Holidays in Eden

There's a hot hard hurt

Burning under her skin 

And it pricks her like thorns 

And it's needles and pins 

And it twists in her body

And I know what it is 

And I'm paying in pain 

But it's the cost of the high 

'Till the weight of the secret 

And the weight of the lie 

Makes my heart want to burst 

Feel the ache as time goes by 

Getting better and worse 

Getting better and worse 



And there's a screw that I tighten 

As I dream of the kiss 

And it twists and it cuts me 

And you know what it is? 

It's a fragment of love 

From a splintering heart

And it tears her apart

But not as much as this 



So you save up your tears 

For the moments alone 

'Till the splinters you gather 

Leave you glass-hard and numb 

And the same sun is shining 

On the old and the young

On the saints and the sinners 

On the weak and the strong 



And there's a burning and freezing 

And a cross for a kiss 

So she learns to stop dreaming 

And you know how it is 



With these fragments of love 

And this splintering heart 

With the fragments 

And this splintering heart

Cover my eyes

The light falls on her face 

Dangerous lines

Dangerous colours and shapes 

Ferocious designs 

Connected and ready to play 

Buttoned up tight 

Crimson and Halloween-white 

She's like the girl in the movie when the Spitfire falls 

Like the girl in the picture that he couldn't afford 

She's like the girl with the smile in the hospital ward

Like the girl in the novel in the wind on the moors 



Pain and heaven 

Pain and heaven 



The meaning of life 

A hair falls out of place

Cover my eyes 

Dangerous colours and shapes 

And when she moves

Cover my eyes 



She like the girl on the TV with the red guitar 

Like the girl with the dealer at the end of the bar 

She's like the girl with the smile in the dream in the dark

Like the girl overtaking in the open car 



Pain and heaven 

Pain and heaven

She bought a bottle of cider 

From the shop on the corner 

They didn't stop her 

Thought she was older 

She took a bus ride 

To a name and a number 

A house full of music 

And a hatful of wonder 



And some of the people 

That she thought that she knew 

Were never like this 

When she saw them at school 

She's never been anywhere like this before 

Everybody's so out of control 



She was in a back room 

Full of strange aromas 

And noises and candles 

That was where he found her 



He took her to a garden 

Full of rain and silence 

And she could smell the soil and the trees 

And see the succulent light from the little fires in his eyes 

Pulling shapes out of the night 

She was enchanted



Then it's twelve o'clock

And the last bus is gone 

They're gonna go crazy 

When they hear what she's done 

And higher is lower 

And less is like more

She's never felt anything like this before,



And then it was yesterday 

He said, "Oh, by the way" 

"Welcome to your first party..."

You landed in my life

Like a new and brighter light 

That made all my past seem in the shadow 

I always used to believe 

That beauty was skin deep 

But I need a new word to describe you 

And the time that it took to take down the wall 

Was the time that it took for me to fall 

Hopelessly weak



No one can take you away from me now 

Don't worry if they take me away 

No one can take you away from me now 

Don't matter how long we have to wait 



The days before you came 

Were really all the same 

A greyness I used to call freedom 

Endless nights out with the boys 

The boasting and the noise 

To think that I ever believed them 



No one can take you away from me now 

Don't worry if they take me away 

No one can take you away from me now 

Don't matter how long we have to wait 



I don't care what they think 

You're all I believe in 

I carry you here 

And there's something of you 

In everything that I love



No one can take you away from me now 

Don't worry if they take me away

No one can take you away from me now 

Don't matter how long we have to wait 

No one can take you away from me now 

Don't worry if they take me away

Did you ever feel that just by jumping on a plane 

All your cares would drop away 

And you'd be born again 

Returning to a nature child

Happy wild and free 

But forgetfulness is a river 

And you know where the river leads 



Holidays in Eden 

Life before the fall 

See no, hear no, speak no evil 

Feel no guilt, feel no guilt at all 



Naked through the jungle

Mud between your toes 

Following the river

Where the river flows 



The creatures of the forest bid you 

"Welcome to the dark" 

