BLACK MONEY

We built this house on love and trust
on something more than bricks and dust
now we're running down the clock
waiting for the aftershock

We started out with things to do
hopes and dreams to pull us through
now everything is called to doubt
not much left to dream about

Black money breathes black money crawls
black money lives inside these walls

It's never really if so much as when
the greed that chills the empty hearts of men
to sate a rich man's vanity they're laying waste to history
the thieves have entered Babylon again

Black money breathes black money crawls
black money lives inside these walls

The politicians tell us how
it's time to milk the sacred cow
they drop their bombs where children play
then say it has to be that way

Black money breathes black money crawls
black money lives inside these walls

 

HERE'S TO YOU

Don't worry about me cause I've been wrong before
I try to take things in my stride
the moon and the stars are all I've hungered for
maybe to hang on to my pride

Pull down heaven mend these tired eyes
we need to see what we've been through
here's to you

There's a spoke in my soul that feeds on dark desires
invades the purity of you
you see in me you light these pretty little fires
and there's just nothing I can do

Slowdown heaven mend these tired eyes
let's hold on to what is true
here's to you

People I know have seen the change in me
since you walked out of our lives together they could see
I was eaten up with shame when everything I loved
had walked right out on me

Hold down heaven mend these tired eyes
you must do what you must do
here's to you

 

ST RAPHAEL

Catch that train the nine to five
pinch myself I'm still alive
read the news yeah things look grim
they won the toss they put us in
tell my friends there's nothing more to say

Going down to St Raphael
find another ship to sail
umbrella in my back pocket
kill the mighty whale ah ha ha

Down the road another day
through a door marked come what may
pitching through a shrouded night
see me stumble into sunlight
tell my friends that I am gone away

Chorus

No more dog days dog days done
I'm setting out to have some fun
take the river to the sea
feeling clean and feeling free
tell my friends that this is where I'll be

Chorus

 

SNOWBLIND LOVERS

Wake me when the train has left the station
don't even need to know which train I'm on
some folks seem to know their destination
me I just need to know I'm gone

Snowblind lovers
I can't see but I can call your name
snowblind forever
come with me we will feel no pain

Kiss me so you know that I'm still breathing
talk to me of nothing much all day
dazzle me with gifts for my surrender
cause all I want to do is drift away

Snowblind Lovers
I can't see but I can call your name
snowblind forever
come with me we will feel no pain

 

PRAY

Wake up it's another day
the sun shines just for you
the garden's blooming, life is zooming
the sky is always blue

City of diversity
citadel of dreams
where all tomorrow's parties start
and nothing's what it seems

Pray harder
pray for love to save us
pray longer
pray

Beautiful machinery
gleaming in the drive
holidays in paradise
so good to be alive

The birds are back from Africa
blackening the sky
they flew a thousand miles to be
crying by your side

Pray harder
pray for love to save us
pray longer
pray

 

THESE STREETS

Which way the wind blows
it matters not to me
I take my chances light
I'll be what must be

When I take your hand I'll know
what you could mean to me

I may not dine in palaces
with an angel on my shoulder
but when I walk these streets
these streets belong to me

It wasn't always so
that I should feel so free
down the road I go
this lover's life for me

When I take your hand I'll know
what you and I could be

Chorus

When rebel days are gone
and old lovers leave the field
does heartache linger on
will nothing be revealed

When I take your hand I'll know
if this is what I'll see

Chorus

 

IS IT ANY WONDER

Walking down the road
I'm feeling so fine
is it any wonder
she says she's a friend of mine

Driving in the country
feels like I'm flying
we could take forever
she says she's a friend of mine

Feelings in the moonlight
I don't mind trying
is it any wonder
she says she's a friend of mine

Walking down the road I'm
feeling just fine
is it any wonder
she says she's a friend of mine

 

NIGHT OWL PROWL

A little love is in your heart
just a stain of something better
you've got your eyes on the prize
but you don't think that you can win
you don't know how
you're on the night owl prowl

Round and round we go
with all the traps that we can set her
there's a smile in her eyes
telling me that she could sin
don't stop me now
I'm on the night owl prowl

On the night owl prowl what you see
gives just a hint of what you get
was she looking at me
or someone else she thought she met
you're on the prowl
you're on the night owl prowl

Another drink another dance
I might just stay a little longer
I got this line in my mind
what doesn't kill you makes you strong
so don't look now
you're on the night owl prowl

On the night owl prowl
all the longing and looking for love
is just traded away on a push and a shove
you get that girl in your sights then someone else
makes a move for the girl you're back on the shelf
you don't know how
you're on the night owl prowl

 

DON'T RECTIFY ME

Sinners to the left of me and sinners to the right
some joker in the middle with the gift of second sight
they all jump up to tell me that my eye is off the ball
that you've got to be a winner cause the winner takes it all

Chorus: Tit job nose job liposuck my dick
the art of getting on in life could start to make you sick
I'm looking for the exit, there's nowhere left to roam
don't rectify me just leave my spirit alone

Too fat to enter heaven too dumb to make it rich
we sit around and watch TV cause life is just a bitch
the corporation sells us everything we need
so we al kow tow to the corporations greed

Chorus

See that low down hoodoo as she tries to make the scene
like all the glamour pusses in the glossy magazines
she say's that someone told her that everybody knows
that she's the one who'll get to wear the emperors new clothes

Chorus

As politicians dream up holidays in hell
to make the world a safer place for folks like us to dwell
another football hero just ran out of steam
so we fill his place with someone new to let us live that dream

Chorus

 

AMERICAN DREAMS

You packed your bags and vanished
murder on your mind
looking for a better life
something more defined
I'll see you in your daydreams
we can find new games to play
I'll remember what you told me
should we meet again someday

And we all dream American dreams

Stepping back into the shadows
from the madness of your smile
the wind has banged the shutters shut
our sanity's on trial
and I know that though you're leaving
you've got to have the final word
and everything of meaning in our lives
will not be spared

And we all dream American dreams

So I'll be searching for a signpost
to point the way again
the way that came so easily
when we looked for it back then
I don't know where I'm headed
I'm just taking it on trust
cause everything that's static
turns eventually to dust

And we all dream American Dreams

 

DRIVING BY NIGHT

And I'm leaving - I'm leaving this behind
the road is my kingdom now

Driving by night again
this road and my imagination
demons in flight again
this road will lead to my salvation

And I'm driving through the night
with a liar's pride
with all the dreams I ever dreamed
floating round inside

I'm threading through a highways eye
to somewhere out of sight
looking for adventure
in the palace of the night
red snakes in the sunset
white lines in their eyes

Driving by night again
this road and my imagination
demons in flight again
this road will lead to my salvation

 

DOWNSTREAM

The reality the dream and all that lies between
the memory of all that can be told
you let your life unwind
you don't pay it any mind
then you find your children's future has been sold

Downstream we'll go downstream
downstream from here
and I know that I
will be there by your side
in love forever with you

I was sitting by the bar strumming my guitar
you walked in and straight away I knew
we'd build ourselves the nest, have kids and all the rest
and hope at least that love would see us through

Downstream we'll go downstream
downstream from here
and I know that I
will be home and dry
in love forever with you