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25 Years
03:53
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On a mainland star
you don't know who you are
cos you're breaking the chain
you've gone way too far
a one man seminar
and its always the same
25 years to go
25 I know
then the colours fading from your eyes
25 slipping slow
25 to go
then we're all going out with the tide
I don't see your eyes
I just see the lies
that your acting through
I don't see your mind
I just see the kind
that you're acting to
25 years to go
25 I know
then the colours fading from your eyes
25 slipping slow
25 to go
then we're all going out with the tide
and as the morning hits the sky
like the set of a movie
your mocked ensemble wonder by
all set up for moving
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2. |
Criminal 18
03:16
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where we go we celebrate
liberation on a plate
trying to create a scene
compensate the country and queen
sparks fly through the air at night
electric line and satellite
trying to reconnect to you
trying to get a message through
well what else could I do?
and you all liked criminal 18
but it's not in me
now I'm chairing your machine
but I just don't know
how to stand amongst the law
that I once stood before
coming in to twist and spin
upon your polished floor
where we go we celebrate
liberation on a plate
trying to create a scene
compensate the country and queen
there is no inbetween
and you all liked criminal 18
but it's not in me
now I'm chairing your machine
but I just don't know
how to stand amongst the law
that I once stood before
coming in to twist and spit
upon your polished floor
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3. |
Walking The Dog
04:06
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I saw you standing on the corner
Underneath the bell
You said you saw her
Walking into hell
I met your sister
when lonely nights were long
she said you missed her
d'you miss her now she's gone again?
cos now
yr nothing more than a dog
she'll take you for a walk
all over town
and then as you start counting to ten
she'll spread the poisonous pen
all over town
and back again
cos she's not coming home for Christmas
never will she write
bother with yr business
be leaving on a light
so take yr ponies
your schizophrenic eye
yr twisted cronies
so you don't have to try
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4. |
New Town Fog
03:12
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New Town Fog
All I wanted was there on the Telly
all I got was new town fog
watching you sipping soda, lime and cherry
for seven years of solid slog
but now I'm under the table
vomiting my curry
and we are all going out tonight
we are all going out tonight
to shake it down
all I needed was daylight and colour
all I got was cold blackened sod
watching you with your eyes on another
cursing life and fearing god
but while we're still young and able
better start to hurry
so we are all going out tonight
we are all going out tonight
to shake it down
it's never gonna be stable
honestly don't worry
so we are all going out tonight
we are all going out tonight
to shake it down
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5. |
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where do we go from here?
Ah we can only go down down down
down amongst the crowds that gather round
beneath the buzzing stations and underground
when all I really want
is to believe in all the things that don't wash with me
like living your whole life inside a role
until you cannot climb out of the hole
Ah you,
why are you always so unamused
can't you let yourself go
you could go so far
Talking to you i see myself lying in your eyes
but just as the reflection disappears
I only see your eyes awash with tears
when all I really want
is to believe in all the thing that you give to me
but when i open up my eyes to let you in
you only talk of what there might have been
ah you
why are you always so confused
can't you let yourself grow
you could go so far
taking a walk around the town underneath the stars
and passing every sin soaked sodden door
I only would have knocked upon before
I carried on and left a little part of you
outside each cold black hole
Until the place I once hid you inside
was spread across the whole damn city wide
Ah you,
you and your sweet sweet lies
are excused
along with your pleading eyes
so bemused
It's always the same old rise
interfused
with anything money buys
you just went too far
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6. |
E.S
06:02
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Its not important who I am
I only want to play my songs
you don't need to understand
you don't need to sing along
you know I just dropped out
full of dope and doubt
but I feel better today
getting better each day
wild and wasted
up in the afternoon
contemplating
getting it over soon
once you taste it
you burst your balloon
unless someone plays a different tune
its not important, not at all
hear the words within a song
read the writing on the wall
nothings changed and nothings wrong
you know I just dropped out
