1. No Friendly Neighbour

There's a man in the park, waking his dog to a mark
In the picture he painted, in the picture he painted
And the people look on, and the people look one
But their fears haven't gone and they are right to be so
Then a gang comes along, steals all he owns
Then they carry on, roaming all day long.

To the eyes of a television inspired mess
From a pub to a club to a street to a thug
Ignoring the light from above
Ignoring the light from above
Fight or surrender, no friendly neighbour
The butcher and the baker and the mixer and the maker

It's a battle with the wind
On my neck and in my eyes
With the crows looking at the wallet that rest above my thigh
Come up to me with a knife and a can
With the words "give me what you got"
Holding out a hand, NO!

To the eyes of a television inspired mess (NO!)
From a pub to a club to a street to a thug
Ignoring the light from above (NO!)
Ignoring the light from above (NO!)
Fight or surrender, no friendly neighbour
The butcher and the baker and the mixer and the maker

Can't find any mirror that shines...

To the eyes of a television inspired mess (grey into blue)
From a pub to a club to a street to a thug (grey into blue)
Ignoring the light from above
Ignoring the light from above
Is it the maker in you, or someone you knew?
The one who can turn the grey into blue?

2. No Place Like Home

Well, I go into town today
It's city smog and city ways
Every eye is on the floor
Trying so hard to ignor
You gotta watch your back and be aware
Blood runs cold, then disappears
There's soot and sadness in the air
No-one even seem to care.

Do you wanna hover
Towards the air of sumer
To love within the land
Oh, they say there ain't no place like home?
But it ain't here
No, it's nowhere near
I need to find that shore
Oh, they say there's no place like home.

Well, I get back upon the train
It's dark and duller shades of grey
Those wings I see go flapping by
Those pigeons swarm then learn to cry
City smog and city smoke
Sky looks it's about to choke
On soot and sadness in the air
No-one even seem to care.

Do you wanna hover
Towards the air of sumer
To love within the land
Oh, they say there ain't no place like home?
But it ain't here
No, it's nowhere near
I need to find that shore
Oh, they say there's no place like home.

Yea, they feed off fear
Oh yea, they feed off fear
Why can't they go?
Oh, there ain't no place like home

3. I See Lights

I see lights
Red, green, pink and blue
I see lights
Their web is bled untrue right through
This city!

Right through!!

I see lights
Then a man beaten black and blue
Hearts of coal
I say "why?" He says "I was not in their crew"

It's rotten!
The streets are roamed by marching feet and fools
It's rotten!
They leave their mark upon this furrowed brow
It's rotten!
And there's no silence like a roaring crowd
It's rotten!
They pave their way to what they see
It's rotten!

Right through!!

Smoke comes out that cafe
Got enough Euros and you'll get laid
Mugged, beaten or squashed like a snail
Under the foot of malice
n those evil-soaked streets
A rotten, torn and putrid feel
Verminous hate beings, flapping their wings
Pave the way for horror and decay

Right through!!

I see lights (right through!)
I see lights (right through!)
I see lights (right through!)
I see lights (right through!)
I see lights
The streets are roamed by marching feet and fools (right through!)
I see lights
They leave their mark upon this furrowed brow (right through!)
I see lights
And there's no silence like a roaring crowd (right through!)
I see lights
(right through!)

I see lights!

4. Bright As A Fire

Maybe you were someone you didn't like too much
Maybe you were somebody you wouldn't care to touch
Maybe you were someone you didn't know so well
Were you somebody who couldn't help but dwell in their own heaven.

Why don't you come to a place you can gleam
Into my arms and out of the sheen?
I want to lift you up my only love
I want you to see the light in your own world

In the forest I sang
For another hand to flow into my own
The lady came without a word, she explained
Every other heart was stone

And when the lake is alight
The flames they kiss, they bite
The bodies are entwined

The birds they fly
The broken they do cry
Alone in bed all asking "why?"

Bright as a fire
And wild as the sea
Try to get further
From the cloud over thee

I look in your eyes so grey
But I know that
A flower is behind

Just the colour needs to heal
But then you turn around to find another frown
A grey town, a hurting heart
A busy head can't sleep in its own bed tonight

Wanting, waiting, then trying to help thee
Finding the sweet angel in your eyes

Bright as a fire
And wild as the sea
Try to get further
From the cloud over thee

It's your soul, it's your soul, it's your soul!!

You had the desire
To fly up higher
Into the light

You searched within the mire
To be inspired
Out of that haze.

To beam good energy from
Your soul and become
The being you wanted to...

To beam good energy from
Your soul and become
The being you are now through.

It's your soul, it's your soul, it's your soul!

