take a peek at the lyrics by clicking on the titles below
I've been casing your joint for the best years of my life
Like the look of your stuff, outta sight
When I'm hungry and when I'm cold
When I'm having it rough
Or just getting old
Listen up sweet child of mine
Have I got news for you
Nobody leaves this place alive
They'll die and join the queue
Better man the barricades I'm coming in tonight
Had a line of my dust, outta sight
When I wander and when I roam
I'll find a soul I can trust
I'm coming home
Listen up sweet child of mine
Have I got news for you
Nobody leaves this place alive
They'll die and join the queue, sing it
I'm, I'm gonna break right into heaven
I can't wait anymore
Heavens gates won't hold me I'll saw those suckers down
Laughing loud at your locks when they hit the ground
Every icon in every town
Hear this your numbers up
I'm coming round
Listen up sweet child of mine
Have I got news for you
Nobody leaves this place alive
They'll die and join the queue, sing it
I'm, I'm gonna break right into heaven
I can't wait anymore
How many times do I have to tell you
You don't have to wait to die
You can have it all
Anytime you want it
Yeah, the kingdom's all inside
Driving south 'round midnight
Man I must have been insane
Driving south 'round midnight
In a howling hurricane
I stopped for an old man hitcher
At a lonely old crossroad
He said "I'm going nowhere,
I'm only here to see if I can
steal your soul."
"I'm not trying to make you
I don't want to touch your skin
I know all there is to know
About you and all your sins.
Well, you ain't too young or pretty
and you sure as hell can't sing
Anytime you want to sell your soul
I've got a toll free number you can ring."
"I'm not trying to make you
I don't want to touch your skin
I know all there is to know
About you and all your sins.
Well, you ain't too young or pretty
and you sure as hell can't sing
Anytime you want to sell your soul
I've got a toll free number you can ring."
0 eight 00 triple 6, oh yeah
0 eight 00 triple 6, oh yeah
I stopped for an old man hitcher
At a lonely old crossroad
He said "I'm going nowhere,
I'm only here to see if I can
steal your soul."
When your heart is black and broken
And you need a helping hand
when your questions go unanswered
and the silence is killing you
Take my hand baby, I'm your man
I got love enough for two
Ten storey love song
I built this thing for you
Who can take you any higher
Than twin peak mountain blue?
Oh well, I built this thing for you
And I love you true
There's no sure fire set solution
No short cut through the trees
No breach in the wall
That they put there
To keep me from you
As you're lying awake in the darkness
This everlasting night
Someday soon
Don't know where or when
You're gonna wake up and see the light
Ten storey love song
I built this thing for you
Who can take you any higher
Than twin peak mountain blue?
Oh well, I built this thing for you
And I love you true
This is the daybreak
And this is the love we make
For love is the law here
You got to know how I love it, yeah
It's more than a mover
You know it takes all fast, all song
Stone cold wild
Bring the love in
Son, brother, man, true nature child
I think I'll sing it
From Atlanta, Georgia
To Longside, Manchester
Everyone ready, so
So willing and able
Yeah, yeah, yeah
For the love you make
Gone home sis
(huh, yeah, woo!)
She built it to make ya
We all love makers ain't we?
Sister Rosa Lee Parks
Love forever her name in your heart
Forever in my heart
(mmm, yeah, hoo, yeah!)
As I sing this song
Someone just got rolled on
(hey oh hey, yeah, woo, yeah!)
New York City
To Addis Abababababa
Keep on keeping strong
Keep on keeping on
So why no black on a radio station in this, the city?
Been going on so long, level on the line
I'm a leaf on the vine of time
Black bone sare the original bones
And this the whole wide world should know, y'all
I came to sing this song in your city
Ooh, for the dreamers
One more for the dreamers, yeah
Your star will shine again one day
Through deep blue velvet skies
Shine for all the world to see
The universe in your eyes
When the storm outside is raging
And the dogs they howl your name
Hush my darling, don't you cry
I'll stay by your side until morning
All through the night I'll watch the skies
And your distant sun will shine
Like the gun that's trained
Right between your Daddy's eyes
Saying this revalation, call delia station,
An initiation, all you'd better beware.
Who'll cast the first stone?
Skin to the bone, bring it all on home, bring it on for Jerome.
So, new castle, build a brand new castle, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Straight to the man.
