1. I'LL NEVER LET GO

It seems the day that your house burned to the ground
Was the day that you'd always planned to leave anyway
And the vast empire you come through to get here
Makes the world look like pennies in my hand

I'll never let go
I'll never let go you said out loud
I'll never let go
I'll never let go you shouted out

Your words shook me right out of a daydream
I was lost somewhere cold and it looked haunted
I was asking strangers but no one understood me
I was drenched in sweat when your words came to me

I'll never let go
I'll never let go you said out loud
I'll never let go
I'll never let go you shouted out

It was the last highway you would ever travel
The long road from a daughter, wife and son
When the bus stopped a beat from California
Your tired feet they ached over the road

I'll never let go
I'll never let go you said out loud
I'll never let go
I'll never let go you shouted out


2. CALLED OUT IN THE DARK

It's like we just can't help ourselves
'Cause we don't know how to back down
We were called out to the streets
We were called in to the towns

And how the heavens, they opened up
Like arms of dazzling gold
With our rain washed histories
Well they do not need to be told

Show me now, show me the arms aloft
Every eye trained on a different star
This magic
This drunken semaphore
And I

We are listening
And we're not blind
This is your life
This is your time

We are listening
And we're not blind
This is your life
This is your time

I was called out in the dark
By a choir of beautiful cheats
And as the kids took back the parks
You and I were left with the streets

Show me now, show me the arms aloft
Every eye trained on a different star
This magic
This drunken semaphore
And I

We are listening
And we're not blind
This is your life
This is your time


3. THE WEIGHT OF LOVE

Your engine threatens I can hear it from the garden
I can see it coming I can see it come from miles
What you thinking right now 'cause I think that I can guess
If we set off now we'll have the highway to ourselves

You love the little signs of Life
You love it when we lose our minds
You love these little wars of words
You love it when they call your name

A new empire beckons a new kingdom in the distance
No gods are present just the sky the earth and us
No wings no halos nor the thunder in the footsteps
Because fear and anger they are a law unto themselves

You love the little signs of Life
You love it when we lose our minds
You love these little wars of words
You love it when they call your name

It's the weight of love in your arms
It's the weight of love in your arms
It's the weight of love so gentle in your arms

It's just like you told me I should learn to let it all go
It just took 'til now for me to get just what you meant
My heart is thumping I can feel it in my fingers
No fear no anger we are a law unto ourselves

It's the weight of love in your arms
It's the weight of love in your arms
It's the weight of love so gentle in your arms


4. THIS ISN'T EVERYTHING YOU ARE

You can't find the phone,
So you can call it off
But it might be for the best
You can't walk away, anyway
Cause you've nowhere else to go

Don't keel over now
Don't keel over
Don't keel over now
Don't keel over

You've been up all night, and the night before
You've lost count of drinks and time
And your friends keep calling, worried sick
There's strangers everywhere

Don't keel over now
Don't keel over
Don't keel over now
Don't keel over

And in one little moment
It all implodes
This isn't everything you are
Breathe deeply in the silence
No sudden moves
This isn't everything you are
Just take the hand that's offered
And hold on tight
This isn't everything you are
There's joy not far from here, right
I know there is
This isn't everything you are

When you took the call
How could you know
That he'd slipped away last night
And you wish you went home, days ago
To say goodbye or just hello

Don't keel over now
Don't keel over
Don't keel over now
Don't keel over

And in one little moment
It all implodes
This isn't everything you are
Breathe deeply in the silence
No sudden moves
This isn't everything you are
Just take the hand that's offered
And hold on tight
This isn't everything you are
There's joy not far from here, right
I know there is
This isn't everything you are

This isn't everything you are

This isn't everything you are


5. THE GARDEN RULES

There's the river there's your house and there's the church
There is us years ago
Deep in your garden where the nettle met the rose
Is where we'd hide ourselves
Yes we were just kids
But you couldn't tell us that
These are the garden rules
That's what you always said

Oh you'll never know how much I love you so
Oh you will never know how much I love you

You would call the garden rules out like commands
And we would all obey
But you'd stifle giddy laughter as you spoke
And puncture the pretend

Then we would chase our tails

Until the sun forgot to shine

And our parents called our names

'Til just you and I were left



Oh you'll never know how much I love you so
Oh you will never know how much I love you



From your house we walk the river

To the church by the silent fields

Amongst the lavender and headstones

And the larks in our Sunday clothes

Your father calls to you

As he's looking at his watch

You leave me with a kiss

On my quickly heating cheek



Oh you'll never know how much I love you so

Oh you will never know how much I love you


6. FALLEN EMPIRES

You called my name in the dark
Called me back to the start
The condensation is building tension

Stubborn silence is formed
Around our bodies it's warm
The cool wet grasses as summer passes

Frightened under attack
Fallen flat on my back
Arms and legs I'm too scared to beg

Harm me most when it's light
Thought of you don't sit right
I need the darkness a desperate embrace

Razing cities to dust
Faces dripping in lust
Fallen empires and raging bushfires

All your words unfounded
Secret lives bound in bed
Living backwards and tangled back words

Ruined everything right
So good can't see the light
From my cave I can see the wave
Fallen empires and raging bushfires

We are the light
(Run to the fire)


7. BERLIN

(Instrumental)


8. LIFENING

A hand upon my forehead
The joking and the laugh
Waking up in your arms
A place to call my own

This is all I ever wanted from life

Ireland in the World Cup
Either North or South
The fan club on the jukebox
The birds and yes the bees

This is all I ever wanted from life

Words of reassurance
But only if they're true
Just some simple kindness
No vengeance from the god

This is all I ever wanted from life

To share what I've been given
Some kids eventually
And be for them what I've had
A father like my dad

This is all I ever wanted from life

This is all I ever wanted from life


9. NEW YORK

If you were here beside me
Instead of in New York
If the curve of you was curved on me
I'd tell you that I loved you
Before I even knew you
Cause I loved the simple thought of you

If our hearts are never broken
Well there's no joy in the mending
There's so much this hurt can teach us both
Though there's distance and there's silence
Your words have never left me
They're the prayer that I say every day.

