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I can see it in your eyes
 what I know in my heart is true
 that our love it has faded
 like the summer run through
 so we'll walk down the shoreline
 one last time together
 feel the wind blow our wanderin' hearts
 like a feather
 but who knows what's waiting
 in the wings of time
 dry your eyes
 we gotta go where we can shine

Don't be hiding in sorrow
 or clinging to the past
 with your beauty so precious
 and the season so fast
 no matter how cold the horizon appear
 or how far the first night
 when I held you near
 you gotta rise from these ashes
 like a bird of flame
 step out of the shadow
 we've gotta go where we can shine

For all that we struggle
 for all we pretend
 it don't come down to nothing
 except love in the end
 and ours is a road
 that is strewn with goodbyes
 but as it unfolds
 as it all unwinds
 remember your soul is the one thing
 you can't compromise
 take my hand
 we're gonna go where we can shine
 we're gonna go where we can shine
 we're gonna go where we can shine

(and look, and look)
 Through the windows of midnight
 moonfoam and silver

A Century Ends
 cast your eyes into the distance
 try to focus on it all
 find a spirit of resistance
 instead of pride before the fall
 forge some opposition
 from disparate strands
 it ain't the prettiest position
 as a century ends

unstable situation
 faces made of wax
 streams of melting glass
 sheets of butchered facts
 the roar of the machine
 hooded hearts and jewelled hands
 and anger spilling out like gasoline
 as a century ends

everything I seen, everything that I heard,
 ain't even the tip of the iceberg
 fire down memory lane
 so pass me my rose tinted glasses again

through a fog of contradiction
 out to the lake of tears
 see society admiring its own reflection
 chase a light that shines and disappears
 careful what you say 'cos reality offends
 just sit back and let your soul decay
 as a century ends

and its easy to get weary
 as you fight to get it done
 ?gainst a popular theory
 that it's over 'fore it's even begun
 strain the limit of compassion
 tend a wound that never mends
 and honesty still out of fashion
 as a century ends

Debauchery
 Drunken ferry boat woman
 swayin' on your sea
 if I turn on the gasfire
 by the rain rattled window
 won't you sail over to me

The hail storm tumbles
 the rail line rumbles
 you move in the porch with me
 on an overcast day
 the pale winter city
 an afternoon's debauchery

Your blouse your skirt
 I'll undo them so gentle
 with beautiful care
 I'm a lonely man
 with five bottles of wine
 I'd like you to share

The hail storm tumbles
 the rail line rumbles
 you move through the doors with me
 on an overcast day
 the pale winter city
 an afternoon's debauchery

Orange street light
 afternoon becomes night
 you drink your wine from a mug
 there's cats at the backdoor
 the snow is two inches
 you roll down your tights on the rug

The hail storm tumbles
 the rail line rumbles
 you lie on the floor with me
 come closer my love
 I'm badly in need
 of an afternoon's debauchery

Let The Truth Sting
 The hour is out of joint
 black sun has risen
 and the river of words
 is flowing on through
 the cages of tradition
 and they're handing out emptiness
 we'll take it cos it's given
 free with this plastic innocence
 and these standards of living

Questions lighted questions
 burnin' holes into my head
 hanging like shadows o'er the sun
 staring out like the eyes of the dead
 and sometimes my soul flickers
 when the wind of change blows cold
 over the mire of repetition
 down the corridors of rigmarole

What I say, what I think
 what I put down in ink
 I'm only trying to find a way to understand
 and I mean no harm
 I'm just searching for calm
 in the storm of mankind

Do you find it there
 in the sea of faces
 that drowns you everyday
 or in the silence and rubble and empty spaces
 where children and rottweilers play
 is it buried in the praise
 given so cheap
 with a meaningless movement of the jaws
 in the looking glass
 that flatters you
 or in the rattle of hollow applause

Blind circle, moon and sun body willing, mind undone
 one pain ending while another begins
 lies, ruin disease
 into wounds like these
 let the truth sting

From the hub to the limit
 through the urban hollows
 out into the poles of the extreme
 to echo through the numbness
 of these godless minutes
 in the shadow of delusion's regime

And here watching the night
 as it opens like a flower
 and the day starts to rust
 feeling time pound
 like a silent hammer
 on this empire of dust
 and I'm thinking bout the bullet
 and the TV screen, the dollar, and the clenched fist
 and if we're searching for peace
 how come we still believe
 in hatred as the catalyst

Oh through the borderline
 in front and behind
 one pain ending
 while another begin
 lies, ruin disease
 into wounds like these
 let the truth sing
 yeah
 let the truth

And I feel it from the pit of my stomach
 into the ditch of my mind
 inside the chambers of my heart
 as I stare half blind
 at these walls of cardboard
 at this space that I've rented
 at your beauty that is crumbling
 though you try so hard to prevent it

On and on
 body willing, mind undone
 one pain ending while another begins
 lies, ruin, disease
 into wounds like these
 let the truth sting
 let the truth sting
 let the truth sting

