Caught the rising sun
Heard a pretty tune
Saw a little way
Past the dusty moon
Lost a lover here
Won another there
Saw the setting sun
Fell asleep somewhere
Froze an unborn child
Said it wasn’t real
Went an extra mile
On a rounder wheel
Broke a mummies tomb
Brought it back to life
Was a father’s son
Buried in his wife
How can you favour
The ride of your life
When all you recall is the screaming
Do you live at the fork
Of the road that just might
Lead you to your dreaming
I’m not in the mood for Saviours tonight
But I’ll settle for love on earth
You see through their words
You heard what you heard
The wind has more meaning
Because it knows to be still
But they never will
Because they hate their dreaming
I know I talk too much
And sometimes I sing
And if you touch me in the wrong spot
I might sting
And if you brush me away
I’ll die
But I’ll wake up in the morning
And wonder why
I know I didn’t split the atom
Or invent the electric light
And I’m not positive that Adam
Was the first Mr Right
But somehow in the garden
They failed to hear
Now there is no time or season
When it comes to autumn ears
There is no rhyme or reason
When I put it into words
There is no time or season
I mentioned love she never heard
Well I took her in my long arms
But they were too long
‘Cause she kept me at a distance
Where you don’t belong
Well I should have known before this
So I must be blind
Now there is no time or season
Love can be cold any time
So I’ll forget about the first kiss
That never came
And I’ll throw away the long list
Of fading names
And I better throw away the flowers
They’ve long turned brown
Anyway they’ve never had much power
That I’ve found
It’s just like any other day
Trying to find a way
To put it all together
Like it never has been done
Just roll it into one
And change it never ever
I was just looking for some truth
And someone said
Stop looking
‘Cause it’s dead and buried
Well I knew that they were wrong
So I tried to play along
Behind the perfect cover
The one that never fall’s away
Even as you lay
Beside your perfect lover
Don’t be like a rabbit
In the headlights
You can make it off this road
Brace yourself and jump
Into the darkness
You might find a lighter load
Then fan out all you good people
Stick your head into
The raging weather
Let it lash your pretty face
Please don’t be afraid
It’s just wind and water
You might find a safer place
Then fan out all you good people
Where’s the place you go
When you’re breaking?
Tell me so I’ll know
To be waiting for you
I’d never let you break alone
The Biggest Record Company in the World
Well her mum sat her down on the edge of the bed
I got a little thing here for your sweet head
You're pretty right now, you're lucky you know
But every little thing grows
Look at your hands they're little and they're warm
They cover your ears, but it's only a storm
Then they happily play in the water that flows
So every little thing grows
Shiny bright eyes, innocent and wide
Haven't seen much but the worst never hides
And when you've grown big and the world says hello
You'll wish you didn't grow
See that snail you squashed with you're feet
Took it three days to get near that leaf
I know it's only a slug that lived in a shell
And we're the only living things who think infinity smells
Give me back a dose of the shivers
Standing right at the edge of the river
Being pushed to an inch of the water
Father speaks 'are you a son or a daughter?
I know that's not politically correct
But I didn't get wet
And if I did it would've been mean
But I'd be worse off now
'Cause the rivers not clean
I wanna be scared again, I wanna be scared again
I wanna be scared again, I wanna be scared again
The way I was when I was young
Give me back the rose and a prickle
Father's fear of a hammer and sickle
Being pushed to believe and be ready
First girl says do you want to go steady
I said yes but will you let
No she said you'll never get wet
And if I did it would've been fine
But I'd hesitate now these are dangerous times
Chorus
Give me back the bully's fist
Darkness monsters and first kiss
Being left to last in the picking
Dragged to the chair and the needle kicking
Brother's clothes and second-hand bikes
Paper jobs and dog bites
All that was is nothin' like this
Much worse since I learned when not to piss
We Cross the
Line 
I put my hand inside your shirt
Then kissed right down the line
You pushed your leg into that place
Where a man spends most his time
And when my heart is on your heart
We'll leave this place behind
We wait for love like nothing else
And when it comes we cross the line
We cross the line first chance we get
We may not be gamblers
But with love, you bet
We stood upon the highest place
The clouds were our disguise
We fell from there just like from grace
We thought the trade was fair
And when the time did come to leave
We did not want to know
So forcibly we were removed
The hardest way to go
Somewhere on this broken branch
I sat when I was small
When it was young and strong and green
I was the first to fall
From there I'd watch my father come
And drive right by my throne
And I would stay up there for hours
Whenever he got home
I know that beauty can make you blind
But there's nothing but love in this heart of mine
I thought it right through my heart and my head
And I was very careful to not think in my bed
But you walk through the room and the air in my lungs
Is taken away like instantly hung
I never presumed that we might kiss
I'd fall through the floor if that was your wish
Fortified like I asked you to marry me
Fortified like I was some kind of worst enemy
But I'm not
If I could see you before I go
It's only in my head you'll never know
These are the words that go unsaid
Heard by strangers, sung instead
You call me it's your turn now
I'll wait long and I don't know how
Nothing is an answer too
It's unpleasant being someone you once knew
Fortified like I asked you to marry me
Fortified like I was some kind of worst enemy
Fortified, fortified
I know that beauty can make you blind
But there's nothing but love in this heart of mine
I thought it right through my heart and my head
And I was very careful
The girl that you want
Is in your mind
She doesn't exist
At any time
She lives on a page or on a screen
Never grows old or shares your dreams
She may as well be on the moon
Don't ring those wedding bells too soon
