ROUND AND ROUND
The world’s full of sinners, Mary Magdalene
It’s how we live and dream
And you’re no beginner, you could write the book
You may be too extreme
It’s not what you say to me but oh, the way your body lies
It’s easy, it’s better when you’re indiscreet
Your word is bittersweet
It’s not what you say,
but it’s the way you say it
that makes me go
‘round and ‘round
It’s not what you do,
but it’s the way you do it
that makes me go
‘round and ‘round
‘round and ‘round
The less you give, the more I want of you
The more I overdo
And your hush creates a silent symphony
I lose myself in me
It’s not what you do to me but God! the things you never do
In the canyon between us is a destiny
of never-ending dreams
It’s not what you say,
but it’s the way you say it
that makes me go
‘round and ‘round
It’s not what you do,
but it’s the way you do it
that makes me go
‘round and ‘round
‘round and ‘round
‘round and ‘round
Is this what you call our destiny?
In your world I’m on my own
You hold me in your custody
When you can’t explain what you want of me with words I understand I’ll be undone
It’s not what you say,
but it’s the way you say it
that makes me go
‘round and ‘round
It’s not what you do,
but it’s the way you do it
that makes me go
‘round and ‘round
It’s not what you say,
but it’s the way you say it
that makes me go
‘round and ‘round
It’s not what you do,
but it’s the way you do it
that makes me go
‘round and ‘round
It’s not what you say,
but it’s the way you say it
that makes me go
‘round and ‘round
It’s not what you do,
but it’s the way you do it
that makes me go
‘round and ‘round
There’s a world between us though you’re next to me, my catastrophe
SKINHORSE PLAYGROUND
AMERICA
Call me up just to draw me down
The spiral stairway to neverland
Climb on top of a falling star
We’re all in awe of America
mmmmmmmm
Make me up just to break me down
Make me dance in a golden town
And climb up close to the morning sun
We all suck blood in the promised land
mmmmmmmmm
Listen up; in euphoria, we’re falling, we’re falling!
Listen up; in euphoria, we’re falling, we’re falling!
And raise me up just to pull me down
Dance with fire to another dawn
Climb on top of a higher star
Scorch my soul for a miracle
And fuck me up just for feeling down
Kiss and crawl to the nearest bar
Smoke stack high on a tower crown
We all look out to America
oooooooooh America!
Listen up; in euphoria, we’re falling, we’re falling!
Listen up; in euphoria, we’re falling, we’re falling!
Call me up when i’m coming down
The spiral stairway to neverland
Wake me up when i hit the ground
Wake me up from America
WHEN MY COUNTRY DIED
I wake, I wake from my sleeping
And I must have slept for many years
'cause all around me is weeping
And gone are all happy cheers
Their hands, their hands they are crippled
From clasping what they thought was theirs
Too numb to feel God’s breath ripple
the blank surface of one thousand tears
That was when my country died
And blind, and blind they’ll be seeking
To find, to find what they forgot
I see them walking in circles
Being something that they are not
That was when my country died
I wake, I wake from my sleeping
And I am free but I still hide
'cause when the prophets stopped speaking
That was when my country died
LONDON IS TROUBLE
London is trouble, in every brick and every stone
London is trouble, and I feel so bare when I’m alone
Clouding up my thoughts like the cold grey sky
Wearing down my soul as the Thames rolls by
Stirring up the guilt that I pushed aside
Cause London is trouble, when you still linger on my mind
London is trouble, in every alley on every road
London is trouble, the nights get so wild and overblown
Packing up my suitcase for one last time
Leaving all my tears on the Circle line
Breaking up the clouds as I catch my flight
Cause London is trouble, London is trouble
Pick me up, drag me down, let’s dance downtown
Cause London is trouble, London is trouble
When I feel so numb that I give in
London is trouble, when I can’t feel the snowfall on my skin
Wrapped up in the moon as the stars float by
Kissing under a streetlamp, and my, my, my
Lighting up your face in the wintery sky
Pick me up, drag me down, oh no.. come bring me around,
down underground, let’s dance downtown
Cause London is trouble, London is trouble
And I can’t feel the snow fall on my skin
And I can’t feel the snow fall on my skin
And I can’t feel the snow fall on my skin
I CAN'T SLEEP
I can’t sleep, can’t be alone in this old room without you and me
together like the good old days when we used to be
oh two mussels in the sea, oh like carrots and peas
oh, and then you turned your back on me
I can’t sleep when you’re not here with me, you left your scent like a print
and it feels like it’s yesterday you walked away, oh you echo where I lay
oh the night’s a thousand shades, oh your pictures on my wall decay
And I can’t sleep, can’t get any rest like this, there’s way too many dreams
of what we used to be and I can’t sleep, can’t sleep next to you
I can’t sleep whether you’re here or not, it doesn’t make sense to me
when you’re next to me
Then again when you’re not here, oh I can’t be anywhere
oh your heart is in my ear, oh your clothes have left my chair again
And I can’t sleep, can’t get any rest like this, there’s way too many dreams
of what we used to be and I can’t sleep, can’t sleep next to you
can’t sleep, you can’t get any rest like me, there’s way too many hearts that beat
