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The photographs packed in the car He's got the jacket and guitar Take the any road The story left behind dissolves There is no printed news today Broadcast tele-prompters The deafness in cafes And where he's seeking out He has to wait it out for now Is there anything you'll need? Will you want to make a call? Where will you be after the war? Rewrite confessions, yesterday She plays it out again Remember how to pray Climb the Sacre Couer All around the open air Is there anything you'll need Who will be there at the fall? What will you know after the war? Is there anything you'll need? Will you want to make a call? How will we find you after the war? Where will you be after the war? |
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Whatever happened to your word in blood whatever happened to the song that stopped your heart whatever happened after '68 whatever happened to the dreams you used to paint? Aint it a shame In a web where you were caught on the longest night you'd never stop Aint it a shame Whatever happened to the grace of doubt whatever happened on the blockades they burnt whatever happened to the walls to smash whatever happened on the floors you used to crash? Aint it a shame All the flowers buried in your name You turned out to be those you blamed Aint it a shame Whatever happened with that trip you'd take whatever happened about the call you never made whatever happened to the outer thrill whatever happened 'bout the one you never tell whatever happened to your word in blood? Aint it a shame All the light running through your veins Let it out in the turquoise rain Aint it a shame |
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Locked in your car Don't come out of your room Black out on a metro when you know it will never arrive too soon The battery flat but the walkman is on Stay in the pool after autumn had already come and gone Can anybody get your number? Did you tell someone where you are? All the talk about you is always somewhere else You're anywhere else but here You're out on a trip Got the phone off the hook Someone's looking straight at you but this heaviness just don't stop You pass over mountains and get out of town You got the saints everywhere but some other voice keeps following you 'round I've been waiting in the winter sun I can not be there if you're not here and now the sky is threatening |
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She lowers her eyes as she closes the door again Broken images someone she once called a friend Feels the roof is coming down She kneels by the window The wax falls in tangles and crosses Look out by the tower She's hoping but nobody watches So she lies on frozen ground Out on the traffic she shuts down her eyes from the beat The radio playing train song she'd rather be Re-reading letters of days that will never return Black is the colour Black is the colour Black is the colour, my love Black is the colour Yesterday's words are still eating away at her bones and she paces around in her mind but she never resolves The blues are breaking out Black is the colour |
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The sound of lightning shots that intersect the child Converged on roadblocks to disconnect in time Sister, where do we belong? Brother, tell me where have you gone? Two kingdoms gone adrift The message bound in blame And I can not do this all bankrupt memory lanes Sister help me, where are the years? Brother, a river born of tears So haunted 'round the world the message left on call To find me back submerged The fainted child disowned Sister, O' Sister how could this be? Brother, rising each time we breathe Town parades - Streets will fade Stars will fall - Canyons grow Shake my soul where the river flows |
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While we were drinking, the news had dived The unconscious masses looked so suprised I've been thinking how could this be? So darling, let's make believe The slowest dancing must meet and end Dangerous whispers come around again Their little lying, they're going to reap Darling, let's make believe They shot a man out to the nearest moon Now they can answer for your every move Your local member, he frantically reads He's fishing for opinions in the magazines Into the living room the war is waged It's not intelligence you see exchanged It's science fiction and it's shopping malls Go tell that to the families living behind the wall The tide is rising We're coming home Before you think they're gonna drop the bomb There's troubled talking It's hard to sleep So darling, let's make believe |
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Where are you now, where were you then now her life just falls away Out of the blue, into the black The darkest night lasts all your days Where were you then, what was the thought Would you dare to blame her love? Raising your fist, throwing the hit This is the end and cut the cord Come on out, come on out It's hard to understand Come on now, come on out for you can't take this back Open up, open up There's something more to this Open out, open up! Out of the subconscious Now there's nowhere left to land You're trapped on amber signals jammed Desire is drifting off the page Your head is in a state your heart some other place You feel your way so slowly along walls and corridors All is deathly still Now there's no where left to land You're trapped on amber signals jammed Desire is drifting off the page Your head is in a state Your heart some other place Now it's written 'cross her face |
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I see What do I see The dayglo playing in green Dancing on Spinning around and around Take me Always All ways to return The longest day weeps and burns Dancing out Rolling down and out Take me This is just the beginning Don't be Please don't be too long Take me Take me over Take me the road returning home This is just the beginning Don't let don't let me be too soon Inside Inside and outside Take me Draw me into view Got my heart on the road Like the blood from a stone Fly away, papergold! |
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They fall around you when curtains close Feel the cold air rise And summer nights you sense the hum Out of the big blue you come alive You sleep at thirty thousand feet with the world on alert Somewhere stretches out the Dead Sea and a God-speed request is healing your hurt When radio waves are tuning in and coming down Radio waves they search for you and dance around Holding on Hanging on Holding on to your only one... |
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Some where We are some where Clock is slowing, children play It's some where Just before the happening Shutters drawn, the siren whistles by This is some thing You know it's some thing Watching every word your speaking Some thing Hands are working in and out of time Something this language wont define Some where Getting some where Circle out the holding pattern Landing down to someone's time and day The heart is beating and the many zones will soon be washed away Some time Wind your watches This is some time now and then the sunrise slips away |
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You got the ticket It's in your hand Got the world beneath your feet What's got into you? A given moment when all could break The rage of an open wound What's got into you? I saw you weeping was in your sleep The best years left to ruin Something got into you I need a meter of what is what You stand for all you're not so what's got into you? Time for talk and time for truth Time for blame and time for proof The train's a'coming the maker's landing fast The maker waits for me and you What's different from your point of view? Cards are tumbling, your heaven's falling out |
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Where do you go with these letters all scattered Step over boxes The picture is shattered Now you can't think where you've been Searching around for the switch (pull up the faders) She waits... Here are the clowns The joke turned around She waits for him Where is the face the make up erased She waits... Wearing the hurt but what will she know Dial for whoever will pick up the phone It's all the tears in the corner and it's on a map without numbers (it's not in the script) He's late... He's gone to hide Put the hurt into drive She waits again The timing all out The joke turned around and here are the clowns... |
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The emperor is sleeping at the wheel So the speech makers and advisers close the deals It's the joke of enemies And it's war in the name of peace I can not make sense of this What now Lord? The preacher man came out blazing with a gun See the children run for their lives from dirty bombs It's a bitter poison pill It's the truth messed up with guilt Right and wrong are holding still What now Lord? Let me see the day from night I can't tell my left from right I don't know whether to laugh or cry What now Lord? Last night I heard the passengers cry out Our captain said there was no way he would help The emperor's still sleeping and the preacher blames our sinning But it's one big ship we're all sinking in What now Lord? Let me see the day from night I can't tell my left from right Let me hear the Inner Light What now Lord? |
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The vagabonds and pilgrims are trying to dissappear Out of the cold and headlights from the architects of fear In the fabled cities they protest at the G8 They all will claim Jesus saves The jester and the acrobat are warming up the show Wheel out the bloodied ringman it's the devil that you know Spinning swords the crossfire keeps the audience entertained It's an act of faith, Jesus saves Out on the borderlands feel the time for change Watches the window man Check your number, time and dates - You got to save yourselves - It's what I read You see them up on hill song where the high priests lock them out They're holding back the heartbreak saints and the dreamers still with doubts - there's one way through the needle, leave your credit on the plate - They'll bail up the lame, Jesus saves Out on the borderland feel the time for change Watches the window man Check your number, time and dates - There's a kingdom within - Is that what you said? The woken and the underground will double check the score They found the first and third worlds now the five percent want more At the gates the rising The commissar says, Feed them cake The whole earth could shake if Jesus saves |
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