Smallcreep's day

It's so very dark in here

There's water on the wall

I can see no lights and what's that sound

That droning far above the smoke

And everywhere I look their eyes are watching me.



Hello my friend

The day is long and I am very hot

This metal world

The lower half of every face is lit

Everytime I look the clock is calling me

On the tick and the tock.



I've got my love to get me there

But I've more pain that I can bare

There is a world to find and share

Oh Saturday - Oh Saturday

And I can see a dying race, who live their lives

On the tick and the tock, in between.

I'm hopelessly waiting in line



For what I don't know I don't mind



There's never a day that goes by



Without blood on my hands in my hair.







I'm hopelessly working in line



On what I don't care I don't mind



There's nothing that I would give



To see what comes out at the end.

Say I'm going, yes I am going in another day,



Coz if I do go home I've nothing left to say.



I'm a man who clocked on but out of my life.



When the lights go out tonight I'll make my move.



Too many years and all those tears have gone so deep inside me.



Oh No!







Along the edge, above the metal dreamlike streamlike world.



Way up above looking down up row after row of factory machines.



There's no time like the present.



Singing a song I brought along to keep me company.







Aching back, my breath coming fast my feet getting lighter, I



I feel kind of dizzy







Running up, I'm running down.



I am nearly there, I am, I'm nearly there.



The light in the distance is getting so much brighter.



I'm a no-man in a no-man's land.







The metal girders that stand all around have now gone.



The sky through the skylight's a different shade of blue.



Cats and rats in this neighbourhood,



Cats and rats in this neighbourhood.



Look different to me.







Let it be a better day - for you my love.



Let it be a better day - for me my love.

The day is nearly ended hurry home to your bed



My nights are oh so lonely come and lay down your head



The eyes of all our children growing heavy with sleep



And with one final flicker into a world full of dreams.







Oh I need you now through the lonely nights



And when the morning comes upon us



I'll be holding you so close to me.







The grass is never greener either side of the wall



If I am here or somewhere many miles away



For I have come to realize nothing changes at all.







Oh I need you now through the lonely nights



And when the morning comes upon us



I'll be holding you so close to me.

And I feel like the night is closing - I know it is

Do you feel it burning in my blood

Burning in my blood like it's setting me fire.



And I feel like a cloud is closing in - I know it is

As I slip into a hazy crazy world - I know I am

Sooner or later moonshine in my brain

Turning me around till there's madness in the air.



Turning water into wine, till there's nothing left to burn

Courage deserted me tonight.



And in the moments that I have when peace is all around

I can see clearly now, and what I see

There's your world and there's mine

There's so little in between

But listen my love

We will never know which one of us has got it right.



Coz baby the things I do are hurting everyone

I know they are.  I've got to try to find the door

Sooner or later it will turn me inside out

Begone all those who would torment me

I've an answer for you now.



And I'm glad it's not late to give it up - I know it's not

All I need's a year or two to rearrange - to rearrange

I can feel it burning in my blood

Turning me around till there's madness in the air.



Turning water into wine, till there's nothing left to burn

Courage deserted me tonight.



And in the moments that I have when peace is all around

I can see clearly now, and what I see

There's your world and there's mine

There's so little in between

But listen my love

We will never know which one of us has got it right.



Turning water into wine, till there's nothing left to burn

Courage deserted me tonight.



Turning water into wine, till there's nothing left to burn

Courage deserted me tonight.

It's been so many years since I saw your face,

But now I'm home again back in my old place

And though you're not quite sure you think you see me by the door

I'll be there.



When the winter comes knocking on the door

And you've the firelight dancing on the floor

In the dead of night when every star is burning bright

I'll be there



Time and time again

I am always there to see you through the night

Time and time again

Rest your tired head and it will be alright

and after all is said, is said and done

Oh God you'll never know

Just how lonely life can be for me.



So let me tell you now what it's like to be

The one whose memories are scattered on the sea

When the wind goes down you'll see them lying all around.



On a cloudy day, high up in the sky

There's a lonely bird who's sailing round and round

Looking for a place to land down on the ground, for a while

Over and over again

Please give your love to me

Throw it in the wind and I'll be there.



Deep within the darkness I'm the shadow next to yours

I'll be there.



Time and time again

I am always there to see you through the night

Time and time again

Rest your tired head and it will be alright

And after all is said, is said and done

Please give your love to me

Throw it in the wind and I'll be there.

There never was a moment I wasn't sure

I would be someone who roamed the world

And when the time was ready and so was I

get out of here onto the streets

Who'll make everything better, who'll make everything better.



The life that I was living, the great outdoors

Stars up above me everynight, as I lay down my head

Who'll make everything better, who'll make everything better.



Get out of bed I hear them singing all along the way

You're where you want to be out on the open road again

Ain't that peculiar, you're on you're own again

You're on your own, on your own, I guess you always were.



One day you come to realise you're getting old

No one to share the lonely days, to be together

Who'll make everything better, who'll make everything better.



Get out of bed I hear them singing all along the way

Too late to change it all, the gypsy in your blood has gone

Ain't that peculiar, you're on your own again

You're on your own, on your own, until the very end.

How, how can I

How can I be back here again

It was just the other day.



That I, I said I

I said I would be moving on

Seems to me I'm going round and round

It's the only way I know.



Every road that I take is the same

Everyway I go, everyday I go

Leading me back the way I've just come

Every road that I take is the same

Don't be sorry please, don't you worry please

I will be back again very soon.



Then, when I know

I know that I have stayed too long

And there's nothing left for me to say

So I'll be on my way



Every road that I take is the same

Everyway I go, everyday I go

Leading me back the way I've just come

Every road that I take is the same

Don't be sorry please, don't you worry please,

I will be back again very soon.



Follow me now, wherever I go

Follow me now.

Get the money and run

Now's not the time to hang around

Overnight job it's an overnight job

Anymore for anymore

Think it over, you've always got to be

Just one more step ahead

Everyone said that it couldn't be done

And I know that's why you're here tonight

You've got everything that you need for the job

I hope that it all works out right.



Out on the streets at the dead of night

There's nobody else around

Overnight job it's an overnight job

Anymore for anymore

Think it over, you've always got to be

Just one more step ahead

Coz everyone said that it couldn't be done

And I know that's why you're here tonight

Over your shoulder the day's getting bolder

The shadows are fading away.



Because everyone's got it inside, just a little bit somewhere



Overnight job it's an overnight job

Think it over, you've always got to be

Just one more step ahead

Everyone said that it couldn't be done

And I know that's why you are here tonight

Over your shoulder the day's getting bolder

The shadows are fading away.