Rooster breaks the morning
out in the countryside
But I'm still stuck inside the streets,
just waiting for a ride
My eyelids feel so heavy,
your distant voice so bright
So please don't hang up on me now,
it's cold and time is tight

Something happened to me,
I don't know what it was
And there's a door inside my head
through which no one can pass
The dark is always with me,
it can't be left behind
And I can't ask for you to bear
what I must keep with mine

If you run into Crowley,
don't ask him how he's been
His wife is hanging upside down,
he burned his limousine
Now words may pile upon you
like ladders to the stars
You think you're bound to reach the sky,
but you're chained behind these bars

The glitter from the skyline,
the movement in my chest
With your eyes softly sparkling
I forget all the rest
And I am always with you,
until the end of time
But please don't ask for me to share
what I must keep with mine

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HOLY, HOLY, HOLY

Chewing down these lonesome pills
while dreaming of a cure
So tired of all the kills and thrills
that echoes around you
It's safe to say that trips are right
if they lead you past the sun
But to melt to death inside her core
can never and will never be that fun

Abandoned and appointed
by the wizard up above
He brings me rain, he tells me tales,
each one about love
Sure, said I, but do you need
to paint all happy ends
Isn't there a missing word
in each story that you send

You caught me off my guard last night,
and you sang what's worth to sing
Beggars don't beg easily,
but they remember everything
The Royal cool will fade away,
you hear the beggars scream
It's so easy to be down and out,
so much harder to believe

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WHEN SARAH CAME TO TOWN

When Sarah came to town,
her hair was short and blond
And I was throwing stone
and looking for god's love

When Sarah came to town,
on that demented day,
I know I heard her say
that we could not go wrong,
like lovers in a song

Now take these days,
the sunshine and the rain
What has been
will never be again
Things will move in time
We move along the line

When sarah came to town,
she said my words were strange
My truth was out of range,
my face could look so hard

In everything we do
we echo our mistakes
Her mirror to my face
was all it ever took
But oh it took so long

So take these nights,
the water and the moon
Close your eyes
and we'll be over soon
Things will move in time
We move along the line

Let's light this candle, babe
and call this dawn our own
Let's call this room our home
and chase the dark outside

We'll open once again
that door behind the clothes
We'll freeze our feet in snow
but we will be let in
We'll let it all begin

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THIS IS MIDNIGHT

Danger bite the bullet on the street
This is midnight, the blood is on your sheet
I'm sinking softly into night time, primetime home
Where it's a paradise to paint it black alone

Where I'm your man, yes I'm your man
A little white man, who thinks he can
run faster than Jesus ran

The demons bloom, the stars are moving fast
Newborn legends spread their wings and hope to last
If not a century, just through this night
Before the angels pick them up on their next flight

Where I'm your man, yes I'm your man
A little white man, who thinks he can
sing brighter than Jesus sang

The sirens sing, the audience all ears
Please spread your wings and leave behind all tears
You're in good hands now, stuck in the palm that leads you in
Swept away by a brighter day, when your midnight dreams set in

Where I'm your man, yes I'm your man
A little white man, who thinks he can
run faster than Jesus ran

It's not ok to bite the hand that feeds you
But quite alright to slap the messenger
We feel a need to chop the hand that feeds us
The captain's bleeding, we're just passengers

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ALONG THE FREEFALL

Are you wondering what to do?
You sold out, got lost, you don't have a clue
Are you wondering what to do?
Do you think it's about time
someone stood up for you?

When you're deep inside mama's greensnake tourist train
and poor voices in your head form a choir
Screams of agony and pain,
the sweetest love, the hardest rain
Am I the saviour superman
or just a liar

Acceleration and down we fell
Round twentyseven, rings a bell
Too many stories left to tell
Let's leave this shrinking cell
We're coming through, let's set the sails

And we've been where we have been,
and we've seen what's there to see
Another kid who gives away his only football
Screams of agony and pain,
the sweetest love, the hardest rain
Have I got the wings to hold us up along the freefall?

