Mike Edwards

You came at the right time, filled the right space
And ever since then I've never seen your true face
You and me, what do we know of each other?

You're a cartoon, the butt of bad jokes
Every picture of you seems out of focus
You're evil personified come to avenge
Our perfect enemy out for revenge
You and me, what do we know of each other?

I, I, I don't believe it
I don't believe it
I, I, I don't believe it
There's nothing here that seems to fit

There no doubt what you did was wrong
You'll get no excuse in this song
But an eye for an eye makes no sense to me
The state of us now is this how it'll always be?
You and me, what do we know of each other?

I, I, I don't believe it
I don't believe it
I, I, I don't believe it
There's nothing here that seems to fit

Who does it serve
To believe every word you heard
To hear without listening
Look without seeing

You came at the right time, filled the right space
And ever since then I've never seen your true face
You and me, what do we know of each other?

I, I, I don't believe it
I don't believe it
I, I, I don't believe it
There's nothing here that seems to fit

If I hold you to the light
Should I see right through you?
If I question what you are will it bring me any closer to you?

From Love to War
What we aim for is to keep the illusion
You can take your conscience for a lover
And satisfied there is no other
You can dream

Any doubts we had
Had better not show
What good would they do us
Leaving us nowhere to go?

From Love to War
What we aim for is to keep the illusion
Taking a stand for the benefit of man
And angry with pride because God is on our side

I could do with some sleep
'Cos the rubbish I talk is getting deep
And if I don't believe in you
Then there's nothing I can do
But throw myself at the walls
And love no-one at all

From Love to War
What we aim for is to keep the illusion
You can take your conscience for a lover
And satisfied there is no other
You can dream

Oh we had some magic and used it all
There's a tinge of regret but not what you'd call real sorrow
Didn't think much, if at all
Whatever the cost we'll pay it all tomorrow

But I'd rather be damned than let you go
And I'd rather be damned 'cos I know

You've gotta get a good thing when you see it

We let our lives slip, just for a while
It took all we had but it made you smile too

And I'd rather be damned than let you go
And I'd rather be damned 'cos I know

You've gotta get a good thing when you see it

But I'd rather be damned than let you go
And I'd rather be damned 'cos I know

You've gotta get a good thing when you see it

I played with the fire
Stared at the light, screamed at the pain
Pushed to the centre
Took no advice, waited in vain

I questioned it too
Thought about me, thought about you
The corruption between us
The power and lies, dreams come true

I don't know if I care
I can't feel, I can't speak, I can't think
Caught in an idiot stare

I won't let it go
Hold it to me, it's mine to the end
A shadow that hugs me
My black dog, my enemy friend

I don't know if I care
I can't feel, I can't speak, I can't think
Caught in an idiot stare

All the things I read come from magazines
My concentration never was what it might have been
And I know that I'm impatient but there isn't really time
To have all these ideas going through my mind

Magazine
For your survival
Magazine
There's no modern rival
Magazine

Choose what I want to read so I'm never bored
All the time I save I use to read more

Magazine
It's just like the real thing
Magazine
But better looking
Magazine

From the absurd to the obscene
Uncovered here in

Magazine
All of life in fun size
Magazine
And you can win this great prize
Magazine.

Compromise and confusion tears away . . .

Well they say ignorance is bliss
Unless something is amiss
How Ubout that?

And the problem with success
Is you become what you detest
How Ubout that?
How Ubout that?

So who do you believe
And who do you trust
Well it may as well be you
Cause it seems
That no one else has got a clue

Get it wrong get it right
You can try as hard as you like
But thereUs no such thing
In the world as the right decision

ItUs okay to get a smile
Just as long as itUs not dumb
How Ubout that?

And two wrongs donUt make a right
But thereUs a conflict they just might
How Ubout that?
How Ubout that?

Suspend your trust
Reserve our belief
And did all I could do
In the hope that I might pick up any clue

Get it wrong get it right
You can try it as hard as you might
But thereUs no such thing
In the world as the right decision

ItUs our soul that we protect [?]
Because we may just break our neck
How Ubout that?

And for every question why
ThereUs a answer on the sly
If you will look in the eye . . . [?]

Get it wrong get it right
You can try as hard as you like
But thereUs no such thing
In the world as the right decision

Get it wrong get it right
You can try as hard as you like
But thereUs no such thing
In the world as the right decision

In my life there's a right time and a right place
There is order
There is method well, you know where
There is routine, nothing spare
Catch the light in a different way
And all the bullshit falls away and I

Stare, into a heart of darkness
There is no good, no evil, only me

There is no love, not anymore
I don't think there ever was
As for me, I feel no hate
I may believe in luck
But not in fate

Stare, into a heart of darkness
There is no good, no evil, only me

Stare, into a heart of darkness
There is no good, no evil, only me

On the wall there is a red light
When I close my eyes
I see spirals.

