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When It All Comes Down You gave me more than I hoped for Your right to take it all away The trouper you are you always leave them wanting more But it won't always be that way Happy I died happy Look who's coming on down - (You've got everything and your bird can sing One day it will fly away) - Happy I died happy Look who's coming on down -(You've got everything and your bird can sing One day it will fly away)- Here's a boy with time on his side Here's the girl too stupid to hide (Away from all...) All the mistakes I have seen you make before Just tell me, who'll be your friend when it all comes down Your big screen self is half of what you could be I'm still brushing stardust from my body, gee Oh gee , oh boy look at you now, Johnny, what's left of you is meant for me When it all comes down, you'll see Happy I died happy Look who's coming on down -(You've got everything and your bird can sing One day it will fly away)- Happy I died happy Look who's coming on down -(You've got everything and your bird can sing one day it will fly away)- Br. Here's a boy with time on his side Here's the girl too stupid to hide (Away from all...) All the mistakes I have seen you make before Just tell me, who'll be your friend when it all comes down.

Sport Most Royal Ah, my flash girl, she's a swimmer Wears her hair cut short behind Sprayed our names at every station Southbound on the Northern Line. Summer days at Hampstead ponds Toes caught in aquatic fronds Drinking Red Stripe by the water Watching the wooing of Mrs Windsor's Swinging daughter. Shouldn't oughta jump in the deep end, Annie! Shouldn't oughta jump in the deep end, Annie! Close the closet door behind you, girl. Kissed by Valerie on the make Her toilet rolls and sticky tape Set aside with those cardboard boxes For Sport Most Royal and that's not hunting Foxes...

Did She Did she say she'd change your world From grey to black and white Poor fool Did she gaze into your eyes And separate the truth from lies While it lasted Nothing else mattered no one existed Mistress master Midnight tears and midnight laughter She said the same things to me Promised the same things to me With devotion my armour Her love was a weapon she said I'm going to catch you, Make you look at the sun How blind with knowledge we'd become But I was not to be the only one While it lasted Nothing else mattered no one existed Mistress master Midnight tears and midnight laughter She said the same things to me Promised the same things to me.

 

 

 

LONDON, QUEEN OF MY HEART won't you fire up that ride again, once more, we'll watch the sun rise again waist deep in the pink serpentine me and you- London, queen of my heart. too much laughing and tumbling down upstairs on the night bus from camden town. plague rhymes and hawksmoor's lost underground and you, London, queen of my heart. London, queen of my heart. in your secret streets i've seen you naked and asleep on late nights lost in the rain and from early morning trains now you won't leave me- leave me- i keep moving but you won't let go. who'd have thought that i'd miss still those sickly summers and that old, damp chill that loves to creep in beside you while you sleep. London, queen of my heart. won't you fire up that ride again once more, take me inside again too deep in the black serpentine me and you, London, queen of my heart.

THE GRAVITY WITHIN this is not romance you see it's just the pull of gravity wrapping around you and me as if it were meant to be. i close my eyes and i can feel all of that life inside you here's where you hide wordlessly real waiting for light to find you. they keep it dark like God can't see their fingers talk while their eyes go stealing. when the walls close in here's where you come in all that scandinavian skin. pulling me in- the gravity within.

IN THE WHITE RAIN thirty three years old still daring the needle to steal your soul and you say you can't imagine what i do here. these are not the lessons we would have chosen this is not a town that too much grows in everybody cursed it and built it regardless. some things aren't there to get over you learn it the hard way. friends come to stay and say, why'd you stay here, why'd they build here, what were they thinking when they made their claims here? no, no, no, never get over. you learn it the hard way. we slowly burn, we slowly freeze and dream of marquette on his knees. if i could i'd write to you, i miss you and i love you too, but telling you so is like closing down a small war. We slowly burn, we slowly freeze and the calendar slowly drops its leaves. the avalanches, quakes and slides of paradise will pass us by. We'll be the last ones standing in the white rain.

