Lemon
Lemon
See through in the sunlight
She wore lemon
But never in the daylight
She's gonna make you cry
She's gonna make you whisper and moan
And when you're dry
She draws her water from the stone
And I feel
Like I'm slowly, slowly, slowly slipping under
And I feel
Like I'm holding onto nothing
She wore lemon
To colour in the cold grey night
She had heaven
And she held on so tight
A man makes a picture
A moving picture
Through the light projected
He can see himself up close
A man captures colour
A man likes to stare
He turns his money into light to look for her
And I feel
Like I'm drifting, drifting, drifting from the shore
And I feel
Like I'm swimming out to her
Midnight is where the day begins [3X]
Lemon
See through in the sunlight
A man builds a city
With banks and cathedrals
A man melts the sand so he can
See the world outside
You're gonna meet her there
A man makes a car
She's your destination
And builds a road to run them on
You gotta get to her
A man dreams of leaving
She's imagination
But he always stays behind
And these are the days
When our work has come asunder
And these are the days
When we look for something other
Midnight is where the day begins [4X]
A man makes a picture
A moving picture
Through the light projected
He can see himself up close
You're gonna meet her there
A man captures colour
She's your destination
A man likes to stare
There's no sleeping there
He turns his money into light
She's imagination
To look for her
Lemon
She is the dreamer
She's imagination
She had heaven
Through the light projected
He can see himself up close
She wore lemon
Like a song I have to sing
And in leather, lace, and chains
And we love to wear a badge, a uniform
A generation without name, ripped and torn
Love is blindness
In a parked car
Love is clockworks
Love is blindness
A little death
Love is drowning
Love is blindness
Love rescue me
Many strangers have I met
And the sun in the sky
In the cold mirror of a glass
Yea, though I walk
Sha la la...sha la la la
I said love
Yeah I'm here without a name
I've conquered my past
Weather 'round here chopping and changing
Her eyes all swimming pool blue
Love the movies...love to walk those movie sets
Miami, my mammy
I bought two new suits...Miami
You know some places are like your auntie
Looking for to save my save my soul
Holy dunc, spacejunk coming in for the splash
Mother...mother sucking rock and roll (Mother...)
Mother...mother...mother...
Mother...am I still your son
Looking for a sound that's going to drown out the world
Mother...mother sucking rock and roll (Mother...)
Mother...mother...mother...
Soothe me mother
Midnight, our sons and daughters
In the wind we hear their laughter
Night hangs like a prisoner
In the trees our sons stand naked
Johnny take a walk with your sister the moon
She's slippy
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
Johnny take a dive with your sister in the rain
(On your knees boy)
She's the wave
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
One day you will look...back
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
We move through miracle days
Yeah...
All is quiet on New Year's Day
I will be with you again
Under a blood red sky
I...I will begin again
Oh...
I will be with you again
And so we're told this is the golden age
In New York freedom looks like
Voices on a cell phone
In New York summers get hot
Hot as a hair dryer in your face
New York New York
In New York you can forget
Chorus:
The Irish been coming here for years
Irish, Italians, Jews and Hispanics
Chorus:
In New York I lost it all
I hit an iceberg in my life
You got to put the women and children first
Chorus:
In the stillness of the evening
New, New York
Like a Song
I sing it for you
Like the words I have to bring
I bring it for you
We stake our claim
Revolution once again
No I won't...
I won't wear it on my sleeve
I can see through this expression
And you know I don't believe
Too young to be told
Exactly who are you
Tonight
Tomorrow's
Too late
And we love to fly a flag
But I won't...let others live in hell
As we divide against each other
And we fight amongst ourselves
Too set in our ways to try to rearrange
Too right to be wrong, in this rebel song
Let the bells ring out
Let the bells ring out
Is there nothing left
Is there, is there nothing
Is there nothing left
Is honesty what you want
Nothing to lose, nothing to gain
Nothing at all
And if you can't help yourself
Well take a look around you
When others need your time
You say it's time to go...it's your time
Angry words won't stop the fight
Two wrongs won't make it right
A new heart is what I need
Oh God, make it bleed
Is there nothing left...
Love is Blindness
I don't want to see
Won't you wrap the night
Around me
Oh my heart
Love is blindness
In a crowded street
You see your love
Made complete
Thread is ripping
The knot is slipping
Love is blindness
And cold steel
Fingers too numb to feel
Squeeze the handle
Blow out the candle
Love is blindness
I don't want to see
Won't you wrap the night
Around me
Oh my love
Blindness
Without mourning
No call
And no warning
Baby...a dangerous idea
That almost makes sense
In a deep well
All the secrets
And no one to tell
Take the money
Honey
Blindness
I don't want to see
Won't you wrap the night
Around me
Oh my love
Blindness
Love Rescue Me
Come forth and speak to me
Raise me up and don't let me fall
No man is my enemy
My own hands imprison me
Love rescue me
On the road to my regret
Many lost who seek to find themselves in me
They ask me to reveal
The very thoughts they would conceal
Love rescue me
Makes a shadow of you and I
Stretching out as the sun sinks in the sea
I'm here without a name
In the palace of my shame
Said, love rescue me
I see my reflection pass
See the dark shades of what I used to be
See the purple of her eyes
The scarlet of my lies
Love rescue me
In the valley of shadow
Yea, I will fear no evil
I have cursed thy rod and staff
They no longer comfort me
Love rescue me
Sha la la la...ha la la...
