the radiant city CAN
the radiant country YOU HEAR ME?
the twilight of money CAN
the growth of your body YOU HEAR ME?


the radiant city CAN
the radiant country YOU HEAR ME?
the twilight of money CAN
the growth of your body YOU SEE ME?

(ready or not)

RETURNING JESUS
slow it all down, it always moves too fast.
slow it all down, it always moves too fast.

follow me down to where I'll always be.
follow me down to where I'll always be.

I don't want to stay a million miles away.
I don't want to stay a million miles away.

RIVERRUN
come with me, run with me,
feel the heat of morning sun.
come with me, run with me,
see the way the river runs.
come to me, come to me
now.
come to me, come to me
now.

river run on...

RIVER SONG
(Donovan Leitch)
oh, the waters flow
over rock and stone.
over the waters blow
windy winds so cold.
oh, the rivers flow
so.
oh, the rivers flow
so.

over the rivers fly
stately kingfishers.
through the waters swim
stickleback fishes.
oh, the waters flow
so.
oh, the rivers flow
so.

oh, the waters flow
over rock and stone.
through the waters swim
stickleback fishes.
oh, the rivers flow
so.
oh, the rivers flow
so.
oh, the rivers flow
so.

SAMARITAN SNARE
Jimmy Small heeds his call
to lead the dancing girls -
teaches moves to latin grooves
and acrobatic twirls.
you alone, on the throne,
wonder where the future lies.
if you could, then you would
sever all the family ties.

your brother turned out kind of weird,
changed his pants and disappeared.
said he'd found the motivation
to climb above his lowly station.
use your voice, use your vote
to see who'll put an end to hope.
use your voice, use your vote
to see which way the shit will float.

chorus:

what do you do when it moves too fast
and everything is past
(everything has passed)?
too tired to try, and too weak to last -
everything is past,
everything has passed.

SCREAMING HEAD ETERNAL
head so stupid lies bleeding on the floor,
body broken and crushed against the door,
fevered moments that move without control,
all aggression pulled tight round naked limbs,
pulled tight!

screaming, screaming,
screaming head eternal.

head so stupid lies bleeding on the floor,
body broken and crushed against the door,
almost like prayers when all the faith is gone,
lips that would kiss form prayers to broken stones.
almost like prayers when all the faith is gone,
lips that would kiss form prayers to broken stones.

burning brightly, and ever brighter still.
screaming, screaming, screaming,
screaming head eternal.

almost like prayers when all the faith is gone,
lips that would kiss form prayers to broken stones.

(repeat x 2)

almost like prayers when all the faith is gone...

SHEEPLOOP
you make me cold,
you make me feel so old.
you've got me in your velvet hold.

chorus:

this loving is easy,
this loving is free,
this loving demands no part of me.

we talked for such a long time
that it seemed to mean a lot.
I was yours and you were mine,
and then the feeling stopped.

(chorus x 2)

run away,
get down and pray,
become a part of something
anyway.
run away,
work hard and pay,
become a part of something
anyway.

(chorus)

you never know
how people grow,
become a part of something.

(chorus)

SHELL OF A FIGHTER
I dream of changes.
I change my dreams.
I feel so restless,
sometimes I get so mean.

why should I bother
finding the will,
when every movement I make
just seems like I'm standing still?

chorus:

the shell of a fighter,
the shell of a man,
the weight of a lifetime -
waiting for your healing hands.

and still I rise,
and still I dream,
and still I feel,
and I wait.

(chorus 1 repeat)

chorus 2:

why don't you hold me
when I need you to?
why don't you touch me
when I reach for you?

chorus 3:

why don't you hurt for me
like I do for you?
why don't you dream of me -
dream like I'm dreaming of you?

(chorus 1 repeat x 2)

the shell of a fighter

and still I rise,
and still I dream,
and still I feel,
and I wait.

the shell of a fighter

SICKNOTE
come dazzle me
come saddle me

with your hands so soft and white
and your words so hard and right
in the heat of this pointless night
dazzle me

there's no need to flap
there's no need to slap
there's no need to slaughter your name

there's no need to fear
there's no need to be here

you can tell them where to go
when you're the star of the show -
dazzle them

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it's dim and dismal but it makes you laugh
fills in the time you can't wait to pass
there's so much wisdom in the heart of trash
the freezing coffee and the falling ash

SIMPLE
with the sun
on your lips,
you turn around
and spit.

you spit the moon right out of your mouth
for me,
you touch the sky and start to shout
removing all my doubts

chorus:

I could really love you,
I could give my heart away.
I could really love you,
it's so simple,
it's so simple.

