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So they invented race and made themselves different
From those they banned from grace They invented race by writing the difference in the air They invented race and carved it in a language Tattooed it in space and wrote it on skin So they made up race and programmed it in their cash And the air's dark in our mouths It's a bitter light And the skin fades from our sight People's faces into forms So they mad up exotic and wrote it in colour On parchment backs as adventure maps So they shattered my world to a million pieces But I hold on to each piece ad I number them all Won't let my children's smile be shattered into dust And their currency's contempt And the power laughs And the skin fades from my sight People's faces into form Salt sown into day Dark sown in the land Blindness sown in our hopes So they invented race divide down their grace And made their case in fear and pain So they invented race and we'll invent clarity again And the air's dark in our mouths It's a bitter light And the skin fades from our sight People's faces into forms And their currency's contempt And the power laughs And the air's dark in our mouths And the air's dark in our mouths |
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There is a love so unexpected
Defying time and its sad declines Working in circles so interconnected Some days it's dark, sometimes it shines There is a sound, welcome as summer Laughing at fate and its final fall Dancing in daydreams and racing the runners Sometimes it takes you, sometimes you take all Follow the fire down highways and airways Stopping to pick up fuel from the night Five or six lives you know you can live with Five or six voices still singing so right There's a desire never gets tired Cuts down the doom and its desert flowers Turn up the big wheel and slide down the wires Some days you get burned, some days save hours There is a feeling closer than comfort Deriding hate and its history Turn up the big wheel and slide down the wires Some days you get burned, some days take some hours Follow the fire down highways and airways Stopping to pick up fuel from the night Five or six lives you know you can live with Five or six voices still singing so right There are some shows, more than together Shaking the rainbows all their bright designs Pack up your rucksack and head for forever Some days you drop back, sometimes stay on line Some days you drop back, sometimes you get back Follow the fire down highways and airways Stopping to pick up fuel from the night Five or six lives you know you can live with Five or six voices still singing so right There's a desire, never gets tired Cuts down the doom and its desert flowers Turn up the big wheel and slide down its wires Some days you get burned, some days take some hours Some days you get burned, some days you get burned, sometimes you get burned... |
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Where is the way out of the night
When the dark wind's cryin' Where is the way out of the night Where you're lying? Where is the time to heal the loss When the cruel tongues cross And the heart can't sail Where is the way to keep it in When the sick words win And you grip the rails Where is the place to lay your head When the streets run red And your heart's in jail Where is the place to lay your head When the pressure's tight And the glare's so bright Where is the way out of the night? You hit the black, where you just can't hack it no more The pain caught up and slammed you down to the floor How can you fight with the dying of your dreams Kelly's blue, gone with the wind Never green Where is the way out of the night When the dark wind's cryin' Where is the way out of the night Where you're lying? Where was the hand to soothe your brow When the need was now Straying off the line Where was the friend you could not find Tore your open mind Wrote your name in grime Where was the way out of the maze When the days got crazed All the games they played Where is the way out of the night? You hit the black, where you just can't hack it no more The pain caught up and slammed you down to the floor How can you fight with the dying of your dreams Kelly's blue, gone with the wind Never green Lying, crying |
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Please open your eyes
Try to realise I found out today We're going wrong Please open your mind See what you can find I found out today We're going wrong |
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We were walking tall, made the world look smaller than it was
The hole was bigger than the half we gave the dogs They just got the crumbs, now become much humbler than they thought The loss was smaller than the gain and they got caught Taking stock ? future shock Bull the bears ? fight the fair Take the cake and then run, hear the gun Get the price ? for the ice Hawk the doves ? kid the gloves Have your fun and then head for the sun Just keep running round and round Until the final showdown No slow down We divide and rule, makes the place feel cooler than it is The heat is milder than the hell we left the kids They just got the shaft, the grade was much steeper and we laughed The cross was smaller than Lorraine, and it won't last Making it ? thro' the shit Fattening rats ? pirate gas Smash and grab and then run, hear the gun Lick the boot ? for the loot Kiss the arse ? do it fast Have your fun and then head for the sun Just keep running round and round Until the final showdown No slow down Had to have it all, made the mall feel bigger than its size The gap was bigger than the shades we gave the eyes They just copped the dregs, left the eggs more dodgy than the birds The boss was hauled over the coals, the crazy turd Raking up ? all the muck In the box ? break the locks Think of just number one, hear the gun Kill the goose ? cut 'em loose Oil the land, nuke the band Have your fun and then head for the sun Just keep running round and round Until the final showdown No slow down |
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We used to walk those golden streets
But where's the glitter gone? The times we knew falling back into blue From this moment on We used to sail such silver seas But they have lost their glow The days we danced have denied their romance Ain't nowhere to go Looking thro' cold windows At the autumn flying by I wait for mem'ries to come home All this time without you And I search the sky So sad the sun is on its own Love used to wear a sapphire smile Maybe a diamond grin The years we played were destroyed in the raids All the fools that we've been Look out at the wild world Thro' the sweet and sour rain I wish the ache would lose its sting All these broken chances 'Cos I missed the train Tomorrow just don't mean a thing We used to march against the night Now there's so little shine The minds we moved have slipped out of the groove Now that you are not mine The seasons just don't rhyme Life is hardly worth a dime |
