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Waving and Drowning
04:27
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WAVING AND DROWNING
I'm on an island but I'm watching the sea people swimming - they're waving at me
it's so inviting - it's so enticing
I've heard the stories and I know that it's true
about the sharks and the rip-tides too but those people out there they just don't seem to care
But they're waving and drowning
I'm in a cafe where they sneer at your clothes you eat garbage and you pay through the nose
it's so devinely sweet - you pay not to eat
where they're waving and drowning
fickle feeling - fickle heart
leaves you reeling - tears you apart
I'm telling truth and I'm being despised
smiling mouths preaching empty lies they're just doing their best - happy more or less
but they're waving and drowning
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Time and Tide
04:31
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TIME AND TIDE (a love lost)
I dare not see you - I do not trust myself
wildcat emotions won't be tamed I dare not talk with you - words just betray me and I won't risk my heart again
You are the moon and I am the ocean you are the sun and I am the dawn and this small world can't survive such crazy motions the tides and the seasons going wrong
I dare not wonder just what you're thinking
if you despise me for my fear I'd rather be afraid than deaf my love to a voice that you can't hear
You are the moon ....
So there's a letter in the mail tonight half of me is hoping it gets lost there's a price to pay for loving you and I can't live with the
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Sunk in London
04:45
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SUNK IN LONDON
This thorn of love twisting inside of me
this undefined longing fear never a natural part of me instinctively reaching out handwriting so familiar to me one flesh halved - torn by self - a trail of burnt promises
Out there at night do you need some company when the morning comes I will sing for you
Fast city stains your innocence - I know it well
sly fortune's logical illusion - it's the hardest sell
die poor pride - take it to your first love and I tell you - he will find a way
Out there at night do you need some company when the morning comes I will sing for you
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Back in France
03:39
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BACK IN FRANCE
40 Gitanes every day they look at you in that hungry way
don't take prisoners they just do what they say
no work - no rest - just play, play, play
Back in France - down Cours Mirabeau
love just comes and goes – back in France
Musk coloured shirts and dusk tight skins
you play the night and see what comes in
wide eyed creatures that come out in the dark
feed the fire and touch the spark
Back in France ....
Void of grace there's only danger here
beauty fades and disappears
the whispering mockers of love go by
they may walk but I will fly
Back in France ....
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Child's Tears
05:21
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CHILD'S TEARS
Spring scent laden trees - a last flourish for you
all life begins again - all except for you
each step I take reminds me - of another year of ours
the child's laughter - the child's tears - the child's love
I would have loved you more
I'd love to stop it but your life has just walked out
Echoes in this street - echoes in this room - and in my head
the whole world has settled down respectfully for you
no calls, no words - just the two of us and our pain
it's over now and I must never come this way again
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Checkout Girls
05:07
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CHECKOUT GIRLS
Stay with me now - I've a feeling you're slipping away
there's a song in the air - that nobody's singing today
there are places to go but - somehow I feel I should stay
And the checkout girls sing a song for the world
that goes round and round and the anthem of the keys in the tills makes a soothing sound - and the ears and the eyes aren't on the sky they're on the ground
Talk with me now there are words in your mind worth
saying - there's something happening over here even though the actors might only be playing
that life is the thing that can't be lost by delaying
And the checkout girls ....
Sometimes I'm ready to go sometimes I'm willing to know for someone it's happening slow didn't you know didn't you know
Live with me now - I'm ready to hear your crying
risen again like the phoenix - the ashes defying
in the silence we know there's something beyond the dying
And the checkout girls ....
and the ears and the eyes of the God in the sky
they're on the ground - he can be found
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Head and Heart
03:44
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HEAD AND HEART
There's just no way to say how much I love you you never make me cry and that's just fine I only have my fears to burn above you You know we all get scared from time to time
Love me with your head and heart love me from the place it starts love me with your head and heart - love me like a child
There's just no way to say the things I'm feeling
no way to tell you all the things I mean and every day I only feel like stealing away to where I know I can be clean
Laying down the ways to say I need you
scared of looking tall and feeling small running through the days I have beside you scared of being wrong and that's it all
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Seasoned With Your Love
03:39
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SEASONED WITH YOUR LOVE
Branches snapped and wind bit hard on a winter's day ten thousand feet below zero little children played blowing smoke without cigarettes in the freezing air
deep down the warmth of knowledge that somebody cares
We are seasoned with your love
we can taste it on the lips of the world
Low sun caged behind tall trees gave green on gold maybe in a week or so it won't feel so cold after a shower the streets ran silver and overflowed
sometimes you can feel so rich by just letting go
Green on green rests against sun on blue airplane cuts incision and disappears from view
time heals the scar left high above 'til it's lost from sight in the evening the sky turns red and bleeds into night
Just one ripened apple will bring the fall
and the silent migration will say it all back where we started another year gone
seasoned with your love - another year on
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Gonna Fly
05:00
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GONNA FLY
All people hover, having resigned themselves to a subsoil end intelligent people - mesmerised by the repeating patterns of how it's always been the assumption is made of the assumed human need for independence - and the gin and jag team and the
guys who walk the streets only complain
Mercy mercy get me out of here mercy mercy I need your love - mercy mercy, gonna fly
Hallucination - that's just a man in the moon just complication - putting off what must be done
I know a great guy - ten years older than me
he tells me what to do living, walking, success - breathing the very particles of
commercial application
Two guys in the alternating light of the subway
looks like they're stuck to the wall zowie hair and long grey coats that might just walk by themselves in a plastic bag , a black album by an unknown skynard band - and a B+ for a paper on the economic reorganisation of the world
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Best Is Still To Come
05:48
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BEST IS STILL TO COME
Sweat it out, I'll burst my brain trying to do the best for me lying awake, worried sick that everyone is better than me going out I'll shoot my mouth off impressing nobody but mestop stop - will I ever grow up? lord, rescue me from me
You don't want me just trying hard or even free use of my bankers card so I try to bring my broken heart but the best is still to come
Coming here that way, how did you do it lord?
everything you said is everything I need to know
I don't need no invitation
I just need my usual second chance
I believe every word is true about you
and that I can leap this final fence
No use me just being alright
content to settle down
no writer could ever write all you've done but the best is still to come
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