Advertisement (Another Intentional Irrelevent Suicide)  

I get up and I walk across the room
I get to the door - I've been there before 
Wondering what I got up for
When all of a certain I remember
What I was going to say to you
Standing there watching my member
Hanging there squirting the loo

I'm really stoned
I'm really stoned
Permanently out my bone
I'm really stoned

I sit down on the phone I get the urge
To dump yesterday, flush it away
I hope the force is still with me
When sure enough the door flies off it's hinges
And there stands P.C. Bill Identikit
Saying "I've got trouble finding where I'm going
"Coz my backside is very badly lit
"Hello, hello, hello
"My bloody head no longer seems to fit
"Hello, hello, hello
"And you're under arrest...
...and...'ello?"

I'm really stoned
I'm really stoned
Permanently out my bone
I'm really stoned

So come on, let go
Let your feelings show
There's something inside you
The person beside you really needs to know
Come on, change your mind
You never know what you might find
Break out the rizlas
And roll up a place to unwind

Well you can bust me once
You can bust me twice
But you'd have to top me
To finally stop me from loading my dice

'Coz I'm really stoned
I'm really stoned
Permanently out my bone
I'm really stoned

 All Ireland 

Goodbye free Ireland
Try again soon
The tommies and sirens
Are wolves in the moon
Devouring your children
With the law's empty spoon;
They've no time for talking
Who are calling the tune
Your spirit is proven
There's no need to die
For nationalist slogan
Or Religious lie
They've both lived for too long
And they should be long gone
And there'll not be a new song
Until it's been done

 Bad Speech 

I was not put here - (by anyone)
By anyone in fear
I came alone as me
Just an idea
In a long chain
Of discovery
Surrounded by the same -
You
Sometimes your tide
Pulls me out to sea
And I die
In a trashing curse
Sometimes we are kind
More often I doze
- So far up the beach
That those who try to reach
Are burnt alive
In the searing heat
Of the desert
Of my dispassion
So far removed
I never hear the water
'Cept once or twice a month
When I see a mirror
And I refuse to believe
In some of the things
That are said to be here
Let alone those
That are not
I'm trying to change
My direction
Ours is pathetic
In my own humble estimation
I love the planet
The great bening she-wolf
Benefactor
Spinning gently on
Towards the red giant
Four aeons hence
When all the rose gardens
Are consumed in the flash-fire
Of flying time
She'll leave alone too

 Band Of The Dead 

Lonely faces
Empty spaces
Hiding places
Nowhere to be
Growing skylines
Spreading street signs........Jesus freakers
All in straight lines.........Strange believers
More every days...............Too many speakers
                              All in the way

But it's all the same the world over
Twentieth century
Stuck in the red
In the bank of the dead
Holy Society
Insanity cities etc

Maybe you'll catch us
But you won't reach us
Trying to teach us
How to be good
With civilisation
By population
With moral castration
Taming the flood
Making sure of survivors
To keep money spiders
And moon rocket riders
Rolling in blood
And it's all the same the world over etc

 Berliners (A Better World) 

They shall not grow old, as we are left grow old
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning
We will remember them

They built a wall boys, it stayed up for thirty years
we've torn it down now, clattering round their ears
You know how it is, with spirit(s),
they just couldn't hold us
Brothers and sisters

The world you died for, was all but a pack of lies
It had to fall down, and keep on falling
you gave us the world they promised you,
and in the morning
we are the flowering
we are the flowering youth
Berliners

 Cardboard City 

Cardboard city
Who gives a shit
Cardboard city
It's a hit
Hoards of the medias
Whirring their cameras
Living vicarious lives
Tasting it

Cardboard city
Beyond telethon
Cardboard city
Unwashed and gone
Who needs the dregs?
We should cut off their legs
And their thoughts
And have gone

I live in the loneliest place
I could find
A city where everyone's
Very mankind
You get what you vote
To perpetuate
Cynical people, trivial state

Cardboard city
The underclass
Cardboard city
You quickly pass
It might be someone
Who would be like
No one you knew
You bet your ass

Cardboard city
A sympton of
Cardboard city
A loss of love
The face of your parliament
Cold on your pavement
And you can't get enough

 Casualty 

Twenty years of rock and roll
Up and down the greasy poll
In and out some pigeon hole

