Thinking of a different time Palestine a modern problem Bounty and your wealth in land Terror in a best laid plan
Watching them come and go Tomorrows and the yesterdays oh ho Christians and the unbelievers Hanging by the cross and nail oh ho
But if you pray all your sins are hooked upon the sky Pray and the heathen lie will disappear oh ho Prayers they hide the saddest view (Believing the strangest things, loving the alien) And your prayers they break the sky in two (Believing the strangest things, loving the alien) You pray till the break of dawn
My head is spinning and my legs are weak Goose-step dancing, can't hear myself speak Hope in the eyes of the ugly girls That settle for the lies of the last chances When slow motion drunks pick wallflower dancers
You come here looking for the right to glory Go back home with a hard luck story I can't hardly wait around 'Till the weekend come to town
Play one more for my radio sweetheart Hide your love, hide your love Though we are so far apart You gotta hide your love 'Cause that's the way the whole thing started I wish we had never parted
Radio is a sound salvation Radio is cleaning up the nation They say you better listen to the voice of reason But they don't give you any choice 'cause they think that it's treason. So you had better do as you are told. You better listen to the radio.
Narrow daylight entered my room Shining hours were brief Winter is over Summer is near Are we stronger than we believe?
I walked through halls of reputation Among the infamous too As the camera clings to the common thread Beyond all vanity Into a gaze to shoot you through
Is the kindness we count upon Hidden in everyone?
I stepped out in a sunlit grove Although deep down I wished it would rain Washing away all the sadness and tears That will never fall so heavily again
Is the kindness we count upon Hidden in everyone
I stood there in the salt spray air Felt wind sweeping over my face I ran up through the rocks to the old wooden cross It's a place where I can find some peace
Narrow daylight entered my room Shining hours were brief Winter is over Summer is near Are we stronger than we believe?
We met in the summer and walked 'til the fall And breathless we talked, it was tongues. Despite what they'll say, it wasn't youth, we hit the truth
Faces of strummer that fell from your wall And was left were they hung So sweet and bitter, they're what we found So drink them down and
Walk out to winter, swear i'll be there. Chill will wake you, high and dry You'll wonder why. Walk out to winter, swear i'll be there. Chance is buried just below the blinding snow.
(Roddy again
and High land hard rain is still the better album)
This could be the very minute I'm aware I'm alive All these places feel like home
With a name I'd never chosen I can make my first steps As a child of 25
This is the straw, final straw in the Roof of my mouth as I lie to you Just because I'm sorry doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it at the time
You're the only thing that I love It scares me more every day On my knees I think clearer
Goodness I saw it coming Or at least I'll claim I did But in truth I'm lost for words
What have I done it's too late for that What have become truth is nothing yet A simple mistake starts the hardest time I promise I'll do anything you ask...this time
Snow girl Snowy girl Won't you take me down Because I'm coming down But is there anything there Everything there Everything happy with My little snow girl Snowy girl I pick up the picture of you You pick up the picture of me I pick up the picture of you Won't you take me down I need to be your clown, yeah But is there anything wrong Weather's all gone Anyone listening to my little snow girl Snowy girl Everything pretty Everything pale Every little touch of a rose in the mail Only one girl, she's laying in the snow Let me have a lean on your little elbow When we kiss, we kiss with laughter Snow girl
Dreamed I was an Eskimo Frozen wind began to blow Under my boots and around my toes The frost that bit the ground below It was a hundred degrees below zero...
