Plastic money flexidream And comfort for the preacher Keep the debtor out of prison Borrowing the future How much future can he borrow How much past can he forget When now's become part of tomorrow Just a flashy fast advertisement That talks about beginning At the end. You imagine You can change the world And you're right It's happening right here and now Tonight tonight. Relief for hungry children Is nothing but a symptom Of accelerated ignorance Unaware of how a world Forcloses on invading circumstance And brings a new beginning All at once You imagine You can change the world And you're right It's happening right here and now Tonight tonight. Where ice and desert travels And the scale of justice levels And the house that silly jack built While forgetting ages cycling Is crushed inside a moment he forgot There'll be a new beginning Thanks a lot You imagine You can change the world And you're right It's happening right here and now Tonight tonight.
I walk in your footsteps love When you're not even there You fly me in my fleeting steps Towards the dreams we share I'll be with you till the time itself Is overstretched and breaks For I will be in love with you For longer than it takes I love myself as I love you As time will surely tell I love you better for the way You love yourself as well I'll be with you till time itself Is overstretched and breaks For I will be in love with you For longer than it takes You don't know the times I've cried The purest simple joy I met a girl who took me in I could never destroy She feels my pleasures and my pains She gives more than she's got I'll never be worthy of that No matter what Through all my barbed wire Through my fury's blackest hour She bursts the bubbling rages That built the ivory tower Through all my barriers My anger and despair I've got a friend to turn to and She's always there
Through the window Just a wall Shapes are forming Blackbirds call Early morning spirits Moving hands Tick-tocking ages In the half-light of the still Before the lark Where I can feel my shadow Touch your silence In the dark Sleeping at the wheel Reaching for oceans before us For us to feel Together, tonight Playing eagle Firing eyes Ever willing Sweet surprise Welling in the belly Of their chase Tracing out the angel In the half-light on your face Before the lark Where I can feel my shadow Touch your silence, In the dark Sleeping at the wheel Reaching for oceans before us For us to feel Together, tonight Then suddenly I hear you say "Time to get up It's gone midday, Cup of tea love" And I realise I must have dropped off Drifted into dream before the lark Yielded to the ether of our secret world In the dark
They shall not grow old, as we are left grow old Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn At the going down of the sun, and in the morning We will remember them
They built a wall boys, it stayed up for thirty years We've torn it down now, clattering round their ears You know how it is, with spirit(s), They just couldn't hold us Brothers and sisters
The world you died for, was all but a pack of lies It had to fall down, and keep on falling You gave us the world they promised you, And in the morning We are the flowering We are the flowering youth Berliners
Dung Xiaoping What's in your head Tearing your people's ideas Into a shread Helmut What's in your head Cracks in the pavement Watch where you tread (Margaret What's in your head Trying to shaft us with poll tax We shaft you instead) Mikhail When we are old We'll remember the time You came in from the cold Human What'll it be A flash in the pan Or eternity In the winds of change
If it was right to be believing, And write his name in blood And then I met him when I died, Well I'd have it out with god But if it means Degrading scenes And sanctioning crusade I'd know we couldn't stand man to man Without feeling afraid If it was wrong for not believing, In fairytale facade And then I met him when I died, Well I'd apologise to dog But if it meant I went down on my knees Well where's the spirit gone Where's the love you're all talking of When you can't stand man to man? Man to man When you can't stand man to man. I find it hard to believe, In these 'gospels' that I've heard The forked tongue of the bible belt, The ayatollah's word I don't believe most anything Spoken by anyone As hell's fanatic paranoids Fire heaven's loaded gun If it was right to be believing, Then it must be in this That difference is beautiful, And living it is bliss, There are no teams There is no side That life on earth is done By living the love you're only talking of By standing man to man Man to man
I'm sick to the teeth of the news on the screen Of hisbullah scum and jihad the obscene Whose men plant the bombs and then leave feeling free To watch women and children be killed on T.V.
Which satan delivers a child a death curse In the name of a worn out collection of verse I've not read the book so I cannot recite But I'd bet Salman Rushdie is just about right Underneath the black cloud of islam
What kind of publicity needs so much blood That's not for some sad diablical god Selling himself as a two-bit Macbeth As the experts in sentencing cousins to death
And what kind of god can this be anyway That you have to prostrate to him five times a day With hate in your heart and a gun in your hand Is force the only thing to understand Underneath the black cloud of islam?
