Anoraknophobia

Today! I saw music in the sky

I drove towards it in my car

And I turned left and I turned right

But I could never lose the light

That shines towards tomorrow night 

Who can say what it means?

What goes on in between

And what gets in between

It's just somethin'

Between you and me

Between you and me

Between you and me

It's as sweet as can be.



Today! I saw music in the sky

It sang around me. I went blind.

Like a masterpiece in a disguise

Couldn't stop it pulling at my eyes



Who can say what it means

What goes on in between

And what gets in between

Ice and fire

Between you and me

Between you and me

Sweet as can be

Between you and me



Monday.. Tuesday.. Blow a fuse day

Fix it in the usual way

Meet me at the church and we'll get in a state

Stay up late and I'll wake up feeling like

A kid swingin' on heavens gate

With no God to complain

Or point the finger of blame

We'll get it all down on video 8

You comin' out to play?

Could be quite a day...



And I sang that pretty tune

An open airy song

And my heart looped the loop

Well I could do no wrong.



Who can say what it means?

What goes on in between

Who can say what you see

And what gets in between you and me



Between you and me

Sweet as can be

Between you and me.

I can imagine nothing more tedious

Than trying to have fun with you again

Maybe it's just something in my mind

But I hate feeling like I'm trying all the time

It's a kind of lie

When we pretend that we're still friends 

I'm sure you're not exactly short of people to

hang out and laugh at your jokes

Tell you you look great

You wouldn't want me around

Making it all feel "forced "

..and "put down"



And every time I smile to wonder if I'm laughin' at you

And with every little grin you don't want to be wonderin'

Just exactly what it is I'm taking pleasure in



Although I always said

We were basically the same and all one

All one

It's so easy to persuade myself

I'm clockwork and you're quartz



I guess that irony 

Will surely be

The death of me



And every time I smile d'you wonder if I'm laughin' at you?

And with every little grin you don't want to be wonderin'..



Although I always said

We were basically the same and all one

All one

It's so easy to persuade myself

I'm clockwork and you're quartz



You're only happy when you're oiled and jewelled

You're only happy when you wind me up and I know

You're so reliable it isn't true

And it's so easy for me to break down

If I could jump a ride between the skin and silicon then

We could join hands and understand. Hallelujah!

But I listen

to the ticking

I guess we're worlds apart ...

It's so hard

So hard



I know there's no going back

And you know there's no going back



You're only happy when you're oiled and jewelled

You're only happy when you're oiled and jewelled

You're never happy



I need maintenance

I need patience

I'm not foolproof

I'm not waterproof

I'm not shockproof

Bombproof

Bulletproof

Fireproof

Leakproof

Childproof

Stainproof

Pressureproof



I know I told myself

We're all basically the same and all one all one

Y'know sometimes I just can't help myself

I'm clockwork and you're quartz

I'm clockwork and you're quartz



I know I never get the balance right

And turn up half an hour late night after night

And being totally dependable is so very commendable

Although you're never wrong

One of these days.. you're just gonna stop.

Watching the people on the street today she couldn't help but smile

Watchin' the town go walking by all shaded eyes and alibis

Strange how much pain you can hide away beneath a well-cut suit

This is the day she walks away 

And the lights of the city pushin' a good time

Asking her out tonight

But she's saving her money for a better life



She's got a map of the world

Pinned up on her wall

She's got a map of the world

She's gonna go and see it all

She's gonna see it all



Watchin the people on the street today

Such a lonely sight

'Swore she could see their dreams go by

All cars and stars and buy buy buy

Runnin on empty Runnin to stand still

No time for their own lives

Sleepwalking through the danger signs



And it feels a little scary

A little runaway

Letting go of all she's done

And the lights of the city, well they're all singin'

Buy some of this, cmon

But when you lie to yourself

You lie to everyone



She's got a map of the world

Pinned up on her wall

She's got a map of the world

She's gonna go and see it all

She's gonna see it all



She'll empty the sand from her shoes

In Paradise 

Sail out across the bay

She'll dance under an island sky

Until the break of day



She's got a map of the world

Pinned up on her wall

It's such a beautiful world

Glistening and magical



She's got a map of the world

Shining away in her mind

Colouring-in her life

This is the day she walks

She's gonna see it all

She's gonna breathe it all

Paris London New York

She's gonna see it all

And if the bottle's no solution

Why does it feel so warm

And if that girl is no solution

Why did she feel so warm

And if to feel is no solution

Why do I feel

Why do I feel so tired

Why do I feel so broken

Why do I feel so outside

Why do I seem so blind

I'm so sick of feeling

It's ruined my life 

If living rough is no solution

Why does it ease my mind

If looking back is no solution

Why are we all 

Nothing but children

Children inside



Why do the Gods

Sit back and watch

So many lost

What kind of mother

Leaves a child in the traffic

Turning tricks in the dark

What kind of God?



I crawled around inside myself

It was a long way down

It was a mine and it was mine

And in the darkness

I saw a perfect mirror

Floating in space



When I meet God

I'm going to ask her

What makes her cry

What makes her laugh

Is she just stars and indigo gas

Does she know why

Love has no end

But it's dark-angel friend

Tearing women and men

Slowly apart



Stain

Don't do that

Scream

Don't do that

Fail

Never do that

Never do that

I want to go out

Don't do that

I want an adventure

Just stay..

I want

Just stay in

I want to make love



And if the bottle's no solution

Why does it feel so warm

And if looking back is no solution

Why are we all just children inside

And if to feel is no solution

Why does the whole damn world feel so broken

So outside and out-of-sorts



A perfect mirror

Floating in space

Waves and numbers

But oh, such beautiful numbers

And oh, such waves..

