TELL TALE HEART

I never understood you

Not gonna start now

But are you who you wish to be and does he

See who I found

Dishing out the cigarettes and miles for free

Was something I used to do when we

Were falling over each other to be together

But I don’t do that anymore

I rode on the wrong side of the law

Crash and burn every night and day

Scaring the whole wide world away

Falling over each other to be together

Not for better

With your tell tale heart

Your tell tale heart

Your tell tale heart

I see that shiny new boy of yours

Wiping his feet before he walks through the door

He’s bringing home the dough from the petrol station

And now he’s kneading it out without a whiff of frustration

But I know you want more than that

You need a criminal and that’s a fact

To go falling over each other to be together

With your tell tale heart

Your tell tale heart

Your tell tale heart

And surely now you’ve learned

Not to cover up the dirt with the grime

And all them lies you sold

From your tell tale heart

From your tell tale heart

Your tell tale heart

Your tell tale heart

PERCHED ON THE SUN

I was lost

I was lost

I was lost and I was drowning

Every wave would rise and climb

Over the ship I had resigned from

All the shores I had designs on

Left me weightless

Like a dove perched on the sun

And to be home

To be home

To be home and to be wanted

Was all I’d ever dreamed

And now I’m found in such surroundings

With both warmth and joy abounding

Still there’s something

That keeps me ticking like a bomb

Keeps me fighting where I’m from

There ain’t nowhere I belong

If it ain’t out on the run

And my love

Oh my love is like a tower

It protects and covers me

There ain’t nothing that could rival

No other taste that I could pine for

Still there’s something

Really something

You know there’s something

That keeps me ticking like a bomb

Keeps me fighting where I’m from

There ain’t nowhere I belong

If it ain’t

If it ain’t

If it ain’t out on the run

WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING

Sugar cane rose again

Stepping up on your sweetness I can’t see

No easy way down

Ain’t one for standing still

Or being told I’ve had my fill

No I can’t see

No easy way down

Comes a time when all these traits go out that window

Feel like a bounty on my head’s been lifted

And thrown into the fire

Without even knowing

Without even knowing how it’s done

In with the old

And out the new

Come and join me I’m with you lets take this chance

Make it come true

We’re all small fry but you gotta try

To live some kind of lie

That ain’t too tough

Or hard to believe

And when the barn is full you know we’ll make our exit

Carve the cool breeze ‘neath the moon

No matter how the dark may rise so boldly

There ain’t no way we can lose

Without even knowing

Without even knowing how it’s done

Saddle on out beyond

Saddle on out beyond all night

Saddle on out beyond

Saddle on out beyond all night

Without even knowing

Without even knowing how it’s done

CHAINED DOWN

On and on

Lord I’ll hold on

Gathering speed

Now I’m taking off

Heading for the blue burning

Flame on high

Waiting for the time when I

May catch light

But the dark is deep

And still descending

Enveloping me in its arms

And I’ve been chained down

Like a dog

Been so brain dead

Staring at the jaws

All this love I

Took from you

Left me nothing left to live for or a cause

No place that I could sing out with my voice

Beyond the closing doors

And on and on

Lord I’ll hold on

Gathering speed

This time

Taking off

But the dark it keeps me from explaining

Why I can’t keep you in my arms

No you can’t ever let it send me

Pillar to post without return

And I’ve been chained down

Like a dog

Been so brain dead

Staring at the jaws

All this love I

Took from you

Has left me nothing left to live for or a cause

No place that I could sing out with my voice

Beyond the closing doors

Let me see what I’m forgetting

Heaven holds for you and I

‘Cos I’ve been chained down

Like a dog

Been so brain dead

Staring at the jaws

All this love I

Took from you

Has left me nothing left to live for or a cause

No water I could fish without being caught

No place that I could sing out with my voice

Beyond the closing doors

POT OF GOLD

I woke up on a pot of gold

And lord I

Lost it all

Hot butter in the pan done gone

By the time the sun had rolled

Way under the earth

Nothing of any worth

Gonna come my way

Gonna come my way

And I stood a while

Just like a child

And taught myself to smile

Too many hung dogging frowns

Living their demons down

I try avoid them all

But I just can’t ignore

When they come my way

When they come my way

But I ain’t gonna die

Die wondering

Ain’t gonna die wondering

No not me

I ain’t gonna die

Die wondering

No never not me

No never not me

And I flew off over there them cliffs

And poured myself a drink

Neither was it weak nor stiff

Just enough to give me a lift now

Over the sea and spray

Moonlight born and raised

Living out my days

Living out my days

But I ain’t gonna die

Die wondering

Ain’t gonna die wondering

No not me

I ain’t gonna die

Die wondering

No never not me

No never not me

GIMME SOME

Priced to sell was the wedding ring

But now no diamonds do remain

One by one they went on to better things

Now he’s back in the ground to shine in vain

If I could stand I’d go digging down

But this old grave keeps spinning round

