1.Pseudo Silk Kimono
Huddled in the safety of a pseudo silk kimono
Wearing bracelets of smoke, naked of understanding
Nicotine smears, long, long dried tears, invisible tears
Safe in my own words, learning from my own words
Cruel joke, cruel joke
Huddled in the safety of a pseudo silk kimono
A morning mare rides, in the starless shutters of my eyes
The spirit of a misplaced childhood is rising to speak his mind
To this orphan of heartbreak, disillusioned and scorned
A refugee, refugee
(safe in the sanctuary, safe)
2.Kayleigh
Do you remember, chalk hearts melting on a playground wall？
Do you remember, dawn escapes from moonwashed college halls？
Do you remember, cherry blossom in the market square？
Do you remember, i thought it was confetti in our hair？
By the way didn't i break your heart？
Please excuse me, i never meant to break your heart
So sorry i never meant to break your heart
But you broke mine
Kayleigh is it too late to say i'm sorry？
And kayleigh could we get it together again？
I can't go on pretending that it came to a natural end
Kayleigh i never thought i'd miss you
And kayleigh i hoped that we'd always stay friends
We said our love would last forever
So how did it come to this bitter end？
Do you remember, barefoot on the lawn with shooting stars？
Do you remember, loving on the floor in belsize park？
Do you remember, dancing in stilletos in the snow？
Do you remember, you never understood i had to go？
By the way, didn't i break your heart？
Please excuse me i never meant to break your heart
So sorry, i never meant to break your heart
But you broke mine
Kayleigh, i just want to say i'm sorry
But kayleigh i'm too scared to pick up the phone
To find you've found another lover to patch up our broken home
Kayleigh, i'm still trying to write that love song
Kayleigh it's more important to me now you're gone
Maybe it'll prove that we were right
Or it will prove that i was wrong
Alternate lyrics from westwood one in concert
Do you remember chalk hearts melting on a playground wall？
Do you remember dawn escapes from moon-washed college halls？
Do you remember dreaming on the heath till after dark？
Do you remember loving on the floor in belsize park？
By the way, didn't i break your heart？
Please excuse me, i never meant to break your heart.
So sorry, i never meant to break your heart
But you broke mine.
Kayleigh, we could have a garden.
Kayleigh, we could, damn it, just one more time.
We could mow the lawn on sundays, we could capture suntans from
the breeze.
Kayleigh we promised it forever but kayleigh the secrets held
on.
We could buy the house in heaven, we could always try and take
us along again.
Do you remember blocked up lines and call from montreal？
Do you remember your mother asked me never to call？
Do you remember talking in the bedroom making plans？
Do you remember you told me i should join a band？
By the way, didn't i break your heart？
Please excuse me, i never meant to break your heart.
So sorry, i never meant to break your heart
But you broke mine.
Kayleigh, we could have a garden.
Kayleigh we could work it just one more time.
We could mow the lawn on sundays, we could capture suntans from
the breeze.
Kayleigh, it never worked out this time but kayleigh, we could
promise again.
The problem seems to be the secrets, you could say it came to a
natural end.
3.Lavender
I was walking in the park dreaming of a spark
When i heard the sprinklers whisper,
Shimmer in the haze of summer lawns.
Then i heard the children singing,
They were running through the rainbows
They were singing a song for you
Well it seemed to be a song for you,
The one i wanted to write for you, for you.
Lavenders blue, dilly dilly, lavenders green
When i am king, dilly dilly, you will be queen
A penny for your thoughts my dear,
A penny for your thoughts my dear,
I.o.u. for your love, i.o.u. for your love.
Lavenders green, dilly dilly, lavenders blue
When you love me, dilly dilly, i will love you
A penny for your thoughts my dear,
A penny for your thoughts my dear,
I.o.u. for your love, i.o.u. for your love
For your love, for your love.