full of dope and doubt
but I feel better today
getting better each day
wild and wasted
up in the afternoon
contemplating
getting it over soon
once you taste it
you burst your balloon
'til someone plays a different tune
nobody told me the price of my dreaming
nobody told me the cost of revealing
i was not looking for needles in the hay
i had it all in the world yesterday
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7. |
Beer with God
04:04
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I've seen your eyes light up this burning nation
I've seen the way you look right through it all
I've seen you walking out for medication
I've seen you walk right back in through the wall
hotline
a call to make you feel fine
when your eyes won't see in colour
alright
the cities looking so bright
and I'm talking words of another
I've got to reach you but it's cold outside
death cutting in right through the bone
I've got to taste you, one more messed up ride
give me six hours and I'll be home
hotline
a call to make you feel fine
when your eyes won't see in colour
alright
the cities looking so bright
and im talking words of another
the city burned my feet today
walking on the street today
my body's burning but all I want is fire
don't need salvation sir today
no cracked religion to get any higher
I took the goods and I will pay
but hold on
could it be that I'm wrong
and the morning sun is my color
alright
the city's looking so bright
still it's your round god
mines another
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8. |
Come Home
05:03
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winter season of the band
a crock of history in my hand
where you going?
where've you been?
Frozen memories on the wall
the one I just forgot to call
reels of colour
come swirling in
come home sister
come home valentine
the leaves lie better
down the line
remember dreaming in candlelight
these days I dream in black and white
'til the world spits colour
out a pill
never knowing where you are
you're take on dreams you waited for
and are you still waiting?
I'm waiting still
come home sister
come home valentine
the leaves lie better
down the line
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9. |
The Crux Of The Night
04:39
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Lets go for a ride
through the town of memories
the young girl hocks her dreams
on the hill
The crux of the night
beating like a broken heart
the sins that stretched the days
are here still
so when you've nothing left to do
I guess it's then my friend
that I'll be seeing you
The morning died, the evening flew
and though I searched for hours
nothing I found was new
well I'm through
Mile after mile
the dying light shone down on me
time means nothing now anyway
eternally mine
a song to tell our tale some day
when from this world we slip away
so when you've nothing else to do
I guess it's then my friend
that I'll be seeing you
The morning died, the evening flew
and though I searched for hours
nothing I found was new
well I'm through
If this is all we've got , I'm with them
If this is all we've got , I'm with them
So when you've nothing else to do
and all these lines are coming true
I guess it's then my friend
that I'll be seeing you
The morning died the evening flew
and though I searched for hours
nothing I found was new
I met the young girl on the hill
Just to turn and find you
waiting for me still
I carried on into the night
and crawled alone into
the blessed morning light
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10. |
My Old Buddy
04:02
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11. |
Too Late For Summer
05:25
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everybody loves you
and all the crowds adore you
so why'd you have to slip away
the scene of broken windows
the streets all frozen hollows
consequences of the day
I see you've gone and crashed your car
driving in some crass illusion
we only ever needed more
ah kid
you're a rusted machine
a crack in the scene
but you're always welcome
just leave it today
took the gloss off the sheen
played inbetween
but you're always remembered
in your own sweet way
the coasting came to nothing
with all the others rushing
you need a hundred years or more
so sit aside your window
watch the carved out trees grow
only getting up to score
do you know what I mean
how this messed up scene
was the goldmine, the mainline
that led you astray
now all I can do is dream
of what might have been
if the mornings new light
could have led you to stay
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I got 700 hours in an institution
With a wire running through my head
I got a whole lot of love and a sad solution
And a belt that binds me to my bed
For what I said, for what I said
I hear the beat of your feet as you walk down my street
To the city sets sense of fun
I open up my eyes to the same sun rising
Do you think you see a different one?
Well carry on, well carry on
If I knew I’d feel the same tomorrow
I would come on home to you
To taste the pain and all the joys of sorrow
That comes with everything you do
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