Ride Your Ride

Sorry I'm Late, I had trouble getting here I met a man, yes another strange one I was standing, Looking up at the thunderclouds He said he was, the man who keeps the sky   What kind of people are these Who put more value on property than people Who put their wealth before their wisdom Who fill the air with dust and all these poisons   I can carry, the sound with my bare hands Of the ships bells passing in the night I tend to the roofgardens of the world Rest your tears, let me show you how to make it rain   The path of life is not…

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Days

I can see the lights of this place Out across the water Silently they pass on the tide The watchers keep me awake Do not look your days in the eye I can feel the freezing on my skin And these thoughts are something lost On the oceans of memory Awash with pictures that flash and fade Do not look your days in the eye Do not look your days in the eye They will only look deeper into you Do not look your days in the eye And now I'm falling, I'm falling overboard Silently they pass on the tide And I'm slipping through these dreams On a clear night…

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Stop the Engines

I have come down unknown paths To the sand on the shoreline Like a last man standing at the ends of the earth I have come here to speak With the ocean With the ocean   I do not recognise your currency Stop the engines Stop the engines   The silence is seething all around me The spirits of the dead will live again The tide slips and flows with the cycles of the sun and the moon The spirits of the dead will live again   From far across the water like a silvery dawn The words blew in from the atlantic "If you lock yourselves in cages of fear…

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Brother

This could be anywhere my friend The same things day after day Don't be afraid cos I'm just someone to lean on You're not alone you're like a brother to me   You're like a brother to me   "X" Marks the spot I know you'll never give in It's too late to stop all of this now These bridges are burning and I'm feeling them pushing and Pushing and pushing I have my dreams and I've got my reasons   You're like a brother to me   You take the sting out of my eye All these straight lines and these walls You take the needles from my side You…

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Footprints

I am forever Walking these shores Of sand and these white horses The tide will wipe out my footprints But I know you will find me   And what is right What is wrong What is true What is not   Their shadow, which destroys the land Soars like an eagle across the sun Take a look at the cities and all of these towns All these motorways and these roads   And what is right What is wrong What is true What is not   Your business of good, and business of bad They don't mean a thing my friend   If you go to the rivers or to the…

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This Business

This business is a bloody one And these hands are dripping Every night I can hear them Banging on the inside   This business   I've tried to turn my eyes away But still I hear them I don't know if I can do this anymore I find the words so hard to find   This business   Can't go on in silence As if all time stands still Shadows gather round us And there's a devil.....that lies within   I can't go on in silence I could never draw that line Like the black ice of a frozen heart There's a devil deep inside   This business There's a devil.....…

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Magnesium Man

Let me tell you about a man I once knew Bit of a strange one He used to keep snails in his bedside table Everyone used to call him the magnesium man   The magnesium man shivered and buttoned his coat against the cold And he stepped outside.....outside He smiled as he looked up through the pale winter sunlight At all the meteor showers And taking that bag in his hand he turned the key in the door behind him And headed down the path into the road   If you're lucky you might see him Standing on the corner As he passes by your front window pane If you're lucky,…

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The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

The patient man sits silently On a bench by the ocean He's learning his lesson patiently The lesson of the sea   He said "I've seen The light at the end of the world And now my friend You must make your choice Between the devil and the deep blue sea"   There is a fire across the heavens At night when all is still It's just your imagination And only there can you be truly free   He said "I've seen The light at the end of the world And now my friend You must make your choice Between the devil and the deep blue sea"   With every footprint…

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One Minute, or a Lifetime

...Whilst you were fast asleep last night And lost, within your dreams I got up from your bedside And I turned the nightlight out I had to step into the darkness   At last I feel this sadness Lifted from my shoulders At last the weight is gone It's lifted from my shoulders   I felt the voices speaking A man's life is short You will ask for nothing You will learn to heal All this fear at last is fading   At last I feel this sadness Lifted from my shoulders At last the weight is gone It's lifted from my shoulders   One minute Or a lifetime Is all…

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Ask Yourself

Let me ask you Has anyone Has anyone felt like this before Let me ask you Do you care Do you care about anything at all Does it matter Does it matter to you should we try to talk   If I was lost would you help me to be found Or would you turn your back and try to shut me out   We're all human Yes human And being human we all have desire To be something Yes something Something that says "hey, I'm special too"   If you were lost I'd help you to be found I'd never turn my back or shut you out   Where do…

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Skinwalker

I don't want to save your world and I don't give a That's right I don't give a 'Cos I won't help you no I can't help you You can't help those, who refuse to help themselves And I'm walking through your dreams With flaming hands 'Cos I'm a skinwalker, I carry the inner fire   Skinwalker   I bless the torture in your heart and I feel your pain Do you think I can't feel your pain? And I can't help you no I won't help you All this pain that hurts so much can only lead us to understand And I'm walking through your dreams With flaming hands 'Cos…

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Oceans in Her Eyes

I'm lost within her blue green eyes And her cool clear water skin She's like the dawn that opens far out to sea Over silver shoals that gently rise on the tide   Within the slow tide of her lamplight I watch the moths begin to rise Her beauty washes all around me I'm lost upon the oceans in her eyes   She keeps the secrets to the ocean The secrets one day she'll set free She spins her web from threads of amber sun As she disappears into the sea   Within the slow tide of her lamplight I watch the moths begin to rise Her beauty washes all around…

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Leigh-on-Sea

I'm here In the empty faces walking on the pier I'm here Where the winter sunlight sparkles on the sea I'm here On the quayside looking out at all the fishing boats I'm here Like the breeze upon your pretty face   When I come for you my love I will find you in your dreams I'll put fire in your hands And I'll drag you to the sea We will run into the foam Let the ocean take us I will set your spirit free   I'm here I'm the wind blowing circles in fallen leaves I'm here I'm as restless as the sea, I cannot sleep I'm here In…

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The Patience of the Sea

The Sky above me goes for miles and miles I blink and look up to the blue Beneath these wheels another open road And words I'm trying to forget All these faces looking down at me And those who will never see that smile again   Will you come and take me home Will you heal these aching bones Will you take me far away from here Will you come and take me   A year is but a day to them As they look down on us At our bedsides as we sleep They sit with the patience of the sea And as I dream she holds me in her…

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Sands of Time

The blue blue ocean crashes painfully Upon a shoreline of broken shells I'm looking for somewhere to disappear To dissolve me from view   And all this fire that burns around me Never cools   All the ice in hell could never cure me Of this ill that's poisoning my flesh The Seasons change but these burning eyes Follow nothing but your foolish moves   And all this fire that burns around me Never cools   the fierce rays of the sun, infernal Have blackened the spirit I can't hide The drifting sands of time prey silent witness To the weakness that we're all afraid to die   And all this…

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