Us

The wretched desert takes its form, the jackal proud and tight

In search of you I feel my way, through the slowest heaving night

Whatever fear invents, I swear it makes no sense

I reach out through the border fence

Come down, come talk to me



In the swirling, curling, storm of desire unuttered words hold fast

With reptile tongue, the lightning lashes towers built to last

Darkness creep in like a thief and offers no relief

Why are you shaking like a leaf?

Come on, come talk to me



Ah please talk to me

Won't you please talk to me

We can unlock this misery

Come on, come talk to me

I did not come to steal

This all is so unreal

Can't you show me how you feel now

Come on, come talk to me

Come talk to me, come talk to me



The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone

From nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one

You lie there with your eyes half closed like there's no-one there at all

There's a tension pulling on your face

Come on, come talk to me



Won't you please talk to me

If you'd just talk to me

Unblock this misery

If you'd only talk to me

Don't you ever change your mind

Now your future's so defined

And you act so deaf so blind

Come on, come talk to me

Come talk to me, come talk to me



I can imagine the moment

Breaking out through the silence

All the things that we both might say

And the heart it will not be denied

'Til we're both on the same damn side

All the barriers blown away



I said please talk to me

Won't you please come talk to me

Just like it used to be

Come on, come talk to me

I did not come to steal

This all is so unreal

Can you show me how you feel now

Come on, come talk to me

Come talk to me, come talk to me



I said please talk to me

If you'd just talk to me

Unlock this misery

If you'd only talk to me

Don't you ever change your mind

Now your future's so defined

And you act so deaf so blind

Come on, come talk to me

Come talk to me, come talk to me

So, you know how people are

When it's all gone much too far

The way their minds are made



Still, there's something you should know

That I could not let show

That fear of letting go



And in this moment, I need to be needed

With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked

In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted

Cos I love to be loved

I love to be loved

I love to be loved

Yes I love to be loved



I cry the way that babies cry

The way they can't deny

The way they feel



Words, they climb all over you

'Til they uncover you

From where you hide



And in this moment, I need to be needed

When my self-esteem is sinking,

I like to be liked

In this emptiness and fear,

I want to be wanted

'Cos I love to be loved

I love to be loved

I love to be loved

Oh I love to be loved



This old familiar craving

I've been here before

This way of behaving

Don't know who the hell I'm saving any more

Let it pass let it go let it leave

From the deepest place I grieve

This time I believe



And I let go

And I let go

I can let go of it

Though it takes all the strength in me

And all the world can see

I'm losing such a central part of me

I can let go of it

You know I mean it

You know that I mean it

I recognise how much I've lost

But I cannot face the cost

'Cos I love to be loved

Yes I love to be loved

I love to be loved

Yes I love to be loved

I love to be loved

Yes I love to be loved

I love to be loved

I love to be loved

I love to be loved



Yes I love to be loved

I caught sight of my reflection

I caught it in the window

I saw the darkness in my heart

I saw the signs of my undoing

They had been there from the start

And the darkness still has work to do

The knotted chord's untying

The heated and the holy

Oh they're sitting there on high

So secure with everything they're buying



In the blood of Eden

Lie the woman and the man

With the man in the woman

And the woman in the man

In the blood of Eden

Lie the woman and the man

We wanted the union

Oh the union of the woman

The woman and the man



My grip is surely slipping 

I think I've lost my hold

Yes I think I've lost my hold

I cannot get insurance any more

They don't take credit, only gold

Is that a dagger or a crucifix I see

You hold so tightly in your hand

And all the while the distance grows between you and me

I do not understand



In the blood of Eden

Lie the woman and the man

With the man in the woman

And the woman in the man

In the blood of Eden

Lie the woman and the man

We wanted the union

Oh the union of the woman

The woman and the man



At my request you take me in

In that tenderness I am floating away

No certainty, nothing to rely on

Holding still for a moment

What a moment this is

Oh for a moment of forgetting, a moment of bliss



I can hear the distant thunder

Of a million unheard souls, of a million unheard souls

Watch each one reach for creature comforts

For the filling of their holes



In the blood of Eden

Lie the woman and the man

With the man in the woman

And the woman in the man

In the blood of Eden

Lie the woman and the man

We wanted the union

Of the woman and the man



In the blood of Eden

Lie the woman and the man

I feel the man in the woman

And the woman in the man

In the blood of Eden

Lie the woman and the man

We wanted the union

I feel the man in the woman

And the woman in the man



In the blood of Eden

We have done everything we can

In the blood of Eden

So we end as we began

With the man in the woman

And the woman in the man

It was all for the union

Oh the union of the woman, the woman and the man

Stand back! Said stand back!

