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Fall
03:22
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I put my head out of an aeroplane window
I saw the face of god in his Heaven
Nowhere to be and nowhere to go
A single dice can’t roll a 7
All I could do was fall fall fall fall
We’ll be hitting the drop zone soon
And I don’t want to take you down too
The moment has passed and time turned sour
Life could be over in half an hour
All I can do is fall fall fall fall
So now I only travel in dreams at night
I navigate by city lights
It’s a little tricky with an ocean to cross
But I follow boats like an albatross
All I can do is fall fall fall fall
How did I ever get so high ?
How did I learn to fly ?
I float like an electric ghost
The stars are getting close
Small talk in the small hours of small time in a small town in a small world.......small mind
The drink makes you sad – eventually
And I wish I knew more about good and less about bad
All the angels talk in whispers
And God never lets them kiss yer
But I’m ok in the stratosphere
I kinda like it up here
But all I can do is fall fall fall fall
Fly away – hopeless dreamer
Don’t let them drag you down
Life is shit when you’re not around
This what God made you for
Fly away – hopeless dreamer
But please fly home one day
Fly away – hopeless dreamer
I need to see you a million times more
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2. |
Time Bomb
04:41
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This is the crazy song
All your love is gone
This is a world gone wrong
This is the world where I belong
This is the world where I belong
Still stuck in the Starlight City
I want to fight but nobody will hit me
My ex-girlfriend just told me
This life can be so lonely
This life can be so lonely
Time can’t change me
But I can change time…………………………….
I’m runnin’ like a Baskerville hound
My tail is draggin’ on the ground
I’m as fast as ultrasound
Keepin’ up with the world spinning round
Keepin’ up with the world spinning round
Time can’t change me
But I can change time…………………………….
This turkey is so cold
Life is bought and sold
Hearts so heavy and made out of gold
Drag you down and crush your soul
Drag you down and crush your soul
Time can’t change me
But I can change time…………………………….
Cold twilight along this street
Shadows begin underneath my feet
But I still got all my speed
So I got all I need
My fog my pearls and my amphetamine
Time can’t change me
But I can change time………………………………………..
Beating sparks out of these stones
Pray for a sound from my mobile phone
Mary I don’t deserve to be so alone
Cos I never ever did get old
Cos I never ever did get old
Time can’t change me
But I can change time
Time can’t change me
But I can change time………………………………………………
The Time Bomb Time is Tickin tickin tickin like a time bomb
Gets Everyone Listen listen listen I’m not wrong
Not long No time now for a good song
And you’re gone Better not make it too long
I’m never wrong TIME BOMB TIME BOMB TIME BOMB
In a song SPEED TIME SPEED TIME WE NEED TIME NEED TIME MORE TIME
It’s a Time Bomb - It’s a Time Bomb
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She taught me how to party
With whores and dwarves in Bruges
One kiss was all it took to start me
I still got something for her that’s huge
And I think I’m still in love
But I can’t be sure
Sometimes all that is - confusing stuff
But nothing seems like it did before
My Daddy never told me
Goodbye’s the cruellest sound
A woman like that can be deadly
Take your heart and nail it to the ground
Now the sky is upside down
And my life is back to front
My head is spinning round
But there’s nothing else I want
My Daddy never told me
Goodbye’s the cruellest sound
A woman like that can be deadly
Take your heart and nail it to the ground
Take your soul and crush it
Take your brain and wash it
Take your outh and kiss on it
Take your heart and piss on it
It’s like my worst fear
Someone like her can - disappear
And this time I think it’s true
But I suppose I always knew
My Daddy never told me
Goodbye’s the cruellest sound
A woman like that can be deadly
Take your soul and burn it
Take your brain and wash it
Take your life and crush it
Take your heart and nail it – to the ground
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4. |
Fourteen Hundred Dollars
04:18
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I got 14 hundred and 14 dollars and 14 cents
It’s my life saving but I don’t know where it went
I got weapons – and I got an evil intent
I need revenge – I’m a dissident
I just gotta keep running – I got lawmen on my mind
I like the cemetery - on halloween
I like chemistry - I got a mind full of dreams
I got a Kawasaki - that runs on K-1 Kerosene
No one can catch me - it’s my getaway machine
I just gotta keep running – I won’t ever do their time
You can hear my songs on 50,000 Watts Radio Stations
You can find my tunes in the religious incantations
But I don’t like covers – it’s contamination
You gotta beware of the cheap shit imitations
I just gotta keep running – Lawmen on my trail and on my mind
I look after myself - I don’t need to carry a pistol
Just a phaser gun on stun – and a referee’s whistle
To use on people who talk and never listen
I take their money – I’m on a mission
And nobody knows my name cos I was never christened
I just gotta keep running – I won’t ever do no time
I just gotta keep runnin – I keep one bullet behind
I keep one bullet behind
I keep one bullet behind
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5. |
Nothing You Can Do
02:48
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6. |
The King Of Sweden
04:55
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The Holy Roman Empire
Are coming for us
The burning church and crooked spires
Want to be our saviours
Their foraging armies
Take all our provisions
Don’t wait for me
Where is The King Of Sweden ?