I'm trapped in words
Held hostage by my friends
Tripped up by meaning
Taking a road just to get to it's end

Tongue tied
It's killing me

I want to see things for the first time
Show you things that are brighter, darker, sharper, softer

But I'm struck dumb and dead
Thoughts like paper over fire

There's a hole in my world
That makes me talk like a liar

Over there I see a fist fight
A woman in a care full of toys smokes a cigarette
Conversations twist and turn
I get the feeling I am learning more than ever before
This is the first time

Tongue tied
It's killing me

There is a line between good and evil
That separates light from dark
But a colour now spells our end
And everywhere I see its mark, it's
Yellow Brown

In the city air, in all our seas
You can see every other colour bleed into
Yellow Brown

There is no time to spend
Concerned that this is just a trend
To lay the blame everywhere
When it's yours that is the lion's share of
Yellow Brown

And I won't do
'Cos you won't do
'Cos we know there's nothing they will do about
Yellow Brown

There's nothing to save us from ourselves
But the world keeps turning
The world keeps turning

Include me out
You dig your own grave
You build your own walls
I don't believe enough to believe in you

Oh no, not me, I'm not part of your crusade

Don't need your approval
Your safety in numbers
You stay in your team
I don't care enough to share your dream

Oh no, not me, I'm not part of your crusade

I don't need someone like you
Expecting me to share your views
'Cos I don't expect that what you see has anything to do with me

Oh no, not me, I'm not part of your crusade

Across the world the message flies
Information, truth and lies
It's all yours and it's all mine
You just have to find the time
We're all the same, we share the blame, we play the games
If it's yes or no the decision is easy, it's easy
Zeroes and ones will take us there.

This time the revolution will be computerised
You'll know it as you do it
In real time before your eyes
Slip between realities
There's more to this than anything that you or I can see
The world is mine the world is yours and here's the cause
Zeroes and ones will take us there.

I've stared into the heart of it all
Seen the pictures on the wall
The beat of a heart
The oceans part and the patterns in my mind

This time, we've split the world once more
There's those that have and that don't in information wars
Wer'e not alone 'cos all is known and it's everywhere, it's everywhere

Zeroes and ones will take us there.

You're never going to say the things you want to say
The things you want to change will usually stay that way
The promises you break outweigh the ones you keep
The sky I'm told is blue is looking very grey

Nothing's going to seem the way it seems to you
It never turns out quite the way you want it to
Paint upon the wall for the hundredth time
But what you try to hide will come shining though
But what you try to hide will come shining though


There's so much you would do if you just had the time
Like try to write a song but in never rhymes (only sometimes)
You'd love to change the system but it works too well for you
If you didn't have to patience you could turn to crime

There's something that you fell that you can't explain
That makes you feel lost when it starts to rain
It bothers you the most when you are on your own
It whispers your intentions will all be in vain

The month you hate the most is always february

Free for a moment, high above
Just for a moment I am in the arms of love

If I could be all that I want to be
The greats of ths world would hang their heads in despair
If you could hear what I want you to hear
You'd think you couldn't breathe without that sound

And there's always something more that I should tell you
More lost that I am found
So I'm trying to clear my head so I'll be

If I could say all that I want to say
I'd hide in shame for years when I was done

But there's always something more that I should tell you
More lost than I am found
So I'm trying to clear my head so I'll be

And there' sthe rub in being human
It get in the way of all your dreaming

It's OK, it's OK, it's OK

Stand back look out tomorrow
Here comes a man without sorrow

I guess it's OK if today's unlike the rest
And it's OK that I'm not quite at my best
But if you're looking at me to set your mind at ease
Well then there's no way, let's just give it all a rest

I know you and all you're thinking
You know me, you know I'm sinking

Stand back look out tomorrow
Here comes a man without sorrow
Good thing looks are deceiving
Quick smile then I should be leaving

And so it's OK that I shouldn't say a word
And it's OK that what I think is never heard
But I'm looking at you to help me understand why it is OK
That I hide behind these words

I know you and all you're thinking
You know me, you know I'm sinking

It's OK, it's OK, it's OK

But it's OK, it's OK, it's OK, it's OK, it's OK,

Reason you look for are reasons you find
For climbing a mountain, for taking a gamble,
to leave it all behind

Motion takes me

I have to have motion, I get release in motion
If I move I'll be fine
I've got to hit the right speed to shake off what I don't need
Be free from my mind

Reasons you look for are reasons you find
I have to have motion, I get release in motion
If I move I'll be fine

You live your life like it's on rails
No choice where you go, you're on rails

We stumble through
And I think I am linked up to you
'Cos I can never think of you without this sorow

What can you do
In the face of all your dreams
When your destination's never where it seemed, where it seemed

We like to think that we choose our fortune
Like spinning a whell
But with leaves on the track you tell me
How does it feel?

Don't look up too quick
You'll see the sky is falling down on you
And when you run on empty
The ground will wait to swallow you

I have a dream returning every night
The goal is out of reach but still in sight
I'm getting thin but grinning every day
I run on empty too much, it's just my way

And in all your dreams doesn't it seem
That you're wearing lead boots, growing tree routes, caught in quicksand?
I can see ahead the end of the line
This is some kind of meltdown just in time
I see declining empires fade away
The games were getting ugly anyway

The next big thing
Life can be so calm
The next big thing
So calm without you

I am waiting for the next big thing
Bring it on quick time to me
I tap my fingers to the same old thing
And dream of better things to see

I couldn't tell you what path it comes by
I couldn't tell you if it's plain to see
I couldn't tell you if it's gonna change the world
But I hope to Hell it's gona chagne me

I am waiting fo rthe next big thing
I'm scared of all that's behind me
All my faith is in the next big thing
It's where I'll hide what you don't see

I couldn't tell you what clothes it wears
I couldn't tell yo if it's black or white
I couldn't tell you if it's gonna change the world
But any change at all would be alright

Round and round the world we go
Back and forth in time
Always looking for the new sensation
Bigger and better every time

So calm without you, without you, without you, without you

He doesn't have a friend just some occupations
Staring at the sky or at computer screens
It gets you in the neck, all this looking skywards
But every marty knows that you suffer in belief