4.Bitter Suite
1) brief encounter
A spider wanders aimlessly within the warmth of a shadow
Not the regal creature of border caves
But the poor, misguided directionless
Familiar of some obscure scottish poet
The mist crawls from the canal
Like some primordial phantom of romance
To curl, under a cascade of neon pollen
While i sit tied to the phone like an expectant father
Your carnation will rot in a vase
2) lost weekend
A train sleeps in a siding
The driver guzzles another can of lager
To wash away the memories of a friday night down at the club
She was a wallflower at sixteen
She'll be a wallflower at thirty four
Her mother called her beautiful
Her daddy said 'a whore'.
3) blue angel
The sky was bible black in lyon
When i met the magdalene
She was paralysed in a streetlight
She refused to give her name
And a ring of violet bruises
They were pinned upon her arm
Two hundred francs for sanctuary and she led me by the hand
To a room of dancing shadows where all the heartache disappears
And from the glowing tongues of candles i heard her whisper in
my ear
'j'entend ton coeur'
'j'entend ton coeur'
I can hear your heart
I can hear your heart
I can hear your heart
4) misplaced rendezvous
It's getting late for scribbling and scratching on the paper
Something's gonna give under this pressure
The cracks are already beginning to show
It's too late
The weekend career girl never boarded the plane
They said this could never happen again
So wrong, so wrong
This time, it's looking like another misplaced rendezvous
This time it seems to be another misplaced rendezvous with you
The parallel of you, you
5) windswept thumb
On the outskirts of nowhere
On the ringroad to somewhere
On the verge of indecision
I'll always take the roundabout way
Waiting on the rain
For i was born with a habit
From a sign
The habit of a windswept thumb
And the sign of the rain
Rain on me!
5.Heart Of Lothian
1) wide boy
Wide boys, wide boys, wide boys
Born with hearts of lothian
Wide boys, wide boys, born with hearts of lothian
Wide boys, we were wide boys, born with hearts of lothian
These hearts of lothian
It's six o'clock in the tower blocks
The stalagmites of culture shock, (culture shock)
And the trippers of the light fantastic, bow down, hoe-down
Spray their pheremones on this perfume uniform
And anarchy smiles in the royal mile
And they're waiting on the sly boys, fly-boys, wideboys
Rooting, tooting cowboys, lucky little ladies at the watering
holes
They'll score the friday night goals
I was born, with a heart of lothian
With a heart of lothian
2) curtain call
And the man from the magazine
Wants another shot of you all curled up
Cos you look like an actor in a movie shot
But you're feeling like a wino in a parking lot
How did i get here anyway？
Do we really need a playback of the show？
Cos the wideboys want to head for the watering holes
Watering holes, water-holes
Let's go
And the man in the mirror had sad eyes
6.Waterhole(Expresso Bongo)
When the taxis gather in mock solemnity.
Funeral hearses court the death of virginity,
Was it paradise lost or paradise found？
Did we gain respect or were we holding ground？
You had found true love, or so you believed
And the wideboys tattooed your hearts upon their sleeves.
So when you think it's time to go,
When you think it's time to go,
Don't be surprised, the heroes never show.
And the patter merchants selling false impressions,
Tipping eyes at the waitress with american expressions,
Tie angels to the bar with sweet martini's and their charms
They're lying on every word and every arm
They're turning down their noses to the best lines
And the cheap wines.
And the wideboys,
They wear their lovebites for their crimes.
So when you think it's time to go,
When you think it's time to go,
Don't be surprised, the heroes never show.
7.Lords Of The Backstage
A love song with no validity
Pretend you never meant that much to me
Numb, a valium child, bored by meaningless collisions
A lonely stretch of headlight, diamonds trapped in black ice
A mirror cracked among the white lines.
I just wanted you to be the first one
I just wanted you to be the first one
Ashes are burning, burning
Ashes are burning, burning.
A lifestyle with no simplicities
But i'm not asking for your sympathy
Talk, we never could talk, distanced by all that was between us.
A lord of the backstage, a creature of language,
I'm so far out and i'm too far in.
