1. THE GAME

A sense of duty was my one intention
And an ugly beauty was my own invention
Pride, a proud refusal
And I refuse to need your approval
Too many seekers, too few beacons
But through the fog we'll keep on beaming
Through the crying hours of your glitter years
All the living out of your tinsel tears
And the midnight trains I never made
'Cos I'd already played the game

Everybody's got their own good reason
Why their favorite season is their favorite season
Winter winners and those summer suns
Aren't good for everyone, aren't good for everyone
Spring has sprung and autumn's so well done
So well done

And it's a better thing that we do now
Forgetting everything, the whys and hows
While you reminisce
About the things you miss
You won't be ready to kiss
Goodbye

The Earth is a world
The world is a ball
A ball in a game
With no rules at all
And just as I wonder
At the beauty of it all
You go and drop it
And it breaks when it falls

I'll never understand why you thought I would
Need to be reassured and be understood
When I always knew that your bad's my good
And I was ready
Ready to be loved

Born under Mars
With Jupiter rising
Fallen from stars
That lit my horizon

I'll never understand why you thought I would
Need to be reassured and understood
When I always knew that your bad's my good
And I was ready
To be

Through the crying hours of your glitter years
All the living out of your tinsel tears
And the midnight trains I never made
'Cos I'd already played

It's a better thing that we do now
Forgetting everything
The whys and hows
'Cos while you reminisce
About the things you miss
You won't be ready to kiss
Goodbye


2. OVER YOU

Jump right in
Take the call
Were you pushed or did you fall?
Fell apart
Feeling low
Happy ride, the merry-go

And I always hear them singing
And complaining about the world
And my chiming bells are ringing out
The word, the word, the word

Love rebounds
Heart goes snap
Is she ever coming back?
Let her down
Break her fall
Never ever felt so small

And I always hear them singing
And complaining about the world
But my chiming bells are ringing out
The word, the word, the word

Feeling good again
Always hoped I would
Never believed that I ever could
Feeling blue again
Never wanted to
Under the weather
And it's over you

When there's a hole in the holy
And a crack our hearts
It's love and love only
That sets our world apart
Worlds apart
Joined at the heart

Jump right in
Take the call
Were you pushed or did you fall?
Fell apart
Feeling low
Happy ride, the merry-go

And I always hear them singing
And complaining about the world
And my chiming bells are ringing out
The word, the word, the word

Feeling good again
Always hoped I would
Never believed that I ever could
Feeling blue again
Never wanted to
Under the weather
And it's over you

And a dream is a means to the end of the things
That will tempt you away
From the path to the true way


3. BEDBUGS AND BALLYHOO

Buffalo and bison
Bison and buffalo
Cannonball and rifle
Rifle and cannonball
That's the way the thunder rumbles
That's the way the thunder rumbles
Rumbles

Down on your knees again
Saying please again
Yeah yeah yeah

Kangaroos and chipmunks
Chipmunks and kangaroos
Ballyhoo and bedbugs
Bedbugs and ballyhoo
That's the way the bee bumbles
That's the way the bee bumbles...
Bumbles

Down on your knees again
Saying please again
No no no

Buffalo and bison
Bison and buffalo
Cannonball and rifle
Rifle and cannonball
That's the way the thunder rumbles
That's the way the thunder rumbles
Rumbles


4. ALL IN YOUR MIND

You say you're proud to be one of the people
Hands on the money and your feet on the ground
Shouting out loud from the top of the steeple
Counting the flock while collecting their pounds
All you thieving wheeler dealers in the healing zone
Giving me fever fever fever fever
Down to my bones

I pray
And nothing happens
Jesus
It's all in my mind
You say
Stop looking for answers
And reasons
They're all in your mind
All in your mind

Covered in flies and smothered in lava
I can't scratch my itches with these pumice stone hands
I dream of my days as a desert farmer
Living my life on the fat of the sand
All you thieving wheeler-dealers in the healing zone
Giving me fever fever fever fever
Down to my bones