But if only you could see that things that he has seen!
'Cos he knows that he can tell you just what all this means

He knows, it's true that they're our there
He knows, it's true that they're our there
And there's very little faith left on this world

There's so much in the sky, it must be hiding something
He thinks that he's prepared and he's counting down the days

And if only you could see the things that he has seen!
'Cos he's sure that he could tell you just what all this means

It's so easy when we sneer
And mock the faith that he holds dear
But just like us he's chasing dreams

If you look hard enough then you'll see it clearly
There's something that we need always coming from the sky

And there's very little faith left on this world

For the first time in my life
I know how I want to go
Spin through the warm air
To a thousand feet below
The top of the world's the place
Where the canyons fall below
And you can see from the there
To the depts of your soul

I'm not there yet
Not weak enough yet
I'll keep paying my bills
If this is as hard as it gets
On top of the world
On top of the world

Walk up to the edge
And the silence fills your head
You'll find right there
If you will lead or just be led

I'm not there yet
Not weak enough yet
Don't flatter me now

I'm not there yet
Not weak enough yet
Don't forgive all my sins
If this is as hard as it gets

I'm not there yet
Not weak enough yet
Keep my name in your book

Live fast die young, the words of a fool it seems
Hell bent getting there, seeing nothing on the way
Where are you now, when all eyes would be on you
Dumbstruck, disappeared, leaving everything to do

You were wishing it away

Sail up the stream travel so far
But always get out of the boat
Sail up the stream travel far
But always leave the boat

Here in my hands; all that I could wish for
Timebomed, stick around see it all go up in smoke
With these very hands, I'll pull it all apart
I know in the end it'll sound like some sad joke

'Cos I'll be wishing it away

Wishing it away
Wishing it away

Nothing is sacred, not life nor hapiness
Least of all is the world that we live in unless we make it pay

We're wishing it away

Are you satisfied?
Do you know what you want?
Will it go with you when you die?

Oh, the things I could do for you
If you want me to
If you want me to you've lost the point,
Start again

All the things you want from me
Don't come easily
If I give them away they're worth even less
Than they are now

Are you satisfied?
Do you know what you want?
Will it go with you when you die?
When the time's gone by
Will you ask why
There was so much left
To try?

How do you do these things?
I don't see any strings
When you pull me in and everything is
All I want from you

Here before my eyes
You have set the prize
But as soon as I touch
It always turns to dust

Oh, how do you do it?
Oh, how do you do it?

All the things I could do for you (I could do for you)
If you want me to (if you want me to)
All the things you want from me
Don't come easily

Are you satisfied?
Do you know what you want?
Will it go with you when you die?
When the time's gone by
Will you ask why
There was so much left
To try?

Oh, how do you do it?
How? how do you do it?

Oh, how do you do it?
Oh, how do you do it?

If the sun shines today
I think I'll stay here anyway
And if the world makes demands of me
Then I'll wait and see

It's at times like these
I do what I please
(Do what I please)
And I'm pleased to say
It's like I've always wanted to feel this way

Blissed, blissed
When I'm going somewhere, going nowhere
Blissed, blissed
When I'm going nowhere, going somewhere

No-one ever else could feel like this
I couldn't settle for less than this

Let the feel the air wash over me
Let the ground sink beneath my feet
And I expect so much more from today
Than just a time between tomorrow and yesterday

Blissed, blissed
When I'm going nowhere, going somewhere
Blissed, blissed
When I'm going somewhere, going nowhere

There'll be a time when all my dreams come to and end
When I'll run out of postcards for you all to send
But I'll keep with me
All the things I feel and see

Blissed, blissed
When I'm going somewhere, going nowhere
Blissed, blissed
When I'm going nowhere, going somewhere

Please introduce yourself
Let's shock the world with what we know
Squeeze the world
'Til it's small enough to join us heel to toe
(Heel to toe)

International bright young thing
Now you know for sure that you make the world swing
International bright young thing
Make it swing

High in the air between here and there
Somewhere anywhere
(Anywhere but here)
I feel that I'm always home and I'm
Never in love
(Never in love with fun)

International bright young thing
Now you know for sure that you make the world swing
International bright young thing
Make it swing

Asking dragons wishes while
Sun is making wishes while
I know he's out there somewhere
I can (incomprehensible) you, yeah

I'm so tired I can hardly think
So I feel instead and let you loose
Inside my head
(Inside my head)
I hear you yelling it to me
Spelling it out to me
When I thought I came from nowhere
I came from everywhere instead
(Everywhere instead)

International bright young thing
Now you know for sure that you make the world swing
International bright young thing
Make it swing

I changed my name and you changed your mind
The only thing you left was me
Behind to try and talk so bitter, you make me feel so small
Driving so fast, alive behind a dead wall

Is it all so much art that keeps us apart
The fine line goes, contradiction is star (??)
A case of the face in the place that doesn't fit
Which way to turn, why don't you just stop it

I hope my feet stay on the ground
(Yeow stop it now) (??)
With nothing around to hold me, to hold me
(Now!) to hold me

Now something just went wrong inside of my head
All the things that I've done and I've said
Disappear 'cause these things don't keep
When you wake one day and find you won't go back to sleep

So don't tell me what is right and what is wrong
It's no good, I've stood listening for too long
You don't understand what it means, what it's about
You can pay another day so shut up and drink up and get out

All of the things I say now (now!)
Sound to me like someone wrote them for me
Cheap greeting cards, Hollywood films
Lent to me a language no-one really uses
Or do they? Do they? Do they?