Where is The King Of Sweden ?
Why can’t life be like it was
We don’t need a new God
We didn’t need salvation
We don’t need to be a nation
They come up The Spanish Road
You hear them marching so slow
They’re followed by the murder crows
Death is coming and we all know
Nothing on earth can stop them
This was our garden of Eden
There is so many of them
Where is The King Of Sweden ?
Where is The King Of Sweden ?
Why can’t life be like it was
We don’t need a new God
We didn’t need salvation
We don’t need to be a nation
Well the Scottish Mercenaries
Won’t show no mercy
And nobody ever told me
I would die this early
The dawn chorus of babies
Squealin for their feedin
And I ain’t heard laughter lately
I ain’t heard laughter lately
O Where is The King Of Sweden ?
Why can’t life be like it was
We don’t need a new God
We didn’t need salvation
We don’t need to be a nation
I was born to die in Magdeburg
For Martin Luther and Calvin
But the sweetest sound I ever heard
Was your sweet voice a singin’
It’s a memory I cling to
As we all lie bleedin
It’s the only God I sing to
Where is The King Of Sweden ?
Where is The King Of Sweden ?
Why can’t life be like it was
We don’t need a new God
We didn’t need salvation
We don’t need to be a nation
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7. |
The Floating Ghost
04:09
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I’m looking from a window and I can’t see a tree
I’m in a desert city in the land of luxury
A woman in a fur coat is walkin’ up the street
She got the light in her eyes but she can’t see me
I am the floating ghost
That no-one ever knows
And I go places no-one ever goes
I arrive from the skies and I float away untouched
To the heart of the stars where all light is crushed
All the night time sounds - I conduct
I’m the genius that was always overlooked
Float over Mexico
Float over Idaho
I float anywhere I want to go
I look down on this earth – from way up high
I don’t understand – how I can fly
I got eyes so wide – there ain’t no place to hide
You can lock your doors but I just float inside
I am the floating ghost
That no-one ever knows
And I go places no-one ever goes
Float in the summer heat
Float over Downing Street
I float in the places old ghosts meet
And I trail the Taliban
And I view the Vatican
And I piss in the Palace of Buckingham
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8. |
Better Off In My Dreams
04:55
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I didn’t shoot no-one in Reno
I don’t want to see anyone die
I’ll tell you one thing about me you already know
I’m just a boring guy
I’m no hound dog for your love
You’re no angel from above
But I’m inconsolable
But you’re still unobtainable
Better off in my dreams
Better off in my dreams
Better off in my dreams
Better off in my dreams
And once I thought I saw yer
Across crowded hazy skies
I’m always looking for yer
Whenever I open my eyes
And I still prefer fiction
There’s a good life in dreams
They tell me I should be moving on
But I like it ‘round here
I didn’t shoot a man in Reno – I just let him be ………………
If I wanna see somebody die – I switch on my TV
Knives and bombs and machine guns - I’m better off in my dreams
Grenades and blades and handguns – I’m better off in my dreams
………………………….husband….I’m better off in my dreams
………………better off in my dreams………………better off in my dreams
Granpa died last week
Buried him in the rocks
He stood next to me at his funeral
And told me the afterlife sucks
He said……you’re better off in your dreams……better off in your dreams
And I was walking in Memphis
Like some kind of Elvis obsessive
What a strange feeling of elation this is
The depth of my dreams is impressive
Now I just deal in fragments
It’s better than pastiche
I can’t find fulfilment
But I sure found my niche
Better off in my dreams
Better off in my dreams
Better off in my dreams
Better off in my dreams
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9. |
Cowboy Drunk
04:15
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I’m wishing I was in Manchester
Drinking with my ancestors
There was never that much to do
But we could always have a few
But here I am so far outside of my comfort zone
I don’t like to be so all alone
Maybe I should try and contact home
But I think those days are long gone
I’m just a cowboy drunk
I’m a lone wolf
Lean to the left and piss to the right
I can piss all night
But people call me a C……………..
Crazy guy
I don’t know why
My heart is heavy but my head is light
In this bar I can just hear the music
But I can’t tell what it is
But nobody is listening to it
They are all just on the piss
And I don’t even know what day it is
I got kicked out of a pub quiz
They kept asking stuff I didn’t know
I figured it was time to go
I’m just a cowboy drunk
I’m a lone wolf
Lean to the left and piss to the right
I can piss all night
But people call me a C……………..
