Living years

It must be hard

being an angel

when the devil in your heart

won't set you free

it must be hard

being an angel

when the world has let you down

imperfection all around



Hey look at me

it must be hard

it must be hard

it must be hard.



Nobody's perfect 

all of the time

nobody's perfect

we are what we are

there's no perfect reason

and no perfect rhyme

for most of the time

that's what we're looking for.



Gentlemen gentlemen please!

can you please support the notion

of what I'm saying here

that the person here in question

must be an angel here on earth

if they can't see a human being

for what a human being's really worth

gentlemen please!



Nobody's perfect 

all of the time

nobody's perfect

we are what we are

there's no perfect reason

and no perfect rhyme

for most of the time

that's what we're looking for.



It must be hard

being an angel

it must be hard

when the world has let you down

it must be hard

being an angel

it must be hard.



Nobody's perfect

all of the time

nobody's perfect

we are what we are 

there's no perfect reason

no perfect rhyme

most all of the time

that's what we're looking for...

Every generation

Blames the one before

And all of their frustrations

Come beating on your door



I know that I'm a prisoner

To all my Father held so dear

I know that I'm a hostage

To all his hopes and fears

I just wish I could have told him in the living years



Crumpled bits of paper

Filled with imperfect thought

Stilted conversations

I'm afraid that's all we've got



You say you just don't see it

He says it's perfect sense

You just can't get agreement

In this present tense

We all talk a different language

Talking in defence



Say it loud, say it clear

You can listen as well as you hear

It's too late when we die

To admit we don't see eye to eye



So we open up a quarrel

Between the present and the past

We only sacrifice the future

It's the bitterness that lasts



So Don't yield to the fortunes

You sometimes see as fate

It may have a new perspective

On a different day

And if you don't give up, and don't give in

You may just be O.K.



Say it loud, say it clear

You can listen as well as you hear

It's too late when we die

To admit we don't see eye to eye



I wasn't there that morning

When my Father passed away

I didn't  get to tell him

All the things I had to say



I think I caught his spirit

Later that same year

I'm sure I heard his echo

In my baby's new born tears

I just wish I could have told him in the living years



Say it loud, say it clear

You can listen as well as you hear

It's too late when we die

To admit we don't see eye to eye

I believe in Jesus

his father's only son

I do believe he sees us

with the loaded gun.



I believe in the magic 

Of the Mujahedin

I still believe in Daniel Ortega

the sun in Omega, the Lord of the Rings

I believe in most everything.

I believe, I believe



I have a friend in England

who says I must escape

the meetings of Mao and Nixon

it's an old debate.



But I believe in the magic

of the King and the Queen

And I still have a young rebel's sympathy

radical symphonies still have a ring

I believe in most everything.

I believe

I fear this muddled thinking

has to go some time

I fear this sinking feeling's

not the best of signs

I feel I'm in trouble

as the Eighties close

I look to the future

I'm frightened, I'm scared U suppose.



You may think it's foolish 

that I still believe in love

You laugh and you sneer

-it's cruel

It's what I'm thinking of.



I believe in the magic

in the power of the soul

one to one's my equation

that carries the nation on to the goal

we're all brothers and sisters, I'm told.



I believe, I believe, I believe in love

do you believe what you're seeing

Oh I believe in love.



I believe in love

I believe, I believe, 

I believe, I believe, I believe in love.

There is nothing wrong with me

there's nothing wrong with you

maybe we're just blind to see 

each other's point of view.



Nobody knows what we had.



You could do much better,

you could do much worse than me.

I could have walked right out on you

there was nothing stopping me



Nobody knows what we had.



We were running of passion

we were running out of time

there's a face to fit the future

there's a face to fit the crime.

Now the truth is on the table

and the ghost is plain to see

there's nothing wrong with you or me.



I won't live in your world,

you can't live in mine

We don't hate each other darlin'

we just gave up trying.



Nobody knows what we had.



Maybe I'm not crying

maybe I don't mind

But it hurts just knowing

your children won't be mine.



Nobody knows what we had.

He's a poor boy in his pocket

he's a poor boy in his shoes.

he's done his time

he's stood in line

that boy has paid his dues.



He ain't looking for a handout

he's just looking for a start

he don't hate anyone

he don't carry a gun

you can tell that kid is smart.



So you can'

t keep that poor boy down

you can be unkind

you can rob him blind

but you can't keep that poor boy down.

you can lie and cheat

you can chain his feet

but you can't keep that poor boy down.



