Tears in Time			For a Rainy Day The Wheels Heavy Weather Angle of the Curvw So Much Water Tabula Rasa Oh the End Sleep NowRed Flags (in the sunset) You'll Never Know The Half of It And When H Ran
		For a Rainy Day
Home Back to Lyrics Back to CD Top of Page		Your absent-mindedness was foretold in retrospect. Dealt from the bottom of the deck, the cards you played, the favours you displayed, all the words you phrased but never got to say. l’esprit d’escalier. As far as this might go this is as good as it will get:                       This might go far, you really don’t know yet. you count all your blessings and regrets,                       Mesdames, messieurs make sure to place your bets. though you’ll forget the promises you made all those debts are never going to be repaid,                       Les jeux sont faits. just saved up for a rainy day. And when the truth fails expectations the best laid plans are in disarray. Between your destiny and Lady Luck you come in search of succour, in search of anything to take the hurt away now that there’s not much left to say, holding at bay all your anxious trepidation but the penny’s dropping anyway you saved up for a rainy day. Between presentience and deja vu, cast adrift on the swell of time the rainy day’s found you, the rainy day’s found you.
		The Wheels
Home Back to Lyrics Back to CD Top of Page		Gone but unforgotten memory plays its tricks once more and still it sticks with me like mud, the time before when I was naked and down on the floor. Just yesterday I was rocked back on my heels thrust under the bus crushed, wondering however I fell beneath the wheels. So anyway as my torpid state reveals I’m stuck in this gear I’ll always be here where I fell beneath the wheels. Long ago the moment marked down as the dice were thrown. I won’t think twice about the life I came to know when I was naked and alone. All those kicks you’ve known, all those sticks and stones, all those chicks to roost come home. Just yesterday     The sticks and stones I was rocked back on my heels     and all the kicks you’ve known thrust under the bus     the chicks to roost come home crushed, wondering however I fell beneath the wheels. So anyway as my torpid state reveals I’m stuck in this gear I’ll always be here where I fell beneath the wheels. I’ll always be here, I will always, I will always be here. I will always be.
		Heavy Weather
Home Back to Lyrics Back to CD Top of Page		Keep a close watch on your neighbours, don’t blink in the eye of the storm bringing rumours of betrayal. Don’t say that you’ve never been warne Heavy weather on its way these are heavy weather days. Hold together anyway that you can and tomorrow maybe we’ll be standing on dry land. Gangsters in the palace, barbarians at the gate, a moral vacuum skews the compass. Holding on for dear life, hoping for the best, knowing that you’d better hide your sense of helplessness. Heavy weather on its way these are heavy weather days. Come together come what may and then after tomorrow settle the accounts of yesterday. Hopiing for a miracle coming round the bend, Knowing that we're closer to the start than to the end Heavy weather on its way these are heavy weather days. Hold together anyway in these heavy weather days. Heavy weather in the skies these are heavy weather signs. Come together to survive through these heavy weather times.
		Angle of the Curve
Home Back to Lyrics Back to CD Top of Page		It’ll all work out though it’s touch and go and there’s still something that’s been playing on your nerves. No, you never seemed to get what you deserved. Everybody’s seen you barely hanging on; there, you’re dangling on the angle of the curve. It’ll all work out but this road you’re on has some corners coming up that you can’t swerve Though your tank’s near empty, you’re running on reserve. Your conduct’s been exemplary, credit in the bank, oh yeah, you owe your thanks to the angle of the curve. You can feel a pattern in the days, you can trace the shape of time. While you’re skittering ahead, barely under control, pay attention, your instincts hint to you, concentrate on the zone. Getting close to it, step in close to it, close to holding your own. It’ll all work out, que sara sara, your faith’s more honoured in the breach than in the moments it’s observed. Planned, a steady course is there for you to serve accidental forces heavy on your hand. Time to understand how your future lands on the tangent of the curve.
		So Much Water
Home Back to Lyrics Back to CD Top of Page		She was ever alone in the rush of the throng, had no sense of belonging to rely upon, reinventing the story, always moving along through the been and gone. So much water under the bridge. Trying to find a way through all the lessons she’s learned while retracing her steps across all the bridges that she’s burned, trying to face down her demons, trying to trace out the curves of all the corners she’s already turned. So much water under the bridge. All this time she’s been waiting for impatience to ebb and fade, got the feeling that lately these are the doldrum days. So much lead in the legs, so much time that’s gone by, all the blurring of moments that flash past in the blink of an eye. Don’t go jogging the memory, no more tears left to cry, all those sleeping dogs, you’d better let them lie. So much water under the bridge.
