From the mountain tops down to the sunny street,
A different drum is playing a different kind of beat.
It's like a mystery that never ends,
I see you crying and I want to kill your friends.

I hear your footsteps in the street,
It won't be long before we meet,
It's obvious.
Just count me in and count me out and
I'll be waiting for the shout,
Oblivious...

Met Mo and she's okay, said no one really changed,
Got different badges but they wear them just the same.
But down by the ballroom I recognized that flaming fountain
In those kindred caring eyes.

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I hope it haunts me 'til I'm hopeless,
I hope it hits you when you go,
And sometimes on the edge of sleeping
It rises up to let me know it's not so deep,
I'm not so slow.

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They're calling all the shots, they'll call and say they phoned,
They'll call us lonely when we're really just alone.
And like a funny film, it's kinda cute
They've bought the bullets and there's no one left to shoot.

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I brought you some francs from my travelling chest
You'll space me the thanks 'til you know I'm the best
So come Hogmanay when love comes in slurs
Resolutions I'll make and you can label them "hers"
We threw our hands up high, we nearly touched the sky,
We clicked our heels and spat and swore
We'd never let it die

All those boy wonders
Sold their medals when they saw this train
Now this boy wonders
When he'll feel the fall of honest rain
I came from high land where the hopefuls have to hesitate,
Now this boy wonders
Why the words were never worth the wait.

I'm waiting, waiting,
In pastel paper pink over grey
We wrap, wrap, wrap and chuck, chuck away
The poor excuse they peddle as their prose.

Dry your tears, tie your tongue and you're never sixteen
And I'll give you a glimpse of the hard and the clean
And my travelling chest will be open to you
And boy will you learn that you haven't a clue.

I even asked my best friend but he could not explain
It hit me when I left him
I felt the rain and called it genius,
Called it genius.

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We met in the summer and walked 'til the fall
And breathless we talked, it was tongues.
Despite what they'll say, it wasn't youth, we hit the truth.

Faces of Strummer that fell from you wall
And nothing was left where they hung
So sweet and bitter, they're what we found
So drink them down and

Walk out to winter, swear I'll be there
Chill will wake you, high and dry
You'll wonder why
Walk out to winter, swear I'll be there
Chance is buried just below the blinding snow

You burn in the breadline in ribbons and all,
So walk to winter, you won't be late, she'll always wait.
This generation they'll walk to the wall,
But I'm not angry, get your gear, get out of here and

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Still so, here we go, nighthawk calls again,
Meeting after midnight like we do
Flesh bared, never scared, know their kind too well.
"Grab that Gretsch before the truth hits town",
You whispered to me as they fell.

And when I'm safe and sound with nothing left to send,
The bugle sounds again.

The cards are on the table now, and every other clich
Somehow fits me like a glove.
You know that I'd be loathe to call it love.
For strength will come to tower above
The things that I have learned to love
And just as I'm about to say 'Amen',
The bugle sounds again.

The vampires made a killing,
Filled their pockets up with shillings
Saying 'someone has to pay'
And you were still hiding,
Singing 'come and cry beside me'
So I ran away.

And when I'm safe and sound with nothing left to send,
The bugle sounds again

You said you're free, for me that says it all.
You're free to push me and I'm free to fall
So if we weaken we can call it stress,
You've got my trust I've got your home address.
And not the only chance that we can take,
Is the chance that someone else won't make it all come true.

We're making tracks, they show our touch and go,
But now it's touch and come and you should know,
But then four years won't mean that much to me,
When I've been smothered in the sympathy you bleed.

Just close your eyes again
Until these things get better
You're never far away
But we could send letters

While you were gone I reached another town,
They couldn't help me but they showed me 'round.
And now I've seen what you can't understand,
I'd try to lead you, but I'd crush your hand.

Because the people in the village know, it doesn't matter
Where you choose to go the end's the same.

I found some blood I wasn't meant to find
I found some feelings that we'd left behind
But then some blood won't mean that much to me
When I've been smothered in the sympathy you bleed.

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I found some blood I wasn't meant to find
I found some feelings that we'd left behind
But then some blood won't mean that much to me
When I've been smothered in the sympathy you bleed.

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So you appear and say how I've grown
And fill me up with faces I've known
In this light they're far from divine
I've saved them up, I'll spend them when I have time

The salted tasted of all your tears and woes
Sent me in haste, my melancholy rose.
Those tasteless lips were closed
You watched me come, you'll see me go.

Once I was happy in happy extremes
Packing my bags for the path of the free
From pillar to post I am driven it seems
These bitter tokens are worthless to me.

Just like June the curtains are closed
The ghose of shame he sits here and sighs
I'll love the flames like i loved the cold
I'll learn to love the life of the "could I, could I, could I"

So I don't cross my finers any more
You looked for rags and found them at your door
How could you ask for more
Than everything you've heard before?

Once I was happy in happy extremes
Packing my bags for the path of the free
>From pillar to post I am driven it seems
These bitter tokens are worthless to me

Silver shone the rooftops, I heard the words 'You will'
And realized that in your eyes, the force of love could kill.
So go and get your wages, you get what you deserve,
When hope held out its hand today, you laughed and turned and fled

Release, 'cos I wanted the world, and all I could get to
Was a gun or a girl.
Release, now I've thrown them away,
I'm here and I'm hungry and I hope I can stay.

The loch is overflowing, the sun has shed its light
And all that's left to warm your breasts' the wine we stole tonight,
Bottle merchats bother of us, overdosed on Keats, we smashed them all
And watched them fall like magic in the streets.

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Standing in our new boots, we've lost the urge to hide.
We left it with the souvenirs that forced us to decide
How we'd storm the palace, meet me at the gates,
There's plenty bread and water here for anyone who waits.

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But you can't remember where you squandered your hope
A fistful of dollars and a fistful of dope.
With your hands in your hair and your hair in your face,
You'd better summon your soul because we're leaving this place,
With a red, red flag and a red, red flag
And a red, red flag for a souvenir

I laughed until it got too dark.
Somewhere else her voice will bark
Someone else will be involved.
Someone stronger still.

I'm lost here by myself, and lost outside myself
But we were not to blame, we're not the same.

I get up to get back down,
People's voices seem to drown me out
When I am in two minds.
Who could hide a love so blind?

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I cared for you in our one dream,
A one way rush to what I'd seen.
A desert free from threats, mundane.
A tunnel for our love