Angel When I dream, I get pictures of the world I´ve never seen, Playing parts upon the silver screen, I´m everything my dream wants me to be The picture always ends with you and me There are times, where you need to look a little deeper down inside You might not always like the things you find You may find you´re running out of time, but the truth is always there for you to find There´s an angel, watching over me We´ve got angels, the candle burns and I can see There´s an angel, watching over me When the nightmare comes, when the hounds of hell surround me when the fear comes out, let the devil send his dogs to find me let the nightmare come, let the hounds of hell surround me let the fear come out let the devil send his dogs to find me When I dream, I get pictures of the world I´ve never seen, Playing parts upon the silver screen, I´m everything my dream wants me to be The picture always ends with you and me There´s an angel..... Watching you and me There´s an angel there for you and me
From Glasgow town to London
Down the motorway
There's people standing in the rain
Looking for any way
To take them down to where they're bound
It's a part of another way
It's called the art of survival
In a modern age
Dance before the storm, don't look back to where you've been
The horror's even further as the sands of time run thin
Dance before the storm as the machinery breaks down
Watch the sky go black with anger, but no-one makes a sound
From Albion Hill to the Old Chain Pier
You can hear a person say
"Spare some change for all me pains
The world gas gone astray"
Down the road another flat got burnt
Where a friend of mine once stayed
So another squat in Brighton
Needed to hide another head
So if your head spins round - go underground
Away from the games they play
People down there are trying to care
And let each one have their say
it's not revolution tactics
Or cause for anarchy
Just a natural fight for a natural life
Of which Systems are afraid
And if it all surrounds you
Seems like there's no escape
And there's someone stood in front of you
Saying do it in their way
Turn your eyes towards the tides
See how they never change
The sands of time will break their mime
Like riding on a wave
There's a young boy sniffing glue
Not much else for him to do
He's had a drink he's had a few
Down the pub on Hope Street
Dear old lady, you're looking thin
Got a shopping bag with your life in
Your old man's going through the bins
It's down and outs on Hope Street
Rain on me come pouring down
clean the dirt off this old town
Tell the sun to come around
and show his face on Hope Street
There's a fight right down the street
The betting shop has got him beat
Blew his money for the week
On a horse called Hope Street
The beggars are out in force today
The council face-lifted their hideaway
The kids are getting younger everyday
Standing out on Hope Street.
Rain on me come pouring down...
Everyday I look at you
Dressed up in your ties of blue
Saying there's not much you can do
To help the kids on Hope Street
They don't seem to even care
That it was you that put them there
You seem to think they like it there
Hanging out on Hope Street
Rain on me come pouring down...
Still at the stage of clubs and fists
When that well known face got beaten to bits
Your face was blue in the light of the screen
As we watched the speech of an animal scream
The new party army was marching
Right over our heads
There you are Ha Ha I told you so
Says everybody that we know
But who hid the radio under the stairs
And who got caught out on their unawares
When that new party army
Came marching right up the stairs
When Johnny comes marching home again
Nobody understands this can happen again
The sun is shining and the kids are shouting loud
But you've got to know it's shining
Through a crack in the cloud
And the shadows keep on falling
When Johnny comes marching home
All the girls go oh
Get his coffin ready
Cos Johnny's coming home
I turn on the radio
And someone's playing a song
I turn on the news
Hear what's going on
I turn on my back
When I'm full of beer
And I turn off the news
When I don't want to hear
And I've seen a girl who looks so very sad
Nothing left but a memory of all the times she's had
And I've seen a man who looks so sad inside
Nothing left but the memories from which he cannot hide
So I learned to fight
With a Weapon Called The Word
And I learned to raise my voice
So that I'd be heard
And I learned to fight
With a weapon called the word
And I learned to raise my voice
But I've never been heard
I look out to the rolling sea
But there'll be no easy ride
It's enough to break your mind and will
These many times we've tried
We cried together but we fought
We staked all to be free
For the lowlands of Holland
Have claimed my destiny
So you feel the wind in your hair
As we leave the old country
With seven score friends by our side
To keep us company
Cos there's many more we've left behind
And some we'll never see
Cos the lowlands of Holland
Have claimed my destiny
I always hope this place might stay the same
But you reached the point of no return again
Another face is being burnt and raped
For a moment away
Well it's the price you say
That we all have to pay
For a minute's say
I just can't believe
It's really worth the bloody grief
With the money that you save
You just take a life away
The blood you steal
From all the people that you fear
I know that it's so
If you got a job, where they treat you like a slave
Where they treat you like a zombie
In a corporate grave
If you work in the office, making tea for the bosses
While they're getting richer on the ten times you pay
They may think you're stupid but you're working undercover
You've got the potential to disobey
SUBVERT
If you got a job, cos there's nothing else to do
Where they thin they've got you trapped
In the box that they choose
If you got a job, you can be an agent
If you work in the office you can redistribute food
If you are a policeman ordered to arrest me
You don't have to do it, you can refuse
SUBVERT
The devil went down to Georgia
He was looking for a soul to steal
And he was in a bind
'Cause he was way behind
And was willin' to make a deal
When he came upon a boy playing on a fiddle
and playin' it hot
And the devil jumped up on a hickory stump and said,
"Boy let me tell you what:
I bet you didn't know it
but I'm a fiddle player too,
And if you care to take a dare
I'll make a bet with you
Now you play a pretty good fiddle boy
But give the devil his due
I'll bet a fiddle of gold against your soul
'Cause I think I'm better than you."
