Losing Ground

Losing ground
Under my feet
There's a low rumbling
There's a crack in the street
It's just no good
It's just no good anymore
Everything I do
Has been done before

Yeah I found my voice
Yeah I got nothing to say
The whole thing started
Cause my mind has gone away
I used to get high
Now I just get lost
I used to bark at the moon
The first one I came across

Almost here
Almost gone

Almost here
Almost gone
Almost where
We belong

Better watch where you step
Better watch what you say
Speak the truth, baby
Believe in what you say
Believe in what you say
It's just no good anymore
It's just no good anymore

You bet I got trouble baby
You bet I got trouble baby
You bet I got trouble baby
You bet I got trouble baby

Long Time Coming

In my coat of many colours
I'm waiting for my child
I'm waiting for my journey
I'm waiting for my prize

My lord
My lord

Jesus coming running
Ah sweet Jesus run and hide
Yeah I'm on my way to heaven
Ah sweet Jesus come inside

My lord
Long time coming

If I could call my mother
Say mother dry my eyes
If he'd left me in these colours
Then he ain't no god of mine

My lord
Long time coming

Kick It To The Ground

Look at what I've found
A flower on his grave
Kick it to the ground
I've got no soul to save
Nature dealt me raw
Planted me with hate
Took my only love
To an early grave

See these eyes of envy
Bitterness it's true
I'm looking through your ashes
Looking right at you
Ten thousand years of loving
Could never set me free
From this web of hate I've woven
This chosen misery

Kick it to the ground
Kick it to the ground
Kick it to the ground

Carry scars of sorrow
But I have no regrets
And I will return tomorrow
I'm not finished hating yet
Look at what I've found
A flower on his grave
Kick it to the ground
Kick it to the ground
Kick it to the ground

Heaven

Everything's joy in heaven
And it's so good to live in this world of ours
Breathing the clean air through my lungs
Is an endless experience

Where I can go for a walk
Where I can go where I please
Where I can go for a walk
Where I can say what I please
Without being picked up by the police
Without being picked up by the police

If heaven is a place on earth
Then I must be on the moon
If heaven is a place on earth
Then I want to be getting there soon
If heaven is a place on earth
Then I must be on the moon
If heaven is a place on earth
Then I want to be getting there, getting there soon

Where I can release the tension
With the pushing of a button
Where I can release the tension
With the pushing of a button
Pushing of a button, pushing of a button

She picked the apple and gave it to him
Did she know what she was doing?
She picked the apple and gave it to him
Did she know what she was doing?

Harder

Oh oh my my my
My man's up all night
Works me till I moan
Drives me out of my mind

Why it's so hard
Must be made out of cold steel
Why it's so hard
He's a man running my wheel

Just keep me burning
Just keeps me yearning
Put my whole body on fire
Burning whole body desire

Why it's so hard
Yeah taking me over
Why it's so hard
My cold steel soldier

Harder
Harder
Harder

Oh oh make me beg
Eats meat in my bed
Works me till I'm done
Mad dog can sure hunt

Why it's so hard
Must be made out of cold steel
Why it's so hard
C'mon Daddy drive my wheel

Harder
Harder
Harder

Why it's so hard
Money made out of cold steel
Why it's so hard
He's a turning my wheel

Harder
Harder
Harder
Yeah

Darling Be There

Take me over
Pale blue water
Take me under
Take me home

Darling be there
Bring me laughter
I'll be happy
Ever more

Bring me sunshine
Bring me love
No tomorrow
He'll fall upon

Darling be there
Bring me laughter
I'll be happy
Ever more

Darling be there
Bring me laughter
I'll be happy
Ever more

Daddy

Daddy
Hold me
It seems so very dark tonight
And day

Daddy
I can't sleep
Need you to come and sing to me

That the stars
Up in the sky
Will shine down gently on the two of us tonight
And soon enough (Daddy)
It will be light (Baby)
We'll hold on tightly to each other, you and I
And I won't cry

Oh Daddy
Your baby
Is weak and calling out your name

My Daddy
Oh don't leave me
I beg you sing your song again

That the stars
Up in the sky
Will shine down gently on the two of us tonight
And soon enough (Daddy)
It will be light (Baby)
We'll hold on tightly to each other, you and I
And I won't cry (Baby)
Or call your name
And I won't
And I won't
And I won't
And I won't

Dance

Wedding night, blade knife
Shining under orange light
See him running, caught under headlight
Don't care anyway
This scar has seen better days
Get it out of my way
That's where music playing

I'll get dancing
I'm here dancing
I'm here dancing
I'm here dancing

Maggie comes fleet foot, face full of black soot
Talking that the heat put plants in the bed but
Married on Wednesday, written on Thursday
Trial on Friday, hung herself on Saturday

I'm here dancing
I'm here dancing
I'm here dancing

oh, oh, oh, oh, oh...

