Hopelessly adrift in the eyes of the ghost again
Down on my knees and my hands in the air again
Pushing my face in the memory of you again
But I never know if it's real never know how I
Wanted to feel never quite said what I wanted
To say to you never quite managed the words to
Explain to you never quite knew how to make
Them believable and now the time has gone
Another time undone hopelessly fighting the
Devil futility feeling the monster climb deeper
Inside of me feeling him gnawing my heart away
Hungrily I'll never lose this pain never dream of you again

The Upstairs Room

I love it all
These games we play
I close my eyes
You run away
I'm sure I asked you to stay
But now you're gone
And so I feel the grey
Pulse in my head
I turn off the lights and crawl into bed
I try to think of sunshine
But my body goes wet
With the first crash of thunder
I don't think I can know
Anyone but you dear
That's for sure
When it gets to four
It's my turn to go
Oh the kiss
So alcoholic and slow
Arranging me for Saturday
I thought you would know
That I always sleep
Alone
I don't think I can know
Anyone but you
Dear
That's for sure
The upstairs room is cool and bright
We can go up there in summer
And dance all night
Your sister started talking at a minute after ten
So everyone jumped up
And then fell over again
In April you can join them
And stare at me
At the ghost from your past

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Uyea Sound
smith/gallup/thompson/williams/bamonte

The holy city breathed
Like a dying man
It moved with hopeful tears
With the tears of the blind
And on and on as the night drew in
Through broken streets
That sucked me in
My feet were bare and cut with stones
With walking to the promised land
I pushed through crowds
Through seas of prayer
Through twisting hands and choking air
A vulture at the wailing wall
I circled

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Waiting

Tonight I'll dream a girl called home
And wake up in tears
All on my own
With the sun coming up
And my head against stone
Balcony dressed and drawn
Tonight I'll dream a room so far away
Frost pale blue
The colour of a perfect day
And then screw up my face
In the mirror
As I wait for the others to call

But if I don't believe in magic
And I don't believe in blood
And I don't believe in miracles
And I don't believe in love
Then how come I believe so soon
In a cherry tree girl
And a dust blue room?
Tonight I'll dream an hour so long
Shadow soft smiles
And everyone loves me
To open my eyes
In a drag myself face undone
Hard back into the world
Tonight I'll dream a dream I dream
Without even trying I'm flying I scream
As I practice the move
I spit at my pillow stained face
And the others all come
But if I don't believe in magic
And I don't believe in blood
And I don't believe in miracles
And I don't believe in love
Then how come I believe it seems
In a girl called home
And a world called dreams?

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The Walk

I called you after midnight
Then ran until my heart burst
I passed the howling woman
And stood outside your door
We walked around the lake
And woke up in the rain
And everyone turned over
Troubled in their dreams again
Visiting time is over
And so we walk away
And both play dead then cry out loud
Why we always cry this way?
I kissed you in the water
And made your dry lips sing
I saw you look
Like a Japanese baby
In an instant I remembered everything
I called you after midnight
Then ran until my heart burst
I passed the howling woman
And stood outside your door
I kissed you in the water
And made your dry lips sing
I saw you look
Like a Japanese baby
In an instant I remembered everything

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Want

I'm always wanting more
Anything I haven't got
Everything I want it all
I just can't stop
Planning all my days away
Never find new ways to stay
Never feel enough today
Tomorrow must be more
More drink more dreams
More bed more drugs
More lust more lies
More hate more love
More fear more fun
More pain more flesh
More stars more smiles
More fame more sex
However hard I want
I know deep down inside
I'll never really get
More hope or any more time
Any more time
Any more time
Any more time
I want the sky to fall in
I want lightning and thunder
I want fire instead of rain
I want the world to make me wonder
Want to walk on water
Take a trip to the moon
Oh give me all this
And give me it soon
More drink more dreams more drugs
More lust more lies more love
However hard I want
I know deep down inside
I'll never really get
More hope or any more time
Any more time
Any more time
Any more time