I'm a casualty

Twenty years of dodging cops
In and out of stocking tops
Dropping keks and lifting shops

I'm a casualty - baby

Twenty years out of control
Drinking tadpoles from the bowl
Soon I'll be back on the dole

I'm a casualty

 Come Up And See Me 

All of a sudden I've taken a swerve
Stood in the looking glass oiling my nerve
All of a sudden I've stopped in mid air
Wondering which way and whether I care

Won't you come
Come up and see me sometime
Won't you come
Oh come up and see me

Likely as not in the next few new moons
We'll both be missing familiar tunes
You on the town on your ass on your own
Me trying hard not to reach a telephone

Won't you come
Come up and see me sometime
Won't you come
Oh come up and see me

 Cora 

Oh Cora, oh Cora
I never knew your head
Cora for that matter
I never shared your bed
Cora, oh Cora
It wasn't lightly said
But living in two cultures
Our lives were truly led

Seeing folks flag waving was our torture
Pigeon holes and theories hard on our trails
I used mine as a bedspread forever no further
Believe in any more integrity fails

Oh Cora, oh Cora
I never knew your head
Cora for that matter
I never shared your bed
Cora, oh Cora
It wasn't lightly said
But living in two cultures
Our lives were truly led

The sadness in my hears as I was leaving
Was maybe that I might not understand
Distance playing host to disbelieving
I must have never seen you in my hand

Oh Cora, oh Cora
I never knew your head
Cora for that matter
I never shared your bed
Cora, oh Cora
It wasn't lightly said
But living in two cultures
Our lives were truly led

 Death Or Glory? 

Death or glory
Baby you and me
No warning no mercy
Off with his head
She said said she

Death or glory
All the bliss
All that memory
You threw us out
The window
Not even one last kiss
One last kiss

Get your stick on the ice
Fast forward out of town
Drunk me dry and threw me away
My strength is down

'Like one that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread
Having once turned round walks on
And turns no more his head
For he knows that close behind
A fearful fiend doth tread'

Death or glory
Baby you and me
Let's get into battle
Win us both a v.c.
There's nothing left here we can lose
And everything to win
We live in heaven hearts and minds
We can make it there again
Our strength will be then

Death or glory
Baby down to you
Death or glory
Baby up to me

Get your stick on the ice
Fast forward out of town...
Drunk me dry and threw me away
My strength was gone

We lived in heaven
Hearts and minds
We can make it there again
Our strength will be then

 Descendants Of Smith 

He woke up in a crashing din
Half in a dream he grabbed his sword
They smashed the door down and rushed in
"What the Hell" was his last word
He staggered out into the snow
And left a stain that didn't go

Until it was found in four million and three
By descendants of Smith

His snuff box and his shoulder pack
Were sold in 'Antiquarian'
Someone else's bric-a-brac
A taste of times long since bygone
The stain was sinking in a vice
Two feet deep in solid ice

Until it was found in four million and three
By descendants of Smith

His blood was put in their machine
Which reproduced him at great speed
Engineered a female gene
And put them in a room to breed
With esperanto anecdotes
Resuscitated microdots

The descendant of Smith
Ran a colony of centaurs
Roamed a zoo with mastodon
And never knew of his mentors

 Desert Island 

Gonna paint my room like a desert island
With yellow sand and blue lagoon
Invite you all to come and live there
One afternoon
It'll be when no-one's looking
More likely that not
We'll close the door and turn the sky up
Find a good spot

Air fire water earth you were paradise
I'm sorry about me
I was under impression
That you were free and easy

Gonna paint my room like a desert island
With clear skies and rising swell
Leave the clowns on the jaded horizon
In Wall Streets of Hell
I must say goodbye to the blindfold
And pursue the ideal
The planet becoming the hostess
Instead of the meal

Air fire water earth you were paradise
I'm sorry about me
I was under impression
That you were free and easy


 Drawn To The Flames 

I've loved you
You've loved me
Just for one split second
In a universe of chance
It was all we could be

I hold you
You hold me
Underneath the stars
And spinning never quite free

Through all the trials and tribulations
Here in Mushroom Valley in the sun
Hold tight darling - here we go
The trip has hardly begun
Higher and higher
Drawn to the flames
Till the spirit
Metaphysic
Turns the lights out on the games

