Met a man just the other day --- Said his name was jim boy, won't you take a look! Got a car for you --- it's a real steal Cleaned it right down --- new brakes,...

I see you better now, shaded in deeper blue Hardly needing to carry the find-your-way lamp Down to the river Tonight flies a better moon Sad water buffalo lie ...

Once in Royal David's City stood a lonely cattle shed, Where a mother held her baby You'd do well to remember the things He later said When you're stuffing your...

I count the hours: you count the days Together, we count the minutes in this passion play Walk dusty miles and I ride that train On a first class ticket, just t...

My hand of thumbs is shaking I am so glad to meet you All tongue-tied and twisted My lips stuck like glue More than a lifetime to say, “How are you?” More than...

My first and last time with you and we had some fun went walking through the trees, yeah! And then I kissed you once Oh I want to see you soon but I wonder how ...

[Lifebeats (Instrumental)] [Prelude (Instrumental)] [The Silver Cord] "Do you still see me even here?" (The silver cord lies on the ground) "And so I'm dead"...

[The Story Of The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles] [Words by Jeffrey Hammond] [Spoken:] This is the story of the hare who lost his spectacles Owl loved to rest...

Flying, made of sticks and paper (Aeroplane) Dying, is the wind not climbing? (My aeroplane) Blowing, and going somewhere high; In the evening tumblin' down, Bu...

A raft of penguins on a frozen sea Expectant faces look down on me Shuffle uneasy The whistler plays Counting eleven, they begin to pray Tenuous but clinging, ...

I work in dark factories --- a cog in the big wheel Driving grey satanic mills and weaving sad stories And faceless masters --- oh, they pay me plenty --- Crumb...

Once it seemed there would always be A time for everything Ages passed I knew at last My life had never been I?d been missing what time could bring Fifty years ...

A week of moments – a clutch of days – Ten thousand minutes of a Passion Play Medley of quavers informs the tune It's all too much: over all too soon Sweet con...

Flying, made of sticks and paper (Aeroplane) Dying, is the wind not climbing? (My aeroplane) Blowing, and going somewhere high; In the evening tumblin' down, Bu...

Nobody sees her here, her eyes are slowly closing If she should want some peace, she sits there, without moving, and puts a pillow over the phone And if she fee...

We saw the heavens break and all the world go down to sleep And rocks on mossy banks drip acid rain from craggy steeps Saw fiery angels kiss the dawn Wish you g...

Muscled, black with steel-green eye swishing through the rye grass with thoughts of mouse-and-apple pie Tail balancing at half-mast And the mouse police never s...

Wet wind on the sidewalk: I'm staring at the rain Walking up the street, yeah, and walking down again And my feet are tired and my brain is num See that broken ...

Sitting on a park bench eyeing up little girl with bad intent Snot running down his nose greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes Drying in the cold sun Watching ...

The middle lane has trapped my car In red-light claustrophobia I slip the shackles, cut the rope --- Stand naked with a telescope As the cat walks alone Under a...

In and out of the front door, ran twelve back-door angels Their hair was a golden-brown --- They didn?t see me wink my eye `tis said they put we men to sleep wi...

Bad-yesn she's bad-eyed and she's loveless a young mans fancy and an old mans dream Im self raising and I flower in her company give me no sugar without her cre...

"Big bottled Fraulein, put your weight on me," said the pig-me to the whore, desperate for more in his assault upon the mountain Little man, his youth a fountai...

You're taking chances And your reputation's going down Going out in the night-time You think you make no sound But you don't fool me `Cos I know what you fee...

Marty loved the sound of the stolen mandolin Somebody took it on a dare in the night-time Run up to the radio, calling out to the wind Now, bring it, bring it b...

Got a birthday card at Christmas it made me think of Jesus Christ It said, "I love you" in small letters I simply had to read it twice Wood smoke curled from bl...

I looked in the mirror then saw my face in a dream With eyes sharp as diamonds blessed with clear vision Things were not as they seemed Black and white televisi...

Hand in the snake pit - black mamba chase Head through the lion?s cage - head on a plate Two feet on the hot coals - last dance at the ball Blindfold on the tig...

Come, let me play with you, Black Satin Dancer In all your giving, given is the answer Tearing life from limb and looking sweeter than the brightest flower in m...

Tomorrow is the one day I would change for a monday With freezing rains melting and no trains running And sad eyes passing in windows flimsy And my seat rocking...

I see a dark sail on the horizon set under a black Cloud that hides the sun Bring me my broadsword and clear understanding Bring me my cross of gold as a talis...

Walking through forests of palm tree apartments --- scoff at the monkeys who live in their dark tents down by the waterhole --- drunk every Friday --- eating th...

[introduction:] Please, let?s have a big welcome for jethro tull Whoop! Hello hang on, press on be back with you in a minute I?d better not open this now becaus...

