What Are You

What are you?
what are you becoming?
what have
you become?

Once you sang your own song
now you're dancing
to the same drum
what have you become?

And what is that
you're wearing?
money's ugly confidence

You sacrificed the
poem of your imagination
for these pounds and pence

Me I
take the cynic's role
throw scorn on your empty mind
I've seen
this monotonous world
make dull what used to shine
you lost
interest
you lost your spine
oh that spine fine
fine

yeah
When there' nothing left
on this plate you're
handed
you find yourself
running the gauntlet
of all of
these double standards
it's very thin ice over which you're
skating
and after this black winter the thaw

So what are
you
tell me tell me what are you
and what have you
become
The Light:
You turn out the light
and the dark sucks
on the embers of the fire
that shoulders in the night
and
these tumbling boulders of desire
come rolling off the shadows of
me

You say I thought time was meant to take away the
hurtin'
as your lonely silhouette closes the curtain
back on
the road destination uncertain
so lets 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
song for
you

And the moon is splashed right over the street
like my
tears on your thighs so pale
its just you and me in the
sheets
and I hope the whole wide world is just a jail
when
you're away from me

And its rolling on by
here come the
night
turn out the light
and the dark sucks on the embers of
the fire
that smoulders in the night tumbling boulders of
desire
rolling, rolling...
rolling out the shadows of
me
turn out the light




Coming Down



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
these empty arms
that should be

holding you close
through nights of winter rain
I知
trying to spell
what only the wind can explain
it's colder
than ever
coming down

I知 drowning in shallows
cos its
in so deep
there's neon melting in the rain
took too much
powder too sleep
cos when I hold you naked
when I see 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知 trying to
spell
what only the wind can explain
it's colder than
ever
coming down

We danced wild
kicked off our
shoes
not a cloud
in the skies to confuse
now the sky is
cold
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
I知 trying to spell
what only the wind can
explain
it's colder than ever
coming down



Falling Free


All of my senses overthrown
by the might of your
skin
and the lamplight on your cheek bone
drawing me further
in
no sentence I can speak
for the wonder so unique

breaking like a wave upon the shore
mercy me, I'm falling
free
since you opened up the door

See how the sky is made
of sapphire
the colours flowing through our hands
the moon is
fire in your hair
a million miles beyond what science
understands
smell that mountain heaven
I don't remember
ever
feeling like this before
mercy me, I'm falling free

since you opened up the door

and if every window pane
should shatter
if every wall should fall apart
well it might
hurt a bit
but would it matter
this diamond in my
heart
there's no need to nail it to the ground
there's no need
to smother it with sense
just listen to the rhythm of your heart

that pounds and trust it all to chance
'cause we're standing
face to face
with the Angel of grace
and don't it just taste
so pure

mercy me, I'm falling free
mercy me, I'm falling
free
mercy me, I'm falling free
since you opened up the
door



Made Up My Mind


Lightening strikes, silver motorbikes
roaring
down the open road, wind on my skin
I知 hungry to begin, my cup
has overflown
so let fall the rain down into these desert
veins
taking back what they stole
these diamonds in the
mine
can afford to become fine
in someone else's pigeon
hole

So I made up my mind
made up my mind
gonna move on
ahead
instead of lagging behind

Half past seven way up in
the heaven
the stars are singing in the sky
lying half
dressed, your head upon my breast
listening to the ocean's
lullaby
standing where we are, it seems so far
from the cold
light of day
with the faces full of grief,
and the grinding up
of teeth
has been eating my belief away

So I made up my
mind
I made up my mind
gonna move on ahead
instead of
lagging behind
instead of lagging now..

Cracks in the
veneer and the light so severe
shining down the avenue try to
join the throng
but it's feeling all wrong what are you supposed
to do
shoulder that despair take a lung of dirty air
turn to
watch the sun set red
and the ruins of a culture
of a sky
that's filled with vultures
circling over your head

So I
made up my mind
I made up my mind
gonna move on
ahead
instead of lagging behind
instead of lagging
behind

I made up my mind....




