- 1985
- The Love
of Richard Nixon
- Empty Souls
- A Song
for Departure
- I Live to
Fall Asleep
- To Repel
Ghosts
- Emily
- Glasnost
- Always /
Never
- Solitude
Sometimes Is
- Fragments
- Cardiff
Afterlife
1985
In 1985 I placed a bet and lied Losing all that I had At least with all my heart intact
In 1985 Orwell was proved right Torville and Dean's Bolero Redundant as a sad Welsh chapel
In 1985, in 1985 So God is dead Like Nietzsche said Superstition is all we have left
Circle the wagons We're under attack We've realised there's no going back We've realised there's no going back
In 1985 The civil war failed why Kept hidden like scars of birth Nature unable to soften the words
In 1985 My words they came alive Friends were made for life Morrissey and Mar gave me choice
In 1985, in 1985 So God is dead Like Nietzsche said Only 16 years of age he said See all the tears for the walking dead
We've realised there's no going back We've realised there's no going back
In 1985 I placed a bet and lied Losing all that I had
The Love of Richard Nixon
The world on your shoulders The love of your mother The fear of the future The best years behind you The world is getting older The times they fall behind you The need it still grows stronger The best years never found you
The love of Richard Nixon, death without assasination The love of Richard Nixon, yeah they all betrayed you The love of Richard Nixon, death without assasination Yeah they all betrayed you Yeah and your country too
Love build around the sandy beaches Love rains down like Vietnam's leeches Richard the third in the White House Cowering behind divided curtains
The world is getting older The times they fall behind you The need it still grows stronger The best years never found you
Ah, the love of richard nixon, death without assasination The love of Richard Nixon, yeah they all betrayed you The love of Richard Nixon, death without assasination Yeah they all betrayed you Yeah and your country too
The love of Richard Nixon, death without assasination The love of Richard Nixon, yeah they all betrayed you People forget China and your war on cancer Yeah they all betrayed you Yeah and your country too
In all the decisions I have made in my public life, I have always tried to do what was best for the nation. I have never been a quitte
Empty Souls
Empty souls will leave their homes To find a place where they're alone Rattling memories and hollow bones Leaves a taste so bitter and cold
For empty souls will stand alone Shivering like black-eyed dogs Waiting to be taken home Where that is they only know
Exposed to a truth we don't know Collapsing like the twin towers Falling down like April showers Colossal endless like a marathon
God knows what makes the comparison God knows what makes the comparison For the empty souls - for the empty souls
For empty souls they stand alone Shivering like black-eyed dogs Waiting to be taken home Where that is they only know
Exposed to a truth we don't know Collapsing like the twin towers Falling down like April showers Colossal endless like a marathon
God knows what makes the comparison God knows what makes the comparison For the empty souls - for the empty souls
Colossal endless like a marathon God knows what makes the comparison God knows what makes the comparison For the empty souls - for the empty souls.
A Song for Departure
And all the masks I carry on my face For you, for another Some calm and then some grace But once within a long and broken night A face like mine, bereft of dreams and white
This is a song, this is a song a song for a departure
This is a song This is a song, this is a song
a song to take you homewards This is a song
Maybe this strangeness only ever was To hide ourselves from some kind of happiness But always the moment it just seems to stay Tearing it off like so many calendar days
This is a song, this is a song a song for a departure This is a song This is a song, this is a song
a song to break your heart to This is a song
This is a song, this is a song a song for broken lovers This is a song This is a song, this is a song a song to take you homewards
This is a song This is a song, this is a song a song to break your heart to This is a song
I live to fall asleep
I live to fall asleep its when i stop the hate I never want to dream it infiltrates beauty I live to fall asleep regenerate and sin skin so tense gives in I've lived enough to kill
when did you become another distant friend everyone who loved you stayed waited till the end when did you become another distant friend everyone who loved you stayed waited till the end when did you decide that sleep could save your life how could you become another boy struck down with love
I live to fall asleep I live to fall asleep
I live to fall asleep it helps me through the day drink is never dulled a pain so deep does run I live to fall asleep serene alone happy holding on to screams waiting for the time
when did you become another distant friend everyone who loved you stayed waited till the end when did you become another distant friend everyone who loved you stayed waited till the end when did you decide that sleep could save your life how could you become another boy struck down with love
I live to fall asleep I live to fall asleep