And all the towers that we built,
and all our feelings except the guilt
are blown away by the very thought of neverending
It cuts so deep and so convinced
And it's been with me ever since
Sure got the wings to hold us up along the freefall

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RING OF A BELL

Love showed its teeth to me, aiming an arrow
Followed me around until I shut her away
Now I'm a demon come climbing your tower
How long do you really want me to stay?

Soft, like the ring of a bell
Hard, like the ground when you fell
We're all alone, but who can you tell
Will you be my friend?

Is this the love we embrace in the novels
Is this the town that we ran through last night
Jimmy says one thing, but Jude has a camera
Maybe tomorrow we'll find out who's right

Soft, like the ring of a bell...

Above all I'm really a puller of strings babe
That's what I'm made of and that's who I'll be
My face is a map and i want you to read it
Show me the way to the words that I need

Soft, like the ring of a bell...

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WOUNDED NIGHT

Wounded night, witched night
Into the darkness, out of the light
Nothing is ending, and nothing's beginning
The world is just a vacuum in my head
I feel like a tight-rope walker

Wounded night, wicked night
I know you said nothing, and you were right
Words are confusing, confusion is worrying
The world is just a tangle in my head
I feel like a house-wife cleaning

But don't get me wrong,
the morning will come
The dew will wash the leaves clean when you're gone
But now it seems so very long,
the fear is coming on

Wounded night, wretched night
I thought that tomorrow would come out bright
The place where I found you is right were you left me
My world was just a station on your way
And I'm just a drunkard, singing

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DAMN STRAIGHT EVIL

Look out your window, we're damn straight evil and upset
You know we watch your step
We've burst our bubble, we've shined our diamonds for this feast
You know, we'll win this bet

The rules are simple to uphold:
Just take the steps that you are told
But the roads are many and a few
are just for heroes, not for you

If you get carsick, just close your eyelids for a while
You know, we'll ride for many more miles
Let's carve our codenames in the lovetree just for fun
You know, we've just begun

The adventure that will end your life
Blood, sweat and tears and common strife
Not a single ounce of magic left to squeeze
This summer's over, now it's your time to freeze

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REVOLUTION #1

'Hey, drop me a rhyme, sing me a song,
I've waited so long, and now is the time',
said lucy and waved a cuban cigar
and cleaned out the bar before she turned my way

This was back in the days when my hair was long
and I had my songs of beauty and grace
And I was alone just passing my time,
waiting in line for anyone to come and take me along

So lucy could pull a cloud from her hair
and softly the air turned hopeful

We would float in the streets and lay in the parks
we traded our marks with millions to meet,
and dying my hair in my time of dyin'
I looked at the sign, it said 'you best beware, boy'

She would pick up my blues with her amber greens among the machines, the noise, the abuse I'm telling you this because you're my friend, if this is the end then you'll know what you have and what you missed

As I try to pull these scenes from the screen
don't ask what I mean, my head's full

Well love can drain out the seas and cool off the sun
but rifles and guns can't call off the peace
that I felt inside when I held that hand,
when I couldn't land and waited for the tide

And when she was cold and I used to sing
words poured from my fingers down to her soul
Though she had my words and I had her thoughts
the war that we fought was ever so illusive and absurd

The battles at night, the lights in the night,
so shady and yet so starbright

Dawn would rise on us fast, it came from the sea,
it moved with the breeze and the sky overcast
With blood on the rhymes, my piano in flames,
my voice called her name at least a thousand times

Well I have swum on the moon and flown on a rag,
I've danced with a dragon and lived a cartoon
But lucy could wave a cuban cigar
and say 'let's go far, far as we can', and that would make your day

So these are your rhymes, and here is a song embracing a moment in time

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YOURS SINCERELY

Last night I dreamed of a man who had been to the moon
Well I'm in love with this girl and she's going there, too
The gods do you wrong, but the weather is fair
Honest to god, I read it somewhere

We used to go out at comic strip end
Out on the final frontier, where the rules could be bent
No justice for all, safe at home or in fear
Honest to god, I read it somewhere

