They’ve been married for so many years
Now a young love seranade blows sweet nothing in her ear
They’re lonely together, when they’re not apart
It feels like she’s holding on to someone else in the dark.

Oh the love parade is on
Even against all odds
It’ll go on forever
The love parade
Only matinee shows
The love parade.

But if he could put himself into a different skin
He’d be worrying about what he’s let himself in for
Hanging in the air apparent
A point of view almost transparent

So you sold your soul for a pocket full of sweet talk
Forget-me-not kisses at the end of a slow walk
And when it’s done you put your world back on
‘Cause she’s otherwise engaged married to someone

Oh the love parade goes on
Even when you’re gone
It’ll go on forever
The love parade
Only matinee shows
The love parade.

But this is dedicated to the one I love…(repeat to fade)

Submitted by Michael Hack

(Chorus)

1992 I was drownin’ in big cases
No its 97′ and I’m countin’ them big faces
Switch places whupped the four-five and infrared
Filet Mignons and garlic bread
A hard head, big red and gorilla nuts
Got me mobbin’ thru the bay like I don’t give a fuck
I whipped equiped and stay dipped in butter salt
Peel if she real no scrill then I cut em’ off
No fine-ass bitches wit them empty bank books
Worse than them hugly muthafucka’s who can’t cook
The game cooked, for 5 years in the fed
Now its time for these game hungry nigga’s to get fed
Get bread, sew them sucka’s down
Smile in my face, but clown me when they not around me
Talk down on my every move, but I couldn’t give a damn
Playa’s do what they want
The sucka’s do what they can

(Chorus)

Twelve one, seven 0 my D.O.B.
And I been breakin’ hoes since 83′
Money-makin’ business handle it discreetly
Give you my home ###-#### nah beep me
Ain’t no tellin’ who be tellin’ or who they tell
And plus I heard that they be sellin’ that concrete yayo
Get your mail, don’t act like your lil’ sista
And if you lackin’ in this mackin’ a bet you fista
Deep right as I come tight for this Doo Doo Dumb
And that cat K-Lou, knew how to come
With Mac Dre, that 3C veteran
More game than March Madness, and dope is excessive
Hittin’ big licks wouldn’t pull no small caper
I’m a be a dog and stay up like wallpaper
Look at these broke bitches like they stank
Love my bank and stay sharp as a shank

(Chorus

When you were young
Did you ever fall down,
Graze your knee
And want to run to someone
‘Cause now that you’re older
I’ve been falling down,
I want to run to someone
But there’s nobody around.

I can hear the sound
There’s a million hearths
Beating in my room
I wish they would go away,
Ah say it again
There’s a million hearts
That break too soon
Every time you go away.

Every time you go away
Think about the things I say
Think about it twice as long
Tell me what’s going wrong.

I can hear the sound
There’s a million hearths
Beating in my room
I wish they would go away,
Ah say it again
There’s a million hearts
That break too soon
Every time you go away.

Submitted by Michael Hack

While Cinderella’s getting hypnotised
By the Italian with grey-green eyes
I stand deliberatly out of bounds
Winding you up just to bring you down
To my level

So I’m sitting in a corner with a knife in my back
Pretending not to notice that I’m under attack
When a positive lack of direction breaks upon my shoulders

You may dance with him all night long
Live your romance out in a popular song
But baby you’re gonna miss me when the radio comes on
And they’re playing my song.

The boys are queuing up at every one-night stand
To issue their final demands
The stand’s telling them about this guy
And so they’re standing with her but they’re keeping their eyes
On some other girl

Me, I’m trying to hold it down
By thinking about the words to some other song
When I’m forced into making polite conversation
I open the window to get some ventilation
Try to break away from the intellectual starvation.

Meanwhile the taxis are calling
And the angels are falling
Down into the garden of truth
Where two star-crossed lovers
Cut across one another
And make their way home one by one.

He may fire imagination into your eyes
I know strong personalities are hard to find
You messed up mine;
We’ve got a good thing let’s keep on trying
Baby you’re gonna miss me when the radio comes ’round to my time.

Submitted by Michael Hack

(chant)
Ah hey ma ma ma
Life in a northern town.

They sat on the stoney ground
And he took out a cigarette out
And everyone else came down
To listen.
He said “In winter 1963
It felt like the world would freeze
With John F. Kennedy
And The Beatles.”

(Chant)
Ah- hey ma ma ma
Life in a northern town.
Ah hey ma ma ma
All the work shut down.

The evening had turned to rain
Watch the water roll down the drain,
As we followed him down
To the station
And though he never would wave goodbye,
You could see it written in his eyes
As the train pulled out of sight
Bye-bye

(Chant)
Ah hey ma ma ma
Life in a northern town.
Ah hey ma ma ma
Life in a northern town

You shone a light in my life that could light up Park Lane
I was feeling nervous ’cause I’d missed my gravy train
Now there’s no need to keep on running with the pack
‘Cause I know pretty soon I’ll come running back
I’m bound
Caught up
Aha
Was bound to be
Don’t you know that
Our love
Was bound to be
You go from 1 to 3
It’s just like ‘Air on a G String’
Easy as A-B-C

Too much of nothing and it just won’t pay the rent
Can’t take insurance out on General Accident
Now there’s no need to keep on running with the pack
‘Cause i know pretty soon that in the end I’ll come running back
Don’t you know that.

