Seasons end

A ragged man came shuffling through

A puppet king on the 4th of June 

And butterflies from all around 

Settled on his paper crown 

A pretty sight it seemed to be 

An avenue of eternal peace 

But he said, "What is here can soon burn down..."

"I'm the king of sunset town" 



Watch a big wheel turning round 

Some go up and some go down 

Some go thirsty some just drown 

"That's the law round here"

Said the king of sunset town 



And in the night he comes to me 

And the square becomes a battlefield 

Of staring eyes that can't explain 

The insanity and the greater game 



Watch a big wheel turning round 

Some go up and some go down 

Some go thirsty some just drown 

"That's the law round here"

Said the king of sunset town 



A ragged man came shuffling through 

The corridors of this white place 

And as he lay his body down 

I saw the scars that lined his face 

And injured souls came to his bed 

To hear the stories he would tell 

Of butterflies and summertimes 

And everyone assembled here 

Remembers how it used to be 

Before the 27th came 

This place will never be the same 



He said "I'm the king of sunset town"

Watch a big wheel turning round 

Some go up and some go down 

Some go thirsty some just drown 

"That's the law round here"

Said the king of sunset town

A ghost of a mist was on the field 

The grey and the green together 

The noise of a distant farm machine 

Out of the first light came 

A tattered necklace of hedge end trees

On the southern side of the hill

Betrays where the border runs between

Where Mary Dunoon's boy fell 



Easter here again, a time for the blind to see

Easter, surely now can all of your hearts be free 



Out of the port of Liverpool

Bound for the North of Ireland 

The wash of the spray and horsetail waves

The roll of the sea below 



And Easter here again, a time for the blind to see

Easter, surely now can all of your hearts be free 



What will you do? 

Make a stone of your heart?

Will you set things right? 

When you tear them apart? 

Will you sleep at night? 

With the plough and the stars alight? 



What will you do? 

With the wire and the gun?

That'll set things right 

When it's said and done?

Will you sleep at night?

Is there so much love to hide? 



Forgive, Forget

Sing "Never again."

You may not recall the moment that you asked me 

But your invitation was clear 

You'll pretend you've never met me but it's far to late

Now I'm here 

Cause I'm the one who knows what scares you

I'm the one who loves you best 

I'm the thirteenth at the table

I'm the uninvited guest 

I'm the Banquo at your banquet 

I'm the cuckoo in your nest

I'm your fifteen-stone first-footer 

I'm the uninvited guest 



I was there when you said insincere "I love you's" 

To a woman who wasn't your wife 

And I fronted you the money 

That you ran away and blew

On the biggest regret of your life 



Cause I'm the one who knows what scares you 

I'm the who loves you best 

I'm the thirteenth at the table

I'm the uninvited guest 

I'm the Banquo at your banquet 

I'm the cuckoo in your nest 

I'm your New Year's resolution 

I'm the uninvited guest



I'm the face you hoped you'd never see 

But always knew you would 

I'm the one thing you knew you shouldn't do 

But did because you could 



I'm the evil in your bloodstream 

I'm the rash upon your skin 

And you made a big mistake all right 

The day you let me in 

And you can fly to the other side of the world 

You know you'll only find

I've reserved the seat behind you 

We can talk about old times 



Cause I'm the one who knows what scares you 

I'm the who loves you best 

I'm the thirteenth at the table

I'm the uninvited guest

I'm the Banquo at your banquet 

I'm the cuckoo in your nest 

I'm your fifteen-stone first-footer 

I'm the uninvited guest 

Let me in!