I pray
And nothing happens
Jesus
It's all in my mind
You say
Stop looking for answers
And reasons
They're all in your mind
All in your mind

Stuck in a world losing its way and wonder
I wonder what happened to the world we knew
Splitting the atom and feeling it's thunder
Could never ever make me feel the way you do
You give me fever fever fever fever
Down to my bones
Wheel me wheel me wheel me
To the healing zone

I pray
And nothing happens
Jesus
It's all in my mind
You say
Stop looking for answers
And reasons
They're all in your mind
All in your mind


5. BOMBERS BAY

The word went 'round in no-dream town
They shut us up and shutters down
The planes flew in
And laid the ground
We built upon
And spun around
God's one miracle
Lost in circles

On the march
Berlin to Bomber's Bay
Traveling dark
On the road to Mandalay

Cannon fire came to call
Stood us up and watched us fall
The way we were
And now outworn
Our costumes changed to uniforms
Black black days
Here to stay

On the march
Madrid to Bomber's Bay
Traveling dark
On the road to Mandalay

Pack up your troubles and you'll all get by
Smile boys, that's the style
Pack up your troubles and you'll all get by
Smile...

They give us hope and teach us well
With magic moons that cast a spell
And hypnotise, and draw us in
I believe
I'm believing
God's one miracle
Moves in circles

On the march
Berlin to Bombers Bay
Traveling dark
On the road to Mandalay

Black black days
Where the flying fishes play


6. LIPS LIKE SUGAR

She floats like a swan
Grace on the water
Lips like sugar
Lips like sugar
Just when you think you've caught her
She glides across the water
She calls for you tonight
To share her moonlight

You'll flow down her river
She'll ask and you'll give her
Lips like sugar
Sugar kisses
Lips like sugar
Sugar kisses

She knows what she knows
I know what she's thinking
Sugar kisses
Sugar kisses
Just when you think she's yours
She's flown to other shores
To laugh at how you break
And melt into her lake

You'll flow down her river
But you'll never give her
Lips like sugar
Sugar kisses
Lips like sugar
Sugar kisses

She'll be my mirror
Reflect what I am
A loser and winner
The king of Siam I am
And my Siamese twin
Alone on the river
Mirror kisses
Mirror kisses

Lips like sugar
Sugar kisses
Lips like sugar
Sugar kisses


7. LOST AND FOUND

I was standing in a graveyard
Under silver studded skies
In a forest burning ashes
On the bonfires of our lives

As the sky fell down
I was lost and found
Saw my world spin 'round
'Round and 'round

All the ghosts have gathered 'round me
Come to tell me of a change
In the darkness that surrounds me
I am falling down again

On this haunted ground
I was lost and found

Lost
Lost and found...

She will tell you her cathedral
Has no windows and no doors
And you know she doesn't need you
And that's why you want her more

As your heart melts down
You are lost not found

Lost
Lost and found...

I was counting all the tombstones
Of the buried boys and girls
As the wind blew in like ice
And froze this cemetery world

And we all fell down
We were lost and found
And the sun went down
We were lost and found

Lost
Lost and found


8. NEW DIRECTION

Out on a limb
Did you see what the cat dragged in?
Take it on the chin
Catching fire on a roof of tin

You've learned to speak and you're professing
The right to teach us our direction
But I found out on close inspection
True imperfection

I'm looking for a new direction
Where in the world am I?
I took the word, the word was resurrection
And then you took me out to climb

Higher and higher...
Kissing the spires
Higher and higher...
Soul's on fire

Inside of my head
I heard what the good lord said
Beware he said
If you don't you might end up dead
You suck the air right out of me
But though you suck you cannot see
That life and living is not free
Though you live, you do not breathe

I'm looking for a new direction
Where in the world am I?
I took the word, the word was resurrection
And then you took me out to climb

