A hundred night of fun and games A thousand empty glasses I feel it change And stay the same As each day passes They invite me to their gathering In the finer p...

Staring down from this high window At the faces in the line Cold from hours of waiting How many people can you love? When you're black and blue with bruises Fro...

-- "A Collection" -- from the single "No One Can" I've got a photograph, I took a picture of you I took your picture in front of my favourite view You play the ...

Can you make it on your own Can you take it by the throat Make your own luck - learn the skills Get in early For the kill It carries on Pick up the weapon Mar...

When I leave you I will leave you Things that might not help you Things that might Problems that I never solved Dreams to keep you up at night As I leave you I ...

A voice from the past Entered my head today Fresh and alive Full of life, passion and pain A voice now past A beautiful soul Gone, gone, gone speaking clearly-...

Has anybody here Seen my old friend Abraham Can you tell me Where he has gone 'Cos he freed a lot of people But it seems the good die young I just turned aroun...

Has anybody here Seen my old friend Abraham Can you tell me Where he has gone 'Cos he freed a lot of people But it seems the good die young I just turned around...

Track 7 of _Seasons End_ There's a line on her jeans That a ballpoint made >From a careless mistake That she can't wash away There's a heart on her sleeve >From...

Currently Unreleased) The pack has now fallen So bring out your dead Where's Alice In the garden as the rivers run red The White Queen's running backword with...

See those people there? They look after me This is a photograph of who I might be Man in a uniformbride on his arm Mum always was a fool for money and charm He'...

You ask me how I'm feeling I only wish you knew How hard it is for me to share Share that kind of thing with you It's not that I don't love you It's just I can...

(HogarthKellyMosleyRotheryTrewavas) Every day at 5 am If you're down or in a mess Get off on Angelina When you've stayed up far too late Fallen through the do...

(derek dick, steve rothery, mark kelly, pete trewavas, ian mosley) I am the assassin, with tongue forged from eloquence I am the assassin, providing your nemes...

(DickKellyMosleyRotheryTrewavas) I went to Morisson's grave at Pere Lachaise cemetery The stony flowers and the matching graffiti were guiding me To the steps ...

(music: marillion lyrics: steve hogarth & john helmer) I dreamed I rolled on the ocean floor In the sunken bones of a broken ship On the shadow line where whis...

"The Bell in the Sea" Taken from the Marillion single "Uninvited Guest --- I dreamed I rolled on the ocean floor In the sunken bones of a broken ship On the sha...

Track 6 of _Season's End_ The mascara'd blonde from the Berliner bar Rises at twilight, gets dressed in a daze Black leather crackles and cold water runs As she...

Today! I saw music in the sky I drove towards it in my car And I turned left and I turned right But I could never lose the light That shines towards tomorrow ni...

If you were a baby I would take you and run I could hide you in the folds of my heart There's a truth in the madness that I can't get beyond And a fever that wo...

I've got a bike, you can ride if you like It's got a basket, a bell that rings And things to make it look good I'd give it to you if I could But I borrowed it ...

I've got a bike, you can ride if you like It's got a basket, a bell that rings And things to make it look good I'd give it to you if I could But I borrowed it Y...

Track 4 from _Misplaced Childhood_ I) Brief Encounter A spider wanders aimlessly within the warmth of a shadow, Not the regal creature of border caves, But the ...

Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life You were only waiting For this moment to arise Blackbird singing ...

The quiet sadness of the people of the north Echoes silently around the cold grey places Ecstasies undared tremble upon the edge of the tightly, respectably unf...

What a brave, brave girl Never lied before Such a plain deceit Everyone would eventually know What a brave brave girl Never loved before Placed herself in reach...

Staring out over the bridge A million photo flashes from the water down below Dawn light bouncing through the mist Roar of traffic and the crack of police radio...

Best of three, the angel said As daylight burst behind his head Jacob all night wrestling with his angel Then out into the boul' St Mich He cruises in a new Cor...

Curl up tight into a ball Curl my body against the soil Staring up here At the cathedral wall I will sleep tonight Be a baby Forget it all Be a baby Watch the q...

Track 5 of _Script For A Jester's Tear_ Catalogue princess, apprentice seductress living in her cellophane world in glitter town Awaiting the prince in his whit...

(Fish / Marillion) And it was morning And I found myself mourning, for a childhood that I thought had disappeared I looked out the window And I saw a magpie in...

And it was morning And I found myself mourning, For a childhood that I thought had disappeared I looked out the window And I saw a magpie in the rainbow, the ra...

Track 9 _Misplaced Childhood_ And it was morning And I found myself mourning, for a childhood that I thought had disappeared I looked out the window, And I saw ...

(derek dick, mark kelly, steve rothery, peter trewavas, ian mosley) On the rebound, fumbling all the lines The light at the end of the bottle - alcoholicalphab...

