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Everybody Loves A Happy Ending - Lyrics

Everybody Loves A Happy Ending

Wake up! – your time is nearly over
No more the supernova
No action guaranteed
Wake up! - you’ve had an operation
Ideas above your station
Too much reality

Think about the wasted time spending
Watching Mother Nature’s knees bending
Everybody loves a happy ending

Wake up! – you’re on your own agenda
Give up the great pretender
With baby eyes of green
Wake up! – you’re holding on to nothing
You know you’re only bluffing
As dead as autumn leaves

Think about the wasted time spending
Watching Mother Nature’s knees bending
Everybody loves a happy ending

And all your love will shine on everyone

The darkness of the day – a curse in every way
You try to see the light but you don’t know why, don’t know why
They tell you on the phone to give your god a bone
And grow a set of wings like a butterfly

Closest Thing To Heaven

Twenty-eight days of rain, flash floods in February
Back in our boats again, bath water and the baby
What am I gonna do? There’s been a lot of drinking
Looking at ghosts of you, while all the world is sinking

Ten thousand miles into the atmosphere
My body shakes, is there a welcome here?
Closest thing to heaven – how do you do it?

Throw your arms round the world, make love your destination
Here we go boys and girls, act like a generation
Give me that ball and chain, by now it must be hurting
Dragging your feet again, just like a beast of burden

When one and one and one and one make two
I know I’m high because I’ve captured you

Closest thing to heaven – yeah it’s you!

Look the world right in the eye
Eat the countries that are making billions
Sweet as home-made apple pie
Save the crumbs for all the starving millions

Closest thing to heaven – how do you do it?

Call Me Mellow

Fill the sky with love

I wouldn’t mind but she just turned up on the doorstep
Wistful and ashen, slightly bedraggled
Last time I saw her she was howling at the moon
Roaming the forest, lupine and rabid

Woah, is she wild? Does she see my inner child?

But then she knows it’s like a curse
To find our chosen roles reversed
To unify my universe
To call me mellow

If I was only half my age and she was older
We’d live on ice cream on Coney Island
And though it’s gravity that drags down my balloon
She stays in orbit way after midnight

Woah, slip and slide – does she go all dewy-eyed?

But then she knows it’s like a curse
To find our chosen roles reversed
To unify my universe
To call me mellow

She’ll dress down for us
She’ll break new ground for us
Watching me cracking up
She’ll hang around, fellahs

Size of Sorrow

Bathe in another man’s grave
In time well follow
Save all your thoughts for these days
Don’t steal, just borrow

And a high wire is a dangerous game
And a hard act to follow
If I fly high like a moth to a flame
Would your eyes be the size of sorrow?

Pain, I can understand pain
Sometimes you just swallow
Say we can make it okay
Don’t steal, just borrow

And a high wire is a dangerous game
And a hard act to follow
If I fly high like a moth to a flame
Would your eyes be the size of sorrow?

Who Killed Tangerine?

What you gonna choose the poison or the knife?
Lived with crazy paving all your life
Something in her eyes just tells you no
Hoping conversation starts to flow

Stuck inside a wheel inside a wheel
Wondering everyday is it all for real?
Aching every time a cold wind blows
My love don’t fear the mighty rose

Tangerine, Tangerine

What you gonna do when the old man bleeds you dry
Step down from the plane and pluck the eye
Slide in deeper, closer to the bone
Don’t you just wish your heart was made of stone

Waxing like an old cracked forty-five
Counting out the ways you can stay alive
Placed in body bags and filled with stones
My love won’t bleed her waves are foam

And when you think it’s all over
It’s not over, it’s not over

Who killed Tangerine? Prettiest girl I’ve ever seen

And when you think it’s all over
It’s not over, it’s not over

The Quiet Ones

Its always the quite ones
Who are stranger than fiction
They hide under tables like a child
What kind of chemistry
Is it leaden or golden?
Nobody sees them driving us wild

It’s your life, don’t just collide with the waves

Oh look into her eyes, you see such silent stalling
And nothing seems to matter in this life

Wake up your majesty
There are thieves in the temple
Picking the sunspots out of the sun
Looking for symmetry in another dead beetle
Down through the pathways see how they run

It’s your life, don’t just collide with the waves

Oh look into her eyes, you see such silent stalling
And nothing seems to matter in this life
Oh so many reason why you’ll hear the sirens calling
And nothing seems to matter in this life

Oh salvation shine a light on a different world
And carry our thoughts on golden rays

Oh look into her eyes, you see such silent stalling
And nothing seems to matter in this life

Who You Are

Someone’s drinking all alone
Someone’s left the TV on
I don’t suppose, No I don’t suppose

Someone’s sleeping in my bed
Someone’s let the genie in
I don’t suppose, No I don’t suppose you know

Who you are
Who you are
Who you are today

Baby’s gone and died again
Taken by the tide again
And it’s no surprise
She hates goodbyes