Mystery Of Love


The city gates at twilight
and a red ship
sinking
behind winter's grey wall
ice in the wind
but a
fire in the embers
of my heart
as darkness falls
in a
candlelit room
where your eyes are laughing
smoking in the red
chair
and nothing in the world
'cept the beating of my
heart
against the nerves of the air

And I know there's a
light
at the end of the tunnel
'cause I taste it on your
lips
and I feel a weight
that can bend me double
you lift
it with your fingertips
so often it happens
that words prove
useless
in the face of how it feels
so it is as the mystery of
love
keeps growing
the more my heart
reveals

Temptations endless whispers
try to keep it in
perspective
so much to distract
walking on a wire
while
your juggling desire
it's all part of your balancing act
and
it gets hard to know
just what you believe
as the argument
rages on
but for all of the talk
it's only true to say
that
if you have no hope
there is none

A tangle of
tongues
flesh flowers and thistles
of conscience, spittle and
skin
we can't change the past
so we'll raise this cup to our
lips
and drink it all in
and meantime back in
civilisation
the rain is cold as steel
but the mystery of
love
it just keep growing
the more my heart reveals

As
sure as the rose
the bright day blooms
as surely still it
fades
and the night kindles stars
on empty winds and ghosts
along the collonades
and slow but sure
the sands are falling

as the bridge burns beneath the wheel
and the mystery of love
it just keeps growing
the more my heart reveals
the more my heart reveals




Lullaby


Its a sad old world
that's turning tonight
as I slide through the streets
moonlight and memory burning
and in my hand your
broken dream

My watery eyes
I sing for you this lullaby
let the shadow fall from your window
let the morning light fill your head
stand up and let the wild wind blow
right into your soul till the night is dead

All these
useless emotions
churning round
as I search these bare walls
for a clue
and all the time
the truth is flashing in my
mind
that when a heart gets broken
there's nothing you can
do

My watery eyes
I sing for you this lullaby
let the
shadow fall from your window
let the morning light fill your head

stand up and let the wild wind blow
right into your soul till
the night is dead

And I知 packing my belongings
hey I値l
be gone before the noon arrives
cos I know there's no use
pretending
soon it'll all be alright

But hey
let the
shadow fall from your window
let the morning light fill your head

stand up and let the wild wind blow
right into your soul till
the night is dead

See the dawn break gold
when the night
is dead

Hear the bells



New Horizons


Weight on my shoulders
but I知 walking so tall
out into the new horizon
wonder in everything
no matter how great or small
howlin' like the midnight
howlin'
like the midnight sun
and this ain't no pale reflection
this is the real thing
new horizon
new horizon within

And your heart ain't yours to control
no matter how tight the reigns
love will find it's own direction
a time to reap, a time to sow
and many a time to cry in vain
but now the time to celebrate
the glory of this imperfection
same thing that's scrawled across the stars
is written under our skin
new horizon
new horizon within

Things come too easy, I get suspicious
things come too slow, I get bored
if it don't work out I get superstitious
but if it does, oh my word

So I知 gathering all the remnants of beauty
from this wilderness in spin
and now I知 gonna light my own flame
'cause I知 charged with the radiance of the dawn
that's been so long breaking
now there ain't nowhere
there ain't nowhere I won't write your name
there's a time to search for understanding
sometime you
just gotta sing
new horizon
new horizon within

Baby


there's no need to get precious
when you know that everything
must change
complacency, it can be so vicious
turn this love into a cage

Same thing that's scrawled across the stars
is written under our skin
new horizon
new horizon within




Loves Old Song


It's like this
it's all in here
just one
kiss
will make that clear
so let the flower open
let the
ship sail
don't need no meaningless token
to hear the
nightingale

For everything that's been
for all that's yet
to come
brow full of moonbeams
singing loves old
song

Beauty threads its needle
in every eye a light will
shine
from the graveyard to the cradle
all the bells of wonder
chime
no further complication
here for the queen or for the
pawn
night of such revelation
the Jew is trembling on the
thorn

For everything that's been
for all that's yet to
come
brow full of moonbeams
singing loves old
song

Loves old song
playing in our hearts
binding it
together
pulling it apart

Loves old song
playing pure
and bold
time has come to read
what's written in your soul


Yeah yeah yeah


Out in the fields of bloody
slumber
shadows fleeing from the sun
without aim and without number
these children of oblivion

For everything that's been
for everything痴 that come
a brow full of moonbeams
singing loves old song

Loves old song

playing in our hearts
binding it together
pulling it apart

Loves old song
playing pure and bold
time has come to read
what's written there in your soul

Yah yah
yeah
whoa oh oh

For everything that's been
for
everything痴 that come
brow full of moonbeams
singing loves
old so