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Watching Me Fall

Yeah I've been watching me fall
For what seems like years
Watching me grow small
I watch me disappear
Slipping out my ordinary world
Out my ordinary eyes
Yeah, slipping out the ordinary me
Into someone else's life
Into someone else's life...
There's a thin, white, cold new moon
And the snow's coming down
And the neon bright Tokyo lights
Flicker through the crowd
I've been drifting around for hours
And I'm lost and I'm tired
When a whisper in my ear
Insatiable breeze
Why don't you follow me inside
The room is small
The room is bright
Her hair is black
The bed is wide
And the night is always young
Is always young
Always young
The night is always young
Yeah, I've been seen stripped to the bone
In the mirror on the wall
Seeing her swallow it whole
Like its not me at all
She holds out her hands
And I follow her down to my knees
And the sucking inside
Insatiable smiles
You will forget yourself in me
The room is small
The room is bright
Her eyes are black
The bed is wide
And the night is always young
And the night goes on and on
And the night is always young
And the night is never over
And over and over and over and over
And then its gone
And then its gone
Yeah, then its gone
Yeah its a cruel, mean, cold new day
And outside the snow is still coming down
And in the blood red Tokyo bed
I watch me coming round
She pulled him down for hours
Deeper than I've ever been
And as I fall in the mirror on the wall
I'm watching me scream
I'm watching me scream
I'm watching me scream
I'm watching me scream
Yeah, I've been watching me go
For it must be years
Watching me get slow
I watch me disappear
And one day, yeah I know
I won't come back at all
And always over and over
In his ordinary eyes
I'm watching me fall
I'm watching me fall
I'm watching me fall
I'm watching me fall

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Wendy Time

You look like you could do with a friend she said
You look like you could use a hand
Someone to make you smile she said
Someone who can understand
Share your trouble
Comfort you
Hold you close
And I can do all of these
I think you need me here with you
You look like you do with a sister she said
You look like you need a girl to call your own...
Like fabulous! Fabulous!
Call me fabulous!
And rubbing her hands so slow
You stare at me all strange she said
Are you hungry for more?
I've had enough I said
Please leave me alone
Please go
It doesn't touch me at all
It doesn't touch me at all
You know that you could do with a friend she said
You know that you could use a word
Like feel or follow or fuck she said
And laughing away as she turned
You've everything but no-one
Like the last man on earth
And when I die I said
I'll leave you it all
Door closes
Leaves me cold
It doesn't touch me at all
It doesn't touch me at all
You really do need a sister she said
You really do need a girl to call your own...
Like wonderful! Wonderful!
Call me wonderful!
And running her hands so slow
You stare at me all strange she said
Are you hungry for more?
I've had enough I said
Please leave me alone
Please go
Please go

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Where The Birds Always Sing

The world is neither fair nor unfair
The idea is just a way for us to understand
But the world is neither fair nor unfair
So one survives
The others die
And you always want
A reason why
But the world is neither just nor unjust
Its just us trying to feel that there's some sense in it
No the world is neither just nor unjust
And no going young
So much undone
Is a tragedy
For everyone
It doesn't speak a plan or any secret thing
No wanting sign of untold truth in anything
But living on in others in memories and dreams
Is not enough
We want everything
Another world
Where the sun always shines
And the birds always sing
Always sing
The world is neither fair nor unfair
The idea is just a way for us to understand
No the world is neither fair nor unfair
So some survive
And others die
And you always want
The reason why
Though the world is neither just nor unjust
Its just us trying to feel that there's some sense in it
No the world is neither just nor unjust
And no going young
So much undone
Is a tragedy
For everyone
It doesn't mean there has to be a way of things
No special sense that hidden hands are pulling strings
But living on in others in memories and dreams
Is not enough
And it never is
We always want
So much more than this
An endless sense of soul and an eternity of love
Sweet mother down below and I'm just farther above
Living on in others in memories and dreams
Is not enough
You want everything
Another world
Where the birds always sing
Another world
Where the sun always shines
Another world
Where nothing ever dies

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Why Can't I Be You?

You're so gorgeous I'll do anything
I'll kiss you from your feet
To where your head begins
You're so perfect you're so right as rain
You make me
Make me hungry again
Everything you do is irresistable
Everything you do is simply kissable
Why can't I be you?
I'll run around in circles
Til I run out of breath
I'll eat you all up
Or I'll just hug you to death
You're so wonderful
Too good to be true
You make me
Make me hungry for you
Everything you do is simply delicate
Everything you do is quite angelicate
Why can't I be you?
You turn my head when you turn around
You turn the whole world upside down
I'm smitten I'm bitten I'm hooked I'm cooked
I'm stuck like glue
You make me
Make me hungry for you
Everything you do is simply dreamy
Everything you do is quite delicious
Why can't I be you?
Why can't I be you?
Why can't I be you?

