I see double up aheadWhere the riverboat swayed beneath the sunIs where the river runs redLike a King who stalks the wings and shoots a doveAnd frees an eagle insteadIt's more or less the same as the things that you said I see trouble up the roadLike the things you found in love are by the wayAnd like to cheat on your soulLike the best and worst of thoughts that lose controlBefore you lie on your bed It's more or less the same as the things that you saidAnyway for all the things you know tell me why does the river not flowAnyway for all the things you said tell me why does the river run redAnyway for all the things you've seen tell me when will the river run greenAnd anyway for all the things you know tell me why does the river not flow It's more or less the things you fail to say in your way that's your troubleLike a King who stalks the wings and shoots the moon and the starsAnd his doubleIt's more or less the same as the things that you saidI see trouble up aheadWhere the river boat swayed beneath the sunIs where the river runs redI see double - that's my trouble.

I never saw it as the start it's more a change of heartRapping on the windows, whistling down the chimney potblowing off the dust in the room where I forgot I laid my plans in solid rock Stepping through the door like a troubadour whiling just an hour away,looking at the trees on the roadside feeling it's a holiday.You and I should ride the coast and wind up in our favourite coats just miles away.Roll a number write another song like Jimmy heard the day he caught the train. Ooh Lala, Ooh Lala He sips another rum and coke and told a dirty jokeWalking like Groucho sucking on a number 10Rolling on the floor with the cigarette burns walked inI'll miss the crush and I'm home again.Stepping through the door with the night in store whiling just an hour away,step into the sky in the starbright feeling it's a brighter day. You and I should ride the coast and wind up in our favourite coats just miles away.Roll a number write another song like Jimmy heard the day he caught the train. Ooh Lala, Ooh Lala You and I should ride the tracks and find ourselves just wading through tomorrowand you and I when we're coming down we're only getting backand you know I feel no sorrow. Ooh Lala, Ooh Lala When you find that things are getting wild don't you need days like these

Saturday afternoonThe sunshine pours like wineThrough your window But I know golden JuneCan turn an empty greyAgainst your window And I feel like I'm on the outsideOf a circle If I walk by the treesI'll catch the falling leavesIf the wind blows But I know all this means isWhiling on the hoursWatching sideshows And I feel like I'm on the outsideOf a circle Will I turn my coat to the rain?I don't knowBut I'm going somewhere I can warm my bones Fare you well I'll carry me awayAnd sing to those I knowUpon their birthdays And I won't feel like I'm on the outsideOf a circle

Well hello my old friend you know I've been awayI'm not asking for much but please remember my name You've been lining your pockets for no other reason Than to buy up the things that I gave without reasonable pay Well I wondered through fortune and I flirted with fame but we never got the money we always gave it away Old benchmark on the park he got lost on the world but he doesn't seem to know about any of it at all he said - all the things that I wanted you know I had to pay and pay... and so I say... You've been lining your pockets for no other reason Than to buy up the things that I gave without reasonable pay

The brilliance of my fleeting mindChimes like voices in foreign cavesIt chimes in time, takes me where I'm goingAlone my fleeting mind is knowingBelieve it when I pin it down That's not hard to forgetMy hands upon my kneesYou will steal from my fleeting mind Remember all our words They are just smoke-rings in the rainThat's just a poem in brilliant placesBut poets, they are too grimThey steal like party thievesFrom crowded roomsTo rhyme their homes with better places The brilliance of their mindsWill seek with never knowingAlone my fleeting mind is knowingBelieve it when I pin it down That's not hard to forgetMy thoughts like sifting leavesI believe in my fleeting mind

Well I'm waiting standing on the cornerAnd it's coming 40 past the hourIn the midnight lonely freezing hourWith my insides churning in the gutter And I'm waiting 40 past midnightCatching rain in the soda lightWon't you come and call me to your windowPlease don't leave me waiting on the corner We could have the best timeIf you lighten up your life With my pockets holey in the insideWith my bus ride rolling in the gutterBut if you would only light your lamp lightThen I would be here than any other Well I'm waiting 40 past midnightCatching cold in the pouring rainWon't you come and take me to your doorSo I can take myself home again When I'm waiting standing on the cornerAnd the soda light begins to flickerAnd it's getting 40 past the hourAnd I think I won't see what I figure Well I'm waiting freezing on the insideStaring up at your window paneIf you won't come see me this eveningI can see myself here again

