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1. |
| 4:45 | ||||
I never saw you look like this without a reason Another promise fallen through, another season passes by you I never took the smile away from anybody's face And that's a desperate way to look for someone who is still a child In a big country dreams stay with you Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside Stay alive I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert But I can live and breathe and see the sun in wintertime In a big country dreams stay with you Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside Stay alive So take that look out of here, it doesn't fit you Because it's happened doesn't mean you've been discarded Pull up your head off the floor, come up screaming Cry out for everything you ever might have wanted I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered But you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered |
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2. |
| 4:35 | ||||
I wouldn't want to go home on a night like this
When I find out that some of the past has been missed And the light in the window has burned it's fuse I pull everything inwards but everything's loose Everything inwards, but everything's loose Everything inwards, but everything's loose I wouldn't want to stay out with news like this All the engines too loud all the pavements hiss How the scouts in the stairwell will ?meet? again I pull everything inwards but everything's ?changed? |
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3. |
| 4:27 | ||||
All the rain came down
On a cold new town As he carried you away From your father's hand That always seemed like a fist Reaching out to make you pay He came like a hero from the factory floor With the sun and moon as gifts But the only son you ever saw Were the two he left you with Oh Lord where did the feeling go Oh Lord I never felt so low Now the skirts hang so heavy around your head That you never knew you were young Because you played chance with a lifetime's romance And the price was far too long Oh Lord where did the feeling go Oh Lord I never felt so low Oh Lord where did the feeling go Oh Lord I never felt so low Oh Lord where did the feeling go Oh Lord I never felt so low Oh Lord where did the feeling go Oh Lord I never felt so low Oh Lord where did the feeling go Oh Lord I never felt so low |
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4. |
| 3:54 | ||||
5. |
| 6:21 | ||||
I came from the hills with a tear in my eye
The winter closed in and the crows filled the sky The houses were burning in flames gold and red The people were running with eyes full of dread Ah my James They didn't have to do this We chased them for miles I had tears in my eyes Through forest and moor as the clouds filled the sky The storm broke upon us with fury and flame Both hunters and hunted washed down in the rain Ah my James They didn't have to do this I know I can never return To the time of hope when I was born Let the strength of peace run through my hand When we walk away from the ?stormy shore? Then I will be afraid no more And now I'm sure of where I stand Let the strength of peace run through this land And nobody smiled as we took back our own While rain beat upon us the thunder would moan And nobody smiled when we knew what was lost We knew well enough only time proves the cost Ah my James They didn't have to do this Ah my James They didn't have to do this I know I can never return To the time of hope when I was born Let the strength of peace run through my hand When we walk away from the ?stormy shore? Then I will be afraid no more And now I'm sure of where I stand Let the strength of peace run through this land |
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6. |
| 4:20 | ||||
Who saw the fences falling
Who broke the ploughman's bread Who heard the winter calling Who wore the tailor's thread How many sheaves were counted How did the carriage shine How many thoughts were doubted How did the landlord dine Just as you sow you shall reap Who led the mayday feasting Who saw the harvest home Who left the future wasting Who watched the families go See where the bowls are empty See where the arms reach See where the butter melted See where the altars creak Where were the days of promise Where were the gifts divine Where were the heroes honest Where was the summer wine Watch how the waves must shatter Watch how the shore divides Watch how the nets will tatter Watch Canute and his bride |
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7. |
| 4:53 | ||||
We lay the night in anguish, snakes drawn out by the tide The compass of decision falls always on one side But many went before us, and still the cries are clear There is no beauty here, just the stench of wine and beer We save no souls We break no promises We can do nothing more than move on headlong through the gloom The thorn between our lips is the missionaries tune Men with open arms turn their faces half away Observe as we approach that we have not come to save We stand as thick as vines though the fruit is torn away There is no beauty here, friends, just death and dark decay |
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8. |
| 4:15 | ||||
A score of years this line has run
Above the crests that drown the sun A mile high the turbines turned The stokers sweat the monkeys burned I will carry you home with the gods in my eyes I will carry you home while the westerlies sigh The continents will fly apart The oceans scream and never part Divided souls can never rest Must join the nations break the test For endless hours the sirens wail Await the tide that brings the sail Cling to the walls and close the shore The lovers wait who walk no more |
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9. |
| 3:32 | ||||
Beween the father and his son
Between the city and the one Between the teacher and the test Between the journey and the rest The shining eye will never cry The beating heart will never die The house on fire holds no shame I will be coming home again Four hundred miles Without a word until you smile Four hundred miles On fields of fire Between the woman and the boy Between the child and a toy Between the following of the west Between the journey and the rest |
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10. |
| 7:51 | ||||
Night hangs on the city like a blanket on a cage
A sacrifice prepared Laughter lies on faces where the sun has never shone The fear of life is strong We are waiting in the forest deep and dark behind the wall What is hidden in our hearts Absolves of all worry when our fate is in the hands Of a demon or a god Porroh man come from the inside of time Takes his dust from a moving line On our knees with our eyes on the ground Those once lost have now been found Save us from all worldly pain Save us from the glowing rain Save us all from love and hope |
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11. |
| 4:07 | ||||
The autumn howled around the heads
That hung so slack with lips so red The blooms had withered leaves were shed Tongues stuck in jaws sad clowns parade The crushing whine began its call And pointed fingers at us In Angle Park The lights are dim, the statues grim In Angle Park The fountains crack In Angle Park The beaten cry behind white dress The clowns stuck fast upon the mesh While mothers wring their hands of tears The spelling books are in arrears The evil genius hugs his wife As tiles ring with fear of life The window fills with beating hearts Beat on blindly beat it In Angle Park The lights are dim, the statues grim In Angle Park The fountains crack In Angle Park In Angle Park The lights are dim, the statues grim In Angle Park The fountains crack In Angle Park |
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12. |
| 4:10 | ||||
Bad weather gathers all along the coast
When the storm clouds gather And my blood runs cold If we can't go further When we get to the shore Then we have to turn around And fight some more We'll go together I have room in my soul That's enough of watching people Trading hearts for gold I can see you on the beach On your knees Spilling more salt in an Already dead sea We'll feel the wind and the rain On our face You can do it yourself But I heard of a place It's got to be now And it better be together When spirits make a meeting You can feel it forever Bad weather gathers all along the coast When the storm clouds gather And my blood runs cold I can see you on the beach On your knees Spilling more salt in an Already dead sea Run away with me again Time for us to grow Run away with me again All of us alone |
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13. |
| 7:08 | ||||
Bridge just south of town They've been working on it for years now Just about finish up 'fore it occurs to anyone They built that damn thing just about a foot off the ground Way way higher than the road around So if you happen down that highway, 'specially at night Hit the bridge at fifty-five Feel like you might just take flight And every time the crossing comes as a surprise See my flying I've found quiet in this room Down by where the trains run I've learned to hear the rumble, long before it comes And the things I'm working on Are invisible to everyone Something 'bout an empty hip or the angle of the sun Every time the crossing comes as a surprise See me flying Maybe these stitches in my throat Have just about dissolved Like the sad moan of the drunkard walking home from the bar I hear the thin song of the fire house when they sound the alarm I hear the church bells on Sunday... ringing out Used to be a town of dirt and horses Now it's all liquor and cars There's still a whole lot of nothing up between those stars Take the dog out for a walk On the Episcopal church lawn My God we're still tryin' to find a way To get ourselves beyond And every time the crossing comes as a surprise See me flying |
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14. |
| 4:35 | ||||