Beautiful Rain
and they hang in the sky, little darts in the light
and i soak it up like a cloth wrung dry for too long.
and it’s all black and white and i love everything right now
and i’m not on a thing but i feel higher than a kite
you can’t ignore what’s given to you
and the lights shining black on the road all looks clean and new
and the air’s full of bats cos they know - are they on patrol?
and the dog’s fur is wet and she sits, faithful and contrite
and the stones on the ground rebound the light from satellites
you can’t ignore what’s given to you in the beautiful rain
and the sky’s full of light and they’ve come to end what they’ve begun
no time for goodbyes, you’ll miss me now i’m gone
and the earth is a ball is a pin is a dot, the stars turn inside out.
you can’t ignore what’s given to you in the beautiful rain
Three Foot High Sissy Bar
3 foot high sissy bar and a flag on the top
nothing else can come close best machine on the block
we light the wheels
3 foot high sissy bar we laugh at trucks we ain’t afraid of cars
favourite thongs on my feet leopard skin on my seat
we light the wheels
we take the hills yeah yeah
sissy bar 3 foot high
that thing so tall it nearly touch the sky
3 speed stick on the frame
watch your flares don’t get caught in the chain
we light the wheels
we take the hills yeah yeah
we don’t care about dads and mothers
whether they’ll split or stay together
if they’ll laugh or if they’ll fight
get drunk smash things shout all night
no we don’t care about dads and mothers
just go riding with our friends and brothers
3 foot high sissy bar no skin my knees lots of ankle scars
Go wherever we want, thrillseekers on the hunt
we light the wheels
we take the hills yeah yeah
Fly Through
you are to me like grass under my feet
a shady place when the world turns up the heat
you're my oxygen, my heroine my helium, my spine
i dont know where you have to be
stay a while keep me company
you're the day maker the darkness melts away when you fly through
fly through
i'm a coward die a thousand deaths
i'd do anything to keep you drawing breath
it’s a wonder i don't understand
as i fade leave it all behind who'll be there to hear me say goodbye
more than anything i’d ask for what you sing when you fly through
fly through
colours flashing
splashing over me
crystal crashing
lying here baking in the sun i can feel the process has began
tell me something i'd really like to know
how the earth ends who'll be first to go
you’re the oracle, the miracle the way that you fly through
fly through
It’s Inside You
every time you talk it’s a song
every time you talk it’s a song
the rain and the sunshine hum along
every time you talk it’s a song
every time you move it’s a riot
every time you move it’s a riot
spirits inside you know no quiet
every time you move it’s a riot
everything you need is inside you
people that you meet are there to guide you
the truth is always there to surprise you
everything you need is inside you
it’s inside you
every time you sleep it surrounds you
every time you sleep it surrounds you
you don’t even realise what’s found you
every time you sleep it surrounds you
everything you need is inside you
it’s inside you
What A Life
will you shine on the cliffs for me mirrors blazing far out to sea?
while i crash from one wave to the next
cry in the troughs and wave from the crests
will you stay lucky for me four in my hand and one up my sleeve?
when i spin the big coloured wheel
cross your fingers do what you feel
oh what a life even in this place
i see my future written in your face
will you dance the spanish for me
rose in your mouth, red shoes on your feet?
is that something you still want to do
after all i’ve put you through?
oh what a life even in this place
i see my future written in your face
i’m falling through seven layers of hell
i’m counting friends on my way down the well
will you keep searching for me?
while i crash from one wave to the next
the tide is fast my kitten can’t swim
in the fog rolling over and over me
oh what a life even in this place
i see my future written in your face
oh what a life living here with you
do you get tired of this roller coaster too?
roller coaster
The Worst One
please, i’m so weak i’ll take my medication on my knees
these bones will creak
you can’t beat the laws of physics
you rock my boat, you make me seasick
you were the worst one, won’t be the last one
don’t take me over, don’t take me under
dreams on my street i can’t rest until i find your feet
swords through my words
i don’t know why you’re contrary that’s not in my dictionary
you were the worst one, won’t be the last one
don’t take me over
on and on i’m lying in your secret song
like nothin’s wrong
come to the freak show they do it so slow
look in the window
on and on i’m lying in your secret song
like nothin’s wrong
browsing in my library of regret
i’ve a few you need to make your set
i know the one you want to borrow,
that one’s out, come back tomorrow
you were the worst one, won’t be the last one
don’t take me over, don’t take me under
come to the freak show, they do it so slow
don’t take me over!
Hero
i’m the last man standing for the crowd
blood and bodies everywhere around
the emperor is weighing choices, he hears the cruellest voices
drops his thumb to grind me to the ground
well it’s alright, yeah it’s alright
i’d gladly gladiate again for you
flying back from space so deep and dark
aliens and sun-storms dog my course
will you want this travelled soul a thousand light years old
but thanks to einstein younger than i was?
well it’s alright, yeah it’s alright
i named a dozen planets after you
well it’s alright, yeah it’s alright
i’d crash into that meteor for you
my last trick is diving in this pool
to fetch a statue of you way way down
big shoes stop me swimming back up, my breath is leaving my lungs
everyone just laughs: a drowning clown
well it’s alright, it’s alright
i stole the circus for you for a while
well it’s alright, oh yeah it’s alright
the elephants and tigers have you now
Sugar Crash
i wanna go where all light penetrates
i wanna go where no-one’ll set me straight
no god above no saints watching over me
a man and a woman pick from the apple tree
you say this is holy if you would just hold me
sugar crash you gamble night sweats in the day
sugar crash you tremble unable to say
sugar crash remember how you got your way
give me a sign a stroke of the tender kind
give me the kind of sweets that are hard to find
i never understood what you take me for
i never said that i’d knock you back for more
in a new position we’re no longer wishing
sugar crash you gamble night sweats in the day
sugar crash you tremble unable to say
sugar crash remember how you got your way
in a new position come on in my kitchen
sugar crash you gamble night sweats in the day
sugar crash you tremble unable to say
sugar crash remember how you got your way
fresh batch my sugar crash
flash trash my sugar
fresh catch my sugar crash
flash trash my sugar
Beyond The Nether
you look so relaxed in sleep i see you submerged so deep
but what you dream about I can’t figure out
we lose so much time each day sleeping our lives away
and when you close your eyes I can’t supervise
beginning to understand beginning to hatch a plan
if i could only make, make you stay awake all the time
let me take you down beyond the nether
this is what I mean by sleep together
beyond the nether
this is where we paint your face this is where we paint my face
we’re together now were together now
stay here for days on end i know you’re my special friend
We both start to shake not asleep or awake
(this is the missing verse)
let me take you down beyond the nether
this is what I mean by sleep together
beyond the nether
let me take you down beyond the nether
this is what I mean by sleep together
we can play this game in any weather
let me take you down beyond the nether
If You Try
save me from the quicksand i can hardly feel myself
i’ve got seconds left to love you
could really use some help
there’s a rope made of barbed wire and a life saver of thorns
take your pick i’m ready can’t swim in here no more
this is all my fault your kiss of life says it all
so if you try to bring me round
all the times i let you struggle looking on just like the crowd
shames me to my very middle i’m a firm believer now
when did i become an actor? when was that decision made?
when did i turn out to be this villain, creep and thief?
so if you try to bring me round
even if i die you won’t let me down
save me from the quicksand it’s up around my neck
i got seconds left to love you no that’s milliseconds left
i can’t see us now, no not now
if you try to bring me round
even if i die you won’t let me down
