Raingods with Zippos

It's just a matter of time a figure of speech that springs to mind throughout the day

As the minutes go by, a second thought, a moment lost, time ticks away

And everything changes, forever never lasts, no such thing as always,it's all too soon the past 



Tumbledown, tumbledown, tumble, tumble, tumbledown.

Tumbledown, tumbledown, tumble, tumble, tumbledown 



Raingods with Zippos, a tin man with a heart

An end with no beginning, a race without a start

That you'll never win, that you cannot lose and you fall apart 



Tumbledown, tumbledown, tumble, tumble, tumbledown.

Tumbledown, tumbledown, tumble, tumble, tumbledown 



The tarot declares a motion made a finger traps an empty glass 



The needles begin to make their mark, you try to hide, you're leaving tracks 



I dream of fire and water, dream of deserts, dream up plans 

Like mountains and castles they're only grains of sand that



Tumbledown, tumbledown, tumble, tumble, tumbledown,

Tumbledown, tumbledown, tumble, tumble, tumbledown 



Raingods with Zippos, a tin man's bleeding heart 

An end with no beginning, a race without a start

That you'll never win, that you cannot lose and you fall apart 



And Tumbledown, tumbledown, tumble, tumble, tumbledown 

Tumbledown, tumbledown, tumble, tumble, tumbledown

I punched the clock in at 35, I thank the Lord that I'm still alive,

sometimes I find it hard to believe that my hearts still beating that I'm still on my feet

I'm gonna give you, gonna give you a mission statement 



I've been in a downward spiral for a very long, long time,

I've been stepping over dollars just to pick up a shiny dime 

The way I see it, it ain't gonna work, I'm kissing the past goodbye 

I'm gonna give you, gonna give you a mission statement 



I got no more patience, got no more time 

I'm tired of following orders, sticking to the company line 



I want to change the world and I'm starting with myself 

a private revalation concerning everybody else 

we're all just lonely people we're all looking for some help 

too busy crunching numbers and fighting for ourselves 

all it takes is kindness and a little love and care 

and this planet that we live on can be a Heaven we can share, a mission statement 



The tears of hungry children are falling in the dust 

the scraps of a rich man's table could fill their starving mouths 

while some they thirst for water others get drunk on wine 

to some their lives a prison and they're out there doing time 

I'm gonna give you, give you a mission statement 



I got no more patience, I got no more time 

I'm tired of following orders, sticking to the company line



I want to change the world and I'm starting with myself 

a private revalation concerning everybody else 

we're all just lonely people we're all looking for some help 

too busy crunching numbers and fighting for ourselves 

all it takes is kindness and a little love and care 

and this planet that we live on can be a Heaven we can share, a mission statement

We got 140 stations on satellite beaming on down to our home - but I'm watching you 

I've got half a million bills to pay, you never hear a word I say - I dream of you 



Oh I feel so incomplete, oh,  it seems so incomplete 

If we could only close the distance 

If we could only cross these lines 

If we could only fill the space that's grown between us over time 



You don't hear me anymore, you don't touch me anymore, you don't know me anymore 



There's a wedding dress in a suitcase full of memories in the attic - I think of you 

Where the ghosts of summer butterflies they gather in the dust - I long for you 



Oh I feel so incomplete, oh it seems so incomplete 

If we could only bring those days back when there were never wounds to heal 

When everything was perfect and the dream we had was real 



You don't hear me anymore, you don't touch me anymore, you don't know me anymore 



Oh I feel so incomplete, oh, it seems so incomplete 

When there were never any questions over who or what we were 

And the future only promised all the answers to our prayers



You don't hear me anymore, you don't touch me anymore, you don't know me anymore

There's a message that's been left in the long grass by a stranger who's passed this way before 

Planted seed from which we reap a bitter harvest from his long forgotten war 



I left my love in a grave and I marked it with a cross that will stand so straight and true 

It's not alone in the shade of the valley, they're what remains of the ones we once knew 