Crazy guy
I don’t know why
My heart is heavy but my head is light
And I’m a Cowboy Drunk tonight
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10. |
Change
08:09
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A shadow passed across my door
I never felt that chill before
I knew a hound dog found my trail
I heard a siren wail
Everything is different from now on
That was then and it’s all gone
But Time is a bitch and she’s never late
My fashion statement is out of date
Looking for heaven and all I found
Is the sky - and it’s fallen down
God was looking at me
He said “Heaven is history”
Change ---- is gonna come
One day ---- for everyone
and change ---- can be unkind
Change ---- will change your mind
but change ---- is not decline
Change ---- will take you higher - you’re gonna Change
[Random Edgy Poetry !!!]
It’s not the message that you been sold
And it’s not the rags of growing old
In the stare of the devil’s eyes
They tell you all the religious lies
God said to Abraham – kill me a son
Abe was a believer and he got the job done
Change ---- is gonna come
Better ---- for everyone
and change ---- is not a fight
Change ---- can be delight
and change ---- is gonna hurt
but Change ---- aint gonna wait for you - you’re gonna change
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11. |
Around Here
04:33
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There’s a sadness around you today
You got the Black Dog on your trail
We gotta keep him at bay
Around Here
We need good memories to keep
But I get bad dreams when I’m asleep
And it’s hard to stay awake
Around Here
High ideals hide dirty work
Ugliness in beauty lurks
There’s a heart of immense darkness
Around Here
The darkness at the heart of empire
The politicians are all walk the wire
There’s too many liars
Around Here
Details are still emerging
The planets are converging
But all the signs are disturbing
Around Here
He’s got a ruthless criminal mind
Hidden behind those eyes that shine
He’s a fierce killer with eyes like ice
I was talking to Dr Death
We were discussing my last breath
He said I got a few years yet
Around Here
He said “we still own your bones
You are gonna die all alone
You’re too well known
Around Here”
You got a grim fate in China
When a doomed ocean liner
Is out of control and headingyour way
You’re on a beach in Ty-Phai
High moon drives me crazy
My timetable delays me
Nobody even pays me
Around Here
So I completed a questionnaire
Discovered I should be a millionaire
But nobody even cares
Around Here
So I’m on the run and always high or I was down but now I’m higher
Like a night shadow across the sky Don’t worry I’m a frequent flyer
But darkness is clouding my blue eyes I got a cheap ticket – to China
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12. |
Santa Monica
05:27
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And so I stand once again beneath the poplars
Thinking of life without yer
Some of us are saved and some of us damned ?
I remember the touch of your violent hands
Talking to myself no-one heard me
These long shadows disturb me
Life is suddenly lonely
But better than with you around me
And I’m leaving so you can’t haunt me
One bullet for your ice-cold heart
One bullet for your evil mind
I got a brand new start
Who knows what I will find ?
One last look in your black eyes
The last time in this life
And with no tears - I say goodbye
You made your big mistake
When you found out how much I could take
And now you speak like silence
You were my ideal of violence
Say goodbye to the stars above me
Is there anyone to judge me ?
Surrounded by nature’s beauty
I bury something so ugly
One bullet for your ice-cold heart
One bullet for your evil mind
I got a brand new start
Who knows what I will find ?
One last look in your black eyes
The last time in this life
And with no tears - I say goodbye
Even God won’t understand yer
He’ll send you back as a black mamba
But you will be in Africa
While I’m in Santa Monica…………………
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I want to stay in the lists of love
Be there when push comes to shove
I’m a heart angel from above
And you are what I’m thinking of
I’ll summon all the mystic shadows tonight
Discover other tracks and tricks of the light
You cut a heart shaped hole in my soul
So I will never ever die, never even get old
And if blood should rain on England’s green
From sands of time right across the sea
This is evil that could come to be
But mostly I still think of you and me
Chorus
I got no time for my pension plan
I might be old but I’m still a man
This is not a heart that love deserts
And this is not a love that just comes in spurts
And when I finally – admit defeat
My ghost will sniff around – and haunt your sheets
My dark desires cannot be destroyed
I’m gonna be touching you across the void
Chorus
Time takes my eyes and makes them blurred
And a year is just another 4 letter word
But time will come when time turns back
And all my dreams will still be intact
You are nailed to my memory
Crucified across my heart
Time has been and time has gone
Of all I’ve seen you are still the one
Chorus
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All the jewellery you bought me
Well I don’t want it
I don’t even want the money
If I ever pawn it
This ring is a bullet
This bracelet is a snake
A snake round my arm
Venom in my veins
You did me nothing but harm
This ring is a bullet
It put a hole in my heart
Don’t you argue don’t you start
If I had a trigger – I would pull it
This ring is a bullet
Gold is heavy metal
It only drags you down
Like a summer flower’s petals
Lying on the ground
This ring is a bullet
It put a hole in my heart
Don’t you argue don’t you start
If I had a trigger – I would pull it
This ring is a bullet
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15. |
Short Change
04:27
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Robby Thinman and The New Snowmen Newcastle, UK
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