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75 Songs
W O R D S
A BEAUTIFUL BABY
This is all I ever wanted,
all for which I asked.
One in a billion.
Gold dust in my path.
You are a beautiful baby …
Your cuckoo mama,
cuckoo yeah …
This is all I ever wanted,
every wish I made.
One in a billion.
All those words I prayed …
A BETTER LIFE
Get a life
before it gets to you.
Anything's better than drifting
in what you don't wanna do.
Get a life.
Think of what it'll bring.
A better life.
Sing …
Friend of mine took all his money out
bought him a forty foot schooner
the one he had dreamt about.
He sailed away,
sold the book of the video.
Friend of mine
go …
Run away
no sense to run away.
It is all in your mind.
To leave it behind
you gotta find
what you are
is staring right back at you.
Nothing is better than doing
whatever you gotta do.
Get a life,
one you can give away.
A better life.
A COLD WIND BLOWS
Look outside a cold wind blows
where it comes from no one knows
but understand and try to care.
Don't pretend it isn't there
it won't go away.
Even though the world is under threat
we still think only of our own.
How long we gonna let it just decline
until we see the Earth as home.
Come on
with opened eyes
let our sleeping soul arise
and look around at what we've done.
We can't let this hurt go on
it won't go away.
And all these leaders
what is in their minds
how can they fail to know.
How bad they gonna let it get
before they find this is one country
“…fruits of one tree…” *
Let your people grow.
Come on, make a stand
find the world in every land
and see the soul in every race.
Cold wind does not see your face
it just blows it away.
1988
* "Ye are the fruits of one tree..." Bahá'í Writings
A HEAVENLY GARDEN
You want to live in a heavenly garden,
don't want to be where the killers are free.
You want to live in a heavenly garden
where everything is how you want it to be.
Stone in the ground
fish in the sea
bird in the sky
and a seed in the fruit tree
light in the sun
and the soul in me and
you want to leave all the trouble behind you,
you want to go get away from it all
to where the thief and the bully won't find you,
where you can think, let your defences fall.
We're all gonna fly away.
A one way holiday.
Better get packing up.
Better get free
A MATTER OF TIME
You are my friend.
Know it's true
cos I can depend on
you and I
might be people that
we would cry about when they're gone.
There's something about you
make me wanna sing along
and talk in rhyme.
Think it's forever when it's only
a matter of time.
Let's go somewhere
wave our arms like we just don't care
and dance and love,
find what we wanna be part of.
I know that it's dark
so what can we do but
try and make another spark
and glow and shine.
Lighten up
it's only a matter of time …
There's something about you
make me wanna laugh along
and talk in rhyme.
Make a difference.
It's only a matter of time.
A MYSTERY TO ME
I cannot understand why you don't understand.
I do not see the reason you don't see.
I try to make it clear but you don't hear
the words I'm saying
so it remains a mystery to me.
There seems to be a veil
wrapped round your heart, love.
Or am I missing something you can see.
I talk with other friends
and they know what I mean
so it remains a mystery to me …
When I talk to you
I can't get through to where your heart is
so it remain a mystery to me.
I'll shut my mouth
cos I've got nothing more to say about it …
1991
ALL OF THE LOVE IN THE WORLD
When I look in your heart
I can tell that you are a part of
all of the love in the world.
You could know, you could see
but you chose you would not be free
with all of the love in the world.
What does it matter to you.
You've built a wall
between you and all the life that you've led
hiding instead of letting it all out.
If I could be the sun
I would shine down on everyone
with all of the love in the world.
You're all of the love in the world.
ANGEL OF EARTH & AIR
Look at you standing there
like an angel of earth and air.
I feel light of love is shining on me
shining on me.
I could wait here a thousand years
til my body disappears
I'd still feel the light is shining on me,
shining on me and you.
How could we ever think we're good enough for love
when there's a sun of life up in the sky above of love
on the stair leading up to earth and air.
The light falling down is shining on me
shining on me and you.
I've never understood how we could
ever think we're good enough for all this.
One day I'll fly to where you are
and blow a kiss to you over there
like an angel of earth and air.
I feel light of love is shining on me
shining on me and you.
BABYLON BABY
Babylon baby was born at the start of it
but he knows he's a memory breaking down.
He wants to be here at the heart of it
but I bury the babylon under the ground.
Babylon baby was born on a telegram
but his voice has become like a waterfall.
He hasn't a clue about who I am.
He doesn't hear all of our voices are
calling out through space and time:
"Don't leave us here. Don't walk away."