I just wanted you to be the first one
I just wanted you to be the first one
Bridges are burning, burning
Bridges are burning, burning
Now, now, now, now
8.Blind Curve
1) vocal under a bloodlight
Last night you said i was cold, untouchable
A lonely piece of action from another town
I just want to be free, i'm happy to be lonely
Can't you stay away？
Just leave me alone with my thoughts.
Just a runaway, just a runaway,
I'm saving myself.
2) passing strangers
Strung out below a necklace of carnival lights
Cold moan, held on the crest of the night
I'm too tired to fight
So now we're passing strangers, at single tables
Still trying to get over,
Still trying to write love songs for passing strangers
All those passing strangers.
And the twinkling lies, all those twinkling lies,
Sparkle with the wet ink on the paper.
3) mylo
Oh i remember toronto when mylo went down,
And we sat and cried on the phone
I never felt so alone,
He was the first of our own
Some of us go down in a blaze of obscurity
Some of us go down in a haze of publicity
The price of infamy, the edge of insanity
Another holiday inn, another temporary home,
And an interviewer threatened me with a microphone,
'talk to me, won't you tell me your stories.'
So i talked about conscience and i talked about pain
And he looked out the window and it started to rain
I thought maybe i've already gone crazy.
So i reached for a bottle and he reached for the door,
And i picked up the sleeping pills crushed on the floor
Inviting me to a casual obscenity.
4) perimeter walk
It would be incredible if we could
Retrace all the times that we lived here
All the collisions
Wasted, i've never been so wasted
I've never been this far out before
Perimeter walk.
There's a presence here.
I feel could have been ancient,
I could have been mystical
There's a presence,
A childhood, my childhood,
My childhood, childhood, a misplaced childhood,
My childhood, a misplaced childhood,
Give it back to me, give it back to me.
A childhood, that childhood, that childhood,
That childhood, that childhood
Oh please give it back to me.
5) threshold
I saw a war widow in a launderette,
Washing the memories from her husband's clothes
She had medals pinned to a threadbare greatcoat
A lump in her throat with cemetery eyes
I see convoys curbcrawling west german autobahns
Trying to pick up a war
They're going to even the score
Oh... i can't take any more
I see black flags on factories,
Soup ladles poised on the lips of the poor
I see children with vacant stares,
Destined for rape in the alleyways
Does anybody care, i can't take any more
Should we say goodbye？ hey
I see priests, politicians
The heroes in black plastic body-bags under nations' flags
I see children pleading with outstretched hands,
Drenched in napalm, this is no vietnam
I can't take any more, should we say goodbye,
How can we justify？
They call us civilised...
9.Childhood's End？
And it was morning.
And i found myself mourning
For a childhood that i thought had disappeared
I looked out the window,
And i saw a magpie in the rainbow, the rain had gone
I'm not alone, i turned to the mirror,
I saw you, the child, that once loved
The child before they broke his heart,
Our heart, the heart that i believed was lost.
Hey you, surprised？ more than surprised,
To find the answers to the questions,
Were always in your own eyes
Do you realize that you could've gone back to her？
But that would only be retraced in all the problems that you
ever knew,
So untrue.
For she's got to carry on with her life,
And you've got to carry on with yours
So i see it's me, i can do anything
And i'm still the child,
'cause the only thing misplaced was direction
And i found direction
There is no childhood's end
There is no childhood's end
'cause you are my childhood friend
'cause you are my childhood friend
Oh lead me on.
Hey you, you've survived
Now you've arrived,
To be reborn in the shadow of the magpie
Now you realize, that you've got to get out of here
You've found the leading light of destiny,
Burning in the ashes of your memory
You want to change the world
You'd resigned yourself to die a broken rebel,
But that was looking backward
Now you've found the light.
