1. |
Do What You Must (Live)
04:33
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Somebody call my name,
Call it out in another way,
Do what you must,
Get through the day.
If there's a clouded rage,
Hidden here in a hooded face,
Do what you must,
To get through the day.
Shout it shout it out, shout it out,
Do what you must.
I've worn the mournful vail,
With the dog at the door and the Sunday failure,
In the night,
A dream of grey.
There are a million ways,
To live with the grief of the unexplained,
Do what you must,
Get through the day.
Shout it shout it out, shout it out,
Do what you must.
So dolly where's that sting?
We'll live through this sadness and sing to the hymn,
Through all the dust the stone the rain,
We'll get through the day.
The bells the organ drone,
The soot black stone, the tower, the flag on the pole,
Do what you must,
Get through the day.
Shout it shout it out, shout it out,
Do what you must.
You can't face the morning,
Without the help of the night.
You can't face the morning,
Without the help of the night.
You can't face the morning,
Without the help of the night.
You can't face the future,
Without knowing what's left behind...
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2. |
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I still believe in the lovers entwined
I still believe in the nursery rhyme
I still believe in the appeal on TV
I still believe in the ministry
But every now and again the ripples rock my boat
I just throw up my arms and we get soaked
I still believe in the power of a kiss
I still believe in the birthday wish
I still believe in the birds on the breeze
I still believe in you and me
But every now and again the ripples rock my boat
I just throw up my arms and we get soaked
Throw this clutter overboard
Throw reasons not to out the door
We'll count our blessings and lucky stars
They'll soon outweigh these heavy hearts
I still believe in the magic trick
I still believe in our one bug hit
But every now and again the ripples rock my boat
I just throw up my arms and we get soaked
Throw this clutter overboard
Throw reasons not to out the door
We'll count our blessings and lucky stars
They'll soon outweigh these heavy hearts
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3. |
Jigsaw (Live)
03:38
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Now that you notice
Hits you in the eyes
Now that you notice
And realise
All these pieces missing from your life
Birthdays and funerals
Written on the wall
Things that we cling to
Make sense of it all
All these pieces missing from your life
Now that you know
Now that you see
All of the holes
Of the jigsaw at your feet
Bits of a picture
A kitchen and a wall
Parts of a garden
It could be yours
Holes and hollows scattered through them all
Now that you know
Now that you see
All of the holes
Of the jigsaw at your feet
Now that the morning
Is rising up the sky
All of the bits there
Before your eyes
Jigsaw pieces starting to align
Now when you leave here
I know you’ll realise
All of the picture
Before your eyes
Jigsaw pieces starting to align
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4. |
The Big Wide (Live)
04:54
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Come on come on and shake down those shabby bones.
We're tired and torn, creaking and cracked I know.
When did we last make some time?
Spinning with stars, dreams disregarded.
Days are all full, stuffed and congested.
When did we last make the time,
To be scared of the dark,
Where the gods and monsters hide?
Dust ourselves down.
Show me the way to make me a child again.
We'll be amazed by all we can't name and then,
We can at last stop to breathe,
And be scared of the dark,
Where our mind's got space to dream.
Pick ourselves up,
Dust ourselves down,
If we make ourselves up,
See what we become.
We should take a day or two,
To talk around the things we knew.
They say we can't but maybe we just can.
All of us, well we're not fools,
We know that there are simple truths,
But there's an equal opposite to that.
Maybe it's that gravity
Ain't quite the force it used to be.
The world has lost its simple grip on mass.
Or ones and zeros pile 'em high,
To reach the tallest, clearest sky,
But they won't feel the things we've felt for love.
Whenever there are two or more,
The power of a cannon roar,
When one and one are so much more than that.
Knuckle down and buckle up,
And fly right where the morning comes,
They say we can't but maybe we just can.
We're ready for the big wide,
We're ready for the dark night,
We're ready for what just might…
We're ready for the big wide.
So come on all you good souls.
Come on all you good souls.
Are you ready for the big wide?
Are you ready for the big wide world?
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5. |
Lucky Soul (Live)
06:23
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Outside in the autumn light
A child slides up a riverside
Jump for joy and you're doubled with pain
Both at once it's sublime I'd say
All you'll need is here
Outside in the puddles and rain
A child soaked to the bone again
Heart melts but your stomach sinks
Both at once it's sublime I think
All you'll need is here
Pulling apart around and back and forth
How can a heart take this tug of war?
Every day is your best and worst
Every hour is a peak and trough
All you'll need is...
