China Crisis - Working With Fire and Steel

Working with Fire and Steel
When the Piper Calls
Hanna Hanna
Animals in Jungles
Here Come a Raincloud
Wishful Thinking
Tragedy and Mystery
Papua
The Gates of Door to Door
The Soul Awakening

Working With Fire and Steel

I could never keep a beat
too busy in my paradise
put a crocodile in high office
and something out of place inside

When all is said and all is done
my hands that work with a fire and steel

Chorus:
Fashion play your part
to be workers of red
fashion play your part
to be workers

While all the time you dance around
and things get fucked and we're to blame
and I couldn't think political blue

When all is said and all is done
my hands that work with a fire and steel

(chorus)

When all is said and all is done
my hands that work with a fire and steel
and motionless we'll slip away
images are my thoughts too real

When the Piper Calls

Water drenched people
take me in from the rain
to a warm kind of heaven
where it's shining again

I've seen some faces
some old and some grey
but just like water
I let them slip away

Chorus 1:
And if I tumble
and if I tumble

Chorus 2:
When morning comes
I harvest my thoughts
they spread like plague
I hear them call

The bread in our mouths
the dirt on our hands
when she calls

(chorus 1)

I found a silent dream
and heald it for a day
but just like water
I let it slip away

(chorus 2)

Hanna Hanna

Hanna Hanna, she sing
mixed emotion and a garden strange
Hanna Hanna, she sing

Chorus:
We're living on a catwalk, catwalk
and swimming with the sharks

Tape record her and telephone
conversations in pyramids alone
Why should I stop to think what they're about
why should I stop, stop to think what they're about

(chorus)

biting into poison, poison
in a city all full of fucking sharks

She sing
a guitar plays
in a garden strange

Hanna Hanna, she dream
mixed emotion and a garden strange
she never there, she never there
Hanna Hanna, she dream

Animals in Jungles

Rattlesnakes into water
and when they bite, bite I bleed
we're animals in jungles
we're animals

Chorus 1:
I could go, I could go swimming
I nearly had
I nearly had a goodtime

Chorus 2:
I could go, I could go swimming
I nearly had
I nearly had a goodtime
I nearly had her

Tropical freedom, my heaven explained
and dolphin love, the ocean wave
we're animals in jungles
we're animals

(chorus 1)

(chorus 2)

Summer lawn
and party fun in high rise flats
we're animals in jungles
we're animals

Here Come a Raincloud

Watching the raincloud
take over me
watching my people
what do I see
nothing but hardship
the poorer we are
we're living in danger
of going to far

So here I am
can you understand
so much to live for
in so little time

So many places
all I have seen
watching the sunrise
they dream and they dream

Watching the raincloud
take over me
watching the sunset
the end of a dream

Wishful Thinking

It's time we should talk about it
there's no secrets kept in here
forgive me for asking
now wipe away your tears

And if I wish to stop it all
and if I wish to comfort the fall
it's just wishful thinking

I sat on the roof
and watched the day go by
I see the likeness in his smile
and the way he stands
makes it all worth while

Tragedy and Mystery

Winter displayed in a snow white haze
fires burning brightly in the night

Tragedy and mystery
open your mind and you will see

From waterfalls I hear romantic calls
feather in a ray of sunlight

Tragedy and mystery
open your mind and you will see

Your world is changing though you cannot see
and there's no room for secrecy
your world is changing faster everyday
and there's no truth in what they say

Two by two
my heaven made blue
life in a world of love and truth

Tragedy and mystery
open your mind and you will see

Papua

In another time in another place
carry the flag a picture of disgrace
south pacific soldier mountain-moving men

Chorus:
Children turn away
just before the blast
falling to the floor
and praying for the last time

Time to remember and lay another wreath
blowing down kisses to my lover dead beneath
south pacific sailor movie-making men

(chorus)

High above the church tower paint my house black
move out to the country and never lookin back
south pacific soldier mountain-moving men

The Gates of Door to Door

She, sleep, dreams of childhood
waiting in the fields
first love kept secret
hide behind the tree

She dreams of childhood
and I dream of her

She, sleep, dreams of leaving
drives past her friends
the rain fell so heavy
she could not see me there

She dreams of leaving
and I dream of her

The Soul Awakening

Faster than a falling star
ever so close and yet so far
and I believe in everything
and I believe in everyone

Chorus:
Under the weather
we should be over the moon
the soul awakening

Forest hillor mountain grey
dreamy weather to make you stay
and I believe in everything
and I believe in everyone

(chorus)

Firelight, this promised land
golden beach and yellow sand
and I believe in everything
and I believe in everyone


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