I try to keep friends, but they're dropping like flies
Seems I'm the loose end of everyone's family ties
The downfall, the uprise, the strangest of pairs
Honets to god, I read it somewhere

If you sleep in my bed, you will share the same sin
We took a shot, missed a turn, but we could have been
the regents of thieves, the keeper of years
Honest to god, I keep count of your of tears

Drinking is sweet, but the bliss ain't the purpose
Just a well needed shade in this primordial circus
I wish I could turn the heaviest stone
Honest to god, I'm in this alone

Jump high in your seats and enjoy every moment
that makes you forget the past and the late rent
The room is yours, and to keep it you travel
Honest to god, will we reach the next level

Forsaken by some, put on posters by others Let's paint the town red, though nobody bothers To applaud bad behaviour, it's stupid, it's marvellous It's honest to god, sacrilegious and dangerous

Yours sincerely,
Yours to keep

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WHILE WE'RE HERE

He fought his own neurotic self
Tried all the books upon his shelf
It was then he felt a distant fear
Oh, we forget it while we're here

A chain of guilt has dragged him down
And spread his thoughts across the town
Sometimes it seems we get so near
But we forget it while we're here
We let it disappear
Forget it while we're here

Today the sun shone in his eyes
He tried his best to compromise
with both the laughter and the tears
Oh, we forget it while we're here...

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FIGO

Figo scored a dreamgoal for a friend
Figo scored a dreamgoal for a friend
Figo scored a dreamgoal for a friend
And while years pass me by now it's easter time again

I've searched the countries for opinions to defend
I've searched the garbage for lost letters to send
I commit crimes just to have some bars to bend
And while years pass me by now it's easter time again

Jesus Chrysler, rusty beer cans
oranges and apples for the kids
Higher stakes and midlife crisis
Oranges and lover's skin to peel

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NO FRIEND OF TOMORROW

Future, take these eyes of mine
I don't want the things they see
Can't stand the common ground
Won't swallow what they believe
No, I won't

Lovely sand of the Westworld storm
Children of the graveyard grave
You all clap your hands for tomorrow's fire
And you set the standard for your true escape

But my friend, you ain't no friend
My friend of tomorrow

I was born blessed with a voice of concrete broke
In a dress made of water from a long gone rain
And you pass the words from the greener shelter
Yeah, you pass the wisdom of a long gone pain

But my friend, you ain't no friend
My friend of tomorrow

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AS I PUT OUT MY CIGARETTE

I'd like to tell you all about the way that I've been living
The roses in the bottles and the law of loss and gain
The things that i regret are those I never thought of doing
And you best stick around here if you want to lose that chain

It makes no difference where you go
The rivers keep their flow
It makes no difference what you say
The grass will always grow
Every night and every day
as we put on a show
for the mockingbirds

The world is smoke and noise and monsters hide behind the curtains
The band is out of key and everything's been said and done
I'll turn this table over, or at least that's what I'm thinking
as I put out my cigarette and light another one

It makes no difference where you go
The rivers keep their flow
It makes no difference what you say
The grass will always grow
Every night and every day
as we put on a show
for the mockingbirds

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CATS AND DOGS

cats and dogs,
spiders, dolphins, tigers, bears and birds
caterpillars, moths and used-up words

bats and frogs,
crocodiles and swans will stick around
all the useless things that flood the ground

and i’m asking you
‘cause you seem to know
just where it goes
when all is said and done
when the war is won
and when your time has come
and all is dark around your door
when all is dark around
and when you still want more
what’s the darkness for?

whales and hounds,
lions, eagles, octopus and deer
butterflies and snakes and shapeless fear

pigs and cows,
elephants and flies will live and die
funny how i never wondered why

so i’m asking you
‘cause i think you know
just where it goes
and why it hides away
what can you say?
here ends another day
you hold me in your arms
and we slide
down this demented line
there’s only so much time
and all the cats and dogs
move on
and all the cats and dogs
move on
without a care at all
no one
will ever care at all
no one
will ever care at all
i wonder as we fall
are we here at all?

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