Pink Floyd Lyrics with Albums

Album: Atom Heart Mother
Atom Heart Mother

"Here is a loud announcement"

"Silence in the studio!"

(Instrumental)

 

If

If I were a swan

I'd be gone

If I were a train

I'd be late

And if I were a good man

I'd talk with you more often than I do

If I were to sleep

I could dream

If I were afraid

I could hide

If I go insane

Please don't put your wires in my brain

If I were the moon

I'd be cool

If I were a rule

I would bend

If I were a good man

I'd understand the spaces between friends

If I were alone

I would cry

And if I were with you

I'd be home and dry

And if I go insane

Will you still let me join in with the game?

If I were a swan

I'd be gone

If I were a train

I'd be late again

If I were a good man

I'd talk with you more often than I do

 

Summer '68

Would you like to say something before you leave?

Perhaps you'd care to state exactly how you feel

We said goodbye before we said hello

I hardly even like you

I shouldn't care at all

We met just six hours ago

The music was too loud

From your bed I gained a day and lost a bloody year

And I would like to know

How do you feel?

How do you feel?

Not a single word we said

Delights still without fears

Occasinally you showed a smile

But what was the need

I felt the cold far too soon

The wind of '95

My friends are lying in the sun

I wish that I was there

Tomorrow brings another town

Another girl like you

Have you time before you leave to greet another man?

Just you let me know

How do you feel?

How do you feel?

Goodbye to you

Charlotte Kringles too

I've had enough for one day

 

Fat old sun

When that fat old sun in the sky is falling

Summer evenin' birds are calling

Summer's thunder time of year

The sound of music in my ears

Distant bells

New mown grass smells so sweet

By the river holding hands

Roll me up and lay me down

And if you see

Don't make a sound

Pick your feet up off the ground

And if you hear as the warm night falls

The silver sound from a time so strange

Sing to me

Sing to me

When that fat old sun in the sky is falling

Summer evenin' birds are calling

Children's laughter in my ears

The last sunlight disappears

And if you see

Don't make a sound

Pick your feet up off the ground

And if you hear as the warm night falls

The silver sound from a time so strange

Sing to me

Sing to me

When that fat old sun in the sky is...(fades out)

 

Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast

(Instrumental)

 

 

Album: MEDDEL

 

One of these days

One of these days

I'm going to cut you into little pieces

 

A pillow of winds

The cloud of eiderdown draws around me

softening the sound

sleepy time when I lie with my love by my side

and she's breathing low, and the candle dies

When night comes down you lock the door

the book falls to the floor

as darkness falls and waves roll by

the seasons changed, the wind is warm

Now wakes the owl, now sleeps the swan

behold the dream, the dream is gone

green fields, a cold rain

is falling in a golden dawn

and deep beneath the ground the early morning sounds

and I go down

sleepy time when I lie with my love by my side

and she's breathing low and I rise like a bird

in the haze when the first rays touch the sky

and the night winds die

 

Fearless

You say the hill's to steep to climb, climbing

you say you'ld like to see me try, climbing

you pick the place and I'll choose the time

and I'll climb the hill in my own way

just wait a while for the right day

and as I rise above the tree-line and the clouds

I look down, hearing the sounds of the things you've said today

Fearlessly the idiot faced the crowd, smiling

mercyless the magistrate turns round, frowning

and who's the fool who wears the crown

go down in your own way

and every day is the right day

and as you rise above the fear-lines in his crown

you look down, hearing the sound of the faces in the growd

You never walk alone, you never walk alone

walk on, walk on with hope in your heart

and you never walk alone, you never walk alone

 

San Tropez

As I reach for a peach, slide a line down behind, a sofa in San Tropez

breaking a stick with a brick on the sand

riding a wave in the wake of an old sedan

sleeping alone in the drone of the darkness

scratched by the sand that fell from my love

keeping my dreams and I still hear her calling

if you're alone, I'll come home

Backward and homebound, a pigeon, a dove

gone with the wind, the rain on a airplane

owning a home with no silver spoon

I'm drinking champagne like a good tycoon

sooner than wiat for a break in the weather

I'll gather my far-glung thoughts together

speeding away on the wind to a new day

if you're alone, I'll come home

And I pause for a while by a country style

and listen to the things they say

digging the gold in a hole in my hand

hoping the good, take a look at the way things end

and you're leading me down to a place by the sea

I hear your soft voice calling to me

making a date for Rita Pavone

 

Seamus

I was in the kitchen

Seamus, that's the dog, was outside

well I was in the kitchen

Seamus, my own hound, was outside

well you know the sun was sinking slowly

and my own hound-dog sat right down and cried

 

Echoes

Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air

And deep beneath the rolling waves

In labyrinths of coral caves

The echo of a distant time

Comes willowing across the sand

And everything is green and submarine

And no-one showed us to the land

And no-one knows the where or whys

But something stirs and something tries

And starts to climb towards the light

Strangers passing in the street

By chance two separate glances meet

And I am you and what I see is me

And do I take you by the hand

And lead you through the land

And help me understand the best I can

And no-one calls us to move on

And no-one forces down our eyes

And no-one speaks and no-one tries

And no-one flies around the sun

Cloudless everyday you fall upon my waking eyes

Inviting and inciting me to rise

And through the window in the wall

Come streaming in on sunlight wings

A million bright ambassadors of morning

And no-one sings me lullabies

And no-one makes me close my eyes

And so I throw the windows wide

And call to you across the sky

 

Album: THE WALL PART I & II

 

In the Flesh

So ya

Thought ya

Might like to go to the show

To feel the warm thrill of confusion

That space cadet glow

Tell me is something eluding you sunshine?

