Hurricane #1--Hurricane #1

JUST ANOTHER ILLUSION

so you wait down at the square
for the ones who say they care
they'll tell you stories for boys
let you play with all their toys

they pin a badge on your chest
now you're better than all the rest
you wanted to reach her
but now you're the man
and you'll never see her again

so you're running just to see her
but when you get there
you can't touch her
she's just another illusion
and your falling looks like dancing
i here you calling
it's alright
but it's just an illusion 

Saw the world for you one day
with all the curtains pulled away
every mirror was a wall
every eye a crystal ball
i tried to be a money machine
keepin with style,
ya know what i mean?

i wanted to show you
i wanted to know
just another illusion now
so you're running just to see her
but when you get there
you can't touch her
she's just another illusion
and you're falling looks like dancing
i here you calling
it's alright
but it's just an illusion


FACES IN A DREAM
Faces in a dream we are
bodies found in a stolen car
whispers from behind the wall
a picture in a crystal ball
as the incense slowly burns
cold and still as daylight turns
from the night where we tried to hide
to reach out to the other side
All my memories fade so fast
almost before the time has passed
step off the number 22
with the beat and a rhyme for you
it's a feeling with no name
helpless faces play the game
from the night when we tried to hide
to reach out to the other side

and on the other side of night
we carried on without the strength to fight
soon we'll fade away, you'll see
to a face that calls like
faces in a dream
faces in a dream


STEP INTO MY WORLD

We don't live in the same world
we don't live in the same world
i caught you looking in my world
as if you wanna be my girl
i think we're dreaming the same dream
i think we're dreaming the same dream
I'll let you be in my dream
if you show me your dream
tell me what it means
I don't want to spend the rest of my days
running around, chasing your shadow
so please don't let this chance slip away
if you waste it this time
I won't be here tomorrow

if we get it together 
it could last forever
if you got the time to try it
you know that it could be a riot
we don't live in the same world
we don't live in the same world
but i could step into your world
if you step into my world
I don't want to spend the rest of my days
running around, chasing your shadow
so please don't let this chance slip away
if you waste it this time
I won't be here tomorrow

we don't live in the same world
take a step into my world


MOTHER SUPERIOR

Mother Superior
give me a sign
hang out your clothes on my washing line
step out the shower
to the record machine
looking like something in a teenage dream
take it easy 
take it slow
make it easy
let it go
nice and easy
let me know
Do you really care?

Mother Superior,
you think i'm a fool?
because i drove into a heart-shaped pool
the river is flowing right down to the sea
but i want to know what you feel for me.

take it easy 
take it slow
make it easy
let it go
nice and easy
let me know 
What do you feel? 
Mother Superior 
give me a sign 
hang out your clothes on my washing line
step in the shower
to the record machine
looking like something in a teenage dream

are you a lover or a friend
is this the start or the end
will i be seeing you again
if it's true, please tell me when (4x) 

Mother Superior 


LET GO OF THE DREAM

the streets I thought would once be mine
now follow me home
at the bus stop, join the line
you've got to let go of the dream
you wanted it all so young, so pay the price
the tragedy is, you don't know what you're sacrificing
and you've gotta let go of the dream
understand what i mean?
it's a terrible scene
and when you're walking home
will you remember what it was
when you're walking home
will you remember who i was
when you get back home
will you remember that it was
only rock and roll.
Success was just a finger's breadth away
and now you wonder what you're going to do today
but you've got to let go of the dream
rehabilitation seems to be
for once such as i, an impossibility
so i'd better let go of the dream,
understand what i mean
it's a terrible scene
and when you're walking home
will you remember what it was
when you're walking home
will you remember who i was
when you get back home
will you remember that it was
only rock and roll.


CHAIN REACTION

I came in like a loser,
and laid my burden down
the whole world's on my shoulders
and my head just spinning round
in the dream i don't remember
it sends pictures to my head
an empty voice is echoing round
that dried up riverbed
Cos when the world stops falling
you can't get shelter from the storm
and you feel like you're nothing
and your cash won't keep you warm
it's a chain reaction
you should know by now

will you break your chains just for me?