What are those dogs doing sniffing at my feet

They're on to something, picking up,

Picking up this heat

This heat, give me steam

And how you feel can make it real

Real as anything you've seen

Get a life with this dreamer's dream



You know your culture from your trash

You know your plastic from your cash

When I lose sight of the track

You know the way back

But I know you



You know your stripper from your paint

You know your sinner from your saint

Whenever heaven's doors are shut

You get them open but

I know you



Give me steam

And how you feel can make it real

Real as any place you've been

Get a life with the dreamer's dream



Stand back, said stand back

Can't you see I've lost control and I'm getting indiscreet

You're moving in so close 'til I'm picking up,

Picking up this heat, this heat

Give me steam and how you feel can make it real

Real as anything you've seen

Get a life with the dreamer's dream



You know your green from your red

You know the quick from the dead

So much better than the rest

You think you've been blessed

But I know you

You know your ladder from your snake

You know the throttle from the brake

You know your straight line from a curve

You've got a lot of nerve

But I know you



Give me steam 

And how you feel can make it real

Real as any place you've been

Get a life with the dreamer's dream



Everybody nosedive

Hold your breath, count to five

Backslap, boobytrap,

Cover it up in bubblewrap

Room shake, earthquake,

Find a way to stay awake

It's going to blow, it's going to break

This is more than I can take



Oh yeah, I need steam

Feel the steam around me

Ah you're turning up the heat

When I start to dream aloud

See you move your hands and feet

Won't you step into this cloud of steam, this steam

Give me steam and how you feel can make it real

Real as anything you've seen

Get a life with the dreamer's dream



Help me yeah

Ready to steam out the log jam

Stir crazy from the freezer to the foil

Water's bubbling, b...b...b...bubbling like it's coming to the boil

Give me steam, lady

Give me the steam around me now

Aah coming alive

Said give me some steam

Only us

Only us

Only us



It wasn't in the words that kept sticking in their throats

It wasn't with the angels in their quilted coats

These battered wings still kick up dust

Seduced by the noise and the bright things that glisten

I knew all the time I should shut up and listen

And I'm finding my way home from the great escape



The further on I go, oh the less I know

I can find only us breathing

Only us sleeping

Only us dreaming

Only us

I hear you calling me

Yes I hear you calling me



Home from the great escape

Yes I can read you loud and clear



The further on I go, oh the less I know

Friend or foe, there's only us



The further on I go, oh the less I know

I can find only us breathing

Only us sleeping

Only us dreaming

Only us, only us



I'm coming home again, home again

And I hear you calling me home again

I am coming home again



Only us

Only us

Only us

Only us

Only us

Only us

Only us

River, river carry me on

Living river carry me on

River, river carry me on

To the place where I come from



So deep, so wide will you take me on your back for a ride

If I should fall would you swallow me deep inside



River, show me how to float

I feel like I'm sinking down

Thought that I could get along

But here in this water

My feet won't touch the ground

I need something to turn myself around



Going away, away toward the sea

River deep, can you lift up and carry me

Oh roll on through the heartland

'Til the sun has left the sky

River, river carry me high

'Til the washing of the water will make it all alright

Let your waters reach me like she reached me tonight



Letting go, it's so hard

The way it's hurting now

To get this love untied

So tough to stay with this thing

'Cos if I follow through 

I face what I denied

I'll get those hooks out of me

And I'll take out the hooks that I sunk deep in your side

Kill that fear of emptiness, that loneliness I hide



River, oh river, river running deep

Bring me something that will let me get to sleep

In the washing of the water will you take it all away

Bring me something to take this pain away

Something in me, dark and sticky

All the time it's getting strong

No way of dealing with this feeling

Can't go on like this too long



This time you've gone too far

This time you've gone too far

This time you've gone too far

I told you, I told you, I told you, I told you,

This time you've gone too far

This time you've gone too far

This time you've gone too far

I told you, I told you, I told you, I told you,



