Come a little closer now.
Feel it kinda freak you out.
All the time its getting closer and closer.
Stuck in a kaleidoscope, right about to lose control
When I feel a hand on my shoulder.
Turn around to look- its gone.
Call it superstition but all my thoughts spin me around to you.
What became of you we may never know.
Finally found your wings and you gave it all to watch over me.
Finally found your wings and now your song plays on in me...on in me.
Find it irresistible
To pull the plug on logical,
and wonder how to live for the moment.
Who is lost and what's been found.
When and where and why we're down to resist the best explanation,
you know it.
[Pre-Chorus]
[Chorus]
Time here is up. Floating away. Maybe it won't come back.
Dust chasing out heels, droplets of rain falling so gracefully.
Time pulled you away but now the emergency can wait.
I've wasted a lifetime
Pursuing an image that did not exist
Except in my own mind
Except in my own dream.
My life has convinced me
That happiness never can really be found
Until you remember
The voice of your own heart.
It's all on the inside
To say you can find it elsewhere
Would be wrong.
It's all on the inside
Each soul has its song.
It was here all along
On the inside.
It cannot be captured
On canvas it cannot be
Carved into stone.
No art can sustain it
Believe me I've tried.
It always eludes you
No matter what stratagem
You may devise.
It's no destination
A compass can find.
There's only love on the inside
No counterfeit no need for it.
A perfect place for your heart to hide
No danger near nothing to fear.
Life's hurricane can't reach within
With my face drained of colour
and my brain of blood,
like Billy Budd
I'm lashed to the grating.
With senses growing duller
and with quaking heart
I make a start
at temperature equating
and my lungs suck useless air.
Like paraplegic dancers
in formation team
my understanding seems
hidebound in its movements,
contemplating answers
that could break my bonds -
to be half wrong
would be, in me, improvement...
but my comprehensive faculties are impaired.
And it seems absurd, but now all I've heard
fades in empty words and is worthless
as the Human Laugh rocks the cenotaph
but the joke is half-true, and mirthless.
Trying to trace a reason
from the spinning words
but all I've heard
seem at odds with their meanings,
phonetically pleasing
but delivered in such haste
that in their place
my mind commences screaming.
On the verge of belief I crash onto the reef
and a cynical thief steals my senses.
So I cling to the pew with dimensions askew,
and recognition refuses present tenses.
All the lives of the saints demonstrate that my faint
is a minor complaint, but the end is
nowhere in sight.
Why can't I find me a way to go?
I don't want to die in the nave,
but I know it may be with me some day
so I've got to find a way I can save up
my energies, and find a cause to pray
to something for something
to which I can give my creed.
I'd gladly succumb to the wave,
if I thought the water taught a way to light;
I'd gladly succumb - I'm not brave,
and it's easy to believe what the preacher says
except for the conflict raging between my head
and my brain.
I don't want to die, but just the same,
some day....
Waiting for a moment
that I know will come
when I'll have to run
and find another sermon.
Everyman and Norman
and the talking priest--
still, I am at least holding all the doors open.
Inside me all outside is shared.
As the cracked bells peal it all seems unreal
but the seventh seal stays unbroken
and the Offertory plate tenders no escape -
still I refuse to scrape up a token
of esteem for these false
alleyways of the course;
I must try to divorce sense from sensing.
Tell me again,
tell me the way to go.
So when I talk to myself
although I take good care to listen
my heart grows ever more faint,
there's something missing?