Come on, come out, come here, come here
Come on, come out, come here, come here
Come on, come out, come here, come here
Come on, come out, come here, come here

The lone neon lights
And the heat of the ocean
And the fire that was starting to spark
I miss it all, from the love to the lightning
And the lack of it snaps, me in two

If you were here beside me
Instead of in New York
Of the arms you said you'd never leave
I'd tell you that it's simple
And it was only ever thus
There is nowhere else that I belong

Come on, come out, come here, come here
Come on, come out, come here, come here
Come on, come out, come here, come here
Come on, come out, come here, come here

The lone neon lights
And the heat of the ocean
And the fire that was starting to spark
I miss it all from the love to the lightning
And the lack of it snaps, me in two
Just give me a sign
There's an end with a beginning
To the quiet chaos driving me back

The lone neon lights
And the warmth of the ocean
And the fire that was starting to go out


10. IN THE END

It's the price I guess
For the lies I've told
That the truth, it no longer thrills me

Why can't we laugh,
When it's all we have?
Have we put these childish things away?
Have we lost the magic that we once had?

In the end, in the end,
There's nothing more to life than love, is there?
In the end, in the end,
It's time for us to lose our weary minds.

Will you dance with me,
Like we use to dance,
And remember how to move together.

You are the torch,

And it all makes sense.
I've waited here for you forever

In the end, in the end,
There's nothing more to life than love, is there?
In the end, in the end,
It's time for us to lose our weary minds.

We're lost 'til we learn how to ask.
We're lost 'til we learn how to ask.
We are lost'til we learn how to ask.
So please, please, just ask.

In the end, in the end,
there's nothing more to life than love, is there?
In the end, in the end,
It's time for us to lose our weary minds.
There's nothing more to life than love, is there?


11. THOSE DISTANT BELLS

The car crunches grabel
The wind clicks at you
The star spell you under
As you don't stroke by the gate
It hurts every muscle
Just to walk back to the hause
This home that you both made
Looks .. from the yard


You can hear those distant bells
You know they will never leave
Is like the church is crying out
Like the wolf calls ? too young

The dark never enters
But it also never leaves
And the spark that he gave is just an amber .. out
If you'd won on the exit
You would never would have known
Till you drobv out in the darkness
Like some small pheonix song


You can hear those distant bells
You know they will never leave
Is like the church is crying out
Like the wolf ? too young

You can hear those distant bells
You know they will never leave
Is like the church is crying out
Like the wolf ? too young

You can hear those distant bells
You know they will never leave
Is like the church is crying out
Like the wolf ? too young


12. THE SYMPHONY

Wooden floors
Wooden floors whisper
And they creak
Under your sockless feet
A secret door
A door undiscovered
You knock so gently
In case you're heard
A record plays
A song that you've not heard
It is perfect
It is home
Everything
Now everything's different
It is sweeter
On your tongue

Cause you can see the road ahead in your dream
The engine's more a sigh than a scream
Your ghosts look more like angels from there
The coast comes like a raft of warm air

Cause you can see the road ahead in your dream
The engine's more a sigh than a scream
Your ghosts look more like angels from there
The coast comes like a raft of warm air

A symphony
Slow music of longing
Plays in movements
Inside your head
There are no ghosts
No ghosts that can shake you
Like they used to
Anymore

Cause you can see the road ahead in your dream
The engine's more a sigh than a scream
Your ghosts look more like angels from there
The coast comes like a raft of warm air

You can see the road ahead in your dream
The engine's more a sigh than a scream
Your ghosts look more like angels from there
The coast comes like a raft of warm air

If this is all you ever asked for
Then this is all you'll get
If this is all you ever asked for
Then this is all you'll get
If this is all you ever asked for
Then this is all you'll get
If this is all you ever asked for
Then this is all you'll get
If this is all you ever asked for
Then this is all you'll get
If this is all you ever asked for
Then this is all you'll get
If this is all you ever asked for
Then this is all you'll get
If this is all you ever asked for
Then this is all you'll get


13. THE PRESIDENT

I've run to ground
I've run from everyone that I have ever known
I'm aching cold
I'm aching from the bones the very blood of me

And it's broke before you know it
Before you knew what it was for
All you know is you can't fix it
And you wish you'd listened more
To your instincts to your family
To the wisdom you'd ignored
Are you finally gonna ask us for help?

I've crashed to earth
But I'd fallen for so long that it was just relief
I saw your face
In everyone that looked me in my drunken eyes

And it's broke before you know it
Before you knew what it was for
All you know is you can't fix it
And you wish you'd listened more
To your instincts to your family
To the wisdom you'd ignored
When you finally gonna ask us for help?

I can see you at the front gate
As you wait on my return
The years have blurred to eons
But the tears have never dried
But I'm not coming to you like this
So battered down and sad
I will take the road forgotten again


14.BROKEN BOTTLES FROM A STAR (PRELUDE)

(Instrumental)