hey now, you got me by the tongue
I feel like there's nowhere I belong
and they're working it pretty hard
and they're selling it by the yard
but its more than I can afford
that's all that I know

leader, it comes as no surprise
see now, these are coins that were his eyes
silver dollars and hoods of steel
tell me nothing can be revealed
the more you get it the less you feel

Oh Mary Jane
She step on a train
head for the city lights
yearning inside
to swim with the tide
and taste it, alright
bag on her shoulder
breathing the cold
there by the metal tracks
she saw it all shine
and swore in her mind
she'd never go back

And she don't mind the late night
late night radio
she don't mind the late night radio
she don't mind the late night
late night radio

I beg to differ
to break the chain
to draw a line right through
tomorrow
and cancel every claim
I've seen reflections
beneath my skin
and drums beating for battle
in the eyes of children

And turning it over
right down
where the eye don't see no colour
where the war don't make a sound
ice on the shoulder
noel
praise the Lord above
and sell sell sell

Oh violent flowers

Hold on to nothing
hold on to coldest steel
it chills you down inside
when you see just what is real
paste it up and tear it down
move it on along the rushing road
seventeen Fahrenheit
feel the winter grow

There's nowhere to write it
there's nowhere to write it
there's nowhere to write it down
there's nowhere to write it
there's nowhere to write it
there's nowhere to write it down

Down from the doorway
and into the street
I hear the morning bell
over and over the pattern repeat
I hear the morning bell
and all the faces cold as stone
in the January chill
you have led me into worlds unknown
and I'm walking there still

Everytime now
everytime now
I think of you mine now
I just can't contain
I'm seven feet tall and
there's nightingales calling

Morning, sit in the morning sun
evening, watching the shadow come
through the bright streets of London
I feel the rain
upon my eyes as I wonder
at this spell that I'm under, Magdalen
since you came along

Meet me with your arms of snow and
meet me with your mouth undone
I'm burning up from head to tow eh
Magdalena when you're gone

Dreaming, we're drinking the night away

I'm falling by the wayside
I'm sinking with the sun
everything I do
is wrong wrong wrong
gazing at the billboards
staring down the broken lines

sleeping on the backseat
I could not believe
you were right up there beside me
tugging at my sleeve
and putting up your lipstick
just like you did a thousand times
and something in your eyes that makes me smile
oh yeah

I'm raising up my voice
to the walls and to the sky
it seeks no explanation
it waits for no reply
really it is nothing
just a cry to the wilds

I'm delirious with chaos
I'm wonderstruck with awe
in my soul I'm dreaming only
of your velvet shore
when I'm walking there my face
untangles like a child

And only the lonely
only the lonely
lonely could know me

Ghost on the highway
bird with metal wings
Ghost on the highway
bird with metal wings
crowd all around me
just don't hear a thing
Ghost on the highway
bird with metal wings

What am I doing wrong
what am I doing wrong
what am I doing wrong
what am I doing tell me
you don't telephone
you don't telephone
you don't telephone
you don't telephone me

Stand in the doorway

A gutter full of rain
an empty picture frame
a house out at the edges of the city
never noticing the war
til it's right there at your door
and suddenly your hands are bloody

I was seeking to possess
now another girl's caress
is on your flesh
the bitterness is tasted
there's nobody in your chair
no hand to touch my hair
the sun even the air seems wasted

Let it go now

Tuesday my heart is brimming
I'm a child in the wild wind
dead leaves and daylight dimming
no beginning and no end
inside a candle of defiance
moonlight
a river of pearls

Cause we're going to need more
than money and science
to see us through this world

You say it can't be done
you'd rather die of fun
get out of the way
for me for you for everyone
forever is tomorrow is today

I have waited the night over
for some word to come
I asked the moon o'er the clover
but the moon she is dumb

You have made me a promise
at midnight we'd go
and that we should be married
sailing westward ho

Such words you have spoken
you have told me a lie
that it could not be broken
when you knew it must die

There's no light in heaven
my eye can see