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She-Moon
03:37
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Here the planet turns
Where memory burns
A black hole in me
While the planet turns
The Moon by my side
Like a little sister rides
Out the soul in me
Under She-Moon
The ground all around
The sound beat me down
Oh, how profound
No sound here is found
In stars
Coming soon
In bars
I lick my wounds
And all that’s left of us
Under the stars
Love comes for me
I swear I will be free
To follow forever
This love in eternity
Lost in the clouds
Tears in the sky
Make me a happy guy
Maybe they’re just clouds
The wave hit the shore
Like a wave nothing more
Smashing through the door
Then nothing more
The forest ever grows
Trees seem too slow
Maybe she knows
How a forest should grow
Maybe she knows
Maybe she knows
Maybe She-Moon knows
How a lover should be
Maybe she knows
Maybe she knows
Maybe she knows
How a lover should be
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Angel of the Sun
03:18
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Somewhere there's a light
Shining through the darkest night
Somewhere - endless love
Maybe it comes from above
From above
Baby, if you ever fall
Feel your back pressed against the wall
When you stand alone
At the crossroads far from home
You cry out, there’s no-one there
But anger lingers everywhere
Just look within, you’ll find
A beautiful light comes to your mind
It comes to your mind
Somewhere inside everyone
The angel of the sun
The angel of the sun
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Never Gonna Die
03:30
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It was never meant to be like this
She was never meant to be the kiss
I never meant for things to be this way
I never thought that I would stay
I’m never ever never gonna die
Never gonna die
Never ever will I
I see her in my daydreams
Where nothing is ever what it seems
She lives high up in the sky
Thank God it's only gravity I need defy
The angel says, you got a wife and kid
Don't look back on all the things you never did
You can't change time, it changes you
Temptation takes a toll, but still you can be true
And always in the end
This angel will be your friend
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Inside the Walls
04:43
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Is heaven really just a state of mind?
Was it invented, or was it designed?
Is this real, or just the imagination
Of a fevered brain crying out for information?
When you go home, the lost are waiting there
When you were a kid you were scared to climb the stairs
I’m giving up coffee
It’s no good for me
All it does is drive my brain
Right down the drain
My angel crawls
Inside the walls
They say I'm insane
But there he goes again
Now I can feel the difference
Now I can see the magnificence
The angel crawls
Inside my walls
They say I'm insane
But here he comes again
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The Bailiff's Dream
05:44
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You need a place to live
Somehow they think that gives them
All you have, and all your years
And when you're old and done
They'll own the very sun
Who gave you life
That's what they need
Who will set them right?
Set all their boats alight
Who would wish to die by fire?
[Backwards: If death by taxes ever was the trend
The tax man would be your best friend
So, don't you worry Mrs Murray
We'll get back in a double hurry]
The Earth will change its axis
Before they stop those taxes
Borrow four and pay back ten
They pluck it from the trees
They'll have you on your knees
When you go you won't be back again
You work to pay the Man
Who sells you what he can
The currency he will defend
It says here that you owe us everything
So, you'll need to vacate the premises by seven AM this coming Thursday
Law enforcement officers will be in attendance should you have any questions about the process
And please remember, your bank is there to help you, holding your hand every step of the way
We only have your best “interests” at heart.
[Granny and the bailiffs]
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The Flesh
03:13
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If you're looking for science
No doubt you'll find it within yourself
If you're looking for signs of life, there they are
If you're looking for love
Well, it's all in your mind
If you're looking for blood and bones, don't look too far
Air and water, fire and earth and electricity is all you are
All the emperors were very sure they had it all worked out
They were made of stars
No need for revolution, no need to scream and kill and shout
Here it is, it's everything you ever wanted
The flesh, and all that goes with it
Don't you want it?
Don't you need it?
Can't you feel it?
Can’t you feel it?
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Atomic Snowfall
03:20
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A thousand years ago
When I was sane
The wind blew hard from the eastern plain
Came over the mountains, over the northern sea
Father's bones in the gutter
Fixing what no-one could see
In the pouring rain
In the pouring rain
Bones in the dirty water
Later, when the roof was done,
Came atomic snowfall
Under the atomic sun
Under the atomic sun
Now his hands are broken
Greyhounds and the flocks are choking
The clouds will last forever
Making atomic snowfall
Everywhere we can be
Radioactivity
The scar will never stop bleeding
The frontiers are receding
Quicker than the eye can track
Pouring out of the chimney stack
Black clouds once cooled the flames
Know their deeds but never their names
Atomic snowfall x 6
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Swallowing the Whale
04:27
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Lock yourself behind closed doors
Eternity has only just begun
All the mothers, freaks and whores
Start the morning worshipping the sun
Radiation falls upon their painted faces
Think of all the many ways they fail
There's a warship deep beneath the ocean
The Captain swallowing the whale
The good dog eats out of your hand
Guards the door, sleeps by your bed
The wolf will follow no command
Goes where he wants, eats of the dead
I was once untamed and wild
Now I tarry for your word
Like a little baby, like a little child
Looking for a truth no-one has heard
They say God loves, he really cares
How come we never know he's there?
If all God's creatures love him so
How come they never seem to know?
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Burning the Ocean Dry
03:21
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I saw the tide come, I had no choice
Stood beside you with the burning Goodbye Boys
If the tide comes away down here
Fill my body full of dread fear
When the time comes, hear my voice
When the time comes, I will rejoice
Get the vote out, get out of my face
Don't need your kind in my space
There's a fire in the sea
In the water there's a drowning dead man free
Octopus in his brain
Never ever will live again
Fire lights up the sky
There's a fire burning the ocean dry
Got nothing, I'm nowhere
There's a fish inside my dead head
I ain't breathing, I don't need air
Walking home from the sea bed
In a warship made on the Clyde
That's where me and a dozen died
Just trying to live and be kind
Then fire blew out our minds
You wanna know how this will end?