And my mama cried And my mama cried Nanook, a-no-no Nanook, a-no-no Don't be a naughty Eskimo Save your money, don't go to the show
Well I turned around and I said "Oh, oh" Oh Well I turned around and I said "Oh, oh" Oh Well I turned around and I said "Ho, Ho" And the northern lights commenced to glow And she said, with a tear in her eye "Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow" "Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow"
Beneath this snowy mantle cold and clean The unborn grass lies waiting for its coat to turn to green The snowbird sings the song he always sings And speaks to me of flowers that will bloom again in spring
When I was young my heart was young then, too Anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do But now I feel such emptiness within For the thing that I want most in life's the thing that I can't win
CHORUS Spread your tiny wings and fly away And take the snow back with you Where it came from on that day The one I love forever is untrue And if I could you know that I would Fly away with you
The breeze along the river seems to say That he'll only break my heart again should I decide to stay So, little snowbird, take me with you when you go To that land of gentle breezes where the peaceful waters flow
CHORUS
Yeah, if I could I know that I would fl-y-y-y-y away with you
Hang onto your hopes my friend That's an easy thing to say But if your hopes should pass away Simply pretend, that you can build them again
Look around grass is high fields are ripe It's the springtime of my life Seasons change with their scenery Weaving time in a tapestry Won't you stop and remember me
Look around Leaves are brown and the sky Is a Hazy Shade of Winter
Look around leaves are brown There's a patch of snow on the ground
The color of the sky as far as I can see is coal grey. Lift my head from the pillow and then fall again. With a shiver in my bones just thinking about the weather. A quiver in my lips as if I might cry. Well by the force of will my lungs are filled and so I breathe. Lately it seems this big bed is where I never leave. Shiver in my bones just thinking about the weather. Quiver in my voice as I cry, "What a cold and rainy day. Where on earth is the sun hid away." I hear the sound of a noon bell chime. Now I'm far behind. You've put in 'bout half a day while here I lie with a shiver in my bones just thinking about the weather. A quiver in my lip as if I might cry, "What a cold and rainy day. Where on earth is the sun hid away?"
when your love's flown out the window and the pain comes through the door once again you've missed the boat and you're stranded on the shore, And you find out that what you had was never yours at all, friends and lovers that you knew so well will never take your calls So....... you blame the weather, oh-oh, blame the weather, oh-oh, blame the weather, oh-oh
Comments
Overrun by th eChinese line
with the boys from the Mersey and the Thames and the Tyne
although did like the analysis of Chris with Gwyn that he was so outclassed you had to shout for him
"go on my son")
XL!
Palestine a modern problem
Bounty and your wealth in land
Terror in a best laid plan
Watching them come and go
Tomorrows and the yesterdays oh ho
Christians and the unbelievers
Hanging by the cross and nail oh ho
But if you pray all your sins are hooked upon the sky
Pray and the heathen lie will disappear oh ho
Prayers they hide the saddest view
(Believing the strangest things, loving the alien)
And your prayers they break the sky in two
(Believing the strangest things, loving the alien)
You pray till the break of dawn
Goose-step dancing, can't hear myself speak
Hope in the eyes of the ugly girls
That settle for the lies of the last chances
When slow motion drunks pick wallflower dancers
You come here looking for the right to glory
Go back home with a hard luck story
I can't hardly wait around
'Till the weekend come to town
Play one more for my radio sweetheart
Hide your love, hide your love
Though we are so far apart
You gotta hide your love
'Cause that's the way the whole thing started
I wish we had never parted
doesn't follow
but can't leave Elv unanswered
can't tell you how many times I've seen HIm
and he's not tall either Bison)
Radio is cleaning up the nation
They say you better listen to the voice of reason
But they don't give you any choice
'cause they think that it's treason.
So you had better do as you are told.
You better listen to the radio.
Shining hours were brief
Winter is over
Summer is near
Are we stronger than we believe?
I walked through halls of reputation
Among the infamous too
As the camera clings to the common thread
Beyond all vanity
Into a gaze to shoot you through
Is the kindness we count upon
Hidden in everyone?
I stepped out in a sunlit grove
Although deep down I wished it would rain
Washing away all the sadness and tears
That will never fall so heavily again
Is the kindness we count upon
Hidden in everyone
I stood there in the salt spray air
Felt wind sweeping over my face
I ran up through the rocks to the old
wooden cross
It's a place where I can find some peace
Narrow daylight entered my room
Shining hours were brief
Winter is over
Summer is near
Are we stronger than we believe?
Nice one Buney
( mrs Elvis Costello btw - Diana Krall)
And breathless we talked, it was tongues.
Despite what they'll say, it wasn't youth, we hit the truth
Faces of strummer that fell from your wall
And was left were they hung
So sweet and bitter, they're what we found
So drink them down and
Walk out to winter, swear i'll be there.
Chill will wake you, high and dry
You'll wonder why.
Walk out to winter, swear i'll be there.
Chance is buried just below the blinding snow.
