A lonely boring job Mincing words to fall asleep Expertise on air guitar So your fingers never bleed
I know you think you could do this without me But I know I could do without you Failed ambitions held up on tridents Hope predictions of future come true
All the tin can buildings rattle the sidewalk All the cars upturned talk like the trains Ten thousand red balloons over New York Hope the bridges all burn your life away
So you banked a friend front row Took the marrow from disease White collar criminal So his fingers never bleed
I know you think you could do this without me But I know I could do without you Failed ambitions held up on tridents Hope predictions of future come true
All the tin can buildings rattle the sidewalk All the cars upturned talk like the trains Ten thousand red balloons over New York Hope the bridges all burn your life away
I’ve seen gypsies who made it all the way and kept going Kept rolling with nowhere to go Nowhere to go As far as I’ve seen from the bush The wilderness to every known city I’ve been to Saudi Arabia, dug up Calcutta So where to Mozambique, Istanbul, Rio, Rome Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Taiwan, Great Britain Belfast to the desert, Spain, Some little bitty island in the middle of the Pacific All the way back home into my town Into my town Bitching, complaining from some ṗeople who ain’t got shit to eat Bitching moment, so many people you know they got
What are we doing? We’re sitting on a ruin What are we doing? We’re sitting on a ruin
As far as I’ve seen from the bush The wilderness to every known city I’ve been to Saudi Arabia, dug up Calcutta So where to Mozambique, Istanbul, Rio, Rome Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Taiwan, Great Britain Belfast to the desert, Spain, Some little bitty island in the middle of the Pacific All the way back home into my town Into my town Bitching, complaining from some ṗeople who ain’t got shit to eat Bitching moment, so many people you know they got
What are we doing? We’re sitting on a ruin What are we doing? We’re sitting on a ruin What are we doing? We’re sitting on a ruin What are we doing? We’re sitting on a ruin
(Lost boys ) Other side of the tracks Scuzz outsiders Nothing to loose Strike of midnighters Lost paradisers True black and blues No shoes, flat tires Broke out the pen Blood on barbed wire Safe in your home Gated zone terrorizers Nowhere to go Far as i can get hitchhikers (Lost boys)
Fuck a job might have to rob A don't know just to get by word On the road for lifers Bullets in the fire Check the chain link Swayze I'm slumming Let 'em know who the fuck we are Low and dirty lost boys Coming out the cuts Like your favorite scar Crawlin on tile, can't stand up Been a while, Komodo gut How to take it How to give a fuck How to live with pain How to get you cut How longs this been goin on Man shit no way to tell too far gone go get those flames from hell bring 'em here Don't trip no Ill handle this On some scandalous Inland empire Los Angeles Anti ego propaganda shit Who's coming up Who's loosing ground 2012 I'm shady now, running game on every thang in town It's such a long way down It's such a long way down (Lost boys) It's such a long way down
Brown paper bagging asphalt scraping all talk no action, what I'm waiting weak tongue wagging Stray dog begging Like don't hurt me Yeah right, I'm saying Beware you have been warned, the barrels still warm, ease up off that lip or step How quick a bitch fit to get checked mate One false move’ll get you Set straight
It's such a long way down It's such a long way down It's such a long way down It's such a long way down Ride through the sky of black mist Ride through the sky of black mist
A mild month for weather but a late storm sees The first berries torn from the rowan trees Their bodies stain the stone in Waterlight Park Small deaths, unmourned by the gathering dark
And as you might suppose, my mind finds a start Turn on the radio and dreams they drift apart Here in London town where Every child's a Herod to himself and others I hear a lonesome whistle
I watch and the only answer made Comes from a black-suited cannonade Pounding the corpses with a stern expression Shaming the loud blood's indiscretion
And as you might suppose, I'm that bleeding heart I believe in something more than you can fix upon a chart Here in London town where Every man's a Judas to himself and others I hear a lonesome whistle
But there is another answer, now I see In the up-thrown arms of the rowan trees Crazed with dismay by what the storm has done Cradling in shadow their fallen sons
And as you might suppose, I've a broken heart And as you might suppose, I've a broken heart And as you might suppose, I've a broken heart And as you might suppose, I've a broken heart
It was a bright day in the city today Everything was sinking says Sport would come on sunday The old school would do And the traffic grew Upon the Westway We all sat watching comets lost in town Shining up above me The jet fuel inferno Clouds above where's the money always come first And the sirens sing
So here is the day we sweep shaft through the ships 'Cause men in yellow jackets Putting adverts inside my dreams And all the ladies fawned And the whole world gone Fallen under the spell of the changing ways We all communicate So standing out shortwaves Somewhere here out in space And the rains hail above And the hearts on fire Under the Westway
Give me magic carrot city above Still standing although it's cold And the flags coming down The old row sound Just like a love song Falling away I'm feeling down too Paradise not lost, it's in the earth I apologize But I am not a saint But I am gonna sing
Hallelujah Singing out loud And sing it to you In my lost limousine And wash me off the Westway
In the center of the city was a statue and her twin And together they watched over everything They saw me when I stumbled and they watched you help me stand I'd swear Cecelia and her sister had it all planned Then one morning I was walking from my window to your door Well I nearly hit the ground with what I saw Cecelia had been broken while her sister had been spared And the vandals had scattered the pieces everywhere
And all it made me wonder what kind of twisted mind Would ever hurt her so thoughtless and unkind But a monster so cruel can't be that hard to find boys
So I started wearing warpaint and I gathered all my friends For Cecelia we'd be hunters 'till the end She was built for a perfect picture but she came to represent Though I guess I never understood exactly what it meant I know Cecilia and her sister were just statues made of stone But I still missed her and now her sister's all alone No that just won't do So let's raid the vandal's homes boys
So we ventured out at sunrise with our torches and our spears And our shotguns and our fears and our carefully hidden tears For Cecelia, Cecelia Now I'm thinking of the moment when we can look them in the eye And make them sorry 'cause tonight they're gonna die We'll shoot them up dead Leave their bodies where they lie boys
So now we're following the pieces of Cecilia to the door Every shattered limb repeatedly reminding us of what we're searching for And the sleepers have woken for now they have an aim Yes they're quite aware of the cold hard fact That the city's loss could be their gain They are dreaming of, the feeling of a trophy in their arms A hero's welcome claiming women with their charms I'm sorry if I hurt you You know I swear I meant no harm baby
So the trail keeps on turning as we wonder through the streets I keep looking at the pieces of Cecelia at my feet But the strangest thing occurs to me When I stop to look around Oh I'd swear we are returning to the center of the town Yes we're back here where we started Where Cecelia used to stand but her sister looks different Please, tell me boys if you can Is that a smile on her face? Is that a hammer in her hand?