THIS IS HOW WE FALL (Secret Way) august she slips through sycamores tangled in sorcery heaven in slow waves bends to the mercury's decree. You still hear it calling the shining shadow and now something's falling you take what you need to let go this is how we fall. don't cry, it's all right tender are the arms of night this is how you pray you laugh, you smile but you walk a long mile in your secret way. You still hear it calling ... the indigo fleet in summer thrall slows the fall of night for angels in the dust that streams eternal in the light. You still hear it calling...

YELLOW GARDEN I grow a yellow garden, it's depressing in the daytime but underneath the moonlight, you should see it shine. children once they learn to talk, soon learn to avoid me. it's been that way since i was small but most pets seem to like me so they say. (They don't call me) misfit- born out of time. (oh yes you are oh yes you are...) i was born with something missing, i cover up the holes by pumping music in my head and something in my blood to keep me steady, keep me keeping on. (They call me) misfit- born out of time. but that doesn't mean i'm beyond the things you people like- such as peace and love. this is my confession, the end of dinner parties, an awkward smile, an exchanged glance, the shifting feet- the secret dance oh i know why (they all call me) misfit- born out of time. But that doesn't mean i'm beyond the things you people like-such as peace and love. and i'm curious, getting stranger....

WHAT ARE YOU DOING pity me thinking of you. the hours worn and reason flown. where are you to help me through thoughts i shouldn't think alone. what are you doing when you're not breaking my heart does the time go slow. What are you doing when you're not breaking my heart and you know you know. pity me thinking of you. so many instincts misapplied. looking at you what am i supposed to do show me the light and i go blind what are you doing when you're not breaking my heart does the time go slow. What are you doing when you're not breaking my heart and you know- you know. count the ways i spend the days trying not to let go of what i know is true - that i'll forget you and what you do. What are you doing when you're not breaking my heart does the time go slow. And you know- you know.

GIVING IN our jewels have passed on in the attic our horses run barefoot through the paddock the madeleine crumbs and stolen cakes lie still sticky on the plate at daybreak. And we're coming down. one after one our days are gone we'll wave them good-bye together. for there's no fun in hanging on to talk, talk about the weather. sinking...singing... we're coming down. cut our boat free sail out to sea sinking deeper and down. me into you, you into me the fear that binds us unbound. sinking... singing... we're coming down. The silent inky baying of the eight-eyed guards of the wet, jet deep rouses the long-backed monster from an ancient sleep. One after one our limbs are prey but we don't feel the pain, singing as we sink- back home again,back home again, it's so good giving in, so good giving in... stroked by shiny-eyed starfish and cold-fingered squid, singing as we sink- it's so good giving in...

I REMEMBER THE SUN i remember the sun shine down through the trees it would light my way then the sky turned gray. i remember the sun like a crystal ball from the edge of the sky i would watch it fall. The passion drives you the pain relents and time goes by so slowly... i remember the sun as something real like a cavern's torch whose light i'd steal. i remember the sun as a buried shrine i abandoned once then claimed as mine. The passion drives you the pain relents and time goes by so slowly...

GREEN GROWS THE GROUND green grows the ground... and the world waits without a sound. And i watched it all i felt nothing, i felt everything, i felt lucky to get another chance. shots ring out and you can feel it shaken. new year... new world, give it back what you have taken. on the iron range, two sisters to thunder bay. through a cold wind blowing, showing no mercy. Shots ring out and you can feel it shaken. New year... new world give it back what you have taken. green grows the ground (bury it deep in the ground...) and the world waits without a sound.

YOU KNOW IT'S YOU tonight i caught a glimpse of something i thought i could not replace. And i know something's been missing since the last time i saw your face. i saw someone who... moves like you and it's all that i can do to keep my feet on the ground or stop myself from taking hold and asking why so cold, you know it's you. if that's what comes of wishful thinking i wish the ground would open up and swallow your ghost and as for me - i am already sinking. moves like you and it's all that i can do to keep my feet on the ground or stop myself from taking hold and asking why so cold, you know it's you. though it's just someone who moves like you it's all that i can do to stop myself from taking hold and saying angel. And saying, angel- i'll walk you home.

