Carved his faith into stone And his prayers silence the witness Under a canopy of light “Mi Cliente no tiene prisa” [Translation: “My client is not in a hurry”] And no means test required to find meaning in the forest; God only knows how he knew that “Mi Cliente no tiene prisa” Still, they build upon his dreams Of bones and fruits and bees, As nothing is art if it does not come From nature’s own design - And in all of that time It’s only us that build straight lines If they’d known who he was Before the tram began his ending, Perhaps there would have been less pain. But laid to rest in the womb of his work: Such a befitting coda to his life’s campaign Still, they build upon his dreams Of bones and fruits and bees, As nothing is art if it does not come From nature’s own design - And in all of that time It’s only us that build straight lines “Mi Cliente no tiene prisa”

If you know what you want And you know who you are then there's no stopping you to to get it If you say what you mean and you do what you say you'll live life so you won't regret it Oh but if you hide from what's right lie to yourself in the night then you'll never catch sight of the light and you'll wonder what went wrong chasing shadows all along thirty years of thirty songs to deny Try and heal someone's pain, everyone can give advice but that we are someone too, we forget it 'cause if I mean what I say and I say what I do then my word should help me too, if I let it Oh but when I cross a sacred line disconnect my heart from mind then I leave myself behind over time and the fog comes pouring in and the blood drains from my skin creeping numbness where a passion has been Do i know who i am? Do I find a mockingbird? Do I listen to my soul, or ignore it? For if I know for what i dream like the nightingale I'll sing this vision through the night, I'll live for it Oh and if you listen to the voice there's no inevitable choice 'cause we each have a decoy we deploy But when the moon gives way to sun in your hands the smoking gun you will be the only one on the run If you know what you want and you know who you are then there's no stopping you to to get it

Keep your head down for the moment Walk a straight and narrow line Check in early on a Monday And on Friday leave on time But at some point, you feel dirty Wash that painted smile off of your face and Step into the weekend As a member of the human race Hello, my name is… Where are you from..? Do you come here often..? I’m not sure that I belong… But I can feel the evening sun Warming my soul Giving me faith that it’s Worth it to go on Doing my thing Figuring out as I go along Tenderly we gaze Into the future Nothing can confuse you, So much as love For who you are All that potential And loving is essential To who we’ll become Feel a door slam shut behind me One-way mirrors for the walls And I can find no other opening It’s your court, and I’ve no ball(s) If we were born in a different country, Wonder who we’d choose to be And if we were told our days were numbered, Wonder who we’d choose to see Doesn’t matter how you got here It’s all part of your identity Try to honour it then move on Unless you just want to hit ‘repeat’ You wouldn’t be the first to shoot the breeze about free will’s tease, While on a date with destiny Education, education Tell them once, then tell them twice With what we’re preaching to the nation It’s no wonder we don’t play nice ‘Coz we know all about the Battle of Hastings, Some Shakespeare and geometry, But values, they be ‘home-schooled’ - Better call up health and safety

I don't know what to say never been treated this way found a hole, guess I'll crawl inside You carry on with your life as though it never happened while I turn off every light But lie awake, lie awake, with my mind constantly racing totally naked but I feel enclosed I can't escape this prison that my own mind is placed in so lie awake and hope it never shows I stumble forward on my path can never give more than just half of myself to anyone that asks so I live in this lie as though I'm always happy while a darkness sucks me dry And fire waits, fire waits to burn that all remains of me I cannot make it to a place called home totally fake this image that I put out to protect me so fire waits to burn me to the bone Onerous to say what's done is done, I'll just move on, it didn't feel right Seemed to me that those that hit and run had somehow won if I gave my my fight But dangerous to watch your life pass by before your eyes, without you really in it Comes the time to try and decide why you choose the side that knows no lower limit There've been people, tried to help me to stand tall but I listen with my ears closed and my back against the wall and now what I'm left with is the only thing standing in my way is me so I guess what that means is that only I can set myself free Now I know what to say never thought of it this way found a hole, guess I'll crawl outside and carry on with my life and take on all that's happened while I bathe in warm sunlight And fly away, fly away banish all the fear and loathing totally naked but I feel reborn I reawaken this vision where my mind is finally open to fly away from all that's broken and torn Fly away....

There is an overlap Something materialising No limbs, no teeth, no point, just black And I feel thin ice breaking So far down… I’m tempted to follow I wanted to believe I searched fro meaning everywhere Desperate for war or peace, anything but the blank stare So far down… I’m tempted to follow And in an air of mystery You never said goodbye And so we became history And I never knew why So long friend, Black feathers fall you So far down… I’m tempted to follow And if she finds you you can run, go, don’t give in today she’ll see right through you anyway Sweetly fresh memories that confuse him, betray him will comfort him in time The subtle fragrance of her existence, divine Such feeling clenched in the palm of your hand. I try to reach you only so you’d understand; ever felt alone when you’re not? you’re just not… Trapped in the playback, Flights of fancy fuse with bone. Mind begins to crack, Kill two birds with one stone. So long friend, Black feathers fall you So far down… I’m tempted to follow

Deep, deeper... with you He stirs and stretches in the heat And swaggers to that Phaeleh's beat And so I feel the earth moving Swept off my feet, I'm running... I didn't know I was waiting I must have looked a hundred times then suddenly a veil lifted And my heart made up my mind... Protective of territory My ears are ringing with the roar Devoted to his family His pride comes before I fall...

