Rifle and Cannonball
that's the way the thunder rumbles (x2)
Rumbles...
Down on your knees again
Saying please again yeah yeah yeah
Kangaroo and chipmonk
Chipmonk and kangaroo
Ballyhoo and bedbugs
bedbugs and ballyhoo
that's the way the bee bumbles (x4)
Bumbles...
Down on your kness again
Saying please again no no no
No
Down on your knees again
Saying please again
Down on you knees again
Saying please again no no no
Buffalo and bison
bison and buffalo
Cannonball and rifle
Rifle and Cannonball
that's the way the thunder rumbles (x4)
Rumbles Rumbles Rumbles
All in Your Mind
You say your proud to be
One of the people
hands on the money
and your feet on the ground
Shouting out loud
From the top of the steeple
Counting the flock while
collecting their pounds
all you theiving wheeler dealers
in the healing zone
giving me Fever Fever Fever Fever
down to my bones
Chorus:
I pray
and nothing happens
Jesus
it's all in my mind
You say
stop looking for answers
and reasons
they're all in your mind
all in you mind
Covered in flies
and smothered in lava
I can't scratch my itches
with these pumise stone hands
I dream of my days
as a desert farmer
living my life
On the fat of the sand
All you theiving wheeler dealers
in the healing zone
giving me Fever Fever Fever Fever
down to my bones
(chorus)
Stuck in a world
losing its way and wonder
I wonder what happened
to the world we knew
Splitting the atom
and feeling its thunder
Could never ever make me
Feel the way you do
You give me Fever Fever Fever Fever
down to my bones
Fever Fever Fever Fever
in the healing zone
(chorus)
Bombers Bay
The word went round
in no dream town
They shut us up
and the shutters down
The planes flew in
and laid the ground
We built upon
and spun around
God's one miracle
Lost in circles
Chorus:
On the march
Berlin to Bombers Bay
Traveling dark
on the roads to Mandalay
Cannon fire
came to call
Stood us up
and watched us fall
The way we were
and now outworn
Our costumes changed
to uniforms
Black black days
here to stay
On the march
Madrid to Bombers Bay
Traveling dark
on the road to Mandalay
Pack up the troubles and you'll all get by
Smile boys that's the style
Pack up your troubles and you'll all get by
Smile
They give us hope
and teach us well
with magic moons
that cast a spell
and hypnotise
and draw us in
I believe
I'm believing
God's one miracle
moves in circles
On the march
Berlin to Bombers Bay
Traveling dark
on the road
(chorus)
Black black days
where the flying fishes play
(x4) ...
Lips Like Sugar
She floats like a swan
grace on the water
lips like sugar
lips like sugar
just when you think you've caught her
she glides across the water
she calls for you tonight
to share this moonlight
You'll flow down her river
She'll ask you and you'll give her
Chorus:
Lips like sugar
Sugar kisses
Lips like sugar
sugar kisses
She knows what she knows
I know what she's thinking
sugar kisses
sugar kisses
just when you think she's yours
she's flown to other shores
to laugh at how you break
and melt into this lake
You'll flow down her river
but you'll never give her
(chorus)
She'll be my mirror
Reflect what I am
A loser and a winner
The King of Siam
and my Siamese twin
Alone on the river
Mirror kisses (x2)
(chorus x3)
Lost and Found
I was standing
under sliver studded skies
In a forest burnig ashes
on the bonfires of our lives
As the sky fell down
I was lost and found
saw my world spin round
round and round
All the ghosts have gathered round me
come to tell me of a change
in the darkness that surrounds me
I am falling down again
On this haunted ground
I was lost and found
Chorus:
Lost
Lost and found
(x2)
She will tell you her cathedral
has no windows and no doors
and you know she doesn't need you
and that's why you want her more
As your heart melts down
you are lost and found
(chorus)
I was counting all the tombstones
of the buried boys and girls
as the wind blew in like ice
and froze this cemetery world
And we all fell down
we were lost and found
And the sun went down
we were lost and found
(chorus x2)
New Direction
Out on a limb
did you see what the cat dragged in
take it on the chin
catching fire on a roof of tin
You've learnt to speak and you're professing
the right to teach us our direction
but I found out on close inspection
true imprefection
Chorus 1:
I'm looking for a new direction
Where in the world am I?
I took the word the word was resurrection
and then you took me out to climb
Chorus:
Higher and higher (x3)
Kissing the spires
higher and higher (x3)
Souls on fire
Inside of my head
I heard what the good Lord said
"Beware" he said
if you don't you might end up dead
You suck the air right out of me
but though you suck you cannot see
that life and living are not free
though you live you do not breathe
(chorus 1)
(chorus) ...
I have changed
but still my heart
remains intact
and true love stays
but will our hearts
retain their lack of
No sense and no direction
Who in the world am I?
I took the word the word was resurrection
and then you took me out to climb
(chorus...)
Start confessing (x2)
All my evils would be blessed
if to God I did confess
Wipe the slate and see if I
ate the bread and drank the wine
So as you're leaving I take possesion
just take the bottle and start confessing
Blue Blue Ocean
One in a million
one and the same
looking for freedom
born to be tamed
Once in a lifetime
one of these days
gonna grab me a lifeline
swinging my way
I'm swimming out on a blue blue ocean
you're sailing out on a blue blue sea
Silhouettes and a vulture hoping
he's gonna pick the bones of you and me
You and me
Satellite
Moonlight Starlight
Insight Out of sight
Something's certain
draw the curtains draw them
Take the night
When it calls
take the night
when it falls (x4)
You will I might
talking satellites
rockets comets
something's coming
Take the night
When it calls
take the night
when it falls (x2)
take the night
when it falls
Out out All out
In doubt Far out
wheels in motion
take it take it take it the potion
Take the night
When it calls
take the night
when it falls (x4)
Moonlight
Starlight
Insight
Out of sight
Take the night
When it calls
take the night
when it falls (x8)
When the night falls
it falls (x5)
All My Life
Oh how the times have changes us
Sure and now uncertain
Men not devils have claimed us
Purity deserting
God's one miracle
lost in circles
Chorus:
All my all my life
revolves around
laughter and crying
as my life turns
round and round
Cannon fire burning
on the hillside
You and I are side by side
Listen
Tin soldiers playing our tune
(chorus)
and round
Songs for life's lost lovers
bitter sweet their healing
Their prayers prayed under covers
need not kneeling
God's one miracle
moves in circles
(chorus x2)
and round
and round
Hearts of fire
hearts of bone
beating stronger
beating home
where there's wanting
there is need
where there's having
there is greed
I'm swimming out on a blue blue ocean
You're sailing out on a blue blue sea
Silhouettes and a vulture hoping
he's gonna pick the bones of you and me
You and me
Girl
I want the gold dust
in your fingers
and your Klondike touch
girl
I want your goldmine
as it shimmers
in your solemn eyes
I'm swimming out on a blue blue ocean
You're sailing out on a blue blue sea
Silhouettes and a vulture hoping
licking the bones of you and me
I'm swimming out on a blue blue ocean
you're sailing out on a blue blue sea
Blue blue sea
I'm swimming out on the ocean
(Blue blue ocean)
you're sailing out on the sea
(Blue blue sea)
(x 4)
(repeat about 14 times) Blue blue ocean
Blue blue sea
