Meet me by the tail lights Meet me here by moonlight Meet me by the river bed And we'll dance Meet me where the sky bleeds Meet me by the needle priest Meet me...

You've narrowed it down to pictures of memory You've narrowed it down to dots on a screen You've narrowed it down to the few or the many You've narrowed it down...

Hey now my red clouds're rolling in To catalogue and number every stone cold dream And I've seen Sal thumbing his way up to the stars I've seen angels in the sh...

Gather up the bones, gather up the ashes Gather every tear, some Joe Hair's lashes Gather up the dead, gather up the spirit Gather up the song and the ones who ...

3pm Blue as a road sign, With a gag and some cheap wine Sun's in my eyes between The smoke trails of aircraft, The kite tails and light shafts There's a languag...

Perfectly ugly I'm standing up here in front of you Like a living work of art And I can do cute with a bite or angry with a personable side But they're my only ...

I see a bad moon rising I see trouble on the way I see earthquakes and lightnin' I see bad times today Don't go around tonight ‘Cause it's bound to take your l...

Beelzebub, I can see you again Like I could back when I was with him When too many suns were in orbit around you Beelzebub, you know I was only dreaming So why...

Meet me by the key-light moon in the park They've got their clothes and their diet conscience, but are they art? Riot squad, the old mod, his perfume tears Sing...

Looks like you caught me with my hair down See the lights are on but there is no one home Waiting through darkness for a second time If it's the same our dreams...

Once I built a railroad, made it run Made it race against time Once I built a railroad, now it's done Brother, can you spare me a dime? Once I built a tower to...

Hello anger it's me I've been calling almost an hour I left a message on your machine Yeah, well I guess you're out Heard a black guy got killed today Struck by...

Well it's hard to tell whose dream we're in But the sky fell while we were talking Amid the bruises and the red lights Will you call me your darling tonight? Ca...

She's fingering the petals on her dress It was another lesson in the rise and fall of holiness Her hands are shaking and her hair is a mess Oh, yeah he pulled a...

The times are tough now, just getting tougher This old world is rough and it's just getting rougher Cover me, come on baby, cover me Well, I'm looking for a lov...

I can hear your heart beat for a thousand miles And the heavens open every time you smile And when I come to you that's where I belong Yet I'm running to you li...

Friday's humming summer And the whiskey sun is running out the night sky I am here watching your form Slowly pacing in the dawn as all the stars die Yeah you're...

Gabardine roses, tortured vines The sun has been hiding all this time Thought that I'd see you again somehow But the dirt is your lover now And outside the all...

You know it's generally known You got everything at home Kisses out of desperation Bring you more aggravation And you don't come close You don't come close You ...

Don't set foot over the railway track The heathens and the spin doctors are waiting round the back The skies are always sullen and rain races to the tarmac So d...

Well I am going down to nowhere Its not too far from here The rain'll be running rings Around this tin pot cavalier And there are skeletons and wastrels As far ...

You stirred my natural emotion You make me feel I'm dirt And I'm hurt And if I start a commotion I'll only end up losing you And that's worse Ever fallen in lo...

I'm pleased to meet you boys, you know it's been a while Since I have had to fake delight just to raise a smile You're squeezing hands and squeezing hits as goo...

God's electrician sparked up the heavens once again Heading northbound on the 7:10 And the Lord said let there be commuters Talking pension plans medicals and m...

Sat down with the poker face The snake eyes and your pillowcase The hands holding the triple ace Are laying down the cards She said it without sentiment Yeah, i...

I have been looking for loose change Down behind the armchair seat I've been propping up this coffee cup Looking down, down into the street And I hate what I'v...

Four o'clock in the morning and my coffee got cold And I've been watching the streetlamps flick off with the dawn So I take a deep breath inwards and my hair's ...

Can you see me in the halo of this street lamp baby Talk is cheap and I can just about afford this sentence What can I do? Maybe I can deal in actions, yeah I c...

God knows, God knows the direction We're heading in tonight God knows, God knows that when we're gone They'll paint our shadows white And God knows, God knows m...

Well heaven knows the way things go With ticker tape and radios The good fight was lost long ago And bravery doesn't live in those Who're going down And I'm goi...

Silence in the courtyard, silence in the street The powers that be, out by the river, are shuffling their feet But the night is full of car alarms and sideways ...

Well, have you heard the broken English? Have you heard the chorus line? Have you heard they're taking aim now And taking their own sweet time? Have you heard t...

There's dirt in the machine, yeah, where there's oxygen there's rust A thousand eyes are blinking to drown a tiny speck of dust No, I'm not after crashing parti...

