1984-11-04-Rolling Stone, Milan, Italy01-Mattress Of Wire
02-Band Introductions...
03-Lost Outside The Tunnel
04-Head Is Happy
05-Walk Out To Winter
06-The Bugle Sounds Again
07-The Boy Wonders
08-We Could Send Letters
All I Need Is EverythingTears, just like the jewels,
Adorn their corporate crown,
Weigh on me worthless and i,
Shake them down and leave now,
And have no royal things.
You, would consecrate the ground,
I paced in pain,
Back On Board
Heard it said it's a stupid thing, everything that I follow through.
Never got to our god, you see. abandoned with the taste of the new.
And every time that whistle blows I'm stranded in my shoes.
Chorus:
Get me back on board, pull me up with grace
Get me back on board, let me be embraced.
Backwards and ForwardsCraze my hair and shine my shoes,
And kiss the kiss that I could lose,
And I looked at what I have,
And I have one wish,
And I looked back in your eyes,
And there were two words,
Backwards and forwards.
Beautiful GirlHow does it feel
To have time on your side
And never worry too much?
Never alone, kicking at stones
As though you're never been touched
Touched by the feeling
That nothing is real
It's all an illusion
Birds"Hey baby, baby bring your love to me"
Repeats the radio relentlessly
All day I dream a dream where feelings flee
In free formation.
The sweetest sound reflects in saddened eyes
Defies description and identifies
The heart that hungers for the sudden skies
The souls migration.
Black LuciaPeople say that all I do
Is talk about you
But that's not true
I talk about you
Think about you
Dream about you
Can't live without you
It's just not true.
DebutanteI've seen it before
So sad and unsure
Trying to make it happen
To four on the floor
But what do you do
With someone like you
Debutantes shiver in lace
And pray for disgrace
Deep and Wide and TallMy girl
She fled the fatherland
And all it's dumb demands
My Girl
She is the essence pure
She's super sure, she's got the cure
She's love ambassadress
With a message
Dream Sweet DreamsLove is sleepwalkin'
Coppin' unworldly sights
Searchin' and stoppin'
Bangin' the world to rights
Can't let kilometres
Or colours defeat us try
For something so sweet
We'll never be beat
Everybody Is a Number OneNow love is a burning ring
At the bottom of our being
Done down and disconnected
It lies like a sleeping thing
Our task is to awaken
Our mission it is clear
With lips and arms and unity
We've overcome our fear
Get Outta LondonThe sun dying on a dusty room
TV lying to me through the gloom
Even remote control
Can't change this mood
Get outta London, while the getting's good
Get outta London, while I know I could
Get outta London
Good Morning BritainJock's got a vote in Parochia
Ten long years and he's still got her
Paying tax and and doing stir
Worry about it later.
And the wind blows hot and the wind blows cold
But it blows us good so we've been told
Music's food 'til the art-biz folds
Let them all eat culture.
How It IsGet grades, toe the line
Keep your behind above the water in the meantime
Join the corporate pyramid
I couldn't blame you if you did
Until you sell out your brother while your sister falls
Playin' daddy, doing the company crawl
You don't deserve your daughter's kiss, it's sad
How Men AreIt's called love
And every cruelty will cloud it
And his lie
True love could never allow it
Cause it's a lie that we have ceased to believe
We've said goodbye but it won't take its leave
Why should it take the tears of a woman
Imperfectly
Waited winter long
For her sweet face
Sang my winter song
To a suitcase
Saw the surest thing
I had ever known
Find her own place
Just Like the USAStuck in my beat suede shoes I can't wait,
Oh what a state to be in.
I need her heart and get a Jack-jones for my sins.
She's gonna ditch that shining, sick machine
And be speeding straight my way.
But I'm churning in neutral, turning in a circle,
Just like the USA.
Killermont StreetAs the city asleep
Shares its dreams and desires
Every wish that we keep
Will trace a line to other times, other places
Though the song of the proud
Howls and dies, never fall for defeat
Take a trip to reprieve
Let Your Love DecideWell, when I've questioned
All I could and come undone
And only sadness stands
Between me and the sun
When loving leaves and leaves me
Waiting on the one
And my heart can't hide
Method of LoveThe sun that drowns everything in gold
Feeling it taking hold, holding her hand
The hue of her hair, colouring every care
Willing to share, whod understand?
As faith breaks down
In the shadow of a cold cathedral
More Than a LawI've seen that recipe
Lawmen and royalty
And nothing on earth can take that taste
And make it something sweet
I saw the news today
A broken everything with years to pay
And nobody else can save us now
Notting Hill BluesAll the madness in the mirror
The tremblin' and the tears
It takes a long time comin' out
It's comin' out of here
I've been wandering your London town
And it's wearin' out my shoes
It's a long road comin' down
ObliviousFrom the mountain tops down to the sunny street,
A different drum is playing a different kind of beat.
It's like a mystery that never ends,
I see you crying and I want to kill your friends.
I hear your footsteps in the street,
It won't be long before we meet,
It's obvious.
