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THE FIXX - CALM ANIMALS
1988
03:19 I'm Life
03:59 Driven Out
03:46 Subterranean
03:11 Precious Stone
04:02 Gypsy Feet
04:14 Calm Animals
03:42 Shred of Evidence
03:02 The Flow
04:39 World Weary
03:46 Cause to be Alarmed
I'm life watching I think I can
measure the flow I could swim that river
I'm fast breeding I think I have
no cruise control I can't stop the spiral
I'm life...
I'm sand, wave blown in the air
I come down in raindrop
time passing I think I know we'll meet again
we can climb the mountain
I'm life...
Driven out by thieves,
I watch them pillage the planet
fuelled by a fattening greed,
trees fall to the hatchet
chopping against the grain,
our spirits in a vacuum
sadly ignore the pain,
the end arrives, we all lose
I hope it comes around
Driven out
holding out
day by day survival
Castaways have silent lives
with the strength to rival you
Driving in my car
I used to be able to walk this far
now I turn on the light.
I used to be able to sleep at night
I'm cooking with microwaves
to warm up food not seen the soil
plugged into my TV
used to the lies they're telling me
I hope it comes around
driven out...
Hoping that we find,
more to life than meets the eye
can we escape the grind,
build a life that's more worthwhile
be rid of this empty p ride,
full of selfishness inside
bathe in a turning tide,
until then we all hide
I hope it comes around
driven out
There's a clash of tunnel vision
work and play, live and die in corridors
people turning subterranean
and digging in for the fall
there's a flag arms to call a nation
make the break from school to dole queue
people turning radioactive
beep beep the sensor beeps it out. come on
Let's escape this cold world comfort
make the break, I'll meet you on the surface
There's a mood but no legislation
no guarantee it's a tabloid reality
people making good connections
write, write, write... It up for us all
Let's escape this cold war comfort
make the break. I'll meet you on the surface
I danced in the surf
at the edge of an ocean
could have been someone else
could have been anything at all
don't deny that you ask yourself
how do you weigh in
this precious stone?
I stumbled on a flaw in the order
unwrapped the gift and spread
the sheet to the border
there's no virtue if there's no sin
how do you weigh in
this precious stone
at the point of no return?
At the end of the day
there's no me without you
at the end of the day
there's no me without you
how do you weigh in
this precious stone?
I'm a tick in the clock
of old father time
feel the beat to the rock
under the palm of of my hand
don't deny that you ask yourself
how do you weigh in
this precious stone?
we're at the point of no return
Land to land
from sea to shining sea
a dream's a dream
no matter where you stand
heart to heart
your urge is pulling me
search we search
with your night light calling
Play hide and seek with me.
go dancing, following
go to the peak with me,
aspiring, climbing
to your sweet retreat
Scene to scene
we cast a sexual eye
and then life unites
we're undercover
Play hide and seek with me
go dancing, following
go to the peak with me,
aspiring, lying
at your gypsy feet
Calm animals expect nothing
live suspicious to balance out
the effect of reason on their sunrise
there's a moving hide
calm animals with no shackles
free on a shrinking plain
so presented, it's economics
small wonder the pastures die
calm calm calm calm animals
free on a shrinking plain
calm calm calm
adventures to roam alone
So civilized the code stifles
a race with gestures has lost its way
the chance was given to think social
but we choke on greed and excess
Going by going by
just for politics we live the lie
you cry, we cry
part of history will wonder why
Turn your eyes to the page
read about the living age
polish up your crystal ball
check the night before it falls
Let it go
Please beware of nature's witch
picks her berries from your ditch
and you'll be gone
turn you into orobas
turn you in, not one of us
and you'll have words to say about that
Let it go
(shredded evidence)
*Not so much as a word
not so much as a clue
not so much as a trace
disappear into the blue
Hell appears your living end
where you're left you will suspend
and you just dangle
they boil the fat, we chew the weed
they make the facts, we can't succeed
without a little trick up your sleeve
Let it go
*Not so much...
Turn your eyes to this bed/let it go
turn your eyes for me she said/let it go
clear your mind of other thoughts/let it go
take my hand you astronaut/let it go
*Not so much...
When a dream survives the longest night
and the vision takes a hold
when a breath inspires it's a sign of life
you're the string and I'm the bow
Jump in the flow
just get carried by the flow
Where the bank defines the water's edge
the river in my spine
as we circulate maybe we shall collide
you're the space and I am the time
Jump in the flow
we get carried by the flow
Through a sleep I ride
feel like a night that shines
with a memory of long ago
we drank to them
said goodbye as friends
we survive, we survive it so
Back in the flow
carried by the flow
just look how far you've been
look how far you've come
all the things you've achieved
don't try and find any reason get carried by it
jump in the flow
World weary
is there a dream in your heart?
world weary
take it back to the start
little lacklustre
the nut's in your hand
little boy hopeful
don't plant in the sand
And you will see
hearts are pumping for you
and you will find
there's a vessel for you
and you will grow,
roots are searching for you
there must be a reason for it.
reason for it all
Little partaker
there's a role you must play
little facemaker
smile in your day
world weary
write your name in the stars
world weary
you are back at the start
A little kid goes from
size one to size two
still we have same job
what is it that we do
all the change that's going on
in that tiny mind
still we're indecisive,
still we're wasting time
and there's cause, cause,
cause to be alarmed
who feeds the dove
who gives the world its charm
cause, cause, cause to be alarmed
we are pumped up fantasies
until the world's disarmed
a little hungry face
deserved more than roots to chew
they will erupt "enough's enough"
they'll lay the blame on you
and these perceiving minds observe
to count the final score
no treasure chest, to reinvest
just a bunch of whores
and there is cause, cause,
cause to be alarmed
no making love
until the world's disarmed
cause, cause, cause to be alarmed
a frigid little fantasy
until the world's disarmed
fly bird high bird
a love bird got shot
heard the lead bird's a dead bird
a new mind goes from birth,
to full view to old fool
still we have the same face
just what do we achieve?
all these minds that think alike
do damage to the strain
where we stand the very spot
we will not stand again
and there is cause, cause,
cause to be alarmed
who feeds the dove
who gives the world its charm
cause, cause, cause to be alarmed
we are pumped up fantasies
until the world is disarmed
fly bird high bird
go see bird and tell bird
that a love bird got shot,
heard the lead bird's a dead bird