Higher and higher...
Kissing the spires
Higher and higher...
Soul's on fire

I have changed but still my heart remains intact
And true love stays but will our hearts retain their lack of
No sense and no direction
Who in the world am I?
I took the word, the word was resurrection
And then you took me out to climb

Higher and higher...
Kissing the spires
Higher and higher...
Soul's on fire

I was told when I was seven
All good things must go to Heaven
All my evils would be blessed
If to God I did confess
He'd wipe the slate of sin and fire
Ate the bread and drank the wine
So as your leaving all the fake processions
Just grab a bottle and start confessing
Start confessing
Get to Heaven


9. BLUE BLUE OCEAN

One in a million
One and the same
Looking for freedom
Born to be tamed
Once in a lifetime
One of these days
Gonna grab me a lifeline
Swinging my way

I'm swimming out on a blue blue ocean
You're sailing out on a blue blue sea
Silhouettes and a vulture hoping
He's gonna pick the bones of you and me
You and me

Hearts of ice
Hearts of bone
Beating stronger
Beating home
Where there's wanting
There is need
Where there's having
There is greed

I'm swimming out on a blue blue ocean
You're sailing out on a blue blue sea
Silhouettes and a vulture hoping
He's gonna pick the bones of you and me
You and me

Girl
I want the gold dust
In your fingers
And your klondyke touch
Girl
I want the goldmine
As it shimmers
In your solemn eyes

I'm swimming out on a blue blue ocean
You're sailing out on a blue blue sea
Silhouettes and a vulture hoping
Licking the bones of you and me
I'm swimming out on a blue blue ocean
You're sailing out on the blue blue sea
Blue blue sea


10. SATELLITE

Moonlight starlight
Insight out of sight
Something's certain
Draw the curtains, draw them

Take the night
When it calls
Take the night
When it falls...

You will, I might
Talking satellites
Rockets, comets
Something's coming

Take the night
When it calls
Take the night
When it falls...

One out all out
In doubt far out
Wheels in motion
Take the potion

Take the night
When it calls
Take the night
When it falls...

Moonlight
Starlight
Insight
Out of sight

Take the night
When it calls
Take the night
When it falls


11. ALL MY LIFE

Oh how the times have changed us
Sure and now uncertain
Men not devils have claimed us
Purity deserting
God's one miracle
Lost in circles

All my all my life
Revolves around
Laughter and crying
As my life turns
'Round and 'round

Cannon fire burning
On the hillside
You and I are
Side by side
Listen
Tin soldiers playing our tune

All my all my life
Revolves around
Laughter and crying
As my life turns
'Round and 'round

Songs for life's lost lovers
Bittersweet their healing
Their prayers prayed under covers
Need not kneeling
God's one miracle
Moves in circles

All my all my life
Revolves around
Laughter and crying
As my life turns
Round and round


BONUSTRACKS VERSION 2003


12. JIMMY BROWN (EARLY VERSION OF BRING ON THE DANCING HORSES)

Jimmy Brown
Made of stone
Charlie Clown
No way home
Bring on the dancing horses
Headless and all alone

Shiver and say the words
Of every lie you've heard

First I'm gonna make it
Then I'm gonna break it
Till it falls apart
Hating all the faking
And shaking while I'm breaking
Your brittle heart

Billy stands
All alone
Sinking sand
Skin and bone
Bring on the dancing horses
Wherever they may roam

Shiver and say the words
Of every lie you've heard

First I'm gonna make it
Then I'm gonna break it
Till it falls apart
Hating all the faking
And shaking while I'm breaking
Your brittle heart

Jimmy Brown
Made of stone
Charlie Clown
No way home
Bring on the headless horses
Wherever they may roam.

