In my youth, I played at trains: now all steam is gone In my dreams, brief shelter from the rain, I try to catch the fireglow With Dinky Toys, I thought that I ...

On Tuesday she used to do yoga, while I'd sit and watch the box in a vegetable way but always ready to say to myself that I was an artist implying that she was ...

Sometimes it's very scary here; sometimes it's very sad; Sometimes I think I'll disappear; betimes I think I have There's a line snaking down my mirror : Splint...

Out of joint, out of true, out of love, out of the blue, out of order, out of orbit, out of control, out of touch, out of line, out of sync and out of time, out...

CHORUS Late that evening the Lady Madeline again succumbed to the power of her dark afflictions Her brother and her friend sat by her and Montresor, although ...

(The following morning) MADELINE That must be Montresor Good morning! Oh, how lovely to see you - since Roderick told me you were coming I have been so excite...

THE CHORUS The chorus has often an unenviable role to play, often a distasteful task to perform; summoned as witness to uncounted crime, she's the silent accom...

CHORUS Three endless days of bitter grief passed and Montresor abandoned any attempt to cheer his friend Then came a sudden change in Usher's demeanour, whose...

(Immediately afterwards, Madeline Usher enters, in a trance) MADELINE Carriages at seven I shall wear the flower he gave me It's so cold here deep beneath th...

THE VOICES House Wet Vaults Caissons We breathe OF THE Undercroft Abutments Stones Wood Breathe HOUSE Buttresses Bressumers Spandrels We Breathe Columns an...

I stretch my hands, clutch vacant laughter in silence and sweet, sweet pain; without demand, but with a longing for what will never come again I smell your perf...

I stand on the tallest building and stare down at the grey runway and the tail-smoke of the Boeing jet that's taking you so far away Believe me, I don't want y...

When you told me that you loved me I had no reason to doubt it so I went about my life in such a selfish way and never really thought about it Oh do I have to l...

So here we are, alone - our children have grown up and moved away living their own lives, they say it all seems very strange to me I don't understand their way...

Been alone so long that I've forgotten what it's like to feel somebody next to me and hear her breathing peacefully when I wake up at night Been alone so long ...

When I began I was full of altruistic dreams, believed in princes and princesses, kings and queens - now I find they're all human inside, all bitterness and pri...

I've got something to say, and it ain't the usual sob-story that you hear every day, I've got something to ask, and I know that now's the time, now all the room...

The visitors find the children gone from school: aged relations sling their guns across the desks there'll be no break-time for them unless they talk about tomo...

Look at the candle, as it's life is bought, as the wick just rolls of and dies; look at the wax-drops as they cease from their goal and the game they were playi...

I found myself lying on the balcony, stripling terror, naked to the bone; the secret asteroid jungle nearly done for me - I saw it all just a moment ago I know ...

I don't know quite what's happening and my eyes don't see too clear; all I know is I need you here, if only to shield me from the mood of the world and hold me ...

Well, Tommy woke that morning with a headfull of rocks and Sylvia was in shock The story they'd been faking had frozen on their lips and fallen through the brus...

You turn out the lights and sit alone, trying to pretend that it's anguish, start at the ring of a telephone, throw down all your food at the banquet, keep a cl...

Well, Tommy woke that morning with a headfull of rocks and Sylvia was in shock The story they'd been faking had frozen on their lips and fallen through the brus...

The Fall of the House of Usher - An Opera by (1991) Libretto by Chris Judge Smith from the tale by Edgar Allen Poe The Characters: THE CHOIR - Sarah-Jane Mo...

We play games and every move is noted down as a subsequent cause and effectively chains our freedom and will to live: we settle in to simple survival, hanging o...

My, friends, I never really thought you'd go, but, then, we know that's the way it happens here Now time is like cat's cradle in my hands: we gather up the stra...

She's here now, perfume coiled like a thuggie scarf - Such a powerful drug to make you so naked and clean And you want to tell her There's so much to disclose T...

Check the honesty of what's on offer, true detective or a fake fakir? All the evidence is circumstantial - as mud the evidence is clear Paranormal the investiga...

Hope by and by, hope by and by - motes in the eye, portcullis is shut, a skull isn't much of a castle to live in when the change is going to come, the change ha...

With my face drained of colour and my brain of blood like Billy Budd I'm lashed to the grating; with senses growing duller and with quaking heart I make a start...

Time has come between us: in the passing months I've felt you slip away as your words and mine came like nursery rhymes till there was nothing left to say Dista...

He casts himself as an adventurer, all foot on floor and hell for leather; She never told him what he meant to her- Perhaps that's for the better She's never cl...

