A - The childhood: Swords and knives, The hurting, Memories fade

B - The system: The working hour, Until I drown

C - The awakening: Low life, Bullets for brains

D - The revolution: For the love of Cain, God's mistake, Kill love

E - The vision: Day by day by day by day by day, Hey Andy!

F - The world: Elemental, Under ether, Standing on the corner of the third world

G - The resolution: Maybe our days are numbered

 

PART A (The childhood)

 

Swords and knives (Orzabal/Holland)

A waking world of innocence
So grave those first born cries
When life begins with needles and pins
It ends with swords and knives


Oh dangerman, oh dangerman
Your blade fits like a glove
When forged in steel
Time cannot heal
That blood red bond of love

In times of trouble you're an open book
With the change in the way you look
And it's sad love's not enough to make things better


Turn the tables, we'll burn the fables
Lies beneath the visions and daydreams
Fooled by now, we mystify the past
Like a dream, like it never happened


When life begins with needles and pins
It ends with swords and knives
God save those born to die

 

The hurting (Orzabal)

Is it an horrific dream
Am I sinking fast
Could a person be so mean
As to laugh and laugh
On my own
Could you ease my load
Could you see my pain
Could you please explain
The hurting


Could you understand a child
When he cries in pain
Could you give him all he needs
Or do you feel the same
All along
You've been told you're wrong
When you felt it right
And you're left to fight
The hurting


Get in line with the things you know
Feel the pain
Feel the sorrow
Touch the hurt and don't let go
Get in line with the things you know
Learn to cry
Like a baby
Then the hurting won't come back

 

Memories fade (Orzabal)

There's only need, I love your need,
So much I'm losing me.
I cannot see the reason for the pain.
With hungry joy, I'll be your toy,
Just hoping you will play,
Without the hope, my body starts to fail

Memories fade but the scars still linger,
Goodbye my friend,
Will I ever love again,

Memories fade but the scars still linger...    oh.....

I cannot grow, I cannot move,
I cannot feel my age,
The vice like grip of tension holds me fast,
Engulfed by you, what can I do,
When history's my cage.
Look forward to a future in the past.


The more I talk, the more I say,
The less you seem to hear.

I'm speechless in a most peculiar way.
Your mind is weak, your need is great,
And nothing is too dear,
For you to use to take the pain away.

Memories fade,
No don't pretend you can justify the end,
Memories fade but the scars still linger

 

 

PART B (The system)

 

The working hour (Orzabal/Stanley/Elias)

These things that I've been told can rearrange
My world, my doubt in time but inside out

This is the working hour
We are paid by those who learn by our mistakes
This is the working hour
We are paid by those who learn by our mistakes

This day and age for all and not for one
All lies and secrets, put on, put on and on

This is the working hour
We are paid by those who learn by our mistakes
This is the working hour
We are paid by those who learn by our mistakes
And fear is such a vicious thing
It wraps me up in chains

Find out, find out, what this fear is about
Find out, find out, what this fear is about

Find out, find out, what this fear is about
Find out, find out, what this fear is about

 

Until I drown (Orzabal/Griffiths)

Took a long time to mend
Took a long time to make amends
Funny how the story goes
Strip a man bare and burn his clothes

Time is all I crave
It comes in waves
I will be here until I drown

System's on overload
Goes to bed warm but wakes up cold
What a bloody cross to bare
Time on my hands but I don't care


Days are all the same
They wax and wane
I will be here until I drown


Time is all I crave
It comes in waves
I will be here until I drown

Days are all the same
They wax and wane
I will be here until I drown

Time is all i crave
It comes in waves
I will be here until i drown

 

 

PART C (The awakening)


Low life (Orzabal/Griffiths)

Low life, it's real
It's Friday night and you've got no steel
You can cry all you like
But the truth still hurts and the hurt still bites
And it all comes down to a very low high

No give, no take
You can't rely on a state of grace
You can cry all you like
But the pressure's on when the vein gets tight
And it's all because of these cynical times