I saw my baby running
from the arms in my mind
i told her little sister
you can't leave me behind
i saw my baby crying,
i said baby please don't cry
i know our life is crashing down 
but we can't reason why
cos when the world starts falling
you can't get shelter from the storm
and you feel like you're nothing
and your cash won't keep you warm

it's a chain reaction
you should know by now
would you break your chains just for me?

it's a chain reaction


LUCKY MAN

Outside see the main street,
people crying
i'm not allowed to walk home after dark
mama screams as dad jumps out the window
i'm just another wasted soul here in the dark 

but when i turn the lights on
and see my baby dancing 
then i'm a lucky man.
I walked down to the corner
and some voice from a window
says i'm a lucky man
"you're a lucky man, lucky man"

wake up, told you twice, 
you're no good liar,
you're here again,
and i think it's time for school
you shouldn't put fingers in the fire
just cos some TV guy says it's cool.

but when i turn the lights on
and see my baby dancing 
then i'm a lucky man.
I walked down to the corner
and some voice from a window
says i'm a lucky man
"you're a lucky man, lucky man"


STRANGE MEETING

The last time that i saw you
well, i could not say a word
i know it's true,
i'm just like you
just trying to be heard
before we both agree to part
there is one last chance to say
i never really wanted things to have to be this way
and if i never see you again,
I'll remember every good time has to end.
Sliding into town one sunny afternoon i found
though your sweet smile was on my mind, 
somehow it brought me down
i'm thinking of the face all broken down as life gave in
i looked into a mirror
and i saw that face within

and if i never see you again
i'll remember every good time has to end (3x) 


MONDAY AFTERNOON

screaming in the basement,
now i'm staring at the moon
on the first day of the year
feeling antisocial on a monday afternoon,
get on the train and disappear
as my head starts to unwind, 
there's a melody i find
and she sings 
leave me like before we never cried about a thing
but now there's something in the way
fill me deep inside and help me wash away the pain
make the madness drift away

the candor of things we're saying,
of the words we always say
when we're on the way back home
weekends lead to wednesday
and i wish that i could stay,
but i'd only bring you down

As we arrive you read my mind
and the melody rewinds
and she sings
leave me like before we never cried about a thing
but now there's something in the way
i'm wishing for a wave to come and cover everything
take our bodies far away
you could always read my mind
you never tell me what you find


STAND IN LINE

I will remember all my life
moments you have frozen in time
living, but no longer alive
wrapped around my mind in line
I don't want to stand in line.

I was a product yesterday
but living well has made me feel okay
and so i realize there comes a time
to get up and refuse to stand in line.

I don't want to stand in line.

the easy life seduces you and then
you wake up then one day you're one of them
living, but no longer alive
what a waste of time in line

I don't want to stand in line.

I will remember all my life
moments you have frozen in time
living, but no longer alive
wrapped around my mind in line

I don't want to stand in line. 


TOUCHDOWN

I'm killing time on a bad day
it's the only way to survive
the drinking eclipse maybe saves you
the enemy wears no disguise
it's a shame
such a shame
when it's all been already arranged
and nobody knows who to blame
the stars all arrived in a black limousine
and the orchestra plays
the band touched down in a daze
and nobody knows what to say
so we step out the side of a black limousine
as the orchestra plays
??????????????????????
to keep this system alive
the trigger of life is a suicide mission
you do what you need to survive
it's a shame
such a shame
when it's all been already arranged
and nobody knows who to blame
the stars all arrived in a black limousine
and the orchestra plays
the band touched down in a daze
and nobody knows what to say
so we step out the side of a black limousine
as the orchestra plays (whole stanza 2x to end]


SMOKE RINGS

There's a cold wind started blowing
through the door you left so wide
But it can't blow away the whispers
and it can't blow away the lies
somebody flipped a coin
now you're gonna take a step to the other side of the line
baby, you was born to lose
if you think that you can choose
when it's gonna be your time

?????????????????
we'll never hesitate
to put somebody's life on the line
somebody tell me
that's not the way it is
gonna stop me crying

wouldn't trust you with a candle
if i could not see the way
you know your eyes are like a window
on a clear and cloudless day
somebody flipped a coin
now you're gonna take a step to the other side of the line
baby, you was born to lose
if you think that you can choose
when it's gonna be your time
?????????
we never hesitate to put somebody's life on the line.
Somebody tell me that's not the way it is,
gonna stop me crying.

Gonna stop you crying
with the roll of the dice
Can you stop me crying
before my eyes turn to ice
like a hard rain falling
it's a cold wind blowing
like a sound of a jet plane when it's really going
getting a smoke ring dissolved in the membrane
somewhere in my mind...