I always leave, never stay
Making promises for someday
Someday hasn't yet come and you know
You're not the only one to wonder
When we'll ever meet again, again, again...

I think I know what you mean
And although it sounds obscene
I will always do my best to understand
You have so many words
And your voice is always heard
But who can say they really understand?

Real, real, real
Do you feel real?
And if so I'd like to know
How to feel real real
Do you feel real?
And if so I'd like to know

Well you say you have a big love
And it really sounds like fun
If I knew what it was
Then I'm sure I'd like to have one
Give me a sign that you
Feel some emotion

Real, real, real
Do you feel real?
And if so I'd like to know
How to feel real real
Do you feel real?
And if so I'd like to know

Say what you like you know that no-one
Really minds
And if there's nothing to say, then
Why don't we all go away?

Do you real-
Do you real-
Do you really feel real?

Real, real, real
Do you feel real?
And if so I'd like to know
How to feel real real
Do you feel real?
And if so I'd like to know

But if there's nothing to say, then
Why don't we all go away?

Real, real, real
Do you feel real?
And if so I'd like to know
How to feel real real
Do you feel real?
And if so I'd like to know

Do you real-
Do you real-
Do you really feel real?

A woman on the radio talks about revolution
When it's already passed her by
Bob Dylan didn't have this to sing about
You know it feels good to be alive

I was alive and I waited, waited
I was alive and I waited for this
Right here, right now
There is no other place I want to be
Right here, right now
Watching the world wake up from history

I saw the decade in, when it seemed the world could change
At the blink of an eye
And if anything
Then there's your sign of the times

I was alive and I waited, waited
I was alive and I waited for this
Right here, right now

I was alive and I waited, waited
I was alive and I waited for this
Right here, right now
There is no other place I want to be
Right here, right now
Watching the world wake up from history

Right here, right now
There is no other place I want to be
Right here, right now
Watching the world wake up from history

Right here, right now
There is no other place I want to be
Right here, right now
Watching the world wake up

Can't feel my head, my heart
Everything aches and I can't cure it
Imagine being afraid to think
Sink into to the ground, endure it
I'm mad enough to kill and thrilled
I'm moved enough to cry
Too much, too much
Let all in
Don't let it all pass you by
Stripped

Stripped, aoh
Stripped, oh

Everyone is hungry
Everyone needs to know
At the end of it all you've got to get what you want
Or you'll have nothing else to show

Stripped, oh
Stripped, oh
Everyone is hungry
Everyone needs to know

Everyone is hungry

(Trust me... I know what I'm doing!)

From day one I got things wrong
One day I'll get things right (maybe)
I never thought I knew the answers
While the whole world thinks they might

Big headed, wrong-headed
Anything under the sun
I'm really no-one

Trust me
Trust me
Trust me

You were pushed away you were led astray
You were dragged up the garden path
I made damn sure that I never (ever)
Did things by half

Trust me
Trust me
Trust me
(... I know what I'm doing!)

Trust me
Trust me
Trust me
Trust me

Trust me

Trust me
Trust me
Trust me
Trust me
Trust me

((Trust me... I know what I'm doing!)

Everyone's giving a piece of their mind
The deaf, the dumb, the stupid and blind
Crushing the words to the people who doubt
With the weight of the hard of the fast
Coming out

Days that seem clear to me are the days
That you're near to me

Everything is fine
And you know the sun will always shine
Two and two always equals four
And life is simple when you're sure
The world's on someone else's shoulders
Leave it there 'til it gets colder
Two and two always equals four
Did you never hope for something more?

Black and white and wrong and right
Real and real and how do you feel?
The louder you shout the better you're heard
The meek shall inherit the earth
That's absurd!

The bigger they come, the harder they fall
'Til you're big enough you don't fall at all

Help, save, change me
You can rearrange me
But never let me say I know
For certain

Everything is fine
And you know the sun will always shine
Two and two always equals four
And life is simple when you're sure
The world's on someone else's shoulders
Leave it there 'til it gets colder
Two and two always equals four
Did you never hope for something more?

Welcome back Victoria
Since you've gone you know that no-one's really missed you
Welcome back Victoria
And now your friends watch over everything
That we-ee do

Welcome back Victoria
So the pendulum swings back
Welcome back Victoria
You went away, OK
We got a little slack

And once again you'll cover up
What you don't understand
Don't close your eyes
You can't hide behind your hands

Welcome back Victoria
We'll be no threat when we're deaf, dumb and blind
Welcome back Victoria
Clean books, clean screens, clean words,
Dirty minds

I am a child of the sixties
And for that I must pay
You wag your finger all you like
I'll tell you something, it's my children
They'll have no choice but to say

Welcome back Victoria
I trust your piano legs are covered up again
Welcome back Victoria
Double standards are your forte, now as then

Welcome back Victoria
We'll tip our tophats
To those who walk the streets
And you know what i mean, now
Welcome back Victoria

On Commercial Street
Be careful who you meet
But you're alright, jack
Welcome back, welcome back, yeah
Welcome back, welcome back, eehee hee

if everything i know is wrong
then it's high time i moved on
cleanse myself of my mistakes
be new to the world and celebrate it

up from the ashes i'm
starting from scratch
a new lease in life, i'm
starting from scratch

looking for something i've lost
so i can find what my future will cost
see if i can look in my eyes
go out in the world with no disguise

up from the ashes i'm
starting from scratch
a new lease in life, i'm
starting from scratch


up from the ashes i'm
starting from scratch
a new lease in life, i'm
starting from scratch

back from the dead i'm
starting from scratch
a new lease in life, i'm
starting from,
starting from,
starting from scratch

(Compromise and confusion steal us away)

When they say ignorance is bliss
It makes it sound too good to miss
How about that?
And the problem with success is you become what you detest
How about that?
How about that?

