1. DREAM OF ME

Take me with your arms and lift me up out of this life
Nightfall embraces me, I rise and find I am here
When I am with you the chains round my heart disappear

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Dream of me
Dream of me
I will be there
Calling your name from the shore

The sea was serene but she swam out too far and was gone
He thought he heard her voice calling his name in the wind
I will be with you each night when we kiss in your dreams

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Dream of me
Dream of me
I will be there
Calling your name from the shore

The first snow of winter is falling out over the sea
Dawn breaks into his dream pulling them gently apart
Lift me, forgive me and unlock these chains round my heart

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Dream of me
Dream of me
I will be there
Calling your name from the shore


2. THE SPELL

I went outside today
Left behind the room that was my life
Look at the sky
The sun just laughs and winks at you
Enter the violet woods
Feeling that you have some company
A caterpillar tree's
Wings fold your beating heart

Don't break the spell
Don't ask me when
Or you will never speak again
Open the doors
Inside your mind
Don't be afraid of what you find

Under your bed it is the little people
Who put the fears inside your head
The things you said will be forgotten
As the earth goes turning round inside your head
It spins around, around...

Past the point of no return
You come across a creature being born
A unicorn
You watch it struggle to it's feet

And as you wander free
You step down through the valley to the sea
You're who you want to be
You hear the mermaids call your name

It's hard to breathe
You spiral down
And think that you must surely drown
Shake off the dream
Shake off the spell
Or else this tale you'll never tell

Under your bed it is the little people
Who put the fears inside your head
The things you said will be forgotten
As the earth goes turning round inside your head
It spins around, around...

Do't break the spell
Don't ask me when
Or you will never speak again
Open the doors
Inside your mind
Don't be afraid of what you find
It's hard to breathe
You spiral down
And think that you must surely drown
Shake off the dream
Shake off the spell
Or else this tale you'll never tell

Under your bed it is the little people
Who put the fears inside your head
The things you said will be forgotten
As the earth goes turning round inside your head
It spins around, around...


3. BY A RIVER

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By a river
The colours of the land
Emerge before my eyes
Soothing winds that blow my cares away
Through the trees
Call the priest, his wife, his friends, the police

I had to run away
Leave this all behind
Close your eyes
Wave goodbye, goodbye
I didn't see the point
Couldn't take the load
Drift away
Above me a new day's growing old

Bound by chains of a crippling debt
Slipping through the threads of a foolproof net
Run away
Far away

Shaped by the laws of deception and greed
Stamped and rejected I beg to be freed
Lose the key
Lose the key
I had to run away
Leave this all behind
Close your eyes
Wave goodbye, goodbye
I didn't see the point
Couldn't take the load
Drift away
Above me a new day's growing old

By a river
The colours of the land
Emerge before my eyes
Soothing winds that blow my cares away
Through the trees


4. COULD HAVE BEEN

No time now left to run
Everything's been said or done before
No time now left to change
There's no point in trying at my age
It doesn't matter to me

Breathe in the sky
Breathe in the air
Just feel the breeze run through your hair
And I don't want to think
And I don't want to think
I don't want to think no more

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All the things that I could have been
All the places that I might have seen
All the people that I might have met
All those words that I should have said
To you

No time now for regret
If only I could just forget the past
I can but turn and close my eyes
But I know soon I'll close my mind at last
There's nothing else left for me

Memories of war
Memories of pain
Memories of running through the rain
And I don't want to think
And I don't want to think
I don't want to think no more

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All the things that I could have been
All the places that I might have seen
All the people that I might have met
All those words that I should have said
To you


5. OFFERTORY SONG

This is the field
Where hundreds of people
Like poppies are bursting
And marching with pride

Free to stay
Free to fight, to shoot, to kill

This is the field
Where hundreds of people
Are burning like crosses
And turning to ash

Free to go
Free, the hurt, the pain, the blame

Then you saved me from the water
Then you changed me into fire
Leaving tuppence on the plate
You hurry home now don't be late
Ahead you see the daylight fail
Wonder where the time has gone

This place is holy
And this place is empty
No one is praying to Jesus today

Free to choose
Free to win, to draw, to lose

Then you saved me from the water
Then you changed me into fire
Leaving tuppence on the plate
You hurry home now don't be late
Ahead you see the daylight fail
Wonder where your life has gone
Leaving tuppence on the plate
You hurry home now don't be late
Ahead you see the daylight fail
Wonder where your life has gone


6. FALLING

In my ears the wind is screaming
Bailing out at eight miles high

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You are falling
Through the sky
Through the air
Asking why
Falling to the earth
People point as the seconds tick away
In my head the blood is pounding
Forests drift before my eyes

You are falling
Through the sky
Through the air
Asking why
Falling to the earth
People point as the seconds slip away

Ladybird, ladybird fly away home
Your house is on fire and your children are gone
If only you had listened to your heart

In my mind my life is flashing
Pull the cord before you die

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You are falling
Through the sky
Through the air
Asking why
Falling to the earth
People point as the seconds slip away