Bright as a fire
And wild as the sea
Try to get further
From the cloud over thee

5. Savage World

This fountain is a sewer now
A flower withered on the ground
Pick a tick between the bricks
A stain to sink them limp

Around the town with frowns and clowns
Every step I seem to take
These pigeons roams in packs no slack
From where they are and where they think it's at

If I can fly away, then show me the door
To escape this hole and not come back no more
These roads are plagued, beaten and sore
It's a savage world they all seem to adore

The mountains you don't try to climb
The streets you dwell so well and find
All left rotting plagued with ticks
Inch by inch then slip

You call yourself a macho man
I know you came here with a plan
Drink and drink, then fight then drink
Then all go back into that routine

If I can fly away, then show me the door
To escape this hole and not come back no more
These roads are plagued, beaten and sore
It's a savage world they all seem to adore

To disappear into a cloud,
Wake up in some other distant town.

I don't really know
Why they feed off hate and spread such fear
Oh, they never seem to go
As the mud flows through those lanes again
Well, I just wanted to sail
So, so far away
Well, I just wanted to go
But there's too many ticks on the side of me now.

Around the town with frowns and clowns
Every step I seem to take
These pigeons roams in packs no slack
From where they are and where they think it's at

If I can fly away, then show me the door
To escape this hole and not come back no more
These roads are plagued, beaten and sore
It's a savage world they all seem to adore

To disappear into a cloud,
Wake up in some other distant town.
To disappear into a cloud,
Find that suddenly you've lost your frown.

6. Tortured Tone

I heard her on the phone
Shielded, but alone
She slurred a tortured tone
I can hear the rain splash on the ground

She swam through darkness into light
Then fell back into the hell of night
She searched for colors in the grey
Then swam back into that old misery

Now that dress is in the gutter
The tears have all but gone
Now that dress is in the gutter
The tears have all but gone

The hate for herself grows
The shell she hides in knows
She built an alternate world
Full of vampires, cocks and crows

A place where she can go
Self-loathe all alone
Oh, she's not been at home for so long
She's not been at home...

Where did your heart go?
The glow seemed to freeze in snow
Under you wild skies
The rain waits for thee

Where did that heart go?
Her rain soon froze into snow
Sorrow fuelled brown eyes
Kept speaking in my dreams

It was a stone cold realization
When I heard her speak alone
Oh, when you live your life through escapism eyes
You'll find it hard to heal as the pain sinks deeper within you...

Where did your heart go?
The glow seemed to freeze in snow
Under you wild skies
The rain waits for thee

Where did your heart go?
The glow seemed to freeze in snow
Under you wild skies
The rain waits for thee
Where did your heart go?
The glow seemed to freeze in snow
Under you wild skies
The rain waits for thee

7. White Sheet Robes

Where has he gone to?
I have not seen him in years, years
Where is my friend gone now?
I can see his skin, but not within, no.

They had to stop his mind from sinking
Into a pit of horror
Trying to control his thoughts from slipping
Into caves of hysteria

He lost his clothes
To the white sheet robes
As they said they would show him towards the light
Oh, he was drugged up and lost in a colossal course of pills
Starting to loose the fight within himself.

When the light turned grey it trickled
Into thought suppression
Within his eyes, within his mind
Always the same reaction

Where has my friend gone
I can see his skin, but not within, no.

He lost his clothes
To the white sheet robes
As they said they would show him towards the light
Oh, he was drugged up and lost in a colossal course of pills
Starting to loose the fight within himself.

Is it always right for the state of mind to rely on chemicals?
It's easier to ignore than battle problems through
Is it easier to create a swamp or is ignorance just cruel
To settle a man into a well and take away his fuel?

Where has he gone to?
In a maze, a placid haze
No fear, no tears.

It may have been the right way at first, for a while
But he's been in a bubble for far too long
Where's the great adventurer I knew?

He lost his clothes
To the white sheet robes
As they said they would show him towards the light
Oh, he was drugged up and lost in a colossal course of pills
Starting to loose the fight within himself.

8. As Tears Come Falling From The Sky

I lay now behind windows under a spring sky
The robins and the rains, the lorries and the trains go by
No raincot needed, not even for my eyes
Just seems to stay and swell in rhyme
My light is on, the cars hum by
As tears come falling from the sky

Radiators, ink-stained papers, mixers, makers, undertakers
The birds will sing on the dawn of spring
No need for any tanning products for my skin
As I lay now on a mattress, behind windows,
Behind curtains, behind windows, behind curtains
Behind windows, behind curtains

I be the hermit, you be the blue tit
Wander with me while I scour the sky
Today sees a new day
Light of that rainbow seems higher than the rain
As tears come drizzling in my drain.

9. Awoken Broken

Scream into my bed, into the air
Searching for some light

Screaming mess I fell onto a carousel
To feel this nightmare bite

Awake in pure love for those close
Awake in pure love for those close
Awake to see the smiling ghost
The smiling ghost, the smiling ghost

Scream out blue sky bird
Scream into the night (all night)
Scream into my bed
Shiver up the sweating walls

Scream out! Awoken Broken!
In the middle of the mud, in a puddle of pain!
Scream out! Awoken Broken!
Scream out!