Walk with me my child but tread softly on this earth 

Keep a close eye where your feet they touch the ground 

Watch out for the signs and heed what they say 

One false step and all is lost 

In the land of the tilted cross 



They lie beneath the needles of the forest, in the fields where only shadows dare to play 

Washed down from the slopes of the mountains in the Spring when the snow melts away 



So be sure when you go on your journey, carry sticks, mark the place where they are found 

Make a cross and be sure that it's tilted so that others don't step on this ground 



Walk with me my child but tread softly on this earth 

Keep a close eye where your feet they touch the ground 

Watch out for the signs and heed what they say 

One false step and all is lost 

In the land of the tilted cross 



I left my love in a grave and I marked it with a cross that stands so straight and true

If your body's feeling bad

It's the only one you have

You want to take away the pain

Just go out walking in the rain

You watch the flowers go to bed

Just ask the man inside your head

Your spirit never has to grieve

All you've got to do is believe



The faith healer

The faith healer



All you've gotta do is feel

Your body's gonna start to heal

The finger tips of holy fire

Ever lasting sweet desire

It never mattered what the doctor said

The healer man will sail away



It's immortality for two

Oh the miricles they will come to you



From faith healer

The faith healer



Can I put my hands on you

Can I put my hands on you



The faith healer

The faith healer



Faith and hope and charity

The simple relativity

He can make you understand

All you've gotta do, you've gotta take his hand

The finger tips of holy fire

Ever lasting sweet desire

It never mattered what the doctor said

Listen to the man inside your head



The faith healer

The faith healer



Can I put my hands on you

Can I put my hands on you



Let me put my hands on you

Let me put my hands on you



Can I put my hands on you

Can I put my hands on you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you



The faith healer

The faith healer

The faith healer

With this right of passage 

Cruel twist of fate 

With every turn of every card I never see 

Until it's too late 

The deed is done and leaves me wondering just where our love has gone

I cannot say in honest truth that I still trust all my feelings for you 



You knew that it was wrong 

You think that saying sorry is gonna make it seem alright 

Maybe in this song you will hear me for the first time

And you'll start to see the light 



Living with you is like being parked on double yellow lines waiting to be towed away 

I'll pay the fines and I'll be back, but I'm running out of reasons to stay 



You knew that it was wrong 

You think that saying sorry is gonna make it seem alright 

Maybe in this song you will hear me for the first time

And you'll start to see the light 



You knew that it was wrong 

You think that saying sorry is gonna make it seem alright 

Maybe in this song you will hear me for the first time

And you'll start to see the light



With this right of passage I reclaim my heart 

I take my leave, as if on cue 

I play no further part in your self-penned dramas 

Where each stolen kiss

Just goes to prove that happy endings don't exist

I found a home in the darkness, found a home in the darkness, found a home in the darkness,

Empty stomach empty head a body fills a vacant bed 

and the thunder rolls by, and the rains come, and the days gone and I wonder where I am 



Found a place in the darkness, found a home in the darkness, in the darkness, home, in the darkness 



A crowded room of passers by and in the shadows strangers cry, and the ghosts try to hide 

when the rains come, when the storms form, when I wonder who I am in the darkness

Digging deep in the darkness, digging it deep down deep down deep down digging it

Deep in the darkness, digging it deep, down deep, down, deep down digging it

Deep in the darkness, digging it deep, down, down, down, down, digging it

Deep in the darkness, digging it down, deep down, deep, down deep digging it



We watched an insect stray to the edge of it's world, a lily pad stretched over a green mirror

in which the ghost carp swirl like clouds before a storm 

This is the season of the rains 

This is incoming 



And when it came their was no cover, no place to hide 

vision blurred, hard to breathe, trying hard to hold onto something that's real 

Nothing left, nowhere to go, no open road it's washed away by swollen streams 

carried off downriver with all my broken dreams 



Digging deep in the darkness, digging it deep, down deep down deep, deep, digging it

Deep in the darkness, digging it deep down, down, down, down digging it

Deep in the darkness, digging it deep, digging it digging it, digging it 

Deep in the darkness, digging it deep down, deep down, deep down, digging it 



A tethered goat bleats from the corner of the graveyard where the lizards hang motionless

as the angels of stone above them,

their broken wings throwing long shadows into the grass where the scorpions hide 

The tigers are running out of jungle 



In the end I was tired of being asked if I could say that I was happy now 

as if you need me to convince you that everything's OK 

Would you take me back?



