`summertime`

> `do some people wind up with the one that they adore
> in a heart-shaped hotel room it's what a heart is for
> the bubble floats so madly will it stay sky-high?
> hello partner
> kiss your name bye-bye
> sometimes...`

> `romantic Piscean seeks angel in disguise
> Chinese-speaking girlfriend big brown eyes
> Liverpudlian lady sophisticated male
> hello partner
> tell me love can't fail`

> `& it's you and me in the summertime
> we'll be hand in hand down in the park
> With a squeeze & a sigh and that twinkle in your eye
> & all the sunshines banishes the dark`

> `do some people wind up with the one that they abhor
> in a distant hell hole room it's third world war
> but all I see is films where a clourless despair
> meant angry young men with immaculate hair
> sometimes...`

> `get up a voice inside says there's no time for looking down
> only a pound a word & you're talking to the town
> but how do you coin the phrase though that will set your soul apart?
> just to touch
> a lonely heart`

> `& it's you and me in the summertime
> we'll be hand in hand down in the park
> with a squeeze & a sigh & that twinkle in your eye
> & all the sunshines banishes the dark`

> `& it's you and me in the summertime
> as I turn my white skin red
> two peas from the same pod yes we are
> Or have I read too much fiction?
> is this how it happens?`

`homeward`

> `you've stolen my heart & I want you to remember
> now what'll I do?
> living alone`

> `You've stolen my heart & it hurts to remember
> Now where'll I go to?
> living alone`

> `a butterfly in the wind is drifting like I do
> it's dumb - I know what I want to say
> but I can't even take one breath`

> `as night falls I hear voices on the radio
> I'll follow their dreams
> & wake up alone`

> `a butterfly in the wind is drifting like I do
> it's dumb - I know what I want to say
> but I can't even take one breath
> so now still burning silently away
> a storm
> without the thunder`

`folk song`

> `summer sky & a throat bone dry
> & the fields are all gold`

> `dusty lane with a song in my brain
> & it stoned me to my soul`

> `I climb higher move towards the fire
> blaze sun`

> `silver trees & a whispering breeze
> are my sight & my sound`

> `the thought of heaven couldn't drag me from the path
> when I'm wandering here alone`

> `I climb higher move towards the fire
> blaze sun`

> `watch until it dies slow falling from the sky
> pale fading sun`

`she`

> `she's all weak & her heart beats so
> she can't speak with the lights so low`

> `just to be one of a crowd
> feet scuttling across the floor
> spinning lights round & round
> it's adolescent war`

> `she craves noise & the music blares
> girl calls to a boy
> he just stands and stares`

> `just to be one of a crowd
> feet scuttling across the floor
> spinning lights round & round
> & its adolescent war
> shoes grind kick like crazy & arms tangling up with hair
> shaking them up & down again
> hearts pounding everywhere`

> `she slows down
> has the music gone
> or has she stayed too long?`

`when I'm thinking about you`

> `over the rooftops a plane in the sky
> beat of a bass drum cars passing me by
> under a bridge dark then back into light
> a river of raincoats & a forest of faces`

> `still for a moment then red into green
> slow shuffling shoes whisper sight unseen
> row upon row of houses return an empty stare
> let the daydream for a little while longer`

> `hope I'll never wake
> when I'm thinking about you
> hope I'll never wake
> cos now I'm thinking about you`

> `two-minute hailstorm then melts into rain
> sing me a rainbow it's sunny again
> swallows overhead while the traffic snarls below
> could I keep dreaming for a little while longer`

> `hope I'll never wake
> when I'm thinking about you
> so that you know - never want to wake
> cos now I'm thinking about you`

> `when you're searching your soul
> when you're searching for pleasure
> how often pain is all you find
> but when you're coasting along & nobody's trying too hard
> you can turn around & like where you are`

> `I hope I never wake
> when I'm thinking about you
> & I close my eyes
> now I'll never never wake
> why should I stop thinking about you`

`I can't wait`

> `lying awake dead of night & eyes that never close
> flowers decay a still life calls for a change`

> `I can't wait
> forever
> miles away dead of night & it's quiet as the grave
> when there's more in your head than you find in your life
> calls for a change`

> `I can't wait
> Forever
> & the days & the hours & the years keep turning in my mind
> I've been waiting forever`