So who to believe and who do you trust
Well, it might as well be you
'Cos it seem that no-one else has got a clue

Get it wrong get it right
You can try as hard as you like
But there's no such thing in the world as the right decision
(Compromise and confusion steal us away)

Now it's okay for you to smoke
Just as long as it's not dope
How about that?
Two wrongs don't make a right
But there's a Gulf where they just might
How about that?

Suspended my trust
Reserved my belief
And did all I could do
In the hope that I might pick up any clues

Get it wrong get it right
You can try as hard as you like
But there's no such thing in the world as the right decision

Compromise and confusion steal us away

When to serve and protect
Means we may just break your neck
How about that?
For every question why
There's an answer on the sly
That few will look in the eye

Get it wrong get it right
You can try as hard as you like
But there's no such thing in the world as the right decision
(Compromise and confusion steal us away)

(Compromise and confusion steal us away)

When they say ignorance is bliss
It makes it sound too good to miss
How about that?
And the problem with success is you become what you detest
How about that?
How about that?

So who to believe and who do you trust
Well, it might as well be you
'Cos it seem that no-one else has got a clue

Get it wrong get it right
You can try as hard as you like
But there's no such thing in the world as the right decision
(Compromise and confusion steal us away)

Now it's okay for you to smoke
Just as long as it's not dope
How about that?
Two wrongs don't make a right
But there's a Gulf where they just might
How about that?

Suspended my trust
Reserved my belief
And did all I could do
In the hope that I might pick up any clues

Get it wrong get it right
You can try as hard as you like
But there's no such thing in the world as the right decision

Compromise and confusion steal us away

When to serve and protect
Means we may just break your neck
How about that?
For every question why
There's an answer on the sly
That few will look in the eye

Get it wrong get it right
You can try as hard as you like
But there's no such thing in the world as the right decision
(Compromise and confusion steal us away)

(Compromise and confusion steal us away)

When they say ignorance is bliss
It makes it sound too good to miss
How about that?
And the problem with success is you become what you detest
How about that?
How about that?

So who to believe and who do you trust
Well, it might as well be you
'Cos it seem that no-one else has got a clue

Get it wrong get it right
You can try as hard as you like
But there's no such thing in the world as the right decision
(Compromise and confusion steal us away)

Now it's okay for you to smoke
Just as long as it's not dope
How about that?
Two wrongs don't make a right
But there's a Gulf where they just might
How about that?

Suspended my trust
Reserved my belief
And did all I could do
In the hope that I might pick up any clues

Get it wrong get it right
You can try as hard as you like
But there's no such thing in the world as the right decision

Compromise and confusion steal us away

When to serve and protect
Means we may just break your neck
How about that?
For every question why
There's an answer on the sly
That few will look in the eye

Get it wrong get it right
You can try as hard as you like
But there's no such thing in the world as the right decision
(Compromise and confusion steal us away)

Yes you know how some things seem like God's gift
Easy come and easy go
They disappear before you know it
And in the light of this new day dawning
We see things a different way
With such a price on what we say

But I'm so pleased for you
I'm so pleased
You have all the answers

Thanks a million for your thoughts on culture
Please feel free to speak your mind
Though people say it turns you blind
And did you know there's a God here with you
He knows what is right or wrong
'Cause he's read the book for far too long

But I'm so pleased for you...

What do you know about good and evil?

So here's a thought while we burn our bridges
If the pen's not worth the sword
Then pass the gun and praise the Lord

But I'm so pleased for you...

Yes you know how some things seem like God's gift
Easy come and easy go
They disappear before you know it
And in the light of this new day dawning
We see things a different way
With such a price on what we say

But I'm so pleased for you
I'm so pleased
You have all the answers

Thanks a million for your thoughts on culture
Please feel free to speak your mind
Though people say it turns you blind
And did you know there's a God here with you
He knows what is right or wrong
'Cause he's read the book for far too long

But I'm so pleased for you...

What do you know about good and evil?

So here's a thought while we burn our bridges
If the pen's not worth the sword
Then pass the gun and praise the Lord

But I'm so pleased for you...

You know it hurts so good
Like all the best things always should
And I'm being led astray
I'm saying all the words I'll regret someday
But life's too short for me to care

Bring bring bring
Bring it on down

I'm feeling fit to burst
But of all the words I'll choose the worst
And I'm confused
But I know that there's no time to lose

Bring bring bring
Bring it on down

We could spend our whole lives and let it pass by
So let's bring it on down why watch the time fly?

Bring bring bring
Bring it on down

You know it hurts so good
Like all the best things always should
And I'm being led astray
I'm saying all the words I'll regret someday
But life's too short for me to care

Bring bring bring
Bring it on down

I'm feeling fit to burst
But of all the words I'll choose the worst
And I'm confused
But I know that there's no time to lose

Bring bring bring
Bring it on down

We could spend our whole lives and let it pass by
So let's bring it on down why watch the time fly?

