@ALBUM: HINDSIGHT.1980-1987 @SONG: The_Unguarded_Moment So hard finding inspiration I knew you'd find me crying Tell those girls with rifles for minds That their jokes don't make me laugh They only make me feel like dying In an unguarded moment So long, long between mirages I knew you'd find me drinking Tell those men with horses for hearts That their jibes don't make me bleed They only make me feel like shrinking In an unguarded moment So deep, deep without a meaning I knew you'd find me leaving Tell those friends with cameras for eyes That their hands don't make me hang They only make me feel like breathing In an unguarded moment @SONG: In_A_Heartbeat Your room is damp, your love's turning cold Where is the meaning I thought we could hold I can't believe what's happened to you I stand back and watch, there's nothing I can do Poetry, a delicious joke All your flame going up in smoke Just once more, just once again If I ever get caught here, you'll know who to blame In a heartbeat and a heartbeat's all that it takes In a heartbeat see your heartbreak I play some records but the words are too strange I call you sometimes but your number's been changed I will remember every smile and tear But when I listen to you I don't want to hear @SONG: Too_Fast_For_You Come down, another day Morning streaked on a perspex screen The screaming beaked blackbirds peck The wrecked eyes of last week's lies The sandman gets shallow sleep He tries to weep for the grown-up things One last peep for policemen A'resting in the woodland side so steep Oh and I hope I'm not going too fast for you And don't believe it when they say it's over It's not over There's an ice age due on wednesdy Overcast sky, blocks of fortune The bridges sigh, the sweethearts are blank They never thank, you know they never even try Winking at the paperboy, paperwork Overloaded portrait Let it jerk you back to yesterday That's where the curtains start to fray @SONG: Tear_It_All_Away People say to see is to believe Then they just believe in that they can perceive What they see is not the total view Filtered between the me and you Ah, but I'm trying so hard Just to tell you I care And I've wanted so long, to tear this all away Tear it all away People say well you just had to be there And all the time you know they've never been there And it makes me sad to sit and think Of all those empty souls nearly at the brink Ah, but I'm trying so hard Just to keep to myself The things that I hope will tear it all away Tear it all away People grow up and learn to drive some car But I did that and it doesn't get you far The things you want are never to be found And in the end it's all some running round Ah, but I'm trying so hard Just to open my eyes To seeing some things that tear it all away Tear it all away I thought you would know I thought you would know People say they think that they are sure But they turn away and don't go back no more What they saw was not a perfect sight Just their own face reflected in the night Ah, but I'm trying so hard Just to tell you it's now And I'm gonna keep on trying To tear it all away @SONG: Sisters Anna sits beside her research Silence in the dappled moonlight Sleeping cat and dying fire Embers of the past conspire All her books are closed and scattered And she feels that nothing matters to her Outside this dream her sister frequents Like a cobweb catching fragments She approaches like a vision She says "Anna, do you hear me? But the picture's always shuttered All the distant thoughts that flutter to her I can see them all, I can hear them call And as she falls I lean to say goodbye Breathing all the wasted hours Talking to the dying flowers Dwarfed by spires and tangled towers We don't ask the reason why Anna comes and goes in shadows Paintings of the open windows Her photograph is always faded Her sister's eyes are blank and shaded Don't you understand her science Merging in a strange alliance to her We're together in the future You and I and her together All our fated are intermingled We are plural, we are single We are leaving for a meeting And last seen the weather sleeting for her @SONG: Is_This_Where_You_Live Oceanic lights are cleverly dim Blueish features in the lower reaches We raise our traffic flares to him Fishnet, girlish, the red ones spark Holy arcs tracked in the dark The more I see, the less I look Here's another name I took Listen! In the early morning air The remnants of their eveningwear Branching off, the road winds east Deluxe locations just near completion Come dine with wine and oyster feast The pearls are real, have one for free They're washed up by the foam waved sea The more I look the less I smile Never mind let's stay awhile The fans blow secrets on the night Out of mind but not out of sight Is this where you live Broken voices the nylon choir Nothing left to stoke that fire All they own is on their tongues They never see or wonder if Is this where you live Thin dogs don't vie for bones Why desert just to be alone All they own is on their backs They can't believe it's you I'm