... Nothing like the Sun

He looked beneath his shirt today

There was a wound in his flesh so deep and wide

From the wound a lovely flower grew

From somewhere deep inside

He turned around to face his mother

To show her the wound in his breast that burned like a brand

But the sword that cut him open

Was the sword in his mother's hand



Every day another miracle

Only death will tear us apart

To sacrifice a life for yours

I'd be the blood of the Lazarus heart

The blood of the Lazarus heart



Though the sword was his protection

The wound itself would give him power

The power to remake himself

at the time of his darkest hour

She said the wound would give him courage and pain

The kind of pain that you can't hide

From the wound a lovely flower grew

From somewhere deep inside



Every day another miracle

Only death will keep us apart

To sacrifice a life for yours

I'd be the blood of the Lazarus heart

The blood of the Lazarus heart



Birds on the roof of my mother's house

I've no stones that chase them away

Birds on the roof of my mother's house

Will sit on my roof someday

They fly at the window, they fly at the door

Where does she get the strength to fight them anymore

She counts all her children as a shield against the rain

Lifts her eyes to the sky like a flower to the rain



Every day another miracle

Only death will keep us apart

To sacrifice a life for yours

I'd be the blood of the Lazarus heart

The blood of the Lazarus heart

Be still my beating heart

It would be better to be cool

It's not time to be open just yet

A lesson once learned is so hard to forget

Be still my beating heart

Or I'll be taken for a fool

It's not healthy to run at this pace

The blood runs so red to my face

I've been to every single book I know

To soothe the thoughts that plague me so



I sink like a stone that's been thrown in the ocean

My logic has drowned in a sea of emotion

Stop before you start

Be still my beating heart



Be still my beating heart

You must learn to stand your ground

It's not healthy to run at this pace

The blood runs so red to my face

I've been to every single book I know

To soothe the thoughts that plague me so

Stop before you start

Be still my beating heart



Never to be wrong

Never to make promises that break

It's like singing in the wind

Or writing on the surface of a lake

And I wriggle like a fish caught on dry land

Struggle to avoid any help at hand



I sink like a stone that's been thrown in the ocean

My logic has drowned in a sea of emotion

Stop before you start

Be still my beating heart

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear

I like my toast done on the side

And you can hear it in my accent when I talk

I'm an Englishman in New York



See me walking down Fifth Avenue

A walking cane here at my side

I take it everywhere I walk

I'm an Englishman in New York



I'm an alien

I'm a legal alien

I'm an Englishman in New York

I'm an alien

I'm a legal alien

I'm an Englishman in New York



If "manners maketh man" as someone said

Then he's the hero of the day

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile

Be yourself no matter what they say



I'm an alien

I'm a legal alien

I'm an Englishman in New York

I'm an alien

I'm a legal alien

I'm an Englishman in New York



Modesty, propriety can lead to notoriety

You could end up as the only one

Gentleness, sobriety are rare in this society

At night a candle's brighter than the sun



Takes more than combat gear to make a man

Takes more than license for a gun

Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can

A gentleman will walk but never run



If "manners maketh man" as someone said

Then he's the hero of the day

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile

Be yourself no matter what they say



I'm an alien

I'm a legal alien

I'm an Englishman in New York

I'm an alien

I'm a legal alien

I'm an Englishman in New York

If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant past

Security in human systems we're told will always always last

Emotions are the sail and blind faith is the mast

Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast



If God is dead and an actor plays his part

His words of fear will find a place in your heart

Without the voice of reason every faith is its own curse

Without freedom from the past things can only get worse



Sooner or later just like the world first day

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away

Sooner or later just like the world first day

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away



History will teach us nothing

History will teach us nothing



Our written history is a catalogue of crime

The sordid and the powerful, the architects of time

The mother of invention, the oppression of the mild

The constant fear of scarcity, aggression as its child



Sooner or later

Sooner or later

Sooner or later

Sooner or later



Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong

Is to win a bloodless battle where victory is long

A simple act of faith

In reason over might

To blow up his children will only prove him right

History will teach us nothing

Sooner or later just like the world first day

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away

Sooner or later just like the world first day

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away



History will teach us nothing

History will teach us nothing



Know your human rights

Be what you come here for

Know your human rights

Be what you come here for

Know your human rights

Be what you come here for

Know your human rights

Be what you come here for

Why are these women here dancing on their own?