Time and time
I know time trickle by
Hung herself on washing line
This girl's drip dry

I'm here dancing
I'm here dancing
I'm here dancing
I'm here dancing

Bows & Arrows

I saw your face
Whiter the purity
Then I saw savages
Standing before me

Bows and arrows
Tipped with poison
Make tenderness please
Stand by my pillow

I see evil
Everytime I dream
I see earth's poison
I hear violence sing
Even your touch
Once so pure
Comes fates cold hand
On my locked door

Won't you send those angels to watch over me?

I can't catch the bow
That this planet has thrown
I can't catch this bow
On my own
In come the arrows
Like a needle

You pierce my heart
And I taste poison
You pierce my soul
With bows and arrows

Won't you send those angels to watch over me?

As Close As This

With those eyes, you could be
In movies, in the lights
And nothing gets as close as this

With those eyes, just a breath
Can send me back to Bethlehem
Nothing gets as close as this
I'm hopelessly devoted

This world's alive, this room awake
With Tigers palms and rattlesnakes
And nothing gets as close as this
I'm hopelessly devoted

Every bird is on the wing
You fill the air, you're everything
Make me run screaming down the wind
Hopelessly in love again
And nothing gets as close as this
I'm hopelessly devoted
Nothing gets as close as this
I'm hopelessly devoted

Angel

Angel, an angel has come
Angel, an angel has come
I need so, I need someone
I need so, I need someone

He's ready, look now he's ready
He's ready, ready
All of this longing just isn't heaven
Look now it's ready, it's ready, ready
Just want to be seen

The big low, the big lonely
The big low, the big lonely
Is eating not only me
Is eating not only me

I'm ready, look now I'm ready, I'm ready, ready
I'm tired of this waiting, I'm tired of pity
Look now it's ready, it's ready, ready
Just want to be seen

Falling, falling free
Falling, falling

I'm ready, look now I'm ready, I'm ready, ready
I'm tired of this waiting, I'm tired of pity
Look now it's ready, it's ready, ready
Just want to be seen

I'm ready, I'm ready, ready

97 Degrees

It's already done
I'm down on my knees
Look what you done
You've made a fool out of me

It's already too late
You've given me the taste

Look what you've done
There's no turning round
I forget today
I couldn't turn it down

It's all in the details
No reason, just face

You'd better give me some
Of the magic stuff
It's all in the thought
I'm burning up
I'm burning up

It's 97 degrees
Look what you've done
You've ruined everything

You better hurry up
With that magic stuff
It's all your fault
I can't get enough

Goodnight

Here I am
Prairie land
Got it all
Got gun in hand
I see
Dungarees
They're on my husband
They're on me
We have the stars
We have the trees
We have everything we need to feed
I'll make babes
He'll make chairs
We'll sell them at the county fair
We'll walk on
We'll walk tall
We'll dance once a week the union hall
We'll have the stars
We'll have the trees
We'll have everything we need to feed
Here I am
Prairie land
I've got it all
Got gun in hand
I'll sweep the porch
I'd dust his room
We'll swing together on our chair at noon
We have the stars
We have the trees
We have everything we need to feed
Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene

M-Bike

His m-bike's clean
He polish that thing
He looks her over
More than me
But I won't let it
Get to me
Yeh he can play with
His machine
Night and day
Wind or shine looks at her shape nn ~ ~
nn ~ not at mine
But I'm not complaining
No I think it's neat
Yeh he can play with
His machine
But all he's speaking
And all he sees
Is just his motor ~nn
~ ~ Bike not me
No I won't let it
Get to me
Can't stop thinking of
His goddamn machine
~Motor~
I could take lady
Coast her west
Ride his motor
Over the edge
Yeh I could break her
Yeh I could break her
Break her, break me
You can think what you like
But get rid of that
But I fucking hate
Goddam machine
His motot-bike