Bring bring bring
Bring it on down

You know that sleep is getting hard to get
'Cause you never know what you'll forget
And I've got to know of all the news
'Cause one day there'll be news for me

I never let a headline by
'Cause every one will catch my eye
And though it's tough to keep alert
You never know what could hurt me

But it gets me down
You know it gets me down
It really gets me down
Yes it gets me down

Info Freako,
There is no end to what I want to know

There's what you feel
And what you know
And it wasn't all that long ago
I found that Info Freako thing
Now nothing ever gets to me

But it gets me down...

Info Freako,
There is no end to what I want to know

But it means I'll have the edge over you
And it means I'll always have the edge over you
And you know there's nothing that you can do

Info Freako,
There is no end to what I want to know

You know that sleep is getting hard to get
'Cause you never know what you'll forget
And I've got to know of all the news
'Cause one day there'll be news for me

I never let a headline by
'Cause every one will catch my eye
And though it's tough to keep alert
You never know what could hurt me

But it gets me down
You know it gets me down
It really gets me down
Yes it gets me down

Info Freako,
There is no end to what I want to know

There's what you feel
And what you know
And it wasn't all that long ago
I found that Info Freako thing
Now nothing ever gets to me

But it gets me down...

Info Freako,
There is no end to what I want to know

But it means I'll have the edge over you
And it means I'll always have the edge over you
And you know there's nothing that you can do

Info Freako,
There is no end to what I want to know

Mary hangs from the rearview mirror
On the dash her son's come off worse
We've got a carload of faith here
And we're saved from the world by some verse

Nothing I can do or say
Will ever move people this way

I want it, if it moves mountains
I want it, move mountains for me

You can twist and turn and bend it
'Til its the cruellest shape in the world
But i still want it
The last free thing in the world

Mary hangs from the rearview mirror
On the dash her son's come off worse
We've got a carload of faith here
And we're saved from the world by some verse

Nothing I can do or say
Will ever move people this way

I want it, if it moves mountains
I want it, move mountains for me

You can twist and turn and bend it
'Til its the cruellest shape in the world
But i still want it
The last free thing in the world

This is the real world made wrong made right
Or maybe just made
You waste my time with explanations
So all the big colors fade

So you want to be happy
Don't you know happy is never enough

Looking for big answers getting nowhere
But then you're swimming in the shallow end
You take these broken bones
I'll tell you something, these things don't mend

So you want to be happy
Don't you know happy is never enough

I'm on the wrong train i can tell
'Cause I'm the only one who thinks so
Hard on the heels of getting somewhere
But there are things that we don't know

So you want to be happy
Don't you know happy is never enough

This is the real world made wrong made right
Or maybe just made
You waste my time with explanations
So all the big colors fade

So you want to be happy
Don't you know happy is never enough

Looking for big answers getting nowhere
But then you're swimming in the shallow end
You take these broken bones
I'll tell you something, these things don't mend

So you want to be happy
Don't you know happy is never enough

I'm on the wrong train i can tell
'Cause I'm the only one who thinks so
Hard on the heels of getting somewhere
But there are things that we don't know

So you want to be happy
Don't you know happy is never enough

Well I don't know about you
But there's not alot that I want to do
I could get a job in a bank...
...No I don't think so

But I've seen the ad I want the car
And all the things that make life just fine, don't they?
If you can have it, I can have it
All that's yours can surely be mine

And it's one for the money
To keep up with the Jones'
So you can look around and see you're not alone

Money wasn't meant for the poor
And it's truer now than ever before
You either have it or you don't
So where do you fit?

It's never never when you need it
Always always when you don't but that's life
And I really wouldn't care if I could only have a share of the good life

And it's one for the money...

All in all, you know it's too easy

Well I don't know about you
But there's not alot that I want to do
I could get a job in a bank...
...No I don't think so

But I've seen the ad I want the car
And all the things that make life just fine, don't they?
If you can have it, I can have it
All that's yours can surely be mine

And it's one for the money
To keep up with the Jones'
So you can look around and see you're not alone

Money wasn't meant for the poor
And it's truer now than ever before
You either have it or you don't
So where do you fit?

It's never never when you need it
Always always when you don't but that's life
And I really wouldn't care if I could only have a share of the good life

And it's one for the money...

All in all, you know it's too easy

Understand that we don't dislike you
Nothing ever goes quite as planned
Well you know that these things happen
So we just know you'll understand

But it's not your fault
We just need someone to blame

You really needn't take it so hard
You know how quickly people forget
We've heard it said that you're no bad loser
So we just know that you'll have no regrets

But it's not your fault
We just need someone to blame

Understand that we don't dislike you
Nothing ever goes quite as planned
Well you know that these things happen
So we just know you'll understand

But it's not your fault
We just need someone to blame

You really needn't take it so hard
You know how quickly people forget
We've heard it said that you're no bad loser
So we just know that you'll have no regrets

But it's not your fault
We just need someone to blame

Never met you, but how I love you so
Never met you, and yet you take up all my time, you know
So say hello to the hole in my world
So say hello to the desperation girl

She's my, she's my, she's my desperation girl

Too much time I have spent alone
And in that time the seeds of something bad were sown
What's going on with the state of my mind
When I look in, it's always her that I find

She's my...

These are desperate signs of desperate times
And desperate times breed desperate minds

Never met you, but how I love you so
Never met you, and yet you take up all my time, you know
So say hello to the hole in my world
So say hello to the desperation girl

She's my, she's my, she's my desperation girl

Too much time I have spent alone
And in that time the seeds of something bad were sown
What's going on with the state of my mind
When I look in, it's always her that I find

She's my...