There's a smokescreen on the horizon, fireships under sail tonight Here's the Armada of Souls, here's the flotilla from God knows where: from gopher-wood to the...

Flying Blind I alway forget how crazy things are so sometimes it catches me off my guard when they make sense The line on the road trail the arrow in the sky, I...

Everything clumsy slow-motion, I look for the source Buildings loom up like icebergs on collision course I don't want to go in there, I just want to be alone, u...

Where are all the joys of yesterday? Where, now, is the happiness and laughter that we shared? Gone, like our childhood dreams, aspirations and beliefs -- Time ...

Four pails of water and a bagfull of salts That is all we are, that is all a man comprises, chemicals alone, with no spirit, soul or ghost - nothing so bizarre...

Butterflies on the wheel of a world that turns unyieldingly every fragile beating wing moves the motor of the thing, oh, Gaia! Butterflies stir a breeze and th...

Manheim; rainy Saturday with no money nor friend, Only Tequila can end the boredom Try to reach London for a pocket of hope; We're children, we grope in the dar...

There's no time for dull regrets no-one underwrites your debts No satisfaction guaranteed, but this much I believe we make the lives we lead Best foot forward, ...

Halfway between the zoo And the temple of your Art But what do you do With this motion of the heart? Who'll be looking for you When it all falls apart? Oh, but ...

Some call me SATAN others have me GOD some name me NEMOI am unborn Some speak of me in anagrams, some grieve upon my wrath the ones who give me service I grant ...

Besieged in the battlements of Babylon, still looking for the hat-peg to hang your head upon - now you've found a place you think is Avalon: you can talk to any...

He'll be young forever if he keeps this up So the bedroom playboy's never going to grow up The heart is a secret garden to which there are no short cuts Only g...

All men are born equal at the moment they arrive Check the limbs and senses we require to survive But some come deaf and dumb and blinded, some have damage to t...

How was it that we first met? I forget, all I know is you looked happy We walked around and talked a while; In your smile I found that I was happy I want to tel...

This is no time to hesitate, the line slips into overload; the mixture too thick, the touch too close to the motherlode Time - there's so little time to do anyt...

Foot down in the G Ti Cabriolet to the villa in the South of France for vacation; keep your head down, baby, keep your hair in golden curls and you will alays b...

I once wrote some poems of stillness and silence, standing by rivers of reflected light: my thoughts were on being loved and yet unloved, too - I surrendered to...

Trapped like a rabbit by the future glare, onrushing headlights that blind you, a frightened runaway, at least you know I care, I will seek, I will search, I wi...

Strange to behold Is the stone of this wall broken by fate The strongholds are buroten the work of giants decaying the roofs are fallen the tower are tottering...

Strange to behold Is the stone of this wall broken by fate The strongholds are buroten the work of giants decaying the roofs are fallen the tower are tottering...

Dance the dance till show time the show goes on Dance the dance in slow time if that's what you want Dance the dance in the back of the car in the cocktail bar ...

Pack your bags, we're leaving earth, where hate is seething; nothing's worth believing There's no time, make up your mind! Imperial Zeppelin Quick, the engines ...

Pack your bags, we're leaving earth, where hate is seething; nothing's worth believing There's no time, make up your mind! Imperial Zeppelin Quick, the engines...

Dance the dance till show time the show goes on Dance the dance in slow time if that's what you want Dance the dance in the back of the car in the cocktail bar ...

I was thinking about thinking but it really didn't get me very far, so I thought I'd throw a Tarot but I only got the Priestess and the Star There's a shadow ca...

I'm feeling like a kid again, I'm feeling like I just walked in the door, and, with my gead on fire, I wrote this song - I don't know who it's for Hands held fa...

I promise you, I won't leave a clue: no tell-tale remark, no print from my shoe Still a steady trail to the water's edge - I will keep my pledge to the end; I i...

Sweetheart, I want to hold back nothing, sweetheart, I want to give my all Roll on the feminine side, the lion lies down with the lam Beneath the male surface, ...

He prescribes the subject he proscribes outsiders his terms have a golden ring He wants to find some order quantifying chaos in words that all the children sing...

The youth are voting with their feet - Such a shame that the dance-beat gets so complicated Pretty, pretty it seems On second glance, the look is overrated In t...

You don't remember all the things I've done; You never catch the careful words I choose; Your present will not admit my patient efforts - It's a labour of love ...

Drawing back the curtains, sluggish city daylight in the afternoon Here's that special silence, just before you walk out of the hotel room Each time we're so cl...

You don't remember all the things I've done; You never catch the careful words I choose; Your present will not admit my patient efforts - It's a labour of love ...