Dear Water World
Is there any blame
If your sons and daughters
Did away with living quarters
And any other bridges that came

Especially
When we all can see
Compassion in a plum tree
And a place alongside Heaven
For the truest, truest anarchy

Through all the trials and tribulations
Here in Mushroom Valley in the sun
Hold tight darling - here we go
The trip has hardly begun
Higher and higher
Drawn to the flames
Till the spirit
Metaphysic
Turns the lights out on the games


 Duty 

If the six billion
On the planet
To a woman
Decided
That it was worth saving
That puppy foxes
In the spring air
Scratching parasites
And springing hope eternal
Still brought a smile
Still told of an eden
Lost by some
Enriched by most
Then a duty might be heard
Calling in the distance

If the chemistry
On the planet
Collided
To expectation
Much would be saved
The parasites would flourish
In the long winter
The scorching greenhouse
Thirty, as we know it
Would perhaps be old age
Or not at all
Depending on the brew
In the collision
Who cares? Right?
Duty as a chemical event
Duty as an inevitable event
Right?

Ha...
So sayeth the lord

 Elizabeth 

Stood on the street in the face of a holocaust
With thunder in your voice
As in the grace of great numbers
A world is made
To feel your choice
And I love you
For choosing to live with us
And making some noise

It's time that we joined our hands
Across the world
It's time that we joined our hands
To save our world

Whatever persuasion you are
You must open your door
If you mean to meet
Come and be counted in whispers of multitude
And come on your own feet
I'd love to be able to say
My old grandmother marched
To people the street

It's time that we joined our hands
Across the world
It's time that we joined our hands
To save our world

Before the guardian angels
Disappear on puffs of angel dust
Drop the bombs and guns and rust
And split

When this winter is over Elizabeth
I will come for you
Bearing songs on the wings
Of great happiness
To sing you through
To a far future fountain
Of destinies
A room with a view

It's time that we joined our hands
Across our world
It's time that we joined our hands
To save our world

 Evening Star 

There's a lady who knows you know
All the to's and the fro's they go
When they're changing their minds
As the passion unwinds
But she knows as she watches
Over the evening star
That they'll all be together
No matter where they all are

There's a prince on a mountain top
And the mystery fills his cup
With the call of the wind
And a beautiful child
And she knows as she watches
Over the evening star
That they'll all be together
No matter where thay all are

And she knows as she watches
Over the evening star
That we'll all...

 For Longer Than It Takes 

I walk in your footsteps love
when you're not even there
you fly me in my fleeting steps
towards the dreams we share
I'll be with you till the time itself
is overstretched and breaks
for I will be in love with you
for longer than it takes

I love myself as I love you
as time will surely tell
I love you better for the way
you love yourself as well
I'll be with you till time itself
is overstretched and breaks
for I will be in love with you
for longer than it takes

you don't know the times I've cried
the purest simple joy
I met a girl who took me in
I could never destroy
she feels my pleasures and my pains
she gives more than she's got
I'll never be worthy of that
no matter what

through all my barbed wire
through my fury's blackest hour
she bursts the bubbling rages
that built the ivory tower
through all my barriers
my anger and despair
I've got a friend to turn to and
she's always there

 Frozen Moment 

The process of my words profane
The poems I still breathe
The soothing silent masterpieces
Hanging on the breeze
That brushed me with your spirit
And left my head at ease
That woke me up and lifted me
To see a moment freeze

I still see you naked
In my naked eye
Underneath the honeysuckle
Naked summer sky
Far off dreams I lead with you
In other lives
That gently pass us by
We may never speak again
Or wonder why
You woke me up and lifted me
To see a moment freeze

It made me cry
The quiet waters by
And by

 Garden Of Uranium 

There's fuel in a hand shake
And power in a smile
Energy to spare
And time to reconcile
In every blade of grass
And breath of air
A future sitting there

And you don't care about the children
There's plenty where they're from
To populate the garden
Of uranium

There's power in a sun ray
And travel on the tide
Hurricanes and storms
To saddle up and ride
In every wind of change
On any side
An idea to be tried

And you don't care about the children...

And then there are the meglos
With power in their hands
Dumping lethal waste
In shallow pasturelands
Scattering suicide
Into the winds
And no one understands

And they don't care about the children...