SCENARIO ONE:
Babylon baby will wake and be born again
and his voice will be every living thing.
SUDDENLY EVERYTHING'S REAL
O YEAH
Or maybe ...
SCENARIO TWO:
Babylon baby will die in a hurricane
that will crawl over all of the living world
and no one will ever be born again
and all of our voices will ever be
calling out through space and time.
2000
BEAST IN THE WOOD
People are fearing a beast in the wood
but they don't know where.
Every time the sun shines they feel rain.
People are fearing a beast in the wood
but they don't know where.
They would destroy it if only they could
but no one will dare.
Every sign of meekness they disdain.
O beloved.
Now that your love has been freed
may it shine upon all souls.
Every time they find love they feel pain.
1988
BLUE HORIZON
You better believe it
this ain't no dress rehearsal.
This is your private life gone universal.
Wave crashing in from that blue horizon.
All of that sky we can feast our eyes on.
Open the window
let in some of that cool aurora.
All of this life and limb
and love's been created for ya.
Turn out the night
if you've half a mind to.
Turn on the light
shadows fall behind you.
CLIMB UP THE LADDER
She's in the garden
high in a tree.
She pick an apple
and she hand it to me:
' I promise
I won't let the snake
come and hurt you.
Climb up the ladder.
I won't let him
eat up your heart
because I believe in
the morning coming.
I believe in the light.
I can hear that
the train is running
through the dark
of the night.
Better get your seat
if you want a better view.
Better to be someone
than forgetting ...'
(Dancing Round) THE LIFE TREE
Wake up! Let's get out into this clear blue sunny day.
Wake up! Let's break off these chains and fly away.
Children laughing, dancing in circles
they got painted faces and red balloons.
I can almost touch the hope
that our time is coming soon.
Wake up! Let's go dancing round the Life Tree.
I know this restless aching
in my heart won't go away
but how can I listen to it
on a day like today …
Let's go dancing into the mid-day
feel the ocean upon our face
cos it feels like a thousand years
since I was in that holy place …
1991
DAYS OF CERTAINTY
Walking the streets of London
I've got nothing on my mind
but what you said to me
about how we all must find
days of certainty,
a time when we can be
whatever we want to be.
A season when the time is right.
I walk down to the waterfront
where the ships would come and go
and I see all the bones of a time
when we thought we would always know
days of certainty,
a time when we could be
whatever we want to be.
A season when the time was right.
Move over dreamland
I'm coming through.
There's a summer breeze
blowing warm on my face.
I can smell the freshly cut grass
and I can hear all the children
as they run and chase and I
know this time of doubt will pass
to days of certainty.
A time when we can be
whatever we wannna be.
A season when the time is right.
These are the days of certainty.
This is the time when we can be
whatever we want to be.
It's the season and the time is right.
1991
DEVIL IN MY SOUL
If I drown in the ocean of exterior life
will I wake to a devil in my soul *
Where is the lover
who can see beyond the moon
when there's nothing
but a pale of holy water.
Where is the saviour
who can take the pain away
so that nothing
but the light of love remain.
* unknown author
HERE THE WATER COME DOWN
Here the water come down
here the water go underground
here the water go round and round.
One day I was listening to a man
saying that the oceans of the world will grow,
that every river and stream will overflow ...
original 1989
remake 1991
HOLY MOTHER
Holy mother tried to tell you
to see what you done.
In the mirror there's another
who sees what you done.
And the babies crawling in
through every window
to your soul.
You've thrown it all away.
There's nothing left.
I GOT YOUR NUMBER
I'd walk away and have no regret
if only I could forget
the way you looked at me
with all that honesty.
God knows
God knows there's nothing that I can do.
I wanna call you up.
I got your number.
I want to say where I'm coming from
because you have got me wrong.
What is the meaning of the kind of love
that made, that made you suddenly want to say
You think you fooled me.
I got your number.
I know that all you want
is to suffocate me,
turn me into something to criticize.
I want only to liberate me
yeah yeah yeah.
I never wanted you
to be the answer to
my life, my life and nothing more.
I'm gonna get out of this,
get to where I won't miss
how you looked at me with honesty.
God knows
God knows there's nothing that I can do.
I wanna call you up.
I got your number.
But every time I stop.
Can't tell a lie, couldn't even try.
God knows, God knows what I can do …
1988
I PUT OUT THE LIGHT
I put out the light
so nobody could see me.
Hey hey what you gonna do.
I put up a fight
so nobody could free me.
Hey hey what you gonna do.
