The Game
A sense of duty was my one intention
And an ugly beauty was my own invention
Pride, a proud refusal
And I refuse to need your approval
Too many seekers, too few beacons
But through the fog we'll keep on beaming
Through the crying hours of your glitter years
All the living out of your tinsel tears
And the midnight trains I never made
'Cos I'd already played the game
Everybody's got their own good reason
Why their favorite season is their favorite season
Winter winners and those summer suns
Aren't good for everyone, aren't good for everyone
Spring has sprung and autumn's so well done
So well done
And it's a better thing that we do now
Forgetting everything, the whys and hows
While you reminisce
About the things you miss
You won't be ready to kiss
Goodbye
The Earth is a world
The world is a ball
A ball in a game
With no rules at all
And just as I wonder
At the beauty of it all
You go and drop it
And it breaks when it falls
I'll never understand why you thought I would
Need to be reassured and be understood
When I always knew that your bad's my good
And I was ready
Ready to be loved
Born under Mars
With Jupiter rising
Fallen from stars
That lit my horizon
I'll never understand why you thought I would
Need to be reassured and understood
When I always knew that your bad's my good
And I was ready
To be
Through the crying hours of your glitter years
All the living out of your tinsel tears
And the midnight trains I never made
'Cos I'd already played
It's a better thing that we do now
Forgetting everything
The whys and hows
'Cos while you reminisce
About the things you miss
You won't be ready to kiss
Goodbye
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Over You
Jump right in
Take the call
Were you pushed or did you fall?
Fell apart
Feeling low
Happy ride, the merry-go
And I always hear them singing
And complaining about the world
And my chiming bells are ringing out
The word, the word, the word
Love rebounds
Heart goes snap
Is she ever coming back?
Let her down
Break her fall
Never ever felt so small
And I always hear them singing
And complaining about the world
But my chiming bells are ringing out
The word, the word, the word
Feeling good again
Always hoped I would
Never believed that I ever could
Feeling blue again
Never wanted to
Under the weather
And it's over you
When there's a hole in the holy
And a crack our hearts
It's love and love only
That sets our world apart
Worlds apart
Joined at the heart
Jump right in
Take the call
Were you pushed or did you fall?
Fell apart
Feeling low
Happy ride, the merry-go
And I always hear them singing
And complaining about the world
And my chiming bells are ringing out
The word, the word, the word
Feeling good again
Always hoped I would
Never believed that I ever could
Feeling blue again
Never wanted to
Under the weather
And it's over you
And a dream is a means to the end of the things
That will tempt you away
From the path to the true way i
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Bedbugs and Ballyhoo
Buffalo and bison
Bison and buffalo
Cannonball and rifle
Rifle and cannonball
That's the way the thunder rumbles
That's the way the thunder rumbles
Rumbles
Down on your knees again
Saying please again
Yeah yeah yeah
Kangaroos and chipmunks
Chipmunks and kangaroos
Ballyhoo and bedbugs
Bedbugs and ballyhoo
That's the way the bee bumbles
That's the way the bee bumbles...
Bumbles
Down on your knees again
Saying please again
No no no
Buffalo and bison
Bison and buffalo
Cannonball and rifle
Rifle and cannonball
That's the way the thunder rumbles
That's the way the thunder rumbles
Rumbles...
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All in Your Mind
You say you're proud
to be one of the people
Hands on the money and your feet on the ground
Shouting out loud from the top of the steeple
Counting the flock while collecting their pounds
All you thieving wheeler dealers in the healing zone
Giving me fever fever fever fever
Down to my bones
I pray
And nothing happens
Jesus
It's all in my mind
You say
Stop looking for answers
And reasons
They're all in your mind
All in your mind
Covered in flies and
smothered in lava
I can't scratch my itches with these pumice stone hands
I dream of my days as a desert farmer
Living my life on the fat of the sand
All you thieving wheeler-dealers in the healing zone
Giving me fever fever fever fever
Down to my bones
I pray
And nothing happens
Jesus
It's all in my mind
You say
Stop looking for answers
And reasons
They're all in your mind
All in your mind
Stuck in a world losing
its way and wonder
I wonder what happened to the world we knew
Splitting the atom and feeling it's thunder
Could never ever make me feel the way you do
You give me fever fever fever fever
Down to my bones
Wheel me wheel me wheel me
To the healing zone
I pray
And nothing happens
Jesus
It's all in my mind
You say
Stop looking for answers
And reasons
They're all in your mind
All in your mind
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Bombers Bay
The word went 'round in no-dream town
They shut us up and shutters down
The planes flew in
And laid the ground
We built upon
And spun around
God's one miracle
Lost in circles
On the march
Berlin to Bomber's Bay
Traveling dark
On the road to Mandalay
Cannon fire came to call
Stood us up and watched us fall
The way we were
And now outworn
Our costumes changed to uniforms
Black black days
Here to stay
On the march
Madrid to Bomber's Bay
Traveling dark
On the road to Mandalay
Pack up your troubles and you'll all get by
Smile boys, that's the style
Pack up your troubles and you'll all get by
Smile...
They give us hope and teach us well
With magic moons that cast a spell
And hypnotise, and draw us in
I believe
I'm believing
God's one miracle
Moves in circles
On the march
Berlin to Bombers Bay
Traveling dark
On the road to Mandalay
Black black days
Where the flying fishes play...
