*** WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME ***

As you look around this room tonight
Settle in your seat and dim the lights
Do you want my blood, do you want my tears
What do you want
What do you want from me
Should I sing until can't sing any more
Play these strings until my fingers are raw
You're so hard to please
What do you want from me

Do you thing that I know something you don't know
What do you want from me
If I don't promise you the answers would you go
What do you want from me
Should I stand out in the rain
Do you want me to make a daisy chain for you
I'm not the one you need
What do you want from me

You can have anything you want
You can drift, you can drean, even walk on water
Anything you want

You can own everything you see
Self your soul for complete control
Is that really what you need

You can lose yourself this night
See inside there is nothing to hide
Turn and face the light
What do you want from me



*** POLES APART ***

Did you know ... 
it was all going to go so wrong for you
And did you see it was all going to be so right for
me
Why did we tell you then
You were always the golden boy then
And thet you'd never lose that light in your eyes

Hey you ... 
did you ever realise what you'd become
And did you see that it wasn't 
only me you were running from
Did you know all the time but it 
never bothere you anyway
Leading the blind while 
I stared out the steel in your eyes

The rain fell slow, down on all the roofs of 
uncertainty
thought of you and the years and all the sadness fell 
away from me
And did you know ...

I never thought that you'd lose that light in your 
eyes



*** A GREAT DAY FOR FREEDON ***

On the day the wall came down
They threw the locks onto the ground
And with glasses high we raised a cry for freedon had
arrived

On the day the wall came down
The Ship of Fools had finally run aground
Promises lit up the night like paper doves in flight

I dreamed you had left my side
No warmth, not even pride remained
And even thought you needed me
It was dear that I could not do a thing for you

Now life devalves day by day
As friend and neighbours turn away
And there's a change that, even with regred, cannot
be undone

Now forntiers shift like desert sands
While nations wash their bloodied hands
Of loyalty, of history, in shades of grey

I woke to the sound of druns
The music played, the morning sun streamed in
I turned and I looked you
And all but the bitter residue slipped away ... 
slipped away



*** WEARING THE INSIDE OUT ***

From morning to night I stayed out of sight
Didn't recognise I'd become
No more than alive I'd barely survive
In a word ... overrun

Won't hear a sound
From my mouth
I've spent too long
On the inside out
My skin is cold
To the human touch
This bleeding heart's
Not beating much

I murmured a vaw of silence and now
I don't even hear when I think aloud
Extinguished by light I turn on the night
Wear its darkness with an empty smile

I'm creeping back to life
My nervous system all awry
I'm wearing the inside out

Look at him now
He's pater somehow
But he's coming round
He's starting to choke
It's been so long since he spoke
Well he can have the words right from my mouth

And with these words I can see
Clear trought the clouds that covered me
Just give it time then speak my name
Now we can hear ourselves again

I'm holding out
For the day
When all the clouds
Have blown away
I'm with you now
Can speak your name
Now we can hear
Ourselves again



*** TAKE IT BACK ***

Her love rains down on me easy as the breeze
I listen to her, breathing it sounds like the waves
on the sea
I was think all about her, burning with rage and 
desire
We were spinning into darkness; the earth was on 
fire

She could take it back, she might take it back some
day

So I spy on her, I lie to her, 
I make promises I cannot keep
Then I hear her laughter rising, rising from the deep
And I make her prove her love for me, 
I take all that I can take
And I push her to the limit to see if she will break

She might take it back, she could take it back some
day

Now I have seen the warnings, screaming from all sides
It's easy to ignore them and G-d knows I've tried
All of this temptation, it turned my faith to lies
Until I couldn't see the danger or hear the resing 
tide

She can take it back, she will take it back some day

She can take it back, she will take it back some day

She will take it back, she will take it back some day



*** COMING BACK TO LIFE ***

Where were you when I was burned and broken
While the days slipped by from my windows watching
Where were you I was hurt and I was helpless
Because the things you say 
and the things you do surround me
While you were hanging yourself 
on someone else's words
Dying to believe it what toy heard
I was staring straight into the shining sun

Lost in thought and lost in time
While the seeds of life and the seeds of change were
planet
Outside the rain fell dark and slow
While I pondered on this dangerous but irresistible 
pastime
I look a heavenly ride throught our silence
I knew the moment had arrived
For killing the past and coming back to life

I look a heavenly ride throught our silence
I knew the waiting had begun
And headed straight ... into the shining sun



*** KEEP TALKING ***

There's a silence surrounding me
I can't seen to think straight
I'll sit in the corner
No one can bother me
I think I should speak now
I can't seen to speak now
My words won't come out right
I feel like I'm drowning
I'm feeling weak now
But I can't show my weakness
I sometimes wonder
Where do we go from here

It doesn't have to be like this
All we need to do is make sure we keep talking

Why won't you talk to me
You never talk to me
What are you thinking
What are you feeling
Why won't you talk to me
You never talk to me
What are you thinking
Where do we go from here

It doesn't have to be like this
All we need to do is make sure we keep talking

Why won't you talk to me
You never talk to me
What are you thinking
What are you feeling
Why won't you talk to me
You never talk to me
What are you thinking
What are you feeling

I feel like I'm drowning
You know I can't breathe now
We're going nowhere
We're going nowhere



*** LOST FOR WORDS ***

I was speding my time in the doldruns
I was caught in a cauldron of hate
I felt pesecuted and paralysed
I thought that everything else would just wait

While you are wasting your time on your enemies
Engulfed in a fever of spite
Beyond your tunnel vision reality fades
Like shadows into the night

To martyr yourself to caution
Is not going to help at all
Because there'll be no safety in numbers
When the Right One walks out of the door

Can you see your days blighted by darkness?
Is it true you beat your fists on the floor?
Stuck in a world of isolation
While the ivy growns over the door

So I open my door to my enemies
And I ask could we wipe the slate clean
But they tell me to please go fuck myself
You know you just can't win



*** HIGH HOPES ***

Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we
were young
In a world of magnets and miracles
Our thoughts strayed eonstantly and without boundary
The ringing of the division bell had begun

Along the Long Road and on down the Causeway
Do they still meet there by the cut

There was a ragged band that followed in our 
footsteps
Running before time took our dreans away
Leaving the myriad small creatures 
trying to tie us to the ground
To a life eonsumed by slow deasy

The grass was greener
The light was brighter
With friends surrounded
The nights of wonder

Looking Beyond the members 
of bridges glowing behind us
To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side
Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking baek again
Dragged by the foree of some inner tide

At a highter altitude with flag unfuled
We reaehed the dizzy heights of that dreamed od 
world

Eneumbered forever by desire and ambition
There's a hunder still unsatisfield
Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon
Though down this we ve been so many times

The grass was greener
The light was brighter
The nights was sweeter
With friends surrounded
The dawn mist glowing
The water flowing
The endless river

Forever and ever