I just can't see why you can't see what I mean, but I can't make things any plainer, the words get in the way - is that quite what I mean? If not now, then cert...

Even the wolf can learn, even the sheep can turn, even the frog bcome at last the prince) No more imagined insults and no more bloated pride - I'll see you at ...

In Bromine Chambers there can be no mercy, no bitter flagellation for your sins; no forgiveness and no sackcloth can cease the dance of ashes on the wind Too l...

The killer lives inside me; yes, I can feel him move Sometimes he's lightly sleeping in the quiet of his room; but then his eyes will rise and stare through min...

Jericho's strange, throbbing with life at its heart : people are drawn together, simultaneously torn apart Foundations are shattered in the city inside the barr...

The current affair gets to be my business I heard the news on the radio The sun on earth what is this? Is that the way that the crazy goes? Attention tuned to ...

It was nothing, it came from nowhere at all, it was a casual remark, not a curtain-call Late for breakfast - black coffee, brandy-laced that look on your face I...

In my time I've told a lie of two I've been a deceiver, but believe me what I now say is true There's no other way I can express what I'm thinking of: You're my...

I've been hanging around, waiting for my chance To tell you what I think about the music that's gone down To which you madly danced--frankly, you know that it s...

So if it's just so then where is it now when I find the moment uncertain? Broken water pail - no moon in the water, try to hold it now So I want to hold on re...

Between coma and consciousness no hard and fast line, no chances to vote on the motioning eye A mystical vision or a fall from grace, the chase in slow motion t...

Look out through your dark hair, tell me the colour of your eyes when they're cool; look out through the dark ages and tell me what's covert, transfixing you Oh...

In Germany, his days finally caught him; I won't insult his memory with long-distance grief Tears and wakes weren't his style: not him, not for Keith He'd have...

There are so many questions, there are so many doubts - this is auto-suggestion your spirit is giving out If I offered my reasons would you give me a break? Now...

Between coma and consciousness no hard and fast line, no chances to vote on the motioning eye A mystical vision or a fall from grace, the chase in slow motion t...

Beside the pool of clear water, fed by a secret spring, your lips are sealed, but in your body language angels sing I swear on the Bible, swear on the sacred an...

On the surface phosphones gleaming; deep down we carry on dreaming On the surface compass and charts checked; deep down the current run in a shining vortex, in...

I was sitting in the dance-hall, but my mind was far away so when the usherette walked over I didn't know quite what to say: I tried to look cool but I knew tha...

That token drag on your cigarette, that well-known face in the fire, it could be someone you can't forget, someone you've learnt to admire And it's strange how ...

This one's authentic, son of a gun, a soundtrack from China in the universal tongue The world is our oyster to plunder at will though the palats is jaded by all...

The thought crossed my mind - how curious, Why should I want so much shut-eye? Fighting the darkness and furious, Oh, but I once more fall into the song Just th...

A system in the making self-healing for the blind, sitting in the waiting-room of the patient mind Raging at the illness, when the rage may be it's cause The pu...

Your father has just left your mother, gone off to live with his latest lover: she sits there, just staring So you get back to your own flat because the atmosph...

The golden dream, the seat of all decorum, a satellite to match the light of Rome: its silver children chatter in the Forum, the bath-house, and the brothels, a...

Won't hear a sound at Porton Down, the clear liquids keep their silence, buried underground at Porton Down the fast form of the final violence Quite right to b...

Once, all the stars in the sky were bright, now they're red and fading and all the colours we wore, the shades that we bore have moved And the gold turns to red...

If you catch me running along by the sea, with bare feet in the sand, then you'll know I am dreaming my life out in a way you won't understand I'm slipping righ...

Once, all the stars in the sky were bright, now they're red and fading and all the colours we wore, the shades that we bore have moved And the gold turns to red...

We think we're fireproof, we never think that we'll get burned; we think we're fireproof, we never think, so well get burned; we think we're fireproof Reprieve,...

Watch for the silent moments, only waiting to be saved Wait for the Liemaker; he comes again and sinks his barbs through honesty; roll him over with all possibl...

I lay down beside you : I am a unicorn, you a virginal maid, and I come in laughing play ---- but, maybe, to be saved Peer through the backcloth : I am a charac...

You got some shares in a speculative venture, you got some stock in a gilt-edged bond, you stretched out tight by the terms of debenture, the game is on You cha...

You can see in the 1st light that's graced as dawn that there's nothing in my heart but pain as I stand, facing sea, knowing that you're gone all the elements r...

Wrong drink to order Suspicion grows, wrong situation Oh, no-one knows where you've gone to in the pagan night and the neon reflections spread cadmium white You...