Digging deep in the darkness, digging it deep, down deep, down deep, deep digging it

Deep in the darkness, digging it deep, down, down, down, down, down, digging it 

Deep in the darkness, digging it deep, deep down, deep, deep, digging it 

Deep in the darkness, down, down, down, down, down, down digging it 



Are you happy now? You keep asking, asking am I happy now?

Why can't you tell me that I'm happy now? Are you happy now?

Happy now? Happy now?

The bloated corpses of unsolved murders and old revolutions,

pirouette and dance amongst the swirls and eddies in their final procession

down the muddy river to the delta where they're thrown up by the surf

onto sterile beaches or are trapped in the roots of mangrove cathedrals of the islands

that gather in the bay 



These are the first arrivals on this new horizon that will be coveted by strangers

who will deposit themselves on these shores to build towers to the heavens.

The storm will come and the rains will fall and remove their dreams and hopes once

again to the waters that surround them.

And while they pray the frogs will chant in the darkness



A heid full of chocolate frogs, a body full of rush, a pocketful of shrapnel and a skinful of bush,

an eyeful of the future and a bellyful of the past, how beautiful the present when you know it cannae last 



A tumblerful of voddie, two fingers in a glass, a handful of promises, a heart full of remorse 

mindful of your manners when you're brought down to your knees 

a heid full of chocolate frogs is all you gave to me 

That's all you gave to me, that's all you gave to me 



A spoonful of miracles a nostril full of dust a lung full of Virginia the needs we have we must 

a pill to put your heart right a nose out for a deal for a heid full of chocolate frogs what can you give to me?

What did you give to me?

What did you give to me?

What did you give to me?

You cracked up too soon before the punchline hit home and at the end of the joke did you notice that no-one was laughing with you 

You were out on your own 

Waving at trains, waving at cars, waving from bars, waving from aeroplanes 

might as well be waving at stars 



You called out her name as the darkness hit home,

raised up your Zippo and opened the skies till the crowd melts away,

at the end of the day, you ran out of light 

Praying for rain, praying for signs, praying for time, praying for endless night,

might as well be wishing on stars

Empty churches, empty pews,

in the subway nothing moves and the static on the radio is drowning out the sound of Raingod's dancing 

Empty playgrounds, empty bars,

I can't remember how it was before the flood when all I had to do was recognise the love that's trapped inside 



I gave it all, I took it back and in the end there's nothing left except a shell

surrounding emptiness and loneliness, a core of pain 

I see my pathway shining 



Raingods with Zippo's, a tinman hides a broken heart 

Raingods with Zippo's, he knows the flame has gone that soon he'll fall apart 



So I lay me down to lie and with the rain my lullaby I drift away to dreamless sleep,

leave behind a life that died, a victim of a Plague of Ghosts

I was wrapped up in my guilt buried deep within my memories,

a shelter of self-pity that I know the rain will wash away, I sense the storm arriving 



Raingods with Zippo's, a tin man rusts away and slowly falls apart 

Raingods with Zippo's and all he leaves behind a bleeding broken heart

In the end I found beginnings, not a vision, a wake up call 

raised from the dead by a beating heart and at last I can see it all

and my eyes were opened to the darkness, in my hand a burning flame 

a spark of life to touch the fuse and blow these clouds away 

I can make it happen, if I want to 

Make it happen, if I try 

Forgive, forget, forever never means as much as it does today 

make it happen, we can make it happen, we can make it happen 



When I wake up, will you be there? It can never be the same 

If we can take our lives slowly, step by step, we can be dancing in the rain 

We can make it happen, we can make it happen, make it happen 

forgive, forget, forever means today, make it happen, we can make it happen 

We can make it happen, forgive, forget, forever means today 

Make it happen