Smallest thing makes you feel the most
A couple kiss in the Evening Post
All of this you'll be going through
God knows I'm so jealous of you
All you'll need is here
Leave us now and go and hide away
That's what I'd do with my time again
Jump for joy and you're doubled with pain
Both at once it's sublime I'd say
All you'll need is here
Lucky soul...off you go
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Eyes right, comfort me, it’s alright
To focus all your mind on a good time
So eyes right
Let’s dance, put on our old shoes and dance the years away
Focus all your mind on a good time
Eyes right
When the music stops we’ll be dancing into nothing
All that’s left is cigarettes and a beat that won’t stop
To a silent song…we’re dancing into nothing
But we’re not done we’ll put our arms up
These walls, they’re memory boards
Tell tales, the blood and sweat and grime it’s all mine
Eyes right
Let’s float against the tide you and I
Can damn this growing flow, heaven knows
I’m right
When the music stops we’ll be dancing into nothing
All that’s left is cigarettes and a beat that won’t stop
To a silent song…we’re dancing into nothing
But we’re not done we’ll put our arms up
Pull me down on the floor
Pull ourselves back up
Eyes right
comfort me
it’s alright
To say aloud…
It’s now or never
When the music stops we’ll be dancing into nothing
All that’s left is cigarettes and a beat that won’t stop
To a silent song…we’re dancing into nothing
But we’re not done we’ll put our arms up
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7. |
Knotted Wood (Live)
03:57
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I have not nor will I leave
Something in which I still believe
For love is such a complex thing
Not simplified by writs or rings
Oil my skin
To keep the badness in
For eyes that see just good
Are as much use now as knotted wood
I have not nor will I fight
For things I don’t believe are right
So pass my shield and dry your eyes
And listen to these battle cries
WOOOO-HOOO
Oil my skin
To keep the badness in
For eyes that see just good
Are as much use now as knotted wood
I demand a thousand days
To make some sense of what we’ve made
I do not want to build on sand
Unstable feet need stable land
Oil my skin
To keep the badness in
For eyes that see just good
Are as much use now as knotted wood
I WILL SAIL…my father’s boat
I WILL SAIL…my father’s boat
I WILL SAIL…my father’s boat
I WILL SAIL…my father’s boat
Oil my skin…
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8. |
Dig Hard (Live)
05:59
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In the morning don't wake me slowly
With powdered eyes of blue
And if the moment will cost me dearly
I'm digging deep for you
Hey hey
I'm thinking I'll miss you
Hey hey
I already do
Bustle baby and keep your chin high
The world will shift for you
For with a smile that breaks up rain clouds
The world will move for you
Hey hey
I'm thinking I'll miss you
Hey hey
I already do
These days now are the best days of your life
Don't waste that worry honey on other people's fights
Dig hard
Be kind
Live long
And grow honey
These day now are the best days of your life sweetheart
Press you thumbs into my shoulders
And mark indelibly
So I can look whenever I'm lonely
And know you're part of me
Hey hey
I'm thinking I'll miss you
Hey hey
I already do
These days now are the best days of your life
Don't waste that worry honey on other people's fights
Dig hard
Be kind
Live long
And grow grow grow honey
These day now are the best days of your life sweetheart
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If you move a little bit out those shadows
Slide your legs a little bit like we used to
Well I'm no dancer and you're no drinker
Tease my hands a little bit just don't let me go
Ten years on now and ten years wiser
I'm in limbo a thirty-something man
I'm no dancer and you're no teacher
Tease my mind a little bit just don't let me go
(Don't let me go)
All our dancing days they should be way behind us
But a little bit of what you love it won't hurt you now and I know that
All our dancing days they should be well behind us
But when you move a little I get up get up get up get up go
Let's just watch this safely sidelined
Two kids dancing like we used to do
Lost in music, lost in motion
You and me there you never let me go
(Don't let me go)
All our dancing days they should be way behind us
But a little bit of what you love it won't hurt you now and I know that
All our dancing days they should be well behind us
But when you move a little I get up get up get up get up go
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The crumbling road of the wrong from the right.
A feeling that we're losing the fight.
All I will promise you is the road never lies,
All I will ask of you is be there when I die.
You're crying now most every day,
I'll do my best to keep out of the way.
All I will promise you is the road never lies,
All I will ask of you is be there when I die.
There'll be blood on your hands you know by the end of your life,
If you fight til the final blow, if you fight for what's right.