No I never knew youWe both went to different schoolsMe so scared of the rulesYou chasing all the girls But it seems to meWe never grew up we just got ourselves freeInventing what we could beTo buy all their curls Get up and danceGet up and smileGet up and drink to the daysOnes that are gone in the shortest while She was just eighteen she collapsedAnd they took her awayShe didn't make it for more than an hourThen she was gone What do you say?When someone's been taken that wayBefore they've had a day to fly in the sun Get up and danceGet up and smileGet up and drink to the daysOnes that are gone in the shortest while Get up and danceGet up and smileGet up and drink to the daysOnes who are gone in the shortest while I'll sing my sorrowI'll sing my sorrowI'll sing my sorrowI'll sing my sorrow No I never knew youWe both ended up as different foolsMe so scared of the rulesYou chasing all the girls But it seems to meWe never grew up we just got ourselves freeInventing what we could beTo buy all their curls Get up and danceGet up and smileGet up and drink to the daysOnes that are gone in the shortest while Get up and danceGet up and smileGet up and drink to the daysOnes who are gone in the shortest while I'll sing my sorrow

Who is that upon the stairs Acting like he don't know where And who is laying down all the cards And giving me the wrong things to say And like a wheel on the table He's a Cain to my AbelOh oh it's my shadow A confessor to my dreams casting ribbons round my feet Oh oh into my day It's my shadow Making eyes until the sun lights the daytime as she comes Oh oh into my day Happy in the time when I would have been there to see you Happy in the time when I would have been there at all Happy when the night is gone and I believe you Happy when the night is gone and I need a call Who is chasing in the windAll the letters never sent And who is dusting down the starsAnd giving me the wrong moves to make And like a wheel on the tableHe's a Cain to my Abel dancing upon the floorIts my shadow making eyes until the sun blinds the daytime as she comes Oh oh into my day Its my shadow Like a willow to my stream casting heaven round my feet Oh oh into my day When you find that things are getting wild is that the hardest smile that you can ever feel Paralysed until the sun lights the daytime as she comes And if my shadow comes a creeping Then I'll always find me sleeping in the sun

The house caught on fire in the winterThe bosses lay slainAnd each of the workers decided to ten-fold their payAnd they saw in the mirrorThe sun had been shot down in flamesAnd nobody minded the hole in the sky or the rain But it doesn't really matter when the judgements are said'cos we all take our chances to find outRomance is in some others bedand you might burn your fingersHook your best rings for thoseWho'd have you standing nakedThen publicly auction the use of a hose. All the children were laughingThere faces in half at the painAt the girl who liked talking to walls and jumpin' at trainsAnd the words that ring trueIn the playground of fools will remain And nobody minded the hole in the sky or the rain. But it doesn't really matterWhen the rights have been read'cos we all take our chances to glance at the wife in the oposite bedAnd i bet Nero and Pilate could easily explainHow policemen and pirates get stoned in glass houses Just finding their way.

Lay down your head and look to your windowWhere do you go when it's not where you're goingAnd how do you see when the light isn't shiningWhere you could be if you worked out the timing And how does it feelWhen the world comes back so real and trueAnd how do you do the things you do to you If I were a king and you were a ladyWhat would I sing to say what I'm sayingAnd would you believe the verses left openMy heart on my sleeve the rhyming all broken And how does it feelWhen the world comes back so real and trueAnd how do you do the things you do to you Sell me a river and I'll skate away To the downstream where I did play So easy minded like a hill on the skyline Tripped up and blinded getting lost on the sidelines And how does it feelWhen each word comes back so real and true And how do you do the things you do to youHow do you do the things you do to you