The dream of the blue turtles

If you need somebody, call my name

If you want someone, you can do the same

If you want to keep something precious

You got to lock it up and throw away the key

If you want to hold onto your possession

Don't even think about me



If you love somebody, set them free



If it's a mirror you want, just look into my eyes

Or a whipping boy, someone to despise

Or a prisoner in the dark

Tied up in chains you just can't see

Or a beast in a gilded cage

That's all some people ever want to be



If you love somebody, set them free



You can't control an independent heart

Can't tear the one you love apart

Forever conditioned to believe that we can't live

We can't live here and be happy with less

So many riches, so many souls

Everything we see we want to possess



If you need somebody, call my name

If you want someone, you can do the same

If you want to keep something precious

You got to lock it up and throw away the key

If you want to hold onto your possession

Don't even think about me



If you love somebody, set them free

In the empire of the senses

You're the queen of all you survey

All the cities all the nations

Everything that falls your way

There is a deeper world than this

That you don't understand

There is a deeper world that this

Tugging at your hand



Every ripple on the ocean

Every leaf on every tree

Every sand dune in the desert

Every power we never see

There is a deeper wave than this

Swelling in the world

There is a deeper wave than this

Listen to me girl



Feel it rising in the cities

Feel it sweeping over land

Over borders, over frontiers

Nothing will its power withstand

There is no deeper wave than this

Listen to me girl



All the bloodshed all the anger

All the weapons all the greed

All the armies all the missiles

All the symbols of your fear

There is a deeper wave than this

Listen to me girl



At the still point of destruction

At the centre of the fury

All the angels all the devils

All around us can't you see

There is a deeper wave than this

Rising in the land

There is a deeper wave than this

Nothing will withstand



I say love is the seventh wave

In Europe and America, there's a growing feeling of hysteria

Conditioned to respond to all the threats

In the rhetorical speeches of the Soviets

Mr. Krushchev said we will bury you

I don't subscribe to this point of view

It would be such an ignorant thing to do

If the Russains love their children too



How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy

There is no monopoly of common sense

On either side of the political fence

We share the same biology

Regardless of ideology

Believe me when I say to you

I hope the Russians love their children too



There is no historical precedent

To put words in the mouth of the president

There's no such thing as a winnable war

It's a lie we don't believe anymore

Mr. Reagan says we will protect you

I don't subscribe to this point of view

Believe me when I say to you

I hope the Russians love their children too



We share the same biology

Regardless of ideology

What might save us me and you

Is that the Russians love their children too

Young men, soldiers, nineteen fourteen

Marching through countries they'd never seen

Virgins with rifles, a game of charades

All for a children's crusade



Pawns in the game are not victims of chance

Strewn on the fields of Belgium and France

Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade

All of these young lives betrayed



The children of England would never be slaves

They're trapped on the wire and dying in waves

The flower of England face down in the mud

And stained in the blood of a whole generation



Corpulent generals safe behind lines

History's lessons drowned in red wine

Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade

All of those young lives betrayed

All for a children's crusade



The children of England would never be slaves

They're trapped on the wire and dying in waves

The flower of England face down in the mud

And stained in the blood of a whole generation



Midnight in Soho nineteen eighty four

Fixing in doorways, opium slaves

Poppies for young men, such bitter trade

All of those young lives betrayed

All for a children's crusade

I woke up in my clothes again this morning

I don't know exactly where I am

And I should heed my doctor's warning

He does the best with me he can



He says I suffer from delusion

But I'm so confident I'm sane

It can't be an optical illusion

So how can you explain

Shadows in the rain



And if you see us on the corner

We're just dancing in the rain

I tell my friends there when I see them

Outside my window pane

Shadows in the rain

This place has changed for good

Your economic theory said it would

It's hard for us to understand

We can't give up our jobs the way we should

Our blood has stained the coal

We tunneled deep inside the nations soul

We matter more than pounds and pence

Your economic theory makes no sense



One day in a nuclear age

They may understand our rage

They build machines that they can't control

And bury the waste in a great big hole

Power was to become cheap and clean

Grimey faces were never seen

But deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen



We work the black seam together



The seam is underground

Three million years of pressure packed it down

We walk through ancient forest lands

And light a thousand cities with our hands

Your dark satanic mills

Have made redundant all our mining skills

You can't exchange a six inch band

For all the poisoned steams in Cumberland



Chorus



We work the black seam together



Our conscious lives run deep

You cling onto your mountain while we sleep

This way of life is part of me

There is no price so only let me be

And should the children weep

The turning world will sing their souls to sleep

When you have sunk without a trace

The universe will suck me into place



Chorus



We work the black seam together

There were rooms of forgiveness

In the house that we share

But the space has been emptied

Of whatever was there

There were cupboards of patience

There were shelfloads of care

But whoever came calling

Found nobody there

After today, consider me gone



Roses have thorns and shining waters mud

And cancer lurks deep in the sweetest bud

Clouds and eclipses stain the moon and the sun

And history reeks of the wrongs we have done

After today, consider me gone



I've spent too many years at war with myself

The doctor has told me it's no good for my health

To search for perfection is all very well

But to look for heaven is to live here in hell



After today, consider me gone

There's a moon over bourbon street tonight

I see faces as they pass beneath the pale lamplight

I've no choice but to follow that call

The bright lights, the people, and the moon and all

I pray everyday to be strong

For I know what I do must be wrong

Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet

While there's a moon over bourbon street



It was many years ago that I became what I am

I was trapped in this life like an innocent lamb

Now I can never show my face at noon

And you'll only see me walking by the light of the moon

The brim of my hat hides the eye of a beast

I've the face of a sinner but the hands of a priest

Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet

While there's a moon over bourbon street



She walks everyday through the streets of New Orleans

She's innocent and young from a family of means

I have stood many times outside her window at night

To struggle with my instinct in the pale moonlight

How could I be this way when I pray to god above

I must love what I destroy and destroy the thing I love

Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet

While there's a moon over bourbon street

Under the ruins of a walled city

Crumbling towers in beams of yellow light

No flags of truce, no cries of pity

The siege guns had been pounding all through the night

It took a day to build the city

We walked through its streets in the afternoon

As I returned across the fields I'd known

I recognized the walls that I once laid

I had to stop in my tracks for fear

Of walking on the mines I'd laid



And if I have built this fortress around your heart

Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire

Then let me build a bridge

For I cannot fill the chasm

And let me set the battlements on fire



Then I went off to fight some battle

That I'd invented inside my head

Away so long for years and years

You probably thought or even wished that I was dead

While the armies all are sleeping

Beneath the tattered flag we'd made

I had to stop in my tracks for fear

Of walking on the mines I'd laid



This prison has now become your home

A sentence you seem prepared to pay

It took a day to build the city

We walked through its streets in the afternoon

As I returned across the lands I'd known

I recognized the fields where I'd once played

I had to stop in my tracks for fear

Of walking on the mines I'd laid