Chorus
[Nivea]
Open up the door
Baby Im knock knockin'
Cause I wanna take a ride in your love spaceship [x2]
[Lloyd]
Im gonna open up the door
And let your love inside
Got so much more in store baby
Do you want to ride
I could tell by the look in your eyes
That Im turning you on
Come stay another night
I dont wanna be alone
And I know it may sound crazy
But you really got me gone
I just cant help it baby
Im in the zone
You make me wanna buy your love
So youll be all my own
Ring ring ring your phone
Girl can you come over
Chorus
[Nivea](Lloyd)
Open up the door (Oh)
Baby Im knock knockin (Im knocking)
Cause I wanna take a ride in your love spaceship (come ride)
Open up the door (Oh)
Baby Im knock knockin (Im knocking, so let me in)
Cause I wanna take a ride in your love spaceship boy (do you wanna ride)
[Lloyd]
I wanna take you to the moon
Cause youre my shiny star
My spaceship goes soon
Ha! You dont need no car
Wanna be with you darling
Youre always on my mind
Come over stop stalling
Aint got a lot of time
Yes, I know it may sound crazy
But I wanna make you moan
Baby Ill satisfy you
Til your mind is strong
Do anything to try your love
Before you run on home
Ring Ring Ring your phone
Girl can you come over
Chorus
[Nivea](Lloyd)
Open up the door (oh yeah)
Baby Im knock knockin (Im knocking, wont you let me in)
Cause I wanna take a ride in your love spaceship (wanna take a ride, yeah yeah, dont you wanna ride with me girl)
Open up the door (oh)
Baby Im knock knockin (Im knocking, all in the end)
Cause I wanna take a ride in your love spaceship (in your love spaceship yeah, know you wanna ride, lets go!)
[Nivea]
Youre incredible
Take me to your love baby
Me to
You so crazy
Take me to your love baby
Really
Take me to your love baby
Lets go
Chorus
[Nivea](Lloyd)
Open up the door
Baby Im knock knockin (Im knocking, so let me in, oh baby)
Cause I wanna take a ride in your love spaceship (yeah yeah, dont you wanna ride with me girl)
Open up the door (Oh)
Baby Im knock knockin (Im knocking, all in the end)
Cause I wanna take a ride in your love spaceship (in your love spaceship, know you wanna ride, lets go)
[Nivea]
Ohhhh I cant live
Ohhhh and your love yeah
Walking through the city after recent rain
Heard ancient stones all shining murmur where are they?
How long before next hero's day
And the splendid show of drum and gun
Walking by the river one September eve
Saw questions rise in circles on that old dark stream
Where now are those who dared to dream
They would leave one jewel in England's hand
Gone to sleep they lie in flowered graves
For the visitors and Guidebook saved
But come the trumpet shattered dawn
Will the spirit they shared be reborn
Comrades in arms, may they rise, fight and shine again,
Till "who goes there", will be answered with friend again
Once there stood a man, alone, sword in his hand
In the face of the teeth and flame
And it was all in England's name
I was told how she grew, she alone shone her light on everyone
And if you made the first eleven then you'd be sure to get to heaven,
Like the captain of the school
I was taught how to win
And to lose with that "get you next time" smile,
Learned Latin verbs in fear of a beating
And for years thought central heating,
Was for just old people's homes
I was raised on the past, the Tower and Saint Paul's and Westminster
Escorted well-bred girls to dances, and learned to drive a horse in harness,
Through the English countryside
I was taught to behave, like an officer and a gentleman,
And when I finally marched from Sandhurst
I learned to put my fellow man first
And there was daily talk of war
I spent 1938 in the United States of America,
I grew to love it's many faces, and they had built some amazing places,
And I thought theyd come in on our side
Love at First Sight
Girls, oh there were girls
But they were just part of the social whirl
And I never took much notice
Until the night that I met you
Standing out there alone
Out on the terrace under the moon
From the moment that I kissed you
My life turned into a dream
I knew I loved you at first sight
And that you loved .. me
Was it really happening, or was it a dream?
I asked if you'd be mine
Feeding the white doves by the Serpentine
And when you said forever
I know that I almost cried
You all in white
The tears and the laughing
Nearly losing the damn ring
Yes, I do ... Yes, I will... keep you from harm
Those few short days
We spent together
Remembered forever
All the plans - for the house and for the children
I know I loved you at first sight
And that you loved... me
Did it really happen then, or was it a dream?
I knew when I saw your face
Opening orders, the time and the place
Oh, don't worry it won't last long
And I won't be far away
I'll try to write every day...
Letters From the Front
Got your letters at the front today
If you like the house well buy it straight away
Yes, its great now youre a full-time nurse
But do be careful with the air-raids - getting worse
Must end now... the push is on... were moving out...
