Hoist a new flag
Hoist a new flag
Angry sun burn down
Judging us all
Guilty of neglect and disrespect
And thinking small
And death by boredom
And death by greed
If we can’t stop taking
More than we need
Well across the fractured landscape
I find the same things
Tired ideas
Birds without wings
Birds without wings
Birds without wings
And these are just thoughts
On lackluster times
I’ve no interest
In excuses you can find
Like you’ve had a hard day
Now you’ve too tired to care
Now you’re too tired to care
You’ve had a hard day
Well across the fractured landscape
I see the same things
Tired ideas, broken values
Many with the notion that to share is to lose
A hollow people bound by a lack
Of imagination and too much looking back
Without the courage to give a new thing a chance
Grounded by this ignorance
(And the cat comes)
We’re just
Birds without wings
Birds without wings
Birds without wings
Summer, restless summer
Won’t let sleeping dogs lie
Your barbed voice
Re-awakens time gone by
Hound’s face, fine bowl
Harsh land, dry stone
Thunder’s muttered promise
Impatient gull on the scented wind
Your gray eyes star a little ray
Nearly upon us
And the many rivered land
Grateful for the rain
I’d be grateful for one morsel
Of your loving again
And the many rivered land
Grateful for the rain
I’d be grateful for one morsel
I’d be grateful for one morsel
I’d be grateful for one morsel
Of your loving again
Ah, oh
Ah, oh
Eh, oh yeah
You say “I thought time was meant
To take away the hurting”
As your lonely silhouette closes the curtain
We’re back on the road, destination uncertain
So let’s get in this car and drive
And this feeling I feel so strong
So powerful it can’t be wrong
Now the whole frosted night is just a song
A song for you
A song for you
Song for you
The moon has splashed right over the street
Like my tears on your thigh so pale
There’s just you and me in the sheets
And the whole wide world is just a jail
When you’re away from me
You’re away from me
You’re away from me
Here come the night, turn out the light
And the dark sucks on the embers of the fire
My heart smolders in the night
And these tumbling boulders of desire
Rolling, rolling
Rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling
Rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling
Out the shadows in me
Turn out the light
But who knows what’s waiting
In the wings of time
Dry your eyes
We’re gonna go where we can shine
Don’t be hiding in sorrow
Or clinging to the past
With your beauty so precious
And the season so fast
No matter how cold the horizon appear
Or how far the first night
When I held you near
We’re gonna rise from these ashes like a bird of flame
Take my hand
Were gonna go where we can shine
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na
Shine
For all that we struggle
For all we pretend
You know it don’t come down to nothing
Except love in the end
And ours is a road that is strewn with goodbyes
But as it unfolds, as it all unwinds
Remember your soul is the one thing
You can’t compromise
Step out of the shadow
We’re gonna go where we can shine
We’re gonna go where we can shine
We’re gonna go where we can shine
(And look, and look and look and look)
Through the windows of midnight
Moonfoam and silver
These brick walls
These brick walls
These brick walls
Ah these brick walls
And I’m long past worrying
And I’m way past being appalled
I know history is hurrying up
And time can’t be stalled
So don’t try to run, no
Before you can crawl
Just wait and the time will come
Hey for these brick walls
These brick walls
These brick walls
These brick walls
Ah these brick walls
Ah, umhm
Brick walls
Brick Walls
Yeah
Out on the roof over havoc streets
Where the sky is a blanket each sweet kiss
Uo melodramatic embroidered by shadows
By the fridge I reminisce
Let the rice burn
It cannot deter my love for you
We have no concern
Under the hem of the night
Under the hem of the night
We stagger in the doorway and all of the sudden
The drum of the rain on the heather hills
Now every thing’s changed and our silence is bitter
And you are all unhinged
Let the rice burn
It cannot deter my love for you
We have no concern
We have no concern
Oh we have no concern
Under the hem of the night
Time no good
Wisdom no good
Patience no good
To me any more
Now night has fallen on the stair
Some things you do you can never repair
Seems I’m always pretending
Things aren’t there when they are
And the leaves are nearly off the trees
The traffic thick past yellow windows
And I’m lost inside the frozen headlights
Thinking of you
And the trees are looking like bones
And the afternoon’s filled with storm and rain
I’m staring out of this metal train
Thinking of you
And the trees are looking like bones
The afternoon filled with rain and storm
And I’m tangled up in memory’s thorns
No way through
Trees like bones, yellow windows
Memory’s thorns, oh and you
We are lovers girl, me and you
Small faced lovers girl oh
You know it’s true
Get through the winter time
And the spring sun starts to grow
I’m your white faced lover girl
Oh don’t you know
You’re so warm with me
I never feel the cold
What have you done with me I’ve never felt this old
Come through the orange summer
And stand and watch the red leaves fall
Maybe by next summertime
We’ll have forgotten it all
Ah, we are lovers girl, me and you
Small faced girl, you know it’s true
Come through the orange summer
And stand and watch the red leaves fall
Maybe by next summertime
Ee’ll have forgotten it all
Four o’clock in the morning
Moon on the sea
The night is rattling
With burglar alarms oh yeah
The night explode
The night explode
Flower by your window side
Autumn is graceful
Unladen with memory
And the wonders die
Seven o’clock in the evening
Watching TV show
Kissing your dark hair
It’s your head against the sunset
And the harbour below
Its the cruelest thing
The cruelest thing
That I’ve ever known
Just time and circumstance
Taking their toll
As the storm beats and rolls
Your bed was a warm bed
Warm bed in the cold room
Always the same pictures on the wall
With some love in the morning
With your dog at your pillow
And a half empty bottle of baby oil
Oh seven o’clock in the evening
Born around the sea
Night is rattling
With burglar alarms
Oh their ringing out for me
The cruelest thing
The cruelest thing
That I’ve ever known
Time and circumstance
Taking their toll
As the storm beat and roll
Tears falling slow
From the bridge into the river below
In your eyes, I start to see
A starry veil, the ocean of infinity
Moon and stars above me
Mingle with the blood
Inside my vein
Empty arms that should be
Holding you close
Through nights of winter rain
I’m trying to spell
What only the wind can explain
It’s colder than ever
Coming down
I’ drowning in shallows
Cos it’s in so deep
There’s neon melting in the rain
Took too much powder to sleep
Cos when I hold you naked
When I hear you laugh
I got a sword to stem the rivers
And cut the moon in half
Frozen stars above me
Mingle with the blood
Inside my vein
Empty arms that should be
Holding you close
Through nights of winter rain
I’m trying to spell
What only the wind can explain
It’s colder than ever
Coming down
Coming down
Coming down
Coming down
Coming down
Coming down
Coming down
We danced wild
Kicked off our shoes
Not a cloud
In the skies to confuse
But now the sky is cold
And the sea is wide
And there’s nothing to be done
‘Cept reflecting the sun
And scratching the mountainside
Frozen stars above me
Mingle with the blood
Inside my vein
Empty arms that should be
Holding you close
Through nights of winter rain
And I’m trying to spell
What only the wind can explain
It’s colder than ever
Coming down
Coming down
Coming down
Coming down
Coming down
Coming down
Coming down
Coming down