with Is this where you live Don't blush as I brush your touch No need for any speed or rush All you own is on the floor I'm buying all you're gonna give Is this where you live Coffee stories, the lying truth Electric lights don't help my youth All I owned is on my face Urbane mirror anger myth Is this where you live @SONG: Almost_With_You See the chains which bind the men Can you taste their lonely arrogance It's always too late And your face is so cold They struggled for this opulence See the suns which blind the men Burnt away so long before our time Now their warmth is forgotten and gone Pretty maids not far behind Who you trying to get in touch with I'm almost with you I can sense it wait for me I'm almost with you Is this the taste of victory I'm almost with you See the dust which fills your sleep Does it always feel this chill near the end I never dreamed we'd meet here once more This life reserved for a friend @SONG: Fraulein One night I saw all this The ship that drifted in And from that afternoon you changed Some fallen leaves were in the drive A stranger's voice above the wind The difference was the color of Lorraine She said that mourning almost tasted blue Oh Fraulein, that was you Your phone would ring and ring and ring The shadows on the beat The car abandoned long before, when I was free A message crumpled said something Yet the language was unknown Are old mistakes forgotten just like me She said she's leaving with the crowds She wants to throw this all away She said I'm thinking this out loud That's what I thought you'd say One night I saw all this The man who paid the bill A glance along the noise Hey baby that's our song The seagulls all flew away And when I turned to ask you where And when I turned to ask you why You've gone @SONG: You've_Got_To_Go There's a distant light shining over you tonight You've been transformed, you'll always be my storm In the Tuscan dusk you're swooning under moons of musk You touch the texture of the tiles and miles away A visitor waits for you to show You've got to go In the plum sun dunes rippling to a frail tune You've been conveyed, you'll always be my lifetimes blade Along the alpine drive uncertain how to be alive You love the fragments of a smile and miles away A courier invokes your name you know You've got to go And another heart breaks, you're wasting all the time it takes You've been assigned, you'll never be too far behind Wait for a bus to come, you know another verse to hum You thrust the windows for a while and miles away Your servants searching high and low You've got to go You better go @SONG: Life_Speeds_Up The clouds in the sky are all rushing by A stare's just a backwards glance The years and the days are all melting away Yet you still won't take a chance But life speeds up, don't you know, don't you know The push and the throb, the threat of the mob The crack's not a secret this time The mouths and the doors, now I can't shut anymore Keep running, you're falling behind The world spins alone, the weight of it groans I get dizzy just turning the page The air holds us down and we're stuck on the ground Trying to slip off our age Come to the window come to the door Given under my hand given under the law I gave you everything you still want more They gave you some mad forgotten war Now it's time to slow things down Because I told you life speeds up Tell me how it happened did it hurt did you cry Did you ever feel yourself falling out of the sky Did you ever lie awake and wonder why Did you ever fall asleep and dream that you died We grind to a halt and we start again We come to a corner but it's only a bend And all those broken promises they never end Who cares if it's mad when it's only pretend @SONG: When_You_Were_Mine On a day like this, a hundred lifetimes ago You on a shore, across the point I looked through my hands and you drew me a line When you were mine On a world like this, a hundred turns left to go Deep in a room, which I've never seen Outside it's so cold but I'm waiting for time When you were mine Plenty of islands between now and then Rocks break the boats of the painted face men And they drown, and they're born And they live once again And this all happens When you were mine In a storm like this, a hundred kisses of snow You with another so easily sleep What's real and what's dreamt become close and entwine When you were mine @SONG: Electric_Lash The electric lash of trees in the studio Fills my head with light Only the voice of the girl on the radio Falling from a height I turn to leave as if in a cameo It doesn't feel quite right Only one thing you ever really know If it's day or night Our eyes meet and I love her I suspect she already knows How those eyes see me so very very clearly Even when they're closed The electric lash of trees in the studio A bite then a caress Only the voice of the girl on the radio Drifting from the west I turn to leave as if in a cameo A moon, a knot, a guess Only one thing you ever really know You might curse before you bless @SONG: The_Night_Is_Very_Soft Tiny drops of