1. |
The Ullaloo
05:14
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Skin and bone
Flesh that overflows
Detrimental to me
Take a heart and break it in two
We'll dance no more
The rosary now wrapped around your fingers
Oh the bittersweet
bittersweet ullaloo
An act of god or made to look that way?
To fill the bellies of the few
Bye, bye Ireland
My fate now lies across the water
Why, why in my time
To lose a million sons and daughters?
Sticks and stones
Your history ain't your own
Occidental debris
Made a start and made it brand new
I do declare
The hunger back there
Is nothing short of murder
Now I find my feet on the bitter streets of Liverpool
You're in my blood and you will have your say
Do you hear the pin drop in the schools'?
Bye, bye Ireland
My fate now lies across the water
Why, why in my time
To lose a million sons and daughters?
Bye, bye Ireland
My fate now lies across the water
Try, try as I might
I'll never reconcile the slaughter
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2. |
Amaryllis
04:29
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Words are forming
Then I freeze
I can't feel
I can't look down
Cars are sliding through the streets
It's night
I take Temazepam
When I was a boy
Was I the only one
To think I was born having done nothing wrong?
Still I hear the old lines sold
To so many
So many
By so few
To so many
So many
By so few
Altercations through the walls
We're sardines
It's pouring rain
Amaryllis
Where've you been
It's light
Was I asleep again?
When I was a boy
Was I the only one
To think that the world was there for everyone?
Never was there so much owed
To so many
So many
By so few
To so many
So many
By so few
Breath in and out and when it's through
I'll be beside you
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The night was black
The wind was howling
Through the cities swaying cranes
Here to hold up all that's falling
Crooked steeples
Crumbling drains
The tracks of broken-hearted footsteps
I'm bound to follow in this place
There are angels on the rooftops
Feel their breath upon your face
All your love
Is made of stuff
Never fades
Never rusts
All you see
Turns to dust
Not your love
Your love
The marching clouds unsheathe a sickle moon
A silver dagger from a cloak
Time will cut you down unmercifully
I drive along a street called Hope
I pay no mind to what takes you
Usually the sum of all your favourite things
Tobacco, alcohol, sugar
It's your decision what you put through your veins
All your love
Is made of stuff
Never fades
Never rusts
All you seek
Turns to dust
Not your love
Your love
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4. |
We Don't Grow Old
04:32
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Everything you own
Is taken from you
No compassion shown
You're wearing my shoes
No more to lose
Talk to me
Talk to me
Obliterate regrets
That torture your mind
With drink and cigarettes
Whatever you find
Long is the night
Words are free
Words are free
Home sweet home
A mum
A dad
You're safe and warm
In your bed
To live a life
With shape and form
It must be nice
Don't know you're born
The setting of the sun
Another me dies
I never saw the fire
For the smoke in my eyes
The smoke in my eyes
Empathy
Empathy
Home sweet home
A mum
A dad
You're safe and warm
In your bed
To live a life
With shape and form
It must be nice
Don't know you're born
Chromosomes
Or sucked my thumb?
Do I feel cold?
No I'm too numb
Too numb to care
What tomorrow holds
It's a different world
We don't grow old
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Paper lanterns
Rise over
Chimney pots all tumble-down
Faded mansions
Scaffolding
Propping up this star-crossed town
For the night to carry away
For the night to carry away
Eros fountain
Well what do you know?
A million sunsets fill the air
I never thought for one moment
You'd ever leave me standing here
My love is
Long away
My heart doesn't know
La Catrina's on parade
The raven and the owl
I go out on my own
Yeah
Yeah
Now I answer to none
And if I were to die then know this dear
You're the fuel and the fire of my best years
Paper lanterns
Are nowhere
Empty skies at break of day
Curse this banging hangover
And all the stupid things I say
Hope the night carried away
Hope the night carried away
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6. |
Fearful Symmetry
06:12
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You've got wires loose
In your brains
And with you on board
I scored a hoard
Of palpitations
You said I was a loony
Well
And if I ever saw you with a gun
I'd best run
Peace in our time
Is my only aim
And I was sure we'd swerved a war
Call me
Mister Chamberlain
Tiger, tiger
burning bright
You polarise us
You polarise us
Boys and girls
Don't be violent
Don't be vicious
Or we all fall down
That is no way to behave
Or we all fall down
Find a way
Or we all fall down
Silent
Like a blade
It's running down the walls
And what's more
Designed to penetrate
You're from Mars
And I'm from Venus
And when the gods have gone and had their fun
Who won?
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7. |
Shinbashira
04:13
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When you put all your faith
In terra firma
And the walls begin to shake
Be the shinbashira
Shackled to the stone
Then out of the blue
Bewildered by the storms
Clearing paths only you can choose
And fruit grows where nothing grew
When views are poles apart
Stay rounded
Truth remains the truth
Even when surrounded
When those wicked winds of change
Take a bite out of you
Never hide your wounds
It's where the light gets into you
And birds sing where no birds flew
Our looks
Our smiles
The lives behind our eyes
All we possess
We must lose
With grace
This time around
I hand you the torch
Go shine the light
In the darkest place
Because you
You bring me hope
Glorious hope
You're my pillar of oak
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8. |
Still Life
04:57
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Can't remember
How I got myself
In this rigmarole
Guess I got some things wrong
Blew all the breaks that come
I was disappearing ink
Upon the pages
Of Rolling Stone
Never made number 1
Quit trying to save the world
Through the power of song
So what are dreams
If you don't dare?
Oh I could have been
I should have been
Is nothing
Thin air
I'll wrap you up when it gets cold outside
I won't pretend to you that life's a lullaby
How long can a man pretend?
Boy, I put my straight head on
Now life's alright by me
Respectability
But I'm stretched
Depressed
I'm a nervous wreck
And that
Is where the story's at
Picture the irony
You find my clothes on a beach
I've done a Reginald P
So what are dreams
If you don't dare?
Oh I could have been
I should have been
Is nothing
Thin air
I'll wrap you up when it gets cold outside
I won't pretend to you that life's a lullaby
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9. |
Deus Ex Machina
06:02
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I'm walking down town
Deep underwater
Headlight beams
Where neon fishes swim
When two worlds collide
Only love dissolves the borders
If that's what it takes
Then I'm in
The sea
Just when I thought
I'd see you no more,
A voice from on high
Cried 'shore!'
See you again
I will
I will
The tears from your eyes
Taste of the ocean
Water knows
Why we feel blue again
And when she decides
What it takes to make things better
We'll be like the fishes
And swim
In the sea
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10. |
Solstice Campfire
03:51
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With you
With you
When the bar run dry
We flew
Clicked our heels
Took the only road we knew
I never, ever thought about our circumstances
Did you?
When the lights go out
I'll be there with you
With you
With you
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Canti Liverpool, UK
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