`cry`

> `& I'm standing on a platform
> now I'm staring from a train
> & all the trees roll back beside but I'm so oblivious
> to the dark to the light
> it's all the same`

> `you gave me so much
> & now it's of the earth
> & it makes me cry
> it can makes me cry
> `

> `& you're standing here beside me
> in a picture in a frame
> & your voice could never fade it's so familiar
> things you said in my head
> every day`

> `you gave me so much
> & now it's of the earth
> & it makes me cry
> it can make me cry`

> `you're with me so much
> through you're never with me anymore
> & it makes me cry
> it can make me cry
> `

`another flavour`

> `fashion - the timing's all wrong
> they taste another flavour
> & pretty soon you're gone
> fashion - this time it's too late
> you knew you'd have to pay for this one day
> he loves me now - he loves me not -
> he loves me once again
> usual story
> another surprise`

> `fashion - this time it's all right
> they tickle you with a feather
> & tell you you're sublime
> turn on - to each their own
> usual story
> another surprise`

> `fashion - the timing was wrong
> your friends are fair weather
> you knew it all along
> turn on - to each their own
> it's doing my mind in
> another surprise`

> `don't let them black you out for the evening
> sad-happy suffer no no no
> don't let them crack you
> try not to feel it
> as long as they're watching your show
> this time`

`leave this city`

> `gone forever
> the writing on the wall
> they've boarded-up the cinema
> strawberry dreams & the dust-filled beams
> shut down in a modern town`

> `see you walking
> see you talking`

> `recollection
> on streets you used to know
> forgotten pleasures smoulder
> images fade but the town won't let them go`

> `sleepwalking
> see you talking`

> `feel the city inside you
> leave this city behind you`

> `drive wherever
> the roads will take you to
> down beside a river frozen brown
> January days & their scarecrow trees
> so cold - feel your ears burn`

> `see you walking
> see you talking
> feel the city inside you
> leave this city behind you`

> `past & present
> they converge on every side
> the wires all get tangled
> when now & then collide
> bittersweet taste of a time and another place before`

> `sleep walking
> see you talking
> feel the city inside you
> feel this city define you
> leave this city behind you`

`your eyes`

> `you ask me why I'll tell you then
> two worlds collide we bury them
> we're far too drunk to look at things as they are`

> `you painted me & I sat quite still
> a tiny room in Notting Hill
> it was far too dark to look at things as they are`

> `I've seen the light vanish out of your eyes
> so goodbye`

> `you tell me now I'm young & wild
> you spare the rod & you spoil the child
> I'd love to stay but I think I'm off to Japan
> anyway
> I've seen the light vanish out of your eyes
> so goodbye
> your eyes have lost their shine`

`so much`

> `dream & fantasize
> slave to your desires - you'll buy anything
> curse & criticize
> middle-aged & at your door
> & they're selling you the son of God
> it's so hard to ignore
> you want so much
> & then you want some more
> somehow your appetite grows
> you'd just love what you can't possess
> you known it's out there
> somewhere
> read & memorize
> make a wish come true
> & you can telephone free
> eyes & ears & mouth & nose
> in a face that you compse
> but it cuts you like never before
> it's so hard to ignore
> you want so much
> & then you want some more
> somehow your appetite grows
> you'd just love what you can't possess
> you know it's out there
> somewhere
> it's so hard to ignore
> you'd really love so much
> & then you go & spoil yourself with more
> strange how your appetote's grown
> toll you're just lying in a corner upstairs
> looking out there
> somewhere
> `

`monochrome`

> `it's 4 in the morning July in '69
> me and my sister
> we crept down like shadows
> they're bringing the moon right down to our sitting room
> static & silence
> & a monochrome vision`

> `they're dancing around
> slow puppets silver ground
> & the world is watching with joy
> we hear a voice from above
> & it's history
> & we stayed awake
> all night`

> `& something is said & the whole room laughs aloud
> me & my sister
> looking on like shadows
> the end of an age as we watched them walk in a glow
> lost in space
> but I don't know where it is`

> `they're dancing around
> slow puppets silver ground
> & the stars & stripes in the sand
> we hear a voice from above
> & it's history
> & we stayed awake
> all night`

> `they're dancing around
> It sends a shiver down my spine
> & I run to look in the sky &
> I half expect to hear them asking to come down
> will they fly or will they fall?
> to be excited
> by a long late night`