 Ghost Dance 

Plastic money flexidream
and comfort for the preacher
keep the debtor out of prison
borrowing the future
how much future can he borrow
how much past can he forget
when now's become part of tomorrow
just a flashy fast advertisement
that talks about beginning
at the end.

You imagine
you can change the world
and you're right
it's happening right here and now
tonight tonight.

Relief for hungry children
is nothing but a symptom
of accelerated ignorance
unaware of how a world
forcloses on invading circumstance
and brings a new beginning
all at once

You imagine
you can change the world
and you're right
it's happening right here and now
tonight tonight.

where ice and desert travels
and the scale of justice levels
and the house that silly jack built
while forgetting ages cycling
is crushed inside a moment he forgot
there'll be a new beginning
thanks a lot

You imagine
you can change the world
and you're right
it's happening right here and now
tonight tonight.

 Government Surplus 

The young men in my country
They have no place
Surplus to requirement
They live in some kind of disgrace
Stood in line to beg for money
From governments with very funny
Attitudes of "On your bike" sonny boy

The young women in my country
They have no choice
Assembly-lining babies
To "rejoice"
Forced into the same old system
Producing sons with Falklands wisdom
And daughters full of apprehension
Fuelled by attitudes of tension

The young folk in my country
Deserve the truth
Uncluttered by deception
In the flower of their youth
What they have are gutter papers
Biased news clandestine capers
Run by shady operators

 Hangman 

Last night I wasn't sleeping
I knew it was my last
I've just been lying thinking
Reliving all my past
My family and friends have left
My children are all lost
And now I'm standing in a death cell
As the sands of time fall fast

My poor heart it is thumping
My head is fit to flood
To feel that rope around my neck
And know it's there for good
I know that I am innocent
And no one's understood
And now I'm standing on the gallows
To be murdered in cold blood

We are creatures of darkness
Killers of time
We are creatures of darkness
Bodies in lime

Hangman oh hangman
How sleepless is your bed
I can't believe my own ears
My heart is full of lead
That you'd apply and get the job
Of pulling off my head
And leave me kicking in the darkness
Splattering the walls with blood

Hangman oh hangman
You're working in the shade
For creatures of the jungle
Whose message is displayed
In graphic tones of blood revenge
All down the civil blade
And you're the creasy little monkey
Who murders to be paid

And in about six minutes time
I'll be thrown into the lime
By the screws who dug my grave
Who never felt the shame
Who threw me in still breathing
As they covered me with slime
And stuck me on a map in the governors office
A number with no name

We are creatures of darkness
Killers of time
Creatures of darkness
Bodies in lime

And as true as I stand here
I would wish to be untied
To rip those lies clean out your throats
That my death might somehow be justified
There's no unconsecrated ground
In my heart or in my mind
I lived and died in a world full of snakes
And I'm buried in a vicious lie

We are creatures of darkness
Killers of time
Creatures of darkness
Bodies in lime

 Highway Blues 

Take a look down your highway
Tell me what d'you see
Well if you're down my way
It could well be me
Stood on your corner
I'm nearly down on one knee
Can you hear me calling for you
So damn easy to see
And it can't be forever
And it won't be for long
So don't you think that it's better
We speak the same tongue
Out here in this weather
We must surely belong
Birds of a feather
Whatever the song:
Please give me a lift man
It can't be for far
The way that you shift man
In your empty car,
I've got the highway blues
In my holy (holey, wholly) shoes
And I cannot choose
What I look like

And I got here from yesterday
On porridge and bait
Swallowing sorrow
Following fate
Poaching tomorrow
From God and the state
Of homo his shadow
The well known long haired straight
But I've got a good reason
For being this way
I'm happy for certain
And hoping to stay
Travelling trust
Across the new day
Gathering dust
Down your highway
Please give me a lift man...
It can't be for far
The way that you shift man
In your empty car
I've got the highway blues
In my holy shoes
And I cannot choose
What I look like
Out on the streets
Or where my drum beats
In between the clean sheets
Of my love life

And I need little Margaret
Out here again
Screwing some traffic
From the shaven insane
With thumbs like a dragnet
She pulls like a train
And she looks like a magnet;
And she comes like a warm rain
Please give me a lift man, etc

