Bridges and rivers And buildings pulled down Time spent in places my footsteps had found Mirrors in ballrooms lie smashed on the ground, Walking with November m...

You came to watch the band To see us play our parts We hoped you'd lend an ear You hope we dress like tarts But back stage we stand naked All the make-up clean...

Hand me my costume Please won't you pass me my mask I have appointments that I must keep with my past Bring on the cabaret we can all have a laugh I've made the...

Between the worlds are pearls Around your lily white neck So round, profound all shining beads of sweat I know my way 'round your throat like a knife I'll silve...

God drives a dreamless highway in a black sedan Picking up survivors preaching to the motel man Blazing apostles thieves in the night Messengers of the fall If...

There's a crystal at the heart of every tear Upon reflection making her perfection clear And she is blue as a jewel Clear as ice kind and cruel There's a silen...

Crying to the sky Searching for a silver lining Hoping that the clouds I'm climbing aren't hiding rain Nowhere left to go For every show now disappoints me Stil...

The man who owned the heartache That lived on the stairs Passed me in the night whistling "Memories of You" I stared to frightened to move For fear my eyes sho...

It's after midnight in the city of broken dreams Down in the alley, Galileo meets his pack of thieves Over the river by the old hotel There's a big car coming l...

Here we come in a cloud stars in our eyes Standing up proud it's the perfect disguise We've got so much to give, so much to gain Just give me your money, and I'...

Forbidden lovers We hid our hearts beneath the stars Under the covers In midnight rooms and shining cars I gladly came to taste your pain A love insane on a cra...

The stars are burning And the moon is shining bright The world is turning Underneath this canopy of night Somewhere tomorrow warms the distance With the light o...

Come with me to the fire festival Let us burn each other blind Let us dance, let us dance away Dance till the end of time. Come with me to the islands of the d...

Sometimes a film Sometimes a photograph Sometimes a rose Sometimes a looking glass Enchanter of souls Your dreams still unfold Sometimes a child Sometimes a tr...

Out across the heavens When you're sleeping in your bed Someone turns a light on Can you feel it burn inside your head? Floating out your window On the streams...

Woke this morning, the war was over The radio was singing love songs Saw the smiles upon the soldiers Coming home across the fields The calendar said first of ...

The woman of moon flew into my room last night She tortured my body and made me feel sorry Though I though I was right Gave me the kiss of light ... Gave me th...

Beneath the stars there are the bars That serve the bitter drink The barman smiles at me His wife she gives a secret wink They listen patiently to me My story ...

Laughing at me Those pictures you said were strange Out of tune out of key It's such a shame but you never quite see You always put the blame on me I'm like an...

This damaged life is getting worse I feel I'm half a universe away I left my home some time ago To fight the creatures of the USA You tell me that this neon wo...

Room in the east invested with meanings Open to none but the strange and the wild Sunset encounters with destiny's chances Envelopes marked for the personal lif...

Piano keys don't please me they're so dark And it's so easy to forgive them And violins still scream from every room You're ever passed your presence through ...

She's a maid in heaven He's a knight on the tiles A bat out of hell, oh well It's just a question of style It's a time for giving In the two star hotel Where b...

Behind the gasworks after midnight Mad Jane she holds a sweaty hand And though the rain runs down the gutter She dreams she hears the gasworks band Somewhere C...

Modern music on my radio Another station and another show If only I could let my feelings flow (to you) When you're lonely and you're far away, When those steel...

Standing by the old car Sunset in your grey eyes Listening to the bluebirds Praying for a sunrise Maybe we'll make music in dreamland tonight Someone in the ga...

With new precision the golden days return The lovers prison, the kingdom of the worm Driving through empty towns, pass me a cigarette I think that it could rain...

Johnny was an actor, oh you must have known, He wore his new Max Factor, nearly stole the show, You go and tell him he's not the only one Night creatures, stra...

I'm building bridges On which no house may stand, I'm painting pictures On walls across the land Burn down the prisons In which your children grow, See no illus...

Came to me one rainy evening Warmer then the setting sun Took my love by the tigger Shot me like a gun Hold me like a baby She laughed at my fears Said now love...

Like a square peg in a round hole Like a harp without it's strings Like a sailor who sails no oceans Like a bird that has no wings (Without love) I am a desert...

Sister seagull, oh you're flying me to high Feels so dizzy underneath your open skies And it's strange the games we play to hide the crime Sister seagull you're...

A brass band is playing Rehearsing it's thrills All half-moon and cloudy All golden and shrill Got a sleep that burns A sleep that burns Got a sleep that burns...

Tin aeroplanes trace the time Past our fading window's eyes And the panes are pains inside Through which we see All the glories fast unfold All the joys lo and ...

If you see me If you see me smiling It's no sin It's just the speed of the wind If you want me If you want me laughing Let me sing It's just the speed of the w...

Well I'm waiting in the wings with all the strings And things that help me make  the music Just another curtain call before I fall Into you arms again, my beaut...

With our bodies on fire and our heads in a spin We pressed close to the moment We were siamese twins in ecstasy In ecstasy So we lay soul to soul As the archer...

His heart was locked inside a crystal ball, The day her gypsy love came 'round to call, His wings were broken by their latest fall, A young man waiting for the ...

He's been saving, selling everything he didn't need Such a shy boy, with a secret up his sleeve He's a strange one, never bothers with the girls Heard him swear...