Man With Two Hearts
Like a man who has two hearts
Both of them
worlds apart
Both of them play their part you know
Like a man who has
two wives
His life then becomes alibis
Nobody asks him why you
know
Can there be peace
Between the heart and the brain
No
release always the same
I won't come here again
Like a man who has
one hand
Still he does what he can
Shows he is twice the man you
are
Are we just beasts
With our burdens of pain
No release always
the same
Cut off my legs
Torture and maim
I'm back here
again
Like a man who has two hearts
One day they fell apart
Both
of them played their part you know
Can there be peace
Between the
heart and the brain
No release to try is in vain
Stories repeat always the
same
I won't come here again
Giving Up
If there should
be the faintest traces
of you in my summer sky
My heart would pound and
race
and people ask me why
Did I pull those funny faces
When I walk
by the waterside
I look for things to say
And still I find you
I won't
give it up
Don't talk of giving up
And every night I swear I've
finished
But when I rise to face the day
Resolve just fades away
And so
it follows
Trying to find strength of purpose
I place temptation out of
reach
Then search in every niche
Until I find you
I won't give it
up
Don't talk of giving up
I won't give it up -- love this world
No thoughts
of giving up oh no no no no no
Perhaps it's only saints who suffer
For
those needs to which we're slaved
This road I walk is paved with good
intentions
The final choice hangs on a wire
And there's no room for feet to
stray
The piper waits for pay
And still I find you
I won't give it
up
Don't talk of giving up
I won't give it up -- love this world
No
thoughts of giving up oh no no no no no
I won't give it up -- love this
world
Don't talk of giving up
I won't give it up--Love this world
No
thoughts on giving up
Everything I Need
Moving up and
down and from side to side
With so many things to do
I want to go again I
want another ride
This time should see it through
We never realised as
the years rolled by
No we never really had a clue
But we knew one day we'd
come alive
And in the end there's me and you
My babe, she gives me
everything
She gives me everything I need
When the winter comes and
the cold sets
in as this city's prone to do
They forecast heavy seas and gale
force winds
That's really nothing new
When I'm falling down
Deeper
than the underground
My thoughts race back to you
Again and
again
My babe, she gives me everything
She gives me everything I
need
And if you think us fools
And you criticize
Then my friend the
joke's on you
My babe, she gives me everything
She gives me everything
I need
Sail To You
Now there is this place
With so much
space
It's at the bottom of the world
So it lay unspoiled
Wind and
rain, hurricane
And the blackman reigned
Till the white man
came
They sailed to you
Sail to you
People talk there
And
they talk here
About the new world
They say it's the last frontier
But it's
so one dimension
I feel apprehension
And you can't disguise
The
condescension
I sail to you
I sail to you
Dear old England had a
mind
Around that time
'Cause they had a few problems with the
rising
crime
Wouldn't lose our head
If you stole a loaf of bread
You got a one
way ticket
To Australia instead
I don't know why, I don't even try
To
work out all of the reasons why
Well it's like a drug - gets in the blood
Calls
me back and that's enough
I fly to you
Fly to you
I don't care
and you don't care
All I know thats it's there
Breath the air into my
lungs
And pray that doomsday never comes
Sail to you
Sail to you
Children on Parade
All the girls and boys have gone away
They never really had much to say
They took off all their clothes and their
shoes
Politely asked to be excused
They're the children on
parade
They have a secret they can share
They're the children on
parade
And nobody knows
And nobody knows
All the broken toys
lie on the floor
There's no more laughter from down the hall
Mirror, mirror,
mirror on the wall
Whatever could have happened to them all
They're
the children on parade
They have a secret that they share
They're the children
on parade
And nobody knows
And nobody knows
All across the
world just yesterday
All the boys and girls just went away
They left without
their clothes or their shoes
I'd love to someday hear all the news
About
the children on parade
And all the secrets that they share
Now they're the
children on parade
And nobody knows...
Maria
Maria
was born in the country
She loved her homeland
Maria was from a poor
family
For their girl they had greater plans
Across the sea not yet
twenty
Sailed our Maria, a man to see
Perhaps marry dreams our
Maria
This was to be eventually for our Maria
Maria made plans for the
future
She had sons to her man
Maria grew sad as the years passed
She
did not understand
You must believe me
Though it's not easy, trust in
me
My life's been wasted
There's nothing sacred I can see
Though we're
together
It seems we've never known the way
These lives we started
Now
broken hearted everyday
Maria works in the factory
She makes shoes for
the man
Maria lives for her family
Now she does what she
can.