THE CIRCLE BENDS i've got no clues thought you should know. i burned those bridges so long ago. i thought, i listened, i hesitated, i missed all my chances while i waited. i think of you i think of sin. i think how long i hid that feeling. The circle bends we take the turn around again we never learn. there's no future in the future there's no prophet in the past. You may think you're secure now but it won't last. i went walking on eggshells while you were dancing on air. i went dipping in the dream well- and i drowned there. i think of you i think of sin. i think how long i hid that feeling. The circle bends we take the turn around again we never learn. idle minds rust in the gray April rain traffic and telephones nothing to say doomed to be destined for obscurity. i turned to you, you turned to stone. it haunts me most when i'm alone. So, crease the page and break the pen and close the book you barely opened. i think of you i think of sin. i think how long i hid that feeling. The circle bends we take the turn around again we never learn.

Reprinted from Cath Carroll (©2000Lilypad/Heart&Soul)

 

Breathe For Me Have I shown you my regrets A thousand icy statuettes That surround me they won't melt away- hey, hey, hey hey help me chase away the day Abandoned in forgotten wagers Listen to those guilty strangers Ask my name- I give them yours, I'm sorry - hey, hey, hey , hey help me chase away the day Make me blind, leave on the light, breathe for me 'Cause I've got no sense and I've got no pride All I've got is this twisted-up notion inside That when I see your face it feels like coming home When I see your face it feels like coming home When I see your face it feels like coming home Oh when I see you it sure feels like coming home You're so alive you act so free Easy in your mortality Tell the beast here, you've come to stay- hey, hey, hey, hey to help me chase away the day solo Make me blind, leave on the light, breathe for me Because I've got no sense and I've got no pride All I've got is this twisted-up notion inside That when I see your face it feels like coming home When I see your face it feels like coming home When I see your face it feels like coming home Oh when I see you it sure feels like coming home Hey, hey, hey, hey, X2 I've got no sense I've got no pride All I've got is this twisted up notion inside... Hey Hey Hey Hey.

Easter Bunny Song Oh you're so proud, you tell your friends There's no blood and no violence You'd better not smile because we both know Every minute of the silence You made me carry that dead thing So don't you come around And you won't say what you're saving me for It gets you out of lying And if there's nothing there anymore Like you I just stopped trying There'll come a time you'll need to ask her If there's something you should know She'll look right through you, you're just going to hear her Laughing at the late-night show You made me carry that dead thing So don't you come around And you won't say what you're saving me for It gets you out of lying And if there's nothing there anymore Like you I just stopped trying Solo And you won't say what you're saving me for It gets you out of lying And if there's nothing there anymore Like you I just stopped trying

Into Day You must be the sun, you must be the light Look how the helpless bring you their night And you turn it to day Sunrise and sundown, I know what that means I've heard the noise that falls in between And I hear what you say I hear night turns into day And I hear what you say I believe anything my dear, If it's what I want to hear.

I Know I lived by the highway and all my lives were imaginary Accidents would happen, the cops would come, light up my room I got to know their names Some people never learn They just find another bridge to burn X2 When I was a child, I watched the world that that, lying on my back We were always driving through the night past cinemas in orange light And Texaco, Amoco, Mobil I know. What they don't tell you is It doesn't burn up, it doesn't burn down It comes back around and around and around and around Another lesson unlearned In a different town The surface of you skin is backlit as the coca-cola sign shines in Headlamps sweep the room and rise to find your thighs and open eyes Believe me, I know Some people never learn They just find another bridge to burn

Jimmy's Candy Can't keep from drowning in the wishing well... Got burned so bad I can still see the lines Of the dress I wore The things I should have done Were bound to stay undone And the sun burned on I'm helplessly falling apart before him Can't keep from drowning in the wishing well... Pleasure and pain Have come to mean the same I must be easy prey Now the dealings done The fates, they had their fun And the man moved on Can't keep from drowning in the wishing well...