I see your lips moving And I swear you’re saying something cool But honey talk is cheap and i sure don’t want to played for a fool again So if i ask something speak true Don’t use ten words if you can use two I know that it’s probably cruel to expect this of you now But don’t you ever get tired of your own lies Shut up and do something – shut up and do You tell her fairy tales And she thinks you’re expert in all things But you bring home no bacon and she these little pigs have wings and fly So if she wants something speak true Don’t make believe lest she believes you I know that it’s probably cruel to expect this of you now But don’t you ever get tired of your own lies Shut up and do something – shut up and do There are those that talk the most that got the least to say There are those that say the least that got the most to do And if there’s a point that’s hard to make Don’t raise your voice to demonstrate Select which words accentuate And never underestimate that actions speak louder You’re not getting any younger How long can you keep this up for We’ll all just smile and nod thinking ‘poor old sod’ Good for entertainment and nothing more But one day you will be hurting Eating your words your mouth is full but honey talk was cheap And you’ve long perfected your cries of a wolf oh no! Now that you need something, you speak true But how we to know? We don’t really know you! I know that it’s probably cruel to expect this of you now But don’t you ever get tired of your own lies Shut up and do something – shut up and do

Listening to the water fall off the edge of the world Watching while the bearded eagles Circle around me, Below the snow line, Above the last tree. Waiting for the shadow fingers to reach our home Where we’re all alone tonight. Under fire from shooting stars that set the soul ablaze, Tiny sparks of hidden dreams glimpsed through the midnight haze Tell me what you’re thinking else I’m make-believing That perhaps I stand a chance Bare and gently brazen, says she’s for the taking, Holds me out her hand to dance Suddenly I’m expertly spiralling inside out And I feel that magic thrill my body’s in no doubt Still don’t know her name or recognise her game But tempted by a fine romance Catching breath in desert air at the base of the pass Gasping as the locals nimbly ascend with no fuss Laden with cargo Zig-zag above us Every step I venture into my reverie Where I’m all at sea again Counting down the seconds ‘til you climb into my bed Mounting up the reasons why that should fill me with dread Tell me what you’re thinking else I’m make-believing That perhaps I stand a chance Bare and gently brazen, says she’s for the taking, Holds me out her hand to dance Suddenly I’m expertly spiralling inside out And I feel that magic thrill my body’s in no doubt Still don’t know her name or recognise her game But tempted by a fine romance Whispering in the spiritual hush of a black mountainside Gathering are a line of headlamps, jostling like fireflies, Across the boulders Before the sunrise Tingling are a dozen fingers and hungry minds Wondering what we’ll find up there? Goats that blithely pirouette on slopes we’d surely die Hopes that soar and silhouette against that piercing sky Tell me what you’re thinking else I’m make-believing That perhaps I stand a chance Bare and gently brazen, says she’s for the taking Holds me out her hand to dance Suddenly I’m expertly spiralling inside out And I feel that magic thrill my body’s in no doubt Still don’t know her name or recognise her game But tempted by a fine romance Fine romance

Everything is worth just as much as we value it Tell me a story What is your life like? You make me want to wear your shoes And you make me want to hide my blues Everything is worth just as much as we value it Tell me a story What is the world like? You make me want to snooze and loose And you make me want to read fake news If you ask me for the first dance I’ll feel like you get the last laugh If you tell me it’s all over I’ll worry we’re going under You’re too cool for school I’m too hot in here We’ve got off on the wrong foot Everything is worth just as much as we value it Tell me a story What are your dreams? All hope and glory, burst at the seams? You make me want to meet your muse And you make me what to need to choose If you ask me for the first dance I’ll feel like you get the last laugh If you tell me it’s all over I’ll worry we’re going under Ba doo ba…. You’re too cool for school I’m too hot in here We’ve got off on the wrong foot Everything is worth just as much as we value it

So many miles away I just find it hard to be so many miles away I'm sorry that I can't be with you now hold your hand and tell you all the things I want to Breaks my heart to know you're leaving now and if it turns out that you can, please come back soon Thanks for all the love you've given to me All the joy I find in this world looking through your eyes I hope you know that you are next to me And every last breath that you take, I take with you They say when one soul dies, another soul is born and so I know when your soul dies, a thousand will appear like shooting stars across the skies you'll look down from a thousand knowing smiles will share in shedded tear