Hold on to me
Hold on to me Maria
For this was to be
A
tragedy for our Maria
Oh Maria don't you cry
Oh Maria dry your
eyes
Stay at Home
Outside these, four walls lies, anarchy
babe
Unnatural acts and sights abound
Glass glaring, eyes staring, young
pairing, maybe
What does the world care if I'm not around
Cos, I
think I'd rather stay at home
With people I know
I could watch the
whole thing on TV
And the neighbours never know
The bright
lights, are like traps, for the unwary
You need a guard just to walk at
night
Fights flaring, bombs scaring, pants tearing maybe
How can you say it
will be alright
And, I think I'd rather stay at home
And my face
not show
I could watch the whole thing on TV
And the neighbours
never know, they'd never know
Cos, I think I'd rather stay at home
Where cold winds don't blow
I could watch the whole thing on TV
And the neighbours never know, they'd never know
Outside these, four
shores lie, countries of strangers
They have water that you shouldn't
drink
Bad driving, crime thriving, life's full of dangers
It's not that I'm
frightened to walk on the brink.
But I think I'd rather stay at home
With people I know
I could watch the whole thing on TV
And the neighbours never know, they'd never know
Think I'd rather stay at home
Where things move real slow
Think I'd rather stay at home
Where the bad guys never go, they never go
Stay at home
With people you know, people you know
Think I'd rather stay at home
Where the pimples never show, they never show
Stay at home
Stay at home
Hard Luck Story
Don't ask me to love my
neighbour
Cause I don't love the man
Don't ask me for my favours
I
won't lend a hand
And if I had real power
Then I could
disappear
Wouldn't have to be around you
I'd sink into the
atmosphere
Then I wouldn't hear
Your hard luck story
It's a hard
luck, a hard luck story
Don't ask me to tip the waiter
For he is
underhand
I can tell he is a woman hater
And he is a nasty man
Within
reach lies all desire
For each and every soul
Stripped bare and stretching
higher
You fall into the last black hole
To end your hard
Hard luck
story
It's a hard luck
Hard luck story
Don't ask me to pray to
Jesus
I've never met the man
I only meet weekend preachers
Pictures of
the promised land
All the new holy saviours
Who pretend to
understand
Who do you think will save you
Modern day beggar
man
Such a hard
Hard luck story
It's a hard luck
Hard luck
story
It's such a hard
Hard luck story
It's a hard luck
Hard luck
story
Don't ask me to love my neighbour
Don't ask me to tip the
waiter
Don't ask me to pray to Jesus
He picked his time to leave
us
It's a hard luck
Hard luck story
It's a hard luck
Hard luck
story
It's a hard luck
Hard luck story
Snakes and Ladders
I could stand but I don't like the feeling
I could fall but I'm always on
the floor
You could make a million staring at the ceiling
You could break your
back and still be poor
One for the liar
One for the cheat
One for the
man who you'll never meet
Piece of the action and a portion of pie
They'll be
there waiting when your big chance comes by
There's a snake on top of
every ladder
Who will tell you that he's your best friend
Everyone important
needs an adder
But subtraction gets you in the end
One for the liar
One for the thief
One for the man who's time is so brief
Piece of the action and a portion of pie
They'll be there waiting when your big chance comes
by
One for the liar
One for the cheat
One for the
man who you'll never meet
Piece of the action and a portion of the pie
They'll be
there waiting when your big chance comes by
They don't care they don't mind
The in-betweens will steal you blind
I don't know I can't say
Seems it's always been this way
You won't feel or complain
The gentle leech will cause no pain
Still Life
There's a picture in the hall, I know
And it's from a time when feelings
showed
Though I hold it close before my eyes
My heart refuses to
see
Loving you could have been, oh so easy
But there is something you
don't understand
Through the times when two were one completely
There
was another in this well laid plan
This corridor seems to stretch for years
ahead
But patient hearts cannot match times steady tread
Is this the threshold
of a fantasy?
Is there still life at all?
Loving you could have been, oh so
easy
But there is something you don't understand
Through the times when
two were one completely
There was another in this well laid plan
Best laid
plan of ours
Watering the garden, some comfort for the twilight
years
Still, life never lingers, it marches past our veil of tears
A moment's all
we've got, to have and to hold
Don't slip, don't blink, don't turn your
head
with a photographic memory
I could live in a time that used to
be
Is this the threshold of a fantasy?
Is there still life at all?
Loving
you could have been, oh so easy
But there is something you don't
understand
Through the times when I was won completely
There was another
in this well laid plan
Loving you could have been, oh so easy
But there
is something you don't understand
There was a time when I was won
completely
Our emotions they got out of hand
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