The boy said, "My name's Johnny
And it might be a sin
But I'll take your bet, your gonna regret
'Cause I'm the best that's ever been."
Johnny rosin up your bow and play your fiddle hard
'Cause hell's broke loose in Georgia
And the devil deals the cards
And if you win you get this shiny fiddle made of gold
But if you lose the devil gets your soul.
The devil opened up his case and he said,
"I'll start this show."
And fire flew from his fingertips
As he rosined up his bow
And he pulled the bow across the strings
And it made an evil hiss
Then a band of demons joined in
And it sounded something like this
When the devil finished Johnny said,
"Well you're pretty good ol' son!
But sit down in that chair right there
And let me show you how it's done!"
And i bet you've never
Been south of the river
Down the old kent road or down
Southwark way
I bet you've never never seen them
Lying in the litter
In the cardboard boxes
Where you make them stay
In the docklands of east london
Where those great tall ships once sailed
Of a price of couple of hundred thousand
I have seen your condominiums for sale
In the north by the archway tavern
You can see them lying there every day
And they're drunk and they scream their minds to the heaven
Dear lord why did it have to be this way
Chorus 2
I worked some time i paid my taxes
I lined your pockets with my pay
You said you'd take my money
You said you'd help them
But in your pockets it just seems to stay
And i've seen your fancy house in richmond
And where you moor your boat down kingston way
In the weekend you take your wife out sailing
Try taking her down south london some day
Chorus 3
+ In the cardboard boxes where they have to stay
Another communication
That will bring you to your knees
The genocidal maniacs
They're doing just what they please
We've gotta move these mountains
´Couse they're standing in the way
If it's in the name of progress oh yeah
We can make it pay for our
Social insecurity
They'll try to take my history
Away from me
Social insecurity don't look at me
They'll try to take my life
Well it never seems so tragic now
As the dawn breaks into day
But they're staring at the tower block
Where the green field once laid
All the mighty rivers are full of
Factory decay
Is this just some small price that you have
Learned to pay for your
Social insecurity
They'll try to take my history
Away from me
Social insecurity don't look at me
They'll try to take my life
This is your democracy
This is your bureaucracy
Well i call it damned hypocrisy
If you'll ask me
I´ll tell you ´bout your life
Love
Sometimes easy sometimes strange
Like the pictures that you paint
Sometimes clear and sometimes grey
Love is like a book
With your writing on the page
But the words you want to write
Not the words you wanna say
You wanna stand on the roof
You wannit all too soon
You must give it all away
It's the price that you must pay
Time
Time just drifts away
Like the ending of a life
Like the parting of the waves
Oh time
Time will never wait
Like the lovesong in my head
It can't be there to stay
You wanna stand on the roof
You wannit all to soon
You must give it all away
It's the price that you must pay..