It doesn't go well for me or my friends
Dark took us, it brought us right through
You hate us, I don't blame you
The truth will come out, it must be told
Truth is there's no pot of gold
I can't help you, can't save me
From the devil or the deep sea
They're gonna get you, I can't stop that
Washed up on shore, a drownded rat
Better get the silver bullet
I hope you know where you must shoot it
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10. |
Out of the Faifley
03:34
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You can take the boy out of the Faifley
You canny take the Faifley out of the boy
You can put the babies intae the prison
That's where they ever will bide
Down in West Street lies the ghost of my daddy
Sent me off to school every morning with the Whites
Ian and Billy catching bad guys for a living
Sleeping through the day, shifting through the night
I was raised on the banks of the Clyde
They told me Jesus was on our side
I was raised where the warships reside
Where the widows and the bairns still cried
John Knox was a man of the faith
Bring the weans in, bring them in close
Get yourself a little dose of his religion
Sing in the choir, like a wee bird
Under the dome they had an x-ray machine
See right through to the bones of the world
If your shoes never fit you good
Must be 'cos you never did the things you should
I was raised on the banks of the Clyde
Making warships for Britannia
In the days when she still ruled the waves
Acquainting infidels with their graves
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Our Time
03:21
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Look what's coming down the line
I got a good feeling, I'm feeling fine
Empire, Union, Kingdom done
A revolution goes better without your gun
All we need is a love of one another
Every colour and creed, my sister and my brother
All the flags, the fags and the queers and the Kooks
And the nerds hear the words, no second looks
Once was a nation had a reputation
Stood up at the altar, waiting in the station
Too wee, too poor, too dumb
Say the lords in the lords sucking on their mummy's thumb
White cross on a field of blue
It mean nothing to them like it means to you
I wouldn't die for a cross on a field
But I live my life until the day it's real
‘Cause it’s
Our time
It’s our time
Look what's coming down the line
I got a good feeling, I'm feeling fine
Empire, Union, Kingdom done
A revolution goes better without your gun
Don't you frown
Your feet are on the ground
Don't let the doubters bring you down
Because it’s
Our time
White cross on a field of blue
It means nothing to them like it means to you
I wouldn't die for a cross on a field
But I live my life until the day it's real
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The Goodbye Guys
03:21
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Would you like to hear the story of the Goodbye Boys?
Ha ha ha ha ha!
I was walking down the street one day
The rozzers grabbed me, dragged me away
I was kicking and screaming, they pulled on my hair
They flung me in the pokey and they left me there
The next morning in comes Big Sam, he says “Do you know who I am?”
I says, “You're Big Sam, like a fat hunk o' ham, Big Sam that's who you am.”
He says, “Don't gie us no trouble boy
'Cos I can double your trouble at the drop of my hat.”
I says, “Big Sam you got a big yella hat, so double my trouble, yeah just do that.”
“I don't think you understand”, says Sam.
“I got the goods on you, I got you on the lam
Running up a racket on my side of town
Now I'm taking you down, taking back my crown.
“The Polis owes me a solid turn,
I'm calling it in you're gonna burn baby burn
All I'm gonna leave of you is ashes and bones
I’m gonna get your case tried by Bad Judge Jones.”
[Doot doot etc]
I says, “Bad Judge Jones disney frighten me
I got special topic photography
Of Judge Jones in the in flagrente
Wae another man's wife, and he's gieing her plenty
“D'ye think ma mammy popped me oot last week
That the world is owed to the poor and the meek
I got my finger right up your pie
You got nothing on me, not the gleam in my eye.”
Sam took a turn and he went real pale,
He says, “I’m gauny leave you rotting in this jail.”
I told Big Sam he had the whole thing wrong
It was him would be singing up a jailbird song
I introduced him to my good mate Jim
Joined the rozzers just to keep himself slim
I advised him of my situation
And much to my delight and Big Sam's frustration
They held him on a trumped up charge
Ten years in Barlinnie and he's giving it large
Jim's getting skinny, Sam's getting wise
That's the tale of the Goodbye Guys
[Doot, doot
The Goodbye Guys etc.]
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It started just like any other day, yeah!
I took the time to make myself a little prayer
I’ve been taking too much carb again
I think I’m trying to break the boundaries of my skin
Little houses smokin’ under the volcano
Don’t you do it just because the bad man says no
Yeah, you do it all the same
Cuttin’ out his given middle Christian name
They made you sick with a fear you cannot see
Of what that lab created pox might really be
The medicine he made us take was worse than useless
So, instead he blamed the children and the very blessed
The Very Blessed!
The Very Blessed!
Now I’m drinkin’ only holy water
Now I’m dreamin’ of my one and only daughter
Comin’ to me for the summer holidays
That’s what her mother’s boyfriend always says
How do I describe this colour conundrum
To a blind man?
It’s not that he’s dumb
He has eyes, but he just cannot see
Sightless, unknowing
Not the least wee bit like you and me
If nobody told you how to sing
What makes you bring us anything?
Nobody told you how to sing
What makes you bring us anything?
The Very Blessed!
The Very Blessed!
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Peri Urban UK
Like all musicians I wished I had the same number of limbs as an octopus. My wish was granted, but not in the way I had hoped for. My cephalopod partner is an enthusiastic volunteer from the worldwide animal charity Save Humans From Themselves. We share a special kind of love. ... more
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