Beggar on a beach of gold

I didn't know when I was lucky

Discontented feeling bad

Filled with envy

For possessions other people had



I found my pride had always hurt me

Fought the world to gain control

Not realising

I was sitting on a beach of gold



Oh lord I'm a poor man

With all the riches I can hold

I'm a beggar

And I'm sitting on a beach of gold



The problems I encountered

Gave me strength helped me sustain

To know the pleasure

First I had to cure the pain



When I was searching for solutions

I found the answer lay in me

I'm a drifter

But I'm drifting on a silver sea



Oh lord I'm a poor man

With all the riches I can hold

I'm a beggar

And I'm sitting on a beach of gold



I didn't have courage

My life was as dark as night

When alone in the darkness

I saw the brightest light

Let the light shine down



Are you out there now on empty

Feel you've nothing left to give

Sick of trying

Have you lost the will to live?



Don't be drowning in the shallows

With the beach so near at hand

Hear the voice say

Stand up get up

And join me on the gilded sand



Come and join me on the beach

With all the riches I can hold

Cause I'm a beggar

And I'm sitting on a beach of gold



Oh lord I'm a poor man

With all the riches I can hold

I'm a beggar

I'm sitting on a beach of gold



My children my salvation

The father to this man

They're my teachers

Playing on the golden sand



With my family all around me

I've all the riches I can hold

I'm a beggar

Sitting on a beach of gold



Oh lord I'm a poor man

With all the riches I can hold

I'm a beggar

Sitting on a beach of gold

And she pours herself another cup of coffee

As she contemplates the stain across the wall

and it's in between the cleaning and the washing

That's when looking back's

The hardest part of all



And she always did her best to try and please him

While he always did his best to make her cry

And she got down on her knees to stop him leaving

But he always knew one day he'd say goodbye



Where are your friends

Where are your children

Is this your house

Is this your home

Does nothing ever last forever

Does everybody sleep alone



And he tears the business tags from his old suitcase

As he packs away the pieces of his life

They all love him but they always try to change him

That's what happens when a girl becomes a wife



And she pours herself another cup of coffee

As the pictures leave a clean space on the wall

and it's in between the leaving and the loving

That's when looking back's

The hardest part of all



Where are your friends

Where are your children

Is this your house

Is this your home

Does nothing ever last forever

Does everybody sleep alone



Don't look back

Don't give up

Pour yourself another cup

I don't like you but I love you,

Seems that I'm always thinking of you.

Oh, you treat me badly I love you madly;

You really got a hold on me,

You really got a hold on me, baby.

I love you and all I want you to do is just hold me,

Hold me, hold me, hold me.



I don't want you but I need you,

Don't want to kiss you but I need to.

Oh, you do me wrong now my love is strong now;

You really got a hold on me,

You really got a hold on me, baby.

I love you and all I want you to do is just hold me,

Hold me, hold me, hold me.



You tighter,

Tighter I want to leave you don't want to stay here,

Don't want to spend another day here.

Oh, I want to split now;

I can't quit now.

You really got a hold on me,

You really got a hold on me.

Baby really got a hold on me,

I said you really got a hold on me.

You can't forgive

And you won't forget

We did something

That we both regret  mea culpa



I held my breath while you

Took your time

To tell the world

What's yours is mine  mea culpa



You don't need me

You don't need anyone at all

You've got what you desired

You lit the fire

And watched the rise and fall



And in your eyes I could see my face

A non believer

In a state of grace  mea culpa



I see no reason for your complaint

You got the sinner

And not the saint  mea culpa



I can't say much I can't say anything at all

You tell the story well

Then you retire to watch the rise and fall



You never know what's in your heart

Until you look

You never know what's in your heart

Until you look

Take a look

Just take a look

Just take a look

Just take a look

 

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Looking back over my shoulder

I can see that look in your eye

I never dreamed it could be over

I never wanted to say goodbye



Looking back over my shoulder

With an aching deep in my heart

I wish that we were starting over

Oh instead of drifting so far apart



Everybody told me you were leaving

Funny I should be the last to know

Baby please tell me that I'm dreaming

I just never want to let you go



Looking back over my shoulder

I can see that look in your eye

Turning my heart over and over

I never wanted to say goodbye



I don't mind everybody laughing

But it's enough to make a grown man cry

Cos I can feel you slipping through my fingers

I don't even know the reason why



Every day it's a losing battle

Just to smile and hold my head up high

Could it be that we belong together

Baby won't you give me one more try

One more try



Looking back over my shoulder

I can see that look in your eye

I never dreamed it could be over

I never wanted to say goodbye



Looking back over my shoulder

Oh with an aching feeling inside

Cutting me up, deeper and deeper

Fills me with a sadness that I can't hide



Looking back over my shoulder

I can see that look in your eye

I never dreamed no no it could be over

I never wanted to say goodbye



Looking back over my shoulder

I can see that look in your eye

Last night I shook hands with the devil

In a dream that I can never lose

He laughed when he saw me cryin'