Is this not what you expected to see?

If you'd like to find out what's behind these cold eyes?

You'll just have to claw your way through the

Disguise

 

The thin ice

Momma loves her baby

And Daddy loves you too

And the sea may look warm to you Babe

And the sky may look blue

Ooooh Babe

Ooooh Baby Blue

Ooooh Babe

If you should go skating

On the thin ice of modern life

Dragging behind you the silent reproach

Of a million tear stained eyes

Don't be surprised, when a crack in the ice

Appears under your feet

You slip out of your depth and out of your mind

With your fear flowing out behind you

As you claw the thin ice

 

Another brick in the wall (part 1)

Daddy's flown across the ocean

Leaving just a memory

A snap shot in the family album

Daddy what else did you leave for me

Daddy what d'ya leave behind for me

All in all it was all just a brick in the wall

All in all it was all just bricks in the wall

 

The happiest days of our lives

When we grew up and went to school

There were certain teachers who would

Hurt the children any way they could

By pouring their derision

Upon anything we did

And exposing every weakness

However carefully hidden by the kids

But in the town it was well known

When they got home at night, their fat and

Psycopathic wives would thrash them

Within inches of their lives

 

Another brick in the wall (part 2)

We don't need no education

We don't need no thought control

No dark sarcasm in the classroom

Teachers leave the kids alone

Hey teacher leave us kids alone

All in all it's just another brick in the wall

All in all you're just another brick in the wall

(chorus at end by pupils from the Fourth Form Music Class

Islington Green School, London)

We don't need no education

We don't need no thought control

No dark sarcasm in the classroom

Teachers leave the kids alone

Hey teacher leave us kids alone

All in all you're just another brick in the wall

All in all you're just another brick in the wall

 

Mother

Mother do you think they'll drop the bomb

Mother do you think they'll like the song

Mother do you think they'll try to break my balls

Ooooh aah, Mother should I build a wall

Mother should I run for president

Mother should I trust the government

Mother will they put me in the firing line

Ooooh aah, is it it just a waste of time *

Hush now baby don't you cry

Mama's gonna make all of your

Nightmares come true

Mama's gonna put all of her fears into you

Mama's gonna keep you right here

Under her wing

she won't let you fly but she might let you sing

Mama will keep baby cosy and warm

Ooooh Babe Ooooh Babe Ooooh Babe

Of course Mama's gonna help build the wall

Mother do think she's good enough for me

Mother do think she's dangerous to me

Mother will she tear your little boy apart

Oooh aah, mother will she break my heart

Hush now baby, baby don't you cry

Mama's gonna check out all your girl friends for you

Mama won't let anyone dirty get through

Mama's gonna wait up till you come in

Mama will always find out where

You've been

Mamma's gonna keep baby healthy and clean

Ooooh Babe Ooooh Babe Ooooh Babe

You'll always be a baby to me

Mother, did it need to be so high.

* (in the movie "Mother am I really dying").

 

 

Goodbye blue sky

Oooooooo ooo ooo ooooh

Did you see the frightened ones

Did you hear the falling bombs

Did you ever wonder

Why we had to run for shelter

When the promise of a brave new world

Unfurled beneath a clear blue sky

Oooooooo ooo ooooo oooh

Did you see the frightened ones

Did you hear the falling bombs

The flames are all long gone

But the pain lingers on

Goodbye blue sky

Goodbye blue sky

Goodbye

Goodbye

 

Empty spaces

What shall we use to fill the empty

Spaces where we used to talk

How shall I fill the final places

How shall I complete the wall

 

Young lust

I am just a new boy

A stranger in this town

Where are all the good times

Who's gonna show this stranger around?

Ooooooooh I need a dirty woman

Ooooooooh I need a dirty girl

Will some woman in this desert land

Make me feel like a real man

Take this rock and roll refugee

Oooh Babe set me free

Ooooooooh I need a dirty woman

Ooooooooh I need a dirty girl.

Ooooooooh I need a dirty woman

Ooooooooh I need a dirty girl.

 

One of my turns

Day after day, love turns grey

Like the skin of a dying man

Night after night, we pretend it's all right

But I have grown older and

You have grown colder and

Nothing is very much fun any more.

And I can feel one of my turns coming on.

I feel cold as razor blade

Tight as a tourniquet

Dry as a funeral drum,

Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left

You'll find my favorite axe

Don't look so frightened

This is just a passing phase

Just one of my bad days

Would you like to watch T. V.?

Or get between the sheets?

Or contemplate the silent freeway?

Would you like something to eat?

Would you like to learn to fly?

Would you like to see me try?

Would you like call the cops?

Do you think it's time I stopped?

Why are you running away?

 

Don't leave me now

Ooooh Babe

Don't leave me now

Don't say it's the end of the road

Remember the flowers I sent

I need you Babe

To put through the shredder

In front of my friends

Ooooh Babe

Don't leave me now

How could you go?

When you know how I need You

To beat to a pulp on a Saturday night

Ooooh Babe

Don't leave me now

How can you treat me this way

Running away

Ooooh Babe

Why are you running away?

Ooooh Babe!