The hole in the ozone layer is alright by me ?makes england warmer in the summer Them tropical guys had it too good too long High time they learned to sing anot...

(Music: Marillion Lyrics: Steve Hogarth) Cover my eyes The light falls on her face Dangerous lines Dangerous colours & shapes Ferocious designs Connected and r...

Cover my eyes --the light falls on her face Dangerous lines --dangerous colours and shapes Ferocious designs --connected and ready to play Buttoned up tight -...

There'll come a time when all of this is over Something else will grow and take it's place The brand new car:scrap metal in a junkyard The children playing will...

(HogarthKellyMosleyRotheryTrewavas) A man came to drill holes in the afternoon And by the evening Most of the afternoon had gone I seem to have slept through t...

In all the time that I've known you You've been so edgy and nervous I never wanted to own you I was aware of the danger Of making a bid for your favours You're ...

Track 2 of _Season's End_ A ghost of a mist was on the field The grey and the Green together The noise of a distant farm machine Out of the first light came A t...

Staring down from this high window At the faces in the line Cold from hours of waiting How many people can you love? When you're black and blue with bruises Fro...

Track 4 of _Fugazi_ --- To be the prince of possession, in the gallery of contempt Suffering your indiscrete discretions, and you ask me to relent As you accumu...

Feeling you shake Feel your heart break Thinking If only If only If only If only And the salt water runs Through your veins and your bones Telling you no not th...

(DickKellyMosleyRotheryTrewavas) I saw a blue umbrella in Princes Street Garden Heading out west for the Lothian Road An evening news stuffed deep in the pocke...

(HogarthKellyMosleyRotheryTrewavas) What I have here in my hand Is like faith, but not faith For those without faith also have What I have here in my hand What ...

(HogarthKellyMosleyRotheryTrewavas) What I have here in my heart Is like faith, but not faith For those without faith also have What I have here in my heart Wha...

Her green plastic watering can for her fake chinese rubber plant In the fake plastic earth That she bought from a rubber man in a town full of rubber plans To g...

(HogarthKellyMosleyRotheryTrewavas) [Islands are mountain-tops] It's always a struggle To let somebody go It's a natural desire To own your lover, I know And ...

Armalite, street lights, nightsights Searching the roofs for a sniper, viper fighter Death in the shadows he'll maim you, wound you, kill you for a long forgott...

Goodnight my love I'm so alone And so surrounded By your sweet memory I cannot sleep For all these dreams They come to play Till dawn comes stealin' them away ...

Track 7 of _Fugazi_ --- Vodka intimate, an affair with isolation in a blackheath cell, Extinguishing the fires in a private hell, Provoking the heartache to ren...

The angel Gabriel from heaven came His wings as drifted snow His eyes as flame From God all hail the angel said to Mary Most highly favoured lady Gloria "Fear n...

The angel Gabriel from heaven came His wings as drifted snow His eyes as flame From God all hail the angel said to Mary Most highly favoured lady Gloria "Fear ...

Track 4 of _Script For A Jester's Tear_ Garden Party held today, invites call the debs to play, social climbers polish ladders, wayward sons again have fathers,...

(HogarthKellyMosleyRotheryTrewavas) [One Way Street] I let the genie out of the box I let the genie out of the box I'm scared of everything I am I let the geni...

Turn your life upside down Take a car into town Wait until the world?s asleep And tear it up and never stop again Take a train to the sea Stay up all night and ...

Midnight sun bids Mars farewell Retreats from charging dusk Mountain's echo curfew's bells Signal ending tasks They place their faith in oaken doors cower in c...

Track 5 of _Season's End_ I was out in the cold of a North London street A cog in the Hurrying world Above the walls and the gate police I caught a glimpse of ...

Well I hear that you were looking out to hunt me down And I guess you're used to having everything you want But you know that love can be as hard as sticks and ...

Track 2 of _Script For a Jesters Tear_ Light switch, yellow fever, crawling up your bathroom wall Singing psychedelic praises to the depths of the china bowl Y...

(Derek Disck/Steve Rothery/ Pete Trewavas/ Micheal Pointer/Mark Kelly/Diz Minnett/Brian Jellyman) He knows, you know, he knows, you know Problems, problems, pr...

Track 5 of _Misplaced Childhood_ I) Wide Boy Wide boys, wide boys, wide boys, born with hearts of Lothian Wide boys, wide boys, born with hearts of Lothian Wide...

Hey Jude, don't make it bad Take a sad song And make it better Remember, to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better Hey Jude, don't be afr...

Track 8 of _Season's End_ 'I feel so strange what's wrong with me' You've got a problem that you can't see But I've got a feeling that the rumours are true I se...

Did you ever feel that just by Jumping on a plane All your cares would drop away And you'd be born again Returning to a nature child Happy wild and free But for...

Track 8 of _Season's End_ 'I feel so strange what's wrong with me' You've got a problem that you can't see But I've got a feeling that the rumours are true I se...