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Lips Like Sugar
She floats like a swan
Grace on the water
Lips like sugar
Lips like sugar
Just when you think you've caught her
She glides across the water
She calls for you tonight
To share her moonlight
You'll flow down her
river
She'll ask and you'll give her
Lips like sugar
Sugar kisses
Lips like sugar
Sugar kisses
She knows what she knows
I know what she's thinking
Sugar kisses
Sugar kisses
Just when you think she's yours
She's flown to other shores
To laugh at how you break
And melt into her lake
You'll flow down her
river
But you'll never give her
Lips like sugar
Sugar kisses
Lips like sugar
Sugar kisses
She'll be my mirror
Reflect what I am
A loser and winner
The king of Siam I am
And my Siamese twin
Alone on the river
Mirror kisses
Mirror kisses
Lips like sugar
Sugar kisses
Lips like sugar
Sugar kisses
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Lost and Found
I was standing in a graveyard
Under silver studded skies
In a forest burning ashes
On the bonfires of our lives
As the sky fell down
I was lost and found
Saw my world spin 'round
'Round and 'round
All the ghosts have gathered 'round me
Come to tell me of a change
In the darkness that surrounds me
I am falling down again
On this haunted ground
I was lost and found
Lost
Lost and found...
She will tell you her cathedral
Has no windows and no doors
And you know she doesn't need you
And that's why you want her more
As your heart melts down
You are lost not found
Lost
Lost and found...
I was counting all the tombstones
Of the buried boys and girls
As the wind blew in like ice
And froze this cemetery world
And we all fell down
We were lost and found
And the sun went down
We were lost and found
Lost
Lost and found...
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New Direction
Out on a limb
Did you see what the cat dragged in?
Take it on the chin
Catching fire on a roof of tin
You've learned to speak
and you're professing
The right to teach us our direction
But I found out on close inspection
True imperfection
I'm looking for a new
direction
Where in the world am I?
I took the word, the word was resurrection
And then you took me out to climb
Higher and higher...
Kissing the spires
Higher and higher...
Soul's on fire
Inside of my head
I heard what the good lord said
Beware he said
If you don't you might end up dead
You suck the air right out of me
But though you suck you cannot see
That life and living is not free
Though you live, you do not breathe
I'm looking for a new
direction
Where in the world am I?
I took the word, the word was resurrection
And then you took me out to climb
Higher and higher...
Kissing the spires
Higher and higher...
Soul's on fire
I have changed but still
my heart remains intact
And true love stays but will our hearts retain their lack of
No sense and no direction
Who in the world am I?
I took the word, the word was resurrection
And then you took me out to climb
Higher and higher...
Kissing the spires
Higher and higher...
Soul's on fire
I was told when I was
seven
All good things must go to Heaven
All my evils would be blessed
If to God I did confess
He'd wipe the slate of sin and fire
Ate the bread and drank the wine
So as your leaving all the fake processions
Just grab a bottle and start confessing
Start confessing
Get to Heaven...
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Blue Blue Ocean
One in a million
One and the same
Looking for freedom
Born to be tamed
Once in a lifetime
One of these days
Gonna grab me a lifeline
Swinging my way
I'm swimming out on a blue blue ocean
You're sailing out on a blue blue sea
Silhouettes and a vulture hoping
He's gonna pick the bones of you and me
You and me
Hearts of ice
Hearts of bone
Beating stronger
Beating home
Where there's wanting
There is need
Where there's having
There is greed
I'm swimming out on a blue blue ocean
You're sailing out on a blue blue sea
Silhouettes and a vulture hoping
He's gonna pick the bones of you and me
You and me
Girl
I want the gold dust
In your fingers
And your klondyke touch
Girl
I want the goldmine
As it shimmers
In your solemn eyes
I'm swimming out on a blue blue ocean
You're sailing out on a blue blue sea
Silhouettes and a vulture hoping
Licking the bones of you and me
I'm swimming out on a blue blue ocean
You're sailing out on the blue blue sea
Blue blue sea
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Satellite
Moonlight starlight
Insight out of sight
Something's certain
Draw the curtains, draw them
Take the night
When it calls
Take the night
When it falls...
You will, I might
Talking satellites
Rockets, comets
Something's coming
Take the night
When it calls
Take the night
When it falls...
One out all out
In doubt far out
Wheels in motion
Take the potion
Take the night
When it calls
Take the night
When it falls...
Moonlight
Starlight
Insight
Out of sight
Take the night
When it calls
Take the night
When it falls....
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All My Life
Oh how the times have changed us
Sure and now uncertain
Men not devils have claimed us
Purity deserting
God's one miracle
Lost in circles
All my all my life
Revolves around
Laughter and crying
As my life turns
'Round and 'round
Cannon fire burning
On the hillside
You and I are
Side by side
Listen
Tin soldiers playing our tune
All my all my life
Revolves around
Laughter and crying
As my life turns
'Round and 'round
Songs for life's lost lovers
Bittersweet their healing
Their prayers prayed under covers
Need not kneeling
God's one miracle
Moves in circles
All my all my life
Revolves around
Laughter and crying
As my life turns
Round and round...
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