now she waits i can hesitate
time she takes but all too late
i said why? why should i go
i don't believe that anymore
you don't know
now she waits i can hesitate
time she takes to make that one mistake
i said why? why should i go
i don't believe that anymore
you don't know
i didn't realise
but there's no doubt
i've seen it in your eyes
it's all worked out
i said why? why should i go
i don't believe that anymore
you don't know
and i said why? why should i go
i don't believe that anymore
you don't know
i said why?
hound dogs barking at the break of day
winter comes sneaking in through
so don't tell me so when i already know
i don't care for your point of view
and if the same situation arises
and a new dawn is covered in lace
if you're still stealing things
from your favourite kings
you've got no right to be feeling this place
oh no not you
don't tell me that the lies they told you held as true
thought i could count on you
you don't tell me to care anymore
it's getting cold beyond doubt
it's these days that are killing my country there
but that's not what i'm talking about
you see i'm not looking to you anymore
i've no more emotion to spare
though i'm not about desert you or hurt you
you know i'll always be there
oh no not you
don't tell me that the lies they told you held as true
thought i could count on you
stupidity is a thing of the past
walking down the warwick road
all sorts of things remind me of my sins
when i was too drunk to carry that load
and you asked me is there a price you pay
well i haven't a clue
but it's a must a double dealing trust
just who has been fooling who
oh no not you
don't tell me that the lies they told you held as true
strike up matches
watch them burn
don't sweep the ashes
i'm waiting for my turn
and if you feel you need an explanation
i might just let you down
oh watch your world fall all around you
i might just let you down
go ahead, go ahead and take it
forget the living
just count the dead
while you're busy thieving
i'll paint your blue flag red
'cause i'm tired of talking and i'm tired of waiting
i might just let you down
and watch your world fall all around you
i might just let you down
go ahead, go ahead and take it
i tried to shake that shadow free, yeah
i tried so hard but it really got to me
but i've been like this for so long, yeah
but if it's you i feel it's time that you were gone
again and again
you wave goodbye to me like some old flame
someone i used to know
but no not again
again
i asked you what do you see, yeah
but you see nothing but you know it's getting me
i saw you looking through the past
at all those days but they really couldn't last
no they didn't stand a chance
with me
again and again
i tried to set that shadow free, yeah
but there's no place to hide
and that's not hard to see
no that's not hard to see
again and again
and again and again and again ...
i got to get that train
i better get it now
i've got to get that midnight train
but i don't know where it's bound
again
they'll take your face from the window when it's broken
they'll take your hand from the door when it's closed
they'll shake your head from the ruins of your lifetime
they'll force on shame and they'll use it
oh won't you play your song of freedom
oh like you could and you once did
and in their clause that has no standing
there are no painters or poets anymore
to all that's gone, all that's pure, all that's sacred
are left the minds of the vile and extreme
oh won't you play your song of freedom
oh like you could and you once did
oh won't you sway in the night-time
and slave to it
if you fall upon uncertain times
try and find the cause my friend
if you find the cause i'll bet it's them
they will let you down
watch you fall and break your neck, fall down
they'll let you down and break your neck, fall down
they will always be discontent
unhappy with what they've got
then leave it all to you
to show just what needs to be done
they'll let you down, they'll watch you fall
they'll promise you anything
they'll let you down, they'll watch you fall
they'll promise you anything
they will let you down, watch you fall
and break your neck for them
they will let you down, watch you fall
and break your neck for them
i can't promise you anything
i can't promise you anything
i wish i could
see the days that i stand
taking all that i can
i've seen so many things
my strawberry window brings
i've been so many times
into my own designs
that's what i do
walking around with you
see the days that i stand
giving all that i can
i've seen so many things
my strawberry window brings
i've been so many times
into my own designs
that's what i do
walking around with you
kathleen took me down her ragged mile
past the drunken bums and trawler lines
to a changing world of her own decline
bad debts and cheap hotels
"i suppose", she said, "i'll see you once again"
so i got the bus and she her train
and all that was between us was the sound of the rain
in a deep and rolling sky
she ain't going nowhere fast
the things that last forever never last
how could you be so jealous of someone else's past
that stretches way back when
i used to lie for you
you never knew somehow
but every time you feel so low
remember then and now
what would i do?
