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3. In The Clouds

Bright in flames
They're melting with the snow
Precious wishes
Heavenwards they go
Secrets keep, no-one need ever know

When you're in the clouds
You're just a breath away

Painted words are whispered
It's no prayer
Whispering words
Are drifting like the snow

4. Martha's Harbour

I sit by the harbour
The sea calls to me
I hide in the water
But l need to breathe

You are an ocean wave my love
Crashing at the bow
I am a galley slave my love
If only I would find out the way
To sail you...
Maybe I'll just stow away...

I've been run aground
So sad for a sailor
I felt safe and sound
But needed the danger

You are an ocean wave my love...

5. Every Angel

On our own trip 
On our emerald ship we sail away
The ocean holds a thousand tales untold 
With this love
It's easy come and easy go
Just like the way we were
Before the fall 

I don't see the reason why
Every angel must fly 
I'm betrayed by the tear in my eye 
In my eye...

Hey angel
Don't be afraid to earth your heart
When I see love descending like a dove
Confusion... the song you hear the blackbird sing
You fly to the sun
And you're going to burn your wings

...You're flying too high
Just see the reason why
The angel must fly
No more tears in my eye
We can live in the sky
High...

6. Wild Hearted Woman

Baby sings the blues... for you
She may get happy  later
Baby cries  for comfort
For something to surround her

 And when she sings it
 You believe her 
 How everyone she ever knew 
 Would leave her spinning 'round
 All on fire

Another wild hearted woman
Another child with the stars in her eyes
A wild hearted woman
And she's falling... falling

Baby's lost her soul... to you
Call her a fallen angel
Stormy weather forever
With every friend a stranger 

Lost little girl
In hurricanes of love and pain
Locked in her world
Of daisy chains and love and pain
Trying to find peace of mind

Another wild hearted woman...

7. What Kind Of Fool

Can't see the wood for all of the trees
Can't hear the wind for the breeze that whispers
Voice in your head... you like what it said
So what can you do but listen to it? 

  What kind of fool
  Lays all that's precious to waste?
  What kind of fool
  Leaves all their treasure to rust in the rain?
  They'll need it again when the sky clears
  What kind of fool
  Won't discover the jewel
  'Til the dust clears ?
  Fools like us...

Fools who want more than they've treasured before
Wanting the dawn of the brightest morning
Reach for the stars 'cause they're sweeter by far
Than the moon 'though she's brighter
And closer to you...

8. Road To Your Soul

Behind me, a caravan weighed down
With bad dreams and ghosts of apologies
There's no room, no room inside
For a hitcher with a suitcase of pride

Before me, a stallion pulls like the moon
Sun through the trees tells me I'll be there soon
The wind cries, 'cause she saw me crying
About the times I find myself lying.

I must have fallen by the wayside
The wheels crack beneath my foolish pride
Give me a sign in your direction
And show me to road to your soul.

Unhitch the wagon 'cause it hinders me
I'll hitch my skirts up and go carelessly,
Barefoot and riding bareback
Wind in my hair, it feels like honesty.

Close the chapter on a journey...
Burn the book and give me sanctuary,
In your arms it feels like...
In your arms it feels like...
It feels like home.

9. Scarlet

Dress me in scarlet
Ribbons and bows so everyone knows
I'm hiding a face
That hasn't the grace to go free.
Dress me in shadows
Sad April skies have opened my eyes
To the lie that I live
And given the river away
I'll change these clothes if I want to, and I do

I think that I've found out
What no-one's about to tell me
I think that I've found out
I don't wear scarlet well.

Waiting before me
Poets and painters may say;
"When will you stumble our way
Kick off your red shoes and fly now"
I'll die for their words if I want to, and I do.

Always before me
Poets and sages may say;
"We've been lamenting your fall
And carving it all into stone here
And skimming them into the river, just for you..."

I think that I've found out
What no-one's about to tell me
I think that I've found out
The place where angels fell from...
I think that I've found out
I don't wear scarlet well.

10. December

There's a Victorian tin, I keep my memories in,
I found it up in the attic.
After looking inside, I find the things that I'm hiding...
The leaves saved from a mistletoe kiss,
Only nostalgia has me feeling like this...
Like I miss you,
It must be the time of year.

Remember December,
It's like a wintergreen beside a diamond stream,
Remember December,
A fall of snow and the afterglow.
It could be taking our breath away
But the years stand in the way,
Remember December,
How does it make you feel inside ?

Beneath a Valentine, I see a locket is shining
I think it must be the wine,
Makes me feel it's all real.
Where nothing seems to rhyme
To breathe life into the dust of a keepsake
I might as well try to fix a chain on a snowflake
Or a heartache,
It must be the time of year.
Remember...

Should I feel this alone, should I pick up the phone
Should I call you up and wish you 'Happy Christmas' ?
I feel so alone, should I pick up the phone
Take my heart in my hand
And ask if you remember...

11. Farewell Mr. Sorrow

Six o'clock, all the closing shops
And the rainbows on the pavements
Of a sleepy town.
October leaves were wept from the trees
In tears of grief and strange relief
And sympathy.... all for me.
Do you remember walking out
The day it rained forever
And you were wondering
If I held dreams of wedding rings
Well, farewell Mr. Sorrow
Tomorrow is my own.

I believe we made a vow
Beside the fireside but I'm sure I lied
When I promised you
That I would never want sing
Along with anything
But for the strings of your guitar
Here you are...

So this is how a Judas kisses
Well, this is my kiss.