(Roddy again
and High land hard rain is still the better album)
not keen
but then not a huge pogues fan either
they supported him on one of the many toours I've seen - 85ish - and my sister went to see them
and cos they started by shouting at the audience "feck off" she told me that Elvis C was supported by the feck offs )
not 85 tours
obviously
And darkness falls
The blanket of winter
Leaves no light at all
You search for shelter
To calm the storm
Shaking with an instinct
Just to stay warm
But I'd walk through the snow barefoot
If you'd open up your door
I'd walk through the snow barefoot
You hear the howling
Of dogs and wind
Stirring up the secrets
That are frozen within
The ice will haunt you
It lays so deep
Locking up inside you
The dreams that you keep
This wind ... through my soul ... blows cold
I'm aware I'm alive
All these places feel like home
With a name I'd never chosen
I can make my first steps
As a child of 25
This is the straw, final straw in the
Roof of my mouth as I lie to you
Just because I'm sorry doesn't mean
I didn't enjoy it at the time
You're the only thing that I love
It scares me more every day
On my knees I think clearer
Goodness I saw it coming
Or at least I'll claim I did
But in truth I'm lost for words
What have I done it's too late for that
What have become truth is nothing yet
A simple mistake starts the hardest time
I promise I'll do anything you ask...this time
#9snow patrol)
Snowy girl
Won't you take me down
Because I'm coming down
But is there anything there
Everything there
Everything happy with
My little snow girl
Snowy girl
I pick up the picture of you
You pick up the picture of me
I pick up the picture of you
Won't you take me down
I need to be your clown, yeah
But is there anything wrong
Weather's all gone
Anyone listening to my little snow girl
Snowy girl
Everything pretty
Everything pale
Every little touch of a rose in the mail
Only one girl, she's laying in the snow
Let me have a lean on your little elbow
When we kiss, we kiss with laughter
Snow girl
Dreamed I was an Eskimo
Frozen wind began to blow
Under my boots and around my toes
The frost that bit the ground below
It was a hundred degrees below zero...
And my mama cried
And my mama cried
Nanook, a-no-no
Nanook, a-no-no
Don't be a naughty Eskimo
Save your money, don't go to the show
Well I turned around and I said "Oh, oh" Oh
Well I turned around and I said "Oh, oh" Oh
Well I turned around and I said "Ho, Ho"
And the northern lights commenced to glow
And she said, with a tear in her eye
"Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow"
"Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow"
Beneath this snowy mantle cold and clean
The unborn grass lies waiting for its coat to turn to green
The snowbird sings the song he always sings
And speaks to me of flowers that will bloom again in spring
When I was young my heart was young then, too
Anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do
But now I feel such emptiness within
For the thing that I want most in life's the thing that I can't win
CHORUS
Spread your tiny wings and fly away
And take the snow back with you
Where it came from on that day
The one I love forever is untrue
And if I could you know that I would
Fly away with you
The breeze along the river seems to say
That he'll only break my heart again should I decide to stay
So, little snowbird, take me with you when you go
To that land of gentle breezes where the peaceful waters flow
CHORUS
Yeah, if I could I know that I would fl-y-y-y-y away with you
Hang onto your hopes my friend
That's an easy thing to say
But if your hopes should pass away
Simply pretend, that you can build them again
Look around grass is high fields are ripe
It's the springtime of my life
Seasons change with their scenery
Weaving time in a tapestry
Won't you stop and remember me
Look around
Leaves are brown and the sky
Is a Hazy Shade of Winter
Look around leaves are brown
There's a patch of snow on the ground
The color of the sky as far as I can see is coal grey.
Lift my head from the pillow and then fall again.
With a shiver in my bones just thinking about the weather.
A quiver in my lips as if I might cry.
Well by the force of will my lungs are filled and so I breathe.
Lately it seems this big bed is where I never leave.
Shiver in my bones just thinking about the weather.
Quiver in my voice as I cry,
"What a cold and rainy day. Where on earth is the sun hid away."
I hear the sound of a noon bell chime. Now I'm far behind.
You've put in 'bout half a day while here I lie
with a shiver in my bones just thinking about the weather.
A quiver in my lip as if I might cry,
"What a cold and rainy day. Where on earth is the sun hid away?"
when your love's flown out the window
and the pain comes through the door
once again you've missed the boat
and you're stranded on the shore,
And you find out that what you had was never
yours at all,
friends and lovers that you knew so well will never take your calls
So....... you blame the weather, oh-oh, blame the weather, oh-oh, blame the weather, oh-oh