The EP’s 92 – 94

1. 1. Bird Without WingsLyrics4:49
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   Wishing that something would happen
   A change in this place
   Cos I’m tearing off the fancy wrapping
   Find an empty packageTake for a while, your trumpet from your lip
   Loosen your hold, loosen your grip
   On your old ways that have fallen out of step
   In a changing time

   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

2. 2. L’s SongLyrics4:14
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   I love your nervous fingers
   Won’t you fumble all night long
   Let the morning air sting us
   To rise and stumble on
   Down the crooked pavements
   The wind rolls my thoughts like a leaf
   The brittle bell chimes
   And fortune smiles, with its broken teethAnd the many rivered land
   Grateful for the rain
   I’d be grateful for one morsel
   Of your loving again

   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

3. 3. The LightLyrics3:51
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   You turn out the light
   And the dark sucks on the embers of the fire
   My heart smoulders in the night
   And these tumbling boulders of desire
   Come a rolling out the shadowsRolling out the shadows
   Rolling out the shadows

   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

4. 4. ShineLyrics4:24
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   I can see it in your eyes
   What I know in my heart is true
   That our love it has faded
   Like the summer run throughSo we’ll walk down the shoreline
   One last time together
   Feel the wind blow our wanderin’ hearts
   Like a feather

   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

5. 5. Brick WallsLyrics4:56
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   I just don’t care
   Don’t care at all
   I’ve banged my head too long
   On these brick walls
   Every seed I sow
   Shudders and falls
   Perishes betweens
   Ah these brick wallsAnd I feel like the last hair
   On a head gone bald
   Not much point being there No point at all
   How many more years?
   Years ’till they fall
   On the blind eyes
   And deaf ears
   And these brick walls

   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

6. 6. The RiceLyrics3:28
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   The draft blew cold under the door
   When we threw your clothes to the kitchen floor
   The broccoli boils in the pan on the gas stove where you stand
   Won’t you take this spatula in your hand?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

   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

7. 7. WisdomLyrics4:15

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   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

8. 8. LoversLyrics3:22

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   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

9. 9. 4AMLyrics2:23

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   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

10. 10. Coming DownLyrics6:13

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    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