I'm your New Year's resolution 

I'm the uninvited guest

Getting close to seasons end 

I heard somebody say 

That it might never snow again 

In England 

Snow flakes in a new-born fist 

Sledging on a hill 

Are these things we'll never see 

In England 



We'll tell our children's children why 

We grew so tall and reached so high 

We left our footprints in the earth 

And punched a hole right through the sky 



We'll tell them how we changed the world 

And how we tamed the sea 

And seasons they will never know 

In England 



So watch the old world melt away 

A loss regrets could never mend 

You never miss it till it's gone 

So say goodbye, say goodbye 



We'll tell our children's children why 

We grew so tall and reached so high

You never miss it till it's gone 

So say goodbye, say goodbye

To seasons end

I was out in the cold of a North London street 

A cog in the hurrying world 

Above the walls and the gate police 

I caught a glimpse of a Holloway girl 

She was reachin' out of a window 

From a space just a few inches wide 

'Till the hand of justice pulled her back inside



One day, freedom will unlock your door 

So hold on, believe on

Be who you were before 

One day, freedom will unlock your door 



I know how hard it can be to wait 

For proof you were right all along 

Self-destruction is easy for you 

We know what you're capable of 



But like a needle in a haystack 

The truth gets so disguised 

In a kingdom built on madness and on lies 



One day, freedom will unlock your door 

So hold on, believe on

Be who you were before

In deepest darkness, the faintest light looks bright 

So hold on, hold on

It's gonna be all right 



You're lookin' up at a mountain

Between you and the outside

But there isn't a mountain in this whole world 

Hasn't been climbed 



One day, freedom will unlock your door 

So hold on, believe on

Be who you were before 

In deepest darkness, the faintest light looks bright 

So hold on, hold on 

It's gonna be all right



One day, freedom 

One day, freedom will unlock your door

The mascara'd blonde from the Berliner bar 

Rises at twilight, gets dressed in a daze 

Black leather crackles and cold water runs 

As she touches the walls of memory maze 

And the shadows of men she has known fill her day 

She's held half the world in her arms so they say 

But she wakes up without them with a hole in her heart 

And she puts on her clothes lives her life behind bars 



The mascara'd blonde from the Berliner bar 

Sighs at the skylight gets lost in the haze 

Black leather crackles and cold water runs 

As she touches the walls of her memory maze 



Someone got stranded in no man's land

Dancing in the spotlight to the sound of clapping hands 

Nobody knows who's side he was on 

It's a risk that you take in no man's land 

Nobody knows what made him decide 

To run for freedom and to certain suicide 

When they turn off the guns and his fingers uncurl 

He's clutching a photograph of a Berlin party girl 



Come in from your checkpoints on your lonely roads 

Come in from your ditches in your silent fields 

Where intensified light from a rifle sight 

Makes the darkness day 

And the day too bright,



And we wake up without you 

We wake up without you 

With a hole in our hearts 



You mad dog shaven head bottle-boy freaks 

In Martens and khaki, drunk on sake 

You stare at yourself in the cruel flush of dawn 

Terrified, sunken eyed, withered and drawn 

The butcher, the baker, the munitions maker 

The over-achiever, the armistice breaker 

The freebase instructor, the lightning conductor 

The psycho, the sailor, the tanker, the tailor 

The black market mailer 

The quick and the dead 

The spotlight dancer 

The quick and the dead 

We wake up without you 

With a hole in our hearts



The mascara'd blonde from the Berliner bar 

Rises at twilight, gets dressed in a daze

There's a line on her jeans that a ball-point made

From a careless mistake that she can't wash away 

And there's a heart on her sleeve from a spill of red wine 

There's a piece of green in the blue of her eyes 

She named it after me 

There's a stray dog she feeds that she found in the street

And he loves her to hold him, but he won't let her keep him

And he claws at the door to be let out at night 

And she makes do without him, and she worries about him 

She named him after me 



So if you ever decide that you have to escape 

And travel the world, and you can't find a place 

Well, you could wind up believing 

That paradise is nothing more than a feeling

That goes on in your mind 

So if ever find out what that is 

There's something you could do 



'Cause if I ever hold that golden dream again 

I want to tell you 

I'm gonna name it after you

I feel so strange what's wrong with me

You've got a problem that you can't see 

But I've got a feeling all the rumours are true

I see the girl's got a hook in you 

You carry on believing 

That you can take or leave it 

Now who are you deceiving 

Cause when its own up time 

She's in back of your mind 



She's got her hooks in you 



You said you'd never let it happen again 

You spend your money and you're deeper in 

Your fair-weather friends call two by two 

To let you know what's wrong with you 



But now your heartbeat's thumpin' 

You watch your nerve ends jumpin' 

Well I can tell you something

When it's own up time 

You're gonna toe the line 



She's got her hooks in you 

She's got her hooks in me too

On top of the world like a flag on a mountain 

Feeling so high you can feel so alone

Unable to breathe at the height that you flew 

Staring on clouds with no view of below 

On top of a girl like a dream in a hotel

Falling towards something out of control 

Unable to miss like the man in the tram 

Crashing your car in Amsterdam 



He did it without knowing, didn't feel a thing 

He just wrecked it and kept going 



The space around the stars

Is something that you know 

A billion miles of darkness

Left your feeling low 

The space around the stars

Is something that you know



Everything about you 

So perfectly restrained 

But everything inside you

Bites you 



Everybody in the whole of the world

Feels the same inside 

Everybody in the whole of the world



Everyone is only everyone else 

Everybody's got to know 

Everybody lives and loves and laughs and cries 

And eats and sleeps and grows and dies 

Everybody in the whole of the world 

Is the same this time 

Is the same inside

In the whole of the world