I've been feeling kind of down and loose Like a Rosicrucian pope Head down deep in the womb of time Carrying a message of hope My hands steady as a hangman's ha...

(derek dick, steve rothery, mark kelly, pete trewavas, ian mosley) Hotel hobbies padding dawns hollow corridors Bell boys checking out the hookers in the bar S...

-- "How Can It Hurt" -- from the Marillion single "Cover My Eyes" Maybe you're just too upset inside to give it to me straight Maybe you've become too angry and...

Escape is on your mind again Escape to a far away land Sometimes it sems there is no end To long hard nights of drinking How will you go How will you go Drive ...

I saw three ships come sailing in on Christmas Day, on Christmas Day I saw three ships come sailing in on Christmas Day in the morning And what was in those sh...

Did you ever fall in love Did you ever fall in love Did you ever fall in love Did you ever dream of falling If my heart were a ball It would roll uphill We ar...

I'd be really pleased to meet you if only I could remember your name But I got problems with my memory ever since I got a winner in the fame game I'm a citizen...

Track 6 of _Fugazi_ --- When footlights dim in reverence to prescient passion, forewarned my audience leaves the stage, floating ahead, perfumed shift, within t...

Curl up tight into a ball Curl my body against the soil Staring up here At the Cathedral Wall I will sleep tonight Be a baby Forget it all Be a baby watch the ...

Currently Unreleased ---- Raise your eyes to England's skies There's more up there than butterflies Alice smile and ???? She's just about ready ??????? She doe...

As you lie there on your bed Beneath the face of Louise Brooks With your makeup and your teddy bears And your CS Lewis books Bad seed You're a bad seed You're ...

Track 3 of _Fugazi_ --- We are jigsaw pieces aligned on the perimeter edge, Intelocked through a missing piece We are Renaissance children becalmed beneath the ...

Track 2 from _Misplaced Childhood_ Do you remember, chalk hearts melting on a playground wall? Do you remember, dawn escaped from moonwashed college halls? Do y...

Track 1 of _Season's End_ A ragged man came shuffling through A puppet king on the fourth of June And butterflies from all around Settled on his paper crown A p...

Currently Unreleased --- If the time will come when I'm alone Got no place to go If you see me one night on my own Rain pouring on And my mind keeps on flying...

Track 3 from _Misplaced Childhood_ I was walking in the park dreaming of a spark When I heard the sprinklers whisper, Shimmer in the haze of summer lawns Then I...

It all began with the bright light The bright light and the noise The chaos of the senses and the scream of desire Touching and being touched A million loose e...

Track 7 of _Misplaced Childhood_ A love song with no validity Pretend you never meant that much to me Numb, a vallium child, bored by meaningless collisions A l...

Tell me I'm mad How should I know? Tell me I'm mad I have been here for so long Help me paint a picture They say it's a lie Tell me I'm mad You're a fine one t...

I have been here many times before In a life I used to live But I never saw these streets so fresh Washed with morning rain Like the whole world has been made a...

I'm the man of a thousand faces A little piece of me in every part I take I hold the tape for a thousand races A different point of view in every speech I make ...

Did anyone see my last marble As it rolled out and over the floor? It fell through a hole in the corner Of a room in a town on a tour It's lonely without your ...

When I was a child I had marbles They brought admiration and fame They were pretty to look at and marbles Was always my favourite game We played all the summer...

There were almost four hundred untill the black day I discovered how high they would fly to the sky If you used them for tennis instead of a ball Zinging glass...

That was almost the end of my marbles Confiscated, I choked back the tears I hung onto a handful of favourites That disappeared over the years Dd anyone see my...

(HogarthKellyMosleyRotheryTrewavas) [Marbles I-IV] Did anyone see my last marble As it rolled out and over the floor? It fell through a hole in the corner Of a...

"Margaret (Live)" Track 9 from _B'sides Themselves_ --- O' you go the high road an' I'll take the low road, an' I'll be in Scotland before ye for me and my tru...

I was walking in the park dreaming of a spark When I heard the sprinklers whisper, Shimmer in the haze of summer lawns Then I heard children singing, They were ...

I wonder if my rope's still hanging from the tree By the standing pool where you drank me And filled me full of thirsty love And the memory of water? 'Wonder if...

(HogarthKellyMosleyRotheryTrewavas) Absence makes the heart go mad All the solid things become mirages The certain things Sand running in the hour glass Runnin...

(HogarthKellyMosleyRotheryTrewavas) Absence makes the heart go mad All the solid things become mirages The certain things Sand running in the hour glass Running...

But he who dies with the most toysis still dead He who dies with the most toysis still dead You have to be cool You have to be hip You have to be chic You hav...

(HogarthKellyMosleyRotheryTrewavas) When the darkness takes me over Face down, emptier than zero Invisible you come to me quietly Stay beside me Whisper to me ...