Don't talk back 

Just drive the car

Shut your mouth

I know what you are

Don't say nothing

Keep your hands on the wheel

Don't turn around, this is for real



Digging in the dirt

Stay with me I need support

I'm digging in the dirt

To find the places I got hurt

Open up the places I got hurt



The more I look, the more I find

As I close on in, I get so blind

I feel it in my head, I feel it in my toes

I feel it in my sex, that's the place it goes



This time you've gone too far

This time you've gone too far

This time you've gone too far

I told you, I told you, I told you, I told you,

This time you've gone too far

This time you've gone too far

This time you've gone too far

I told you, I told you, I told you, I told you,



Don't talk back 

Just drive the car

Shut your mouth

I know what you are

Don't say nothing

Keep your hands on the wheel

Don't turn around, this is for real



Digging in the dirt

Stay with me I need support

I'm digging in the dirt

To find the places I got hurt

Open up the places I got hurt

I'm digging in the dirt

Stay with me I need support

I'm digging in the dirt

To find the places I got hurt

To open up the places I got hurt



Digging in the dirt

To find the places we got hurt

Digging in the dirt

To find the places we got hurt



Digging in the dirt

To find the places we got hurt

Digging in the dirt

To find the places we got hurt

Digging in the dirt

To find the places we got hurt

Digging in the dirt

To find the places we got hurt

Digging in the dirt

To find the places we got hurt

From the pain come the dream

From the dream come the vision

From the vision come the people

And from the people come the power

From this power come the change

Jump in the water

Sweet little princess

Let me introduce his frogness

You alone can get him singing

He's all puffed up, wanna be your king

Oh you can do it

C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon

Lady kiss that frog



Splash, dash heard your call

Bring you back your golden ball

He's gonna dive down in the deep end

He's gonna be just like your best friend

So what's one little kiss

One tiny little touch

Aah he's wanting it so much

I swear that this is royal blood

Running through my skin

Oh can you see the state I'm in

Kiss it better, kiss it better



Get it into your head

He's living with you he sleeps in your bed

Can't you hear beyond the croaking

Don't you know that I'm not joking

Aah you think you won't 

I think you will

Don't you know that this tongue can kill



C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon

Lady kiss that frog



Let him sit beside you

And eat right off your plate

You don't have to be afraid

There's nothing here to hate

Aah princess you might like it

If you lower your defence

Kiss that frog and you will get your prince

Get your prince



Jump in the water, c'mon baby jump in with me

Jump in the water, c'mon baby get wet with me

Jump in the water, c'mon baby jump in with me

Jump in the water, c'mon baby get wet, get wet



Kiss that frog, lady kiss that frog

Kiss that frog, lady kiss that frog



Jump in the water, c'mon baby jump in with me

Jump in the water, c'mon baby jump in with me



Get wet, get wet

Get wet, get wet

I stood in this unsheltered place

'Til I could see the face behind the face

All that had gone before had left no trace

Down by the railway siding

In our secret world we were colliding

All the places we were hiding love

What was it we were thinking of?



So I watch you wash your hair

Underwater, unaware

And the plane flies through the air

Did you think you didn't have to choose it

That I alone could win or lose it

In all the places we were hiding love

What was it we were thinking of?



In this house of make believe

Divided in two like Adam and Eve

You put out and I receive

Down by the railway siding

In our secret world we were colliding

In all the places we were hiding love

What was it we were thinking of?



Oh the wheel it is turning spinning round and round

And the house it is crumbling but the stairways stand



With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame

Whatever it is, we are all the same



Making it up in our secret world

Making it up in our secret world

Making it up in our secret world

Shaking it up

Breaking it up

Making it up in our secret world



Seeing things that were not there

On a wing on a prayer

In this state of disrepair

Down by the railway siding

In our secret world we were colliding

In all the places we were hiding love

What was it we were thinking of?



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