		Tabula Rasa
Home Back to Lyrics Back to CD Top of Page		Tabula rasa going out as you came getting blurred, the impression in the wax and the wane. So the voice is broken so the word’s unspoken as you slur your name Tabula rasa this is how it began a blank page of experience that came in with a masterplan and the bullet’s bitten all the words unwritten still you don’t understand Tabula rasa go out as you came in, stark naked, your innocence wearing thin as you count your blessings there’ll be no confessing. Yeah, you never bought in to original sin.
		Oh the End
Home Back to Lyrics Back to CD Top of Page		Shadowed in the shallows by a wave of jamais vu and I don't know where I'm going and I don’t know what to do. I can't believe the evidence of my own eyes is true Can’t believe it, don’t believe the evidence of my senses. Can’t believe quite what I see. Light on the horizon diamonds in the rough, when I asked you for your guidance all the love you gave was tough. Try as I might I could never quite get enough. I could never quite get enough of that, no you let me down and left me flat. Long ago and far away Just imagine that. right before my eyes This will surely come as no surprise. once upon a time I’d say Well, I’ll eat my hat. this can’t be denied. This is how we reach the great divide. Long ago and far away you were on my side. Where have you gone? Oh where have you gone? So long you have gone away.
		Red Flags (in the sunset)
Home Back to Lyrics Back to CD Top of Page e		Red flags in the sunset you just got cornered in the bar, they say there’s somewhere great to go to, suggest you pile in to their car. Count on your guardian angel, hold tight and count to ten You need to find your way out of here - these people are not your friends. I guess you know that you’re in trouble by the pricking of the skin. You didn’t pay enough attention when you knocked back the Mickey Finn And now you feel a little crazy, you’re slipping out of control. She’s all fur coat and no knickers in the back of the Mercedes Benz. This isn’t good for your ticker, these people are not your friends. He’s driving close to the limit as he slides into the hairpin bends. Red flags in the sunset, these people are not your friends.
		You'll Never Know
Home Back to Lyrics Back to CD Top of Page		Your secret’s safely in the grave, nobody will remember all the damns you never gave, but does the leave you take betoken easy come or easy go? You’ll never know. Your past compadres raise a glass to absent friends as though the good times that you had will never end but do they still harbour some resentment for what happened long ago? You’ll never know. The character you played so enigmatic, you’re not sure what it’s all about but when you’re gone the plot moves on and you’ll be written out. Your options dwindle as your lingering hopes expire; but will some spark, rekindled, halt the dousing of the fire? Now is the story done and dusted or recounted blow by blow? You’ll never know.
		The Half of It
Home Back to Lyrics Back to CD Top of Page		I couldn’t see the timber for the forest, I couldn’t hear the signal for the noise. Out of a clear blue sky the shockwave on its way to knock me off the ledge where I was poised. I was over-eager for the future, I wasn’t ready for the wake-up call. I couldn’t feel the ground ashake beneath my feet, I didn’t see the writing on the wall. Nobody ever knows quite what’s going to happen. So many promises sold out on the cheap. All the promises, you made so many promises that you’ll never keep. Well I never, no, I never did see it coming, I never knew the half of it. Nobody ever knows quite what’s going to happen. No, but the speed of it still takes you by surprise. Oh, the speed of it Can’t believe it happened right before my eyes. Well I never, no, I never did see it coming, I never knew the half of it. Well I never, no I never did, never saw it coming. I never knew, no I never, no I never did, never saw it coming. I never knew the half of it.
		And When He Ran
Home Back to Lyrics Back to CD Top of Page		And when he ran across the fields it filled my heart with the pure spirit of life and joy, our lovely boy. On borrowed time our way we wend, knowing each faltering step is drawing him closer to the end, our faithful friend. His time was up a while ago, his legs were shot, he didn’t know quite where he was, just how scared he was to be left alone. Now he’s relying on us to see him home. And now his ghost runs in the fields and my heart aches for the shared times we enjoyed. Our lovely boy, beloved boy, our lovely boy.
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