LYRICS
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Ninety-Six Days (e-mail corrections
please!)
I Am The Sun
About 3am
Vertigo
Graceadelica
A Disaffection (as above!)
Lies
What In The World's Wrong
The Sound Of Awake
He's pale face,
pale green shirt brittle as plaster
He don't mix too well til he knows your name
(He just likes it that way)
(Likes it that way)
(Likes it that way)
Comes in from the side door smelling of petrol
Says he sleeps much better now the weather's cold
(He just likes it that way), what's eating my brother?
(Likes it that way), what's eating my brother?
(Likes it that way), what's eating my brother? - I know
Last of the believers, front line dreamers, hope falls from the
sky; he's half blind
A born leader? Nature's self deceiver, goes on about the sinners
Yeah, we're alive a long, long time
You better watch what you say - nothing
You better watch what you say - nothing
You better watch what you say
(He just likes it that way), what's eating my brother?
(Likes it that way), what's eating my brother?
(Likes it that way), what's eating my brother? - I know
He's one of a kind, fear lined, white dog collar worker
He's high strung, low-slung, got his flies undone.
Last of the believers, just won't give up, hope falls from the
sky; he's opine
A half mongol(?!?), championing the Gospel, saviour of the people
- we're all fine(?!?)
A free-wheeler(?!?), used karma dealer, searching for prozac
bohemian preachers
He'll build a tower of babel, with whiskey on the table, it's
only when caned that he's able.
Faking my way through the land of the living, into the sun and
the sand that is sinking
The cruel lights, cruel eyes on me. Who was the man said we came
from the sea?
It's all right, s'alright by me, 'cos I'm on a mission from God
to be free so goodbye
He's not been sober (since daddy passed away)
He's not been sober for ninety-six days
It's mortal paranoia, that's barking at this dogma, just can't
deal with death, as for Ennui
He's motivated, borderline, fixated, manic to point of obsession
for heaven's sake
Says "God's with us all of the time, his myriad faces in
abstract form our lives"
He came down with the biblical bug when I was five
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"I'm stupid
for you, inner-space-man-angel"
I should've cut the crap there, but I was drinking too much
(Then she said)
"Joan Of Arc was cool, but she got burned
Like I'm burning out for you, I'm centrifugal
I am the sun, I am the sun, I am the sun, I am..."
We had a minor adventure, took a ride in her car - ended up in a
forest somewhere
She took the keys and threw them in the ditch, disappeared into
the mud and pitch
I must've walked the world that night until dawn, but she's gone
(And she'd said)
"Jesus was my age, when he got nailed
I'm coming back to you, I'm paranormal
I am the son, I am the son, I am the son..."
Ride on, ride on, it's not over
Shine on, shine on, it's not over
Ride on, ride on, it's not over
Shine on, shine on, it's not over
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About 3am
Time is undone, moving on. And she says, "Where's all the
colour gone?"
She's talking to a man; caving in
Staring at the ground opening, and he says, "I guess you
can't have everything"
It's up to you, yeah, it's down to you, but then you already knew
And they're standing in shadows like ghosts of the daytime
And dealing in plausible lies
Each one loves equally
And they're carving up reason with sharped tongued incisions
And bleeding from seeing eye to eye
Each one loves equally...
She took him for a ride, he took her for a fool (it's
meaningless)
And as for you, well, as for you, you're already through
Within endless revisions, those no win decisions
Are spiralling out of control
Each one loves equally
(Ahh-hh) Without clutching at straws, for the sake of the past
and the future
Then it's all gone
Each one loves equally
We'll sit in our homes, we'll sit in our homes, while the
Long day closes and senses leaving, too close for words
(For now, for now)...
*spoken*
"It's about 3 in the morning when it starts to rain. She
sits slumped on the bridge; her legs arranged awkwardly in front
of her. He lights another Silk Cut and gazes out on the river,
searching for something. But there's nothing there - just the
sound of the rain."
We've all been here before
We've all been here before
We've all been here before
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Vertigo
Tonight, once more, I'll fall from 27 floors
And crawl with you, from all the wreckage our lives collapsed
into
Yeah, I'll change the lines and I'll move the scenes
But why, remains a mystery
You'd better watch your step (following me)
You'll get lost (following me)
I thought it over, over and over (*sigh*)
*spoken* Where was I? Oh yeah...
I lost those years, to all our idle hopes and fears
Now I buy inertia from the folks below. Tonight, I'm falling
awful slow.
You'd better watch your step (following me)
You'll get lost (following me)
*spoken*
Ok, there's nothing happening, so get out of here
Maybe just keep walking, don't come back for a few years
Just keep on walking, walk right into the ground
Just keep on walking...