 Hope 

When you look at me
From your own century
I may seem to be
Strange archeology
But when the winds blow
From this direction
You may sense me there
In your reflection
I think I feel you
But I will never know
As the swallows leave
And the children grow

I wanted to live forever
The same is you will too
I wanted to live forever
And everybody knew

When I caught you there
In tomorrows mirror
I thought felt you
Jump out of my skin
Throwing oil into
My blazing memories
Filling empty footsteps
I was standing in

I wanted to live forever
The same as you will too
I wanted to live forever
And everybody knew

As the falling rain
Of the northern jungle
Hanging droplets on the leaves
Bombards my brain
I hear you
Across the room
A sea of daffodils spring into bloom
You are the mist
The frost across my window pane
And again

She moves her body
And her whispers weave
And the world spins
And tells me that I'll never want to leave

As I think of you
From this dark century
I will always be
With generosity
That we both may share
The hope in hearing
That we're not just
Spirits disappearing

 I Am A Child 

I am a child
I am a sanctuary
Wild at my mother's knee
Freedom has a piece of me
Every night I run away
Loose the nooses and drift astray
Chasing dreams into outer space
Trying to face
The day

Living life
Against the law
Forcing us all to endure
Sneaking home to close the door
Every night we run away
Loose the nooses and drift astray
Chasing dreams into outer space
Trying to face
The day

Every night we do our best to lose it
Skinning up and chasing better days
Getting up and moving to the music
O dance my darling lady fair
My darling mayflower
Show me just how much you dare
Forget our daytime labour

We're in the wind
You feel us in the breeze
Teaching leaves
To grow the trees
Smoothing
Daytime memories
And every night we run away
Loose the nooses and drift astray
Chasing dreams into outer space
Trying to face
The day

 I Still Care 

Even though you drive me crazy
Even though we never last
Though the meaning's getting hazy
And our purpose here seems past
Can we really shed
All those memories we've had
Do we scatter all the pieces
Leave no traces
Torn forever to a shred

Once upon a time I loved you
How the hell did we get here
We don't have a change of finding
Greener pastures anywhere

Even though I may not like you
Sometimes hate you till I'm gone
Walking out with eardrums rolling
As you go on and on
You must know I'll always love you
None above you
I'm still with you in the sun

Won't you please chase me with a smile for a change
Play music to my head
Please don't corner me with tension (anymore)
Take me as I am to your bed

Once upon a time I loved you
How the hell did we get here
We don't have a change of finding
Greener pastures anywhere

Even though you drive me crazy
I'm so crazy
I still care

 I Wanna Be Part Of The News 

I wanna be part of the news
I wanna see my face in all the views
I wanna be part of the news
Making faces where those cameras cruise

I wanna be on TV once a day
I'll do anything make any play
Where to today?

I wanna be part of the news
I wanna start the strike that blows the fuse
I wanna be part of the news
We're all big stars inside these human zoos

I wanna be on TV once a day
I'll do anything make any play
Where to today?

Just once in my life I want to headline
Shoot a famous cat or hold siege
Give away crown jewels on the breadline
Where to today?

I wanna be part of the news
Terrorise the world just when I choose
I wanna be part of the news
With pins in my cheeks and tongues in my blue suede shoes

I wanna be on TV once a day
I'll do anything make any play
Where to today?

Just once in my life I want to headline
Shoot a famous cat or hold a siege
Give away crown jewels on the breadline
Where to today?

I wanna be part of the news

 If 

If it was right to be believing,
and write his name in blood
and then I met him when I died,
well I'd have it out with god
but if it means
degrading scenes
and sanctioning crusade
I'd know we couldn't stand man to man
without feeling afraid

If it was wrong for not believing,
in fairytale facade
and then I met him when I died,
well I'd apologise to dog
But if it meant
I went down on my knees
well where's the spirit gone
where's the love you're all talking of
when you can't stand man to man?
Man to man
When you can't stand man to man.