At the pictures on the evening news

He said it's not really a dilemma

You're just a little out of touch

Don't think of the situation

Cos it'll make you think too much



Someone always hates someone

Someone always hates someone

Someone always sells a gun

Cos someone always hates someone



A child will be born tomorrow

As open as an empty cup

And we'll fill it with hope and sorrow

The very things that messed us up

We'll ask him to join the congregation

A hindu moslem christian or jew

Pretty soon he'll recognise his brothers

But soon he'll know the enemy too



Someone always hates someone

Someone always hates someone

Someone always buys a gun

Cos someone always hates someone



I died and I went to heaven

In a dream I never had before

A good friend who had gone before me

Had kindly left my name at the door

I looked on the face of the almighty

Couldn't help myself

I started to shout

How come you made a mess of things

How come you didn't work it out



He said

Someone always hates someone

Someone always hates someone

There's so much love for everyone

But someone always hates someone

It was an unbelievable night

She was an unremarkable girl

You may not call it poetry

But it changed my world



It was an unforgettable dawn

She was an indisputable fact

Even if I could have

I might not have it back



It's an unexceptional day

She's an unavoidable truth

Uncompromised elation

Suspended since my youth



It's an unforgivable lie

I have nothing in my defence

There can be no forgiveness

To caution this descent



It wasn't in a dream

A film or on TV

This was really happening

Happening to me

Though I may protest

Suggest I never knew

The ghost comes back to haunt me

The ghost of sex and you



I held her hand outside the hotel

Kissed her mouth in the back of the car

Whether fact or fantasy

I knew we'd gone too far



I feel her breath on the back of my neck

She's lying naked here on the floor

Wrap the sheet around her

Disappear beyond the door



It wasn't in a dream

A film or on TV

This was really happening

Happening to me

Though I may protest

Suggest I never knew

The ghost comes back to haunt me

The ghost of sex and you



It was an unbelievable night

She was an unremarkable girl

You may not call it poetry

But it changed my world

The ghost of sex and you



It was an unforgettable dawn

She was an indisputable fact

Even if I could have

I might not have it back

Sex and you



It's an unexceptional day

She's an unavoidable truth

Uncompromised elation

Suspended since my youth

Sex and you



It's an unforgivable lie

I have nothing in my defence

There can be no forgiveness

To caution this descent

The ghost of sex and you

Just a minor indiscretion

No need to apologise

I don't want this to become an obsession

But I just can't believe my eyes



Evidence in my possession

Points a finger straight at you

Every day I'm closer to a confession

If only I can face the truth



Every mistake that you make

Drives the knife into my heart

Twisting down deeper and deeper

Still tearing me apart



I'm trying to find a grain of truth in this web of lies

I'm trying to find a grain of truth in this web of lies



You swear to god you're on the level

And you've nothing more to hide

Then I turn around and "speak of the devil"

You're both together side by side



Every mistake that you make

Seems more careless than the last

I'm just amazed that you try to cover

The tracks of your past



I'm trying to find a grain of truth in this web of lies

I'm trying to find a grain of truth in this web of lies



Have you got me in your pocket?