your body heat and I can’t sleep, can’t sleep next to you
THE DREAM ESCAPERS
Praise the ones out on their own, the dream escapers
Their grit and their steel, forever daring at the wheel
And you flow down the hill, and you’re as free as how you feel
You knew the risk of getting lost, a place that’s better
Everyone would roll their eyes and cut you down to half your size
When you flow down the hill, and you’re as free as how you feel
And you’re half the way you wanna be
Half the way they wanna see, you are halfway human
And you’re baffled when you’re left alone
And they’re laughing when you’re on your own
You are halfway human, and you can see their minds are so blind
But they won’t see it
Your only solace is the air, the wind in your hair
Like a dance without a care, but through the rush you hear
The howling in the fields, you brake, you turn the wheel
Now you’re sliding down the hill, they see you coming
They roll the carpet out, and they were never in doubt
That you would slide down the hill, at odds with what is real
But you’re half the way you wanna be and you’ll
Never be the one they see, you are halfway human
And you’re baffled that you’re not alone
Cause you feel that you’re still on your own
You are halfway human, and they celebrate that they always knew
And they claim they all believed in you! You are halfway human
The eye of the mind, but they won’t see it
They’ll never see it, they just don’t see it
KILLING KARMA
Well I was going out to find another me
Cause there was not a thing a hollow Sol could be
Cause I tried to hurt me, and I tried to hate me
And I tried to heal me, but there was nothing working anymore
Well I was going out to build a better life
Cause that was all I could do, when you gotta do or die
Cause I tried to face you, and I tried to filter you
And I tried to fight you, but there was nothing working anymore
But now I see who you are, your cloak and dagger heart
You’re crafty like a shark, you’re killing karma
Now I sense your attack, the gun behind your back
Yeah, I can smell a rat, you’re killing karma
You’re killing karma
Well I was sick and tired of all your hidden lies.
So bitter you demonized whenever you whispered my name
Yeah were kamikaze, lethal like an army
Always out to harm me, but there was nothing working anymore
But now I see who you are, your cloak and dagger heart
You’re crafty like a shark, you’re killing karma
Now I sense your attack, the gun behind your back
Yeah, I can smell a rat, you’re killing karma
Now I see who you really are, a desolated star
You fester in the dark, you’re killing karma
Now I sense your attack, the gun behind your back
Yeah, I can smell a rat, you’re killing karma
You’re killing karma, you’re killing karma
CLOSER TO THE SKY
What’s gonna happen?
What’s gonna happen when I leave this life?
Will we be strangers or will we be closer together?
Too young for dying
But I’m too old to cry for mama now
I need someone to help me through somehow
Someone who makes it better when I’m
Closer to the sky
Will we be forever
If we’re closer together?
Am I in heaven?
Or is it heaven how you hold my hand?
Ask my children to understand
My heart will never leave them
Closer to the sky
We will always be together
When we’re closer to the sky
We will be forever
When we’re closer again
Ref
And when time’s tumbling will we be together again together again?
Hold my hand to hinterland
In hinterland
I will meet you when you’re
Closer to the sky
We will always be together
When we’re closer to the sky
We will always beat the weather
When we’re closer to the sky
You and me will be forever
When we’re closer to the sky
We won’t have to wait for better days
And when time’s tumbling we will be closer together
WALK A LITTLE FURTHER
Your dream floats out on Lonesome Street softer than a hymn
You cloak your solitude in the lifestyle that you skim
A symphony of sorrow for all who fall astray
The silent cry is deafening, you long for your escape far away
So walk a little further now, though the snow is deeper here
Walk a little further now
Enter Café Solitaire
I’ll show you all the doubt that’s flowing
People lost in disrepair
A universal sadness growing
They’re drowning in a daily race
To glamourize their social page
Another slice of model lives
Lived through someone else’s eyes
Another cry from their paradise
A scrap of bread and circuses, on the rise
Walk until the snow has gone
Walk until the morning comes
Walk away from all the clowns
Walk away from Fancy Town
And Walk until the snow has gone
Walk until the morning comes
Walk with brittle nerves of glass
Walk a little further now
Walk a little further now, though the snow is deeper here
Walk a little further now
HAPPY SONG
Come play me a happy song, I can't play it on my own
'cause the night is dark, and I could use a little light
Come on play me a happy song and I am doing all right
Come play me a happy song, I can't play it on my own
'cause the night is dark and the road is long
And the way you play me isn't fair
Come on play me a song or I will leave you girls here
Come play me a happy song I can't make it all alone
'cause the night is dark and the road is long
And I cut myself and you cast a long shadow you
Come on play me a happy song I'm feeling all blue
Come play me a happy song, I can't play it on my own
'cause the night is dark and the road is long
And I cut myself on the tip of your tongues
And I ain't feeling well
And I wish you all would go to hell!