oh what would i do?
when among your young philosophers
who praised your every move
have they written in their stolen books
how love is twice removed
what would i do
oh what would i do
wait for you and sigh the rain is blue
pray for you and hope you're praying too
all your magic traces
all i borrow and i guess
what is worse who can say?
what is better than the best?
65 prisoners showed in your room
the 500 strangers have turned up too soon
what would i do
oh what would i do
wait for you and sigh the rain is blue
pray for you and hope you're praying too
the girl that your heart's set on
turns out to be the lonely one
and you know that i wouldn't lie
you know damn well i'm not that kind
and when the girl that your heart's set on
turns out to be the strangest one
and you ask and you wonder why
she wasn't seen before her brother died
i saw the look on her mother's face
her father's head held in disgrace
i saw the way that the people stare
in disbelief they just don't care
and i know that they'd love to look
right up her skirt
see what she's got
i saw the blood on her brother's hands
he had to fight for her demands
i've seen the way that the people stare
in disbelief they just don't care
and when the girl that your hearts set on
turns out to be her father's son
you know and you don't ask why
you know damn well her brother never died
it's not sad
it's more than that
it's not sad, not sad
you came but how could you refuse
how could you claim you were being used
when our moments just kept you amused
when our wasteland songs just kept you amused
now your faith lies cold and wasted
while you chase all you once tasted
in the books you read in the lines you quoted
and the whistling tunes of the songs you hated
hey you just go and you just do as you will
then you let us all know how you cried
how the tears in your eyes were stinging
though it never showed
ain't it clear that with every look you are giving
precious diamond tears come falling down again
well if it could be proved
i may be guilty of feeling moved
to see you there in your empty room
painting pictures of nothing about which you knew
hey you just go and you just do as you will
then you let us all know how you cried
how the tears in your eyes were stinging
though it never showed ? clear
that with every look you are giving
precious diamond tears come falling down again
they're falling
reeling trumpets
desert flame
and you'll do
some say
tell me where you went
tell me what you've seen
it's only me and i'll tell of mine
morning rain
sinking ships
and you'll do
some say
tell me where you've been
tell me what you've seen
it's only me and i'll tell of mine
i came in to the room
that hope was living in
i was lost and going down
to the sound of the violin
i find myself reborn, untamed
there is not much that's left undying
hope left to join the crowd
i had laid myself to blame
so i smashed hope's violin
and threw it in the pouring rain
i find myself reborn, untamed
there is not much that's left undying
i left my room at last
for the cold wind that drives
through the streets of a town
that has already died
come on out of your door
i see the walls coming in
everybody left behind
will too soon give in
but you can't even see it
i cannot believe
dog that lies at your feet
will snap at your heel
all too soon you will find
your time is wasted here
but you can't even see it
i cannot believe
you know that you don't really understand
when you go, you'll go down
come and step across the bridge
and stumble to the ground
save your footsteps if you go
there's sounds of death and scorn below
and if i should ever be your jailer
go and see him
count your riches in the sun
i feel you reaching for someone
place your visions in my tomb
i'll kiss the pale afternoon
and if i should ever be your jailer
go and see him
i have no saviours to judge
i have no saviours to kill
only words that come undone
they say you know the past has gone
and if i should ever be your jailer
go and see him
i swear i've seen
all that i profess
disappear into the sounds that i caressed
as i stand unsure of day or night
gone is all i had
lost inside a tender trap
i swear i've known
some people come and go
fade away to some other place they know
as i stand alone unfurl my flag
of solitude and sin
wrapped up in the place i'm in
'cause here it comes
oh i see it shining
'cause here it comes
see my train a rollin'
rollin' down the line
see my train a rollin'
well i guess i'm doing fine
silver train is coming down the line
take me through tomorrow
help me get upon
the silver train that's rollin'
back where i belong
silver train can take me where i want
since i've been without you
i'm never looking back
silver train keeps a rollin'
rolling'down the track
silver train coming down the line
silver train coming all the time
silver train ...