 

Another brick in the wall (part 3)

I don't need no arms around me

I don't need no drugs to calm me

I have seen the writing on the wall

Don't think I need anything at all

No don't think I'll need anything at all

All in all it was all just bricks in the wall

All in all you were just bricks in the wall

 

Goodbye cruel world

Goodbye cruel world

I'm leaving you today

Goodbye

Goodbye

Goodbye

Goodbye all you people

There's nothing you can say

To make me change

My mind

Goodbye.

 

Hey you

Hey you ! out there in the cold

Getting lonely, getting old, can you feel me

Hey you ! Standing in the aisles

With itchy feet and fading smiles, can you feel me

Hey you ! don't help them to bury the light

Don't give in without a fight.

Hey you ! out there on your own

sitting naked by the phone would you touch me

Hey you ! with your ear against the wall

Waiting for someone to call out would you touch me

Hey you ! would you help me to carry the stone

Open your heart, I'm coming home

But it was only a fantasy

The wall was too high as you can see

No matter how he tried he could not break free

And the worms ate into his brain.

Hey you ! out there on the road

Doing what you're told, can you help me

Hey you ! out there beyond the wall

Breaking bottles in the hall, can you help me

Hey you ! don't tell me there's no hope at all

Together we stand, divided we fall.

 

Is there anybody out there?

Is there anybody out there?

 

Nobody home

I've got a little black book with my poems in

I've got a bag with a toothbrush and a comb in

When I'm a good dog they sometimes throw me a bone in

I got elastic bands keeping my shoes on

Got those swollen hand blues.

Got thirteen channels of shit on the T.V. to choose from

I've got electric light

And I've got second sight

I've got amazing powers of observation

And that is how I know

When I try to get through

On the telephone to you

There'll be nobody home

I've got the obligatory Hendrix perm

And I've got the inevitable pinhole burns

All down the front of my favorite satin shirt

I've got nicotine stains on my fingers

I've got a silver spoon on a chain

I've got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains

I've got wild staring eyes

I've got a strong urge to fly

But I've got nowhere to fly to

Ooooh Babe when I pick up the phone

There's still nobody home

I've got a pair of Gohills boots

And I've got fading roots.

 

Vera

Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn

Remember how she said that

We would meet again

Some sunny day

Vera! Vera!

What has become of you

Does anybody else in here

Feel the way I do ?

 

Bring the boys back home

Bring the boys back home

Bring the boys back home

Don't leave the children on their own

Bring the boys back home

 

Comfortably numb

Hello,

Is there anybody in there

Just nod if you can hear me

Is there anyone at home

Come on now

I hear you're feeling down

I can ease your pain

And get you on your feet again

Relax

I'll need some information first

Just the basic facts

Can you show me where it hurts

There is no pain, you are receding

A distant ship smoke on the horizon

You are coming through in waves

Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying

When I was a child I had a fever

My hands felt just like two balloons

Now I've got that feeling once again

I can't explain, you would not understand

This is not how I am

I have become comfortably numb

O.K.

Just a little pin prick

There'll be no more aaaaaaaah!

But you may feel a little sick

Can you stand up?

I do belive it's working, good

That'll keep you going through the show

Come on it's time to go.

There is no pain you are receding

A distant ship smoke on the horizon

You are only coming through in waves

Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying

When I was a child

I caught a fleeting glimpse

Out of the corner of my eye

I turned to look but it was gone

I cannot put my finger on it now

The child is grown

The dream is gone

And I have become

Comfortably numb.

 

The show must go on

Oooh Ma Oooh Pa

Must the show go on

Oooh Pa take me home

Oooh Ma let me go

There must be some mistake

I didn't mean to let them

Take away my soul

Am I too old is it too late

Oooh Ma Oooh Pa

Where has the feeling gone?

Oooh Ma Oooh Pa

Will I remember the songs?

Oooooh aah th show must go on.

 

In the Flesh

So ya

Thought ya

Might like to

go to the show

To feel the warm thrill of confusion

That space cadet glow

I've got some bad news for you sunshine

Pink isn't well he stayed back at the hotel

And they sent us along as a surrogate band

And we're going to find out where you fans

Really stand

Are there any queers in the theatre tonight

Get 'em up against the wall

That one looks Jewish

And that one's a coon

Who let all this riff raff into the room

There's one smoking a joint and

Another with spots

If I had my way I'd have all of you shot

 

Run Like Hell

Run, run, run, run (repeat line four times)

You better make your face up in

Your favorite disguise

With your button down lips and your

Roller blind eyes

With your empty smile

And your hungry heart

Feel the bile rising from your guilty past

With your nerves in tatters

When the cockleshell shatters

And the hammers batter

Down the door

You better run

Run, run, run, run (repeat line four times)

You better run all day

And run all night

And keep your dirty feelings

Deep inside. And if your

Takin' your girlfriend

Out tonight

You better park the car

Well out of sight

'Cos if they catch you in the back seat

Trying to pick her locks

They're gonna send you back to mother

In a cardboard box

You better run

 

Waiting for the worms

Ooooh you cannot reach me now

Ooooh no matter how you try

Goodbye cruel world it's over

Walk on by

Sitting in a bunker here behind my wall

Waiting for the worms to come

In perfect isolation here behind my wall

Waiting for the worms to come

Waiting to cut out the deadwood

Waiting to clean up the city

Waiting to follow the worms

Waiting to put on a black shirt

Waiting to weed out the weaklings

Waiting to smash in their windows

And kick in their doors

Waiting for the final solution

To strengthen the strain

Waiting to follow the worms

Waiting to turn on the showers v And fire the ovens

Waiting for the queers and the coons

And the reds and the Jews

Waiting to follow the worms

Would you like to see Britannia

Rule again my friend

All you have to do is follow the worms

Would you like to send our coloured cousins

Home again my friend

All you need to do is follow the worms.

