Somewhere Else

Air full of feathers

Fluttering distant laughter

Air full of signs and strange magic

Planets aligned in warning

Trap door sprung beneath me

And I'm falling

But I'm rising..

Downwards into blue sky

I'm rising



Downwards into blue sky

Re-entering the earth

Comet's tail behind me

Signalling a birth

The northern lights, all burning

Hot and cold at the same time

My spirit, white and liquid

And I have learned and I am learning

But I'm rising

Downwards into blue sky

I'm rising

Downwards into blue sky



I am the other half

And you are what I am for

I won't lie to you or hurt you

I'm not like that anymore



I am with you all the time now

One soul. One mind. One heart.

The other half cannot be parted

From the other half

From the other half

Look at it as though you've never seen it before

Try and forget it

So you can see it



Taste it like you never tasted it before

Try and forget it

So you can remember it



See it like a baby

See it like a baby



Love her like you've never fallen in love before

Fall out of love with her

So you can remember



Love him like you've never been with him before

Try and forget it

So you can remember it



See it like..

See it like a baby

See it like a baby

See it like

Touch it like

Taste it like

Feel it like

What a time this is

Everything changing

Faster than the eye can blink

Faster than we can stop and think

What will the future hold?

Well whatever..



I won't ask you to care

But say you'll be there

If you can't love me tonight

Just remember the light

Remember the light



Thankyou whoever you are

Thankyou whoever you are

Thankyou



If we get half of half a chance

We'll party til dawn. We'll run and dance

Sleep on a train and rent a car

We'll gamble in the South of France

We'll be a friend to this mad world

Happy together



I won't ask you to sign

On some cold dotted line

But if you can love me tonight

I'll remember the light

Only the light



Thankyou whoever you are

Thankyou whoever you are

Thankyou

But he who dies with the most toys....

is still dead.

He who dies with the most toys....

is still dead.



You have to be cool

You have to be hip

You have to be chic

You have to be rich

You have to be young

Whatever that is

You have to listen to what's in and

what's happenin'



But

He who dies with the most toys....

is still dead.



You have to keep up

Take the right drugs

Know when to be cagey

Know when to shut up

You have to talk fast

Know who to thank

Drive the right car to the right bank



But

He who dies with the most toys....

is still dead.



Poison your life

As you turn the knife



He who dies with the most toys....

is still dead.

This rock-star trip. Some serious ship

White-knuckle journey blackened my eye and cut my lip

Better to be a doctor or a man who walks the earth

Hedonistic laughing boys

What's any of it worth?..



Look at myself

Look at myself



Escaped to the car

Drove to a bar somewhere

The beautiful game

Such a thin line between love and hate



Look at myself

Look at myself



Mr Taurus ate a thesaurus

Made the girls cry and skipped straight to the chorus

Mr Taurus had a great fall

All the King's horses were no good at all

No good at all



Here's one I broke earlier

I broke earlier



Woke up in a spaceship of shimmering gold

Tutenkhamen sleeping

Should'a left him alone

Floating round in Orion

Arrow pointing to heaven

Between all the planets

Out in the cold



Everyone I love

Everyone I love

Everyone I love lives somewhere else

And I have time to look at myself

Look at myself

Look at myself



And I've seen enough

I've seen enough

Everyone I love lives somewhere else.

Everyone I love lives somewhere else.



Somewhere Else

Somewhere Else

Somewhere Else

A voice from the past

Entered my head today

Fresh and alive. Full of life, passion and pain.

A voice now past.

A beautiful soul. Gone, gone, gone.



Speaking clearly - clearer than the living

Talking perfect sense

Used to not being understood

While talking perfect sense to the next generation



Have we caught up yet?

Is it time?

I think it is.

Enough is enough

Enough is enough



A voice from the past

Entered my head today

Tiny child sighed in my ear.

Giving up breathing in

Over and out

Over and out

Taken by bad luck and the ill fortune of geography.



Common cold. Dirty water. HIV.

