1. SILENCE, SEA AND SKY

(Instrumental)


2. PERFUME GARDEN

You can shake your hips
You can seal your lips
I can't make that trip

And all life's fears
Can invade my ears
I can handle it

I can laugh with a friend
And remember the faces we wore at school

Making the madness
And solitary sadness
A friendly fool

I thought of stories
They told us long ago
Of how the world was a perfume garden
I haven't yet learned to tame the creature there
And that at least I think is something good

All across the town
And across the street
You could feel the heat

Let me tell you friend
They can hardly wait
To chain your feet

Now it's maximum joy
For the men they employ
To hold you down

Well I hope now you know
That this isn't the bliss
That you thought you'd found

Endless emptiness
Endless ringing bells
I couldn't show you
But I hope to one day
Pretty promises to teach the tender child
To welcome madness every Monday

Beck and call
It didn't seem to matter at all
Beck and call
You told us how to conquer it all
Beck and call
These children have nothing at all

Listening hard
For the voice of a child
I thought I heard an alarm bell ringing
Pulled from my sleep
By invisible hands
The distant sound of a lady singing



3. INTRIGUE IN TANGIERS

When it's summer
And the skies are glass
I just have to make the evenings last
They're always flying past

When it's raining and the sky is black
I just love to hear the thunder roll
And see the lightning crack

With fading powers
We sit for hours
By a television screen
With funny cigarettes
And talk for hours
Of the places we have seen

Brother can you hear my voice
Every second that you cling to life
You have to feel alive

It's an easy thing to sell your skin
When the Devil's banging on your door
You always let him in

With fading powers
We dream of hours
That will never come again
Old defenders are themselves defenceless
When the mad attack the sane

What can you do
When you see no future
In front of you
Food for the few
So many it seems are in front of you
I see my face
Reflected there in your sweating brow
You hate what you see
What can you do
When there's no way out
Well there's one way out

Brother can you hear my voice
Every second that you cling to life
You have to feel alive

But when you sleep
Where do you go?


4. RETURN OF THE ROUGHNECKS

Up and down
These days are up and down
They call it elevated living
A faster future for a faster breed
Unforgiving, unfulfilling

The spirit's willing
But the mind is weak
I had an empty education
I want to speak
But when I try to speak
It doesn't help the situation

And some they fly while others fall
And some they walk while others crawl
It stops them feeling small
That's all

Shake your hand
They'll always shake your hand
Without a moment's hesitation
Burning bridges
And snapping strands
That support a generation

You want to climb
But when you try to climb
You see the ladder getting shorter

You want to drink
But when you try to drink
There's someone
Pissing in the water

Your soul is something they can buy
So softly, softly step inside
Says the spider to the fly
Nice try

And for every day you're crucified
If you can't look them in the eye
Smile and wave goodbye
Nice try

Vices embraced in times of crisis
That's all


5. SINGING RULE BRITANNIA (WHILE THE WALLS CLOSE IN)

A prisoner of my paradox
Heaven or hell
Pacing up and down my cage
It's too soon to tell
What a suffocating state to be

Working class heroes
Mean nothing to me
I'm a working class zero
Chained to the tree of life
A dangerous thing to be

And now the baby needs to grow
But the mother is crazy

What lies behind the mask
Behind the wave and the smile
Your appearance is deceptive
Sweet crocodile
What a fascinating thing to see

Revealing all your secrets
You'd better beware
Revealing all your secrets
You wouldn't dare
Reveal yourself to me
Would you?

It must have been like this before
But my memory's hazy

So I'll stand in line
With all the desperados
There's hope for me
For some the story's different
They'll stand in line
They'll bide their time
Waiting for a sign
Counting out the time

Clever, clever creatures
Death in your kiss
Playing with the future
In innocent bliss
What a suffocating state to be
But what a fascinating thing to see


6. ON THE BEACH

Autumn leaves were falling
Hearing nature talking
I thought I heard her calling
Hush now don't you cry
Figure in the sky

Can't stop myself from shaking
My mind at last is waking
Eight minds embracing
Figures in the sky

Hadn't time to analyse
What I saw before my eyes
But nothing would surprise me
Here on our beach
Far away from you all

I thought I heard her calling

Unsure of what we're facing
The precious time we're wasting
I'll always be embracing
The figure in the sky


7. LOOKING INWARDLY

I delve into myself ceaselessly
But I rarely see
What I want to see
Embracing the future
Forgetting the past
Love lost and misfortune
The chaos and the crass