Walk out in the sun
get a taste of freedom
is what I'm gonna do
Yeah
it's what I'm gonna do.
I WANNA KNOW YOU
Don't mind me if I should stand and stare
I'm just trying to see behind that mask you wear.
I wanna know
I wanna know everything bout
I wanna know you.
For as long as you don't talk to me
you won't have to justify what you think you see …
Eagle flies above a city of angels
and she's seeing whatever she's wanting to see
and she hears what she wants to hear.
I can still remember a time when I was a child
standing on a corner in London.
Wild was the rush hour, the crush.
Our lives were estranged,
deranged from within
and without a doubt a dream.
A scream from a woman rang out.
She shouted at everything,
everyone running and hoping and praying
that she would leave them alone in their privacy.
Everything stunted.
Nobody wanted her pain.
We just keep pushing it down …
home demo 1990
studio version
(If There Is No Heaven) WHY AM I SO HIGH
All this grey to colours change
and catch the sun
shining into you.
All we know will rearrange
and turn to one,
change your point of view …
Flying over ocean blue
open sky
letting go of time.
Heard a laughing voice come through.
Turned my eye,
found that it was mine …
I'VE JUST REMEMBERED WHO I AM
I've just remembered who I am, O yeah.
I'm as good as any other man, O yeah.
O yesterday I thought that
I was less than anybody else
but I've remembered who I am, O yeah.
I've tied a flag onto the mast, O yeah
to show we'll all be free at last, O yeah.
O yesterday is something
I don't think about much all the time
'cos I've remembered who I am, O yeah
Now that the boy is dead
and the devil is out of his head
he's looking at life instead of dreaming ...
O Yesterday is on the album
of the film they made in Spain
and I've remembered who I am, O yeah
1999
INDESTRUCTIBLE
Catching the spirit in your eyes
I am amazed that I see
it's like a reflection
looking from out and back at me.
I woke sleeping in a backstreet.
I came out in the daylight
where there's nobody to hurt me
now I am indestructible.
IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT
It's not your fault
you're not to blame.
All that was done
not in your name.
The things they said
nothing was true.
It's not your fault.
It wasn't you.
Flying stones crack the window
rider driving on my trail
voices saying I done something that I ain't
and the sirens wail ...
Can't believe it
all those lies.
You gonna see it
with your eyes
with your eyes …
JUDGEMENT DAY
He packed his bag and got on board,
went on his way to meet the lord
of judgement day.
Letting go of heart and mind
he can't help but wonder
what on earth he'll find
on judgement day.
What would you say if there was no ending.
Some say there is but they're only pretending
on judgement day.
There are some with their
hands over both of their eyes
knowing of nothing but
things that entice from from all
that they would rather not see.
Come on in, find your place.
You don't need a lawyer or
a melancholy moonlit face
on judgement day.
All that you need is to share this journey
whether your hearers are one, two or many
on judgement day.
There is nothing I know can compare
to building the world with the ones
who are baring the love of life
and all we can be.
1988
JULIANNE
Where do we go from here.
How do I make the memory
of your heart to disappear.
Whatever happened to all
of the love we made into a lie.
What of the tears we cry.
Julianne, Julianne.
Where did the summer fly.
How did it come to this
suburban, matter-of-fact affair.
Now I'm alone
it won't make a difference
if we were turned to stone.
I am to blame
leaving you on your own.
We are the same.
Hear me when I'm calling your name …
Another night
watching the moon and sun
come up to light another day.
Nothing can take it away …
1998
KILLER MOON
I've been under the spell of your rising star,
hypnotized, paralyzed to the gutter
but I've opened my eyes
to the light that you are,
to every word I ever heard you utter.
Killer moon inside of me
shone its light endlessly.
Killer moon has set me free.
Killer moon inside my head
laid me down and made my bed.
Killer moon
I want you …
LOVE IS MADE IN HEAVEN
Love wakes and I can't rest.
I can't sleep or dream unless
I turn away and think it best to leave you.
But love sings like a bird
stops my heart with every word,
makes me hear
what I've heard all of my life.
Love is made in heaven.
Heaven-made is love.
In heaven love is made.
Love is made in heaven.
Out here is what's inside.
I close my eyes it opens wide.
I know it won't be denied forever …
All those years we sat and sat
in shadows hoping someone else
would throw the switch and
turn the light of love on.
Love wakes and nothing can sleep.
Nothing but love makes grown men weep.
Love is the healer healing every sorrow.
Love talks and I reply.
The doctor don't know how or why
love is the only thing that I would die for …
home demo 1998
LOVE IS THE LIGHT
Love is like a light in the dark
healing almost everything.