water glistened on her black fur Tailights in earshot, headlights shine through her And on legs crossed on the red surge setee Sat next to nothing and she looked right through me, and on Inside the car sat a sulky blonde And on her lap the road went on and on As she dresses I look to the ground Perhaps I know where the place can be found, and on Outside, the night is very soft, but where does it end We'd pile into the Buick, but you've got to have money for that 92 people taking it too fast They never noticed where their lines are cast, and on I've got a milk white electric guitar Walked in the shop and I peeled off the notes Oh yeah @SONG: Autumn_Soon The puppetmaster understands the need The jury needs to feel the greed And seeds revolve and grow and bleed The underlife tick tocks Pushing through my safe ideas Goodbye heroica you overdosed on years I ask you for a midnight, you give me a high noon When winter puts her hands on you It must be autumn soon Whatever happened to the leaves that used to fall Where's the candle I left spluttering in the hall What's the meaning of the siren's call I blame it on you all The underlife tick tocks And chimes away between Goodbye heroica, you're not needed for this scene The flaming dying sunset has collapsed like a balloon When winter puts her hands on you It must be autumn soon I thought I heard her voice upon the tide It was only the shells and stones that sighed Old Neptune tosses in the deep and scalds his mermaid bride And you know, I really tried The underlife tick tocks And changes into ash Goodbye heroica we only accept a cache I'm here to give you everything, do I have to stoop or croon When winter puts her hands on you It must be autumn soon @SONG: It's_No_Reason Crocodile skin water, city shadows wait Put your head into your hands, the ending is so great Take a ride to sundown, buy a ticket home Take all the things I've bought you, leave all the rest alone Marble skins turn human, people fade to gray Put your head into my hands we'll make them go away As you're crying softly, you won't ever be disturbed Red on pink, the sun will sink, have you even heard? And the colors take me down It's no reason to be sad And you leave without a sound It's no reason to be glad Salty tears are wasted, children lie awake Put your head into my hands, don't let your spirit break Black smoke from the chimneys, white smoke from the hills Everything is moving, but we're standing still Celebrations fading, boats upon the waves Put your head into my hands, trying to be brave The carnival has packed up, the storm has left us peace Poppies sleep undamaged, we drive into the east @SONG: Someone_Special Said I've had visions of weeping She said I've had the same about you They come to me sometimes when I'm sleeping I said that's a way for me too Now it's been a long time and I don't have the mind To justify what we've been through Logic is fine and science can be kind But it can't define me and you Yet I thought I had something special to say But this nightmarish world Makes you throw your thoughts away As though I was someone special today We say why are the innocent bleeding Is there not a thing we can do They say please swallow this trust we are feeding And don't worry, it's bad for you Now it's been a long show and I thought you should know It's time for us to play our hand But words are much too slow they lost meaning years ago Isn't that how this began Some say now! The truth is before us Others say oh no this is not real Some say be cruel then they'll adore you Others say you can't touch till you feel Now its been trip and its only the tip Of the iceberg I'm trying to melt Our tickets have been ripped and you've got to bite your lip When you think about the way that felt @SONG: A_Month_Of_Sundays Badman's woman with that look in her eye You stop to wonder as she passes by Something inside you is never the same Something outside you is always to blame Follow her home where she lives with some friends They have some good things to add to the blend The games expanded, invaded the place You're the only one who's forgotten his face You're saying no no no I must be on my way But it really has been a pleasant night And you go so slow hope they'll ask you to stay But indifference gives you a fright Walking outside you come to a door You go inside and you wonder what for At least it's good to be out of the wind You turn around and the clocks all begin Just like the winter your memory thaws Just like the ocean your memory pours So many pieces to match or to find So many doubts to have in one mind It's hard to see how the tables have turned It's hard to see how the people have learned It's hard to watch the past drizzling past It's hard to watch them picking the cast And it stacks up badly that it never makes sense You sense that sensation is who's paying the rent And she beckons to you with her fingers and lies She says: can't you slice the price of your paradise @SONG: Shadow_Cabinet Now chased by the shapes of your vowels Look at the things she allows Junction