These are desperate signs of desperate times
And desperate times breed desperate minds

I don't mind if I never ever meet you
I love you just the way you seem
And I don't mind all the things they say about you
Jealous words won't spoil this dream
(The real world, it comes to get you)

I believe in the unknown
So I'm sure you won't disappoint me
These whole truths fall on deaf ears
So I know you won't disappoint me

SMile, smile, smile, while the glory days are here
Where's the hurry, worry all next year
And don't mind me 'cause I'm really only looking
It may seem strange, but that's all I want to do

I believe in the unknown...

The real world it comes to get you
There is no way it will forget you

I don't mind if I never ever meet you
I love you just the way you seem

I believe in the unknown...

I don't mind if I never ever meet you
I love you just the way you seem
And I don't mind all the things they say about you
Jealous words won't spoil this dream
(The real world, it comes to get you)

I believe in the unknown
So I'm sure you won't disappoint me
These whole truths fall on deaf ears
So I know you won't disappoint me

SMile, smile, smile, while the glory days are here
Where's the hurry, worry all next year
And don't mind me 'cause I'm really only looking
It may seem strange, but that's all I want to do

I believe in the unknown...

The real world it comes to get you
There is no way it will forget you

I don't mind if I never ever meet you
I love you just the way you seem

I believe in the unknown...

Why don't you let someone be rude to you
Kick you around and say that there is
Nothing wrong with you that a good kick in the pants wouldn't cure
Haven't you heard that they're all too scared
Yes they're all too scared so no one says there's
Nothing wrong with you that a little bit of truth wouldn't cure

Shoot my mouth off

Too much to learn
Don't you know there is
So much to learn
Don't you know you have

When he's nodding his head it means yes or no
But you'll never know which until you find there's
Nothing wrong with you that a quick walk down the street wouldn't cure

Shoot my mouth off
Too much to learn...

Didn't you know how much it cost
That the price you pay is when we say there's
Nothing wrong with you that a jump in the lake wouldn't cure

Too much to learn...

Why don't you let someone be rude to you
Kick you around and say that there is
Nothing wrong with you that a good kick in the pants wouldn't cure
Haven't you heard that they're all too scared
Yes they're all too scared so no one says there's
Nothing wrong with you that a little bit of truth wouldn't cure

Shoot my mouth off

Too much to learn
Don't you know there is
So much to learn
Don't you know you have

When he's nodding his head it means yes or no
But you'll never know which until you find there's
Nothing wrong with you that a quick walk down the street wouldn't cure

Shoot my mouth off
Too much to learn...

Didn't you know how much it cost
That the price you pay is when we say there's
Nothing wrong with you that a jump in the lake wouldn't cure

Too much to learn...

How time lfies when you're biting your lip 'til it hurts
going over and over the same old things in your mind, oh my
Hours gone by and hours yet to go
Just what I'm waiting for, I don't really know
But then there's you

You know what's going on
You know what's taking place
It's only me that's lost in space

Spin me around yes, give me more of your lies
Give me the gospel according to you
And that's fine by me
I'm sure that I'm wrong and all is not what it seems
But a hundred to one says you
Give the same old lines to me
But then that's you

You know what's going on...

In every good story there's always a twist in the tale
So there's a note on your door that I really feel sure
Will make your face go pale

You know what's going on...

How time lfies when you're biting your lip 'til it hurts
going over and over the same old things in your mind, oh my
Hours gone by and hours yet to go
Just what I'm waiting for, I don't really know
But then there's you

You know what's going on
You know what's taking place
It's only me that's lost in space

Spin me around yes, give me more of your lies
Give me the gospel according to you
And that's fine by me
I'm sure that I'm wrong and all is not what it seems
But a hundred to one says you
Give the same old lines to me
But then that's you

You know what's going on...

In every good story there's always a twist in the tale
So there's a note on your door that I really feel sure
Will make your face go pale

You know what's going on...

Hey Boy Blue, can't you hear all
the noise.
It's for you, all the town's waiting
there.
Let us go, there's a show like you ain't
seen before.
Welcome home, where you been all
these years.
Look around, all the crowd is in tears.
It's so good to see you in

Midnight, on the water,
I saw, the ocean's daughter,
Walking on a wave's chicane,
Staring as she called my name.
And I can't get it out of my head,
No I can't get it out of my head.
Now my old world is gone for dead,
'Cos I can't get it out of my

In the city where the lights are pretty
And the girls dance in the night...

In the city, there's a dark, dark house
Where no one dares to go...

Oh, oh...

Here it comes, another lonely day
Playing the game, I'll sail away
On a voyage of no return to see
If eternal life is meant to be
And if I find the key to the eternal dream
The painted ladies of the Avalon
Play in the sun, take to the road
To the north there lies the chills of cold
To the south there lies the tales untold
But in between their lies, the place to close your eyes
And I will stay, I'll not be back
Eldorado
I will be free of the world
Eldorado
Say goodbye, the city's heroes sing
Bird on the wind
Feel, feel so free
Through the life upon the rooftop haze
All the cheating and the broken days
So through it all I see
There's nothing left for me
Sitting here on top of everywhere
What do I Care
Days never end
I know the voyage's end will soon be here
No eternal life is here for me
And now I found the key
To the eternal dream

The dreamer, the unworken fool,
High on a hill in Eldorado.