So don't put up a fight
let the spark light the heart
and make it sing.
Don't forget it,
love is the light in your life.
Don't forget about it …
Flying like a bird in my head
over every love I've known.
In every little word there was said
what will never turn to stone …
MIRROR MAN
Mirror man stares back at you
and you can't turn away
cos he knows the things you do,
hears every word you say.
You thought he'd pass you by,
that it wouldn't come to this,
that the dream of all these years
would never be broken.
Open the window mirror man,
open the window wider.
How can you make him understand
when he's already living inside of you.
Mirror man is too full of dreams
and second-hand fantasy.
Out of my way
I'm gonna smash them down
cos they're leading to nothing
and I'm needing to
open the window mirror man …
home demo 1990
MR DREAM
Too many waiting in line.
Too many people with too little time.
Some of us look straight ahead,
others look just like we're sleeping in bed.
Mr Dream !
Where is the lion in you.
How can you know what is true
now there's a wind that can
blow all the houses away.
Somebody sound the alarm.
Wake up the dead.
It won't do any harm to
throw off that blanket and sheet.
At least in the kitchen
there's something to eat …
MY LIFE MACHINE
I got my brain to speak and think,
my mouth to kiss, to eat and drink.
I'm driving my life machine.
Got my teeth, my skin and bones,
the hair on my head and my pleasure zones.
I'm driving my life machine.
It's more than a friend to me
cos without it I'd be nothing
but spirit shining through.
Got my fingers and I got my toes,
the lines on my face and my ribs in rows.
I'm driving my life machine.
I know that I love you
when I feel your heart inside.
Park your machine over here next to mine
we'll get both our engines in tune.
If our motors turn over in time
we'll drive all the way to
the sun and the moon.
Got my eyes to see the light,
my soul to tell me if it's wrong or right.
I'm driving my life machine.
It's more than a friend to me
cos without it I'd be nothing
but spirit shining through
wide open spaces …
home demo
NO CAN DO
No can do, no can do it
is all that we ever heard.
Nothing to, nothing to it,
just gotta say that word.
No can do, no can do it
fell like a stone on me.
To mediocrity I lost my way.
Tucan do, tucan do it
up in banana tree.
Nothing to, nothing to it.
Just gotta sing in the very same key.
Nothing to what you wanna do.
Looking inside of you
you'll find your way …
home demo
OBLIVIOUS
I'm riding on a beast in the middle of this night
looking at a film that never stops.
Full moon flooding the streets
with a silver shining heart
shining heart oblivious
oblivious to love.
What's your name again?
How did you come to be here anyway.
A chameleon rider in a disneyland world
holding on
holding on oblivious
oblivious to love.
Take me out of this,
don't leave me here alone.
Give me a grain from the open shore,
just a drop from the endless ocean.
Justice talking with a tongue of gold,
hunger screaming with no tongue at all.
Bones of children lay in wait
to capture you
capture you oblivious
oblivious to love.
1998
OUR HOLIDAY
People are ugly when they lose their shame
frying on beaches and then dying with the pain.
Our holiday seems like a dream to me now.
We were sailing right into
Biscay Bay in the moonlight.
I saw it shining in my love's eyes.
This must be paradise.
Take me out of Grimsby into La Rochelle.
Don't make this favourite lover
just another kiss and tell.
Our holiday.
The Mediterranean was like a breath of heaven.
Joi de ton'amour.
Our holiday seems like a dream to me now.
We were sailing.
I saw the moonlight in my love's eyes.
What a lovely moon.
Overland to Montpellier,
south to Tortosa.
I wanna get stranded here
or maybe sail to Africa …
home demo 1990
OUR WORLD
Our world
turning every day
sunlight shining between the grey.
Our world
nothing more than that.
Nothing less than a head for a Buddha's hat.
Our world
tragic in form.
Babies being bred long before they're born.
Our world.
Nothing compares to this scenery,
to this luxury.
Tragedy is seems so hard to let go of it …
PEACE ON EARTH
Let me introduce you.
This is Bridget.
This Is Sue.
They got spirit
just like you.
They been thinking:
Enough is enough.
No more killing.
God is Love.
Peace on Earth …
Maybe you're a Moslem.
Maybe you're a Jew.
Maybe you're a Christian
a Baha'i
a Buddhist
or a Hindu.
No matter what the Name is
or where you're from
people are many
God is One.
Peace on Earth.
1990
PRIME TIME
I gotta get in front of my colour tv.
It's nearly seven so I can't be late.