I find it hard to believe,
in these 'gospels' that I've heard
the forked tongue of the bible belt,
the ayatollah's word
I don't believe most anything
spoken by anyone
as hell's fanatic paranoids
fire heaven's loaded gun

If it was right to be believing,
then it must be in this
that difference is beautiful,
and living it is bliss,
there are no teams
there is no side
that life on earth is done
by living the love you're only talking of
by standing man to man
Man to man

 If I Can 

(What do I want to go out for?
There is no point
I'm out already
There's nothing out there anyway
It's all in here
There's little bits out there

There's you and me sometimes
And I walk up to a forget-me-not
And I smile
Whilst you're breathing the macro
Looking to the distant hills
And wandering in wonder
I'll point out Saturn
And you'll tell me
The chemical formula
Of nitrous oxide
It would be a disillusionment
A grand disappointment
For all our friends
Not to see us in love again)

If I could, I would
If I can, I will
(My tears
They're getting in my eyes)

 Jack Of Hearts 

I dream of a girl
The sweetest reflection of earth
Uncluttered by chains of demands of a world
That leaves her restless as the sky
Wandering and wondering why

And she travels alone
Towards me across the unknown
And just for a moment I believe she's the one
To keep my lips in overdrive
Consuming me I burn alive
Any time she needs me
I'll be by her side
Just as long as she can help me
To stem the flowing tide

The Jack of Hearts
He stole the tarts
He stole them away
On a long summer day

No woman is safe
No woman is safe within reach
No woman is safe within reach of my heart

And though she'd maybe never tell you so
She'd sure be living with a man apart
But any time she needs me
I'll be by her side
Just as long as she can help me
To stem the following tide

No woman is safe
No woman is safe within reach
No woman is safe within reach of my heart

 Little Lady 

I once held a lantern of love in my hands
She was all I could see
Kicking the brown leaves of childhoold around us
We danced the deep sea
That welled from the spring of the boy that I was
Held in her flame
Feeling her learning
Watching her burning
To see the first man I became
Little lady
Who made me
Was it you
Or is it that old unforgiveness
That I can't forget

I was her warchild and she was my wildcat
We lived in a dream
Broke up for summer unfolding the secret
And woke up downstream
Facing the current that said that we couldn't
Go on
Tearing the seed out
With sharp tongues
And no doubt
Before it was born
Little lady, etc
Sometimes I cry in the flood of my guts
Laughing in sadness
Bursting with rage in the wounds of revenge
Bleeding forgiveness
It isn't you love or anything new
I just tasted
It's myself standing
Standing watching me,
Getting hung up
Spaced and wasted
Little lady, etc

 Next To Me 

I lost the only reason that I ever had
I did it crazy by myself
I've always been that mad
I needed someone by me
To share the madness with
To help me through the growing pain
See me through the myth
I thought I'd found the goddess
I never was so sure
But she, as fickle as the wind
On the springtime heather moor
Cavorted on her whim of change
And with her laughter loud
Cursed my good and howled my wrong
And left me in my cloud

I lie in awful silence
Pierced by passing seconds
Every one so long
And full of you
And why

I wake in dreadful hours
Frightened by each turning
Feeling that quite soon
I should give up and die

Of you, of you but stay alive
To walk the echoing
The feeling that it was
Or maybe not
A wretched lie

The silence of the night is pierced
By owls and thieves
Sudden gusts of wind
Rustling my leaves
Loud explosions in the still
Born thoughts of old
Please don't leave your bed for long
It's next to me and cold

 Nowhere To Run 

I'm a rabbit on fire
on fire with mascared eyes
I'm a white rat acquired
by the lab
I'm due to be shot
shot with experiment
waiting in line
for the next stab

I've got nowhere to run to
I've got nowhere to go
and no way of telling you
that none of you know

I burn in hellfire
kept alive in my deathbed
I'm a monkey with wire
in my head
I can't touch my face
rub my eyes or hear anything
suspended twixt
living and dead
they say I don't know
but I live under pressure
showing great symptons
of breakdown and fracture

I've got nowhere to run to
I've got nowhere to go
and no way of telling you
that none of you know

If I (RH) had my way
I'd be in there today
turn the voltage on you
burn you down
with the whole of your school

with your lessons on how
to dismiss others' feelings
while feeling that you're
always ever so kind
never cruel
but that's you
only you
of all us creatures on earth
that could only be you

if only you cared
not to kill not to torture
not to need to cause pain
fear and suffering
to be cool

you'd have all the friends
and the ends and the means
to live with the give
and the fox in the glove  (the atmosphere)
on this jewel                 (the planet)
but that's you
only you
of all us creatures on earth
that could only be you

you're the mournful red eye
of the dog in the cage
the howl of despair
from the pound
forsaken forgotten
the live definition
the sad lonely meaning
of hound

and you've got nowhere to run to
nowhere to go
and no way of telling me
that this isn't so
for some of us know,
and will always care to do so

 Once 

Earth for all creatures
a thought for all (wo)men
right for the speechless
wrong until then?