Screaming in despair
Into the night brisk air
Searching for some light
Screaming mess I fell onto a carousel
To feel this nightmare bite

Awake in pure love for those close
Awake in pure love for those close
Awake to see the smiling ghost
The smiling ghost, the smiling ghost

Scream out blue sky bird
Scream into the night (all night)
Scream into my bed
Shiver up the sweating walls

Scream out! Awoken Broken!
In the middle of the mud, in a puddle of pain!
Scream out! Awoken Broken!
Scream out!

Scream out! Awoken broken!
In the middle of the mud, in a puddle of pain!
Scream out! Awoken broken!
In the middle of the mud, in a puddle of pain!
Scream out! Awoken broken!
Scream out! Awoken broken!
In the middle of the mud, in a puddle of pain!
In the middle of the mud, in a puddle of pain!
In the middle of the mud, in a puddle of pain!
In the middle of the mud, in a puddle of pain!
In the middle of the mud, in a puddle of pain!
In the middle of the mud, in a puddle of pain!

10. Search For Bliss

Love bloomed so soon then it had to leave
Like a door shutting beside me
Now I don't have the key to go back and see
Well, I tried to search for some bliss
But it's all the waking in the week alone
And now I see
As I flied and you drifted away
And it was all in you
And what we had
That could make our dreaming true
A dream I've never seen into

Where's the king and who's the clown
You wanna sail 'til the dream is over
Now the sky just seems to flow
You wanna wait 'til the week is over

Back into that room, I fell on my knees
Still the black clouds all over me
Like a sunken sea, like a tortured tree
Well, I tried to search for some bliss
But it's all the waking in the week alone
And now I see
As I flied and you drifted away
And it was all in you
And what we had were the pieces
That could make our dreaming true
A dream I've never seen into

Where's the king and who's the clown
You wanna sail 'til the dream is over
Now the sky just seems to flow
You wanna wait 'til the week is over
The search for bliss falls to the ground
You wanna sail 'til the dream is over
And keep on searching for the four leaf clover.

In the wilderness I wander
As thunder takes her away
Now those tears come crashing
on this concrete again.

I fly for you, my dear
As the concrete sneers, floating away again
Then the spear of destiny inflamed
I see the light, but not the day

Where's the king and who's the clown
You wanna sail 'til the dream is over
Now the sky just seems to flow
You wanna wait 'til the week is over
The search for bliss falls to the ground
You wanna sail 'til the dream is over

And keep on searching for the four leaf clover.

11. Snake Ladders

I don't need your salt rubbed in my wounds
I won't try and tell you what you should be or do
You dwell in your own tree and I'll leave you that way
Now walk through the jungle of mystery
"Who goes there?" you cried out to the night
A snake appeared ahead with demonic eyes, he said
"Hey come follow me, I'll show you the way"
You said "OK, I'll do anything you say"

There ain't no love in the air you breathe
There ain't no fire in the hearts you leave
Try to reminisce of how things used to be
Before you climb so high on that darkened tree

The snake slithered on through the jungle
You followed, but tightly in your palm, holding a rock
Waiting for your moment, yea.
At last you reached the river
It was a beautiful waterfall, but nowhere to cross
He turned and said "we must wait here for the boatman"
As he turned back, you cracked him over the head
and tossed him into the water
He was no use to you anymore.

There ain't no love in the air you breathe
There ain't no fire in the hearts you leave
Try to reminisce of how things used to be
Before you climb so high on that darkened tree

At last the boatman came
Over at him you waved shouting
"Please take me to the other side"
Boatman looked up and said "OK come take a ride"
You then asked "Have you any food?"
And then he smiled saying
"Yea, I do, why don't you come stay with me for a while"
(If you need a place to crash a while)
Nights and days went by, and closer you became
Until you found a map of that goldmine

Off you ran into the midst of night
'til you come to a crooked old bridge
You weren't to know it was far too weak
As you fell into the rapids below
Then trying to swim up and over to the other side
Eventually, you pulled yourself out
Then staring back at a reflection into your own eyes
Screaming and wailing in the night

There ain't no love in the air you breathe
There ain't no fire in the hearts you leave
Try to reminisce of how things used to be
Before you climb so high on that darkened tree

There ain't no love
There ain't no love
There ain't no fire
There ain't no fire
Try to reminisce of how things used to be
Before you climb so high on that darkened tree.

12. Mirror And The Moon

At last, the weather shines
I smell the summer in the drains
Oh, at last the weather shines
I smell the summer
Through the streets and lanes

At last, I smile together
With the mirror and the moon

But it seems she's only inspired
When she's being ignored, when she's being ignored

Well, I found some joy that I wanted to share with her
But it seems that my sadness connected more
I wanted to share this light, for I know now
The darkness is soon to come.

My smile wants to fly
My smile wanted to float
With the mirror and the moon
With the woman who came too soon, too soon...

At last, the weather shines
I smell the summer from the drains
And now maybe I can try
To heal those eyes and turn the page

Then we could smile together
With the mirror and the moon
We could smile together
With the mirror and the moon.