And all down throughout the ages

the kid's been treated rough

just take a look

in any history book

you can see that times were tough.



Now we move up to the nineties

up to the 21st

one day he'll stand

a full grown man

and be the same as all of us.



So you can't keep that poor boy down

you can lock him up

you can break his cup

but you can't keep that poor boy down.



You can fight and steal

you can drag your heels

but you can't keep that poor boy down

You can kick his ass

if the kid's got class

you can't keep that poor boy down.



Let's stop the truck

go back and pick him up

you can't keep that poor boy down.



Let him go!!

While you're defending yourself

maybe you'd like to explain

are you a king for a day

is it some ancient campaign

Warpaint your flag on your face 

Gather the troops on the line

you never made a mistake

There at the scene of the crime.





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blood on your hands

blood on your feet

down in the pouring rain

what do you care

out on the street

we're gonna drive you insane

nobody else to blame for all that.



Where are the angry young men

where are the fighters or yore

looking for trouble again

looking to settle a score.



Why do you reincarnate

why will you always be here

pour out a nation of hate

pour out an ocean of tears.





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Nobody questions the power elite

who's gonna take up the strain

nobody else to blame!

I don't want to condescend

I just want to be your friend

I don't want to drive your car

I just want to make a start

with you



I don't want to touch your lace

I just want to touch your face

but everytime I reach for you

you say you don't want me to - you say

don't

don't hold my hand

you don't understand

don't push too hard

don't go too far - don't



you don't seem to be concerned

when you make my body burn

you don't want to torture me

it's just a little purgatory

I don't want to call you names 

you insist on playing hames

when I try to state my case

you just put me in my place -- you say

don't

will you walk with me

will you talk with me

open your heart

and be human to me

it's not fantasy

it's reality

This need for you that's

Consuming me.



I don't want to tempt no fate

you just won't communicate

when I try some sympathy

You just turn your back on me

You say don't

Hey, hey one fine day

you're going away ooh

what do you say, little girl.



Yeah it's you I'm talkin' to

tell me what right have you

to leave me black and blue.



You say nothing lasts forever

no never, ever, ever

but the goods you got

oh God, you know it's hot, hot, hot, hot, hot.

Ooh, it's hot.



That's right it's black and white

you're saying day is night

But you leave me black and blue.



You say nothing's everlasting

and that love is just the last thing

that you feel you want. 

You know you got

You know it's hot, hot, hot, hot, hot.



We'll I've tried to make it on my own

But I just can't leave your love alone.



Maybe just maybe, I'll get it sometime

from a boat or a plane or a magical sign

Send me the pieces, that make up my heart

I'll put them together, a part by a part by ....



Hey you I'm talking to,

Tell me what right have you

to leave me black and blue

yeah what right have you, what right

to leave me black and blue

you wanna fight

you're saying day is night

you leave me black

bring back the pieces that make up my heart

and I'll put them together, a part by a part by a...



Hey you I'm black and blue.

Four o'clock in the morning

waiting for the light

it's another day dawning

another day

a better life.



Walk out in the morning sun

I'm always going to be

with you



Lay down when your day is done

I'm always going to be

with you.



I don't blame you for crying

no-one else could see

but today we'll be flying

forever you

forever me.



Walk out in the morning sun

I'm always going to be with you

Lay down when your day is done

I'm always going to be

with you



No doubts now we're free to run

I'm always going to be

with you.



It's a beautiful, 

Beautiful day....

These are dangerous times

that were living in

and there are dangerous signs

that were giving in to fear

late one night, I'm lying here

I thought I heard a sound.



Tell the mothers and the babes 

tell the old, tell the sick they will be safe

get the young males.  Tell them to be brave

I was so concerned with saving live

I never saw you pull the knife.



High on the mountains

across seven seas

All of the people 

why me, why me?

Do you feel so frustrated

Frightened and feared

answer my question 

Why me, why me, why me

why me, why me, why me?



You're such an angry young man

with all your grievances

people don't understand,

they just can't understand

what you must do to stay alive.



So you try to justify

all the violence and hate, before your eyes.

Through the ages better men than you have tried

to give what is not theirs to give

to take the land where others live.



High on the mountains

across seven seas

all of the people why me, why me?

Do you feel so frustrated 

frightened and feared

answer my question

why here, why now,

why here, why now, hey here,

why now, why me?



Oh, for now you have the power

the guns and all the swords

but nature has a nasty habit

of balancing her flaws.



Now you may try to break my body

lock me up and throw away the key

but you'll never break my spirit

I'm free!