12. Strange Way

Were you looking for a sister
Or looking for your mother ?
I was looking for a love inspired
I didn't need a little brother to hold
When the wind blew cold
A string of hearts lie in your wake
You tried to take along for the ride
I must be out of my head
To get strung out on your silver thread

A strange way of showing your love
You had a strange way....

I hear you met a young girl
I hear she is your lover
So when you break her young, sweet heart
She'll find it easy to recover
Not like me, I took you seriously
And for a while I lost my smile,
I lost my way but I found something out....
It's going to take something more than you
To break a spirit like mine

A strange way of showing your love
Just for the thrill of it all
But then the future is blind
Just for the thrill of it all
I'm good at wasting my time
But I'm on my way, I've had enough

The winter comes the wind blows cold....
It isn't forever.

13. The Dreamer

She saw that he closed the door
She stole a look in the guarded book
His prose was a line of crows
On a washing line in the summer time
And the wind blew the crows around
Some made the sky, some hit the ground
She never heard a fuller sound
It comes as no surprise;

She's in love with the dreamer,
So in love with his world.

He had songs you could sing along to
In any time, in any key.
They were jewels in elysian pools
In eternity for all to see
And the water helped the jewels to shine,
Some like the stars and some like wine

In the eyes of earthbound angels
It comes as no surprise...

He makes her close her eyes, 
He helps her paint the skies blue.

And the seventh dream was, so surreal
When the dreamer broke the seventh seal
And butterflies all lost their wheels
It comes as no surprise...

14. Paradise

Like a bird I'm living on the wing and on the run
I'm wondering if paradise was won by the gun
You gather fruit from danger trees
See more than you want to see
Too late, too late...

  We didn't know what it was
  And all we know is we've lost it
  We threw away paradise
  And all we know is we've dreamt it

Will it ever come again
When you call ?
So catch if angels should
Fall in your arms
For every night a reaching hand
A thousand snake mouths open wide
Too late, too late...

  We didn't know what it was
  And all we know is we've lost it
  We threw away paradise
  And all we know is we've dreamt it

Don't know where to go
Don't think you'll find it
I kneel down somewhere 
So maybe they'll find me
You may have your dreams
But heaven you steal
Live by the sword
Live by the gun
Never to rest 
'Til your heaven is won

  We didn't know what it was
  And all we know is we've lost it
  We threw away paradise
  And all we know is we've dreamt it

Gonna get it back
Gonna get it back

Will it ever come again...?

15. Candy Tree

There's a place I know
Where the children go 
Every summer's night.
They run as fast they can
Behind the Raven-Man...
Who shall he invite ?
The rather awkward girl
With the ragged curls
Much to her delight !

  "Come with me to the candy tree
  You need to free your mind...
  Come with me to the candy tree
  And leave it all behind - "

Well it's an underhand
Kind of wonderland -
She can't find the door;
Because he's keeping her as a prisoner,
Lost forevermore.
And now the Queen is red
And she wants her head
Just to keep the law.

  "Come with me to the candy tree...

16. Drowning

Reaching out a hand
There's a hand you want to hold
When the night feels blue
The hand feels cold

The fog takes my breath
But we've got to keep breathing now
Gonna live to tell the tale
Gonna live to tell the tale

The drowning man
And the drowning lady
They're soaked to the skin
Clean like ivy
"I can't let you go" she says,
"Hold me now - keep me alive"

The fog comes down
And stars fall down
The moon leaves the sky 
Can't ask why
Got to keep dreaming
Leave me now
Safely in your arms
Felt like home
I wanna go home now
Gonna live to tell the tale

17. Wild Flowers

The grey of winter falls on us -
How will our garden grow ?
Will all the seeds we've sown
Survive beneath the snow ?
We've been here before,
Wrapped in our regret.
All those winter words,
I want us to forget them...

Seasons may change 
And they hold wild flowers,
Raising their face to the sun.
All that are born from our soft rainshowers
Are wild flowers.

Morning breaks
And no-one wakes;
No bird is here to sing.
So, from the south I wish them back
To brace the spring.
They've flown south before,
It's just the way they live.
For when I try to fly away
Can you forgive me ?

Seasons may change and they hold wild flowers...

18. Theft

I have visions, I have views
And the Sandman in my shoes
Take me dreaming where the waters lie
I have apples in my eyes
I have blackbirds in my pies
I have everything I need
If I had you..

If I had you,
I'd used your arms to fall into
If I had you, 
I'd never had to care
If I had you,
I'd like to see the world the way you do
Like to see the world 
If I had you

I have a splendid tambourine
I have letters from the Queen
Worth a fortune in the dessert
I have ghosts who bring me flowers
I have birds with psychic powers
I have everything I need
If I had you...

19. Different Sky

We keep falling into love
With no reason, no rhyme
We keep falling into love
'Til our tired heart cries
I don't know you
And you don't know me
Time has come to find
Different skies...

The sun and the moon collide
One burning, one reflecting
One fired up in demon red
One pale and interesting
We stand staring into the sun
And then we want to be it
Blindness of moths around a flame
And we can't see it
'Cause I know you
And you know me
And there's the reason why
'Cause I know you
And we know her
Time has come to find...

A different sky,
A different place to shine
A different sky,
Without a reason why
Can't tell is it heaven or hell
Can't tell, I never lie
I can't fool myself,
So I found myself
A different sky

The sky I choose
Is a myriad of ocean blues
And when I think of you
I like to think your sky is blue too
Fireworks and clouds have made us find
A different sky...