IF YOU COULD HEAR ME NOW


NO REGRETS

I know you’re leaving , it’s too long overdue
For far too long I've had nothing new to show to you
Goodbye, dry eyes
I watched your plane fade off west of the moon
And i t felt so strange to walk away alone

There’s no regrets, no tears goodbye
I don't want you back , we'd only cry again
Say goodbye again

The hours that were yours echo like empty rooms
The thoughts we used to share I now keep alone
I woke last night and spoke to you
Not thinking you were gone
And it felt so strange to lie awake alone

There’s no regrets, no tears goodbye
I don't want you back, we'd only cry again
Say goodbye again

Our friends are trying to turn my nights to day
Strange faces, a new place, can't keep the ghosts away
Now just beyond the darkest hour
And just behind the dawn
It still feels so strange to lead my life alone

There’s no regrets, no tears goodbye
I don't want you back, we'd only cry again
Say goodbye again

There’s no regrets, no tears goodbye
I don't want you back, we'd only cry again
Say goodbye again



LOVER'S LULLABY

Lay down now in slumber
Mama's child is torn asunder
All the fields have gone grey
All the leaves have gone brown

Let me tell you a story
Lay down, I know you're weary
While the stars in the sky
While the moon's on the rise

Lay down and don't you wake till morning
Close your eyes and helpless through the night
Lay down and dream of love and glory
This is a lover's lullaby

Once was a magician
Fair he was, and handsome
And he brought to the table
All the fool's gold and wine

Well he promised us three favours
Said he was a saviour
So we drank all his glory
And we borrowed all his time

Lay down and don't you wake till morning
Close your eyes and helpless through the night
Lay down and dream of love and glory
This is a lover's lullaby

This is a lover's lullaby



I'VE GOT TO HAVE YOU

You came smiling softly, shining moon beam
Easy as a dreamer, into my world
And before I realised the danger
I found myself staring into your eyes
Somewhere in their colours
I saw promises of things I've never seen before
It's all over, I've got to have you

Holding on to talk and saying nothing
Knowing in a moment I could lose you
Then without a warning I remember
That you trembled at the touch of my hand
Knowing when you came to me
That no one else would ever feel the same
In my arms
It's all over, I've got to have you

Waking in the morning with the tenderness
Of holding you asleep in my arms
Dreaming while your hair was blowing
Softer than a whisper on my cheek
I don't know the feeling so I don't know if it's love
But it's enough, it's enough
It's all over, I've got to have you

And I can't help it
I've got to have you



LOVING ARMS

If you could see me now
The one who said he'd rather be alone
The one who said that he would rather roam
If you could only see me now

If I could hold you now
Just for a moment, if I could make you mine
Just for a moment, turn back the hands of time
If I could only hold you now
I've been too long in the wind
Too long in the rain
Taking any comfort that I can
Looking back and longing
For the freedom of my chains
Living in your loving arms
Living in your loving arms again

If you could hear me now
Singing softly in the summer night
Longing for the arms that held me tight
If you could only hear me now

I've been too long in the wind
And too long in the rain
Taking any comfort that I can
Looking back and longing
For the freedom of my chains
Living in your loving arms
Living in your loving arms again
Living in your loving arms again



I NEVER DREAMED YOU'D LEAVE IN SUMMER

I never dreamed you'd leave in summer
I thought you would go, then come back home
No, I never dreamed you'd leave in summer
And now my quiet nights are spent alone

You said you would be the warmth in springtime
That is when you started to be cold
No, I never dreamed you'd leave in summer
And now I find myself so all alone

You said you would be the warmth in autumn
Said you'd be the one to show the way
No, I never dreamed you'd leave in summer
And now I find my love has gone away
Why didn't you stay



THE MOON'S A HARSH MISTRESS

See her how she flies
Golden sails across the skies
She's close enough to touch
But careful if you try
Though she looks as warm as gold
The moon's a harsh mistress
The moon can be so cold

Once the sun did shine
And Lord it felt so fine
The moon, a phantom moon
Through the mountains and the pines
And then the darkness fell
The moon's a harsh mistress

I fell out of her eyes
I fell out of her heart
I fell down on my face
I tripped and missed my star
Fell and fell alone
The moon's a harsh mistress
The sky is made of stone'
The moon's a harsh mistress
She's hard to call your own



