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The world is full of other people (ooh ooh) take a look around We’re quick to laugh when they’ve got troubles (ooh ooh) and we put `em down We go We’re not so hot you know It’s like a roller coaster On a downward motion On a one way street We can’t control our feet [...]
GREY VICTORY (Lombardo/Buck/Merchant) There was light and atomic fission Swelling wind Rising ash Tide of Black Rain Cement seared shadow traces Reminiscent of their last commands Instantly one thousand flames arising Ill scent the burning hides surrounding A settlement debased entirely Enola Gay had made a casual delivery Please build a future, darling With our [...]
You won a prize for that, for telling lies like that so well that I believed it. I never felt cheated. You were the chosen one, the pure eyes of Noah’s dove. Choir boys and angles stole your lips and your halo. In your reckless mind, you act as if you’ve got more lives. In [...]
================================== Angels, From the Realms of Glory ================================== Angels, from the realms of glory, Wing your flight o’er all the earth; Ye, who sang creation’s story, Now proclaim Messiah’s birth: Come and worship, Come and worship Worship Christ, the new-born King. Shepherds in the field abiding, Watching o’er your flocks by night, God with man [...]
I dreamed of a circle, I dreamed of a circle round. And in that circle I had made were all the worlds unformed and unborn yet. A volume, a sphere that was the earth, that was the moon, that did revolve around my room. I dreamed of a circle, I dreamed of a circle round. [...]
Can I be unhappy? Look at what I see: a beast in furs and crowned in luxury. He’s a wealthy man in the poorest land, a self-appointed king, and there’s no complaining while he’s reigning. The lambs are bare of fleece and cold; the lion has stolen that, I’m told. There must be some creature [...]
MY MOTHER THE WAR (Lombardo/Walsh/Merchant) She borders the pavement Flanks avenues Parades pass white glove attended by My mother the war She’ll raise a shaft Lift a banner Toss a rose My mother the war She’s made every effort To salvage the few Bought fourteen liberty bonds My mother the war Mother the war She [...]
I saw time turn so much there to unlearn, you were envy you wouldnt say you tore heart strings that sorry day dark light hid the tears one for each of the years love has reasons reason never knows time turns over love overflows I should have spoken sooner on that sorry day your arms [...]
Chorus: Did you ever see Dallas from a DC-9 at night? Dallas is a jewel Yeah, Dallas is a beautiful sight Dallas is a jungle But Dallas gives a beautiful light Did you ever see Dallas from a DC-9 at night? Now Dallas is a woman who will walk on you when you’re down But [...]
============================ O Little Town of Bethlehem ============================ O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see the lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by; Yet in thy dark streets shineth The everlasting Light; The hopes and fears of all the years Are met in thee to-night. For Christ is born [...]
on one morning in the month of May when all the birds were singing I saw a lovely maiden stray across the fields at break of day she softly sung her roundelay the tide flows in the tide flows out twice every day returning her cheeks were red her eyes were brown her hair in [...]
There like a feather you fell someones heaven above me floating so fickle tempting me teasing my ways thrown from its clutches I struggle to free what escapes me Absalom hanging like you Im caught in between heaven then earth then heaven between you release me untangle my hair Absalom hanging like you Im caught [...]
Chorus: Everybody’s wondering what and where they all came from Everybody’s worrying ’bout where they’re gonna go when the whole thing’s done Nobody knows for certain, so it’s all the same to me Think I’ll just let the mystery be Some say once gone, you’re gone forever Some say they’re gonna come back Some say [...]
music: Robert Buck & Dennis Drew/lyric: Natalie Merchant ] dance to the sun a kiss to the earth embrace a stone come the small black book come the brandy cask one strange disease the well worded paper signed by the drunken hands of thieves and suddenly they were told to leave as the snake uncoiled [...]
From Rochdale to Ocho Rios From Ocho Rios to Dorking From Dorking its back to Rochdale From Rochdale to Ocho Rios You spend half your life in transit But that’s just the way God plans it Pack a shirt and some fresh pajamas That’s all you need Tried to get a flight out to San [...]
Greta’s cedar hope chest Is full of pamphlets Glass shelves of romantic vignettes A journal laced with sedimentary prose Norma gathers and collects vintage photoplays Hair combs valentines Lillian allows the animals to scratch Leather crack Mail collect in the box coatings peel Agnes veiled cathedral dweller Smiles with benevolent pain It’s Katrina’s fair Tuesday [...]
music: Natalie Merchant/lyric: Natalie Merchant ] wide open falsehood the clan destine truths rival till the end in a series of duels pardon the drapery language I choose Waltz in Vienna has taught me to use every tall room a fiction leather bound treasure books up to the ceiling gold spine upon spine the guile [...]
Transistorised, and anodised Chrome plated, squeaky clean Oh Tokyo, oh Tokyo Oh Tokyo I love you You’re trembling, you’re choking But you’re magical to me Oh Tokyo, oh Tokyo Oh Tokyo I love you Kimonos, and Geisha girls From grade one, down to three Oh Tokyo, oh Tokyo Oh Tokyo I love you Land of [...]
These are These are days you’ll remember Never before and never since, I promise Will the whole world be warm as this And as you feel it, You’ll know it’s true That you – you are blessed and lucky It’s true – that you Are touched by something That will grow and bloom in you [...]
I see the leaves of autumn changing falling turning what was green I see a door standing open, open to curiosity we could be together tear it all apart would you ever notice what was hidden in my heart heartstrong do we ever listen closely as willows start to weep there as we stood upon [...]