When you dance with the devil
You can run but you can't hide
You can only raise the stakes
To stem the tide
Sara's beach
On sara's beach
Sara's beach
On Sara's beach
Flames
Turn into embers
If you damp them down
If you damp them down
And pain
Is all i have to remember
When you don't make a sound
No not a sound
When you cast the stone
To catch the seventh wave
You were trying to catch
The best of these last days
You can dance with the devil
You can run but you can't hide
You can only raise the stakes
To stem the tide
On Sara's beach
Sara's beach
On Sara's beach
Sara's beach
Plastic jeezus plastic jeezus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
I'm afraid he'll have to go
He clashes with my radio
Plastic jeezus you won't get me far
I don't want kisses and i don't want hugs
Just want lots of sex and drugs
Knowing you wont get me far
Don't like walking don't like strolling
Just like good old rock and rolling
Plastic jeezus you don't get me far
Plastic jeezus plastic jeezus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
I'm afraid he'll have to go
He clashes with my radio
Plastic jeezus you don't get me far
Here beyond the wire they turn the water black
The men around are paid a weekly wage
Just to turn you back
Oh how they keep their petty kingdoms well in view
Outside in the distance i hear something coming through
Oh i say
Outside in the distance there is something coming through
Outside in the distance where those searchlights don't go
There's an immigrant who´s crouching with a bundle of his clothes
The bushes start a rustling so he takes to his toes
Just singing "this is the last of my shows"
Cross-roads is no cross-roads when there's but one route to take
Your fantasy of liberty is a red sign on the gate
I think these things as i walk along a tree lined avenue
Outside in the distance i hear something coming through
Oh i say outside in the distance there is something coming through
Outside in the distance where those searchlights don't go
There's an immigrant who´s crouching with a bundle of his clothes
The bushes start a rustling so he takes to his toes
Just singing "this is the last of my shows"
Do you ever think that we might be the same, Or do you see the world in such a different way? It seems that parties, raves and lazy summer days are now a crime. And if you're old or young, just wanna have a little fun, then you're outta line. So tell me once again the real cause of all this pain, Weren't you once young before, Didn't you try to change the score? I can't believe it was so many years ago, Have you forgotten how it feels to run naked in the fields? Oh, I hope it's not so. I always hope this place might stay the same, But you've reached the point of no return again. Another age old face is being burnt and raped for a motorway. Well it's the price, you say, that we all have to pay for a minute's say. I just can't believe it's really worth the bloody grief, With the money that you save, you just take a life away. The blood you steal from all these people that you fear, You're using it to pay for the fuck-ups that you made, Oh, I know that it's so.
This place, it looks familiar, they always are, Came here again to meet ya, my guiding star. What's that, can I hear ya talking? What's that ya say? "Every cloud has a silver lining, come what may"? And I love it when you whisper to me: "There's always a promise in the dream that you think, There's always a promise in this last drink." (this last drink) We've met in so many places, we've always danced, There at every morning and then left in a trance. You know, if we keep on meeting, you'll take my soul, Let's make this our last greeting, cos I must go. But I love it when you whisper to me: "There's always a promise in the dream that you think, There's always a promise in this last drink." (this last drink) This time I really mean it, it's over now, Last night we both went too far, you know how. Today I'm left staring at a thousand yards, Today, I know your promise is a house of cards. But I love it when you whisper to me: "There's always a promise in the dream that you think, There's always a promise in this last drink." There's always a promise in the dream that you think, There's always a promise in this last drink. (this last drink)
There, I'm standing close to you, can even see your eyes. Some are blind, but some see through, and never wonder why. And I've been told that's the way to go, you've been told not to let go, Hello, I say, Hello, I say, Hello, I say, I do believe I know you.
D'ya fancy a drink, just the one, to clear your head, it won't be long, It's a beautiful day to waste away, there's plenty of time for another one. You know you shouldn't do it, but can't see no reason why, so you blow your mind Yeah, yeah, ah, ha. Make mine a short, I'm getting there, but where it is I couldn't care, There must be something I haven't tried, perhaps that bottle before my eyes. You know you shouldn't do it, but can't see no reason why, so you blow your mind Yeah, yeah, ah, ha. Through the haze the sun goes down, it's getting late, let's hit the town, Call some friends to paint it red, feed the animal in your head. You know you shouldn't do it, but can't see no reason why, so you blow your mind Yeah, yeah, ah, ha. They throw you out, you hit the night, go to a club, you feel alright, You get a pill, take just half, then take the rest of it for a laugh. You know you shouldn't do it, but can't see no reason why, so you blow your mind Yeah, yeah, ah, ha. Across the floor, you think you see, the one in your dreams, your fantasy, But that last drink has made you blind, You need the bar but it's hard to find. You know you shouldn't do it, but can't see no reason why, so you blow your mind Yeah, yeah, ah, ha. There's a brand new game and you want to try, it's called line 'em up and it's the first to die, You think you've won but it's time to leave, go back to yours for a cup of tea. You know you shouldn't do it, but can't see no reason why, so you blow your mind Yeah, yeah, ah, ha. When you find your keys you stumble in, then spend an hour in search of skins, When all is lost and looking grim, you find the bottle of christmas gin. You know you shouldn't do it, but can't see no reason why, so you blow your mind Yeah, yeah, ah, ha. The rest is blank and that's the worst, an empty head for an empty purse, You had a laugh, or so you think, but in the morning you just stink. You know you shouldn't do it, but can see no reason why, so you blow your mind Yeah, yeah, ah, ha. D'ya fancy a drink, just the one, to clear your head, it won't be long.