fever must have closed down the rail The gluttonous wind keeps on nibbling the sail Queuing in the ruins in the wake of the gale It's harmony I say Here the difference between close and near The way oaths and oafs interfere Bliss comes first as a jangling flood The pillow from the old country arrives with a thud And that night she dreams ceremony and mud It's happening I say Must be thirsty, drink, drink, sink, forget Must be empty inside the shadow cabinet She offered her chaos to me Proffered herself languidly The eldritch bitch must have muddled her spells Tinges of Persia, I hope that it sells Chemical nuptials and ringing the bells It's heavenly I say Then one winter morning you walk through the trees But they cut them all down for the factories Made this pretty cabinet and gave you the keys It's hardly used I think @SONG: As_You_Will You wake up late day is still dawning You get out on the road You meet up with a man his face is well worn in He's carrying a load On the way to paradise Summer rain falls, so you head for some shelter Close to a wall See a lady dressed in chance you try to help her She heeds your call On the way to paradise Ornamental or warm and gentle On the way to paradise asyou will someday You find a hidden door that leads to a garden And venture through Sunshines bright a witness to pardon The world that you knew On the way to paradise All is well on the distant horizon It's there in wait Get so close, you grow so much wiser But wake up late On the way to paradise Ornamental or warm and gentle Can you tell heaven from hell As you will someday @SONG: Myrrh Emerald haunt in overdrive Nightmare descent into Jericho city Camel dust heralds our arrival New Christ beneath the drumkit moon Oh Lord we are threatened again In the slipstream pull of the federal men Plummet in some seamless night Down here to earth it's hopeless then Apache gunman in the boiling crowd Who never got to meet you last time We're interrupted by the telephone You didn't think they were invented then Oh Lord we need miracles We need more wine and gold We need slaves and roads and personal favors We need microphones and manifolds How can you be so invisible Give me the nerves to see Privilege on privilege An unwanted discovery So now we're cruising down this shuddering highway With a dead sun shining on my back And we talk about the way people treat us back there Their hollow laughter, the pain in their eyes Oh Lord I trust your intentions But money strangles our love Struggling like a fool with my junk and my jewels You would have thought I'd had enough How can you be so invisible Give me the nerves to see Privilege on privilege An unwanted discovery @SONG: The_View Someone fell across me Regretting their honesty Shook away their cautious care Looked right through me like I wasn't there River came to meet me Relationships can be like water Deep and shallow the popular bed Springs to mind my undetected closure You'll only scratch the surface If you bounce around like an adult ball Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's nice up there Be a lighthouse, don't block out your view Whispers in a cream cake Sweet and quiet again tonight Goodness on a rare stick Sometimes healthy living should be crushed Now I search for hours Rubble kills my fingers looks I'll only stop when it hurts a lot My heart is slender, my wooden tambourine's drenched in blues Redesign your answer If you're the post then prove you're tall Oh yeah, oh yeah, we slid around Polish your window and don't block out your view Take this daring leap Wake you've been asleep Go attack your life The paint is peeling scrape to save what's yours @SONG: Trance_Ending Strange girl sing Think all my life to me Wild things you bring Bring drums and bells to me We dance and sway Sway like the drunken priest We dream all day Day of the wedding feast Dark hooded eyes Eyes of a stallion We roll the dice One in a million @SONG: Tantalized God I've been asleep so long, I've been away Back from software limbo the natives call today I let their promises bind me I let seductive logic blind me I embraced a machine, I went through the routine And I hid from the people who were trying to find me Till the day comes when you realize Otherwise you never care Pandora's box reveals a new surprise Can't wait to see your eyes, now you've been tantalized For a hundred and one voluptuous days I broke the law The labyrinth was closing so we panicked up a door I let their wanton flesh obsess me I felt their dreams and drugs assess me I was hired and fired yet never inspired Flattering, chattering words to impress me All that glittered had me mesmerized Otherwise I would have dared Guess the nature of our enterprise Can't stop to sympathize, how you've been tantalized I turned up in some harsh doomed city on another plane I couldn't believe the room I got or the guests I entertained I felt the dirty streets surround me I let the buzzing swarm confound me I gave money to ghosts, I insulted my hosts I could never get off the stuff that spellbound me