All my love... see you soon
I'm writing to you on a convoy moving west
It's hell out here but were all trying to do our best
I learned today that I get two weeks leave in June
This time I promise you a real honeymoon
Must end now... take care my love... you're all the world
To me my love...see you soon
The telegram... dropped from my hand
She was all I had... I just don't understand
I see her now... in that white dress she wore
Those eyes and that smile
No one else... nevermore
Decorations and respect inside the club
Aren't compensation when you lose the one you love
But in the end, all that is left
Is the regiment and what it means
To be... an officer and a gentleman...
Who are you sent from heaven just for me?
That may not be, but that's how it seems.
Why have you come into my life?
You've taken my heart.
How do you make me cry?
You say you don't believe in luck and I do agree with you.
Sometimes I really have to wonder.
I sure feel lucky when I'm next to you.
I'll never understand what you see in me.
I'm just a normal guy, plain as can be.
I really love to see you smile.
You've turned me upside down and I don't even mind.
You say you don't believe in luck and I do agree with you.
Sometimes I really have to wonder.
I sure feel lucky when I'm next to you.
come what may
lay your eggs where it's warm
we come here to swarm
come by sea
swarm like smoke in the dawn
we were the young
we were the swarm
radiolarians
midges and moths
cut from a cloth
we were the young
we were the swarm
flailing fetal fleas
feeding from the arms of the master
burrow into me
and this is sure to misspell disaster
Oh and the young in the larval stage
orchestrating plays
in vestments of translucent alabaster
so they took me to the hospital
they put my body through a scan
what they saw there would impress them all
for inside me grows a man
who speaks with perfect diction
as he orders my eviction
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as he acts with more conviction
than I
oh, burrow into me
this is sure to misspell disaster
oh, burrow into me
you're feeding from the arms of the master
we were the young
we were the swarm
we were the young
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we were the swarm
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"Dusty on the shelf"
By Desiree Dawn songwriter songwryter
You gotta live the music
if your gonna write the words
How would I know a sparrow
If I'd never seen a bird
how could I say I love you
if my heart had never felt
the thing that cuts you
like a knife
the next day makes you melt
well we sat and talked
and shared a shot of
the finest tennessee whiskey
he said I've lived alot of life
and his brown eyes went misty
he said I know where I've gone wrong
you better go where I went right
you may think I'm just a drunken fool
ramblin on tonight
If I tell you the world is flat
slap your money down and bet on that
sometimes you shouldn't take advise
even when folks mean well
sometimes Jesus is your only friend
when your walkin barefooted through Hell
who's tellin the truth
who's tellin a lie
who's gonna make you happy
who's gonna make you cry
be true to your own self
and don't let your song
get dusty on the shelf
some will call you names
at times you'll be ignored
but if you know just who you are
its's a cake walk
not a war
and if you count your losses
and you look for nothin more
you may never know whats waiting
for you behind the door
when everything is said
and done and the Lord looks in your eyes
can you say I ran that race
or did you run and hide
did you think that you weren't GOOD ENOUGH
or did you bring it home
did you love life to it's fullest
it's precious then it's gone
well we sat and talked
and shared a shot of
the finest tennessee whiskey
he said I've lived alot of life
and his brown eyes went misty
he said I know where I've gone wrong
you better go where I went right
you may think I'm just a drunken fool
ramblin on tonight
If I tell you the world is flat
slap your money down and bet on that
sometimes you shouldn't take advise
even when folks mean well
sometimes Jesus is your only friend
when your walkin barefooted through Hell
who's tellin the truth
who's tellin a lie
who's gonna make you happy
who's gonna make you cry
be true to your own self
and don't let your song
get dusty on the shelf
"addy said
don't let your song get "usty on the shelf""
My friend and I
We walk down the street
With spring in our feet
Whistling a tune
Hey there, little moon
How's mr. sun?
I meet everyone
Walking my gargoyle
Walking in line, he's my best friend
Folks can't comprehend the fact that he talks
Vultures and hawks, termites, ducks
Yes, everyone loves my little gargoyle
I found him on a church
He helps with my research
People recoil when they see me
Obviously, I'm pretty extreme
Most people scream most of the time
But always when I'm walking my gargoyle
Others may cry when we go by
My gargoyle and I happy again
Beautiful then, yes, without fail
Wagging my tails
Walking my gargoyle
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