Someone’s folding paper planes
Someone’s on the line again
Someone’s crying at the sun
And someone’s hiding from someone
I don’t suppose, No I don’t suppose you know

Who you are
Who you are
Who you are today

The Devil

The devil take me now
Before I’m ushered out
Cos you are like me
But I can bleed
And I can die
But I can’t hide from you

Prisoners of course
Taken by force
To smother my screams
To line my dreams
Cos I can die
But I can’t hide from you
The way is clear
The way from here…and you

Secret World

This is a garden
This is a steeple
I hear the crowd before I ever see the people
Yours for the asking
And for the taking
There is a power in the vacuum we are making

You and I have a secret world
And we can keep it unfurled
And pay no attention to the cradle or the grave

And when we’re crossed
We can say that we’re lost
In the middle of nowhere they can like it or not
And if we’re wrong and we end up alone
Well light a candle for their innocent bones

You and I have a secret world
And we can keep it unfurled
And pay no attention to the cradle or the grave

And when we’re crossed
We can say that we’re lost
In the middle of nowhere they can like it or not
And if we’re wrong and we end up alone
Well light a candle for their innocent bones

Killing With Kindness

Don’t cry for me my baby
Don’t say a word
Everyone knows you’re a dangerous bird
Glide like a golden eagle
Sleek like the snow
Ticking your time bomb where ever you go

You’re sinking a line without a trace
With elegant crimes against the state

Killing with kindness – yeah!
Making the most of the mess – oh yeah!
You might want to try this – yeah yeah!
Just kill them with kindness – yeah yeah!

Bite pillow politician
Now you’ve been caught
Came from behind, it’s a dangerous sport
Green are the seeds of envy
Watch how they grow
Everyone knows there’s a fire down below

You’re sinking a line without a trace
With elegant crimes against the state

Killing with kindness – yeah!
Making the most of the mess – oh yeah!
You might want to try this – yeah yeah!
Just kill them with kindness – yeah yeah!

Ladybird

Tell me a story of mind over matter
The hope and the glory of life ever after
The sound and the fury, the cloak and the dagger
Days when we sink like a stone

Porcelain portraits on silver medallions
Plasticine soldiers that march in battalions
Angels of mercy and lifelong companions
Days when we sink like a stone

There’s a room somewhere with a different look
Where your secret life is an open book
Where the love we made was a change we took
Days when we sink like a stone

Ladybird fly away – your friends are gone
Ladybird fly away – your house is on fire

Let us be lovers, we’ll melt after midnight
Hoist up the main sail and coast through to daylight
Twisted like candles that fade in the half-light
Days when we sink like a stone

Well we die some times to begin again
When the same old dreams have the same old end
When we lose our mind or we lose our friends
Days when we sink like a stone

Ladybird fly away – your friends are gone
Ladybird fly away – your house is on fire

Last Days on Earth

Tired of this elegant life
With the best will in the world
It’s a thorn in your side
Dazed not a little confused
Let the patient do the work
They’ve got nothing to lose

I told you I’d hold you
Till the last days on earth

Ties that are tested and tried
Like the crashing of the waves
Will be lost in the tide
Talk away the pain for the very last time
Like an echo in a cave
Let it die in your mind

I told you I’d hold you
Till the last days on earth

If you should fall into these open arms
You would be blessed not just with youth
Wake up your mind – like is a loaded gun
Where nothing on earth lies like the truth

Ties that are tested and tried
Like the crashing of the waves
Will be lost in the tide
Talk away the pain for the very last time
Like an echo in a cave

Two Bonus Tracks (UK and Italy CDs)

Pullin' A Cloud

Time seems like a crazy thing - now that your heart can sing like a child
I know the stars tonight carry a guiding light
Still so proud - pushin' or pullin' a cloud

Driving through driving rain - just me and Johnny Jane
We're okay - we're just pullin' a cloud

There's a story in the lines of your face - never now but not afraid
With the magic of your smile - you make me humble

Baby be wise - stay by my side
Still so proud - pushin' or pullin' a cloud

Out of Control

Goodbye desperado - if they hadn't sucked out all the poison from your veins you'd be dead by now

Too late - Frida Kahlo - you could have the power of the phoenix and the flame if you knew just how

Come the hour - come the mantra - repeat in defeat with the pots and the pans
Walk away - walk on water - they're young then they're old then they don't give a damn

Yeah but you - you're out of control - your babies are changing - you're out of control

Sleepless situation - shaken by the clatter and the clinking on the bars of your private jail
Twisted ultimatum - searching for a lifeline or a band-aid for your sins in the morning mail

Tow the line - floating islands - they're here and they're now but they're oceans away
Tie them down - baby lions - you'll bleed and you'll plead and you'll beg them to stay
Yeah, but you - you're out of control - your babies are changing - you're out of control

Don't be afraid now - your cover is blown
Don't shed a tear now - your babies are grown