I'm wary of you
But you're oblivious to me
I'm chained to your ego
And there isn't a key
I play with emotions
But never my own
Don't you recognise me
Try looking inwardly

But you won't see me

Such a strange situation
As I wallow in waste
That such a trivial victory
Should put a smile on your face
Using me as the scapegoat
For what you want to believe
So I'll just bow out politely
And tip my cap as I leave

Comme ci, comme ca

My eyes are wide open
Yours are closed
It's time you realised I'm a part of you

Look inwardly
Don't bleed for me
Look to yourself


8. ONE FLESH

With the sun in your eyes
It's easy mistaking
The truth from the lies
In the love that you're making
Don't pretend it isn't so

With the sun in your eyes
It always reveals
A voluntary bondage
That always appeals
It's how you make the garden grow

But why this weakness
No-one knows
Our conscience cries its sorrow
While we sleep
But once the morning comes
Out the back door
Silently it creeps

With the sun in your eyes
Always reminding
A sense of excitement
You've no hope of finding
With the chains that bind your feet

Belonging or longing
For a few empty hours
In a stranger's bed
To chase away
A fear that's in your head

And why this weakness
No-one knows
The vacant faceless voices on the phone
Bring words that offer no
Consolation when you're on your own

Beaten on the brow of history
A unison forged in slavery
In all that's hope and decency
A hope for you and a hope for me
For every woman, child and man
To those who'll chain you if they can
The babe you're bouncing on your knee
Needs your help now
Can't you see

Beaten on the brow of history
A union forged in slavery
In all that's hope and decency
A hope for you and a hope for me
For every woman child and man
To those who'll chain you if they can
The babe you're bouncing on your knee
Needs your help now can't you see


9. HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS

So here we are waking
Savages shaking
The road that we're taking
We've walked before

And if these times
Should seal our fate
You won't see me
At Heaven's gate

Danger is lurking
Evil is working
Yet here we are hiding
Behind our doors

Come out! Come out!
It's time to grow
Enjoy the ride
One more time before we go

According to Hoyle
All cards on the table
What else can you do
When life is unstable

The night's growing colder
The enemy bolder
But as you grow older
You ceased to care

But if we run
Or try to hide
And turn our face
There'll be no hopes
To keep alive

According to Hoyle
All cards on the table
Reactions cool
The world unstable

So here we are hiding
Danger is lurking


10. P.S. GOODBYE

I've had too many crazy nights
I've seen too many crazy sights
I didn't want the scars to show
In those moments only mothers know

You know in retrospect it seems
There's always danger in your dreams
Like an actor stealing scenes
All the magic moments in your teens

All the thoughts you fight to hide
Lady Passion, Lady Pride
Sisters side by side
Talking while our tongues are tied


11. IN SHREDS

I grasp at life's fading light
I need you tonight
I need to be heard
Your actions speak louder than words
Ignored by you all
I stumble and fall
I suddenly knew
My life meant nothing at all

In shreds, I stare down at the street
Yearning for sleep
That blissful escape
But when it comes it's always too late
The whore in my bed
The noise in my head
A hole in my pride
It's coming and there's nowhere to hide

It seems to me to be self-contradictory
It seems to me you count your victories while they're there

Ignored by you all
I stumble and fall
I suddenly knew
My life meant nothing at all
The whore in my bed
The noise in my head
The hole in my pride
It's coming and there's nowhere to hide

It seems to me to be self-contradictory
It seems to me you count your blessings while they're there
You count your blessings while they're there
Count your victories while they're there

It seems, it seems, it seems
It seems to me
To be
To be self-contradictory
It seems to me you've become part of the machinery
Part of the machinery
Part of the machinery
Become part of the machinery
Machinery


12. NOSTALGIA

Absorbing your words
Battles raging within me
Absorbing your words
Is gradually tearing my soul in two
There isn't much I could do
Despite my fear it helps to
Share my nostalgia with you

There isn't time to stand still
We are constantly changing
You're draining my will
I find myself rearranging my points of view
There isn't much I could do
Despite my fear it helps to
Share my nostalgia with you

Tomorrow I remember yesterday
Tomorrow, remember yesterday
Tomorrow, remember yesterday
Tomorrow I remember yesterday

Whatever lies in my past
Or what is yet in the future
Time passes so fast
Suppose there's always the danger
I won't pull through
I'll have to think this thing through
Despite my fear it helps to
Share my nostalgia with you

Tomorrow I'll remember yesterday
Tomorrow I remember yesterday
Tomorrow, remember yesterday
Tomorrow, remember yesterday

Tomorrow, remember yesterday...
Tomorrow, nostalgia will lead me away