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Feel when I dance with you
We move like the sea You, you're all I want to know I feel free (repeat) I can walk down the street there's no one there Tho' the pavements are one huge crowd I can drive down the road my eyes don't see Tho' my mind wants to cry out loud Yes my mind wants to cry out loud Dancefloor is like the sea Ceiling hits the sky You're the sun and as you shine on me I feel free (repeat) |
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I've climbed this hill too many times
Now passion seems like it's a crime My memories leaves dead on the line Tomorrow's finished all that fine fine wine I've run this road for so many years Rememb'ring how I lived each curve And now my screen's filled up with tears I can't see through the pain I leaned No future now without the fear I'll get too near to love that burns The night was once, the night was twice The night was mine I dealt in dreams until they faded Into ghosts in headlong flight Felt every mile that I paid For reaching out towards the light The dancers thought it was a raid And disappeared into the night That once was mine I've sailed the storm so many ways Desires vanish in the haze There's only ashes from the blaze The future's losing all those long love days I've flown these skies both dark and light But now my path's locked up with snow Most moments felt so very right But I can't break the ice that grows No morning now without the chance Of petals falling from the rose The night was once, the night was twice The night was mine I traded steel until it fractured Into fields of crumbling rust All the precautions that I packed Were colours I could never trust The swimmer's getting out of sight, She's disappeared into the night That once was mine... |
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Each single day has just enough cruelty within
To make them perfect and right Each single day has enough dark deep within To make it perfect and light Up against the sky stars crawl against the night Each one trying to claw their way out But each single day has just enough dark To make me really want to stay Each single day has just enough meanness inside To make it perfect and calm Each breathing day has just enough coldness within To make it perfect and warm Up against the night moons press against the sky Trying to force its way (out again) But each breathing day has just enough hurt To make me stay |
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Living on cold island
Your mail comes on the wind Messages and memories of all the things you've been Living on cold island You can't forget the rain Remembering the long roads You have to try again And it's always on your mind And the grinding of the stones Never getting home Living on cold island The love comes second hand Formulas with fantasies you do the best you can Living on cold island You can't keep out the pain Recalling all the hard miles you have to swim again I had too much to lose I'm telling you I did not choose this life on cold island Living on cold island The radio is faint Victories and voices keep calling you a saint Living on cold island You can't escape the flames Burning up the sunset and spelling out your name And it's always your heart And the shining of the track Never coming back |
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She leans against the wall
Just half on the bed Half in light Her touch much smarter than the night Uh, oh Up when the night was spent You're writing your blues on her skin Her body tell her tales with scent With its taste with its touch In the movement of her smile Uh, oh All of the hell you've lived Replacing those tales with the blues She won't shed them won't shed your blues No matter how clever she tries She won't wash her changes from her face No matter how many tears she cries Her body's sheer articulation All the textured tales it tells You'll replace them one by one With the basic description of the blues Her style won't go nowhere It still shines right through Forms a map on her flesh But as her dark eyes lead you in Uh, oh Each story you've lived through Is written in blues on her skin All the colours deep in her stories You can read from her face with your hands All the endings swimming in daylight Will soon be replaced with each fingers trace With stories of blues on her skin She won't shed it can't shed the skin No matter how clever she tries She won't wash the blues from her face No matter how many tears she cries All the curves that show in her stories All her tales subtle twists and turns Will be coloured in each cadence With the basic inflection of the blues She leans against the wall Just half on the bed Half in light Her touch much smarter than the night Uh, oh Up when the night is spent You're writing your blues on her skin The intrigue you've learnt from daylight All the words of bile you've heard All the tricks you've gotten away with Soon she won't lose what's clearly tattooed It's written in blues on her skin |
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Hey now baby get into my big black car
I want to show you What my politics are I support the left tho' I' leaning to the right I'm just not there When it's coming to a fight I'm a political man yes I practice what I preach I'm a political man yes I practice what I preach So don't deny me baby Not while you're in my reach Get baby, get into my big black car Hey baby, get into my big car I want to just show you What my politics are |
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When I was angry as I am now
And the night was cruel as it is now When I was young as I am now And the city was steel as it is now You danced for me and the world stopped You danced for me and the truth was clear You danced for me and the names were clean The sweetest movement I've ever seen There is this rhythm It's in your dark eyes I know this rhythm I know this rhythm And it tames me It tames me Through all the streets Through all the steel It's in that dark deep dance It's in the dance you danced for me I was lost in this city I swear I can't remember its name But you danced for me And man you made it fall away The sky was mean as it is now And I was moving as I am now You danced for me And I knew |
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