Goodnight my love

I'm so alone

And so surrounded

By your sweet memory

I cannot sleep

For all these dreams

They come to play

Till dawn comes stealin' them away.. 

The fruit of the wild rose

Hangs here with summer gone

Voluptuous crimson

As the days become colder

The fruit of the wild rose



In a warmer country

Where the sea meets the land

You may walk with your baby

In the afternoon 

Perhaps some aroma

From a street cafe

Might sadden your eyes

Carry you away

 

The fruit of the wild rose

Sweet and so sour on the tongue

Swollen and crimson

As the light fades and shortens

The thorny wild rose

She gave me a summer but she's gone

As England faces the winter



In your eyes, in your mind, in your mind

Clearer than a photograph

No passing of time

Ever could fade

You and I

Shimmering ghostly 

Like a wild garden from another life



Will you throw your arm

Turn your body round

Breathe a sudden sigh

Wherever you lie sleeping

Stir your hips 

Feel the seed inside so sweet

Dreaming westbound waves

And a man comin' back from the sea...



Dreaming

Dance for me rose

Can you feel my skin

Can you feel my bones

Can you put my spine in plaster and take me home 



So unpleasant inside and out

So unpleasant inside and out

If you like I'll tell you about it

You wouldn't want to know



My heads full of water

Tears I never cried

Could you hold me under the shower

In the cold outside



So unsteady inside and out

So unsteady inside and out

If you like I'll tell you about it

You wouldn't want to be



Separated out 

Separated out

Separated out



I need medical attention

Where's my memory gone

Everything I told you - including this,

I already forgot



Separated out

From the living stream

The thing that couldn't lie straight

Straight in the machine



So unstable inside and out

Don't know how much longer I'll take it

If you like I'll sell you a ticket

Or you can get in for free



Am I enough of a freak

To be worth paying to see

Am I enough of a freak

To be worth paying to see



And now, folks, if you'll just step this way, you are about to witness the most amazing, the most astounding, living monstrosity of all time. 



Can you feel my skin

Can you feel my bones

Can you put my spine in plaster and take me home

Can you kiss my face

Let me know it's there

Can you give it shape

Can you kinda care



Am I enough of a freak

To be worth paying to see

Enough of a freak

To be worth paying to see



Enough

Enough



They're pointing and laughing

They're pointing and laughing at me



"We accept her--one of us--gooble, gobble--we accept her--one of us--gooble, gobble..."



"You, dirty, slimy...FREAKS!... FREAKS!... FREAKS!...Get out of here!"



"Get out! You heard her! Get out!"

A wise man once said

A flower is only 

A sexual organ

Beauty is cruelty 

And evolution

A wise man once said

that everything could be explained with mathematics

He had denied

His feminine side

Now where is the wisdom in that?



I came just as fast as I could

Through the dirty air

Of your neighbourhood

Your name on a grain of rice

Hangin' around my neck

And a head like lead



This is the 21st century

I heard everything they said

The Universe demystified

Chemicals for God

This is the 21st century

I heard everything they said



A wise man once wrote

That love is only

An ancient instinct

For reproduction

Natural selection

A wise man once said

That everything could be explained

And it's all in the brain



We lay on a velvet rug

by the open fire

She blew air on my eyelids

I cried "What's it all about?"

As she kissed my hair

She said "There, there.."



"This is the 21st century

I heard everything you said

The universe demystified

Astronomy instead

This is the 21st century

Can't you get it through your head

This aint the way it was meant to be

Magic isn't dead

Come to bed

Come to bed



And rest your heavy head my love.."

And slowly, from above,

She showed the answer's something that can't be written down



This is the 21st century

Flash to crash and burn

Nobody's gonna give you anything

For nothing in return

There's a man up in a mirrored building

And he just bought the world



Would you want

To have kids

Growing up

Into what's left of this?



She shook her head,

She said "Can't you see?

The world is you

The world is me."

Did you ever fall in love

Did you ever fall in love

Did you ever fall in love

Did you ever dream of falling 

If my heart were a ball

It would roll uphill



We are alone in the world

We must do what we feel we should

We are told what is right

Need hurts within us

We can see sense

We can feel what feels right

And so often

All these things are not at all the same

They're not at all the same



If my heart were a ball

It would roll uphill

If my heart were a ball

It would roll uphill



Did you ever dream of running

And find you couldn't move

Did you ever dream of running

Running scared

Ankle deep in glue

With the monster after you

And it's catching up

Monsters catching up

And it's catchin' up and you're going nowhere

And you're slowin' up And you can't wake up

And it's catchin' up

and you're going nowhere wake up wake up

You're falling.. 



If my heart were a ball

It would roll uphill



Did you ever see a shadow

Cast against your bedroom wall

Crooked shadow in the lamplight

Ten feet tall

Did you ever dream of falling

And find you couldn't move

Did you give up.

And discover that you haven't given up

Did you ever dream of falling

Did you ever fall in love



hard ball dream love now roll

fall clown stain truth space time

race give black white all one

church state god fast as I could cry

laugh hide feel no clouds will

to win sweet seed you me

hard ball dream love now roll

fall clown stain truth space time

never do that, never do that

will to win, will to win, never do that

give black white all one wild

church state now roll

fall clown stain truth space time

race fruit

GIVE

never do that 

If my heart were a ball it would roll uphill

All one insane wild sweet heart

Wild rose



Did you ever fall in love?..