Iʼm tearing up, across your face
Move dust through the light
To find your name
It's only faint
This is not a place
Not yet awake, I'm raised to make
Still alive for you, love
Still alive for you, love
Still alive for you, love
In a matter of a month
From forests, for the soft
Gotta know been lead aloft
So rid of all your stories
What I know, what it is, is boring, wire it up
Now breaking new ground
They heard me singing and they told me to stop Quit these pretentious things and just punch the clock These days my life I feel it has no purpose But late at night the feelings swim to the surface Cause on the surface the city lights shine They're calling at me, come and find your kind
Sometimes I wonder if the world's so small That we can never get away from the sprawl Living in the sprawl Dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains And there's no end in sight I need the darkness someone please cut the lights
We rode our bikes to the nearest park Sat under the swings, we kissed in the dark We shield our eyes from the police lights We run away but we don't know why And like a mirror these city lights shine They're screaming at us, we don't need your kind
Sometimes I wonder if the world's so small That we can never get away from the sprawl Living in the sprawl Dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains And there's no end in sight I need the darkness someone please cut the lights
They heard me singing and they told me to stop Quit these pretentious things and just punch the clock Sometimes I wonder if the world's so small Can we ever get away from the sprawl? Living in the sprawl Dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains And there's no end in sight I need the darkness someone please cut the lights I need the darkness someone please cut the lights
This is your nightmare calling It's the downside of life in the city Trouble will always find you That's the problem of life in the city It's always a pity That someone goes under
I'll show you the worse side of life That you thought was forgotten forever It's not that it's evil there But it's always lurking around Like a child of the Jago A child of the Jago
The city's a cemetary Everywhere that you dig is another Open it up beneath you And the bad things are pulling you under And once you go under You're gone and forgotten
Some of the symmetry Between the rooftop pools in the sewer It's easy to disappear When you know that nobody would miss you Like a child of the Jago A child of the Jago
Theres always been weary souls That look like they're straight out of fiction Wretched and weather-beaten With the wind blowing rain in their faces It always disgraces In most modern places
There's always a worse kind of place Where it will shock even the sick and the twisted Pocket is there for the picking And the clothes are for living on church day The difference is minor To a child of the Jago
The future is medieval The future is medieval The future is medieval The future is medieval
The future is medieval The future is medieval The future is medieval The future is medieval
Don't you cherish me to sleep
Never keep your eyelids clipped
Hold me for the pops and clicks
I was only for the father's crib
Hair, old, long along
Your neck onto your shoulder blades
Always keep that message taped
Cross your breasts you won't erase
I was only for your very space
Hip, under nothing
Propped up by your other one
Face way from the sun
Just have to keep a dialogue
Teach our bodies, haunt the cause
I was only trying to spell a loss
Joy, it's all founded
Pincher with the skin inside
You pinned me with your black sphere eyes
You know that all the rope's untied
I was only for to die beside
So itʼs storming on the lake
Little waves our bodies break
There's a fire going out
But there's really nothing to the south
Swollen orange and light let through
Your one piece swimmer stuck to you
Sold, I'm ever
Open ears and open eyes
Wake up to your starboard bride
Who goes in and then stays inside
Oh the demons come, they can subside
Shooting from the hip
About our faith and love
I see it in your faces thin as shadow
See me as I figure in your late night plan
See me as I'm cocooned up in Badlands The side effects of cruising at the speed of life
The side effects of living in temptation
When only one star is waiting up on all of us
You'll see me as I'm cocooned up in Badlands
And how do I feel living in the eighties
And do I get to see the light of day
Kyoto in the snow but heaven's far away
Sending their love, passion parade
Hunter and the hunted
With me first time can never lie
They were young, they were brave, they were the honest set
The greatest show on earth is here tonight, love
See me as a figure in the late night plan
See me as I'm cocooned up in Badlands
The side effects of cruising at the speed of life
The side effects of living in temptation
When only one star is waiting up on all of us
You'll see me as I'm cocooned up in Badlands
And how do I feel living in the eighties
And do I get to see the light of day
Kyoto in the snow but heaven's far away
Sending their love, passion parade
Hunter and the hunted
With me first time can never lie
Only with you
Only with you
Time can never lie
Life moves so fast
Only with you
Life moves so fast
Hunter and the hunted
Only with you
Life moves so fast
And when I'm with you
Life moves so fast
Through the eyes of love
So fast
Through the eyes of love
Wake up in New York
Put a comb through your hair
Don't you ever want to lie down
When there's no-one else around
I want to say this to you
I know I hurt you
You know you hurt me too
Don't you ever want to lie down
Close your eyes and leave the ground
I want to get hold of you
I'll meet you in New York
By the drugstore on First Avenue And then we will lie down
With the buildings all around
I want to say this to you
I want to say this to you
