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Introduction
00:31
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2. |
Brightside
04:33
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You really weird me out
Talking round in circles
Looking at the ceiling
I really want to crash down
I'll never understand
It always strikes me dumb
Looking for the big effect
With your phrases set on stun
And when she gets to find me out
I'll walk into a storm
Looking up to heaven & I
Never want to crash down
That's the strangeness of it all
Thinking I was something
Staring at my shoes again and
Suddenly it's cool
Let's have a big day out
Let's take a mystery tour
Going round & round & round
Life is swings & roundabouts
We'll just stand there watching
Waiting for someone to fall
So we can scream ---
There's a welcome on the brightside
It makes me feel so special
In these times
My heart belongs to you
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3. |
Babble
06:08
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Another year like this one
And we'll lock the door for good
You find the truth before you die
I'm wishing that we could
It has been a long long time
I don't think time's been kind
The cracks have cut your winning smile
The strength has gone inside
You in your small corner
You're my friend & we don't care
We'll make the most of this today
The driver says we're nearly there
Babble on & on & on
Have you faith in Jesus?
Do you believe in magick?
Will it all be heaven
When we hit the ground?
Take me by the hand you dreamer
Lead me to the hidden doors
My head will spin my lungs will burn
My eyes are staring at the floor
Saying stuff that we don't mean
Babylon & on & on
Show us all your new tattoo
We haven't got too long
We'll talk again tomorrow
Now I'll find my way to bed
We'll see clearly in the morning
We'll remember what you said
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4. |
Closing Down
04:24
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This world is closing down forever
This place has really had its day
We'll close our eyes & turn out the lights
'Cos there's nothing really left to say
I see sadness in your eyes tonight
Tears where once was laughter
We got the edge of years of darkness
When we wanted happy ever after
I stumble through the darkest days
Thinking of you always
But there's no sense in my sleeping anymore
If I cannot dream of you
My heart is only beating
For the days we are together
My eyes they don't see anything at all
Until I'm seeing you
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5. |
Degeneration Game
05:17
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And I really thought we'd made it
I thought that we had won the game
We're on the pitch & we think it's over
Now it's looking just the same
And as the day degenerates
And every tired muscle aches
You cross your heart & you hope to die
You close your eyes & you wonder why
Baby says as baby does she does
And baby knows the things that baby was
And baby wants it all & baby knows
And baby loves the world where baby goes
And she's a bright & shining star
And God knows what she thinks you are
Your mind is bending from the strain
Your thoughts are twisting round again
And as your life degenerates
And every burning muscle aches
You cross the road & you hope to die
You curse your luck & you wonder why
I want to be a shining star
And I know what I think you are
Falling over from the strain
My head is twisting 'round again
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6. |
Poison
03:10
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Sit me at your table hallelujah
In this feeding frenzy be a star
Serve me with your thoughts & aspirations
I never thought that you would get this far
Fill my head with worms of sugar sweetness
Feed my mouth with food that has no name
Can I survive the poison of your lies dear?