Low life, low life

No aim - no goal
No guiding light that can take control
You can cry all you like
But you still don't speak to a world outside
And it's all because of the sun in your eyes

Low life, low life

You can have it all but not at all fill that hole
You can make this deal go underground
All the saints are praying hard for your soul
You can buy some wheels and run them down


No aim - no goal
No guiding light that can take control
And it all comes down to a very low life

Low life, low life


Bullets for brains (Orzabal/Griffiths)

Well I saw you weeping
One hand on the bible
As I sent your soul to Kingdom Come
Ready to be born again
Well one man sees a wasteland
Another man sees a rainbow
It came to this, the atheists
Got bullets for their brains
Like a goodbye kiss
But then I

I'm putting up a peace-sign
Putting up a peace-sign
Pulling down a peace sign


Well I believe in angels
They move like a secret army
And they help me blow the atheists sky high

I can't sit still for too long
I'm losing all my patience
I got myself a rocket ship
To make me hip
To take me to the moon
When I lose my grip

I said I

I'm putting up a peace-sign
Putting up a peace-sign
Pulling down a peace sign

One day, one day in your life
You will see the light
You will see his face again

One day, one day at a time
Soothes the weary mind
You will feel no pain

Bullets for your brain

(I live a very modest life - I'm happy with it)

Hey now, read my lips
Bullets for the brains of the atheists

 

 

PART D (The revolution)

 

For the love of Cain (Orzabal/Griffiths)

If I said I was Abel
Would you know my name?

I've swung from the trees in the Garden of Eden
And I have shorn off my mane


I've got no horns sticking out
I've got no sting in my tail
I've got no sins to pluck out
Because I do so well
And maybe I can raise the stakes

For the love of Cain
For the love of Cain
We'll dissolve our schemes
And indulge our dreams
For the love of Cain

If you look out your window
With your Sunday smile
If you walk hand in hand through the Valley of Evil
You walk the miracle mile

I just need someone to love
Straight from the cradle to the grave
Maybe it's you I'm thinking of
Because I know your game
And maybe I can raise the stakes


For the love of Cain
For the love of Cain
We'll dissolve our schemes
And indulge our dreams
For the love of Cain

 

God's mistake (Orzabal/Griffiths)

Have a friend, calls me up
Says hello, then hangs up
He must have read my mind
These are the days of a different paradigm
Maybe once, even twice
He said "God does not play dice"
Yet if he's everywhere
He's in casinos with aces to spare

Oh, Love is God's mistake
Oh, Love is God's mistake

Ours is not to reason why
As we fall from way up high
Into the water
Like a lamb to the slaughter
Even now, God's mistake
Sets us up for one more heartbreak
God you look mighty fine
Dressed as the devil in a cosmic pantomime

Oh, love is God's mistake
Oh, love is God's mistake
Never was so much at stake
Oh, love is God's mistake

 

Kill love (Orzabal/Griffiths)

Same old song going round and around
It's not where I'm at, it's just where I have found myself
Still the sounds keep the wolves from the door
This is my song

Kill love now - don't be pure, don't be kind
Kill love now - for your own peace of mind

Kill love, kill love

These are the days of futures by design
So does your faith give you powers of immunity?
I don't care if you're right or I'm wrong
This is your life

Kill love now - don't be pure, don't be kind
Kill love now - for your own peace of mind
Kill love, kill love
Kill love, kill love

Buffalo standing, buffalo standing ...

 

PART E (The vision)


Day by day by day by day by day (Orzabal/Griffiths)

Cut out the crap you know you want to relate
Day by day by day by day by day
Don't want to eat your problems like a piece of cake
Day by day by day by day by day

Out of the frying pan in to the fire
I've got a plan that can make your day
Out of the dungeons and down to the wire
You've got to learn how to make love pay

Don't need no friend to tell you how to fuck your head
Day by day by day by day by day
Taking account of nothing leaves you in the red
Day by day by day by day by day

Breaking your bones is a sign ot the times
You've got a soul that has been force-fed
Climbing up walls to the end of the line
These are the tracks that are in your head

Out of the frying pan in to the fire
I've got a plan that can make your day
Out of the dungeons and down to the wire

You've got to learn how to make love pay

Day by day by day by day by day

 

Hey Andy! (Orzabal)

God played dice and called you home
Just to let you know you're not alone
Hey Andy!
Darkness creeps against your skin
Like the tide rolling in
Hey Andy!

