You landed in my life Like a new and brighter light That made all my past seem in shadow I always used to believe That beauty was skin deep But I need a new wor...

You landed in my life like a new and brighter light That made all my past seem in the shadow I always used to believe that beauty was skin deep But I need a new...

In the after-silence fighting leaves behind I try to think it over But my mind's gone blind I lost the right to argue somewhere down the line I had to tell She ...

In the after-silence fighting leaves behind I try to think it over But my mind's gone blind I lost the right to argue somewhere down the line I had to tell She...

(HogarthKellyMosleyRotheryTrewavas) [Dedicated to Don Allum, and the Ocean Rowers] He's seen too much of life And there's no going back The loneliness calls hi...

She's older than me I don't care About them talkin' Why can't they see I've got All that i need? All the pretty Young things Seem suddenly boring When i look i...

When we were young we used to say Things would be different One fine day The walls would crumble Nations sing as one We live in hope, 'cause so far It hasn't co...

(music: marillion lyrics: steve hogarth & john helmer) Three hundred miles an hour on water In your purpose-built machine No one dared to call a boat Screamin...

When you look into the mirror Do you see a face you hardly recognise If you look into the sun too long Do the things you see begin to burn your eyes Paper lies ...

Track 1 from _Misplaced Childhood_ Huddled in the safety of a pseudo silk kimono wearing bracelets of smoke, naked of understanding Nicotine smears, long, long ...

(Fish / Marillion) Punch Punch and Judy Punch and Judy Punch and Judy Washing machine, pinstripe dream Stripped the gloss from a beauty queen Punch and Judy, ...

Such a pretty girl The anger didn't hide it You shaved your head, pulled a face Dressed yourself up without grace It didn't hide a life times damage It didn't ...

Did you cry when they dragged you home Put a lock on the door and the telephone Was a runaway girl all they could see? Have the nights and the days that you've ...

(Derek Disck/Steve Rothery/ Pete Trewavas/ Micheal Pointer/Mark Kelly) So here I am once more In the playground of the broken hearts One more experience, one m...

So here I am once more in the playground of the broken hearts One more experience, one more entry in a diary, self-penned Yet another emotional suicide overdose...

(Music: Marillion Lyrics: Steve Hogarth & John Helmer) O come, O come, Emmanuel And ransom captive Israel That mourns in lonely exile here Until the Son of God...

Looking at a star you've never seen before Try to forget it So you can see it Tasted like you've never tasted it before Try to forget it So you can remember it ...

We didn't lie to you, folks We told you we had living, breathing, monstrosities You'll laugh at them, shudder at them, and yet, but for the accident of birth, y...

(DickKellyMosleyRotheryTrewavas) [The music for this song later became "The Bell In The Sea"] Storm clouds cruising cross the blue skies Shadows float across t...

In the after-silence Fighting leaves behind I try to think it over But my mind's gone blind I lost the right to argue Somewhere down the line I had to tell She ...

(fish, steve rothery, mark kelly, pete trewavas, ian mosley) A hand held over a candle in angst fuelled bravado A carbon trail scores a moist stretched palm Tr...

There's a hot hard hurt Burnin' under her skin And it pricks her like thorns And it's needles and pins And it twists in her body And I know what it is And I'm p...

(DickKellyMosleyRotheryTrewavas) The music for this song later became "Berlin" I heard the battle raging on the other side of the wall Buried my head in a pill...

I heard the battle raging on the other side of the wall Buried my head in a pillow and tried to ignore it all Every night when I hear you I dream of breaking do...

I was flicking through the channels on the TV On a Sundoy in Milwaukee in the rain Trying to piece together conversations Trying to find out where to lay the bl...

(DickKellyMosleyRotheryTrewavas) [The music for this song later became "The King Of Sunset Town"] Everything to decide It's time I came up with some answers be...

(HogarthRare Bird) Now when you climb into your bunk tonight And when you draw the little curtains And eat your load-out sandwich Just think about those out in...

What a time this is Everything changing Faster than the eye can blink Faster than we can stop and think What will the future hold ? Well whatever I won't ask y...

Track 3 of _Clutching At Straws_ At that time of the night when streetlights throw crosses through window frames, paranoia roams where the shadows reign At tha...

I dreamed I rolled on the ocean floor In the sunken bones of a broken ship On the shadow line where whispers creep To the world above from the world beneath On ...

(music: marillion lyrics: steve hogarth & john helmer) Staring out over the bridge A million photo flashes from the water down below Dawn light bouncing throug...

(HogarthKellyMosleyRotheryTrewavas) I'm scared of opening the can Scared of changing who I am 'Might've taken all I can I'm scared of everything I am Are you a...

Track 9 of _Season's End_ On top of the world like a flag on a mountain Feeling so high you can feel so alone Unable to breathe at the height that you flew Sta...

