monsters sleep
Open a vein to the heart
at midnight
All the creatures won’t
let you sleep tight
You think you’re winning
when you’re really losing
You find a clear head so confusing
Opening minds like taking a bet
Just what you see not just what you get
You should know by now
That monsters sleep
Inside us all
Way down deep
Way down…
You’ve got to work to make it happen
Being fucked up’s out of fashion
No-body knows a burning regret
No-body calls forgive and forget
You should know...
Wake them up, get to know them
So pull the chain, stop the train and bail out
Force the door and demand a re-count
Somebody somewhere has rigged the vote
Long icy fingers wrap ‘round your throat…
You should know...
Wake them up, get to know them
good head (on your shoulders)
Good head on your shoulders
You remember what the heart is
Nobody’s going to own you girl,
Or deny, deny, deny you
She doesn’t believe what she once heard
What doesn’t kill you only makes you bored
Well, she’s lighter since she left it all behind
She says “If you don’t look,
don’t know what’s there to find”
Good head...
Lays awake at night
Sifting through the voices
trying to hear one that might
Lead her out past the peddlers
pushing her what she needs
“You can buy it; just buy it!”
Good head...
So spare me this ordeal
‘cause I do know how it feels
to be a prisoner in this place
just sleeping at the feet of grace
in denial, denial, denial.
lover don't leave
Lover don’t leave
Lover don’t you let go of me now
Lover don’t leave
Lover don’t feel naked inside
It’s alright; yours is a beautiful life
Baby’s losing altitude
Got too much weight to fly
You crashed amongst the ruins of youth
No-one heard you cry
Lover don’t leave...
You’re breath, life, oxygen
You’re everything to me
You were the first, you’ll be the last
You’re oxygen to me
All you need is a blood free holiday
Take the time to change your mind
I can hear you screaming ten blocks over
You can lean on love’s sweet remedy
Give it up now
Give it up
Baby’s losing altitude
Got too much weight to fly
you crashed amongst the ruins of youth
No-one heard you cry
Lover don’t leave...
crack-up (cruel to Love)
Ask a question
Is this where you want to be?
Ask another
Do you want to be with me?
This is my hang-up
This is my faith
This is my loneliness
in my own place
So come and get it
I’m not a crack-up
I’ve been cruel to love
It’s not imagined
It’s not imagined
You go though worse to get to better
Are your best days gone,
Or yet to come?
Is life over?
Or has it just begun?
This is my hang-up
This is my faith
This is my madness
I'm out of place
So come and get it...
bless you
Stillborn promises
That you made to me a sweet, long time ago
When we knew the beauty of trust
And you came to me when I called
Peaceful, good, loving times
That were meant to be yours and mine alone
Happiness is something made for me
You know I understand that now
Bless you
With these two hands I adorn you
With all the riches that faith brings
I’ll always keep faith in you
Making time from no time
Just to be with you; the three of us alone
I believe in something that is true
No-one can take that away from me now
Bless you...
Failed every lesson
Failed each exam
Now I howl at the moon
Baying for your stillborn promises
That you made to me a sweet, long time ago
plugging holes with water
Scan your face for doubt
Well, you always find me out
And to lie to you would make as much sense as
Plugging holes with water
So you’re Michael’s girl -
I wouldn’t have known you at all
And the moon was round
as the face of our child
And you held me ‘till three in the morning
So to lie to you
would make as much sense as
Plugging holes with water
Hey now, let it go...
Scan your face for doubt
Well, you always find me out
And to lie to you would make as much sense as
Plugging holes with water
To lie to you would make as much sense as
Plugging holes with water
sugarbone
Stand and deliver
All you threaten to be
Sugarbone wife, sugarbone child,
born to bless eyes
Turn your eyes to me
Faith in the faithless
You bring your hope to me
Far from helpless
I am blessed just to know you
You make me believe
Dear Sugarbone, you’re not alone
Welcome as sun on a winter day
I want you here; I want you to feel
Always at home with me
Sugarbone
Each bone within you
Made to undress me
Sugarbone eyes, Sugarbone smile
I am alive when you come to me
Dear Sugarbone, you’re not alone
Welcome as sun on a winter day
I want you here; I want you to feel
Always at home with me
Sugarbone
Pale Sugarbone
Pale Sugarbone
chinatown
Chinatown in late December
You’re walking, searching for a rhyme
To match your poets eyes
To make it last for all time
Just leave me alone
Don’t talk to me, don’t take my eye,
I’m not in right now
I’m wasting time
Be back tonight
Heaven starts to win
Hell begins to fade
And I still turn when
someone steals your name
Yes I turn around when
someone steals your name
Chinatown in late December
You’re walking, searching for a rhyme
To match your poets eyes
To make it last for all time
Just leave me alone
Don’t talk to me, don’t take my eye,
I’m not in right now
I’m wasting time
Be back tonight
bone dry
Bone dry, like Elijah’s bones were dry
No-one can hurt me
I’m already gone
Bend down and try to tie the load that slides
But what I held on to
Rolls down the road
“Love is more than happiness, child
Life is more than living ‘till you die”
No-one ever told me that
Tongue tied, like a mute who’s found his voice
Craves conversation
But afraid of the sound
Open wide a mouth so deep and dry
Words that you long for
Stuck to the sides
“Love is more...”
And these friends of mine
I find so damned hard to shake
They have recognised
it was all to good to waste
And I believe the sun will rise today
Yes I believe the sun will rise today
“Love is more...”
notion of life
I want to live in a house by the ocean
I want to be just a sillouhette,
a notion of life in the window
the people passing point and say
“Used to be a boy here
grew up and moved away”
I want to speak to the heart of you woman
I want to sleep near your mouth while it’s open,
Tumbling out words of loving, theft, joy, jealousy
All of the human things inside of me
I want to do right, have right done to me
It’s all I can ask for, or hope to receive
Do the trinkets you own make you richer?
Does the face that you wear really fit you?
I’m taking back the things that don’t belong to me
Walk to the bay side, drop them in the sea
I want to do right...
Want the sweet, warm tangle of life
To wrap me up, make me feel wanted inside
Want to find my quiet heart in this world
It’s all that I dream of;
For me - for my girl
Even when the world works to spoil it
If this ceiling of blue runs to scarlet
Life is a flower blooming just for me
As far as east is from the west
my sins are cast from me
my hands (feel like someone else's)
My hands feel like someone else’s
My hands feel like someone else’s
Beat my breast
Rip it open
My eyes see through someone else’s
My eyes see through someone else’s
Put them with the rest
Rip it open
I looked through
the wall at my
father’s garden
It was beautiful
So beautiful
I swung from the moon
in my father’s garden
It was beautiful
So beautiful
Beat my breast
Rip it open