Easy

Oyster pearl
You easy girls
You're flapping in
You're shouting
You're dead good
All the men say
Legs wide
Hips swinging like a doorway
Easy
I'm ranting
I'm raving
I'm taking in
Just everything
You're giving me
No leeway
I opened once
And you called me devil's gateway
Easy
And I deserve it
I asked you for it
Have to admit it
We dress like targets
Yes I deserve it
Give me no leeway
I'll give you fine times
You can call me devil's gateway
Easy

Hardly Wait

I can hardly wait
It's been so long
I've lost my taste
Say angel come
Say lick my face
Let fall your drapes
I'd play the part
Open this mouth wide
Eat your
Ah
I can hardly wait
Lips cracked dry
Tongue blue burst
Say angel come
Say lick my thirst
It's been so long
I've lost my taste
He Romeo
Make my waters break
Oh
In my glass coffin I am waiting

Driving

Tell 'em I'm driving & it's alright
Turn on this wheel turn on headlights
100 different bibles by my side
In my white gown I'll go flying down
Oh my eyes - it cannot be
He said no … - it cannot be
All that time…- it cannot be
He said… - it cannot be
And let the ghosts fly their asses off tonight
'Cos I'm just driving until it dies
Tell 'em I'm driving & it's alright
Tell 'em that I had a skinfull
Tell 'em that I couldn't sit still
Imagine your whole self is filled with light
Your voice ringing out - through the whole fuckin' town
Oh my eyes - it cannot be
You tell 'em I'm driving

The Mountain

Above the mountain
The mountain
An eagle
Is flying

High above the mountain
An eagle calling down
To the soldier who falters
The soldier on the ground

By the mountain
I feel nothing
For in my own heart
Every tree is broken

The first tree will not be blossom
The second will not grow
The third is almost fallen
Since you betrayed me so

Since you...

Reeling

I wanna' bathe in milk
Eat grapes
Have Robert De Niro
Sit on my face
I can't sleep for thinking
Set my head a reeling
Wanna' go to spain
Spend nights
Just sipping on nectar
And ice
No I can't sleep for thinking
Set my head a reeling
Be badder than wayne
Ole' duke that can
Eliminate a whole race
Wanna make the shit hit the fan
Can't sleep for thinking
Set my head a reeling
Even aphrodite
She's got nothing on me
Take me to the moon
Fly me to the moon
Let down my hair
On stage
Call on my man Romeo
Come and climb my braids
Reeling
Even Aphrodite
She's got nothing on me
Take me to the moon
Fly me to the moon

Before departure

Farewell my friends
Farewell my dear one
If I was rude
Forgive my weakness

Goodbye my friends
Goodbye to evening parties
Remember me
In the spring

To work for your bread
Soon you must leave
Remember your families
And work for your children

I don't need much
And the older I become
I realise
My friendships

Will carry me over
Any course of distance
Any cause of sorrow
Friends that last

Will dance one more time
With me
I don't need hurt
This I need

The Piano

Hit her with a hammer
Teeth smashed in
Red tongues twitching
Look inside a skeleton

My fingers sting
Where I feel your fingers have been
Ghostly fingers
Moving my limbs

Oh god I miss you
Oh god I miss you
Oh god I miss you

Daddy's in the corner
Rattling his keys
Mummy's in the doorway
Trying to leave

Nobody's listening
Nobody's listening
Nobody's listening
Nobody's listening

Oh god I miss you
Oh god I miss you
Oh god I miss you

To Talk To You

Oh Grandmother
How I miss you
Under the earth
Wish I was with you

To talk to you
To talk to you

I found somebody
Tried to give myself to
Many times
I wanted to talk to you

If i lay on the earth
Could you hear me there?

Oh Grandmother
I'm so lonely
All my life

If i lay on the earth
Could you hear?

If I lay
Mary

Silence

All those places where I recall
The memories that gripped me
And pinned me down

I go to these places
Intending to think
And think of nothing but anticipate

Somehow expect you'll find me there
That by some miracle, you'd be aware

I'd risen this morning determined to break
Spare my longing, not to think
I freed myself from my family
I freed myself from work
I freed myself, I freed myself and remained alone

And in my thinking
I'd steal you away
Though you never wanted me
Anyway

Silence

White Chalk

White chalk hills are all I've known
White chalk hills will rot my bones
White chalk sticking to my shoes
White chalk playing as a child with you

White chalk sap against time
White chalk cutting down the sea at night
I walk the valley by the surf
On a path cut fifteen hundred years ago

And I know
These chalk hills will rot my bones

Dorset's cliffs meet at the sea
Where I walked our unborn child in me
White chalk coarse scattered land
Scratch my palms, there's blood on my hands