I picture
my ideal.
how it looks,
and how it feels.

no more dreams turning to armchairs
again.
no more plans turning to blank stares,
as long as you are there.

(chorus)

it's so simple, simple, simple...

I could really love you,
it's so simple.

SINISTER JAZZ
deep,
deep in the heat,
fallen and weak...
sometimes we meet.

feet
sending out beats
on dirty streets...
sometimes we speak.

wendy got it in the throat.
linda died in alan's coat.
you read it all in brian's note.
(you're never going home.)

bone
covered by stone,
feeling alone,
and never going home
robert lost the plot in greece.
the jesus army stole your niece.
but all you ever do is eat.
(you're never going home)

you're never going home
you're never going home
you're never going home
you're never going home

SOFT SHOULDERS
the more I move,
the worse it gets;
the more I move,
the more I sweat.

it's getting harder
to face the light.
it's getting harder
to fight the fight.

so many big ideas,
so many big mistakes.
I should shake my fear -
erase my face.

chorus:

all I see -
soft shoulders rising.
all I see -
soft shoulders fall.

it's getting harder
to seem that easy.
it's getting harder
to feel that free.

(chorus)

it's getting harder
to face the light.
it's getting harder
to fight the fight.

(chorus x 2)

SOMETHING FALLS
you're still too near it to feel it.
you're still too near it to fear it.

chorus:

something has fallen on you.
something has fallen on me.
just listen to the trees sing,
just listen to the trees.

I'd fall down on the forest groves,
and kneel and pray for you.
I'd fall down on the earth and leaves,
I'd cry and die for you.

(chorus)

you're still too near it to feel it.
you're still too near it to fear it.

SWEETHEART RAW
her life is sinking,
drinking up this stinking pain.
she gets to thinking,
"there's nothing now could ever change."

she lies for hours,
crashed upon the concrete floor -
remembers flowers
and looks that left her sweet heart raw.

chorus:

sweetheart, sweetheart, sweetheart,
sweetheart raw -
no hope, no fear;
no hope, no fear, no more.

the drunken fumbling,
the shaking hands and shaken head.
the constant stumbling.
the ghosts of what she should have said.

she sees her children
crushed beneath her coward feet.
still not forgiven,
she's broken by her heart's sweet beat.

(chorus x 2)

sweetheart raw.

SWEETSIDE SILVER NIGHT
the road to hell is paved
with the souls of old failed singers
the wild, wild eyes, the non stop whys -
the dreadful songs they bring us.

their get up and go
makes me lie down and die.
their pug ugly row
makes the little ones cry.

sweetside silver night
sheds her skin in the cold spotlight.
sweetside silver night -
it's in the colour of her hair.

tired of losing face
and lost in summer thunder,
casual attire with no spare tyre,
you sit at home and wonder.

sweetside silver night
spills her gin in the pale moonlight.
sweetside silver night -
it's in the way she never cares.

SWIRL
see the straw shoes making patterns
on the soft, lifeless earth.
hear the rain fall on the tin roofs,
feel the water on my face

pray to see the morning light.

in the garden, on the damp ground,
I crouch behind the biggest rock.
I'm tired and homesick for the jungle.
I pray to see the morning light;

I stared through dirty windows,
I slept on battered beds;
taking tulips from my pocket,
I would pin them to your breast.
there's too much love and understanding
and not enough common sense.
there's too much art and inspiration
and not enough building bricks.

there's too much love and understanding;
there's too much love and understanding;
there's too much sex and perspiration,
and not enough stepping stones.

they wrapped you up in cotton sheets
and carried you away,
while our children played with plasticine
and tried to face the day.
there's too much love and understanding,
and not enough common sense.
there's too much art and inspiration,
and not enough building bricks.

pale beneath the murderous sky,
grit between my teeth and my tongue,
drained from all the heat and the searching,
I try to send my signal to you.

I place my flowers at your feet,
I throw my sunsets in your face.

(repeat x 3)