 

Stop

Stop

I wanna go home

Take off this uniform

And leave the show

And I'm waiting here in this cell

Because I have to know

Have I been guilty all this time

 

The trial

Good morning Worm your honour

The crowd will plainly show

The prisoner who now stands before you

Was caught red handed showing feelings

Showing feelings of an almost human nature

This will not do

CALL THE SCHOOLMASTER

I always said he'd come to no good

In the end your honour

If they'd let me have my way I could

Have flayed him into shape

But my hands were tied

The bleeding hearts and artists

Let him get away with murder

Let me hammer him today

Crazy toys in the attic I am crazy

Truly gone fishing

Crazy toys in the attic he is crazy

They must have taken my marbles away

You little shit, you're in it now

I hope they throw away the key

You should talked to me more often

Than you did, but no you had to

Go your own way. Have you broken any homes up lately?

"Just five minutes Worm your honour him and me alone"

Baaaaaabe

Come to mother baby let me hold you in my arms

M'red I never wanted him to get in any trouble

Why'd he ever have to leave me

Worm your honour let me take him home

Crazy over the rainbow I am crazy

Bars in the window

There must have been a door there in the wall

When I came in

Crazy over the rainbow he is crazy

The evidence before the court is

Incontravertible, there's no need for

The jury to retire

In all my years of judging

I have never heard before of

Some one more deserving

The full penalty of law

The way you made them suffer

Your exquisite wife and mother

Fills me with an urge to defecate

But my friend you have revealed your deepest fear

I sentence you to be exposed before your peers

Tear down the wall

 

Outside the wall

All alone, or in twos

The ones who really love you

Walk up and down outside the wall

Some hand in hand

Some gathering together in bands

The bleeding hearts and the artists

Make their stand

And when they've given you their all

Some stagger and fall after all it's not easy

banging your heart against some mad buggers

Wall

 

Album: ANIMALS

 

Pigs on the wing (part 1)

If you didn't care what happened to me,

and I didn't care for you,

we would zig zag our way through the boredom and pain,

occasionally which of the buggers to blame

and watching for pigs on the wing.

 

Dogs

You gotta be crazy, you gotta have a real need.

You gotta sleep on your toes, and when you're on the street,

you gotta be able to pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed.

And then moving in silently, down wind and out of sight,

you gotta strike when the moment is right, without thinking.

And after a while you can work on points for style,

like the club tie and the firm handshake,

a certain look in the eye and an easy smile.

You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to,

so that when thy turn their backs on you,

you'll get the chance to put the knife in.

You gotta keep one eye looking over your shoulder.

You know it's going to get harder, and harder and harder as you

get older.

And in the end you'll pack up and fly down south,

hide your head in the sand,

just another sad old man,

all alone and dying of cancer.

And when you loose control, you'll reap the harvest you have sown.

And as the fear grows, the bad blood slows and turns to stone.

And it's too late to loose the weight you used to need to throw around.

So have a good drown as you go down, alone,

dragged down by the stone.

I gotta admit that I'm a little bit confused.

Sometimes it seems to me as if I'm just being used.

Gotta stay awake, gotta try and shake off this creeping malaise.

If I don't stand my own ground, how can I find my own way

out of this maze?

Deaf, dumb and blind, you just keep on pretending

that everyone's expendable and no-one has a real friend.

And it seems to you the thing to do would be to isolate the winner.

And everything's done under the sun,

and you believe a heart, everyone's a killer.

Who was born in a house full of pain,

who was trained not to spit in the fan,

who was told what to do by the man,

who was broken by trained personnel,

Who was fotted with collar and chain,

who was given a seat in the stand,

who was breaking away from the pack,

who was only a stranger at home,

who was ground down in the end,

who was found dead on the phone,

who was dragged down by the stone.

 

Pigs (3 different ones )

Big man, pig man, ha ha charade you are.

You well heeled big wheel, ha ha charade you are.

And when your hand is on your heart,

you're nearly a good laugh, almost a joker,

with your head down in the pig bin,

saying, " Keep on digging", pig stain on your fat chin.

What do you hope to find, when you're down in the pig mine?

You're nearly a laugh, you're nearly a laugh,

but you're really a cry.

Bus stop rat bag, ha ha charade you are.

You fucked up old hag, ha ha charade you are.

You radiate cold shafts of broken glass.

You're nearly a good laugh, almost worth a quick grin.

You like the feel of steel, you're hot stuff with a hat pin,

and good fun with a hand gun.

You're nearly a laugh, you're nearly a laugh,

but you're really a cry.

Hey you, Whitehouse, ha ha charade you are.

You house proud town mouse, ha ha charade you are.

You're trying to keep our feelings off the street,

you're nearly a real treat, all tight lips and cold feet,

and do you feel abused?

You gotta stem the evil tide,

and keep it all on the inside.

Mary, you're nearly a treat, Mary, you're nearly a treat,

but you're really a cry.