You're dressed to kill with words designed to maim
Throw to me some crumbs of sudden comfort
Wash me down with wine that has no end
Smash the glasses throw them in the fire dear
This hunger will be yours to feed again
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7. |
Butterfly of Love
03:11
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You might wake up some mornin'
To the sound of something moving past your window in the wind
And if you're quick enough to rise
You'll catch a fleeting glimpse of someone's fading shadow
Out on the new horizon
You may see the floating motion of a distant pair of wings
And if the sleep has left your ears
You might hear footsteps running through an open meadow
Don't be concerned, it will not harm you
It's only me pursuing somethin' I'm not sure of
Across my dreams with nets of wonder
I chase the bright elusive butterfly of love
You might have heard my footsteps
Echo softly in the distance through the canyons of your mind
I might have even called your name
As I ran searching after something to believe in
You might have seen me runnin'
Through the long-abandoned ruins of the dreams you left behind
If you remember something there
That glided past you followed close by heavy breathin'
Don't be concerned, it will not harm you
It's only me pursuing somethin' I'm not sure of
Across my dreams with nets of wonder
I chase the bright elusive butterfly of love
Across my dreams with nets of wonder
I chase the bright elusive butterfly of love
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8. |
Stephen
04:09
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Stephen smiles & Simon says
That something seems to trouble him
When he says he feel no pain
He'll never see his home again
Stephen's thinking of those days
He thought would never end
Now he wants to close his eyes
And dream it all again
Roll on the days when we can fly together
Send in the clowns they need to keep me smiling
These days seem to last for ever & ever
I lie awake and dream in a night never ending
Breathing in those final moments
Taking in the chilling air
Stephen's life will slip away
And he can sleep forever
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9. |
Time to Time
04:22
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I'm half asleep & half undone
Spending too much time alone
I'm up with the lark down from the start
Life passes overhead
We never get the sun 'round here
But the rain comes down in rivers
I can hear the birds from time to time
When the wind blows warm I smell the flowers
I think I hear you
Sometimes I watch the sky for hours
and now I think I've lost my way
I used to have it all they say
I think I'm losing you now?
I think I saw you yesterday?
Tomorrow you were gone
I've looked everywhere man
I stumble fall & then I'm gone
I've been looking everywhere
I've looked everywhere man
I've been everywhere
Give us this day our daily grind
Hello I think I've lost my mind
I'm up with the lark I'm down in the dark
Life passes overhead
We never got the joke 'round here but the tears came down in rivers
I can hear your words from time to time
When the wind blows warm we'll watch the sky-y-y
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10. |
Come on Angel
06:16
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Oh you dizzy thing
Everyone thinks that you are crazy
Reaching out like an angel
Trying to catch the sun
And no-one ever understands
You're trying to save the world
You're trying to save us all
And they laughed at you
So you never said another word
Come on angel
The world is learning
Come on angel
The world is burning
Come on angel
The world is turning
Come on angel
It'll come round again
And all the rain in the world
And all the tears in the world
Through miles & miles of leaden skies
You're reaching for the stars
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11. |
On & On
03:24
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And when she takes the fruit
She only eats the skin
She wants some attention
Some intervention
Here's looking down to a hole in the ground
Here's waking up with the room going 'round
Here's to the years to wherever they're gone
Here's to the reason you found to go on
And when she takes the fruit
She only eats the skin
She needs some attention
Some reinvention
She knows that it's not heaven
She knows it might be hell
I don't think you can hear me
I don't think you believe me
What you say is what you think
And what you think is what you know
What you know is what you're doing
And what you do is where you go
Head in the clouds in your home underground
The days that you lost in the dream that you found
These are the things that you knew all along
It's the same song going on & on & on
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12. |
Home Sweet Home
05:26
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Another long night drifts by
In a town that spits in your face
Where no-one trusts his friend at all
Did God give us this place?
Is this your life?
Is this the day you're living for?
Is this your life?
Is this the one you've waited for?
The neighbours are shouting the odds again
And someone's setting fire
To something for a laugh
We'll watch the glow on their faces
And there'll be glass on the stairs tomorrow
The wind will chill a lullaby
Someone is sick in the corner
Someone is stealing your dreams tonight
Empty bottles are thrown at the moon
Curses are thrown at the stars
Sleep through this if you will my child
And you can sleep forever
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13. |
Dreech
03:42
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Endless grey skies
Monday morning
Waiting for the bus
I must be mad
Dreech
What a life this is
It just goes on forever
Rain rain rain rain rain
Maybe I'm just dreaming
Soaked to the skin
Frozen to the bone
Waiting for the bus
To nowhere
Dreech
I just want to be out of here
What a life this is
And who the hell is Elliott Ness?
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14. |
Goodbye
01:11
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Bacchanalian Revel International UK
This is a restoration page of the '90's cassette label run by Rik Albatros from 1994 to 2000.
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