On an island of traders, you know they're tryin' to fade ya,
No-one can train you, no-one evade you, no-one can fade you,
Saying "Don't be late, no, the train won't wait",
Saying "Don't be late, no, the boat can't wait",
Saying "Don't be late, no, the train nor
the boat or the train can't wait, yeah. "
Do the do, do the do, do the do do,
Do the do, do the do do do,
Do the do, do the do do do do do do do do
the, heading straight for the man.
Oh, you know they'll never evade you.
So now I stand here, love cuts down a revolver,
Am stern damn in Sodom and Gomorrah,
So I'm singing to King Stone, your teaching it's on.
They say it's a fable, though I was made able.
I slipped through the net, wanna bet it's a ramble, a sandstorm,
One slip you don't ever forget, who could ever forget?
You know I never forget
Straight to the man.
Oh, you know they're trying to fade you.
Saw this revalation, call delia station.
I don;t need no powder, one kinder, easy blind ya,
Yeah the ice of Grande Bretagne owes a debt,
Say the ice of Grande Bretagne,
All the eyes of Grande Bretagne all the eyes of
Grande Bretagne owes a debt.
Yeah the eyes of Grande Bretagne all eyes of
Grande Bretagne owes us a debt.
Begging You
I'm begging you,
I'm begging you.
The fly on the coachwheel told me that he got it
and he knew what to do with it,
Everybody saw it, saw the dust that he made.
King bee in a frenzy, ready to blow, got the horn good to go wait,
Oh, his sting's all gone, now he's begging you, begging you.
Here is a warning, the sky will divide,
Since I took off the lid, there's nowhere to hide,
Now I'm begging you, I'm begging you.
This is a mystery not to be solved,
But be minded, like minded, I'm gone,
Still I'm with you, I'm begging you, I'm begging you.
Give it over, give it over.
Give it over, give it begging you.
Give it over, give it over.
Give it over, yeah I'm begging you, I'm begging you
Weigh it and say it, is it all in a name,
Does it call you or maul you and drive you insane.
Can it make you remember, time is in place,
Now I'm begging you, I'm begging you.
The fly on the coachwheel told me that he got
it and he knew what to do with it,
Everybody saw it, saw the dust that he made.
Make all the dust that you can, make all the dust that you can.
King bee in a frenzy ready to blow.
You should have been an angel, it would've suited you.
My gold-leafed triptych angel, she knows just what to do.
In the half light of morning, in a world between the sheets,
I swear I saw her angel wing, my vision was complete.
And I know I'll never want another lover, my sweet,
Can there be more in this world than the
joy of just watching you sleep?
I don't know just what to feel.
Won't someone tell me my love's real?
Are we etched in stone or just scratched in the sand,
Waiting for the waves to come and reclaim the land?
Will the sun shine all sweetness and light,
Burn us to a cinder, our third stone satellite?
I'm on a tightrope, baby, nine miles high,
Striding through the clouds, on my ribbon in the sky.
I'm on a tightrope, one thing I've found,
I don't know how to stop, and it's a
long, long, long, long way down.
She's all that ever mattered, and all that ever will,
My cup, it runneth over, I'll never get my fill.
The boats in the harbour, slip from their chains,
Head for new horizons, let's do the same.
I'm on a tightrope, baby, nine miles high,
Striding through the clouds, on my ribbon in the sky.
I'm on a tightrope, one thing I've found,
I don't know how to stop, and it's a tightrope baby,
nine miles high,
Striding through the clouds, on my ribbon in the sky.
I'm on a tightrope, one thing I've found,
I don't know how to stop, and it's a
long, long, long, long way down.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
I'll tell you my story man, I wish I'd never been born.
I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams,
And my hand, it shakes the pen.
Come on, come on now, baby, let the good times roll again, yeah.
Where did our sweet love go? Who stole away our time?
Why do the stars above refuse to shine?
The harder I try to paint a picture of the way it was back then,
The more I miss the good times, baby, let it roll again.
Good times baby, this is the time
I need to know that your love is mine,
Love me up, yeah, reel me in,
I'm hooked, line and sinker, she's my heroin.
How many days have I been lying on my back
Staring at the ceiling girl, stretching on your rack?
The harder I try to paint a picture of the way it was back then,
The more I miss the good times, baby, let it roll again.
Good times baby, this is the time
I need to know that your love is mine,
Love me up, yeah, reel me in,
I'm hooked, line and sinker, she's my heroin.