MARIE

You looked like a princess the night we met
With your hair piled up high, I will never forget
I'm drunk right now baby, but I've got to be
Or I never could tell you what you mean to me
I loved you the first time I saw you
Always will love you, Marie
I loved you the first time I saw you
Always will love you, Marie

The song the trees sing when the wind blows
Your flower, your river, your rainbow
Sometimes I'm crazy, but I guess you know
I'm weak and I'm lazy, and I hurt you so
I don't listen to a word you say
When you're in trouble I turn away
But I love you
And I loved you the first time I saw you
Always will love you, Marie
I loved you the first time I saw you
Always will love you, Marie



LINES

Bus line down the centre line took me from the dotted lines that bore my name
Rolling 'cross the border lines looking for a peace of mind that never came
And now, at last I’m free, but there's nobody here
But me to fill my bed, I wish that I had read between the lines

Bread lines and the cheap wines, they're the only lifelines that I have left
No more debts to pay back cause I can't find a way back to save myself
And now, at last I’m free, but there's nobody here but me
Lord, I'm strung out, soaking wet and hung out on the lines

And now at last I’m free, but there's nobody here
But me to fill my bed, I wish that I had read between the lines



INSIDE OF YOU

I have been lonely
Lost and forgotten
Crying at sundown'
Bird in the mountain

The beauty of that freedom
Can't match the beauty
Of what I feel
When I'm inside of you

I've been a young man
Running at day break
Hearing my footsteps
The sound that the wind makes

Prisoner of my past
Held by dreams that never last
I can only be myself
When I'm inside of you

All of the lonely smiles
The broken dreams
The endless miles

All of the days and years
The promises
The held back tears
Disappear

Always on the outside
Never knowing why
Then you let me in your heart
It felt so good to cry
And I feel like I belong
When I'm inside of you

And when I'm long gone
Rolling in darkness
All of my sad songs
Resting in silence
No matter where my soul may be
I will have a memory
Of what it was to be
Inside of you

No matter where my soul may be
I will have a memory
Of what it was to be
Inside of you



WE'RE ALL ALONE

Outside the rain begins and it may never end
So cry no more, on the shore of dreams
Will take us out to sea
Forever more, forever more
Close your eyes and dream, and you can be with me
'Neath the waves, through the caves of ours
Long forgotten now
We're all alone, we're all alone

Close the window, calm the light
And it will be all right
No need to bother now
Let it out, let it all begin
Learn how to pretend

Once a story's told it can't help but grow old
Roses do, lovers too, so cast your seasons to the winds
And hold me dear, oh hold me dear
Close the window, calm the light
And it will be all right
No need to bother now
Let it out, let it all begin
All's forgotten now
We're all alone, we're all alone

Close the window, calm the light
And it will be all right
No need to bother now
Let it out, let it all begin
Throw it to the wind, my love
Hold me dear



BRAND NEW TENNESSEE WALTZ

Oh my, but you have a pretty face
You favour a girl I once knew
I imagine that she's still in Tennessee
And by God I should be there too
I've a sadness too sad to be true

But I left Tennessee in a hurried day
The same way that I'm leaving you
Because love is just mainly memories
And everyone's got them a few
So when I'm gone I'd be glad to love you

At the brand new Tennessee waltz
You're literally waltzing on air
At the brand new Tennessee waltz
There's no telling who will be there

When I leave it'll be like I found you love
Descending Victorian stairs
I'm peeling like one of your photographs
Trapped while I'm putting on airs
And getting even by asking who cares

At the brand new Tennessee waltz
You're literally waltzing on air
At the brand new Tennessee waltz
There's no telling who will be there

So have all of your passionate violins
Play a tune for a Tennessee kid
Who's feeling like leaving another town
With no place to go if he did
Cause they'll catch you wherever you're hid

At the brand new Tennessee waltz
You're literally waltzing on air
At the brand new Tennessee waltz
There's no telling who will be there



DREAMING AS ONE

The morning dove's singing
Her sweet lullaby
Her love is still thinking
Of how he'll reply
As I reach for you
You open your eyes
As if somehow you knew
The need in my life
As you always do
Slowly you come
As, though we sleep as two
We're dreaming as one

The child in his slumber
His world is at rest
I can't help but wonder
Why I am so blessed
As I reach for you
You open your eyes
As if somehow you knew
The need in my life
Love will see us through
The darkness to come
As, though we sleep as two
We're dreaming as one
We're dreaming as one