Submitted by Michael Hack

They’re moving on
Keep a moving it yeah
They’re moving on
We’ll make it this time
I know we’re gonna make it this time
Now the weight of intention carried the motion
And the damage was over done
and was started as a bid for independence
Has ended with a starting gun
And he’s wishing that he never said “All out”
But the words just get lost in space
And you know it’s such a lonely place
When you realize you’ve lost that face
She’s moving on
Counter revolution has taken place

We’re moving on
Keep a moving it yeah
We’re moving on
We’ll make it this time
I know we’re gonna make it this time

Submitted by Michael Hack

And Richard takes a train to go uptown
You know he’s gonna find a place where the money just walks around
And with the grace of a wildcat
He steals a bag without detection
Walks on tiptoes right back
To make the right connection.

And when he leaves this world
Well then he won’t feel alone
Now the fighting has all gone.
No more just trying to hold on
To the dreams of this world
Where he never quite belonged.

Belinda meets a friend at a pub called ‘The Gun’
It’s full of lots of lonely people all ot trying to have some fun.
She says, “I’ll be right back”
Although you know it’s only ten to one
Her eyes are just like a wild cat
And where’s the summer gone.

She’s been working on the ships for easy money
It’s a bigger kind of tip and that may be because
You run a bigger kind of risk
She’s got the dedication written in a kiss
In the promise of intoxicated bliss.

She’s misunderstood for all the lonely people
Living in the world and getting nowhere,
Something always just goes wrong.
Why should they try to hold on
To the dreams of this world
Where they never wuite belonged.

Gina says she’s gonna stop,
Settle down, you know, give it all up,
But it’s so hard to give it up
When all your friends say they just can’t
Stop.

They beat up a girl on the Ford Estate with a baseball bat
Last night the vigilante city fathers tried to get their daughters back.
They didn’t understand
A different kind of smack was needed
Than the back of the hand
Yeah, something else was always needed.

This is for all the misunderstood lonely people
Living in the world and getting nowhere
Something always just goes wrong.
Why should they try to hold on
To the dreams of this world
Where they never quite belonged?
Where they never quite belonged.

Submitted by Michael Hack

Oh, when the wheat was high
And a big moon sailed in a rolling sky
And the stars came down so close
You could touch them just like rings
And you felt so happy-sad
It all seemed part of the same thing
Oh, when the days ran wild
And he was a child

And later on when the tractors came
And made light work, that would have taken days
So with nothing else to do
We just turned the days to rain
It would take an endless chain of circumstance
To get up and start again

Oh, when the tractors came
The the field of grain.
Johnny, now those days have ended
There’s no more time on our side
They say, in a little while
It will all take on a new light.

Submitted by Michael Hack

So if you’re blue and skies are grey
That’s when I love more
The one dream in my life
The one dream that’s in my life
The one dream in my life
That I live for.

There’s a story that I heard
About a man at war
With himself,
He couldn’t tell
Which side he was fighting for

So if your colours start to fade
That’s when you reach out for
The one dream in your life
The one dream that’s in your life
The one dream in your life
That matters more.

I woke up to find
Life was just leading me on that’s all,
Then I found out
That I could reach it all

By just holding that one dream in my life
Right before my eyes.
The one dream in my life
The one dream that’s in my life
The one dream in my life
That I live for.

Nick Laird Clowes (b: 2/5/57); Kate St. John (b: 10/2/57)

Submitted by Michael Hack

I suppose we were
Somewhere in the sun
We walked in coloured fields
In places on the run.
What a dream I had
Dressed in coloured shawls
THough the night was so warm
And a nightingale
Sat on a castle wall
While the river ran on
Calling – hearing you call
The river ran on
Running –
The river ran on.
It felt as if we were
In places yet unknown
We walked through the bazaars
In places on the run
What a dream I had
Walking by the wall
Oh the raiment and all
The stars that flickered by
Soon to be replaced
If I asked them they’d fall
Calling – hearing you call
The river ran on
Running –
The river ran on.
What a dream I had
Dressed in coloured shawls
Though the night was so warm,
And in the darkness I
Tried to take your hand
But it was nothing at all.
Nothing at all
The river ran on
Nothing at all.
The river ran on.

Submitted by Michael Hack

In the lowlands

I rise up in the evening
and rebuild a heart of stone
All around the border
where your memories have grown
‘Til someone told me don’t you know
there is no hiding place
Not until you meet it face to face

In the lowlands
On the battlefield

I can see a big bright continent
where fear does not exist
Where you could walk away from me
and I would not resist
And I won’t be coming back again
to see where we went wrong
Never more to hear your siren song

In the lowlands
In the rain
On the street
In all the places
Where we used to meet
In the lowlands
In the lowlands

The Dream Academy – “Lowlands