so lazy lazy lazy chuck down all the pills needing to remember how and why to live when did you decide that sleep could save your life how could you become another boy struck down with love
I live to fall asleep I live to fall asleep
To Repell ghosts
When the disappearing begins The ghosts we kept within Can break free from inside And untie our blindfold eyes
To repel ghosts To repel ghosts
To repel ghosts To repel ghosts
So when the ghosts find you Be careful but be graceful For all will be revealed When ghosts become set free
A soul with pain has no image to reclaim
To repel ghosts To repel ghosts
A soul with pain has no image to reclaim
To repel ghosts To repel ghosts
Build bridges and not roads Make love, make hate, make war
A soul with pain has no image to reclaim
To repel ghosts To repel ghosts
A soul with pain has no image to reclaim
To repel ghosts To repel ghosts
Emily
Emily Emily a gift to me Emily Emily a modern sense of beauty Emily as precious as your memory A simple world called liberty
The relics the ghosts all down so many roads The relics the ghosts all down so many roads Emily So pity poor Emily You’ve been replaced by charity
It’s what you forget what you forget that kills you It’s what you remember what you remember that makes you We used to have answers Now we have only questions But now have no directions The relics the ghosts all down so many roads The relics the ghosts all down so many roads Emily So pity poor Emily You’ve been replaced by charity
It’s what you forget what you forget that kills you It’s what you remember what you remember that makes you We used to have answers Now we have only questions But now have no directions
Glasnost
When did life get so, get so complicated When did life start, start accelerating Make life slower Stop life growing
If we can still fall in love If we can still fall in love Embrace with us - make your own Glasnost
And in defeat cling to these words so clear Humiliations not easily understood Onto the future Such messages are burned
If we can still fall in love If we can still fall in love Embrace with us - make your own Glasnost
If we can still fall in love If we can still fall in love Embrace with us - make your own Glasnost
If we can still fall in love If we can still fall in love Embrace with us - make your own Glasnost
Always/Never
Always - never on my mind Always - always out of time Always - always letting someone down
Always - always wanting more Always - always stand-alone Always - always getting something wrong
Longing for - its been a long time longing for To carry the sky away
Always - never said and done Always - always changed my mind Always - always trying to succeed
Always - never facing you Always - never being true Always - always gonna be this way
Longing for - its been a long time longing for To carry the sky away
Longing for - its been a long time longing for To carry the sky away
Always - never Always - never Always - never Always - never
Solitude Sometimes is
Solitude Sometimes Is The place that I would like to live Solitude Sometimes Is When nothing really seems to fit
If black were truly black not grey It might provide some depth to pray To black out all the worlds of men And demons too but not even then Solitude Sometimes Is
Solitude Sometimes Is Life that no longer exists Solitude Sometimes Is When there's nothing left to give
If black were truly black not grey It might provide some depth to pray To black out all the worlds of men And demons too but not even then Solitude Sometimes Is
Drop your bombs on all I see Leave this world alone for me The thing I need to hide behind It reigns beneath my holy skies
If black were truly black not grey It might provide some depth to pray To black out all the worlds of men And demons too but not even then Solitude Sometimes Is Solitude Sometimes Is Solitude Sometimes Is Solitude Sometimes Is
Fragments
Strung out eyes as cold as worship Two minutes of silence in a century of screams Tiny massive hands emphatic lonely soul Skin against skin and blood against blood
This is the place where peace exists This is the place where my mind resists The fragments fail to hold me The fragments fail to hold me
When there’s time I read your words There is no point disguising you’re the one whose hurt Laid bloody and bare to see The effects will fail to desert me
This is the place where peace exists This is the place where my mind resists The fragments fail to hold me The fragments fail to hold me
Cardiff Afterlife
If the love between us Has faded away Left in the rain Scratching at the stains
The paralysed future The past sideways crawl I must give up on this It makes no sense at all Makes no sense at all
In the Cardiff afterlife In the Cardiff afterlife We sense the breaking of our lives In the Cardiff afterlife
In the Cardiff afterlife
And yet I kept my silence Your memory is still mine No I will not share them Acquaintance through denial
For I witnessed splendour And evil that no-one saw And I felt kindness And vanity for sure And vanity for sure
In the Cardiff afterlife In the Cardiff afterlife We sensed the breaking of our lives In the Cardiff afterlife
In the Cardiff afterlife
In the Cardiff afterlife In the Cardiff afterlife We sensed the breaking of our lives In the Cardiff afterlife
In the Cardiff
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