All I will promise you is the road never lies,
All I will ask of you is be there when I die.
The lane is long and straight.
Would you care to walk my way?
We're done with bends and curves.
We've learned all we can learn.
credits
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11. |
Rolling Sideways (Live)
03:49
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I've been down for seven days without my fields or songs of praise.
(Rolling sideways, rolling sideways)
Snuffling here in bed I lie with the TV as my only guide.
(Rolling sideways, rolling sideways again)
Maybe it's this blasted tincture but I see no real distinction,
(Rolling sideways, rolling sideways)
Between the bombs and the mass infection and the adverts selling loan protection.
(Rolling sideways, rolling sideways)
And the wind howls so hard...
And the rain pounds at my door...
I'm longing for the good old days when Brillo scrubbed our wrongs away.
(Rolling sideways, rolling sideways)
And ignorance was pursued with ardour and the sex and lies kept in the larder.
(Rolling sideways, rolling sideways)
I think I've found a clear opinion of the best way we can face oblivion.
(Rolling sideways, rolling sideways)
It's with your socks pulled up and your braces tight and your lip kept stiff and your humour dry.
(Rolling sideways, rolling sideways)
And the wind howls so hard...
And the rain pounds at my door...
And where is she, in our hour of need?
Oh Queenie won't you comfort me?
So we'll gather up our family, gather up our friends,
Gather up the ones we think we want to perish with...
And the wind howls so hard...
And the rain pounds at my door...
And where is she, in our hour of need?
Oh Queenie won't you comfort me?
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12. |
San Francisco (Live)
06:09
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All the way to San Francisco,
Without a care in the world,
Without a care.
All the way to the edge of the ocean,
And I breathe and I sigh,
With the tide.
Where did it go to?
Where did it go to?
Drive the night through a state and its city,
Every road every town,
Are all mine.
All the way to insomnia city,
With my heart in my mind,
And a smile.
Where did it go to?
Where did it go to?
We've given up on a dance in the morning,
We've given up on it's us versus them,
We've given up on all that we promised in San Francisco.
Now I'm home and I'm back in my city,
Everything has a place,
And a weight.
Now I'm home and I'm king of my castle,
But you've changed and you've grown.
Without me.
Where did it go to?
Where did it go to?
We've given up on a dance in the morning,
We've given up on it's us versus them,
We've given up on all that we promised in San Francisco.
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Hear me out sound for sound
A darkness now is coming
I'm allowed to let you down
When the darkness now is coming
So I will wrap my arms and my legs in holy lead
I will wrap my heart in a bible that I know but I've not read
With hearts and minds
With healing time
With holy light
I will wrap my heart in this life
Hear me out sound for sound
When the darkness now is coming
I've lost my faith in the human race
And I count myself among them
This pretty house is so run down
But I have to hold my hands up
I cannot name or lay the blame
Cos it's partly my own f*ck-up
So I will pump this knackered old heart with holy wine
I'll relight this tried old mind with these good good friends of mine
With hearts and minds
With healing time
With holy light
I will wrap my heart in this life
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The Party must end
What do we do then?
I’ll go back to pushing pens
And you go back to losing friends
The bar has run dry
We’ve cried all we’ll cry
I miss the rage, I miss the fun
I do not envy anyone who’s always been dry
Last to leave put the keys back through the door
Leave a note tell them we’re not there anymore
The party must end
The bruises will mend
I’ll keep the ringing in my ears
A memory of the golden years
Years in the sun
The luckiest ones
We’ll take a bow
Turn our backs
File away the photographs
In a draw full of fun
Last to leave put the keys back through the door
Leave a note tell them we’re not there anymore
credits
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15. |
Eurospin (Live)
06:33
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If I'm more use to you on fire
Bring a match and we'll burn a pyre
If I'm more use to you underground
Dig a hole and we'll come on down
Cos we're down, here for you
Take a drive from the drizzling rain
Over moors to the country lanes
Where the seeds fly confetti thin
Over petals of newborn skin
And we're down, over you
We'll roam around
Through the roads and the fields and the towns
We'll roam around
In my arms you'll be safe you'll be sound
I'll be there when your patience thins
I'll be there when you're in the ring
I'll be there through November rain
I'll be there when Sweet Child comes again
We'll roam around
Through the roads and the fields and the towns
We'll roam around
In my arms you'll be safe you'll be sound
Hold your chin up high
Hold your chin up high
Hold your chin up high
Hold your chin up high
So I can see your eyes...
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