I got my vt running.
I can hardly wait.
Put me in the middle of prime time.
Put me in the middle of it.
It's big and bouncy and you get
one free in every pack.
In here the weather's always sunny
with a quick snack.
It's irresistible.
Nothing's ever added or put back.
Put me in the middle of Prime Time.
Put me where the ratings go berzerk.
A hundred thousand dollars
could all be yours if you know
the reason why you married your wife.
In fifteen seconds you can tell us
and change your life …
1990
REAL LIFE
I saw you walking.
I saw a light was shining in you.
I want to know you
but there is nothing
nothing I can do.
What is this magic that I feel
what is this madness.
Somebody told me
it is real life.
I heard you laughing.
I heard the bell of love
ring out so clear.
I want to hold you
but all I do is
make it disappear.
I got an answer.
I'll let go of everything.
Even the laughter
even the love I hope
that you would bring …
SELF MADE MAN
This work you've applied for is an equal opportunity
but still it'll all come down to what you mean to me
cos I'm a legislator
competitor deflator
scrounger hater,
a self made man.
If you get an interview then I am the man to see
so when you're filling out your very big form
don't give me no fantasy
cos I won't turn my big bright eyes
nor will I ever sympathize
cos it is not very wise
for a man with the power to administrate.
If I haven't any time then you'll have to wait
cos I'm a legislator
competitor deflator
scrounger hater
haggle with the waiter,
a self made man.
UK OK.
My proud land.
Pounds and pennies are all in my hand
and they're not made in Japan.
Don't claim any income support
while riding in a limousine
and don't blame me if you get caught
cos my tongue is very clean.
Black, white, brown, red, green or blue
men and women all stand in my queue.
I'll consider all of you
cos I'm a legislator
competitor deflator
scrounger hater
haggle with the waiter
asleep on the equator,
a self made man.
home demo 1990
SHE COMES IN COLOURS
She comes in colours
and it's beautiful to see.
She comes in colours
and it's beautiful to me.
O yeah yeah.
She loves to be touching me
and I know what it means to her
when I open the secret door
love will, love burst out and …
When I'm looking into her eyes
there is nothing I need to know.
When I'm hearing the words she say
speak up, speak up darling.
She wants to pull me over
ride the horse again.
She wants to feel that summer rain.
Let me go with
you and I we have all we need.
We know what we're looking for.
Diamond and gold it don't mean a thing.
Reach out, reach out for me …
1998
SHE'S IN LOVE
She's in love she's in love she's in love.
She been hit by a light from above.
She wanna believe in your soul tonight.
She wanna believe in you.
She come up she go down like a flame
she spin round like a weather vane.
Sweetheart I love your face but
you put me in this dirty place …
electric
acoustic
SOLARMAN
Solarman run on the heat of the sun,
he wake every day with a light in his head.
Solarman like when his mind is undone
then he can shine upon another
instead of just solarman.
Solarman go to the river that flow
and he never hide his joy
of being at one
with all the earth and the sun.
He's like a solarman boy.
Solarman drink and remember to think
about the difference ‘tween a fish and a man.
And all of the ones, cracked up dry tongues,
can't tell the difference ‘tween the dark
and the light that is solarman.
Solarman carry all the weight of
the world in his solarman soul.
He answer the call of anybody who fall
into the very black hole.
Blowing the cloud
from the man in the crowd
so he feeling so free.
S.O.L.A.R.M.A.N
Solarman sleep with
the moon and the star
when he lay on the ground.
He dream of a whirl
with a solarman girl
and a night on the town …
SONG IN THE AIR
Standing your ground is a hard road to follow
when "Yes Sir" gets every break.
Scrounging like pigeons
and screeching like gulls
for crumbs from the cake.
I remember summer days.
I fell in love with you then.
I remember you everywhere.
Hands that were pointing the way into heaven
are beating another drum.
Darkness that beckoned the few
now calls to everyone.
I remember everything.
I can hear you laugh again.
I remember you everywhere.
Freezing the frame on love
finding all things eternally new.
The colours of spring, a child,
moonlight shining at dawn,
a trace of you.
A cold hearted man is a hard act to follow
but I'll do my best tonight.
Piecing the puzzle together
the picture will come to light.
I remember winter days.
I can still see that grave in the ground.
I remember you everywhere …
home demo 1990
SONG OF LOVE & HATE
I walked out of heaven
with a suitcase and a drum
to tell all the people
of the place from which I'd come.
When the people all were sleeping
one I could see
was waking up to be
the devil in front of me.