 

Sheep

Harmlessly passing your time in the grassland away,

only dimly aware of a certain unease in the air

You better watch out, there may be dogs about.

I've looked over Jordan, and I have seen things are not what they seem.

What do you get for pretending the dangers not real.

Meek and obedient you follow the leader

down well trodden corridors, into the valley of steel.

What a surprise! A look of terminal shock in your eyes.

Now things are really what they seem. No, this is no bad dream.

The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want He makes me down to lie.

Through pastures green He leadeth me the silent waters by.

With bright knives He releaseth my soul.

He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places.

He converteth me to lamb cutlets.

For lo, He hath great power, and great hunger.

When cometh the day we lowly ones,

trough quiet reflection and great dedication,

master the art of karate,

lo, we shall rise up,

and then we'll make the buggers eyes water.

Bleating and babbling I fell on his neck with a sream.

Wave upon wave of demented avengers

march cheerfully out of obscurity unto the dream.

Have you heard the news? The dogs are dead!

You better stay home and do as you're told,

get out of the road if you want to grow old.

 

Pigs on the wing (part 2)

You know that I care what happens to you,

and I know that you care for me,

so I don't feel alone,

or the weight of the stone,

now that I've found somewhere safe

to bury my bone.

And any fool knows a dog needs a home,

a shelter from pigs on the wing.

 

Album: Ummagumma

 

Astronomy domine

Lime and limpid green the second scene
the fights between the bleu you once knew
floating down the sound resounds
around the icy waters underground
Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon there on the run
Titanian, Neptune, Titan, stars can frighten
Winding signs flap
flicker flicker flicker flam pow pow
stairways scared and death rules there
blindman limpid green the sound
surrounds the icy waters on the
lime and limpid green the sound
surrounds the icy waters underground

Set the controls for the heart of the sun

Little by little the night turns around
counting the leaves wich tremble in the dawn
notices leaning on each other and yearning
under the leaves the swallow is resting
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
On to the mountain watching the Watcher
breaking the darkness, breaking the grapevine
the moment your flaw is run to your shadow
notice the shadow that reopens the vine
Set the controls for the heart of the sun heart of the sun
Breaking the shape of his questions for ever
when the sun will fall in the evening
will he remember the lesson I gave him
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
heart of the sun

Grantchester meadows

Icy wind of night be gone, this is not your domain
in the sky a bird was heard to cry
misty morning whisperings and gentle stirring sounds
be like the deathly silence that lay all around
Hear the knock and hearten
to the barking of the dog fox
gone the ground
see the splashing of the kingfisher
flashing trough the water
and the river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees
laughing as it passes trough the endless summer
making for the sea
In the lazy watermeadow I lay me down
all around me golden sunflakes settle on the ground
basking in the sunshine of a bygone afternoon
bringing sounds of yesterday into the city room
In the lazy watermeadow I lay me down
all around me golden sunflakes covering the ground
basking in the sunshine of a bygone afternoon
bringing sounds of yesterday into my city room

The narrow way

Flowing in the path
as it leads toward the darkness in the north
weary stranger's faces show their sympathy
they've seen that home before
If you wanna stay for a little bit
rest your aching limbs for a little bit
before you can find his private room
and you can't delay
hear the nightbirds calling him
to care and catch the words to say
close by in the nightmare of your brain
Misty swelling creatures crawling
hear the roar get louder in your ears
you know the volume as you're on the force
behind can't conquer all your fears
All your birds aren't really listening
tell them there is life with every morning
perhaps today you can when you answer me
it's clear, it's all nights warning

 

Saucerful of Secrets

 

Let there be more light

Far far far away way
people heard him say say
I will find a way way
there will come a day day
something will be done
Then at last the mighty ship
descending at a point of flame
made contact with the human race at no time
Now now now is the time time
time to be be be aware
Not as far the solar bear
in human role revealed to him
a living soul of heavenward forever
Sunlight, something in my eye
something in the sky
waiting there for me
The antilope grows hurling back
the servicemen would like to sigh
the memory wentflowing rounds
as Lucy in the sky
Oh oh did you ever know
no never ever will they ascend
Summoning in his cosmic powers
and flowing slightly from his toes
psychedelic nations fly

Remember a day

Remember a day before today
a day when you were young
renew a play along with time
evening with a thyme
Sing now a song that can't be sung
without a morning's kiss
dream you shall be it if you wish
look for your king
Why can't we play today
why can't we stay that way
Climb your fatal apple tree
try to catch the sun
hide from your little brother's gun
dream yourself away
Why can't we reach the sun
why can't we blow the years away
go away
remember remember


Set the controls for the heart of the sun

Little by little the night turns around
counting the leaves wich tremble in the dawn
notices leaning on each other and yearning
under the leaves the swallow is resting
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
On to the mountain watching the Watcher
breaking the darkness, breaking the grapevine
the moment your flaw is run to your shadow
notice the shadow that reopens the vine
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
heart of the sun
Breaking the shape of his questions for ever
when the sun will fall in the evening
will he remember the lesson I gave him
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
heart of the sun


Corporal Clegg

Corporal Clegg had a wooden leg
he won it in the war in nineteen forty four
Corporal Clegg had a medal too
in orange and blue, he found it in the zoo
Dear oh dear, oh are they really sad for me
dear oh dear, oh will they really laugh at me
Mrs. Clegg, you must be proud of him
Mrs. Clegg, another drop of gin
Corporal Clegg received his medal in a dream
from Her Majesty the Queen, his boots were very clean
Corporal Clegg, umbrella in the rain
he's never been the same but no one is to blame