So gimme some of what you got

And serve it to me while it’s still hot

Gimme some of what you got

And at the meal that followed the burial

He worked so hard at playing it dumb

With guts of steel and somebody else’s lies

He cleared that plate without a single crumb

If I could stand I’d go run him down

But this old room keeps spinning round

So gimme some of what you got

Serve it to me while it’s still hot

Oh Gimme some of what you got

Serve it to me while it’s still hot

Oh Gimme some of what you got

Through the sorest eyes them flashing lights

Hit me with all their might

Still i’m just trying to find my way back

But this old world keeps spinning round

So gimme some of what you got

Serve it to me while it’s still hot

Oh Gimme some of what you got

Serve it to me while it’s still hot

Oh gimme some of what you got

Oh gimme some of what you got

Serve it to me while it’s still hot

Oh Gimme some of what you got

And serve it to me while it’s still hot

Gimme some of what you got

Gimme some of what you got

AIN’T THAT CRAZY

Ain’t that crazy

Ain’t that mad

Turn down a mother’s love don’t it make you feel sad

You’ll be wishing

You were wrong

Ain’t no comfort no in an honest song

And time is like a petrol can

Poured on a memory’s flame

The way you see yesterday now

Never was the way it went down

Ain’t that crazy

Ain’t that mad

Careful lifting

That heavy load

See that it don’t fall down and break your toes

You’ll be crawling

Back on all fours

Looking like a little baby with mucky paws

And pain becomes who you are

Like the hairs on your very own head

The way you see yesterday now

Never was the way it went down

Ain’t that crazy

Ain’t that mad

And pain becomes

Who you are

Withering down in the ground

And time is like a hurricane

Ripping down memory lane

The way you see yesterday now

Never was the way it went down

The way you see yesterday now

Never was the way it went down

I said that the way you see yesterday now

Never was the way it went down

Ain’t that crazy

Ain’t that mad

Ain’t that crazy

Ain’t that mad

PROMENADE

Stood upon a granite wasteland

Spreading out in every direction

If you’re taking it on then you won’t be

Standing for long

Everything has a weak spot

But I forgot to look while the gloves were off

Now they’re guarding the black stuff with all the pain they got

Don’t you know it’s coming round

Don’t you know it’s coming round some day

Don’t you know it’s coming round

Don’t you know it’s coming round

Pouring me out some old days

Drinking them from a clean glass

Let ‘em quench my thirst

Leave me no questions to ask

So I can see some green

Green grass and a ladder that won’t collapse

Under all that weight

All that deadly weight

Don’t you know it’s coming round

Don’t you know it’s coming round some day

Don’t you know it’s coming round

Don’t you know it’s coming round

But I just need to find the keys first

So I can seize a way to lead us

Then we could have a promenade

Instead of wound up barred

From all the places that I see hope

Even my own dying heart

So let me step on the ocean

Let me feel the day

For what it is and not this version

Or tainted cabaret

Don’t you know it’s coming round

Don’t you know it’s coming round some day

Don’t you know it’s coming round

Don’t you know it’s coming round

HANG ‘EM HIGH

Sailing into the infinite

Heart of a terrible mind

I’m diving down

To pull out the plug

Leaving everybody behind

Rolling and somersaulting

Bellyaching all around

From London town to Louisiana

Head in my hands like an also ran

I’m taking my boots off I tell you no lie

Lord I’m gonna hang ‘em high

Hang ‘em high

Hang ‘em high

Hang ‘em high

I’m taking my boots off I tell you no lie

Lord I’m gonna hang ‘em high

Said if god is here

The devil be working the door

Said if god is here

The devil be working the door

Hailing out aloud for Mary an all

Hiding right behind the law for sure

I’m taking my boots off I tell you no lie

Lord I’m gonna hang ‘em high

Hang ‘em high

Hang ‘em high

Hang ‘em high

I’m taking my boots off I tell you no lie

Lord I’m gonna hang ‘em high

Hang ‘em high

Hang ‘em high

Hang ‘em high

Hang ‘em high

London town to Louisiana

Head in my hands like an also ran

I’m taking my boots off I tell you no lie

Lord I’m gonna hang ‘em

Lord I’m gonna hang ‘em

Lord

I’m gonna hang ‘em high

HOW TO BUILD A JAIL

Judging by the locks on your window

And all that silence shrouding out your door

You’ve not been round here

Or some place near

No one saw you leave

Or disappear

And I see that you’ve formed quite the habit

Of staying out of touch

When the heat it gets too much

But there’s a price to pay

For all them flames you left

And this is how

This is when

You build yourself a jail

This is how

You build yourself a jail

With piles of stone you could never own

Or afford to buy someday

Brick by brick

They rise so quick

’Til no one can hear you say

This is how

This is when

You build yourself a jail

Like a bird of prey turning in its wings

These broken blues are all my heart can sing

And the only trick I know is vanishing

This is how

You build yourself a jail

With piles of stone you could never own

Or afford to buy someday

Brick by brick

They rise so quick

’Til no one can hear you say

That this is how

This is when

You build yourself a jail

This is how

This is when

You build yourself a jail

This is how

This is when

You build yourself a jail