Why is there this sadness in their eyes?

Why are the soldiers here

Their faces fixed like stone?

I can't see what it is they despise

They're dancing with the missing

They're dancing with the dead

They dance with the invisible ones

Their anguish is unsaid

They're dancing with their fathers

They're dancing with their sons

They're dancing with their husbands

They dance alone

They dance alone



It's the only form of protest they're allowed

I've seen their silent faces scream so loud

If they were to speak these words

they'd go missing too

Another woman on the torture table

what else can they do

They're dancing with the missing

They're dancing with the dead

They dance with the invisible ones

Their anguish is unsaid

They're dancing with their fathers

They're dancing with their sons

They're dancing with their husbands

They dance alone

They dance alone



One day we'll dance on their graves

One day we'll sing our freedom

One day we'll laugh in our joy

And we'll dance

One day we'll dance on their graves

One day we'll sing our freedom

One day we'll laugh in our joy

And we'll dance



Ellas danzan con los desaparecidos

Ellas danzan con los muertos

Ellas danzan con amores invisibles

Ellas danzan con silenciosa angistia

Danzan con sus padres

Danzan con sus hijos

Danzan con sus esposos

Ellas danzan solas

Danzan solas



Hey Mr. Pinochet

You've sown a bitter crop

It's foreign money that supports you

One day the money's going to stop

No wages for your torturers

No budget for your guns

Can you think of your own mother

Dancin' with her invisible son

They're dancing with the missing

They're dancing with the dead

They dance with the invisible ones

Their anguish is unsaid

They're dancing with their fathers

They're dancing with their sons

They're dancing with their husbands

They dance alone

They dance alone

If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one

Drying in the colour of the evening sun

Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains away

But something in our minds will always stay



Perhaps this final act was meant

To clinch a lifetime's argument

That nothing comes from violence

and nothing ever could

For all those born beneath an angry star

Lest we forget how fragile we are



On and on the rain will fall

Like tears from a star

Like tears from a star

On and on the rain will say

How fragile we are

How fragile we are



On and on the rain will fall

Like tears from a star

Like tears from a star

On and on the rain will say

How fragile we are

How fragile we are

How fragile we are

How fragile we are

I see me with you and all the things you do

Keep turning round and round in my mind

Forget the weather we should always be together

And any other thought is unkind



To have you with me I would swim the seven seas

To have you as my guide and my light

My love is a flame that burns in your name

We'll be together

We'll be together tonight



We'll be together, yeah

We'll be together, yeah

We'll be together, yeah



I see you with me and all I want to be

Is dancing here with you in my arms

Forget the weather we should always be together

I'll always be a slave to your charms



To have you with me I would swim the seven seas

To have you as the guide in my life

My love is a flame that burns in your name

We'll be together

We'll be together



We'll be together, yeah

We'll be together, yeah

We'll be together, yeah



Call me baby.

