@ALBUM: This Is The Sea THE WATERBOYS "THIS IS THE SEA" (Ensign 1985) 1. DON'T BANG THE DRUM (6:43) 2. THE WHOLE OF THE MOON (4:54) 3. SPIRIT (1:48) 4. THE PAN WITHIN (6:10) 5. MEDICINE BOW (2:44) 6. OLD ENGLAND (5:30) 7. BE MY ENEMY (4:16) 8. TRUMPETS (3:34) 9. THIS IS THE SEA (6:29) Recorded in England, March-July 1985 *************************************** ** AXLROSE@plearn.bitnet ** ** ** ** Krzysztof Kouyoumdjian ** ** ** *************************************** @SONG: DON'T BANG THE DRUM (Mike Scott & Karl Wallinger) Here we are in a special place what are you gonna do here? now we stand in a special place what will you do here? what show of soul are we gonna get from you? it could be Deliverance or History under these skies so blue but if I know you you'll bang the drum like monkeys do Here we are in a fabulous place what are you gonna dream here? we are standin' in this fabulous place what are you gonna play here? I know you love the high life you love to leap around you love to beat your chest and make your sound but not here man! - this is sacred ground with a power flowing through and if I know you you'll bang the drum like monkeys do Now we stand on a rocky shore your father stood here before you I can see his ghost explore you I can feel the sea implore you not to pass on by not to walk on by and not to try - just to let it come don't bang the drum just let it come don't bang the drum do you know how to let it come now? don't bang the drum now just let it come now don't bang the drum now don't bang the drum @SONG: THE WHOLE OF THE MOON (Mike Scott) I pictured a rainbow you held it in your hands I had flashes but you saw the plan I wandered out in the world for years while you just stayed in your room I saw the crescent you saw the whole of the moon you were there in the turnstiles with the wind at your heels you stretched for the starts and you know how it feels to reach too high too far too soon you saw the whole of the moon I was grounded while you filled the skies I was dumbfounded by truth you cut through lies I saw the rain dirty valley you saw Brigadoon I saw the crescent you saw the whole of the moon I spoke about wings you just flew I wondered I guessed and I tried you just knew I sighed ...but you swooned! I saw the crescent you saw the whole of the moon with a torch in your pocket and the wind at your heels you climbed on the ladder and you know how it feels to get too high too far too soon you saw the whole of the moon the whole of the moon! Unicorns and cannonballs palaces and piers trumpets towers and tenements wide oceans full of tears flags rags ferryboats scimitars and scarves every precious dream and vision underneath the stars you climbed on the ladder with the wind in your sails you came like comet blazing your trail too high too far too soon you saw the whole of the moon @SONG: SPIRIT (Mike Scott) Man gets tired Spirit don't Man surrenders Spirit won't Man crawls Spirit flies Spirit lives when man dies Man seems Spirit is Man dreams The spirit lives Man is tethered Spirit is free What spirit is man can be @SONG: THE PAN WITHIN (Mike Scott) come with me on a journey beneath the skin come with me on a journey under the skin we will look together for the Pan within close your eyes breathe slow we'll begin close your eyes breathe slow we'll begin to look together for the Pan within swing your hips loose your head and let it spin swing your hips loose your head and let it spin and we will look together for the Pan within close your eyes breathe slow we'll begin close your eyes breathe slow we'll begin to look together for the Pan within put your face to my window breathe a night full of treasure the wind is delicious sweet and wild with the promise of pleasure the stars are alive and nights like these were born to be sanctified by you and me lovers thieves fools and pretenders and all we gotta do is surrender come with me on a journey under the skin come with me on a journey under the skin and we will look together for the Pan within @SONG: MEDICINE BOW (Mike Scott & Anthony Thistlethwaite) there's a black wind blowing a typhoon on the rise pummelin rain murderous skies! I'm gonna take my books I'm gonna wear my coat I'm gonna find my scarf and wrap it around my throat and you can Come with me thru the drivin snow we're gonna ride on up to Medicine Bow well I spent too long just stuck on the shore there's a man in my head but he isn't me any more I'm gonna find me a ship stowaway on a boat I'm gonna burn all the words and letters and cards that I ever wrote and you can Sail with me where the current flows we're gonna move on up to Medicine Bow I'm gonna change my colours cancel my things stop my squawkin grow some