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The King of Sunset Town 


A ragged man came shuffling through 
A puppet king on the 4th of June 
And butterflies from all around 
Settled on his paper crown 
A pretty sight it seemed to be 
An avenue of eternal peace 
But he said, "What is here can soon burn down..." 
"I'm the king of sunset town" 

Watch a big wheel turning round 
Some go up and some go down 
Some go thirsty some just drown 
"That's the law round here" 
Said the king of sunset town 

And in the night he comes to me 
And the square becomes a battlefield 
Of staring eyes that can't explain 
The insanity and the greater game 

Watch a big wheel turning round 
Some go up and some go down 
Some go thirsty some just drown 
"That's the law round here" 
Said the king of sunset town 

A ragged man came shuffling through 
The corridors of this white place 
And as he lay his body down 
I saw the scars that lined his face 
And injured souls came to his bed 
To hear the stories he would tell 
Of butterflies and summertimes 
And everyone assembled here 
Remembers how it used to be 
Before the 27th came 
This place will never be the same 

He said "I'm the king of sunset town" 
Watch a big wheel turning round 
Some go up and some go down 
Some go thirsty some just drown 
"That's the law round here" 
Said the king of sunset town 


Easter 


A ghost of a mist was on the field 
The grey and the green together 
The noise of a distant farm machine 
Out of the first light came 
A tattered necklace of hedge end trees 
On the southern side of the hill 
Betrays where the border runs between 
Where Mary Dunoon's boy fell 

Easter here again, a time for the blind to see 
Easter, surely now can all of your hearts be free 

Out of the port of Liverpool 
Bound for the North of Ireland 
The wash of the spray and horsetail waves 
The roll of the sea below 

And Easter here again, a time for the blind to see 
Easter, surely now can all of your hearts be free 

What will you do? 
Make a stone of your heart? 
Will you set things right? 
When you tear them apart? 
Will you sleep at night? 
With the plough and the stars alight? 

What will you do? 
With the wire and the gun? 
That'll set things right 
When it's said and done? 
Will you sleep at night? 
Is there so much love to hide? 

Forgive, Forget 
Sing "Never again." 


The Uninvited Guest 


You may not recall the moment that you asked me 
But your invitation was clear 
You'll pretend you've never met me but it's far to late 
Now I'm here 
Cause I'm the one who knows what scares you 
I'm the one who loves you best 
I'm the thirteenth at the table 
I'm the uninvited guest 
I'm the Banquo at your banquet 
I'm the cuckoo in your nest 
I'm your fifteen-stone first-footer 
I'm the uninvited guest 

I was there when you said insincere "I love you's" 
To a woman who wasn't your wife 
And I fronted you the money 
That you ran away and blew 
On the biggest regret of your life 

Cause I'm the one who knows what scares you 
I'm the who loves you best 
I'm the thirteenth at the table 
I'm the uninvited guest 
I'm the Banquo at your banquet 
I'm the cuckoo in your nest 
I'm your New Year's resolution 
I'm the uninvited guest 

I'm the face you hoped you'd never see 
But always knew you would 
I'm the one thing you knew you shouldn't do 
But did because you could 

I'm the evil in your bloodstream 
I'm the rash upon your skin 
And you made a big mistake all right 
The day you let me in 
And you can fly to the other side of the world 
You know you'll only find 
I've reserved the seat behind you 
We can talk about old times 

Cause I'm the one who knows what scares you 
I'm the who loves you best 
I'm the thirteenth at the table 
I'm the uninvited guest 
I'm the Banquo at your banquet 
I'm the cuckoo in your nest 
I'm your fifteen-stone first-footer 
I'm the uninvited guest 
Let me in! 
I'm your New Year's resolution 
I'm the uninvited guest 


Seasons End 


Getting close to seasons end 
I heard somebody say 
That it might never snow again 
In England 
Snow flakes in a new-born fist 
Sledging on a hill 
Are these things we'll never see 
In England 

We'll tell our children's children why 
We grew so tall and reached so high 
We left our footprints in the earth 
And punched a hole right through the sky 

We'll tell them how we changed the world 
And how we tamed the sea 
And seasons they will never know 
In England 

So watch the old world melt away 
A loss regrets could never mend 
You never miss it till it's gone 
So say goodbye, say goodbye 

We'll tell our children's children why 
We grew so tall and reached so high 
You never miss it till it's gone 
So say goodbye, say goodbye 
To seasons end 


Holloway Girl 


I was out in the cold of a North London street 
A cog in the hurrying world 
Above the walls and the gate police 
I caught a glimpse of a Holloway girl 
She was reachin' out of a window 
From a space just a few inches wide 
'Till the hand of justice pulled her back inside 

One day, freedom will unlock your door 
So hold on, believe on 
Be who you were before 
One day, freedom will unlock your door 