You can call me anything you want

Call me baby

Call me

We'll be together, yeah

We'll be together, yeah



I see you with me and baby makes three

I see me with you and all the things we do

Forget the weather we should always be together

I need you as my guide and my light

My love is the flame that burns in your name

We'll be together We'll be together tonight

Well in a hundred years from now

They will attempt to tell us how

A scientific means to bliss

Will supercede the human kiss



A sub atomic chain

Will maybe galvanize the brain

A biochemic trance

Will eliminate romance



But why ever should we care

When there are arrows in the air

Formed by lovers' ancient art

That go straight to my heart



A future sugar coated pill

Would give our lovers time to kill

I think they're working far too much

For the redundancy of touch



But what will make me yours

Are a million deadly spores

Formed by lovers' ancient art

That go straight to my heart



Come into my door

Be the light of my life

Come into my door



You'll never have to sweep the floor

Come into my door

Be the light of my life

Come into my door

Come and be my wife

I'll be true. To no one but you



If it's a future world we fear

We have tomorrow's seeds right here

For you can hold them in your hand

Or let them fall into the sand



But if our love is pure

The only thing of which we're sure

Then you can play your part

And go straight to my heart



If I should seek immunity

And love you with impunity

Then the only thing to do

Is for me to pledge myself to you



But they only dealt one card

So for me it is not hard

You're the bright star in my chart

You go straight to my heart



Come into my door

Be the light of my life

Come into my door

You'll never have to sweep the floor

Come into my door

Be the light of my life

Come into my door

Come and be my wife

I'll be true. To no one but you

Saw an ad in the newspaper that caught my eye

I said to my baby this sounds like the ticket for you and I

It said volunteers wanted for a very special trip

To commune with Mother Nature on a big wooden ship

We took a taxi to the river in case any places were free

There was an old guy with a beard

And every kind of creature as far as the eye could see



This old guy was the boss, he said, "I won't tell you no lie

But there's more to this journey than is apparent to the eye"

He said he'd heard God's message on the radio

It was going to rain forever and he'd told him to go

"I'll protect you all don't worry I'll be father to you all

I'll save two of every animal, no matter how small

But I'll need some assistants to look after the zoo

I can't see nobody better so you'll just have to do"

I said, "Just tell me something before it's too late and we're gone

I mean just how safe is this boat we'll be on?"



"It's Rock steady / Rock steady

Rock steady / Rock steady

Rock steady / Rock steady

Rock steady / Rock steady"



It rained for forty days and forty long nights

I'd never seen rain like it and it looked like our old friend

Was being proved right

We had no time to worry though there was just too much to do

Between the signified monkey and the kangaroo

We had to wash all the animals we had to feed them too

We were merely human slaves in a big floating zoo

She said, "Hey baby I don't mean to be flip

But it seems this old man is on some power trip"

I said, "No, no sugar you must be wrong

I mean look at the size of this boat we're on.

We're as safe as houses, as safe as mother's milk

He's as cool as November and as smooth as China silk

He's God's best friend, he's got a seat on the board

And life may be tough but we're sailing with the lord."



Rock steady / Rock steady

Rock steady / Rock steady

Rock steady / Rock steady

Rock steady / Rock steady



Woke up this morning and something had changed

Like a room in my house had just been rearranged

She said, "It's stopped raining and I know the guy's kind

But if we stay here much longer I'm gonna lose my mind."

So we said we had a mission for his favorite dove

To see if there was any mercy from this great God above

So to find dry land, away the white bird flew

We didn't need no country just a rock would do

When the dove came back to us he threw down a twig

It was manna from heaven and meant we could blow this gig

"But the rock's too small," he said, "can't you see?"

I said, "It's just perfect for her, it's perfect for me."



Rock steady / Rock steady

Rock steady / Rock steady

Rock steady / Rock steady

Rock steady / Rock steady

Rock steady / Rock steady

Rock steady / Rock steady

Sister moon will be my guide

In your blue blue shadows I would hide

All good people asleep tonight

I'm all by myself in your silver light

I would gaze at your face the whole night through

I'd go out of my mind, but for you



Lying in a mother's arms

The primal root of a woman's charms

I'm a stranger to the sun

My eyes are too weak

How cold is a heart

When it's warmth that he seeks?

You watch every night, you don't care what I do

I'd go out of my mind, but for you

I'd go out of my mind, but for you



My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

My hunger for her explains everything I've done

To howl at the moon the whole night through

And they really don't care if I do

I'd go out of my mind, but for you



Sister Moon

Well, she's walking through the clouds

with a circus mind

that's running wild

Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams

and fairy tales,



That's all she ever thinks about ...



Riding the wind.



When I'm sad she comes to me

with a thousand smiles

she gives to me free



It's allright, she says,

it's allright

Take anything you want from me,

anything



Fly on, little wing

No earthly church has ever blessed our union

No state has ever granted us permission

No family bond has ever made us two

No company has ever earned commission



No debt was ever paid no dowry to be granted

No treaty over border land or power

No semblance of the world outside remained

To stain the beauty of this nuptial hour



The secret marriage vow is never spoken

The secret marriage can never be broken



No flowers on the alter

No whit veil in your hair

No maiden dress to alter

No bible oath to swear



The secret marriage vow is never spoken

The secret marriage can never be broken