wings! well I will not sleep and I will not rest I will put my soul and my will to the test I'm gonna tug at my tether I'm gonna tear on my lead I'm gonna test my knowledge in the field of deeds and you can Run with me fast as we can go over the hills to Medicine Bow @SONG: OLD ENGLAND (Mike Scott) man looks up on a yellow sky and the rain turns to rust in his eye rumours of his health are lies old England is dying his clothes are a dirty shade of blue and his ancient shoes worn through he steals from me and he lies to you old England is dying still he sings an empire song still he keeps his navy strong and he sticks his flag where it ill belongs old England is dying you're asking what makes me sigh now what it is makes me shudder so well I just freeze in the wind and I'm numb from the pummelin of the snow that falls from high in yellow skies down on where the well loved flag of England flies where homes are warm and mothers sigh where comedians laugh and babies cry where criminals are televised politicians fraternize journalists are dignified and everyone is civilized and children stare with Heroin eyes Old England! evening has fallen the swans are singing the last of sunday's bells is ringing the wind in the trees is sighing and old England is dying @SONG: BE MY ENEMY (Mike Scott) Well the dawn it is howlin' and the mainframe shakes I feel like I've been sleepin' in a cellarful of snakes My wings have been clipped and my shoes have been stuck with glue Well if you'll be my enemy I'll be your enemy too Now I've got goons on my landing thieves on my trail Nazis on my telephone willing me to fail they were all sent by someone Obviously you! Well if you'll be my enemy I'll be your enemy too I've got a bucketful of Babylon I got a handful of lead I'm gonna put them in a gun man point it at your head because you stole all my friends and you gave me the buffalo blues Well if you'll be my enemy I'll be your enemy too Now from the slime on your tongue to the nails on your toes from the scales on your skin to the stains on your clothes you're gonna make me have to do somethin' that I do not want to do but if you will be my enemy I'll be your enemy too My hands are tied I'm nailed to the floor feel like I'm knockin' on the Unknown Door there's a gun at my back a blade at my throat I keep on findin' hate mail in the pockets of my coat Well I've been trying to grow I been coolin' my heels I have been workin' in the fields and I can't get to sleep I can't catch my breath I can't stop talkin' and I look like death! but I will put right this disgrace I will rearrange you If you'll be my enemy I'll be your enemy too If you'll be my enemy I'll be your enemy too Be my enemy! @SONG: TRUMPETS (Mike Scott) Your love feels like trumpets sound I said your love feels like trumpets sound your life is like a mountain your life is like a mountain and your heart is lkie a church with wide open doors and to be with you is to find myself in the best of dreams your love feels like trumpets your love feels like high summer your love feels like high high summer your life is like an ocean I want to dive in naked lose myself in your depths I want to be with you to find myself in the best of dreams your love feels like trumpets please don't wake me no don't shake me I want to be with you when bein' with youis the same as being you your love feels like trumpets @SONG: THIS IS THE SEA (Mike Scott) these things you keep you better throw the away turn your back on your soulless days once you were tethered now you are free once you were tethered now you are free that was the river this is the sea if yuo're feelin' weary or you been alone too long or maybe you been sufferin' from a few too many plans that have gone wrong and you're tryin' to remember how fine your life used to be runnin' around banging your drum like it's 1973 well that was the river this is the sea now you say you got trouble you say you got pain you say you got nothin' left to believe in nothin' to hold on to nothin' but chains you been scourin' your conscience and rakin' through your memories you been scourin' your conscience and rakin' through your memories but that was the river this is the sea Now I can see you wavering as you try to decide you got a war in your head and it's tearin' you up inside you're tryin' to make sense of something that you just don't see you're tryin' to make sense now and you know that you once held the key but that was the river... this is the sea Now I hear there's a train it's comin' down the line it's yours if you hurry you got still enough time you don't need no ticket and you don't pay no fee you don't need no ticket and you don't pay no fee that was the river this is the sea