You, the child that once loved,
The child before they broke his heart
Our heart, the heart that i believed was lost
So it's me i see, i can do anything
I'm still the child
'cause the only thing misplaced was direction, and i found
direction
There is no childhood's end
There is no childhood's end
There is no childhood's end
I am your childhood friend
Oh.. lead me on.
10.White Feather
When i hit the streets back in '81,
Found a heart in the gutter and a poet's crown
I felt barbed-wire kisses and icicle tears,
Where have i been for all these years？
I saw political intrigue, political lies,
Gonna wipe those smiles of self-satisfaction from their eyes
I will wear your white feather
I will carry your white flag
I will swear i have no nation
But i'm proud to own my heart
I will wear your white feather
I will carry your white flag
I will swear i have no nation
But i'm proud to own my heart
My heart, this is my heart
We don't need no uniforms, we have no disguise,
Divided we stand, together we'll rise
We will wear your white feather
We will carry your white flag
We will swear we have no nations
But we're proud to own our hearts
We will wear your white feather
We will carry your white flag
We will swear we have no nations
But we're proud to own our hearts
These are our hearts
These are our hearts
You can't take away our hearts
You can't steal our hearts away
I can't walk away
I can't walk away
No more, no more, no more, no more...
11.Lady Nina
You pick out your credit cards and check into the night
A dozen tequilas and you're feeling alright
So you swim to the disco, out of your depth, jaded gigolo
Your lucky charms are tarnished so you leave alone
But there's one place left to go before the taxi home
After all, you made your marks
One night you'll play elizabeth taylor
The next night you're marilyn monroe
Forever kissing frogs that think they're princes
Oh lady nina, where did all the romance go？
Your little sister babysits, your husband picks you up at six
The make-up hides the bruises and the tears so they never show
'cause your beauty is the only thing you've ever owned
It's the only way you've ever known to make your marks
You made your marks, you made your marks
We believe it's for real
Lady nina, i'd love to take you home with me
But i love my wife and i love my family
I've got a good job, responsibilities
And i need to keep respect from society
I know you'll never act with me, i know that you're in love with
me
So how do i compare to the sailors of the ships of the night？
Was i all right, did you come tonight, lady nina？
You made your marks, you made your marks
Ebony flowers pinned to a velvet cushion in a red light
And edith piaf sings a lullaby for the night
Just made your marks, just made your marks
Just made your marks, just made your marks
You made your marks
Ebony flowers pinned to a velvet cushion in a red light
And edith piaf sings a lullaby for the night
Just made your marks, just made your marks
You made your marks, and you made your marks
Just made your marks, and you made your marks
Just made your marks
12.Freaks
Have you ever met a lady, screaming angst potential？
Have you ever dreamed of romance, no matter how experimental？
Have you ever felt an alien drifting back into your hometown？
Did you think you were buying safety
When you bought that piece of ground？
She said all the best freaks are here
She said all the best freaks are here, please stop staring at me
So i said all the best freaks are here
All the best freaks are here, please stop staring at me
Have you ever woke up, sweating in the middle of the night？
You search the darkness and you're scrambling for the light
Have you ever walked down the street, heard bootsteps following
you？
Don't worry my son, you've got the spook squad looking after you
He said all the best freaks are here
He said all the best freaks are here, please stop staring at me
So i said all the best freaks are here
All the best freaks are here, please stop staring at me, stop
staring at me
Airport terminal, patiently waiting on the last call
You feel the eyes burn the back of your head
Sign the autograph, get out of the picture, gonna have the last
laugh
Feel the whispers as you head for the plane
Stop staring at me
Love and linen sheets seem so very far away
You save your pennies and you buy another day
But after all it's only hide and seek, just another game
There's so much fun to be had when you're living with a name
All the best freaks are here, all the best freaks are here,
Please stop staring at me, all the best freaks are here
All the best freaks are here, please stop staring at me
Oh, stop staring at me, oh, stop staring at me
They said all the best freaks are here
All the best freaks are here, please stop staring at me
All the best freaks are here
All the best freaks are here, please stop staring at me
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