Am I eating from your hand

I think we need to shed some light on the matter

So I can really understand



Darlin' there's no perfect crime

That's left without a trace

And right now I'm judge and I'm jury

Till I can rest my case



I'm trying to find a grain of truth in this web of lies

I'm trying to find a grain of truth in this web of lies

I'd like my life to be simple

I need my life to be straight

I'd like to see my existence

Going great going great

Going great great great



I want my life to be easy

Need my life to be pure

I want to see my success is

Guaranteed that's for sure

That's for sure sure sure



Give me the simple life

The plain and the simple life

You've got to give me the simple life

The plain and the simple life



Don't want my life to be anxious

Don't need my life to be tense

I'd like to see my existence

Making sense making sense

Making sense sense sense



I'd like my life to be simple

Like my life to be plain

So don't you say that I ever

Live in vain live in vain

That's insane sane sane



Give me the simple life

The plain and the simple life

Give me the simple life

The plain and the simple



Give me the simple life

The plain and the simple life

Give me the simple life

The plain and the simple

There's a silver moon

Shining in the room

Where we sleep like spoons together

Lying in the dark

I can feel your heart

And it beats with mine forever



Coming from the street

You can feel the heat

As the city sleeps

In the silence

And the perfect light

Of a summers night

Is broken by the violence



Then a woman screams

And a baby cries

And someone's dream is shattered

When the nightmares dance

Before your eyes

They can leave you bruised and battered



Then I realise

That I'm by your side

And I'm listening to you breathing

And in this room

With the silver moon

You're something to believe in



There's a boy out there

With a crazy stare

And a gun to make a living

In a sea of hate

Where you can't think straight

In a world that's unforgiving



And it's all gone bad

In a world gone mad

And you're scared that you'll discover

That the one you love

And the one you trust

Is like all the others



Then I realise

That I'm by your side

And I'm listening to you breathing

And in this room

With the silver moon

You're something to believe in

You're something to believe in



And in this room

With the silver moon

You're something to believe in

There may be some things about me

Things you don't want to hear

For the rumours that precede me

May be very true I fear



They tell you I will deceive you

I don't know how to care

Though my intentions might be good

There's another darker look beware



When you walk through the door

Hang on to your senses

At best you must assume

It's a house of many rooms



Some rooms are filled with pleasure

Laughter and love and light

All the things you never see

I keep under lock and key at night



When you walk through the door

Hang on to your senses

At best you must assume

It's a house of many rooms



If you love me in the light

Love me in the shadow

I'm afraid you must assume

It's a house of many rooms

A house of many rooms



It's a house that's so unstable

There are those who recommend

If they'd the strength and they were able

It ought to be condemned

I don't agree but I will warn you

At best you must assume

I live in a house of many rooms



Here I'm in the library

Trying to understand

What empowers this behaviour

Degenerates the man

The same apartment later

With the bottle half consumed

I see a house of many rooms



In the parlour I'm your father

Who could ask for more

The bedroom compromise me

With your best friend from next door

In the kitchen being honest

The lounge a lying tongue

Locked in the bathroom

Pretending to be young



The chapel finds me kneeling

Praying for my soul

The painting in the attic

Can't prevent me growing old

Help me live forever

Silent as a tomb

I live in a house of many rooms



Join me at the dining table

Join me at the feast

Join me in the stable

I'm laying with the beast

You're walking in the garden

Oblivious who'd know?

I'm in the cellar ready to explode

Shattered dreams worthless years

Here am I encased inside a hollow shell

Life began then was done

Now I stare into a cold empty well

The many sounds that meet our ears

The sights our eyes behold

Will open up our merging hearts

And feed our empty souls



I believe when I fall in love with you

It will be forever

I believe when I fall in love this time

It will be forever

Without despair



We will share and the joys of caring

Will not be replaced

What has been must never end

And with the strength we have

Won't be erased

When the truths of love are planted firm

They won't be hard to find

And the words of love I speak to you

Will echo in my mind



I believe when I fall in love with you

It will be forever

I believe when I fall in love this time

It will be forever

Ever, ever, ever



I believe when I fall in love with you

It will be forever

I'm so glad that I found someone

To believe in again



God surely answered my prayer

God surely answered my prayer

You know god surely answered my prayer

You know god surely answered my prayer

God always will answer your prayers

Believe in one who will answer my prayer

Thank you god

 

I believe when I fall in love with you

It will be forever

I believe when I fall in love with you

It will be forever



Come on let's fall in love

You're the woman I've been waiting for

Come on let's fall in love

You're the girl that I really adore

Come on let's fall in love

Come on baby let's fall in love

Come on let's.

Going going home

I hold a memory I can't let go

Going going home

Going going home



You're long ago

And far away

But I can still remember you



Going, going home

I've got a memory that I can't let go

And I know I won't be alone

I'm goin' home



The ones I love will all be there

And I can see their smiling faces



Oh I'm giving in

It's like living in a war

It can't be right

And I can't fight this world

No more



I don't care where this highway goes



Going going home

I know I won't be alone

I'm going

I'm going home



I know you'll always wait for me

And now I'm going back to you



Oh I'm giving in

It's like living in a war

It can't be right

And I can't fight this world

No more

I don't care where this highway goes



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