See saw

Fairy girls were very much in love
but he doesn't mind
pickin' up his sister
makes his way to the see-saw land
all the way she smiled
she goes up while he goes down
Sits on a snake in the river
laughter in his sleeves
sister's throwing stones
hoping for a hit
he doesn't know, so there
she goes up while he goes down
Another time, another day
her brother's plain to me
another time, another day day day
She was selling plastic flowers
on a sunday afternoon
pickin' up me, she has not got the time to gare
all can see, he's not there
she grows up for another man and he's down

Jugband blues

It's awfully considerate of you to think of me there
and I'm most obliged to you for making it clear
that I'm not there
and I never knew the room could be so big
and I never knew the room could be so blue
and I'm grateful that you threw away my old shoes
and brought me here instead dressed in red
And I'm wandering who could be writing this song
I don't care if the sun don't shine
I don't care if nothing is mine
and I don't care I'm nervous with you
I'll do my loving in the winter
And the sea isn't green
and I love the queen
and what exactly is a dream
and what exactly is a joke

 

Album : DIVISION BELL

 

Cluster One

(No lyrics)

 

What do you want from me

As you look around this room tonight
Settle in your saet and dim the lichts
Do you want my blood, do you want my tears
What do you want
What do you want from me
Should I sing until I can't sing any more
Play these strings until my fingers are raw
You're so hard to please
What do you want from me
Do you think that I know something you don't know
What do you want from me
If I don't promise you the answers would you go
What do you want from me
Should I stand out in the rain
Do you want me to take a daisy chain for you
I'm not the one you need

What do you want from me

You can have anything you want
You can drift, you can dream, even walk on water
Anything you want
You can own everything you see
Sell your soul for complete control
Is that really what you need
You can lose yourself this night
See inside there is nothing to hide
Turn and face the light
What do you want from me

Poles Apart

Did you know... it was all going to go so wrong for you
And did you see it was all going to be so right for me
Why did we tell you then
You were always the golden boy then
And that you¹d never lose that light in your eyes
Hey you... did you ever realise what you'd become
And did you see that it wasn't only me you were running from
Did you know all the time but it never bothered you anyway
Leading the blind while I stared out the steel in your eyes
The rain fell slow, down on all the roofs of uncertainty
I thought of you and the years and all the sadness fell away from me
And did you know...
I never thought that you'd lose that light in your eyes


Marooned

(No Lyrics)

 

A great day for freedom

On the day the wall came down
They threw the locks onto the ground
And with glasses high we raised a cry for freedom had arrived
Out the day the wall came down
The ship of fools had just all aground
Promise up the night like paper doves in flight
I dreamed you had left my side
Nawarinth, not even pride remained
And even though you needed me
It was clear that I could not do a thing for you
Now life devalues day by day
As friends and neighbours turn away
And there's a change that, even with regret, cannot be undown
Now frontiers shift like desert sands
While nations wash their bloodied hands
Of loyalty, of history in hades of grey
I woke to the sound of drums
The music played, the morning sun streamed in
I turned and I looked at you
And all but the bitter residue slipped away...sliped away


Wearing the inside out

From morning to night I stayed out of sight
Ditn't recognise I'd become
No more than alive I'd barely survive
In a word...overrun
Won't hear a sound
From my mouth
I've spent too long
On the inside out
My skin is could
To the human touch
This bleeding heart's
Not beating much
I murmured a vow of silence and now
I don't even hear when I think aloud
Extinguished by light I turn on the night
Wear its darkness with an empty smile
I'm creeping back to life
my nervous system all awry
I'm wearing the inside out
Look at him now
He's paler somehow
But he's coming round
he's starting to choke
It's been so long since he spoke
Well he can have the words right from my mouth
And with these words I can see
Clear trough the clouds that covered me
Just give it time then speak my name
Now we can hear ourselves again
I'm holding out
For the day
When all the clouds
Have blown away
I'm with you now
Can speak your name
Now we can hear
Ourselves again


Take it back

He love rains down on me easy as the breeze
I listen to her breathing it sounds like the waves on the sea
I was thinking all about her, burning with rage and desire
We were spinning into darkness; the earth was on fire
She could take it back, she might take it back some day
So I spy on her, I lie to her, I make promises I cannot keep
Then I hear her laughter rising, rising from the deep
And I make her prove her love for me, I take all that I can take
And I push her to the limit to see if she will break
She might take it back, she could take it back some day
Now I heave seen the warnings, screaming from all sides
It's easy to ignore them and G-d knows I've tried
All of this temptation, it turned my faith to lies
Until I couldn't see the danger or hear the rising tide
She can take it back, she will take it back some day
She can take it back, she will take it back some day
She can take it back, she will take it back some day

Coming back to life

Where were you when I was burned and broken
While the days slipped by from my window watching
Where were you when I was hurt and I was helpless
Because the things you say and the things you do surround me
While you were hanging yourself on someone else's words
dying to believe in what you heard
I was staring straight into the shining sun
Lost in thought and lost in time
While the seeds of live and the seeds of change were planted
Outside the rain fell dark and slow
While I pondered on this dangerous but
I took a heavenly ride through one silence
I knew the moment had arrived
For killing the past and coming back to life
I took a heavenly ride trough our silence
I knew the waiting had begin
And headed straight... into the shining sun