Shiver and say the words
Of every lie you've heard

First I'm gonna make it
Then I'm gonna break it
Till it falls apart
Hating all the faking
And shaking while you're breaking
My brittle heart

Bring on the new messiah
Wherever he may roam


13. HOLE IN THE HOLY

Take this gun, take these pills
Make a wish and make a will
A wish became, a will because
I wish I am just who I was

And i always hear them singing
And complaining about the world
And my chiming bells are ringing
But I never heard a word

In the arms, our love
Cling to orders from above
To light our lives with whats
Faith recieved is grace returned

Well i always hear them singing
And complaining about the world
And my chiming bells are ringing
But I never heard a word

When you feel, will you be feelin'
How she felt against your skin
And as you kneel, will you be kneelin'
Deep in prayer or steeped in sin
Without a ? within
Within the hole in the holy
A crack in the heart
Its love and love only that sets our worlds apart
Worlds apart, joined at the heart

Take this gun, take these pills
Make a wish and make a will
A wish became, a will because
I wish I am just who I was

But i always hear them singing
And complaining about the world
And my chiming bells are ringing
But I never heard a word

When you feel, will you be feelin'
How she felt against your skin
As you kneel, will you be kneelin'
Deep in prayer or steeped in sin
Without a ? within
Within the hole in the holy
A crack in the heart
Its love and love only that sets our world
A part of me is giving
A part of me gives in
And takes the beauty out of living
And the guilt of all our sins
The guilt from all our sins

And the ? is a means to an end of the things that tempt you away from the path to the true way

In the crippled fire, and the lips do kiss the flame
Will you lower, or go higher
The blameless or the blame
Blameless or the blame

With a hole in the holy
A crack in the heart
Its love and love only that sets our world apart


14. SOUL KITCHEN

Clock says it's time to close now
Guess I better go now
Really like to stay here all night
The cars crawl past all stuffed with eyes
Street lights share their hollow glow
Your brain seems bruised with numb surprise
Still one place to go
Still one place to go

Let me sleep all night in your soul kitchen
?????
Turn me out and I'll wander, baby
Stumblin' in the neon groves

Fingers weave quick minarets
Speak in secret alphabet
Light another cigarette
Learn to forget
Learn to forget
Learn to forget
Learn to forget

Let me sleep all night in your soul kitchen
?????
Take me out and I'll wander, baby
Stumblin' in the neon groves

Soul kitchen
Soul kitchen
?????, yeah, in your soul kithchen

Clock says it's time to close now
I guess I better go now
Really like to stay here all night
All night
All night


15. THE GAME (ACOUSTIC DEMO)

(See lyrics on track 1)


16. BEDBUGS AND BALLYHOO (ORIGINAL VERSION)

(See lyrics on track 3)


17. OVER YOUR SHOULDER

Over your shoulder
I'm hear
The face on your head looks older
We're here

[Chorus]
Never gonna change
Never gonna disappear
Stars shine down on me tonight
Doors close tight

Day of departure
Is near
Ears on your head
Don't hear

[Chorus]

Victims fall
Ghosts descend
You get scared and I'll defend
I don't really care but I'll pretend
The good and bad right to the end

Look in the cellar
We're here
I've been meaning to tell you
I'm here

[Chorus]

Victims fall
Ghosts descend
You get scared and I'll defend
I don't really care but I'll pretend
The good and bad right to the end

Never gonna change
Never gonna disappear


18. BRING ON THE DANCING HORSES (EXTENDED MIX)

Jimmy brown
Made of stone
Charlie clown
No way home
Bringing on the dancing horses
Headless and all alone

Shiver and say the words
Of every lie you've heard

[Chorus]
First I'm gonna make it
Then I'm gonna break it
Till it falls apart
Hating all the faking
And shaking while I'm breaking
Your brittle heart

Billy stands
All alone
Sinking sand
Skin and bone
Bring on the dancing horses
Wherever they may roam

Shiver and say the words
Of every lie you've heard

[Chorus]

Brittle heart
Brittle heart
And my little heart
Goes

Jimmy brown
Made of stone
Charlie clown
No way home

[Chorus]

Bring on the new messiah
Wherever he may roam

Brittle heart
Brittle heart
And our little hearts
Go