The devil jump at me
so I jump back at him
but I was broken until
I saw beneath the skin
a cold hearted nothing,
no mercy or grace.
I put an angel in his place …
SONG OF THE MOON & STARS
We were standing in the moonlight
with the stars like a billion tiny candles.
I could feel it, hear it,
see it was all around us
in the moonlight
with stars
SONG OF THE WIND & RAIN
I leave the world to wind and rain
and take my place in love again.
You can keep the bones of pain, O yeah.
There's nothing left to keep me here.
I've bled the blood and cried the tear.
You can keep the bones of fear, O yeah.
Eternal light will always shine
and I will come to make it mine.
You can keep the bones of time, O yeah.
SPIRIT/ INDESTRUCTIBLE
All the Earth and Moon
and stars and sun
and stone and blood.
All the heart and mind
and sex and love
and soul and God
SUSPICIONS
I ain't got suspicions in this heart of mine,
no sense that you ain't what you seem
cos there's nothing hidden anywhere in your mind,
front, back or inbetween.
I know that there will always be another man
who is standing waiting in the wings for you
but all that I can do is do the best I can
to believe you'll never be untrue.
There was a time when I thought
everything you said was a lie
meant to cover up a mystery
but now I know it was only in my head,
now I know the one you want is me …
I think we're getting back the sensitivity
of knowing what it is we really feel.
I don't know of nothing better
than the certainty that
honesty is real …
1990
THE SPELL
I got
something to tell you
that breaks the spell
you've been living in
and when we both can hear it
we'll have to share it
out and within.
The life in all is from it.
We'll stand upon it
and save the world.
TELL IT TO THE WORLD
"Trust me and I'll prove that this heart of mine
won't ever move from me and you.
I swear I'll never be untrue."
That's what they always say
so why should I believe,
why should I believe in you.
I've seen too many go away
to think you won't deceive,
think you won't deceive me too …
The play of love it was everything
until I had to choose this part.
Like a bird that forgets to sing
I didn't want to lose my heart.
Inside every single human being
beats a heart that wanna find some grace.
Every single man, child, woman
wanna know the healing
and see the trust upon another's face.
Something we can all embrace …
Tell it to the world
tell it to the sunlight
tell it to the rain
tell it to the man
tell it to the child
tell it to the woman
tell it to the way you feel inside …
1989
THE FUTURE NOW
Take us into the future.
We've had enough of this now.
If there's a heaven to help us
with this terrible nightmare
take us into the future now.
We don't want to be hungry
and we don't want to be dead.
This ain't why we are born here.
This is another man's nightmare.
Take us into the future now.
It's the perfect day to be in love with you.
Feels like my heart could explode in two …
I got a very good reason in my mind.
I'm into the future now.
THE LEVEL
Talk on the level if you've nothing to hide,
say what you're feeling inside.
Out in the open is a better way.
Talk on the level if you've something to say.
O my, how can we be
locked out strangers
born to be free.
Talk on the level to me.
Don't talk like a devil to me.
THE RECIPE SONG
I wanna live forever and heal the hurt,
see the light of love and hear it talk,
to know and understand and make it work.
I don't need no sympathy
for the way that I am
cos I got a recipe
for woman and man
(One strong soul) - to live forever
(One strong heart) - to heal the hurt
(Two strong eyes) - to see the light of love
(Two strong ears) - to hear it talk
(One strong mind) - to know and understand
(Two strong hands) - to make it work.
I don't need no recompense
for the things that I've lost
cos I got a common sense
going straight to the big boss …
home demo 1991
THE SOUND OF ALL THINGS
Blind my two seeing eyes
from the light in your heart
and I will be free.
I know it’s a lie
but what can I do.
It’s too bright to see.
You cry
and loud is the sound of all things
crying too.
I wake in the night
to the sound of the world
broken in pain.
I’ll make it better
and heal it again.
You laugh
and loud is the sound of all things
laughing too
1997
THE WAY IT IS
Falling from out of the big sky
down to the ground of the real world
nobody lasts forever
not even when you're a spice girl.
This is the way it is
Believe what the newspapers tell ya
when they only say it for money
you're starting to buy what they sell ya,
laughing when they say it's funny.
This is the way it is
We will let it go,
turn away from the fantasies of ad men.
We will let 'em know
we're not gonna be talked to like children.
This is the way it is
We will let it go
gonna live and work for it together
but they don't wanna know.
They're so stupid they think that they're clever.
We gave them the power in their hands
but we'll never let them abuse it.
When bribery leads to corruption
they're gonna lose it ...