Eyes for the laughter
thirst for the tongue
hands for together
ears for the song

the song of love
we sing in silence
every moment long

once
here to be done to as we do
with only one chance
here for the wonder of under the stars
for the one and only
once

Joy for the children
hope for the chance
men for the women
now for the dance

the dance of love
we dance just once
in unique circumstance

once
here to be done to as we do
with only one chance
here for the wonder of under the stars
for the one and only once

 Sail Away 

Well the bozos talk of dawn
But it feels like Monday morn
On the washing lines
We still fight for what we fought
But it's getting kind of short
With these futures on our heels
And our sails in fresh winds and new signs

As we sail away...

You may sometimes misconceive
Seeing elders quietly leave
And accusingly
Poiting say they failed
While in turn yourselves hang nailed
On the landmarks of your own dreams
Every tide rushes out losingly

As we sail away...

Well the morning slowly rose
We were gone as first light froze
All the nightmare stars
While the ghosts of former graves
Gentle whispers in the waves
Fleeting shadows in the sails
Shift their sands through old hands into ours

As we sail away...

 Still Life 

Jackdaw watches sunset
From the telegraph pole
At five to three in yellow light
As black as shiny coal

Still life

The world is stopped and waiting
The clock has frozen still
Except for half a million eyes
That wander to the thrill

Of still life

Fading primrose turns to pink
Shadows play dark hand
To mark a place he floated
When he knew he couldn't land

Still life

There's preserved forever
Still life six below
The most perfect impression
Of a wingbeat in the snow

Still life



 The Black Cloud Of Islam 

I'm sick to the teeth of the news on the screen
of hisbullah scum and jihad the obscene
whose men plant the bombs and then live feeling free
to watch women and children be killed on T.V.

which satan delivers a child a death curse
in the name of a worn out collection of verse
I've not read the book so I cannot recite
but I'd bet Salman Rushdie is just about right
underneath the black cloud of islam

What kind of publicity needs so much blood
that's not for some sad diablical god
selling himself as a two-bit Macbeth
as the expect in sentencing cousins to death

and what kind of god can this be anyway
that you have to prostrate to him five times a day
with hate in your heart and a gun in your hand
is force the only thing to understand
underneath the black cloud of islam?

and the butchers who've got all this blood on their hands
are the ones who need god to be stood where he stands
blessing this kidnapping, murder and war
with books written hundreds of ages before

and woman in veils walking paces behind
doesn't sit easy in my mind
it speaks of oppression and no other choice
that rigid compliance with the loudest voice
underneath the black cloud of islam

You can put a lead bullet clean through this guitar
'cos I'm not overjoyed with the story so far
sharing a world with the nutters of god
is as good as being six feet under the sod

words that are written are all here to say
and these are the latest there are anyway
and I am the prophet so don't believe me
I'm the same as the old ones expect that I'm free
to give you a piece of my mind which is this
you're the worst of jehovas blind witlessnesses
with your feet in the door of the deepest abyss
which is underneath the black cloud of islam

 The War Came Home Tonight 

Left right left right
The war came home tonight
Set alight by satellite
Drenched in tracer bullet bright

Left right left right
The newsmen stir their appetite
Camera zooming every goof
Shooting ratings bullet proof
Desperate to generate
A crisis to manipulate

You'll wonder where the country went
In the target rich environment

Left right left right
The corner of the room's alight
With images of pure uptight
To keep the voyeurs glued all night

You'll wonder...
Whose side dog is on
In the golden age of weapon

Wrong right wrong right
Death comes cruising through in spite
To give cold martyrs back their sight
As like as if this black was white

'Dark star' bombs will feed us
With bulletproof newsreaders
Read all about it - next
Turn to the tv - text