Incomplete if we ever stop
We're gonna climb the walls and reach the top
More alive than we've ever been
Don't get your fingers caught in my machine
Take your time and take your chance
Don't be fooled by circumstance
Wrap things up in dreams of glory
'Cos when I die you'll be waiting for me

All your lives add up to nine
When you made your bed I made mine
Hey Andy!
Seventeen ways to cleanse your soul
We'll let time take its toll
Hey Andy!

Incomplete if we ever stop
We're gonna climb the walls and reach the top
More alive than we've ever been
Don't get your fingers caught in my machine
Take your time and take your chance
Don't be fooled by circumstance
Wrap things up in dreams of glory
'Cos when I die you'll be waiting for me

 

 

PART F (The world)

 

Elemental (Orzabal/Griffiths)

This race is already run
Get off your horse, get on this train
"Welcome to the real world"

I said, "Welcome to the real world"
Are we rushing like the wind?
Naked out and naked in
"Welcome to the free world"
I said, "Welcome to the me world"
Are we rushing like the wind?


Put your lovin' arms around

Did you lose your faith in God, no?
Does your conscience always get you down?
Fall to pieces, rough and tumble
Does your conscience always get you down?

These days it's all in the mind
It's elemental
Don't say your up when your down
It's elemental

Put your lovin' arms around
This your new year's resolution
Put your lovin' arms around
Nothing doing revolution
Put your lovin' arms around


Take another leap in the dark
With a humble heart
Do yourself some good
What did you become?
Patience, be sure
Baby, baby


These days it's all in the mind
It's elemental
Don't say your up when your down
It's elemental

 

Under ether (Orzabal/Griffiths)

Someone said the world was under ether
Better bet your bottom dollar
Better bet your bottom dollar
That before your eyes we turn to dust

Bodies rearranged

Someone said the world was all but dried out
Read it on the walls around you
Waiting for the paint to dry
Well, you might not have to wait very long
Talk about it, think about it, hey

Ether stole your thoughts while you were sleeping
Came in through an open window
Looking for an open mind
And it wiped that smile right off your face

Rock' n roll radiate
Talk about it, think about it, hey

Under ether
Under ether
Under ether

Talk about it, think about it, hey
Think about it

Under ether
...

 

Standing on the corner of the third world (Orzabal)

Man, I never slept so hard
I never dreamt so well
Dreaming, I was safe in life
Like mussels in a shell
Rolling and controlling all the basements and the backroads of our lives


Fill their dreams with big fast cars
Fill their heads with sand
Holy white we'll paint the town
The colour of our flag
Hey there little lady has your baby got the look of some old man?
Standing on the corner of the third world

Hungry men will close their minds
Ideas are not their food
Notions fall on stony ground
Where passions are subdued

Colour all the madness for the madness is the thorn that's in our side
Standing on the corner of the third world

When we gonna learn?
Who we gonna turn to?
The promises they make
The call for attention
Compassion is the fashion
Free to earn, our pockets burn
We buy for love
Die for love


Hold me I'm crying
Hold me I'm dying

 

 

 

PART G (The resolution)


Maybe our days are numbered (Orzabal/Griffiths)

Maybe our days are numbered
Maybe I want you back
Maybe these words are empty
Maybe I don't mind if you see someone else


ah, are we going against the grain again
ah, are we growing up against the grain

You're building those walls around you
I no longer see the light that shined so bright
You build but you can't afford to
so I ask if I can stay with you tonight


ah, are we going against the grain again
ah, are we growing up against the grain

Maybe our days are numbered
Maybe I want you back

ah, are we going against the grain again
ah, are we growing up against the grain