Come on play me a song we used to do it so well
Come play me a happy song and I need to play along
'cause the night is dark and the road is long
And I cut myself on the tip of your tongues
And I ain't feeling right and I ain't feeling wrong
And I ain't feeling good about singing this song
And the darkness bites and the darkness roars
But you know that we can always choose
Oh let's play us a happy song, I'd do it for you
Play a happy song we do it good
Let's play a happy song all the night through
Come play a happy song…
I would do it for you
Solstice
STARS!
You got caught up with my spangles,
caught up with my fame
Running out in the hayfield
shouting out my name
Calling me every hour
just to hear my voice
Happy for a moment
playing with our toys
Stars!
You got caught up with your ego,
caught up with yourself
I’m placed in your collection,
you put me on your shelf
I’m calling you my lover,
you’re calling me a fix
I was in your star chase,
you just want a piece
Stars!
PIECES TO PLAY
Wake up it’s your call when the situation’s looking like this.
I know it’s your choice but how come you never told me?
It’s hard to be around you all the time when you’re acting like this
I know that it shows so how come you never show me?
I know it’s sad, thinking ‘bout what we’ve got
But I don’t even know you,
you don’t even know me
And I know inside that you just forgot
But I don’t even know you,
you don’t even know me anymore
I was like the big sister you never had when your world was a mess
I know that you know so how come you never hold me?
I would be the one that you called when you needed caress
And I would pick it up, so how come you never call me no more?
I know it’s sad, thinking ‘bout what we’ve got
But I don’t even know you,
you don’t even know me
And I know inside that you just forgot
But I don’t even know you,
you don’t even know me anymore
There must have been someone out there who has told you lies about me. And it makes me cry ‘cause now I realize;
We’re just pieces to play to get her prize.
I know it’s sad, thinking ‘bout what we’ve got
But I don’t even know you,
you don’t even know me
And I know inside that you just forgot
But I don’t even know you,
you don’t even know me anymore
NO MORE GAMES
No more games, love, no more a stage
I’m too tired, love, I have aged
No more secrets, no more rage
My heart’s too big for your circus cage
Leave me naked and stillborn
Let me feel your sharpest thorns
‘cause I’m not scared of who I met
and what you see is what you get
And I won’t ask you to make no vow
You can never promise me love
We’ll never live that lie for show
so leave the games to the guy below
No more tears, love, no more pain
Let us stop this folly and strain
No more a villain, no more in vain
No more Abel and no more Cain
‘cause if you promise to make that vow
we will never taste real love
And you will choke down your desire
and I will never fight with fire
And if you push me down the stairs
I’ll queen it over and put on airs
But if we let ourselves fall in tears
then we will conquer all our fears
So take my hand and let us fall
Let us whimper and let us crawl
Then watch us once again stand tall
and watch us once again fall in love
And if we promise to make that vow
then I will never kneel or bow
So if we mess it up from the start
you will never have my heart!
Heart!
may is the month
May is the month I’ll be waking
And time may come and time may come if I may
But in June I am breaking
But I may come and I may come if I may
July is the month that I'm weeping
I’ll be undone, yeah I’ll be undone and I pray
'cause in August I'll be sleeping
And I'll be dumb but I may hum
If I may, if I may, if I make it and I may
If I may, if I may, if I make it and I may
September till November I am falling
I down that rum, yeah I drown in rum
so I won't feel a thing in December
And I'll be numb, yeah I'll be numb
Yeah I may
January is the month I'll be dying
so beat the drum, so beat the drum
for my bed until April where I'm lying
The choir’s thrum and strings will strum
Yeah they may, if they may, if they wake me and I may
If they may, if they may, if they wake me and I may
May is the month when I'm rising
And I may come, and I may come
to be true to my maker, myself, my undertaker
'cause I will come someday
lift your head
It strikes, it strikes behind your knees
It hits so hard you cannot breathe
You're crawling on the dirty floor
and there’s no tears in you anymore
You stay inside to hide the sun
She tells you that the day's begun
You can't stay out, you can't stay in
You can't escape the state
Your lips are hurting when you try
to crack your face into a smile
The spark inside your eyes is gone
The light is grim, the day's begun
But there is still a light somewhere
A light that never disappears
It's only hidden deep inside
Somewhere inside somewhere
So rise, so rise to sing this song
The darkness won’t stay dark for long Remember we are many who
are reaching out to pull you through
So take our hands and lift your gaze
to let in the amazing grace!
For love will always be too strong
to be defeated, to be wrong
all the lost people
All the magic boxes hold surprises never seen
What do they need? Raze the tower and plant the seed
All the little stories are melted into one
What have they done? Followed the wind, stared at the sun
All the lost people searching for their lord
What can they see with their hand on the sword at the foot of the tree?
All the lonely people staring at the sun. Blinded and done, like the evening to come. As lonely planets they have spun
A scent like a print
On my feather,
on my feather pillow
you have left a scent like a print
In my wavy hair your hands entangled
You have left your scent like a print
I can hear your words just like an echo,
and you spelled it: three words written on a hangman’s note
You have left my hair in a dun tangle
I can’t make it straight without you
I can hear your words just like an echo,
and you spelled it: three words written on a hangman’s note
On my feather,
on my feather pillow
you have left a scent like a print