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| 1. |
| 4:33 | 
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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 well walk down the shoreline One last time together Feel the wind blow our wanderin hearts Like a feather But who knows whats waiting In the wings of time Dry your eyes We gotta go where we can shine Dont 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 Weve gotta go where we can shine For all that we struggle For all we pretend It dont 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 cant compromise Take my hand Were gonna go where we can shine Were gonna go where we can shine Were gonna go where we can shine (and look, and look) Through the windows of midnight Moonfoam and silver |
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| 2. |
| 5:08 |
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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 It ain't even the top 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 it's own reflection Chase a light that shines and disappears Careful what you say, 'cause reality offends Just sit back and let your soul decay As a century ends And it's easy to get weary As you fight to get it done Against a popular theory That it's over before 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 |
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| 3. |
| 3:27 |
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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 And 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 gently 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 |
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| 4. |
| 5:30 |
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The hour is out of joint
Black sun has risen And the river of words Is flowing on through The cages of tradition They're handing out emptiness We'll take it, 'cause 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 As the wind of change blows cold Over the mire of repetition Down the corridors of rigamarole What I say, what I think What I put down in ink I'm only tryin' 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 every day 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 But 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 Through the borderline In front and behind Down the road of thorns Between the the barbwire and the soul Bitters and chains Is all that remains Where the wheel has rolled 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 |
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| 5. |
| 6:43 |
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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 beating the ground why am I throwing 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 spent 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 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 as the sorrowful moon as the sorrowful moon Oh the night is raining on my weary head taking my back See the sun spread 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 It's the light that shines through the windows of your soul Windows of your soul na na na na Windows of your soul na na na na |
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| 6. |
| 4:15 |
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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 The traffic 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 The afternoon filled with rain and storm 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 |
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| 7. |
| 4:54 |
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I care little for my body she said
I couldn't care less about my soul and as she lead me upstairs in whispers my whole summer turned cold I lead you upstairs I lead you upstairs If you've got no worries then I've got no cares I lead you upstairs I told her people had been talking about how dark she was inside She said my hope 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 all I did was lie I lead you upstairs I lead you upstairs If you've got no worries then I've got no cares I lead you upstairs I lead me upstairs in whispers my whole summer turned cold my whole summer turned cold I lead you upstairs I lead you upstairs If you've got no worries then I've got no cares I lead you upstairs I lead you upstairs I lead you upstairs I lead you upstairs I lead you upstairs |
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| 8. |
| 3:44 |
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My good friends speak
Like they did last year Last night's 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 of full 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 If life's just a living room 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 morning rain I'm up too close to see it clear And last year's just a blur Through a head full of beer I think I'm dying And if life's just a living room Then I'm in the hall and I'm glad If life's just a living room I'm in the hall and I'm glad Oh I'm glad, I'm glad, I'm glad |
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| 9. |
| 4:50 |
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Wishing that something would happen
a change in this place 'cause 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 Across the fractured the landscape I see the same things tired ideas birds without wings Birds without wings birds without wings But these are just thoughts on lackluster times and 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 When the cat comes we're just birds without wings Birds without wings birds without wings |
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| 10. |
| 6:20 |
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In the bitter violet night
The stars wear sour grins In the vastness of the black sky I'm cradled in your arms Unbridled by alarm 'Cause I know the end is nigh It's all over bar the shoutin' One thing's for sure It's all over now It's all over now Confusion wanders in Strides the evening like a king Chaos and turmoil prevail Bedlam reigns, hope is drowned As, but strangely we settle down Resigned to the sinking ship on which we sail It's all over bar the shoutin' One thing's for sure It's all over now It's all over now Our love's just smithereens Too much beer in my head Another night is getting late And I don't know where 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 thing's for sure It's all over now It's all over now |
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