Heading for the great escape Heading for the rave Heading for the permanent holiday Heading for the winter trip Heading for the slide Heading for the dignified ...

Heading for the great escape Heading for the rave Heading for the permanent holiday Heading for the winter trip Heading for the slide Heading for the dignified ...

I think I have become one of the hollow men As I shine on the outside more these days I can feel the outside feeding on my inside Leaves a growing darkness in i...

(HogarthKellyMosleyRotheryTrewavas) The world's gone mad And I have lost touch I shouldn't admit it But I have It slipped away while I was distracted I haven't...

(Music: Marillion Lyrics: John Helmer) 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 ...

(HogarthKellyMosleyRotheryTrewavas) The only unforgivable thing Hauls itself out of bed Looks over my shoulder At the BloodyEnglishWeather The only unforgivabl...

Air full of feathers Fluttering distant laughter Air full of signs and strange magic Planets aligned in warning Trap door sprung beneath me And I'm falling But ...

She bought a bottle of cider From the shop on the corner They didn't stop her--they thought she was older She took a bus ride to a name and a number A house ful...

(music: marillion lyrics: steve hogarth) What do you do when your roots have dissolved and broken down And the soil that you grew in when you were small Has be...

Track 9 of _Season's End_ On top of the world like a flag on a mountain Feeling so high you can feel so alone Unable to breathe at the height that you flew Star...

(Music: Marillion Lyrics: Steve Hogarth) On top of the world like a flag on a mountain Feeling so high you can feel so alone Unable to breathe at the height th...

Track 3 of _Season's End_ You may not recall the moment that you asked me But your invitation was clear You'll pretend you've never met me but it's far too late...

Track 3 of _Script For A Jester's Tear_ The rain auditions at my window, it's symphony echoes in my wom My gaze scans the walls of this apartment to rectify the...

Everything crashed His wife left him He lost all of his money And most of his friends He lay awake all night Lonely and desperate Contemplating Starting again ...

There was a boy who came into this world at the hands of a holy woman in a holy place He wore a red coat and walked a bulldog-saw them reflected in the mirror o...

The cars leave their trails of hot & cold light inside my head Like burned-in long exposure pictures The wheels spin slowly backwards Strobing in the amber ligh...

Three boats down from the candy, vacant deck chairs on a floodlit beach Three boats down from the candy, rollers coast invade the deepest sleep Three boats down...

(DickKellyMosleyRotheryTrewavas) [The music for this song later became "The Release"] We are led by the light at the end of the tunnel We are guided by the fir...

When you say goodbye to the love that we knew This you can be sure of I will torch on for you I will carry my torch for you When you break somebody's heart, n...

It used to rain Dreary and grey Most every day But not any more We come out of our homes We lie down Under the cloud that never comes We roll in the radiation...

You may not recall the moment that you asked me But your invitation was clear You'll pretend you've never met me but it's far too late Now I'm here, yeah Cause...

(DickKellyMosleyRotheryTrewavas) [The music for this song later became "After Me"] There's something I have to tell you Before it's too late There's someone ne...

I lie awake at night Listening to you sleeping I hear the darkness breathe And the rain against the window After all this time Cynical and jaded All the stones ...

When the taxis gather in mock Solemnity Funeral hearses court the death of virginity Was it paradise lost or paradise found? Did we gain respect or were we hold...

We need to talk About the way You've been behaving We need to talk About the Christmas lights In your clothes We need to talk About the stranger In the kitchen ...

And if the bottle's no solution Why does it feel so warm And if that girl is no solution Why did she feel so warm And if to feel is no solution Why do I feel Wh...

Track 10 of _Misplaced Childhood_ When I hit the streets back in '81 With a heart and a gown and a poet's crown I felt barbed wire kisses and icicle tears, Wear...

(Fish, Steve Rothery, Mark Kelly, Pete Trewavas, Ian Mosley) Where do we go from here? Where do we go from here, where do we go from here Where do we go from ...

I saw you there last night In the latest place You were taking in the scenery Hungry for a new face Seems what I said to you Didn't change your mind You could o...

I saw you there last night In the latest place You were taking in the scenery Hungry for a new face Seems what I said to you Didn't change your mind You could o...

You're gone as suddenly as you came to me Like nightfall followed dawn without a day between You're gone and suddenly I can't see I'm in the shadow of you I'm i...

You're gone As suddenly as you came to me Like nightfall followed dawn without a day between You're gone and suddenly I can't see I'm in the shadow of you I'm i...

Here I stand head in hand Turn my face to the wall If she's gone I can't go on Feelin' two-foot small Everywhere people stare Each and every day I can see them ...

Here I stand head in hand Turn my face to the wall If she's gone I can't go on Feelin' two-foot small Everywhere people stare Each and every day I can see them...