Said I'm hooked now, I'm not fakin',
I'm here till the day I die.
can't get enough now, my heart is aching.
I'm in too deep to stop, all I want is those
Good times baby, this is the time
I need to know that your love is mine,
Love me up, yeah, reel me in,
I'm hooked, line and sinker, she's my heroin.
Our love, girl, is going through changes,
I don't know if I'm alive, dead, dying or just a little jaded,
Someone throw me a line,
You know I need it, I need it bad.
Lost in a maze of my own making,
No way out that I can find, send home your hard working jury,
I'm going down this time.
You'd better believe it, yes, you had.
So if you hear me crying, or talking in my sleep,
Don't be afraid, it's just the hours that I keep.
We gotta love to last for a million years,
A love that could never fade through the tracks of your tears.
All I can do is hope that you will see me fall,
Do your best to smash my picture on your wall.
Forgive me baby, absolve me, my dear.
I've seen the future in the tracks of your tears.
I've seen the future in the tracks of your tears,
of your tears, of your tears.
I cast a shorter shadow with every passing day,
No time to think I'm just fading away.
SOme kind of magic in all your hopes and fears,
Show me the future through the tracks of your tears.
I've seen your severed head at a banquet for the dead,
All dressed up dinner, looked so fine.
Your shining silver salver so tastefully powdered
With the finest military quick lime.
Now try and picture this, as I gave you a kiss,
The apple in your mouth slipped in mine.
The orchestra played the sweetest serenade,
We laughed as we put away your wine.
So raise your glasses, here's a toast to wasted lives.
May all their ghosts come back to haunt you,
And tell you how they died.
How do you sleep?
How do you last the night and keep the dogs at bay?
How do you feel when you close your eyes, and try and drift away?
Does it feel any better now?
Does it mean any more when the angel of death comes knock, knocking,
And banging at your door?
When all the fun was over, I put you on my shoulder,
took you home, away from it all.
Shot down and claimed, mounted and framed,
Tastefully hung up on my wall.
Are my dreams your nightmares? I hope they all come true.
Get off your knees, the party's over,
I'm coming home to you.
How do you sleep?
How do you last the night and keep the dogs at bay?
How do you feel when you close your eyes, and try and drift away?
Does it feel any better now?
Does it mean any more when the angel of death comes knock, knocking,
And banging at your door, at your door?
Love spreads her arms, waits there for the nails,
I forgive you, boy, I will prevail.
Too much to take, come cross to bear,
I'm hiding in the trees with a picnic, she's over there, yeah.
Yeah,yeah,yeah,
Yeah,yeah,yeah.
She didn't scream, she didn't make a sound,
"I forgive you boy," but don't leave town.
Cold black skin, naked in the rain,
Hammer flash in the lightning, they're hurting her again.
Let me put you in the picture, let me show you what I mean,
The messiah is my sister, ain't no king man, she's my queen.
I have a dream, I've seen the light,
Don't put it out, say she's alright, yeah, she's my sister.
She didn't scream, she didn't make a sound,
"I forgive you boy," but don't leave town.
Cold black skin, naked in the rain,
Hammer flash in the lightning, they're hurting her again.
Oh, oh, ooh,
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let me put you in the picture, let me show you what I mean,
The messiah is my sister, ain't no king man, she's my queen.
I have a dream, I've seen the light,
Don't put it out, say she's alright, yeah, she's my sister.
Way down deep dark and funky
Tie me tightly to your bed
Ride on, lady, I'm your monkey
Yes, the organ grinder's getting wet
Oh you're still filthy dragged on the sand of another mans land
Another man riding on another man's dream
If I call on our beautiful
I may issue
I don't want to miss you
I don't want to diss you
I don't want to miss you
But you're on my list, you
I put you on my list, you
Way down deep dark and funky
Tie me tightly to your bed
Ride on, lady, I'm your monkey
Yes, the organ grinder's getting wet
Ride on
You're still filthy dragged on the sand of another mans land
Another man riding on another man's dream
Singing for doorways and begging for light
My lock hears the strike
It's alright
It's just I caught you playing with the light
I may issue
I don't want to miss you
Not going to miss you
I don't want to miss you
I put you on my list, you
I put you on my list, you
If I call on our beautiful
I may issue
I don't want to miss you
I come here to bliss you
I don't want to miss you
I put you on my list, you
I put you on my list, you