Broken Harp

Please don't reproach me for
For how empty my life has become

I don't know what really happened
I watched your disappointment at being misunderstood

I forgive you

Oh something metal tearing my stomach out
If you think ill of me

Can you
Can you forgive me?
Forgive me
Can you
Can you forgive me?
Too

I tried to learn your language but fell asleep half undressed
Unrecognisable to myself

When Under Ether

The ceiling is moving
Moving in time
Like a conveyor belt
Above my eyes

When under ether
The mind comes alive
But conscious of nothing
But the will to survive

I lay on the bed
Waist down, undressed
Look up at the ceiling
Feeling happiness

Human kindness

The woman beside me
Is holding my hand
I point at the ceiling
She smiles so kind

Somethings inside me
Unborn and unblessed
Disappears in the ether
This world to the next

Disappears in the ether
One world to the next

Human kindness

Grow Grow Grow

I sowed a seed
Underneath the oak tree
I trod it in
With my boots, I trampled it down

Grow grow grow

I sowed a rose
Underneath the oak grove
With my boots on the ground
Into the earth I trampled it down

Grow grow grow

Teach me how to grow
Teach me how to grow

Teach me mummy
How to grow
How to catch someone's fancy
Underneath the twisted oak grove

Dear darkness

Dear darkness
Dear darkness
Won't you cover, cover me again

Dear darkness
Dear
I've been your friend for many years

Won't you do this for me?
Dearest darkness
And cover me from the sun under the
Words typing
The words are tighening around my throat and, and

Around the throat of the one I love
The timing, the typing, the tightening
Around the throat of the one I love
The timing, the typing, the tightening

Dear Darkness
Dear Darkness
Now it's your time to look after us
Cos we've kept your clothes
We kept your business
when everyone else was having good luck

So now it's your time
Time to pay
To pay me and the one I love
With the wordly goods you've stashed away
With all the things you took from us

The Devil

As soon as I'm left alone
The devil wanders into my soul
And I pretend to myself
And I pretend to myself

I go out to the old milestone
Insanely expecting you to come there knowing
That I wait for you there
That I wait for you there

Come
Come
Come here at once
Come
Come
On a night with no moon

Because

All of my being is now in pining
All of my being is now in pining

What formly cheered me now seems insignificant
Insignificant

The Darker Days of Me & Him

Promises, promises
I'm feeling burned
You taught me a lesson
I didn't want to learn
Why did I come here?
Please tell me again
Why did you ask me?
Don't say you forget
I long for, I long for
I long for my home
I long for a land where
No man was ever known
With no neurosis
No psychosis
No psychoanalysis
And no sadness
I'll pick up the pieces,
I'll carry on somehow
Tape the broken parts together
And limp this love around
Limp this love around

The Desperate Kingdom of Love

Oh love, you were a sickly child
And how the wind knocked you down
Put on your spurs, swagger around
In the desperate kingdom of love
Holy water cannot help you now
Your mysterious eyes cannot help you
Selling your reason will not bring you through
The desperate kingdom of love
There's another who looks from behind your eyes
I learn from you how to hide
From the desperate kingdom of love
At the end of this burning world
You'll stand proud, face upheld
And I'll follow you, into Heaven or Hell
And I'll become, as a girl
In the desperate kingdom of love

It's You

Oh dear sweet mama
I'm not feeling well
Can I step out
For a little while?
But I go missing
I steal away
And I go kissing
In the alleyway
All I want to do
And all I want to grow up to be
Is all caught up with you
Look what you're doing to me
Oh dearest young man
Teach me sweetheart
How to love you
I'm a clever girl
You've got me lying
You've got me leaving home
You've got me crying
When I'm alone
When I'm not with you my dreams are so very dark
When I'm not with you I dream of my hair falling out
When I'm not with you I walk dark tunnels of my heart
When I'm not with you everything comes apart
When I was younger
I spent my days
Wondering to whom
I was supposed to pray...
It's you...