When our Mave and I was married, tried to settle down, And all we need's half a million quid for to buy a two up and two down. We were on the council waiting list, number six thousand and five, We're due for a house in 2001, that's assuming we're both still alive. Chorus: Where the hell are we gonna live, where the hell are we gonna live? Some miserable mansion up in the sky, walking around in a block a mile high, Tellin' my friends that I'd much rather die, where the hell are we gonna live? Well, it's all a bleedin' fiddle, forgive me for bein' so rude. I know we could save for the mortgage right now, if the two of us stopped eating food. Where the hell do our kids play, where the hell do our kids play? No ball game allowed, stay off of the grass, Keep out of the way, don't block up the path, Shove all your plans right up your *, Chorus... They're building battery farms for humans, where houses stood before. Where there used to be just one family, now they're tryin' to keep 24. There's no shops, playgrounds, no boozers, in the architects' great plan. You may wanna live like a chicken, my friend, but I wanna live like a man. Chorus x2: Where the hell are we gonna live, where the hell are we s'posed to live? Some miserable mansion up in the sky, walking around in a block a mile high, Telling my friends that I'd much rather die, where the hell are we gonna live?
I been runnin', police on my back, I been hidin', police on my back, Another shootin', police on my back, I know the victim, but he can't come back, Chorus: I been runnin' monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday, sunday Runnin' monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday, sunday, What have I done, what have I done? I went flyin' down the railway track, won't you help me, police on my back, They're gonna shoot me if I dare turn back, won't you give me all the speed I lack, Chorus... I been runnin', police on my back, I been hidin', police on my back, They're gonna shoot me, police on my back, They're gonna shoot you, police on your back, Chorus...
Woke up this morning skin and bone
they´d always thought I´d be young
sat through the night someone spoke
seams so real when you see them
And if you feel that its too much
you´re alive, you´re alive
and when you know that thats enough
you´re alive
Next to the chapel penniless
they´re always there every year to see them
got out the door, asked no more
see for yourself before you see him
And if you feel...
>And if you feel...
Woke up this morning...
Come on then boys lets have us a
drink
is there one there for me? is the cry
I´m sorry about me I´m sorry about me mates
do you think we will last out the night
weve had a slack hand Danny boys down a grand
we´re having it down his ouse tonight
its getting harder to see maybe another dream
spiders will do me right
And we´re having it round your
ouse
there I´ve said it its out
well we know that you´ll be about
cos we´re aving it round your ouse
All I remember was we were a sight
to be seen
I´ll remember for the rest of my life
we had everyone there who had the bus fare
but when they were gone we carried on
and raised out the shout of masai
And we´re having it round your ouse...
As well as our crew we had justice
too
the drivers were flying by nite
compulsion arrived to drink ripple wine
and soon we were messy as shite
and midnight express was looking its best
with none what was left came home for a rest
to have it round our ouse as well
And we´re having it round your ouse...
Don´t fall out of temptation
drinking for the nation
is getting you down
cos it takes a lot of work
filling up your belly
and eating dirt
it takes a lot of cash and lot of lies
just to get this trashed.
But its easier than paying
your tax straight to the man
its easier than paying
your tax straight to the man...
Dont fall out of temptation
drinking for the nation
is dragging you down
your country needs you dont deny it
drinking all you can
just dont get high
and if you dont feel it start to hurt
just buy another say "lets get worse"
But its easier than paying...
Dont fall out of temptation
drinking for the nation
is getting you down
cos everything you have to spend
goes to defend the ones you love
no its not money down the drain
yore "playing the game" its hand in glove
But its easier than paying...
Well dont ever think that drinking gets you down...