The life that you want
They never teach
Is in your face
But out of reach
Can turn to rage, can turn to screams
Then grows cold and never dreams
May as well die on the spot
This is life and it is not
The world that we had
Has had its time
It only exists
In the older minds
Who lived in an age I've never seen
Now everything's sold by newer dreams
May as well bring on the next
Stupid century or the best
May as well
May as well
Well she took my heart
To a trader in metal
She said it's heavy, it's hard
And on what price can we settle
He said slow down, slow down
To me your heart is worthless
Slow down and look around
My wares are only precious
So she took my heart
To a business man in Asia
She said it's working, it's strong
And what price can you offer
He said slow down, slow down
Your Western heart can't help us
Slow down and look around
Your item is in surplus
So she took my heart
To a bureaucrat on Spring Street
She said it's beaten it will obey
It's yours for nothing if you need it
He said slow down, slow down
The regulations are clear
Slow down and look around
You will not find a heart here
So she took my heart
And dug a hole down in the garden
And said a prayer and had a cry
'Cause she believed it was a bargain
And way down in the ground
Under the wilting flowers
Way down in the ground
I beat away the hours
The sun is shining, sweet as a kiss
We say its risin' but it's not really this
The earth is spinnin' but you won't feel it move
All very clever and incredibly smooth
I'm really climbin' to sleep and fallin' awake
And rollin' and crashin' to that empty space
The moon it hovers and it's always been there
As long as always and that's as long as you care
We know it's up we know it's white
A closer look will prove the difference is slight
I said I loved you and then you replied
Well that's a problem 'cause I've really tried
And now I'm going and if you are strong
You'll see it better and it won't take as long
So how can you win a young lady's hand
With a flower that comes from the ground
And grows on the grave of a man
Who left his home young and sound
Then sailed away to a faraway country
Making friends he was not
And firing his weapon on shadows on hills
Till he was a shadow shot
Till he was a shadow
So show me your hand if it will help me
No spade or club will do
And if your diamonds are forever
Then my heart is not for you
I'm bigger than England
And lovely as hell
You sent me your sickness
But you didn't get well
Lovely I said
You seem not to have listened
You're just angry instead
That's a smile and it isn't
What goes on behind?
What goes on what is it?
You're relaxed or resigned
Now it's more than a visit
So you cut all that bluestone
For the loudest of voices
The Irish, the poor
Who had bugger all choices
And you used them when need be
To fashion your claims
The real wall was a big sea
It spread the family name
So I held up a sunset
That you never looked at
And I rained on your baldspots
And your fashionable hats
And I rained on your black brothers
That you poisoned and killed
Poisoned with business
And your own weakened wills
I majored in failure
And that wears you down in time
But I was never beaten
Not at least in my own mind
Well I watched a thousand others
Fill ears with sand
But I'm not a burning star
I will not fall I will land
Well fire bothers some
But me it inspires
Not even the hottest sun
Weakens the world's worst best trier
I dabbled in evil
And I lost my child's heart
No cross-topped steeple
Could save me from those parts
Yes I sat in those long chairs
And I strained in those wrong keys
And I slept through salvation
It all went right over me
Well I finally surfaced
And the change was amazing
But I still couldn't see further
Than my mother's knees in spring
And I laid on the table
And they cut me from heaven
And I bled like a baby
Ready for anything
All you men of this world
Don’t you know where you are?
Haven’t you been thinking clearly?
Now the ground you stand on is nearly
Dead
All you women of this world
Don’t you know your man?
Haven’t you been thinking clearly?
Now the one you love so dearly
Said
He said “Can I live it any other way?”
All you children of this world
You don’t know where you are
Haven’t you been seeing clearly?
Now I’m told you’re never really
Fed
And you said
“Well I see we’ve come a long way”
All the people of this world
We don’t know where we are
Haven’t we been thinking clearly?
To the point of never really
There’s no such thing as a ceasefire
In a war between men
Just like sex one thing leads to another
Without love it ends
And I have a joke the queen says to the king
What does a king do in the nineteen nineties?
The king says I’ve got a better joke
But you must laugh to yourself
The world gets off on royalty
They’ll love anyone no cost
They’ll trust anyone they’re so lost
I have a way with women
And it usually leads them away
And I abused my senses
‘Till I knew they were slipping away
And I have dreamed with the slow runners
You’d think that my mind could sleep to
But all on it’s own it wanders
And collaborates with I wonder who
And I expect that the president
Dreams with the slow runners to
Then wakes just a man and shakes off the sand
That hobbled his blood running blue
I live in a shadow that’s why I’ve got white skin
It’s got nothing to do with evolution
Of course if the truth was as simple as that
I would not have suffered born black
Or at the hands of a crowd
Who have never known justice
Just the words from the top
Trust us
They’ll love anyone no cost
They’ll trust anyone they’re so lost
There’s no such thing as a ceasefire
In a war between men
Just like sex one thing leads to another
Without love it ends
And I have a joke but it’s not really funny
If it’s gonna be an earthquake
I hope I’m a bird
It’s gonna be a hurricane
I hope I’m a worm
If it’s gonna be a lot of water
I hope I’m a fish
If it’s gonna be fire
I’ll be a tasty dish
But not a man
‘Cause I resign
If it’s gonna be a drought
I hope I’m some dust
If it’s gonna be hate
I hope I’m some trust
If it’s gonna be some fighting
I hope I’m some blood
If it’s gonna be gallons
I’ll settle for mud
But not a man
‘Cause I resign
If it’s gonna be some poison
I hope I am pure
If it’s gonna be sickness
I hope I’m a cure
If it’s gonna be a new end
I hope I’m around
If it’s gonna be silence
I’ll be a sound
But not a man
‘Cause I resign