You Come Through

We are waiting
For the summer
The sun will bring back
Treasures for us
Come on my friend
Drink to good times
Golden wishes
To your health and mine
You come through
For me
You come true
For me
You be well
For me
You come through
For me
I'll be lifted
On this our holiday
I'll take you my friend
I'll take you with me
You come through
For me
You come true
For me
You be well
For me
You come through
For me

Cat on the Wall

I heard our song on the radio
It wasn't long before I think of you
Can't get the sound outta my head
Don't look now, it's coming round again
I saved your voice from the telephone
I play it back on the message machine
It really sounds like you're having fun
I'm going out into the midday sun
Come night, I'm gonna step outside
Take a walk, I'm gonna clear my mind
The radio, still playing our song
You got me jumping like a cat on the wall
Turn up the radio
They play the radio in my dreams
Takes me back to when I was 17
Dancing in circles on the kitchen floor
I'll play this song 'til I can't take anymore

No Child of Mine

I have no time for hate or love
Hey child, you're so full of woe
I have no time for hate or lying
Hey child, you're no child of mine

The Slow Drug

Blue now is the colour
Love the drug I'm needing
Got to keep this feeling
With the headlights burning
We're looking up for something
Answers on the ceiling
Watching out the windows
Watch the way the wind blows
Soon it will be morning
Still the question lingers
I twist it round my fingers
Could you be my calling?
See this winged boy falling
Falling out of something
Hits the drug I'm needing
Arrows that he's turning
Need to keep this feeling
Slow drug in the morning
With the headlights burning
Looking up for something
Something that we're needing
Still the question lingers
I twist it round my fingers
Could you be my calling?

The Letter

Put the pen
To the paper
Press the envelope
With my scent
Can't you see
In my handwriting
The curve of my g?
The longing
Oh
Who is left that
Writes these days?
You and me
We'll be different
Take the cap
Off your pen
Wet the envelope
Lick and lick it
Oh
I need you
The time is running out
Oh baby
Can't you hear me call?
It turns me on
To imagine
Your blue eyes
On my words
Your beautiful pen
Take the cap off
Give me a sign and I'd come running
Oh
It's you
I want you

The Pocket Knife

Please don't make my wedding dress
I'm too young to marry yet
Can you see my pocket knife?
You can't make me be a wife

How the world just turns & turns
How does anybody learn?
Mummy, put your needle down
How did you feel when you were young?
Cos I feel like I've just been born
Even though I'm getting on

How the world slips by so fast
How does anybody last?
As the world keeps coming
And the bees keep humming
And I'll keep running
Flowers I can do without
I don't wanna be tied down
White material will stain
My pocket knife's gotta shiny blade

I'm not trying to cause a fuss
I just wanna make my own fuck-ups
I'm not trying to break your heart
I'm just trying not to fall apart

Who the fuck ?

Who the fuck
Do you think you are
Get out
O f my hair
who the fuck
do you think you are
Comin' round
here
Who the fuck?
W ho the fuck?
W ho the fuck
Do you think you are
Get your comb
Out of there
Coming out
My hair
I'm not like other girls
You can't straighten my curls
I'm not like other girls
You can't straighten my curls
Who the fuck
You tryin' to be?
Get your dog
A way from me!
What the fuck
Y ou doing in there
Get your dirty fingers
Outta my hair!
Who?
Who?
Who?
Who?
Fuck!
Fuck!
Fuck!
You
I'm free
You'll see
I'm me
You'll see
Who?

Shame

I don't need no rising moon
I don't need no ball and chain
I don't need anything with you
Such a shame, shame, shame
Shame, shame, shame - shame is the shadow of love
You changed my life
We were as green as grass
And I was hypnotized
From the first 'til the last, kiss of
Shame, shame, shame - shame is the shadow of love
I'd jump for you into the fire
I'd jump for you into the flame
Tried to go forward with my life
I just feel shame, shame, shame
Shame, shame, shame - shame is the shadow of love
And if you tell a lie
I still would take the blame
If you pass me by
It's such a shame, shame, shame

The Life and Death of Mr Badmouth

Baby, you got a bad bad mouth
Everything is poison that's coming out
Cheating, lying since the day you were born
Someone outta rinse it out with soap
Wash it out, wash it out, wash it out
No kind words are coming out of your mouth
Plenty goes in but nothing good comes out
Badmouth, sad mouth, you were an unhappy child
That doesn't make your lying tongue alright
Wash it out, wash it out, wash it out
Cos everything is poison
You'll be the unhappy one
Your lips taste of poison
You're gonna be left alone
When you told me every word you said
Came from voices talking in your head
Baby, I just think you're out for what you can get
Your badmouth has killed off everything we had
Wash it out, wash it out, wash it out
Cos everything is poison
You'll be the unhappy one
Your lips taste of poison
You'll be in the corner crying