Keep Talking

For millions of years mankind lived just like animals
Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination
We learned to talk
There's a silence surrounding me
I can't seem to think straight
I'LL sit in the corner
No one can bother me
I think I should speak now
My words won't come out right
I feel like I'm drowning
I'm feeling week now
But I can't show my weakness
I sometimes wonder
Where do we go from me
It doesn't have to be like this
All we need to do is make sure we keep talking

Why won't you talk to me
You never talk to me
What are you thinking
What are you feeling
Why won't you talk to me
You never talk to me
What are you thinking
Where do we go from here
It doesn't have to be like this
All we need to do is make sure we keep talking

Why won't you talk to me
You never talk to me
What are you thinking
What are you feeling
Why won't you talk to me
You never talk to me
What are you thinking
What are you feeling
I feel like I'm drowing
You know I can't breathe now
We're going nowhere
We're going nowhere

Lost for words

I was spending my time in the doldrums
I was caught in a cauldron of hate
I felt persecuted and paralysed
I thought that everything else would just wait
While you are wasting your time on your enemies
Engulfed in a fever of spite
Beyond your tunnel vision reality fades
Like shadows into the night
To martyr yourself to caution
Is not going to help at all
because ther'll be no safety in numbers
When the right one walks out of the door
Can you see your days blighted by darkness?
Is it true you beat your fists on the floor?
Stuck in a world of isolation
While the ivy grows over the door
So I open my door to my enemies
And I ask could we wipe the slate clean
But they tell me to please go fuck myself
You know you just can't win

High Hopes

beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young
In a world of magnets and miracles
our troughts strayed constandly and without boundary
The ringing of the division bell had begin
Along the long road and on down the causeway
Do they still meet there by the cut
There was a ragged band that followed in our footsteps
Running before time took our dreams away
Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground
To a life consumed by slow decay
The grass was greener
The light was brighter
With friends surrounded
The night of wonder
Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us
To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side
Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again
Dragged by the force of some inner tide
At a higher altitude with flag unfuried
We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of world
Eneumbered forever by desire and ambition
There's a hunger still unsatisfied
Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon
Though down this road we've been so many time
The grass was greener
The light was brighter
The taste was sweeter
The nights of wonder
With friends surrounded
The dawn mist glowing
The water flowing
The endless river
Forever and ever

 

Album: THE FINAL CUT

 

The post war dream

Tell me true tell me why was Jesus crucified
is it for this that daddy died?
was it for you? was it me?
did I watch too much t.v.?
Is that a hint of accusation in your eyes?
if it wasn't for the nips
being so good at building ships
the yards would still be open on the clyde
and it can't be much fun for them
beneath the rising sun
with all their kids committing suicide
what have we done maggie what have we done
what have we done to England
should we shout should we scream
"what happened to the post war dream?"
oh Maggie Maggie what have we done?

Your possible pasts

They flutter behind you your possible pasts
some brighteyed and crazy some frightened and lost
a warning to anyone still in command
of their possible future to take care
in derelict sidings the poppies entwine
with cattle trucks lying in wait for the next time
Do you remember me? how we used to be?
do you think we should be closer?
She stood in the doorway the ghost of a smile
haunting her face like a cheap hotel sign
her cold eyes imploring the men in their macs
for the gold in their bags or the knives in their backs
stepping uo boldly one put out his hand
he said, " I was just a child then now I'm only a man"
Do you remember me? how we used to be?
do you think we should be closer?
By the cold and religious we were taken in hand
shown how to feel good and told to feel bad
tongue tied and terrified we learned how to pray
now our feelings run deep and cold as the clay
and strung out behind us the banners and flags
of our possible pasts lie in tatters and rags
Do you remember me? how we used to be?
do you think we should be closer?

One of the few

When you're one of the few to land on your feet
what do you do to make ends meet? teach
make them mad, make them sad, make them add two and two
make them me, make them you, make them do what you want them to
make them laugh, make them cry, make them lie down and die

The hero's return

Jesus, Jesus what's it all about
trying to clout these little ingrates into shape
when I was their age all the lights went out
there was no time to whine and mope about
and even now part of me flies over
dresden at angels one five
though they'll never fathom it behind me
sarcasm desperate memories lie
Sweetheart sweetheart are you fast asleep, good
"cos that's the only time that I can really talk to you
and there is something that I've locked away
a memory that is too painful
to withstand the light of day
When we came back from the war the banners and
flags hung on everyones door
we danced and we sang in the street and
the church bells rang
but burning in my heart
my memory smoulders on
of the gunners dying words on the intercom

The gunners dream

Floating down through the clouds
memories come rushing up to meet me now
in the space between the heavens
and in the corner os some foreign field
I had a dream
I had a dream
goodbye Max
goodbye ma
after the service when you're walking slowly to the car
and the silver in her hair shines in the cold november air
you hear the tolling bell
and touch the silk in your lapel
and as the tear drops rise to meet the comfort of the band
you take her frail hand
and hold on to the dream
A place to stay
enough to eat
somwhere old heroes shuffle safely down the street
where you can speak out loud
about your doubts and fears
and what's more no-one ever disappears
you never hear their standard issue kicking in your door
you can relax on both sides of the tracks
and maniacs don't blow holes in bandsmen by remote control
and everyone has recourse to the law
and no-one kills the children anymore
and no-one kills the children anymore
night after night
going round and round my brain
his dream is driving me insane
in the corner of some foreign field
the gunner sleeps tonight
whats done is done
we cannot just write off his final scene
take heed of his dream
take heed