Just Once I awake at first light to the low-flying planes As the first neighbour leaves for the first morning train And slams the door I know I swore there'd never be a time when I'd go losing my way so blindly again I just stare and I just dream Oh, tell me, oh, tell me How do I get to you And I wake up too early too often And I sleepwalk the whole week through I feel the night on my skin I'm alone again And I pretend the darkness is you. If I were you, I'd lock myself away all alone, all alone and I'd waste a whole day I'd just stare and I'd just dream, And I wake up too early too often And I sleepwalk the whole week through I feel the night on my skin I'm alone again And I pretend ...Just once with you

Lullaby For A Steeplejack You say you can see five states in the full moon's light Is it a long way down? The trawlerman of bad dreams sail by He's casting out his nets across the sky You always felt the rain Before it left the clouds That's the way you're made Always looking down And when the time comes to step out there into thin air I know you'll fly I, I wish I could see, where on earth are you tonight? is it a long way down? The trawlerman of bad dreams sail by He's casting out his nets across the sky He says you've learned to walk beside your worst imaginings In cold remembrance beside your enemies your dreams And when the time comes to step out there into thin air I know you'll fly

Mississippi River Factory Town He was packing bags in the supermarket Saturday afternoon in the nice part of town He was smiling to himself, bet he was thinking what he'd do that night Oh those pretty arms can't wait to wrap around him oh, so tight Would that be you all those years ago You know it cuts me through He doesn't know, he just smiles, out for a good time And life's just fine Takes me way back, I think it was a full moon We were drinking down at The destiny Tom Pardeau, you and me Now my eyes play tricks on me, like a sailor who's too long at sea Talking to the mermaids, as his ship goes down and down Would that be you all those years ago You know it cuts me through He doesn't know, he just smiles, out for a good time And life's just fine Maybe some day when the grass grows over All the trouble here, you'll come back to stay Or do I take a car and drive up north, find a small place by the border Watch the warm green rain, and wait for you to smile again Would that be you all those years ago You know it cuts me through He doesn't know, he just smiles, out for a good time And life's just fine Hasn't been where you have been/Hasn't seen what you have seen How those rumours run around In a Mississippi River Factory Town

Reprinted from True Crime Motel (TB167 TeenBeat/Matador) by permission. © 1995 Superclammy, Ltd. Publishing ASCAP

 

 

 

Unforgettable Oh how can you be so senselessly sweet You've corrupted me with your decency And now you think the answer must be To hammer the feelings back into me Oh my bad ways have come home And they're beckoning me on Come on, old friend Unforgettable, strangers are Unforgettable There's something missing in me So your answer is running in front of cars And I find my solace in bar after bar And sometimes I wish that the answer would be That you could beat the feelings back into me Oh my bad ways have come home And they're beckoning me on Come on, old friend Unforgettable, strangers are Unforgettable There's something missing in me There's something missing in me But you won't see We just go blindly on the more you give, the less I take And I'm laughing in all the wrong places Laughing in all the wrong places

To Close Your Eyes Forever Tarmacadam's melting down on Ferdinand Street And your soft heart has put me to shame You once said that there is no line between thought and deed So you might say, I've been thinking again Here's the hand that Bribed The Sandman So you want the truth without tears But can't you see what's happening here? Or do you think that you'd feel better if I close your eyes forever, my dear? Here's the hand that Bribed The Sandman If you cry long enough you know that I'll agree But you know that's it's the truth we see Glimpsed like something underwater turning ten fathoms deep And swimming after you and me Here's the hand that Bribed The Sandman To close your eyes forever

Moves Like You Tonight I caught a glimpse of something I thought I could not replace And I know something's been missing since the last time I saw your face...I saw someone who Moves like you and it's all that I can Do to keep my feet on the ground or Stop myself from taking hold and Asking, why so cold?...You know it's you If that's what comes of wishful thinking I wish the ground would open up and swallow your ghost and as for me, I'm already sinking...I saw someone who Moves like you and it's all that I can Do to keep my feet on the ground or Stop myself from taking hold and Asking, why so cold?...You know it's you Moves like you and it's all that I can do To stop myself from taking home and saying, Angel And saying, Angel, I'll walk you home. I'll walk you home, but home's so far away.

From England Made Me (FAC210 Factory) by permission. Lyrics ©1991 Superclammy, Ltd. Publishing ASCAP

All lyrics written © Cath Carroll except: I Remember the Sun, Green Grows The Ground and Circle Bends by Kerry Kelekovich and You Know It's You, Superclammy, Ltd. Publishing ASCAP/ Sim Lister (PRS). Lyrics used by permission.

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