ON THE TURNING AWAY
On the turning away,
from the pale and downtrodden.
And words they say
which we won't understand.
"Don't accept that what's happening.
Is just a case of other suffering.
Or you'll find that you're joining in
the turning away".
It's a sin that somehow,
light is changing to shadow.
And casting it's shroud
over all we have known
unaware how the ranks have grown.
Driven on by heart of stone,
we could find that we're all alone
in the dream of the proud.
On the wings of the night,
as the daytime is stirring
where the speechless unite.
In a silent accord,
using words you will find are strange.
And mesmerized as they light the flame
feel the new wind of change,
on the wings of the night.
No more turning away,
from the weak and the weary.
No more turning away,
from the coldness inside.
Just a world that we all must share.
It's not enough just to stand and stare.
Is it only a dream that there'll be,
no more turning away?
YET ANOTHER MOVIE
One sound, one single sound.
One kiss, one single kiss,
a face outside the window pane,
however did it come to this?
A man who ran: A child who cried,
a girl who heard, a voice that lied.
The sun that burned a fiery red.
The vision of an empty bed.
The use of force, he was so touch.
She'll soon submit, she's had enough.
The march of fate, the broken will,
someone is lying very still.
He has laughed and he has cried,
he has fought and he has died.
He's just the same as all the rest,
he's not the worst, he's not the best.
And still this gazelles murmuring,
the babbling that I brook,
the seas of faces, eyes upraised,
the empty screen, the vacant look.
A man in black on a snow white horse,
a pointless life has run it's course,
the red rimmed eyes, the tears still run.
As the fades into the setting sun.
A NEW MACHINE – PART I
I have always been here,
I have always looked out from behind these eyes.
It feels like more than a lifetime,
feels like more than a lifetime.
Sometimes I get tired of the waiting,
sometimes I get tired of being in here.
Is this the way it has always been?
Could it ever have been different?
Do you ever get tired of the waiting?
Do you ever get tired of being in there?
Don't worry, nobody lives forever,
nobody lives forever.
A NEW MACHINE – PART II
I will always be here,
I will always look out from behind these eyes.
It's only a lifetime,
it's only a lifetime,
it's only a lifetime.
SORROW
The sweet smell of great sorrow lies over the land.
Plumes of smoke rise and merge into the leaden sky:
a man lies and dreams of green fields and rivers,
but awakes to a morning with no reason for waking.
He's haunted by the memory of a lost paradise
in his youth or a dream, he can't be precise,
he's chained forever to a world that's departed,
it's not enough,it's not enough.
His blood has frozen amp; curdled with fright,
his knees have trembled amp; given way in the night,
his hand has weakened at the moment of truth,
his step has faltered.
One world, one soul,
time pass, the river roll.
And he talks to the river of lost love and dedication,
and silent replies that swirl invitation.
Flow dark and troubled to an oily sea,
a grim intimation of what is to be.
There's an unceasing wind that blows through this night.
And there's dust in my eyes, that blinds my sight,
and silence that speaks so much louder than words,
of promises broken.
The division bell ‘94
‘94
WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME
As you look around this room tonight
Settle in your seat and dim the lights
Do you want my blood, do you want my tears
What do you want
What do you want from me
Should I sing until I can't sing any more
Play these things until my fingers are raw
You're so hard to please
What do you want from me
Do you think that I know something you don't know
What do you want from me
If I don't promise you the answers would you go
What do you want from me
Should I stand out in the rain
Do you want me to make a daisy chain for you
I'm not the one you need
What do you want from me
You can have anything you want
You can drift, you can dream, even walk on water
Anything you want
You can own everything you see
Sell your soul for complete control
Is that really what you need
You can lose yourself this night
See inside there is nothing to hide
Turn and face the light
What do you want from me
POLES APART
Did you know… It was all going to go so wrong for you
And did you see it was going to be so right for me
Why did we tell you then
You were always the golden boy then
And that you'd never lose that light in your eyes
Hey you… did you ever realise what you'd become
And did you see that it wasn't only me you were running from
Did you know all the time but it never bothered you anyway
Leading the blind while stared out the steel in your eyes
The rain fell slow, down on the roofs of uncertainty
I thought of you and the years and all the sadness fell away from me
And did you know…
I never thought that you'd lose that light in your eyes