Just like fire would
One night in a motel room
eyes cast like steel
I drank the wine that they left on the table
I knew tomorrow was too far
I smoked my last pack of foreign cigarettes
I stay only to survive
the night was dark & the land was cold
it's frozen right to the bone
just like fire would
I burn up
just like fire would....
500 miles I have gone today
tomorrow it's 500 more
outside my window the world passes by
stranger than my dreams
just like fire would
I burn up
just like fire would....
I go to work & I earn my money
the sweat it falls to the ground
I see you now but we may never meet again
the ice is covering the ground
One night in a motel room
eyes cast like steel
I drank the wine that they left on the table
I knew tomorrow was too far.....

First Time
I know someone who can sell you a breakdown
he's a sure & a certain man
& all his time is spent inside of
a laboratory looking out
& if dreams were made to crash on seashores
he's a rock you can be sure
if it's to dust that you are returning
the door is open you can step inside
if you only want to try
there is no obligation to buy
the first time....
Picture yourself in the garden of eden
then take a walk to the other side
if it's to dust that you are returning
the door is open you can step inside
if you only want to try
there is no obligation to buy
the first time....

Hymn to St Jude
I'm flying higher you can't see me
I'm getting ready for the parade
I've sold my shares in heaven
& I'm not going to be the same again
you can confuse abuse & lose me
lord I am ready for that trail
I am ready to cross that ocean
I'm not coming back again
so, All the saints can come & find me
I got friends up there I can tell.....
I've done enough research into the madness
of sitting on the shelf
I am champagne flying blindly
into someone who is myself
you can take your glue like madness
& give it to someone else
I have done my time on the island
now it's time for something else
so, All the saints can come & find me
I got friends up there I can tell.....
I'm not coming back again.......!

See you in Paradise
When the world is cold & dark
& the rain comes
don't let it fall on me
in a world as cold as ice
I keep a fire burning
just to keep out the dark
no soldier of fortune I
but I feel the tension rise
there'll be no call to arms tonight
& there ain't no holy fight
I'll see you in paradise
When the change that's soon to come
has taken you
you know where I'll be
Someone must pay the price
I ask the lord
don't let it be you or me
no soldier of fortune I
but I feel the tension rise
there'll be no call to arms tonight
& there ain't no holy fight
I'll see you in paradise

Love or Imagination
Sometimes I get frightened
I go out of my head
no one comes to my mountain
& no one hears a word that's said
Sometimes I look for a reason
& sometimes I fail
then again just like the seasons
I come around again
So please forgive this fascination
but is this love or imagination?
Sometimes I worry about the things that are near to me
about the things that I hold close
sometimes I worry about the 3rd world
& I ain't even seen the first
So please forgive this fascination
but is this love or imagination?
Now they got TV out in the jungle
& everybody is going up to outer space
why don't you come & visit in my tenement
before they blow us all off this place
So please forgive this fascination
but is this love or imagination?.....

Celtic Ballad
Every day I am going somewhere
asking someone to show me the way
everywhere I look I see people
empty vessels that have lost their way
Crowded streets with a reek of madness
grey coloured sadness rain don't wash away
drunken memories lie in the gutter
with brown paper bags & the junk from the night
Faded dreams dressed in frocks of velvet
with painted faces in short decay
leather mothers of future children
are beaten senseless by the light of day
Why... why does there have to be all this insanity
& why do I feel that it is following me?
Some will die in the breath of me singing
some will kill on their way to the top
I know that there is justice somewhere
& it asks someone to show it the way...
Why... why does there have to be all this insanity
& why do I feel that it is following me?...
Every day I am going somewhere
asking someone to show me the way
everywhere I look I see people
empty vessels that have lost their way....

Empty Page
Well it's one more sink or swim
another night & day
one more empty page
with a million words
& nothing to say
so I sit surrounded by the gloom
a room of empty faces
& a melodramatic tune
I wonder just how long can this go on
& I hope you come & see me before I go...
On the corner
I was looking for the sun
I don't know what I call this
but I sure don't call it fun...
I wonder just how long can this go on
& I hope you come & see me before I'm gone...

Standing by the water
threatening to jump in
there was only one thing stopped me
the fact is I can swim...
I wonder just how long can this go on
& I hope you come & see me before I'm gone...

Big Hits on the Underground
I used to send you postcards from the subway after hours
I quit my job there now I play for flowers
I've grown right out of that
& now there is no turning back
I sold myself to a gentleman of letters
he let's me out once a month to say my prayers
I file my teeth for flash
& sell myself for cash
I want the big hits on the underground
I want to shake to the psycho sound
of big hits on the underground
everybody needs them?
My mind is clean
but my outlook is dirty
I tell myself I only do it because I'm pretty
I'm talking about making the grade
now my soul is saved...
I want the big hits on the underground
I want to shake to the psycho sound
of big hits on the underground
everybody needs them?...

How to avoid Disaster
Here I am in a pyscopathic world
trying to avoid disaster
& cutting up tomorrow's papers
Talking about all the change that's going to come
& how to avoid disaster
if it was easy you could ask me
if it were mine I'd try.....
Falling out the window full of drink in my head
like a Jamaican festival
baby thinks that I'm an animal
Spend my time trying hard not to think
no panic about the inevitable
& if it was easy you could ask me
if it were mine to decide
I'd rather not be crucified.....
Here I am in a pyscopathic world
trying to avoid disaster
& cutting up tomorrow's papers.......etc

Blues on My Mind
I got the blues on my mind
they are stuck there this time
frozen & ugly like glue
I've been bettered at the crime
it's shaken me this time
frozen like eyes in the zoo
& sadly this message is true
Now you & your kind
so right all the time
blinded by fear & regret
Now nothing is so right
that makes you so wise
to believe that you could know it all
I got the blues on my mind
they are stuck there this time
frozen & ugly like glue....

Temple of the Lord
Let's get disguised
let's all hide our eyes
let's fantasise that we are moving
drag out your chains
let's all be citizen Kane's
& go dance on the edge of disaster
your saviour is sent
& the price of cement
will keep you out of disco's in china
because,you can't tamper with the temple of the lord uh huh...
Your animal eyes will help you survive
you've a talent for inventing disaster
So drag out your bombs
& we'll sing the swan song
& dance from here to the ever after.....
because,you can't tamper with the temple of the lord uh huh...
Let's get disguised
& all hide our eyes
let's fantasise that we are moving
With the left going left
& the right going right
I'm aiming this right at your heart
because,you can't tamper with the temple of the lord uh huh...

All Fools Day
Just give me one last kiss
this jewel is a roughened friend of mine
I suppose we all have to go sometime
Christ abandoned in the wilderness
could have blessed himself
& been done with it
not you or me
we're stuck here in this mindless eternity
On all fools day
we can all join together
On all fools day
we can join the celebration
On all fools day
So when the day comes
when there is no tomorrow
crashing dreams like sleep
you can't rise from your pillow
& the blinding light
might destroy your sorrow
empires falling down
like a rain from heaven
So on this lazy afternoon
while the sun is still shining
raise a glass of wine
& let others decide
On all fools day
we can all join together
On all fools day
we can join the celebration
On all fools day