Moribund The Burgermeister
Caught the chaos in the market square
I
don't know what, I don't know why, but something's wrong down there
Their
bodies twistin' and turnin' in a thousand ways
The eyes all rollin' round and round
into a distant gaze
Ah, look at that crowd!
Some are jumping up in the
air - say 'We're drowning in a torrent of blood!'
Others going down on their
knees, seen a saviour coming out of the mud
Oh Mother! It's eating out my
soul
Destroying law and order, I'm gonna lose control
What can I do to
stop this plague, spread by sight alone
Just a glimpse and then a quiver, then they
shiver to the bone
Ah, look at them go!
Bunderschaft, you are going
daft? Better seal off the castle grounds
'This is Moribund, the Burgermeister, I'm
gonna keep this monster down,
Somebody sent the subversive element; going to
chase it out of town.'
No-one will tell what all this is about
But I will find
out.
This thing's outrageous, I tell you on the level
It's really so contagious must be the work of the devil
You
better go now, pick up the pipers, tell them to play
Seems the music keeps them
quiet, there is no other way.
Ah, close the doors!
'We've tried potions
and waxen dolls, but none of us could find any cures,'
Mother please, is it just a
disease, that has them breaking all my laws,
Check if you can disconnect the
effect and I'll go after the cause
No-one will tell what this is about
But I
will find out
I will.
Solsbury Hill
Climbing up on Solsbury
Hill
I could see the city light
Wind was blowing, time stood still
Eagle
flew out of the night
He was something to observe
Came in close, I heard a
voice
Standing stretching every nerve
Had to listen had no choice
I did
not believe the information
I just had to trust imagination
My heart going
boom boom boom
'Son,' he said 'Grab your things,
I've come to take you
home.'
To keepin' silence I resigned
My friends would think I was a
nut
Turning water into wine
Open doors would soon be shut
So I went
from day to day
Tho' my life was in a rut
'Till I thought of what I'd
say
Which connection I should cut
I was feeling part of the scenery
I
walked right out of the machinery
My heart going boom boom boom
'Hey'
he said 'Grab your things
I've come to take you home.'
When illusion spin her net
I'm never where I want to be
And
liberty she pirouette
When I think that I am free
Watched by empty
silhouettes
Who close their eyes but still can see
No one taught them
etiquette
I will show another me
Today I don't need a replacement
I'll tell
them what the smile on my face meant
My heart going boom boom
boom
'Hey' I said 'You can keep my things,
they've come to take me
home.'
Modern Love
Hey, I'm feeling so dirty, you're looking so
clean
All you can give is a spin in your washing machine
I fly off to Rome to
my prima bella
She leaves me in the rain with telescopic umbrella
Ooh the
pain - Modern love can be a strain
I trusted my Venus was
untouched in her shell
But the pearls in her oyster were as tacky as hell
For
Lady Godiva I came incognito
But her driver had stolen her red hot
magneto
Ooh the pain - Modern love can be a strain
I don't
know why they leave me in the lurch
To carry on the search
It's driving me
up the wall
Pity when I have so much passion
Romance is out of
fashion
Can't handle modern love at all
So I worship Diana by the light
of the moon
When I pull out my pipe she screams out of tune
In Paris my
heart sinks when I see the Mona Lisa
She gives me the wink, then she shows me
the freezer
Ooh the pain
Modern love can be a strain
Excuse Me
Excuse me
You're wearing out my joie de
vie
Grabbing those good years again
I want to be alone
Excuse
me
I'm not the man I used to be
Someone else crept in again
I want to be
alone...
Excuse me please
I'm looking for Lost Angeles
Soaking up
the sin again
I want to be alone...
You got the money back, that's
okay
Who needs a Cadillac anyway
I got the medicine, make you see the
light
Call me in Alaska if it all turns out right
Excuse me
please
You're standing on my memories
Stealing souvenirs again
I want
to be alone
You got the money back, that's okay
Who needs a Cadillac
anyway
I got the medicine, make you see the light
Call me in Alaska, if
it all turns out right
Humdrum
I saw the man at J.F.K.
He took
your ticket yesterday
In the humdrum
I ride tandem with a
random
Things don't run the way I planned them
In the
humdrum
Hey Valentina, do you want me to beg?