Left right left right
The war came home tonight
Set alight by satellite etc

 Twentieth Century Man 

Misty blue halos in your deep sea eyes
Kindling the fire that is making me rise
Willing your hands
To unknown lands
Goodbye twentieth century man
Here comes an old beast

I need that velvety silken down
That flows between your thighs
In my mouth and round my lips
To hold you in my inner eyes

Watching your hands
In unknown lands
Goodbye twentieth century man
Here comes and old beast

Won't you come with me
Tasting your journey
You're so beautiful
Drinkable

Watching your hands
In unknown lands
Goodbye twentieth century man
Here comes and old beast

I'm as hard as I can get
You lying there dripping wet
Both suspended a moment away
Celebrating, along the way

Willing your hands
To unknown lands
I'm just a twentieth century man-beast

 Woman 

Out on the street
Hung in the mid-air
Freer than last year
But still caught in a snare
Stumbling through
Collisions of roles
O how we suffer
Saving our souls

Woman I couldn't let you be
Any less free than me
Woman
Please don't feel so alone
Woman
Now you're out on your own
Woman I couldn't let you be
Any less free than me

Out of my hands
And into your arms
Together we weather
The gathering storms
Woman
On our own terms
A flash in your smile
A touch in your eyes
A taste of desire
New romantic surprise

Woman I couldn't let you be
Any less free than me
I am not a number
I am a free
Woman
At last we can dance
Mother; mother; mother

 Work Of Heart 


II. Two Lovers in the Moon
III. We Are the People
 IV. All Us Children (So Sadly Far Apart)
  V. We Are the People (reprise)
 VI. No One Ever Gets Out Alive (finale)

No one ever gets out alive
Not you or me
Can you imagine TV in heaven
Ghosts on Eleven Alive
Elvis and Jesus on Johnny Carson
God on the same 9 to 5
(Thank goodness) No-one ever gets out alive
Not you or me
Under the spreading chestnut in April
I'm gonna lay me down
Get on with being one of the people
Don't let it get me down
(Thank goodness) No-one ever gets out alive
Not you or me

All of my life I've been chasing reality
All that I write is a dream
But some dreams come true
Though it's only a few
The most are off-beam
And all that I see are the ghosts of the robbers
Who laid all these traps
Where blind politicians made desperate decisions
With wall to wall cops
And I'm so surprised at you
I never realised that you needed living this way
I thought you had brains
But it only remains
To bid you good day
And a very good day
Cos me and my lady know it's so shady
We sometimes try turning away
But where can we go
Where we just wouldn't know
There's only today
But the road's so long and longer
Like a dream adrift a stone
Where she and I together lie
And then apart are thrown
Two pebbles in the wheeltreads
Of passing afternoon
Shed by time and circumstance
Two lovers in the moon
And through the passing years love
I will quest for you and I
I know you are my lady
You'll believe me by and by
By and by

Falling here with her
Into the evening breeze
Over her shoulder
Before the sunset seas
O my love
Must we leave this place
To believe
That all the time
We slowly climb
Towards the vision
We are the people
Precious time began
We are the people
When all is said and done
We are the people
We are everyone
We are the people
And gone
We don't have precious time my love
To hide in high rise crime above
These politics of slime my love
We only have each others eyes
To see the world

(Can I read your hands
Are there any lines
Do we carry on
Are there any signs?)

I'm looking to build a home
With you
If I ask you to be part
Of me
And true
In the heart
That I will always be
In you
And I trust my true love
You in me
And I'm looking to build this dream
Come true
Into the deep of deepest
Heart to heart
With you
And all us children
In this present world
So sadly far apart

Can you hear me

As all the time
We slowly climb
Towards the vision
We are the people
Precious time began
We are the people
When all is said and done
We are the people
We are everyone
And gone

And power
Cannot be held
For longer than splitting an atom
Or longer than batting an eyelid
Or longer than being a bee
On a flower

Any by and by
I'm gonna see your face
In another sky
As we leave this place
With an old invitation in your smile
No prosecution or any trial

And under the spreading chestnut in April
I'm gonna lay my case
With you in my arms as two of the people
Head out to inner space

(Thank goodness) No one ever gets out alive
Not you or me

I didn't say no-one ever got out
But no-one ever gets out alive
Not you or me