Paranoid eyes

Button your lip don't let the shield slip
take a fresh grip on your bullet proof mask
and if they try to break down your disguise with their questions
you can hide hide hide
behind paranoid eyes
You put on your brave face and slip over the road for a jar
fixing your grin as you casually lean on the bar
laughing too loud at the rest of the world
with the boys in the crowd
you hide hide hide
behind petrified eyes
you believed in their stories of fame fortune and glory
now you're lost in a haze of alchohol soft middle age
the pie in the sky turned out to be miles too high
and you hide hide hide
behind brown and mild eyes

Get your filthy hands off my desert

Brezhnev took afghanistan
begin took Beirut
galtieri took the union jack
and maggie over lunch one day
took a cruiser with all hands
apparently to make him give it back

The fletcher memorial home

Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
and build them a home a lttle place of their own
the fletcher memorial
home for incurable tyrants and kings
And they can appear tothemselves every day
on closed circuit t.v.
to make sure they're still real
It's the only connection they feel
"ladies and gentelmen, please welcome reagan and haig
mr. begin and friends mrs. thatcher and paisley
mr. brezhnev and party
the gost of mccarthy
the memories of nixon
and now adding colour a group of anonymous latin-
american meat packing glitterati"
did they expect us to treat them with any respect
they can polish their medals and sharpen their
smiles, and amuse themselves playing games for a while
boom boom, bang bang, lie down you're dead
safe in the permanent gaze of a gold glass eye
with their favourite toys
they'll be good girls and boys
in the fletcher memorial home for colonial
wasters of life and limb
is everyone in?
are you having a nice time?
now the final solution can be applied

Southampton dock

They disembarked in 45
and no one spoke and no one smiled
there were too many spaces in the line
gathered at the centaph
all agreed with the hand on heart
to sheath the sacrificial knifes
but now
she stands upon southampton dock
with her handkerchief
and her summer frock clings
to her wet body in the rain
in quiet desperation knuckles
white upon the slippery reins
she bravely waves the boys goodbye again
and still the dark stain spreads between
his shoulder blades
a mute reminder of the poppy fields and graves
and when the fight was over
we spent what they had made
but in the bottom of our hearts
we felt the final cut

The final cut

Through the fish eyed lens of tear stained eyes
I can barely define the shape of this moment in time
and far from flying high in clear blue skies
I'm spiralling down to the hole in the ground where I hide
If you negotiate the minefield in the drive
and beat the dogs and cheat the cold electronic eyes
and if you make it past the shotgun in the hall
dial the combination open the priesthole
and if I'm in I'll tell you what's behind the wall
There's a kid who had a big hallucination
making love to girls in magazines
he wonders if you're sleeping with your new found faith
could anybody love him
or is it just a grazy dream
And if I show you my dark side
will you still hold me tonight
and if I open my heart to you
and show you my weak side
what would you do
would you sell your story to rolling stone
would you take the children away
and leave me alone
and smile in reassurance
as you whisper down the phone
would you send me packing
or would you take me home
Thought I oughta bare my naked feelings
Thought I oughta tear the curtain down
I held the blade in trembling hands
prepared to make it but just then the phone rang
I never had the nerve to make the final cut

Not now John

Fuck all that we've got to get on with these
got to compete with the whily japanese
there's too many home fires burning
and not enough trees
so fuck all that
we've got to get on with these
Can't stop lose job mind gone sillicon
wath bomb get away pay day make hay
break down need fix big six
clickity click hold on oh no brrrrrrrrrrrring bingo
make em laugh make me cry make em dance in the aisles
make em pay make em stay make em feel ok
not nah John
we've got to get on with the film show
hollywood waits at the end of the rainbow
who cares what it's about
as long as the kids go
not now John
got to get on with the show
hang on John
we've got to get on with this
I don't know what it is
but it fits on her like..............
come at the end of the shift
we'll go and get pissed
but now now John
I've got to get on with this
hold on John
I think there's something good on
I used to read books but............
it could be the news
or some other abuse
or it could be reusable shows
fuck all that we've got to get on with these
got to compete with the wily japanese
no need to worry about the vietnamese
got to bring the russian bear to his knees
well, maybe not the russian bear
maybe the swedes
we showed argentina
now let's go and show these
make us feel tough
and wouldn't maggie be pleased
nah nah nah nah nah nah!
s'cusi dove il bar
se para collo pou eine toe bar
s'il vous plait ou est le bar
oi' where's the fucking bar John!

Two suns in the sunset

In my rear view mirror the sun is going down
sinking behind bridges in the road
and I think of all the good things
that we have left undone
and I suffer premonitions
confirm suspicions
of the holocaust to come
the wire that holds the cork
that keeps the anger in
gives way
and suddenly it's day again
the sun is in the east
even though the day is done
two suns in the sunset
hmmmmmmmmm
could be the human race is run
like the moment when the brakes lock
and you slide towards the big truck
you stretch the frozen moments with your fear
and you'll never hear their voices
and you'll never see their faces
you have no recourse to the law anymore
and as the windshield melts
my tears evaporate
leaving only charcoal to defend
finally I understand
the feelings of the few
ashes and diamonds
foe and friend
we were all equal in the end

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