I sit in judgement on the market square I have my favourite table and I have my chair Natives are friendly and the sun flies high All kinds of crazy waiters – t...

On Preston platform do your soft shoe shuffle dance Brush away the cigarette ash that's falling down your pants And you sadly wonder does the nurse treat your o...

Pick up my wings and fly Into a constable sky Look down on the world and try To make you out on the distant ground Lonely toy in a lost toy-town Suspended in sp...

And ride with us young bonny lass --- With the angels of the night Crack wind clatter --- flesh rein bite on an out-size Unicorn Rough-shod winging sky blue fli...

(words and music by david palmer) Grey the mist --- cold the dawn; Cruel the sea and stern the shore Brave the man who sets his course For albion Sweet the ro...

And here slip I --- dragging one foot in the gutter --- in the midnight echo of the shop that sells cheap radios And there sits she --- no bed, no bread, no but...

Just a little touch of make-up; just a little touch of bull; Just a little 3-chord trick embedded in your platform soul; You can wear a gold piaget on your sema...

Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief If he had a rich man in his hand And who would steal the candy From a laughing baby's mouth If he could take it f...

Walking on air, shoulder and head above you Down in the street, black canyons walking through Hooded sad eyes, fixed on your shuffle shoes Life is a clue in you...

May I make my fond excuses for the late-ness of the hour; But we accept your invitation, and would bring you Beltane's flower For the May Day is the great day, ...

She's really turned on by the television and vice versa Here's a song called, and it still can be described Yes, right, rearranged though nevertheless A new lea...

i've one foot in the graveyard and the other on the bus and the passengers do trample each other in the rush and the chicken hearted lawman is throwing up his f...

Your mother she protected you And softened every blow And brought you up to fear the worst To be careful as you go And the learned educators With drip-feed [th...

As one, wet merchants turn their eyes towards the west Trade winds falter as if in dire consequence Freezing fish to fry, fail to materialise Christ-child, bloo...

I?m slipping into grey And I was (in my way) good to you And you were good for me Bye bye my love Going to play the end game It?s growing kind of still You kno...

Placing people in their dreamscape With fantasies of foreign fields Lofty spires all well appointed In off-season special deals To far alaska: down to ria in t...

Don't want to be a fat man, people would think that I was just good fun Would rather be a thin man, I am so glad to go on being one Too much to carry around wit...

I flew in on the evening plane Is it such a good idea that I am here again? And I could cut my cold breath with a knife And taste the winter of another life A ...

It's hard to say I'm sorry May we just forget about today You see, I fly by night I fly by night I laid my love beside the door and left you sleeping on the fl...

Old lady with a barrow; life near ending Standing by the harbour wall; warm wishes sending Children on the cold sea swell --- Not fishers of men --- Gone to cha...

Watery eyes of the last sighing seconds, blue reflections mute and dim, beckon tearful child of wonder, to repentance of the sin And the blind and lusty lovers,...

Through clear skies tracking lightly from far down the line No fanfare, just a blip on the screen No quick conclusions now --- everything will be fine Short-cir...

I'm banered and bruised I got lines I can't use My head won't deliver Well, I'm sold down the river But I'm turning again Yes, `n' I'm turning again Well, I'm t...

Hello sun. Hello bird. Hello my lady. Hello breakfast. May I Buy you again tomorrow?

Hot mango flush Ladies with ice cream hair - Gyroscopic pink neon beams - Everybody?s happy about something The crowd moves like a flock of startings: they Swit...

Hey little buddies: soft and silky night walkers Dangerous species - Tiptoe menace long grass stalkers on my bed: no butter melting in your jaws Bonding monster...

One day I walked the road and crossed a field to go by where the hounds ran hard And on the master raced: behind the hunters chased to where the path was barred...

Oh father high in heaven -- smile down upon your son whose busy with his money games -- his women and his gun Oh Jesus save me! And the unsung Western hero kill...

Blew my smoke on a sunny day, When the first black powder came my way Hot lead ball from a muzzle cold To win fair lady and take your gold I know it hardly seem...

Got a grand house out in the country Marble pillars holding the door Empty bottles lining the wall from the night before Got a Roller out in the garage But the ...

Blew my smoke on a sunny day, when the first black powder came my way Hot lead ball from a muzzle cold to win fair lady and take your gold I know it hardly seem...

So many long days In so many ways I try to get through to what lies deep inside of you Oh, baby I said, you're breaking me up, woman Yeah, you're breaking me d...

As the moon slips up, and the sun sets down, I'm a highrise jockey, and I'm heaven-bound Do the workboot shuffle, loose brains from brawn I'm a monkey puzzle an...

Through long December nights we talk in words of rain or snow while you, through chattering teeth, reply and curse us as you go Why not spare a thought this day...