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World War

Dressed in Berlin black
I was only playing
Disguise my words to fool you
From what I was saying
Mud trench
Meat stench
The fatherland is looking on
Grip you in a luger lock
This will be the big one
World war
No one would believe me
no one's a winner
no one's a loser
Just a dead friend
Heaven heaven
Give me pride
Give me a golden hand
Smash them with an iron rule
Spit them out like sand
Sit and wait
Then run like hell
Run like hell one time again
Sow the seeds of hate
Underneath destruction
World war
No one would believe me
No one's a winner
No one's a loser
Just a dead friend
World war
No one would believe me
No one's a winner
No one's a loser
Just a dead friend

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Wrong Number

Lime green lime green and tangerine
Are the sickly sweet colours of the snakes I'm seeing
Lime green and tangerine
Are the sickly sweet colours of the devil in my dreams

Lime green lime green and tangerine
Are the sickly sweet colours of the snakes I'm seeing
Lime green and tangerine
Are the sickly sweet colours of the devil in my dreams

It gets to Friday and I give you a call
"you know I'm getting kind of worried
No she doesn't seem herself at all...
Lime green and a sickly kind of orange
I've never seen her like this before..."

I had the best laid plans this side of America
Started out in church and finished with angelica
Red and blue soul with a snow white smile
"can you dig it?"
I had the best laid plans this side of America
Started out in church and finished with angelica
And now I dig in the dirt
And I'm down here for a while...

You've got to make up your mind and make it soon
Is there room in your life
For one more trip to the moon?
Is there room in your life
For one more?

Burn red burn red red and gold
Are the deep dark colours of the snakes I hold
Burn red burn red and gold
Are the deep dark colours of the devil at home
"she pulls me down just as I'm trying to hide
Grabs me by the hair and drags me outside
And starts digging in the dirt...
For a not so early bird it's the only way
For her to get the worm..."

I had the best laid plans this side of America
Started out in church and finished with angelica
Red and blue soul with a snow white smile
"can you dig it?"

I had the best laid plans this side of America
Started out in church and finished with angelica
Red and blue soul with a snow white smile
"can you dig it?"
And now I dig in the dirt
And I'll be down here for a while...

They pulled in just behind the fridge
He lays her down, he frowns
"Gee my life's a funny thing, am I still too young?"
He kissed her then and there
She took his ring, took his babies
It took him minutes, took her nowhere
Heaven knows, she'd have taken anything, but

Chorus (he)
All night
She wants the young American
Young American, young American, she wants the young American
All right
She wants the young American

Scanning life through the picture window
She finds the slinky vagabond
He coughs as he passes her Ford Mustang, but
Heaven forbid, she'll take anything
But the freak, and his type, all for nothing
He misses a step and cuts his hand, but
Showing nothing, he swoops like a song
She cries "Where have all Papa's heroes gone?"

Chorus (she)
All the way from Washington
Her bread-winner begs off the bathroom floor
"We live for just these twenty years
Do we have to die for the fifty more?"

Chorus (he)
All night
He wants the young American
Young American, young American, he wants the young American
All right
He wants the young American

Do you remember, your President Clinton?
Do you remember, Bill, you have to pay
Or even yesterday?

Have you have been an un-American?
Just you and your idol singing falsetto 'bout
Leather, leather everywhere, and
Not a myth left from the ghetto
Well, well, well, would you carry a razor
In case, just in case of depression?
Sit on your hands on a bus of survivors
Blushing at all the afro-Sheilas
Ain't that close to love?
Well, ain't that poster love?
Well, it ain't that Barbie doll
Her heart's been broken just like you have

Chorus (you)
All night
You want the young American
Young American, young American, you want the young American
All right
You want the young American

You ain't a pimp and you ain't a hustler
A pimp's got a Cadi and a lady got a Chrysler
Black's got respect, and white's got his soul train
Mama's got cramps, and look at your hands ache
(I heard the news today, oh boy)
I got a suite and you got defeat
Ain't there a man you can say no more?
And, ain't there a woman I can sock on the jaw?
And, ain't there a child I can hold without judging?
Ain't there a pen that will write before they die?
Ain't you proud that you've still got faces?
Ain't there one damn song that can make me
break down and cry?