Everybody knows the story
they´ve got the details what the score is
but if you want the truth girl you may need more than a day
you need to move just a little closer
these walls have ears if you did´nt know girl
theres certain things that you need to know
before you go on your way
it seems the world is a little busy
selling lies on for a living
that in a blinking of an eye the truth has slipped away
and the writings on the wall to see
It lives on even though you think
its dead and gone
the legacy love leaves behinds was never easy never kind
It lives on even though you think its dead and gone
the legacy love leaves behinds was never one to mind
Moving on to the next instalment
(in) case the bar room jury dies of boredom
the vultures are waiting for the next meal of the day
another tale that´s sad and sorry and another love that went so
wrong
and all the inside guts and glory that pushed it all along
its hard to find the word to say
you just let the days go by, come what may
all the things that we should have done just happened anyway
and the writing written on the wall for everyone to see
It lives on even though you think...
It lives on even though you think...
Well a wise man sees
and a poor man cries
and the rest of us
well we live our million lives
so you might be a joker
you might be a saint
I don´t know, who´s the one that aint?
Peter was a good man
some say stonger than the rest
I´m sure no weak man cause he passed the acid test
but their eyes did see
and the poor man cried
lord knows I´ve seen it all before
You might be a rich man or the poor
man at his gate
you could be so ordered in your financial astate
but your eyes still sea and the poor still cry
lord knows I´ve see it all before
Don´t you dare go drowning in that
sea of pain
don´t you dare go drowning for I´ll pull out again
don´t you dare go drowning in that sea of pain
lord knows I´ve seen it all before
See a wise man sees and the poor
still cry
and the rest of us well we live our million live
and you could be a joker, you could be a saint
I don´t know, I´m the one who ain´t
You can be the rich man or the poor
man at his gate
you might feel so ordered as you fill your mind with hate
but the wise man sees and the poor still cry
lord knows I´ve see it all before
Don´t you dare go drowning...
Don't move too fast you might end up in the gutter
Your feet are steel but your footprints are butter
Well I swore from the day that I was twenty two
That I'd never drink another can of special brew
Well there's really no need to make a fuss
There's really no need cos we're all Bozos on this bus
My best friend lent me his brand new car
So I drove it through the window of a burger bar
Well heavy on the ketchup with your foot down on the floor
& the devil's got the Mayo and he's heading for the door
My heart starts thumping & my blood pressure's high
I'm sleeping in the garage 'cos my bedroom's a pig sty
Well heavy on the metal with my foot down on the floor
& your mother's got your breakfast & she's waiting at the garage floor
Chorus:
Have you seen my wife, Mr Jones?
Do you know what it's like on the outside?
Don't be talking too loud you'll cause a landslide
Mr Jones
I keep straining my ears to hear a sound
Maybe someone is digging underground
Or have they given up, and all gone home to bed
Thinking those who once existed must be dead.
Chorus
In the event of something happening to me
There is something I would like you all to see
It's just a photograph of someone that I used to know
Chorus
That ain't no place for me
Boss man, leave me be
Wind & rain are blowing
Mountain skies showing
The bee, the flower.. growing
Boy and Girl are rowing
That ain't no place for me
Boss man, leave me be
x2
Men inside are going
Bustling bone showing
There's one thing sure I'm knowing
You got to get the fire blowing
That ain't no place for me
Boss man, leave me be
No, that ain't no place for me
Boss man, leave me be
Chorus:
So baby don't you grieve after me
No no no, don't you grieve after me
x2
Baby you don't grieve for me when I'm here
Don't grieve for me when I'm gone.
Chorus
It was two hours gone midnight
When he called me to his side
He said, hey Jude, I need you boy,
I need you to take a ride.
I want you to tell those guys down town
My time's almost due
But wait a minute Jude don't stick around
'Cos no body's gonna kiss you
Chorus
Now you've got all the silver
But no forgivness in your heart
And I've got 20 feet of rope
To end just where? Your gessing game starts.
I've got endless books to write you
But my tale I cannot tell
The only way you're living is
If you're living in St Hell.
Chorus
Windows On the day that we first met, I knew we were golden We were tired of the broken windows This world´s left you, it´s broken too, and I feel broken The man with the broken window No, I will reach into the sky No I don´t know the reasons why Cut the tree to steal the branch, all for a chance To mend the broken windows Tear the earth to make the glass, all for a chance To mend the broken windows Break the glass to tear the sky, ah, don´t ask me why We broke all of the windows We broke another window