Sha la la la...sha la la la
Sha la la la...sha la la
Sha la la la...sha la la la
Sha la la...
I said love, love rescue me
Climb up the mountains, said love
I said love, oh my love
On the hill of the son
I'm on the eve of a storm
And my word you must believe in
Oh, I said love, rescue me
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah...
In the palace of my shame
I said love rescue me
The future is here at last
I stand at the entrance
To a new world I can see
The ruins to the right of me
Will soon have lost sight of me
Love rescue me
Miami
Surgery in the air
Print shirts and southern accents
Cigars and big hair
We got the wheels, petrol is cheap
We only went there for a week
Got the sun got the sand
Got the batteries in the handycam...
Dumb bells on a diving board
Baby's always attracted to the things she's afraid of
Big girl with the sweet tooth
Watches the skinny girl in the photo shoot
Freshmen squeaky clean
She tastes of chlorine
Miami, my mammy
Get to shoot someone in the foot
Get to smoke some cigarettes
No big deal we know the score
Just back from the video store
Got the car and the car chase
What's he got inside the case
I want a close up of that face
Here comes the car chase
Miami
Pink and blue...Miami
I took a picture of you...My mammy
Getting hot in a photo booth...Miami
I said you looked like a Madonna
You said...maybe...
Said I want to have your baby...baby
We could make something beautiful
Something that wouldn't be a problem
We could make something beautiful
Something that wouldn't be a problem
At least not in...Miami
But there's no place like
Miami, my mammy
Miami, my mammy
Mofo
Looking in the places where no flowers grow
Looking for to fill that God shaped hole
Mother...mother sucking rock and roll (Mother...)
(Been around the back...been around the front)
White dopes on punk staring into the flash
(Been around the back...been around the front)
Looking for the baby Jesus under the trash
(Been around the back...been around the front)
Mother [scat singing] rock and roll (Mother...)
Mother...mother...mother...
You know I've waited for so long to hear you say so
Mother...you left and made me someone
Now I'm still a child, no one tells me no
(Been around the back...been around the front)
Looking for the father of my two little girls
(Been around the back...been around the front)
Got the swing got the sway got my straw in lemonade
(Been around the back...been around the front)
Still looking for the face I had before the world was made
(Been around the back...been around the front)
Bubble popping sugar dropping rock and roll (Mother...)
Mother...mother suck, yeah, fuck yeah (Mother...)
Mother...mother...mother...
Rule me father
Fool me brother
Woo me sister
Soothe me mother
Rule me father
Show me mother
[repeat until end]
Mothers of the Disappeared
Were cut down and taken from us
Hear their heartbeat
We hear their heartbeat
In the rain we see their tears
Hear their heartbeat
We hear their heartbeat
Stretched over black and blue
Hear their heartbeat
We hear their heartbeat
Through the walls our daughters cry
See their tears in the rainfall
Mysterious Ways
Let her pale light in to fill up your room
You've been living underground
Eating from a can
You've been running away
From what you don't understand...
Love
You're sliding down
She'll be there when you hit the ground
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
Let her talk about the things you can't explain
To touch is to heal
To hurt is to steal
If you want to kiss the sky
Better learn how to kneel
She turns the tide
She sees the man inside the child
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
Lift my days, light up my nights
And you'll see...where
You were held...how
By this love...while
You could stand...there
You could move on this moment
Follow this feeling
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
Spirit moves in mysterious ways
She moves with it
She moves with it
Lift my days, light up my nights
New Year's Day
A world in white gets underway
I want to be with you
Be with you night and day
Nothing changes on New Year's Day
On New Year's Day
I will be with you again
A crowd has gathered in black and white
Arms entwined, the chosen few
The newspapers says, says
Say it's true it's true...
And we can break through
Though torn in two
We can be one
I...I will begin again
Maybe the time is right
Oh...maybe tonight...
I will be with you again
And gold is the reason for the wars we wage
Though I want to be with you
Be with you night and day
Nothing changes
On New Year's Day
On New Year's Day
New York
Too many choices
In New York I found a friend
To drown out the other voices
Voices from home
Voices of the hard sell
Voices down a stairwell
In New York
Just got a place in New York
Well into the hundreds
You can't walk around the block
Without a change of clothing
Hot as handbag and a can of mace
New York
I just got a place in New York
Forget how to sit still
Tell yourself you will stay in
But it's down to Alphaville
New York
New York, New York
New York
New York, New York
Feel like they own the place
They got the airport, city hall
Asphalt, asphalt
They even got the police
Religious nuts, political fanatics in the stew
Happily not like me and you
That's where I lost you
To you and your vices
Still I'm staying on to figure out
My midlife crisis
You know I'm still afloat
You lose your balance, lose your wife
In the queue for the lifeboat
But you've got an unquenchable thirst for New York
When the sun has had its day
I heard your voice whispering
Come away now
New...
New York
New York