...and be a model of control, a model of control, a model of
control
You'll be a model of control.
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Graceadelica
I must have hit the floor, some dark uncertain hours before
Came round in spiders shoes, a fisheyed memory and pear-shaped
bruise
Those fairy lights were on, but for the record there was no one
home
But it's all coming back to me now
Yeah it's all coming back, maybe too late
Feels like I'm walking over water, sub-human urban messiah
Slow bound for church of the neon. My resurrection's in a glass
on the bar
Those half familiar streets were swimming underneath my cobwebbed
feet
My aching bones were dry, a skeleton underneath the lead-grey sky
Yeah it's all coming back to me now
Yeah it's all coming back, maybe too late
Feels like I'm walking under water, sub-aqua urban survivor
Last out of church of the neon
The bridge, not the river, flows (yeah)
The bridge, not the river, flows (yeah)
The bridge, not the river, flows
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A Disaffection
She'd been stalled for just one thing, the fact of being alone
with him
But he was sick and she had to decide, to keep her thoughts
buried alive
Yeah, buried alive
She'd been running around for him, back and forth and back again
He'd turn green when he'd tried to rise, the house would tilt
from side to side
It's just another day, it's just another day
Picturing the scene, he's sleeping in his chair
The black and white TV, she sits alone upstairs
The figures move unseen, they chatter in his dreams
She's peering at the sky, waiting for something...
20 years of marking time had dulled the patterns in her mind
Your 20 years self-sacrifice is such a long long time, long long
time, long long - Oh!
In hell, it's just another day
Picturing the scene, beyond the kitchen door
The sound of breaking glass, she's curled up on the floor
With one eye on the screen, a comedy routine
He's calling out her name, expecting nothing...
He just left while she slept that night
Disappeared into dawn's early light
She found the after-thought that he'd written
Said, "Look around - Earth's crammed with Heaven"
(*whisper* ...goodbye ...goodbye ...goodbye)
Goodbye ...goodbye ...goodbye
Goodbye ...goodbye ...goodbye
All that time spent walking in circles
Measuring time - the measure of everything
He was one side, I'm on his side(?!?)
Measuring time - the measure of everything
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Lies
Paul lost his home, just turned around one day and it was gone
We forgot his name, he disappeared without a trace of ever being
Now he's lying - he's always lying
Now he's lying - he's always lying
You're just like him, you've got nails but you won't dig in
Let me see your hands, and say that truth is the measure of the
man
Now he's lying - he's always lying
Now he's lying - he's always lying
Paul on his lonesome - much maligned
Searching for the will to see the world as kind
Says, "Where the hell is my home?" - yeah
"Where the hell is my home?"
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What In The World's Wrong
They started out good people
But nothing's as it should be
He says something's wrong, and if you say something's wrong,
you're on your own
Say there's nothing wrong, and if you say nothing's wrong, you're
on your own
You could be wrong (ho hoo hoo hoo, hoo hoo hoo hooo)
She doesn't move but he knows that she's heard
She's adrift in the space between words
And that's a distance he'll never travel
He holds his breath while her thoughts unravel
She says nothing's wrong, and if you say nothing's wrong, you're
on your own
Say there's something wrong, and then you say nothing's wrong,
you're on your own
What have you done? (ho hoo hoo hoo, hoo hoo hoo hooo)
Where have the words gone?
The two-headed person?
Just what in the world's wrong?
Up in the powder blue
Safe in the over-view
They're lining the clouds for you...
What in the world's wrong? What in the world's wrong?
(ho hoo hoo hoo, hoo hoo hoo hooo)
What in the world's wrong? What in the world's wrong? What in the
world's wrong?
(ho hoo hoo hoo, hoo hoo hoo hooo)
What in the world's wrong?
(ho hoo hoo hoo, hoo hoo hoo hooo)
What in the world's wrong?
You're never on your own
What in the world's wrong?
(ho hoo hoo hoo, hoo hoo hoo hooo...)
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The Sound Of Awake
I kind of wish I was all here, but I've been sifted through the
years
Now I just need to make a call, I just want to thank you all
If I can't believe in me, then I'll believe in you
If I can't believe in me, then I'll believe in you
You're taking it all the wrong way
You're taking it all the wrong way
What's left of the ages? Impossible dreams
More distance than laughter, the sound of "awake?"
If I can't believe in me, then I'll believe in you
If I can't believe in me, then I'll believe in you
Don't take it all the wrong way and
Pretend it's okay
And pretend it's okay
Live so guilt free, and live so guilt free
And live so guilt free, and live so guilt free
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