Common apathy. Common crime.

Perfect nonsense to the next generation



Dead yet alive

Dead yet alive

Gone but shouting anger

Gone but talking perfect sense



Have we caught up yet?

Is it time? Well I say it is. I say it is.

Deaf and dumbed-down

Enough is enough



Give me a smile. Hold out your hand.

I don't want your money

I don't want your land

Gimme a smile. Hold out your hand.

I don't want your money

I don't want your land

I want you to wake up and do

something strange

I want you to listen

I want you to feel someone else's pain

Someone else's pain

Someone else's pain

Someone else's pain.



Deaf and dumbed-down

Deaf and dumbed-down



A tap with clean water

There's no such thing

As an answered prayer

There's no such thing

As the ozone layer

There's no such thing

As an action hero



There's no such thing

As an easy ride

There's no such thing

As a place to hide

There's no such thing

As a perfect day



There's no such thing

As the pearly gates

There's no such thing

As an ordered world

There's no such thing

As an easy girl



No such thing

No such thing



There's no such thing

As peace-of-mind

As a faithful wife

As the bottom line

There's no such thing

As owning something

It's all borrowed for a time

It's all borrowed for a time



There's no such thing

There's no such thing

No such thing

There's no such thing

No such thing.

I've done everything that can be done to heal this wound

Left it on it's own for years



I've done everything that can be done to heal this wound

Left it on it's own for years

Couldn't touch it, didn't pick it, didn't get it wet

It didn't stop the bleeding



I bandaged it, I wrapped it, stitched it, tourniqueted it

I held it stiff and aching in the air

Held it there til I went beserk

Didn't sleep

It didn't work

Didn't stop it weeping



And the wound is your life

And your life took on a life of it's own

(Or so you foolishly thought)

And your life rolled on over me Bang-Bang like 56 train wheels

Every time I heard news of you



And the wound was in every lousy song on the radio



And the pain was like a tree-fern in the dark, damp, forgotten places

Darkness didn't stop her growing

New-born baby cells dividing..

Curled up tight unrolling day by day

Stretching up, stretching out

Forming the same identical shape

Clones. There aint too much sadder than

Clones - relentlessly emerging from the hairy heart of the wound



And the fern is beautiful in it's own way

Uncurling in the dark

Beautiful with no one there to see it

As the wound weeps and aches



(Now there's some sad things known to the man from the planet Marzipan)

Here we are

At the beginning of the last century for man

Usin' up parts of the world we haven't even seen or been to

The wretched of the earth exploited

by the rich few

What's new?



If you are not outraged

You haven't been paying attention

If you are not outraged

You haven't been listening



God bless America, I mean it

God bless the UK, I mean it

God bless la belle France, I mean it

And God help us all



Climb into the car

I know that makes you happy

The sound of your laughter

Will get you so far

Grace or disgrace

Can make you a star these days

Reality pays

Let's decide who the terrorists are



God bless America, I mean it

God bless the UK, I mean it

Hats off to China, and India

And Africa too.



Eat all we can

Drink all we can

Use all we can

Do what we can

Screw what we can

Don't miss a chance

In the last century for man



I wanna feel ALIVE

Gas up the 4 wheel drive!..



God bless America, I mean it

God bless the UK

God bless our children

And God help us all

What I have here in my hand

Is like faith but not faith

For those without faith also have

What I have here in my hand



What I have here in my hand

Is like feeling but deeper

It's why I am here



What I have here in my hand

Is knowledge without proof

What I have here in my hand

This is what I feel for you



It's why the earth is alive

It makes electricity work

And fire dance in the sky..



Feel it

Feel inside the atoms where the science breaks down

Feel inside the atoms where the science breaks down

If you don't believe in love

You'd have to make it up

You'd have to make it up

You'd have to make it up



What I have here in my hand

Is like faith but not faith

What I have here in my hand

This is what I feel for you



What I have here in my hand

Is like knowing but deeper

It's why I am here

It's why I am here