Tekst :
God of first and last things
father of our failing
the mirror knows us well
better than we know ourselves
now go
the world won t wait so long
go on
all your noble efforts
sacrificial fireworks
smell the sulfur when all goes wrong
wicked people have no songs
now go
the world won t wait so long
a crime to see it wasted
before all is said and done
go on
so we made a mountain
from the white lie landfill
how it used to protect us
let s build a fire and
burn it down
now go
the world won t wait so long
a crime to see it wasted
before all is said and done
go on
go on
go on
go on
close your naked eye
close your naked eye
it s a sin to keep it open
why you keep it open?
close your naked eye
close your naked eye
and seeTekst :
Jericho s strange, throbbing with life at its heart :
people are drawn together, simultaneously torn apart...
Foundations are shattered in the city
inside the barricaded doors -----
hiding behind their walls, lonely as night falls,
maybe the people are waiting for trumpets....
Babylon s strange, seventh wonder of the earth :
gardens ablaze in colour, slowly rotting in the dirt
and, with your head on fire, you know you can t really see.
The hanging gardens sing,
but with a hollow ring :
the life is false, its killing me....
Don t look back, or you ll turn to stone;
look around before your life is overgrown
with concrete slabs!
On your back the searching eyes that stab
between chintz curtains, glinting,
but never owning to a name -------
like the inmates of asylums
all the citizens are contagiously
insane....
Atlantis is strange, the explosion of an age :
no-one really knows what to do, and the city
is a cage.
It traps in ashen hours and concrete towers,
imprisons in the social order :
the city s lost its way,
madness takes hold today...
I can t live under water.
I can t live under water.
I can t live under water.
Tekst :
I m falling off the barstool mama in this old ghost town saloon
Where sunlight moves like sadness across the room
Oh my sweet mama if you could only see me
Now drunk as a skunk falling out of this rundown lacy gown
This blue ink this blue ink this blue ink
Across the page i write to you
I m sitting in these thorny cowboy boots
And scabby knees wondering why i left you mama
Just to do as i please no hat has a brim
Wide enough to block out the blazing sun
I met the devil on the road but i had no legs to run
This blue ink this blue ink this blue ink
Across the page i write to you
Silver ran off two towns ago i been walking alone
I been walking slow my eyes are dry from the desert wind
I know i ain t coming home to you again
I ll take off into the deep blue sky
When i m dead and gone and the buzzards fly this blue ink across the page
I write to you mama if you love me you re the only one who do