As I lie with you
Awaiting this day
I give my thoughts to you
I silently pray
That love will see us through
The darkness to come
As we sleep as two
' We're dreaming as one
We're dreaming as one
Dreaming as one



TILL I GAIN CONTROL AGAIN

Just like the sun over the mountaintops
You know I'll always come again
You know I love to spend my morning time
Like sunlight dancing on your skin
I'd never gone so wrong as for telling lies to you
What you see is what I've been
There is nothing I can hide from you
You see me better than I am

Out on the road that lies before me now
There are some turns where I will spin
I only hope that you can hold me now
Till I can gain control again

Just like a lighthouse you must stand alone
And mark a sailor's journey's end
No matter what seas I have been sailing on
I'll always roll this way again

Out on the road that lies before me now
There are some turns where I will spin
I only hope that you can hold me now
Till I can gain control again

I only hope that you can hold me now
Till I can gain control again



BALLAD

All of me wanting you
You're in my life, what can I do
Without your heart glow
The night's so cold and lonely
Your still dreams, waiting time
And if you are, will I find
The all to please you
And to feel you here again

All it seems, is fading fast
Had you in mind, you came at last
And through night sights
Across the half light
Into you



SHUTOUT

Throw off those gimmicks to the boys
Let them send it all up in the air
There is crouching and wailing on stones down here
We must freeze off this ratmosphere
Scraping out noise across nite wires
Runs for the distant cities
There is never a lock in the fall
Down here as the big full pours away

In the shutout
In the shutout
How will we know the great doll

Something attacked the earth last nite
With a kick that man habit eye
Cut the sleep tight boys who dreamed and dreamed
Of a city like the sky
There were faces bobbing in the heat
For some rising from her zone
Moving, hitting, holding on
For the promise to carry us home

In the shutout
In the shutout
Never a lock in the fall

In the shutout
In the shutout
How will we know the great doll



FAT MAMA KICK

Sunfighters
Locked in right angle rooms
Watch their lovers sleep face down
In the yellow lite
Keep the balance on a black curve
Till the war with the nite is over

The gods are gone the air is thick
You cannot risk the fat fat mama kick

Armed angels in the city lites
Wait inside their master corpses
Peeled raw, betrayed
And fade
And fade
As the noise goes over
And over

The gods are gone the searchlites lick
You cannot risk the fat fat mama kick

Deaf dumb blind
Deaf dumb blind
Deaf dumb blind
Deaf dumb blind
Deaf dumb blind
Deaf dumb blind

Sunfighters
Locked in right angle rooms
Burn the heat off with their lovers
In the yellow lite
Keep a balance in a mirror flash
Till the war with the nite is over



NITE FLIGHTS

There's no hold
The moving has come through
The danger brushing you
Turn s its face into the heat
And runs the tunnels

It's so cold
The dark dug up by dogs
The stitches torn and broke
The raw meat fist you choke
Has hit the bloodlite

Glass traps open and close on nite flights
Broken necks
Feather weights press the walls
Be my love
We will be gods on nite flights
Only one promise
Only one way to fall

Glass traps open and close on nite flights
Broken necks
Feather weights press the walls
Be my love
We will be gods on nite flights
Only one promise
Only one way to fall

On the nite flights
On the nite flights
On the nite flights
Only one way to fall

On the nite flights
On the nite flights
On the nite flights
Only one way to fall



THE ELECTRICIAN

Baby it's slow
When lites go low
There's no help no

Baby it's slow
When lites go low
There's no help no

He's drilling thru the spiritus sanctus tonight
Thru the dark hip falls screaming oh you mambos
Kill me and kill me and kill me

If I jerk the handle
You'll die in your dreams
If I jerk the handle
Jerk the handle
You'll thrill me and thrill me and thrill me

Baby it's slow
When lites go low
There's no help no



DEATH OF ROMANCE

Dreams behind the surface
Heat upon the throne
Hold the rolling clouds
Vacuum slow the bone
Bring your many days down forward
Before you wake alone
For one more glance
One more glance
One more glance
At the death of romance

It's a lover's graveyard
We will never walk the same
Sweet suffering comes at dawn
If we only could remain
It was dark before we got there
As we were going down there
For one more chance
One more chance
One more chance
At the death of romance

We've got the perfect seat
The kind of show we love
We watched them pull the triggers
We heard the push and shove
Danced among the swordsmen
Before their strike at dawn
We danced the dance
Danced the dance
Danced the dance
It's the death of romance



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