Down by the water she lay As the gulls and the herons eyed up their prey But prayer was not on the menu that day ‘Cause faith and her had long since parted ways Out to the opening she stared Where Loch Fyne flirted into Atlantic’s bed And floating by smoked the pyres of the dead And still their words are ringing in our heads Oh sticks and stones keep breaking brave peoples’ bones When they speak out of turn Off! Off with your head or banished from this land! Haven’t we come a long, long way since then? Haven’t we come a long, long way since then? Fare-thee-well to Kings Over the valley she peered To the legions of the Lost on the frontier Rumoured to end the prosperity of the years Their cries are certain to fall on deaf ears Tracing the ridgeline she ran To the nearest of her elders in command And before long the building of a wall began, With flags and guns to help them understand Surrounded by the angry throngs we push on through But little acts of kindness and we get knocked out The domino effect from all we say and do Yet funny how the good stuff is not what we write home about Most ordinary folk carry on with their lives And do their best to give and receive love and care Yet all we hear tells us that only hatred thrives But then injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere Wide eyed with terror she froze Disappeared from right under their nose And while the plans for retribution are imposed The voice of dispossession only grows

Does anyone feel this way? i don't know how not to feel so alone, even though I'm loved and I love, does anyone else feel this way? Can anyone help me out? I forget from time to time\what this life is all about, even though I’ve health and I’ve wealth, can anyone else help me out? Stay with you a while see the tears behind the smile Hear me when I hold you Feel me when I say to you Love flows out with music darling we reach out with music, so when you’ve got nothing else left, there’s always a line form a song inside your head Lost in broken dreams can’t see the woods for all the trees, follow me there at dusk or dawn when the magic kingdom’s creatures sing their song Love flows out with music darling we reach out with music, so when you’ve got nothing else left, there’s always a line form a song inside your head Can anyone help me out? Does anyone feel this way? Tear down your defences, unearth the mysteries of the senses, and so a billion neurone fire, and somehow we have hope, joy, knowledge, fear and desire Love flows out with music darling we reach out with music, so when you’ve got nothing else left, there’s always a line form a song inside your head

When I was young we seemed to care for flowers Name the birds and run around for hours Long as grandpa picked me up when I fell down Long as mum would tuck me in then I’d sleep sound But now I seem to worry about living About getting and about giving Count the thrills against the bills and muddle by Find the time to find the rhyme or reason why Every moment’s focussed on the next step We tell ourselves that’s what it takes to make it But I wonder if we’ll notice when we get there Will we join the parade? And will we make lemonade? Oh, will we sing of war or serenade? If you were here I’d ask about the family Search for clues to better understand me Feel the bruises of an apple fallen far From the tree whose branches broke the natural low But as it stands you write your own existence Best laid plans, they watch from a safe distance And the roots of our mistakes will be ignored And the fruits of our life’s labours be adored ‘Cause… Every moment’s focussed on the next step We tell ourselves that’s what it takes to make it But I wonder if we’ll notice when we get there Will we join the parade? And will we make lemonade? Oh, will we sing of war or serenade? Tell me do you feel it like I do? Fuck I wanna scream it from the rooftops Bittersweet believing in the truth Chuck it down my neck until the pain stops If I grow old I know I’ll care for flowers Feed those birds, and while away the hours Hope that someone will be there if I fall down Hope that dreams have all come true so I sleep sound ‘Cause what’s the use of worrying about living When I’m forgetting, and forgiving All those times we should’ve spoken of what’s wrong All those spells we could’ve broken and moved on But… every moment’s focussed on the next step I tell myself that’s what it takes to make it But I wonder if I’ll notice when I got there Did I join the parade? And did I make lemonade? Oh, do I sing of war or serenade?

Close to tears, I’m all full up, there is no place left to Run and hide, no piece of mind is left untouched by this All that is, and all that will be- yond my wildest dreams Fortune is as fortune does it seems All the plans in the world Can’t prepare you for it All the bumps in the road Can’t deter you from it Like a flower opening To the warmth of the sun It has begun We are becoming Write them down then tear them up, I kill my darlings, then Testify to alibis of Creative whims, but Truth be told I wouldn’t have it any other way Failure-free is failure too they say All the joys that you’ve felt Are a prelude to it All the sorrows you’re dealt, An incentive for it Like a flower opening To the warmth of the sun It has begun We are becoming Take a look around, darling Nothing to be found out if your Feet are on the ground, then you’ll Never have a sound worth making Bend them till they break, then Expect to be berated as you Fly up in the face of the Unfavourably weighted machine Sown in deep the seeds we reap, in- ternal fields of minds Blow the truth just out of reach, that We’ve each got two lives The second begins the moment We finally fathom That we only ever did have one All the people we meet That tell us we are wrong All the shoulders our feet Are now standing upon Like a flower opening….