Lyrics to WIRELESS, INLAND & OTHERWISE, and a sneak preview to the lyrics
for the as yet unreleased next album, which we shall call here: CQD.

Above The Weather - Amy's Song - Arizona Tonight - Birmingham New Street
Blue Sky - Constellation - Crazy For You Now - Eden Avenue - The Ghost of Rapunzel
Maybe It's Me - Nearsighted - Punctuated - Radio - Riviera - Salamander Sound
Same Reminders - She's Fine - Sleep Driving - Summon - That Won't Change It
Third Degree Burn Tide Beckons Me - Want It To Be - Whatcha Need

Above The Weather
(B. Kious)

I'm up in the air and you just don't care
Well, I've been above you but now
I'm above the weather
I'm above the weather

I'm lookin' to fly and you start to cry
Well, you still haven't changed
I'm above the weather
I'm above the weather

And if I fall I can't get caught
And if I fall it's all your fault
And if I fall I can't get hurt again
'cos I'm above the weather
You can't touch me no more
I'm above the weather

Airplane wings like a bird that sings
Keepin' me where I am
Above the weather
I'm above the weather

Four dif'rent states in the palm of my hand
I hope that when we land
I'll be above the weather
I'll be above the weather

And if I fall I can't get caught
And if I fall it's all your fault
And if I fall I can't get hurt again
'cos I'm above the weather
You can't touch me no more
I'm above the weather

What have you done? Tried to see the sun,
Well, you've got to be good to do that
Just like me
Just like me

Take that ticket in your hand
And when you see I'm not gonna land
You can guess where I will be
You can guess where I will be

And if I fall I can't get caught
And if I fall it's all your fault
And if I fall I can't get hurt again
'cos I'm above the weather
You can't touch me no more
I'm above the weather

Amy's Song
(B. Kious)

I'd buy you a Cabriolet
I'd buy you a Cabriolet
I'd buy it today, but I don't make the pay
(Still) I'd buy you a Cabriolet

I'd send you rows o' roses
I'd send you rows o' roses
See to it you had 'em when summertime closes
I'd send you rows o' roses

I'd build you a house on the hill
I'd build you a house on the hill
And if the wind got too fright'nin'
I'd keep it still (somehow)
I'd build you a house on the hill

I'd dig you a diamond mine
I'd dig you a diamond mine
Even though they can't shine
like yer smile or yer eyes
(Still) I'd dig you a diamond mine

Arizona Tonight
(K. Hartman)

Let's Live in color and wide symphonic sound
Let's pack up and sell all your raincoats
Let's bring the curtain down

And by the light of the moon
And her fallen sisters too
I know we can make it to

Arizona Tonight
And the California sun
We can make it all right
We don't have to run

The sunshine is electric
And the roadside profiteer
Under the cover of dark
Is reading your stars
Like some Saint of the frontier

And by the light of the moon
And her fallen sisters too
I know we can make it to

CHORUS:
Arizona Tonight
And the California sun
We can make it all right
We don't have to run

And by the light of the moon
And her fallen sisters too
I know we can make it to

Arizona Tonight
And the California sun
We can make it all right
We don't have to run

Arizona Tonight
And the California sun
We can make it all right
We don't have to run

Birmingham New Street
(B. Kious)

We’re not almost home
We’re not even halfway there
We’re not almost home
And that’s just fine
Because I don’t care
Next stop: Birmingham New Street

Arriving: Birmingham New Street
Shining like a jewel
I know to you it’s just more
Of the same
Ah, but me
I wish I could be you… you

Tell me you won’t wake me
Should I be in a dream
There’s something in my
Deepest soul tells me
That Birmingham New Street
Well, she’s more than she seems

We’re not almost home
They’re falling asleep there
Too bad I’m the only one thinking
Of Birmingham New Street
And I cannot be there…. There

Blue Sky
(K. Hartman)

Hands way up high
I held my head up to the sky

Blue Sky

Ocean waves are on the rise
As I howl your name from the mountain side

Blue Sky

I'll make my way through the misty morning
To serenade on the western shores end

Underneath the blue
I will follow you

Blue Sky

Constellation
(B. Kious)

Thirteen stars…
Hang above, tell your fortune
Seven beads…
Lay against her Costa Rican skin

You don’t know how it feels,
To find yourself out in space
To find yourself looking through her face

She’s the oldest
Being to ever walk these lands
Orion and Leo
Et al emblazoned across her hands

You don’t know how it feels
To find yourself behind her wheel
To tell someone how you literally feel

You don’t know how it feels
To find yourself in her gaze
To find yourself in her way
To find yourself in her grasp
To find yourself with everything you ask

Coloured powders
Mark the place where she lay
Some power
Came from the sun, take her away

[Thirteen stars… she calls home]

You don’t know how it feels
To find yourself with everything you want
To find yourself with everything….