And the butchers who've got all this blood on their hands Are the ones who need god to be stood where he stands Blessing this kidnapping, murder and war With books written hundreds of ages before
And women in veils walking paces behind Doesn't sit easy in my mind It speaks of oppression and no other choice That rigid compliance with the loudest voice Underneath the black cloud of islam
You can put a lead bullet clean through this guitar 'cos I'm not overjoyed with the story so far Sharing a world with the nutters of god Is as good as being six feet under the sod
Words that are written are all here to stay And these are the latest there are anyway And I am the prophet so don't believe me I'm the same as the old ones expect that I'm free To give you a piece of my mind which is this You're the worst of jehovas blind witlessnesses With your feet in the door of the deepest abyss Which is underneath Which is underneath Which is underneath the black cloud of islam
I'm a rabbit on fire On fire with mascared eyes I'm a white rat acquired By the lab I'm due to be shot Shot with experiment Waiting in line For the next stab I've got nowhere to run to I've got nowhere to go And no way of telling you That none of you know I burn in hellfire Kept alive in my deathbed I'm a monkey with wire In my head I can't touch my face Rub my eyes or hear anything Suspended twixt Living and dead They say I don't know But I live under pressure Showing great symptons Of breakdown and fracture I've got nowhere to run to I've got nowhere to go And no way of telling you That none of you know If I (RH) had my way I'd be in there today Turn the voltage on you Burn you down With the whole of your school With your lessons on how To dismiss others' feelings While feeling that you're Always ever so kind Never cruel But that's you Only you Of all us creatures on earth That could only be you If only you cared Not to kill not to torture Not to need to cause pain Fear and suffering To be cool You'd have all the friends And the ends and the means To live with the give And the fox in the glove (the atmosphere) On this jewel (the planet) But that's you Only you Of all us creatures on earth That could only be you You're the mournful red eye Of the dog in the cage The howl of despair From the pound Forsaken forgotten The live definition The sad lonely meaning Of hound And you've got nowhere to run to Nowhere to go And no way of telling me That this isn't so For some of us know, And will always care to do so
I thought you had passed, but you caught me at last, Where you know I could never be worn. And now that you're here, and you finally hear, It's so clear on the wings of the dawn. Where your smile starts to shine, as you breath in the brine Of the spray on the very same day. The same day we all go, when we're sure that we know, What it is to be floating away.
And there's a lovenest, on Tom Tiddler's Ground And there's a lovenest, on Tom Tiddler's Ground And there's a lovenest, on Tom Tiddler's Ground Long before Eden, was lost and found.
But you know you'll have to be kind, if you're ever gonna find, The place that your face could have been shown. Especially when you don't dare, to force anyone there, To share in the ice being blown.
And there's a lovenest....
And you heard me say 'yes', but you know its a guess, As somebody else shouted 'no'. And you know freedom is free, of all the forces that be, And the ice that you too thought you should throw.
And there's a lovenest....
I thought you had passed, but you caught me at last, where you know I could nvere be worn. And now that you're here, and you finally hear, It's so clear on the wings of the dawn. And you know freedom is free, of all the forces that be, And the ice that you too thought should be thrown.
Your conscience rolls in torrents down each side of your face. Your chair is full of silence, your hand is full of lace. You say that you should have been by him when the bullets laid his head. Strange it's always the living who fear the idea of the dead. Goodbye. I'll take my leave of all of you as you sit and wonder why.
And you who stood around us and said that we were great. Until your instant riches made us second rate. Well you're the same old hangman who rationalizes hope. Whose left hand pats my children and whose right hand holds a case full of rope.
He wears the sweeping landscape in the crystal of his eye. And he jumps into the rain pools as the people pass him by. He rubs the dusty ages across his tender brow. He laughs and cries and sniffs and sighs. It's four long summers now. Goodbye. I made my peace with all of you as you sat and wondered why.
She walks the clover meadows in the dandelion days. She throws her golden shadows across the silver haze. She wanders with the swallows in the noonday passion plays. She sits beneath the willow and she waits for me and twilight to come our ways. Goodbye. We made our peace with all the world as you sat and wondered why.
We're just spinning leaves In the flight of dawn Little girl Falling through an eternal horizon of time But as we lie here I'd like to think That all we've got will be ours forever Don't you think we're forever I can hear a voice On the wings of my dream Little girl Melting me into love as it touches my heart But sheltered in the distance of your sleep Is all that I could love in a lifetime Don't you think we're forever
Open your eyes To the call of the winds Little girl Can't you here them all saying I'll always be yours Lying in the misty morning sun The pillow of the night still beneath you Don't you think we're forever
The earth is possessed By the curse of the west Who devour Newpaper furniture Paparazzia by the hour But a man with a vision Believed That tomorrow's begun And has to be won And nobody here is reprieved O Chico, Chico Mendes The man in a million Stood in the way Stood his ground For the earth For the coming of day The chorus of dawn On the perch of each morning Receives A forest of tears As the joy reappears On their leaves And believes Sings his name And the tallest tree Forever stands Beyond the flame(s) North south east and west We can all reach the rest Every day Now is the change To set out together For a beautiful day Whoever saw it A different way Was a man in a nightmare Too numb to the future Of brilliant possibles Ever to share The same air As the men in the clay O Chico, Chico Mendes There are men who are more that just men