Nothing here can hurt you

Darkness has no heart



Holidays in Eden

Paradise regained 

See no, hear no, speak no evil 

Throw your past away 



You wake up one morning

Wondering who you are

There's a map of a new country up on the wall 

All your new lovers merge into one 

You've done everything under the sun 

There's a date on the air ticket 

And the money's gone 



Back in your own country

Nothing seems the same 

No one comes around at night

Or uses your new name 



Hearing silent whispers 

Old friends are acting strange 

No one wants to know you now

People say you've changed 



Holidays in Eden 

Life before the fall 

See no, hear no, speak no evil 

Feel no guilt at all 



Holidays in Eden 

Paradise and light 

Heaven loses you to this world 

Leaves you alone 

Kiss your home goodbye 



(She says she's lonely)

In all the time that I've known you 

You've been so edgy and nervous 

I never wanted to own you 

I was aware of the danger 

Of making a bid for your favours 

You're such a natural stranger 

I made excuses and ran 



You're an island

But I can't leave you all out at sea 

You're so violent with your silence 

You're an island

I can't sleep 

Won't you speak to me 

I'm on dry land 

Won't you help me please 



In all the time that I've known you 

There has been something between us 

I don't think it's my imagination



I felt like I couldn't touch you

But I had the feeling you'd love to 

Tell me the truth if you could do 

I made excuses and ran 



You're an island 

But I can't leave you all out at sea 

You're so violent with your silence

You're an island I can't sleep 

Won't you speak to me

I'm on dry land 

Won't you help me please

I lie awake at night

Listening to you sleeping 

I hear the darkness breathe 

And the rain against the window 

After all this time 

Cynical and jaded 

All the stones are diamonds 

All the blues are faded 



Everything I've been through 

All I've seen and heard 

Spend so much of my life 

In the spiritual third world 

But you came and brought the rain here



Something waiting to happen 

Something learning to fly 

We can talk without talking 

From inside to inside

I have waited to feel this 

For the whole of my life 



We took ourselves apart 

We talked about our faces 

You said you didn't like yours 

I said I disagree



I keep the pieces separate 

I clutch them in my coat 

A jigsaw of an angel 

I can do when I feel low 



From emptiness and dryness 

The famine of our days 

I watch the heavens open 

Wash it all away 

You came and brought the rain here 



Something waiting to happen 

Something learning to fly 

On the edge of exploding

Something wild and alive 

Something waiting to happen 

Any time that you like 

I have waited to feel this 

For the whole of my life

The cars leave their trails of hot and cold light inside my head

Like burned-in long exposure pictures 

The wheels spin slowly backwards

Strobing in the amber light 

And the rain comes down and washes my brain

But it don't get clean 

This town has turned me into what I have become 

This town dresses me up like a stranger 

This town performs in the window like the ultimate gift 

This town takes us down 

I feel like I'm losing you to this town 



We were saving our money for half of our lives 

We were saving our dreams 

And we came to this place to make the chances real 

In the big city 

But I've been counting the days

I've been watching you change 

And I can feel it dying 

The noise outside takes you in its arms 

Like a lamb to a lion 



And down there somewhere among the noise 

The magazine dolls and the big money boys 

Move silently on their easy heels 

They move silently on their greasy wheels 



This town has turned me into what I have become 

This town dresses you up like a stranger 

This town hangs around in the doorway and tells me I'm late

This town takes us down, takes us down 

I feel like I'm losing you to this town 



The morning breaks and I watch you awake 

This town takes you down away from me again

What do you do when your roots have dissolved and broken down 

And the soil that you grew in when you were small 

Has become nothing more than dirt in some dirty town 

When you list all the qualities that you despise 

And you realise 

You're describing yourself 



And breaking someone up inside 

Is your only source of pride

A hundred nights of fun and games 

A thousand empty glasses 

I feel it change 

And stay the same

As each day passes 

They invite me to their gatherings 

In the finer parts of town 

They seem attracted to my indifference 

The irony just knocks me out 



And I love them as if I love them 

And they reciprocate with "help"

But I look up at these mirrors sometimes 

And I can't see myself 



They say that some are born to burn 

And some are born to give 

They say that people live and learn 

Some people only live and live 



You don't know that I come here

But if you did, you would know why 

So we close our eyes 



You didn't notice me 

As I passed you on the stairs

How could you ever guess

Looking at my face

How closely I share your taste 

How well I know your place 

Even the clothes you wear

I've seen them when you're not there 



You say that you can win win win

If you know how to play the game 

But while you're out there playing you see 

There's something you should know 

She spends your money 

She spends your money on me