Ladybird, ladybird fly away home
Your house is on fire and your children are gone
If only you had listened
Ladybird, ladybird fly away home
Your house is on fire and your children are gone
If only you had listened
To your heart

7. HOLD ME

It suddenly struck me
When I closed my eyes
Soon I'll be alone
But some say love never dies
You held me close
Right through the storm
You never left me
You just kept me safe and warm

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Hold me tonight forever
Hold me and never let go
I think of heaven
And I know that you are waiting
I'm going to keep on loving you

I'm feeling lonely
But I know
I want to be with you
But I know fate's never fair
You give me strength
In your darkest day
Why did the angels
Have to take you away

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Hold me tonight forever
Hold me and never let go
I think of heaven
And I know that you are waiting
I'm going to keep on loving you

I'll hold my head up high
Keep trying not to cry
I'll put the past behind me
Still got my memories
Stories about you and me
And one day, and one day and one day
We'll be back together

I'm going to keep on loving you
I'm going to keep on loving you
I'm going to keep, keep on, keep on loving you

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Hold me tonight forever
Hold me and never let go
I think of heaven
And I know that you are waiting
I'm going to keep on loving you


8. ILL WIND BLOWIN'

If you're walking home past midnight
And you think you're not alone
Take the knife out of your pocket and turn around

And as he steps out of the shadows
And he tries to force you down
Leave him slashed and staring at the ground

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There's an ill wind blowin'
Down Union Street
There's a man in the gutter
No shoes on his feet
There's an ill wind blowin'
Down Union Street
There's a man in the gutter
No shoes on his feet

And if you think you've found a phonebox
And the coin jams in the slot
You will see me from the corner of your eye

Well there's no one round to hear you
No one to see you die
As you slither down your glass jar like a fly

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There's an ill wind blowin'
Down Union Street
There's a man in the gutter
No shoes on his feet
There's an ill wind blowin'
Down Union Street
There's a blue light flashing


9. THE HOUSE

I don't think that I can stay
In the old house anymore
There's too many memories
Things live there no eyes can see

In the garden there's
No flowers ever grow there
The house is where I live
A place to take but not to give
Close the door

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Did you not see the colours
Climbing up the window
Nor hitch a ride with Lucy
To see marshmallow skies
It starts to rain
But I can't find the rainbow
I leave the house
But there's nowhere to go

No one ever seems to call
The house must be too far away
I wish for yesterday
And all the things I had to say

I pack a suitcase and
Lock the door behind me
The house is better left
Without its heart it stands bereft
Turn away

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Did you not see the colours
Climbing up the window
Nor hitch a ride with Lucy
To see marshmallow skies
It starts to rain
But I can't find the rainbow
I leave the house
But there's nowhere to go

I pack a suitcase and
Lock the door behind me
The house is better left
Without its heart it stands bereft
Turn away

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Did you not see the colours
Climbing up the window
Nor hitch a ride with Lucy
To see marshmallow skies
It starts to rain
But I can't find the rainbow
I leave the house
But there's nowhere to go


10. YOU BETTER BE GOOD

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You better be good
Or mama will take your freedom away
Your freedom away
You better be good
Or mama will take your freedom away
And you wouldn't like that would you

You know it makes sense child
To follow mama's style
She hasn't got it in for you
Growing up just takes a while
Growing up just takes a while

She moulds her puppet, ties on the strings
For the whole wide world to see
She'll drag you down and chain you up
Takes a lifetime to break free
Takes a lifetime to break free

Don't speak, don't think
Don't move, don't breathe
She'll take you down again

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You better be good
Or mama will take your freedom away
Your freedom away
You better be good
Or mama will take your freedom away
And you wouldn't like that would you

So what if you're the problem child
You know that mama's always right
Don't you know what's right or wrong
When you're out of mama's sight
When you're out of mama's sight

Now tell her that it's time to leave
And you'll see mama cry
Just walk on right out the door
There's the whole wide world outside
There's the whole wide world outside

Don't speak, don't think
Don't move, don't breathe
She'll take you down again

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You better be good
Or mama will take your freedom away
Your freedom away
You better be good
Or mama will take your freedom away
And you wouldn't like that would you


11. FOR MERCY

Wrapped in her raincoat
She crosses herself as she walks from the church
Head bent in sorrow
Her life feels so empty she's nowhere to turn

She can't tell her husband
He won't understand
Why his blood is thinner
Nor thicker than sand
Oh Mercy, whatever will become of me

Fourteen days later
Still nobody knows but it's starting to show
Sleep in the armchair
Old Harold gets fatter and ceases to care

She said on that day
That till death do us part
But now she has someone
Who's close to her heart
Oh Mercy, whatever will become of me

Fighting her conscience
Her suitcase is packed and she's ready to leave
Still feeling unsure
The statue of Mary now points to the door

Skipping and smiling
She catches her plane
The child she had longed for
A new home and name
Oh Harold, whatever will become of you