Stuck in an old Home for lonely folks Gazing from his window at the snow Where did you go so wrong? You struggled all your life To keep your children warm and safe Make the world a better World a better place
Stuck in an old Home for lonely folks Gazing from his window at the snow
Through two long wars And many years of strife What is the value of a life?
Men well oiled and functioning Is science in control? You're better off now where you are I hope you rest I hope you rest in peace
Just seen the soldiers on patrol in Derry What they thinking? Bet they wish they could stay at home Go out drinking in the evening
Just seen the newsprint tonight Violence increasing, an explosion Suddenly a public house went off bang Foul play suspected, someone's cheating
Surely you see at the top of the stairs A young mother cries Convinced that her husband lies bleeding, defying While 13 more died See how her eyes glow She's going insane And you tell me enquiries will show Whose to blame But next Sunday at 2, will happen again, again.
So you think you can get away Go down to Brighton for a season Discuss the issues from day to day Looking for reasons on paper
Surely you see at the side of the road What looks like a bomb Shoppers with children lie bleeding and dying But what have they done See how our eyes glow We're going insane And you tell me enquiries will show Whose to blame But Maudling, you fool, it will happen again, again
World's Eyes ? see for miles Light We are gonna help you We are gonna help you
Each man is human, we all need each other And walls burn eyes
Light We are gonna help you
I'm not a person, my cells are exploding I'm you, yearn, insane?
Go from this room Leave right away There's nothing here There's nothing here to make you stay
It's not so sad You'll find another You'll find someone who needs a home That you can share You're very young There's time to put away your cares
But don't forget We were together And through forever I will know that you were there You need to laugh So go to where the light is clear
As for understanding If there's such a thing existing There's a sparkle in your eyes I find it hard to put in words And you take me to the depth of sorrow Pleading for no more tomorrow Hanging on the edge of moments I can't bear to end I'd have loved you if you'd seen beyond the time
You gotta know we're waiting here You gotta know we're waiting here You gotta know
All things will flow As sure as water As sure as silence I will meet you once again Nothing will change There are no changes There's only pages Where the book remains the same Give fortune time And we will meet between these lines
As for understanding If there's such a thing existing There's a sparkle in your eyes I find it hard to put in words And you take me to the depth of sorrow Pleading for no more tomorrow Hanging on the edge of moments I can't bear to end I'd have loved you if you'd been beyond the line
You gotta know we're waiting here You gotta know we're waiting here You gotta know, You gotta know You gotta know
I'm 21, but gosh I do feel old! Too much concerned With things which shouldn't worry me Or hurry me, or make me rush
I'm really flash, but gosh I do feel bad! Completely smashed Careering down life's avenues I'm out of place and out of touch
Rolling over on Wings of Thunder We're riding out to the Sun Haring over on Wings Of Thunder We're bound to make it the Sun, Sun, Sun, Sun We're gonna make it the Sun
Now I'm in love, and she has got me hooked But things are good With poor old me delirious She takes it all so serious
Rolling over on Wings of Thunder We're riding out to the Sun Haring over on Wings Of Thunder We're bound to make it the Sun, Sun, Sun, Sun We're gonna make it the Sun
My head has spread, it won't stay in one place Confused and laced I'm liking going haywire And I find I have a taste for the pace
Rolling over on Wings of Thunder We're riding out to the Sun Haring over on Wings Of Thunder We're bound to make it the Sun, Sun, Sun, Sun We're gonna make it the Sun
If you're gonna be a mountain Let me see you thrust your snows In innocence through clouds of doubt That try to keep your reason out In these times of glaciated slaughter
If you're gonna be a legend Let it be a tale whose telling Is a state of mind that's dwelling Far beyond the words dark capture To fill the heart alone with rapture In these days of circles
If your gonna be an island I will be a sailing ship Who like a speck at total distance Looms beyond your headland breakers Till the oceans mighty plunder Bids me seek the gentler shelter Of your inland waters
