Broken China

Now you feel it, a shiver and you begin

Frozen breath that scrapes across the skin

And a sound you've never heard before, you screaming



Welcome to the world of random noise

Where you simply haven't got a choice

When they push your levers and pull your strings



It's another world, it's a better world that we bring



Here you are on the planet of hot and cold

Where you'll do as exactly as you're told



In a world of a 1000 furry toys

You can hear the screams

Of little girls and boys

It's a charming noise

If you really want that kind of thing, mama



Now you feel it, a shiver and you've begun

When they pull those strings how you'll start to run !

And there's no stepping off or stepping down



It's another world and it's a better world,

That's what we have found

Why do we feel this adult pain

And hold these secrets that don't belong?

This loneliness has no place with us

The silence grows, it has no place with life.



You outward joy holds back the fears

Which deepen inside of us.



We travel all alone

And carry the guilt of those who disappear



Our childlike hopes,

In disarray

This pain no child should feel

We disappear.

Woman of custom just severed ties

What had never changed had always died so

Suddenly she's opened eyes that

Fill with tears and come alive

Her stifled love sleeping forever was

Unaroused like changeless weather

And little chance that she was ever

Going to smash the precious measure



She never lived with pain, fear or anger

Windowless and tame like a precious stone langoured

A heart enchained, willing to surrender

But now if storms would only blow

She could really feel the roll.



Those years of sleep, all waking dreams

Unpeopled places on painted screens

And diffused in subdued streams

Her life was cost, traditional schemes.



She never lived with pain, fear or anger

Windowless and tame like a precious stone langoured

A heart enchained, willing to surrender

But now if storms would only blow

Then she could really feel the roll

She could really feel the roll.





"A hunger that lasts can have no pain"

It's just these words that don't explain.

Eaten alive and spat out again

They jam in the memory like ancient remains.



Woman of custom just severed ties

What had never changed had always died so

Suddenly she's opened eyes that

Fill with tears and come alive.

A part of herself, she thought love was dying, 

The game of opposites, a hateful lie. 

She can't hang on at all, she's giving up the fight. 

She's locked in a wall of ice, 

Through half the day and half the night 

On a path that's been prescribed. 



Nothing comes, but she can't leave her life 

Or hear the falling rain, or the heart race in her. 

And dark as it grows at night, with fear of light's change 

She's drowning away 

In what she can do and what she contains 

And her heart it so low. 



Now, because I could not cope with the pain, 

How things are not the same, she's got no remedies. 

A heartbreaking fall and I fear a change of cource 

I feel like we were born insane, 

I hear the love, I fear the love 



For the heart is low, see how it grows apart. 

And deep from the other side, we live so plain 

We have no night, we have no day, we have no falling rain. 

Not love in our eyes, not love in our stare 

Felt more like inner sea, had no quality 

So says those who drown at night 

Far from the harbour wall, far from the harbour wall.

I'm ill with a fever, I feel like a child 

I lay in the dark 'til morning came. 

It's so unoriginal 

And I feel it worse at night 

I know it's not terminal 

But I'm near half-dead fright 

And freezing cold. 



But sooner than woke up 

To find it all unchanged 

I'll sleep through the day til the daylight ends. 

Cos it's all so familiar 

As it comes around again 

The same taste to everything 

The same unbroken chain 

That still remains. 



With morning I rise, 

A dream that won't leave me, 

You're sad, naked and pale 



And you're reaching for the rail 



You took a look inside, how could you peel away 

Or break the shell, the hurt you've hidden so well 

For all your days. 



And you're going down 

As you slip beneath the waves, 

Won't make a sound 

Won't even leave a trace before you. 



I hear an appalling sigh from the streets below 

And it's creeping fear congealed in stone 

That paves the crazy road. 

And all are succumbing and they look so hopelessly 

At the heartbreak, it's easy to deal with, 

Just take these and you'll really never feel it.

I'm ill with a fever, I feel like a child 

I lay in the dark 'til morning came. 

It's so unoriginal 

And I feel it worse at night 

I know it's not terminal 

But I'm near half-dead fright 

And freezing cold. 



But sooner than woke up 

To find it all unchanged 

I'll sleep through the day til the daylight ends. 

Cos it's all so familiar 

As it comes around again 

The same taste to everything 

The same unbroken chain 

That still remains. 



With morning I rise, 

A dream that won't leave me, 

You're sad, naked and pale 



And you're reaching for the rail 



You took a look inside, how could you peel away 

Or break the shell, the hurt you've hidden so well 

For all your days. 



And you're going down 

As you slip beneath the waves, 

Won't make a sound 

Won't even leave a trace before you. 



I hear an appalling sigh from the streets below 

And it's creeping fear congealed in stone 

That paves the crazy road. 

And all are succumbing and they look so hopelessly 

At the heartbreak, it's easy to deal with, 

Just take these and you'll really never feel it.

I can see you through a pool of darkness 

I stretch out my hand to reach you 

I know you are there 

So please look at me 

How I've missed you 

How I've missed love 

My hand is here 



If you still know me 

Then touch my fingertips 



I see the waters move above your face 

I feel your naked hand 

Please don't let it go again 



Your sacrifice 

That meant so much 

Left us with no place to stand 

Please let me touch 

And let me near 

Let me near

You feel her warmth, feel it like a summer day 

Shining from, the cloudless sky, it lights her way.



With darkness gone, like a distant road

We travelled all nigh until the morning rose.



Now we're turning, towards the sun, unfolding everyday

From out behind, the clouded mind,

With more than words to say.



We're half-naked souls and a harmony

Is a song of tears, all washed into the sea,

As we stand along the shoreline.



We were cut off from our lives, by a wall of pain,

It can't be seen, it's so routine, it has no face or name.



But now the day has broken, can see in better ways,

A path leading to the light, a hope that never fades.

All power to the brave.



You feel her warmth, feel it like solar rays,

See how, they kindle fire, illuminate her face.



Free as the sunlight that shines down from above,

That opens us all to feel love

I can take or leave it, won't be the woebegone

Don't need a model universe to hang your pictures on.

You hide somewhere, you die somewhere

And then this senseless thought,

By hating more you're feeling more

And that's how you get caught.



They're never going to make it easy

Of this you can be sure.

I greet you from the wilderness,

I'll stay inside your door.



There's no cage or prison, they have no fence too tall,

You die more times that anyone, there's still no place to fall.



They're never going to keep it simple

This comes down from above.

I have no helm, no secret realm,

I dream to be at the heart of love, a part of love.



I bet you can conceal it, but that's just a dead-end track,

I'll cover you like the driven snow and then I'll bring you back.

You'll see ! you feel like, you feel like a banner,

Unfurled and gently blown,

And there before your opening eyes

The self you've never known.



They're never going to make it easy

Of this you can be sure.

You feel untied, beatified

And loved for evermore