1998
THE WORLD IN YOU
How can I see you
when I don't want to say goodbye.
I'll leave you
it's just that I don't know how
I'm gonna let go of the world in you
when you're reading my mind
and I'm seeing your face.
You're calling my name.
I've entered a world of emotional madness
and nothing can compare to what I'm feeling.
I gotta let go of the world in you.
Save me
heal me
love me forever.
Love is the signal and I'm on remote control.
It calls me, I hear it in my soul.
I'm gonna let go of the world
I gotta let go of the world in you
cos you're reading my mind
and I'm seeing your face.
You're calling my name.
If I travel through time
or fly into space
your heart will remain …
1997
THIS IS THE DAY
Just because my hands are tied
my mind and heart are free
to travel out and be with you.
The rain that washed our dreams away
has made my eyes to see
the promises have all come true.
This is the Day …
I can hear the marching drum
of armies of the light
approaching every battlefield.
They bear the sign of angel's blood
on flags of red and white.
The heart of Love will be my shield.
This is the Day …
1997
THIS OLD WORLD
If you are in love with the way it could be
what is the point in just dreaming about it.
Money and time are in big demand.
Precarious business, chasing what I am.
I know this old world
would drag me down
to what it want me to be
but I ain't gonna drown.
I'm gonna give this love inside of me.
You know that you've got to keep working at it.
How could you live with yourself if you don't.
Another rejection, spit in your eye.
Frightening prospect, giving up the will to try.
Just one life to go and maybe in heaven.
One more life and I'll be there with you.
This fool is in love with the way it could be …
THOSE WATERY EYES
I will walk
through the dark
and I won't be afraid.
I will offer my heart
and whatever treasure
my life has made
and dive in.
It's cool in the water.
Nothing ever will hurt you.
Dive in,
you won't be forgotten.
Don't cry,
dry up those watery eyes
TODAY
Today I will walk with you anywhere.
Today we will run.
It's a funny kind of medicine
you drink deep when a hurricane hits you.
Yeah yeah, it's a funny kind of lesson.
Are you gonna teach me.
Today I will run with you anywhere.
Today we will fly.
If an angel come and get you
there's no sense in trying to resist her.
Yeah yeah, if an angel come and get you
there's no use fighting
there's no use fighting no more
no more.
It's not about money.
It's not even about a new lover.
It's not about money.
Today we're gonna turn to one another.
Today I will fly with you anywhere.
Today we will glide …
1997
TOMORROW
Just another dream
but this time I know it's for real.
Everything I've seen
was not just what I think and feel
but more.
I felt like I could open every door
and go through
into what becomes of me and you.
We never made a choice.
We just left it all up to fate.
Not a single voice rose up
until it was too late to turn.
Love became the only thing that we had
tomorrow.
Sally take my hand.
Let's leave here before it's too late.
Everything we planned is gone
now they're filled up with hate
tomorrow …
1991
TOO LITTLE TOO LATE
We gotta get out of this dirty place
before it's too little too late.
Put a smile on that moonlit face.
Too late too little too late.
Starve that engine and feed that heart
before it's too little too late.
Learn your line and play your part.
Too late, too little, too too too late.
(It's never too late)
Here we all are
fish in a bowl
swimming around in the world.
Somewhere the sun shine down on the sea
up where the clouds are free.
Use your wings, I'll use mine
before it's too little too late.
Sign up on the dotted line.
Too late too little too too too late.
(It's never too late) …
TOUCHSTONE OF TRUTH
In one hand the problem is everywhere.
In the other the answers are waiting there.
Everybody got to stand up sometime,
identify with this or that.
I can't believe that we've got no time
to find the touchstone.
All your words as tall as heroes rise up in me
but sometimes my heart don't want
to look and see but
everybody got to stand up sometime,
identify with this or that.
I can't believe that we've got no time
to find the touchstone
touchstone of truth …
1991
TROUBLE WITH LOVE
I don't know what there is to say about love no more
when it's got us in a spin about moving
though moving was the way it always was.
Find the will to try
cos I gotta know the reason why
the love begins so happily
then when the trouble comes
it all can end so bitterly.
Just when we thought that
everything was going well
love turned around from heaven
and then there we were in hell.
It seems that every problem
has its own solution if we find it
is not the walls that build a home
it is the soul inside it.
Marriage turns into divorce.
Like refugees get on their knees
and pray that we will build
a better day than this
and not enter into something
we're not sure will turn to bliss.
I don't know what there is to say about love no more
when it's got us in a spin about staying
now staying is the way it never is.