Have you never seen beyond the moon? Don't you know that we will be there soon? Have you no eyes to see That you are only me and we are only Travellers upon a sea of time Trying very hard to make it rhyme
Run, run, run, runaway Today's a holiday Today we needn't worry About the clothes we wear No more ‘geog' on the old school bog no cracks about our hair Janitor Giles, you cannot see me Janitor Giles, it's great to be free
Hide, hide, hide, hide away Today it's truant we play Dodgy school inspectors Will not suspect we're here No more French on the old school bench No clouts behind our ears Janitor Giles, you cannot see me Janitor Giles, it's great to be free
But life is what you make it And you missed school today Good old Smithy and his pals What keeps them away
We're going round We dare not make a sound To the house of my best friend To a shed that he has found And oh you'll have to gasp As he takes out and shows to you the photograph Takes out and shows to you the photograph
What the picture shows Is awfully clear to me My friends older than I Fest their eyes so greedily But I shall run away and go upstairs and play with my model railway
What goes on at night When there is no-one else around Is the strangest part of growing up that I've yet found Though what the doe and rabbit did today at school was real It failed to answer questions about the way I feel Maybe I'm a queer?
It could be by tomorrow The answers will be found In these pages of a magazine The Vicars left around And late into the night We will wonder if the dialog was right We will wonder if the dialog was right
Wonder if my parents worry about this kind of thing Or am I artificial, has my dad lost his sting? A lovely girl lives up the road She's much older than I I'd really like to know her Give the whole theory a try To see if it is real To see just how it feels
Hush now the boy is sleeping And we don't want him to wake him until the morning He's got a hard day to take At the school that he hates And so let's leave him dreaming Until the morning sun shines through his window Let's leave him dreaming Until the morning Let's leave him dreaming
He's got a gun he really thinks he's something He don't have to run he got a sub machine gun He told his Mum he's gonna join the army Look at your son he's gonna be a man Ma He got a uniform Over the seas he's gonna fight for freedom Waving a flag he's gonna be a hero Never afraid, he's gonna conquer evil Do as he's told and make a perfect soldier He got a uniform
Watch yourself soldier boy you missed the point son Discipline soldier boy, you disappoint me You just do not, you just do not see
You're needing a skirt to hide your lack of brain boy Don't it just hurt to have to think yourself boy A clear right and wrong, there'll be no complications No need to think or write those disertations He got a uniform
Watch yourself soldier boy you missed the point son Discipline soldier boy, you disappoint me You just do not, you just do not see
Caught in a crumbling castle, who are we Torn by salvations dragon, hope lives on And so down into a time where Liberty and Freedom have no significance in the current economic crisis
The Duke of Beaufort Is not at home today He's very tired He thought he'd go away You wait for him, Your eyes are on the door You know no other way
The Duke of Beaufort Is very kind to cats Keeps them in his cellar To help him catch his rats He's very noble And his lineage is pure But you, you're a whore
The Duke of Splendour Just wasn't much amused And nor were you You knew you'd been abused If you'd had help You might have buggered up his fuse But alone, you're too confused
"He picked me up, I was on the street He made it clear he would use me My parents died, I was three years old I had to make a living" Close your eyes, close your eyes
"In a lot of ways, I'm close to him Though he may seem to ignore it I'm sure he cares, At least, I think he does It's just he's very busy" Close your eyes, close your eyes Here's today says the ‘Telegraph' It's the world, it's the world! Gone away on a phonograph Riding high, riding high
There's a way says the Cenotaph You will find, you will find Gone in search of an Epitaph Running wild, running wild
You saw them coming forward Asking you to be kind You couldn't face their council They were men full of greed In your position nothing's sacred You have only the wine
You stand alone But not alone in your loneliness And yet there must be more I can't believe that all has been in vain
And if there is it's Be sure of friendship As the hours grow long Rest assured that this phase is passing Give yourself a chance