I know how hard it can be to wait 
For proof you were right all along 
Self-destruction is easy for you 
We know what you're capable of 

But like a needle in a haystack 
The truth gets so disguised 
In a kingdom built on madness and on lies 

One day, freedom will unlock your door 
So hold on, believe on 
Be who you were before 
In deepest darkness, the faintest light looks bright 
So hold on, hold on 
It's gonna be all right 

You're lookin' up at a mountain 
Between you and the outside 
But there isn't a mountain in this whole world 
Hasn't been climbed 

One day, freedom will unlock your door 
So hold on, believe on 
Be who you were before 
In deepest darkness, the faintest light looks bright 
So hold on, hold on 
It's gonna be all right 

One day, freedom 
One day, freedom will unlock your door 


Berlin 


The mascara'd blonde from the Berliner bar 
Rises at twilight, gets dressed in a daze 
Black leather crackles and cold water runs 
As she touches the walls of memory maze 
And the shadows of men she has known fill her day 
She's held half the world in her arms so they say 
But she wakes up without them with a hole in her heart 
And she puts on her clothes lives her life behind bars 

The mascara'd blonde from the Berliner bar 
Sighs at the skylight gets lost in the haze 
Black leather crackles and cold water runs 
As she touches the walls of her memory maze 

Someone got stranded in no man's land 
Dancing in the spotlight to the sound of clapping hands 
Nobody knows who's side he was on 
It's a risk that you take in no man's land 
Nobody knows what made him decide 
To run for freedom and to certain suicide 
When they turn off the guns and his fingers uncurl 
He's clutching a photograph of a Berlin party girl 

Come in from your checkpoints on your lonely roads 
Come in from your ditches in your silent fields 
Where intensified light from a rifle sight 
Makes the darkness day 
And the day too bright, 

And we wake up without you 
We wake up without you 
With a hole in our hearts 

You mad dog shaven head bottle-boy freaks 
In Martens and khaki, drunk on sake 
You stare at yourself in the cruel flush of dawn 
Terrified, sunken eyed, withered and drawn 
The butcher, the baker, the munitions maker 
The over-achiever, the armistice breaker 
The freebase instructor, the lightning conductor 
The psycho, the sailor, the tanker, the tailor 
The black market mailer 
The quick and the dead 
The spotlight dancer 
The quick and the dead 
We wake up without you 
With a hole in our hearts 

The mascara'd blonde from the Berliner bar 
Rises at twilight, gets dressed in a daze 


After Me 


There's a line on her jeans that a ball-point made 
From a careless mistake that she can't wash away 
And there's a heart on her sleeve from a spill of red wine 
There's a piece of green in the blue of her eyes 
She named it after me 
There's a stray dog she feeds that she found in the street 
And he loves her to hold him, but he won't let her keep him 
And he claws at the door to be let out at night 
And she makes do without him, and she worries about him 
She named him after me 

So if you ever decide that you have to escape 
And travel the world, and you can't find a place 
Well, you could wind up believing 
That paradise is nothing more than a feeling 
That goes on in your mind 
So if ever find out what that is 
There's something you could do 

'Cause if I ever hold that golden dream again 
I want to tell you 
I'm gonna name it after you 


Hooks In You 


I feel so strange what's wrong with me 
You've got a problem that you can't see 
But I've got a feeling all the rumours are true 
I see the girl's got a hook in you 
You carry on believing 
That you can take or leave it 
Now who are you deceiving 
Cause when its own up time 
She's in back of your mind 

She's got her hooks in you 

You said you'd never let it happen again 
You spend your money and you're deeper in 
Your fair-weather friends call two by two 
To let you know what's wrong with you 

But now your heartbeat's thumpin' 
You watch your nerve ends jumpin' 
Well I can tell you something 
When it's own up time 
You're gonna toe the line 

She's got her hooks in you 
She's got her hooks in me too 


The Space 


On top of the world like a flag on a mountain 
Feeling so high you can feel so alone 
Unable to breathe at the height that you flew 
Staring on clouds with no view of below 
On top of a girl like a dream in a hotel 
Falling towards something out of control 
Unable to miss like the man in the tram 
Crashing your car in Amsterdam 

He did it without knowing, didn't feel a thing 
He just wrecked it and kept going 

The space around the stars 
Is something that you know 
A billion miles of darkness 
Left your feeling low 
The space around the stars 
Is something that you know 

Everything about you 
So perfectly restrained 
But everything inside you 
Bites you 

Everybody in the whole of the world 
Feels the same inside 
Everybody in the whole of the world 

Everyone is only everyone else 
Everybody's got to know 
Everybody lives and loves and laughs and cries 
And eats and sleeps and grows and dies 
Everybody in the whole of the world 
Is the same this time 
Is the same inside 
In the whole of the world