Have you seen Jack-in-the-Green? - With his long tail hanging down He sits quietly under every tree In the folds of his velvet gown He drinks from the empty ac...

Cold aeroplanes, slow boats, warm trains remind me of Jack-A-Lynn Lush hotels and pretty girls won't cheer the misty mood I'm in Silly, sad --- I've never had t...

Have you seen Jack-In-The-Green? With his long tail hanging down He sits quietly under every tree --- in the folds of his velvet gown He drinks from the empty a...

Spine-tingling railway sleepers --- Sleepy houses lying four-square and firm Orange beams divide the darkness Rumbling fit to turn the waking worm Sliding throu...

Ladies of leisure, with their eyes on the back roads --- All looking for strangers, to whom they extend welcomes With a smile and a glimpse of pink knees and el...

The money won?t last forever --- Rent man called twice today I hope some day you?ll find me In the lap of luxury Searched for a new apartment But they don?t gr...

Sister Bridget by the stair a glass of wine and she's almost there Cousin Jimmy at the door another beer and he's on the floor Friends and neighbours come aroun...

Later, that same evening, she ran I think she ran alone Later, she had early warning from A hidden phone Checked with the embassy --- She might have been A mill...

The tiger flashes sharpened teeth Bowler-hatted; summer briefs Beneath his pinstriped skin To kill demands a business sense; Economy moves non-residence Approa...

When you're falling awake and you take stock of the new day, and you hear your voice croak as you choke on what you need to say, well, don't you fret, don't you...

Happy and I'm smiling, walk a mile to drink your water You know I'd love to love you, and above you there's no other We'll go walking out while others shout of ...

In the shuffling madness of the locomotive breath runs the alltime loser headlong to his death Oh he feels the piston scraping steam breaking on his brow Old Ch...

I get lost in crowds: if I can, I remain invisible to the hungry mouths I stay unapproachable I wear the landscape of the urban chameleon Scarred by attention A...

Going back in the morning time to see If my love has changed her mind, yeah Going back in the morning time to see If my love has changed her mind, yeah I know ...

What would you like for christmas --- A new polarity? You?re binary, and desperate to deal In high figures That lick us with their hotter flame --- Lick each an...

When we?re working nights, the village round The old church becomes scary town All curtained windows and bolted doors But never a eye to see As us fairy folks s...

The minstrel in the gallery looked down upon the smiling faces He met the gazes observed the spaces between the old men's cackle Maaaary Who would be a poor ma...

I have no time for Time Magazine or Rolling Stone I have no wish for wishing wells or wishing bones I have no house in the country I have no motor car And if yo...

As I did walk by Hampstead Fair I came upon Mother Goose -- so I turned her loose -- she was screaming And a foreign student said to me -- was it really true th...

People -- what have you done -- locked Him in His golden cage Made Him bend to your religion -- Him resurrected from the grave He is the god of nothing -- if th...

Black Volga following me --- Nobody's car Mr No-one at the wheel of Nobody's car Wet pavements, thin apartments --- Quiet dissent from darkened doorways I want ...

Black and viscous --- bound to cure blue lethargy Sugar-plum petroleum for energy Tightrope-balanced payments need a small reprieve Oh, please believe we want t...

And do you think you're Ralitsa Vassileva? You're just hand-me-down news in a cookie jar It's a long way from here to CNN in America and a red-eyed opinion too ...

Nothing is easy Though time gets you worrying my friend, it's ok Just take your life easy and stop all that hurrying, be happy my way When tension starts mounti...

Tip-toes in silence `round my bed And quiets the raindrops overhead With her everlasting smile She still my fever for a while Oh, nursie dear, I?m glad you?re h...

My old black cat passed away this morning He never knew what a hard day was Woke up late and danced on tin roofs If questioned “Why?” – answered, “Just because”...

Hair stands high on the cat?s back like A ridge of threatening hills Sheepdogs howl, make tracks and growl --- Their tails hanging low And young children falter...

Smile your little smile --- take some tea with me awhile Brush away that black cloud from your shoulder Twitch your whiskers feel that you?re really real Anothe...

There's a haze on the skyline, to wish me on my way And there's a note on the telephone --- some roses on a tray And the motorway's stretching right out to us a...

Brain storming, Habit forming, Battle warning, Weary, winsome actor spewing Spineless chilling lines The critics falling over To tell themselves he's boring An...

Lover of the black and white it's your first night The Passion Play, goes all the way, spoils your insight Tell me how the baby's made, how the lady's laid, why...

A Morris Minor, a caf? noir – Banana smoothie, snails in a jar Three dodgy sailors, a girl on skates – A little too muscled from doing weights A family wedding...

There's a light in the house in the wood in the valley There's a thought in the head of the man Who carries his dreams like the coat slung on his shoulder, Brin...