The dreamer, the unwoken fool,
In dreams, no pain will kiss the brow.
The love of ages fills the head.
The days that linger there in prey of
emptiness, of burned out dreams.
The minutes calling through the
years.
The universal dreamer rises up above
his earthly burden.
Journey to the dead of night.
High on a hill in Eldorado

On the seven seas there was a phantom ship acoming
Shinin' in the dead of night
I heard the crew a hummin'
Tunes that sounded like the Rolling Stones and Leonard Cohen
But they didn't know the words
So I assumed that they was foreign
But I heard t

Summer days, where did you go,
You've let me down so bad,
Clouds fill the sky,
Gone is the dream
My happy hunting ground
Wild buffalo played
and I never saw a rainy day.
But it looks like summer days
ain't coming back.
March April May, June and July,
You took me for a fall.
Big chief he lie.
Cold wind blows cool, so cold to
make you die.
Mountain breeze, ocean bay and I
never saw a rainy day.
But it looks like them summer days
ain't coming back.
Laredo Tornado,
Adios amigos.
What can you do, when your dream
world is gone.
And your friends and lovers too.
West Winter Street under the ground,
The air that makes you choke,
Towers of concrete, hellish go-round,
Were there when I awoke.
City sky, pouring down with rain
That can never hope to ease the pain.
And it looks like summer days ain't
coming back. x 2

Daylight comes to those who live
But those who die, they never see the sun come
Shining through their window pane
They pass away
Silly girl to be a fool
You didn't play the golden rule
'Cause once you're through with one world
There's another waiting there
Help me, such a lonely soul
In dreams
To leave behind the world
Mr. Kingdom, help me please
To find the rainbow's end
Looking from this empty room
The corridors of endless gloom
Go crawling through the night
To meet the dawn that's on its way
Oh, to sleep, per-chance to dream
To live again those joyous scenes
The laughter and the follies
That are locked inside my head
I can dream of flying high
Above the city's cares and never be afraid of anyone
'Cause there ain't no one there

Painted lady, stop that closin' in on me
Painted lady, you're supposed to be a dream
Painted lady, you better stay away from me
Painted lady, why you loosinin' my tie
Painted lady, what's that twinkle in your eye
Painted lady, you better stay away from me
Painted lady, with your jewels and your beads
Painted lady, don't you do these dirty deeds
Painted lady, you better stay here with me
Nobody's child 'til I saw the light of your smile
Painted lady, nobody's child
You have set me free
Nobody's child, you came in and stayed for a while
Painted lady, nobody's child
You have set me free

Me I'm just a poor boy, from across the far southland,
And I've traveled many days to reach this place to mke my stand,
I fell in with a merry band, and drank away the hours.

CHORUS
Rollin' on, I've been rollin' on,
And my head is high, from the battle won,
Laid down my life for the Greenwood

The city boys, and the country boys, they come from miles around,
To defy their king and country, save the poor folks from the hand,
Of the thieving dukes and abbotts, and the gentry of the land.

CHORUS
Rollin' on, I've been rollin' on,
And my head is high, from the battle won,
Laid down my life for the Greenwood

Sweet Maid marion, don't you do me no wrong,
Stay on the right side, the Greenwood is your home,
The dancing girls and the open fires, the wine that flows like water.

CHORUS
Rollin' on, I've been rollin' on,
And my head is high, from the battle won,
Laid down my life for the Greenwood

Little Darlin' of my life
You keep movin' cross my mind
You gave me a sunny day
Now it looks as if I'll pay

Why do they say Bluebird is dead?
I can still see her, touch her, my Bluebird
The love that she gave, I don't believe, No, No, I don't believe

Bluebird came to me tonight
Waiting patiently for light
She said I know that you will grieve
But my darlin' I must leave

Why do they say Bluebird is dead?
I can still see her, touch her, my Bluebird
The love that she gave, I don't believe, No, No, I don't believe

Bluebird say it is not so
Please I cannot hear you speak
It must be that you're so tired
In the darkness of the night

Why do they say Bluebird is dead?
I can still see her, touch her, my Bluebird
The love that she gave, I don't believe, No, No, I don't believe

Little darlin' of my life
You keep movin' 'cross my mind
You gave me a sunny day
Now it looks as if I'll pay.

Why do they say - Bluebird is dead?
I can still see her, touch her, my Bluebird
The love that she gave, I don't believe,
No, no, I don't believe

Bluebird came to me tonight
Waiting patiently for light
She said, "I know that you will grieve
But my darlin', I must leave."

Why do they say - Bluebird is dead?
I can still see her, touch her, my Bluebird
The love that she gave, I don't believe,
No, no, I don't believe

Bluebird say it is not so
Please I cannot hear you speak
It must be that you're so tired
In the darkness of the night.

Why do they say - Bluebird is dead?
I can still see her, touch her, my Bluebird
The love that she gave, I don't believe,
No, no, I don't believe

Saviour of the night came slowly on the silent river
And the lord of life came following, his sins to be forgiven
While the world sat back and laughed away the hours
Till the dawning of the daybreak

I heard them laugh I heard them cry
I saw them praying to the sky
I heard the wind howl in the trees
Down there on bended knee
And I see the light
But I know I must be dreaming

Feel the soul, quiet emotion
Sail on by, helpless devotion
If that's how it feels, it better be real

Take care of your woman
Or you'll never ever see the light
Take heed of the warnin'
Or you know it's gonna be too late

Here, There, Everywhere
They keep on movin' without fear
They look me up, they look me down
They press my body to the ground
But I see the light, see the light it's comin' shinin'

And on a Summers day
When thoughts are drifting far away
And life is good and real to see
My world is saved and I am free
But in the night
Still I know I must be dreaming