through the morning i lay soaked
by the light from your window
where the sun comes streaming through
i saw you turn again
to the darkness you defend
temptation calling you
and though you call your friends
they just love to see you down
and the writers still complain
well i can almost see them now
as i stop here for a moment
my vision vague now well defined
she knows that i won't steal her money
her distant covers are her mist
i swear i've seen
all that i profess
disappear
into the sounds that i caressed
as i stand unsure
of day or night
gone is all i had
lost inside a tender trap
i swear i've known
some people come and go
fade away
to some other place they know
as i stand alone
unfurl my flag
of solitude and sin
wrapped up in the place i'm in
here it comes
every line you spin my way
i'm not so sure
if i heard before
(here it comes)
i'll get away from the shadows
i can't live here
i thought that you said everything's dead
i'll get away from the shadows
i can't live here
i thought that you said everything's dead
i'll get away from the shadows
it's cold outside, it's always cold
i hide inside, i always hide
november leaves are falling
don't wake me in the morning for you
it's cold outside, it's always cold
i'll hide inside, i'll always hide
november leaves are falling
it's an ordinary day
but i want to be alone with you
don't wake me in the morning
don't shake me through the day
'cause i want to be alone with you
with you ...
'cause it's always in the morning
and it cuts across the day
and it's always in the morning
and it's where i want to stay
with you ...
there comes a time
i must be leaving
though i have nowhere i'm going
the night-ghost rains
will soon be screaming
paying off every god they're naming
and when i wake tomorrow
i'll leave it all
far behind me
my clown shape
wounded were bleeding
haunted by something i wasn't seeing
out on the streets
the idle rain was drifting
while all around
another rainbow was crashing
and when i wake tomorrow
i'll leave it all
far behind me
and now i know
all i'd been given
was never hard to guard
or even hidden
when all is lost
what is left worth defending
see someone smile
turn their head, pretending
and when i wake tomorrow
i'll leave it all
far behind me
i was thinking of that summer
you seem so different now
do you find it hard to be yourself?
now it's cold and it's raining
and i just can't afford the call
to say 'are you okay?'
now it's cold and it's raining
but something takes me back to
where we were and what we had
and you know how i'm feeling
i'm still torn between the way things were long ago
and knowing that it's wrong, knowing all along
knowing that it's wrong
i knew it all along
and watched you throw it all away
throw it all away
throw it all away
on me
i can't understand
you're lead me down
just like you lead yourself
taking me up
taking me down
until you come around
she's shining her light
right into my eyes
while i sleep in her lies
turning me round
keeping me down
until you come around
sometime i may just decide to leave her
where she lies
under restless morning skies
in the room where she hides
tell me just what kind of friend is this
to let me in
just to throw me back again
to the street that i came from
(i'm calling you, calling you ...)
sometimes i wonder what's wrong with me
stuck like a train on a hill
and i can't help you anymore
black autumn comes
crying like a prison
sometimes i wonder about liberty
it's never there, there is only me
and i can't see you anymore
black autumn comes
crying like a prison
sometimes i wonder what's wrong with these
that book you gave i read 'til dawn
now i can't hear you anymore
black autumn comes
crying like a prison
everyone knows by now your name
let me hear your wallowing refrain
bring a single flower to your grave
tell you mother
tell you sister
that when there are no reasons
you simply throw your life away
everyone knows your weary song
hear you laugh, hear you cry alone
and the single flower on your grave
oh let it die
and when there are no reasons
you simply throw your life away
bring me one moment again
let me live one moment again