One and OneOne and one is one I hear
But it breaks my heart to come so near
And find division standing in our way
As London burns I lie awake
And wrestle with this passive state
But a broken heart is useless in these days
When I close my eyes to trouble
Over My HeadOver my head, over my head
And I can't get free from these chains
Over my head go the things that we said
And I long to be above pain
When your heart is broken
Mine's in two
And I'm over my head in blue
ParadiseI've been searching
Seems like so long
For perfection
In a world made wrong
Here it's hard to be strong
Seems like we're heading
Down and down and down
But that's love
Phenomenal WorldBorn on a junk heap in the sea
Cursed with the notion to be free
White and bright and twenty one
But in my heart Im on the run
I kissed the lips of eau de vie
I tasted sugar and debris
But in the early morning light
I saw the day destroy the night
Pianos and ClocksWell, hello there, sweet to see you,
Like your colour, how you doin'?
I've been battered and bewildered
In the beauty of your ruins
Flash, flash and I am blinded
By the fact that you've been born
Feels like fiction life goes on
Brown eyes are gone
Pillar to PostOnce I was happy in happy extremes
These bitter tokens are worthless to me
So you appear and say how I've grown
Fill me up with faces I've known
In this light, they're far from divine
I save them up and spend them when I have time
Rainy SeasonWords and music by roddy frame
When the rainy season comes
I hang my head
For all the things I've seen
And done and said
And then I wonder why
I hold my head up high
Reason for LivingNow you’re back in my arms again
Let your heart be rearranged
While you were sleeping the reaper’s been reaping
The times have changed
Speak softly to me
You have more power than the bomb
The tears in your eyes are just medals and prizes
Safe in SorrowI'm not trying to say
I'm so much stronger than you
I'm just trying to save you
From that long dark night
You've been down on your knees
Building up a big brick wall
Too scared to fly so you'll never fall
You're safe in sorrow.
Sister AnnWhen days are just a trail of clothes
Slung over poetry and prose
A red reminder of the things I owe
A songbird silenced in the setting snow
I'm left here looking at the bones
I'm stranded in a sea of stepping stones
I stood inside of something I'd outgrown
A simple sadness in the great unknown
Somewhere In My HeartSummer in the city where the air is still
A baby being born to the overkill
Who cares what people say
We walk down love's motorway
Ambition and love wearing boxing gloves
And singing hearts and flowers
Song for a FriendAwake in winter's crystal hours
And give to what gets you in the end
For the sake of a love that just devours
And smiles and takes and lays you down again
Run free the moon is always female
Straight to what's still and will not bend
Don't wait for his sunshine to surround you
Spanish HorsesRan a red light, running lonely through Gaudi's soft confusion
Hey, hey, my Barcelonian
Such a gentle Jones running through my bones
Placa reial calls, it calls, it calls
It calls the night home
And then her eyes like Spanish horses
Danced as language died
Still On FireI'm in love with everything that breaks the grip of caution
On our getting up and leaving for a bigger day, still some say
That all you need is money to be free from what is poor
Well that's the lie of looking up from somewhere down
Because the sun will show to testify that all the
Time between belongs to you and I, to be still on fire
And when the strongest words have all been used
StrayYou don't have to tell me what you're still looking for
Two arms to hold you and a voice to say
"That's alright, you can spend the night"
Well, come around
'cause I've been there and these are the notes
From the overground
SunsetSand separates the sea from me on my desert island
Sun obliterates the sky and I, I'm just like anyone
No matter how I try, I wanna see the sun
And it shines to luminate the distance
Illustrate the difference between you and me
And it collides with clouds that set the sky free
Indicating right, indicating wrong
The Birth Of The TrueI feel the magic that our time has traced
And make a point of it in every place.
But every place deserves a curse or two,
For making me so far away from you.
I saw some pictures of the world at war,
I couldn't suss what all the fuss was for.
I wear a picture of you wearing black,
The Crying SceneWe were two in a million
Stars like the ones in the sky
A love scene and a vision
We saw the world and we waved goodbye
Watched the fireworks falling
We kissed and innocence died
The sound of certainty calling
The world it couldn’t be satisfied
The Gentle KindI look around me and what do I see?
Sadness surrounds me, alone as can be
With too much time and too much distance
These chains that bind me, they won't set me free
I look behind me and coming for me, yeah
My best friend, she's my resistance
VertigoDear people I've
Seen something I
Can't leave alone or give to chance
No matter how I try
Born from the knowledge of a girl
Thrown into the arms of man
The mother of necessity
The child of war...
Walk out to WinterWalk out to winter, swear I'll be there
Chill will wake you, high and dry, you'll wonder why
Met in the summer and walked 'til the fall
And breathless we talked, it was tongues
Despite what they'll say, wasn't youth, we hit the truth
Faces of strummer that fell from the wall
We Could Send LettersYou said you’re free, for me that says it all.
You’re free to push me and I’m free to fall.
So if we weaken we can call it stress,
You’ve got my trust I’ve got your home address.
And now the only chance that we could take,
Is the chance that someone else won’t make it all come true.
We’re making tracks, they show our touch and go,