It is spitting like an open fire in a dark alleyway It is sitting on the shoulder of every yesterday It is shining a light in your eyes It is checking every one...

Is that you peeking out from that hat Hide and seeking behind a drink that's gone flat Is that you peeking out from that tree Hide and seeking from everyone her...

I'm gonna haunt you I'm gonna haunt you Through the playgrounds Through the fires You'll be saluting at the stars And I'll be holding your hand I'm gonna haunt...

The moon is pulling faces The clouds are on the rise The night blinks away a few more stars And rubs it's tired eyes There's a ticking of a clock, boys There's ...

I can't get past without stepping on your shoes No, it doesn't hurt me, but it'll hurt you Don't know how you know just where you're going now Spend my voice an...

I dreamed I saw St Augustine, live as you or me Tearing through these quarters in the utmost misery With a blanket underneath his arm and a coat of solid gold S...

If it's true that a rich man leads a sad life N' that's what they from day to day Then what do all the poor do with their lives on Judgement Day? With nothing t...

It's the Icarus wind, it's blowing in my eyes It's the Icarus wind, it's telling me those lies And it's heart is like ice and it's fingers are long And it knows...

The night is growing old veined with threads of early dawn So deal the deck, c'mon Red, c'mon my friend The colour of fire The colour of fury And we will bear ...

Across the room This crowded, lonely room I see you standing bright, you're on fire Across the sky The busy city sky There's one star alight It's you My God, I...

We are late like a midnight train that's running nowhere We are sticks, we are stones, we are broken bones, we are hot air We are under the guillotine trying to...

Football stickers and paper dolls It all gets buried in the end Rosalea lipstick and midnight calls It all gets buried in the end Blind allegiance and foolish l...

I dreamed I saw you, brother o' mine Riding on Josef's train With the men of steel down the long, thin line Riding on Josef's train You close your eyes and the ...

They found sixth-form poetry scrawled on the walls on your old bedroom And Friday night is going to free-fall, through Club Rust, angel dust and sweet perfume A...

Strip the sky, I will hang out of the window See it's pink veneer, hear the motorway soprano And the Front Street road pitches to the river bank The driver's si...

They're piling bodies up on the plains All of the strangers with so many claims and All that hope served as a warning Now they're falling like dominoes on a lat...

I've got these watches, one for each time zone “How does it feel,” Remy says, “to be on your own?” Sharing this floor with a dog and a ringing telephone Well I...

Needle of the lonely truth Guess it's up to us to choose Just doing what we have to do To let the blue sky in And it's a game, everyone knows Bombay gin and la...

Beauty is skin deep And mine's not even that You broke through, I couldn't touch you And you left me shaking on the concrete ground Its funny how things Just tu...

You talk about love like it's something you found on your shoe Guess your feelings for me are just a mild inconvenience to you And I hate you but still play you...

Spare me the psycho babble the mental rub-down For the third time today I put his record on I caught this ailment on the rebound I'm looking for another one Jus...

Headstrong, heavy weather Going at it Hell-for-leather Red lights flashing on Some little pop song Boys get out your Balzac The Empire's gonna strike back The c...

Sometimes it felt that I was swimming against the flow If I could swim at all And often I needed something to lean upon But it never seemed to be there And mayb...

My voice has been boxed on a shelf by the door And my hands may be cold but my wry smile's still warm And she can't believe that I'm not gonna fight Guess I'm t...

Tell me, are you really leaving? I fell so far I'm almost on the ceiling You said I've got a way with words, I'm not so sure But baby I know I got away with mur...

I've got mud on my shoes I've got a hole in my head I've got mud on my shoes I've got a hole in my head It is high fashion It is highly suspect We're one groov...

Hey, looks like sleep is here Its two thirty AM the town has been cleared and The traffic has stopped for the minute at least We lie like a symphony under the s...

Keep me again at arms length All I hear is your heart, you know baby It never shuts up And it's all right This heart is on fire Just save your own ass go Leavin...

I'm sitting here like statistics Amid teenage pregnancies and misfits Plotting my uncertain chart And the constant of our frequency The graph that follows your ...

I don't know I don't know I don't know what it was that was making me Curl up in the corner and be secondary to you I can see I can see I can see that these li...

Sex is the open sesame, to a rich mans eyes And I am not prepared to be patronised, to compromise, to sanitise my ugly tongue cold eyes And babe you know you'd ...

Up in the midnight blue, That's where I'm going to Up where the sirens' scream Through every misplaced dream Up with the Pirate Moon In bloody monochrome That'...

Play something that we need to hear Play to make the ghosts appear Play until the bottles gone Play, play because your heart's at stake Play enough to liberate ...