Find the will to try …
Love can be the wings on which we fly
or else becomes a prison.
Marriage turns into divorce.
It's a to and fro of should I go
or should I stay and pray
we'll find the way.
home demo 1984
UNBELIEVABLE (But True)
I'm alive
when I'm breathing in and out
when I'm seeing what this dream of life is all about.
You and me
we could turn this ship around
set the sail and build a world
upon some happier ground.
Unbelievable
unbelievable but true.
I'm ready now
to be free again
to ride the wind to anywhere
a better man.
I'm ready now to be all I am.
I'm ready now
yes I am.
Brand new day.
Bittersweet as chalk and cheese.
This life and death has left me
on my hands and my knees
undeceivable.
Unbelievable but true.
UP & DOWN
I don't know you but I want to.
How can I when I find you change like weather.
One day we're fine and together
but then the sun has gone away
and rain is all around.
We're up and down, up and down,
up and downward.
Come on angel
light my way.
I ask you why
but you will not say
so can I hold on much longer
when the pain inside me gets stronger.
You're so in and out of love
I feel I'm lost and found …
Why can't I just get out of this crazy affair
instead of falling inbetween your love and despair …
I don't want to make demands
but I just cannot understand
why you walk out of my door
but then you turn around.
First we're at each other's side
but then you can't be found …
1988
WATERFALL & FLY
River running out into the country
over fields then into a forest.
All the birds are singing in the daylight.
Up ahead, suddenly an open sky.
One by one we reach a waterfall
and fly
WAYS OF HEAVEN
"What you saying about the ways of heaven,
how things will be nothing more or less than
every soul as one. How can you be so sure?"
"Let me tell you about the vision of Him.
Let me tell you, let me share this secret.
Let us tell the world.
All of the flags unfurled."
O no they never want to listen
to the knowledge inside.
"See? I told you you were sure of
something out of your grasp.
You only needed to ask."
O yes how can we be wrong
when love continually shines
home demo 1984
WE ARE WATCHING YOU
These men with faces like photographs
separating black & white
saying that only they know what is wrong and right.
It's not in their interest to understand
cos they're locked into a power play
no matter how many children are dying night and day.
We are watching you …
Down through the centuries I can see you a million times.
It's you who turned life itself into a crime.
We are watching you …
Looking out over empty fields, sun beating down on me
I could slip into a dream of love so easily
but I'm watching you, I am watching you.
Just think of the life that we could live,
think of the way it could be
if them and us was nothing more than you and me.
We'd make a flag of all the world, raise it in every land
and finally take the power away from the animal man.
We are watching you …
1988
(We’re On) FIRE
Thunder and lightning make me pray
that the doctor take the fever away.
When you ever gonna learn
that playing with the devil
make your fingers burn with fire …
Somebody crying in the dead of the night,
somebody laughing, joy in the first light.
Me I'm up on a rock
hearing the lovers
and the fighters talk of fire …
One is an animal, the other a man.
Help me remember the light that I am.
One in love with desire.
I don't wanna lose my heart in this fire …
1997
WHAT YOU NEED IS WHAT YOU GET
I thought that nothing would frighten me.
I thought that I was a brave man
but everything that you said to me
it hurt me.
What you need is what you get
and you don't have to try.
I'm gonna turn all the tables round
and let you see into your heart
and we'll all hear it for miles around,
O yeah …
WORDS (Ending In Words)
Flowers grow out of your mouth
pretty colours dancing in your head
amount to nothing.
Say what you mean instead of
words ending in words
ending in more words.
Clever clever writer
rhyming all your dreams with his
leads you nowhere
and lasts like empty kisses
ending in words
ending in more words.
They know what you really feel
you don't need to speak.
There's nothing you can conceal.
Promises promises
always crumble into dust
and leave me stranded
because they are just your
words ending in words
ending in more words …
YOU
You shine a light on me
and far as I can see
there's nothing left to fear
now you are here with me.
And I, I never reached the sun.
I barely touched the moon.
Always on the run,
time ran out so soon
And love
it never cared for time
it only showed me I'm
nothing more than blind
nothing more …
(You're) FEELING NOTHING
It seems like there's a new disaster every day
but in the end you turn them off and walk away.
So what if a baby lost its mother
you've got everything you need
except you're feeling nothing.
Tell me how it feels in a heart of stone.
Tell me 'bout everything but feeling nothing.
The song you always sing is still at number one
so it don't matter that no one else can ever sing along.
So what if she only wants to love you
you've got everything you need
except you're feeling nothing …
1991
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