Gathering Dust
 I got no reason
 but that I must
 maybe I feel
 like I?ve been gathering dust
 I must leave this harbour for the sea
 I'm too young to settle down and make a home
 but I don't know where I'm wanting to be
 I just know I have to be there alone

stole my time, all my time
 stole my time for you

pale winter sun
 is beatin' the ground
 why'm I throwin' away
 the best thing that I?ve found
 my young heart's in tatters and I?m sure
 that it will be a long time healing
 it's so hard to see what I?m doing this for
 when loneliness is all that I?m feeling

stole my time, all my time
 spend my time for you

now the wind it is blowing
 blowing leaves from the trees
 I?ve got no use knowing
 that with time it will ease
 I don't know where I'm going
 hope I get there soon
 cos my soul is hollow
 as the sorrowful moon
 na na na na...

the night is raining on my weary head
 taking me back

see the sun spread its wings of gold
 as the dawn unfurls
 hear the song that the moon sings
 to the darkened world
 feel the fire lighting
 in the bitter cold
 see the light that shines
 through the windows of your soul

Wisdom
 time no good
 wisdom no good
 patience no good
 to me anymore

now night has fallen on the stair
 some things you do you can never repair
 seems I'm always pretending
 things aren't there when they are

and the leaves are nearly off the trees
 and the traffic's thick past yellow windows
 and I'm lost inside the frozen headlights
 thinking of you

time no good
 wisdom no good
 patience no good
 to me anymore

and the trees are looking like bones
 and the afternoon's filled with storm and rain
 I'm staring out of this metal train
 thinking of you

and the trees are looking like bones
 and the afternoon's filled with storm and rain
 and I?m tangled up in memory's thorns
 no way through

time no good
 wisdom no good
 patience no good
 to me anymore

trees like bones, yellow windows
 memories, thorns, oh and you

time no good
 wisdom no good
 patience no good
 to me anymore

Lead Me Upstairs
 I care little for my body she said
 I couldn't care less about my soul
 and as she led me upstairs in whispers
 my whole summer turned cold

I'll lead you upstairs
 I'll lead you upstairs
 If you've got no worries
 then I've got no cares
 I'll lead you upstairs

I told her people had been talking
 about how dark she was inside
 she said my hopes are buried in the soil
 deep in the earth outside
 and with one twist of the world
 she brought me to her side
 she asked me for the truth one time
 and I all I did was lie

I'll lead you upstairs
 I'll lead you upstairs
 If you've got no worries
 then I've got no cares
 I'll lead you upstairs

Living Room
 my good friends speak
 like they did last year
 last night's just a blur
 through a head full of beer
 my good friends speak
 like they did last year
 and last year's just a blur
 through a head full of beer

where's your wisdom
 put that broken bottle down
 let the wind in your sails
 take you out of this town so sad

I think I'm dying
 and if life's just a living room
 then I'm in the hall and I'm glad
 and if life's just a living room
 then I'm in the hall and I'm glad
 Oh I'm glad, I'm glad, I'm glad

now the dawn it has broke
 still the night don't clear
 memories falling in the mornin' rain
 I'm up too close, to see it clear
 and last year's just a blur
 through a head full of beer

and where's your wisdom
 put that broken bottle down
 let the wind in your sails
 take you out of this town so sad

I think I'm dying
 and if life's just a living room
 then I'm in the hall and I'm glad
 and if life's just a living room
 then I'm in the hall and I'm glad
 Oh I'm glad, I'm glad, I'm glad

Birds Without Wings
 wishing that something would happen
 a change in this place
 'cos I'm tearing off the fancy wrapping
 find an empty package

take for a while
 your trumpet from your lip
 loosen your hold loosen your grip
 on your old ways
 that have fallen out of step
 in a changing time
 hoist a new flag
 hoist a new flag

angry sun burn down
 judging us all
 guilty of neglect and disrespect
 and thinking small

and death by boredom
 and death by greed
 if we can't stop taking
 more than we need

but across the fractured landscape
 I see the same things
 tired ideas
 birds without wings

birds without wings
 birds without wings

and these are just thoughts
 of lack lustre times
 I've no interest
 in excuses you can find

like you've had a hard day
 now you're too tired to care
 now you're too tired to care
 you've had a hard day

well across the fractured landscape
 I see the same things
 tired ideas broken values
 many with the notion
 that to share is to lose
 a hollow people bound by a lack
 of imagination and too much looking back
 without the courage to give a new thing a chance
 grounded by this ignorance

(and the cat comes)
 We're just,
 birds without wings
 birds without wings
 birds without wings

It's All Over
 In the bitter violent night
 the stars wear sour grins
 in the vastness of the black sky
 I?m cradled in your arms
 unbridled by alarm
 'cos I know the end is nigh

It's all over bar the shoutin'
 one things for sure
 its all over now
 its all over now

confusion wanders in
 strides the evening like a king
 chaos and turmoil prevail
 bedlam reigns, hope is drowned
 ah but strangely we settle down
 resigned to the sinking ship on which we sail

It's all over bar the shoutin'
 one things for sure
 its all over now
 its all over now

our love's just smithereens
 too much beer in my head
 another night is getting late
 I don't know which way to go
 there's just this long white road
 and I can't think straight
 no I can't think straight

It's all over bar the shoutin'
 one things for sure
 its all over now
 its all over now

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