Are you receiving me? I'll give you Something to write home about Put the colour back in your cheeks and take the "milk of" out Call it what you will, I'll call...

Through the iron winter to the fires of June Through the five o'clock skyline to the deeadlocked moon There's a flickering figure dancing alone Making her junk ...

I love you like a whisper I love you all alone I love you like a murder, babe I'm burying the bones I love you like the last shot At the bottom of the bottle I ...

She's a sugar plum in a blue dress She's worth a million gold pieces And I see visions in her hair Of a nuclear sky And I, I'm running away from that red farm ...

Your shadow has grown longer The wind is at your back They dressed you up so pretty In red, white and black Roll the sixes gently Consult the zodiac The colour...

They're coming with their stories and they're coming with their wine They got a copy of a Chopin tune and an old no-smoking sign They're mapping every person's ...

Did you really believe It would be A different voice it Inevitably Will all come down to one of two choices So come on now we've got our sides to pick There's t...

Enter my November Boy with eyes like the sea The radio sings "Love Me Do," yeah I agree And I've used up every sentence that love has to offer So silence or som...

I had too much to drink last night now I'm lying on the floor Watching the coloured patterns in my eyes, leftovers from the light And this bearing all thing is ...

Kerosene Kathy is bringing in the mail Its a 50/50 choice, pass Go or go to jail You can see her with her matches on the pavement in the rain Glowing by the lig...

Sitting here in limbo, but I know it won't be long Sitting here in limbo, like a bird without a song Well they're putting up resistance But I know that my faith...

Well I dreamt about you About leaving without you And going on a slow journey Where no roads are marked and A black dog is barking Going on a slow journey And t...

I propped my eyes open with chemistry I've got a three hour drive and a man to see The blue bruised sky is closing in Cover up well because it looks like rain ...

(one, two, three; two, two, three) There you go again Said, it's too complicated to explain So sit me in my high chair And pat me on the head But I'll be makin...

Would you look at this place There's a sign on the wall We are all suddenly free We don't pull any punches at all Imagination runs riot There's a choice of thre...

I came in like a jackdaw On the drift of an outlaw I heard there's a warrant out for my arrest Among the cute little puritans The ghosts and the hooligans All t...

Teacher, teacher, won't you tell me what is true This kinda rising is just too long overdue Teacher, teacher, how'd I let it get this way? ‘Cause there was som...

Pressed up against this shop front Drawing faces there in crayon It's a long way from the pockets full of rain And you have walked the streets for hours With yo...

Don't stop singing; it's a beautiful sound I'll get the drinks in before we hit the ground And I don't know who'll speak first It doesn't matter anyway tonight ...

Well, hey there come over here Y'know, I've got something to show you Just swivel in your power chair D'you want me to be Persephone the cookie queen And Snow W...

Roll that dice again, again And once or twice you'll reel me in What I've got is not what I came for But I'll keep coming back for more Come on lay your head u...

He was a clubland caller, he was younger than he felt Settled like a moth down in the east-end Neon belt Well he used to be a believer, ‘til the city got it's g...

Don't call pretty Peggy, she can't hear you no more Don't leave no message 'round her back door They say the old laughing lady been here before She don't keep t...

Of all the money e'er I had I spent it in good company And all the harm that e'er I've done Alas it was to none but me And all I've done for want of wit To memo...

Could you say that again babe I've not heard that one before You're looking four years older You're looking for the door I lipsticked "Fuck You" on the mirror A...

This girl is a stencil of a brushstroke in the rain She's a ghost of the city, she's a body through the windscreen This girl is the snowfall where the spring sh...

I can see her head in hands I can taste the salt that's waiting there behind her eyes I can feel the tears that echo in these walls Cos she's throwing in the fa...

She grew up fast as a cabaret show Take her to the frozen earth, God With a head full of coppers like a beggars bowl Take her from the water to sky, God Take he...

Stretched between the lamplight and the cigarette ash In the corner of the city where the markets crashed There are boxes of the lonely here and fires of hope W...

God you must have some balls To open your mouth at all There's nothing happening Around this scene you're in And when did you get so safe? Must be the last reso...

There's no place in this world where I'll belong when I'm gone I won't know the right from the wrong when I'm gone And you won't find me singin' on this song wh...

Its been a long time since I've seen you Just like this face to face And I know I should have called you But I had another ghost to chase Should've read your le...

Well here we are then you and me Some little joke of chemistry With all our sun bleached history Fading as the light gets strong and We are brave and we are fak...

I'm the weather that just broke I'm the ripcord that you forgot to pull You're the prayers that they wrote My glass is empty, but your bottle's full I was hope...