You got me cooking
I'm a hard boiled egg
In the humdrum
Empty my mind - I find it hard to
cope
Listen to my heart - don't need no stethoscope
Seem' to me
that television
She come to cut me a deep incision
In the
humdrum
Empty my mind - I find it hard to cope
Listen to my heart -
don't need no stethoscope
Out of woman come the man
Spend the rest of
his life gettin back where he can
As a bow, so a dove
As below, so
above
From the black hole
Come the tadpole
With the dark soul
In
coal she burn, she burn
As I drove into the sun
Didn't dare look where I
had begun
Lost among echoes of things not there
Watching the sound
forming shapes in the air
From the white star
Came the bright scar
Our
amoeba
My little liebe schon
Slowburn
We're character
actors from the Tower of Babel
Bewildered, burned out hardly able
To sit
astride the high wire cable
It's hard to balance, a little unstable.
Through
broken eyes and contact lenses
'Watched you draw your future tenses
See
kisses of flame blow out of your lips
You're back telling me your
Apocalypse.
Don't get me wrong, I'll be strong
When the slowburn
sunset come along
You've gotta stay the night
I gotta think that you
might.
We've tried a handful of bills and a handful of pills
We've tried
making movies from a volume of stills
But the words fell like
hailstones,
bouncing at our feet,
Covering our feelings with a frozen
sheet.
A chance to move, I take a shot
I get cold - you get hot
We
look outside, lyin' awake
See birds breaking surface on a silent lake.
But
don't get me wrong, I'll be strong
When I'm back on the Isle of Avalon
Don't
get me wrong, I'll be strong
When the slow burn sunset come along
You've
got to stay the night
I've got to think that you might.
Don't try to make
it easy, it'll cut you down to size
Darlin' we've got to trust in something
We're
shooting down our skies
shooting down our
skies
Waiting For The Big One
The
wine's all drunk and so am I
Here with the hoi-poloi, don't ask me why
We're
celebratin' anticipatin'; end of the year
everybody come, everybody here
-
well more or less
Some already in a mess
I guess they're waiting for the big
one.
Wonder why I'm cold. How did I get this far?
Had no money, had
no car
I pray the snow goes, be bad if it settles
'cos I follow my nose and the
dried up rose petals
- like the man says,
Sure hope Moses knows his
roses
Or we'll all be waiting for the big one.
Once I was a credit to my
credit card
spent what I hadn't got, it wasn't hard
No trust in judgements no
trust in money
Someday I'll find myself like a bee finding honey
But in the
meantime
I'm gonna have me some fun
Waiting for the big one.
One
too many, where ego I go too
Looking for the real thing
It don't come from
what I do
No real communication moves out of my face
I'm beginning to
think I'm just out of place
Won't get in too deep, I want to get some sleep
To
be ready for the big one
- waiting for the big one.
Down The Dolce Vita
'Hey Mac, see you down the Dolce Vita!
'Get back, we don't have
time
'Cos I hear we're sending off the heroes
When the year goes, they're out the bay,
Trying to find a way
to make it alive'
'So long,' said
four men to their families
'Be strong till we get back home
And if not, take
care of all the children
Until then just hope and pray
We're gonna find a
way
to make it alive'
'You guys are crazy!'
They shout and
then we leave the harbour.
In doubt, they're acting weird
And the sea is
whipping up a welcome
If hell come we're all easy prey,
Trying to find a
way
to make it alive'
'You guys are crazy!'
The captain's hand
shook for
the guys to get in place
He said, 'Let's look behind your
face'.
With each corner covered, they were all around
Waiting for the
midnight bell to sound.
'Out of sight,' cried Aeron through his
glasses
'Don't fight' said Gorham's smile
All the while, his hand was on
my shoulder
I was scared of being easy prey,
Trying to find a
way
to make it alive'
Here Comes The Flood
When the night shows
the
signals grow on radios
All the strange things
they come and go, as early
warnings
Stranded starfish have no place to hide
still waiting for the swollen
Easter tide
There's no point in direction we cannot
even choose a
side.
I took the old track
the hollow shoulder, across the waters
On
the tall cliffs
they were getting older, sons and daughters
The jaded
underworld was riding high
Waves of steel hurled metal at the sky
and as the
nail sunk in the cloud, the rain
was warm and soaked the crowd.
Lord,
here comes the flood
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas
are silent
in any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to
survive
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.
When the flood
calls
You have no home, you have no walls
In the thunder crash
You're a
thousand minds, within a flash
Don't be afraid to cry at what you see
The
actors gone, there's only you and me
And if we break before the dawn,
they'll
use up what we used to be.
Lord, here comes the flood
We'll
say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again, the seas are silent
in any still
alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you're
running dry.
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