Crazy For You Now
(R. Belt)

Listen very hard and you might see
Look too close and you might hear me
Rise up so low - go down so high
What's this feeling signify?

ohhh oh oh
ohhh oh oh

It's been so long
If there's a way to reach you here
Well, you might think I'm crazy for you now

Touch the air - but can you breath
Taste the clouds - and everything
Reach the bottom - Fell to the top
What's this feeling?
That won't stop - it won't stop!

oh oh
ohhh oh oh

It's been so long
If there's a way to reach you here
Well, you might think I'm crazy for you now

uhhh oh oh
ohhh oh oh

It's been so long
If there's a way to reach you here
Well, you might think I'm crazy for...
You might think I'm crazy for...
Well, you might think I'm crazy for you now

Eden Avenue
(K. Hartman)

I remember when I was young
La da da da da da da
All the songs my sister sung
Too much - too much
So long - so long

And we'd dance across the floor
La da da da da da da
Just like springtime thunderstorms
La da da da da da da

Too much - too much
So long - so long

Take me back home to
Eden Avenue
Take me back home to
Eden Avenue
Never wanna say goodbye, goodbye

Rainbow serpents fill the sky
La da da da da da da
They've been there for al my life
La da da da da da da

Too much - too much
So long - so long

Take me back home to
Eden Avenue
Take me back home to
Eden Avenue
Because I (because I)
Never wanna say goodbye, goodbye

Goodbye, goodbye

The Ghost of Rapunzel
(R. Belt)

There you are - second guessing everything you see
There you cross - sadly by your tower window

You're livin' so alone - while everyone wants you
The black nights are long - and memories haunt you
Like the ghost of Rapunzel

And ashes in the air
Take a while to fall down - sometimes
Magic in the air
Who cast a spell on you? - I wonder

There you walk - 'round in circles
Waiting for someone good to happen

And there we are - I know where you've been lately
Well I can say the same

You're livin' so alone - while everyone wants you
The black nights are long - and memories haunt you
Like the ghost of Rapunzel

There's ashes in the air
Take a while to fall down - sometimes
Magic in the air
Who cast a spell on you? - I wonder

There you fall - out into nothing once again
There you are - trapped inside your champaigne

There's ashes in the air
Take a while to fall down - sometimes
Magic in the air
Who cast a spell on you? - I wonder

There you are... There you are...

Maybe It's Me
(R. Belt)

Maybe it's me but I don't know
I see your face everywhere I go
And maybe it's you who lets me see
Just enough for wondering
Could it be more meaningful
Than just one look would ever know

Thinking it'll go away
But you know I hope it always stays
Maybe we can be all alone
Cause I dont think this will ever go
Maybe we can be but I dont know
I hope this will never go away

Maybe it you who lifts me up
Getting steeper up above
It must be you who keeps this on
I'm getting deeper yes uh huh

Thinking it'll go away
But you know I hope it always stays

Maybe we can be all alone
Cause I dont think this will ever go
Maybe we can be but I dont know
I hope this will never go away

It's not a mystery or something so unseen
And not pushed away for anything

Thinking it'll go away
But you know I hope it always stays

Maybe we can be all alone
Cause I dont think this will ever go
Maybe we can be but I dont know
I hope this will never go away
Never go away

(refrain sung accapella)

Maybe we can be all alone
Cause I dont think this will ever go
Maybe we can be but I don't know
I hope this will never go away

Near Sighted
(B. Kious)

It was a bad day for my eyes
Everything merged into a blur
And I would like to have seen you
But I did not know if you still had a cold

And I'll wait for disaster
And I'll wait 'til she moves faster
And I'll wait - And I'll wait
And I'll wait for her now

It was a bad day for my eyes
Everything fell wrong so
And I would have liked to walk
But I did not know if I would need a coat

And I'll wait for disaster
And I'll wait just to ask her
And I'll wait - And I'll wait
And I'll wait for her now

Nearsighted

It was a bad day for my eyes
Everything fell wrong so
And I would like to have killed you
But things like that are against the law

And I'll wait for disaster
And I'll wait 'til she moves faster
And I'll wait - And I'll wait
And I'll wait for her now

Nearsighted

Punctuated
(R. Belt)

I'd fall down at your feet in the early morning... oh!
Make you a sign from across the street
Kiss the blarney stone!

You are all of everything - that I've punctuated
Know I'd become one soul with you

'Cause you stone me and I'm so high
You hold me to your warm fire
Do you hear me call your name?
In my sleep and waking hours - they pass so slow

You'd take me out of a hole
Six feet deep and I'd wake
Milk and honey would flow
You'd give me all I can take

And if you need me like the blood of life
That runs through veins of everything
Just tell me so

You stone me and I'm so high
You hold me to your warm fire
Do you hear me call your name?
In my sleep and waking hours - they pass so slow

Place your hands upon my flesh
Let your fingers do the walking
like you desire...

You lay me down on your beach
In the early evening - oh!
Out to you would I reach
I'd kiss the Blarney Stone!

You are all of everything and I'm captivated
Take me to your warm fire

You stone me and I'm so high
You hold me to your warm fire
You are all of everything that I've punctuated
Know I'd become one soul with you

'Cause you stone me and I'm so high
You clothe me with your warm smile
Do you hear me call your name in my sleep and waking...

You stone me and I'm so high
You hold me to your warm fire
Do you hear me call your name?
In my sleep and waking hours - they pass so slow

Radio
(B. Kious)

Sky is a deeper black
Headlights scurry beneath it
Would you cry if it fell on me?
Would it make you no difference?

In the early days of radio,
when everything in the weather's right
They say you hear the talking dead
In the middle of the night

Railroad sign's behind me now
There's a vulture on my shoulder
The river is beneath me now
And her legend's getting older

In the early days of radio,
When we were better off
If we didn't like the featured song,
But now I'm scared to turn it off
Afraid i might be wrong.

(instr. break)

In the early days of radio,
When we were better off
If we didn't like the featured song,
But now I'm scared to turn it off
Afraid I might be wrong.

In the early days of radio,
They are dead and gone
You turn the dial anywhere,
You can hear their murmured song.

Riviera
(B. Kious)

Let the records play
Watch the curtains sway
As side by side we lay
In this hotel bed

Now we’re goin’ down
Down to Nice’ town
Yeah, we’ll do the town
Until the moon goes down

Chorus:
Whoa, can’t we stay?
We’ve got all day
Let’s go out and play
Honey, we’re on our way

Now we’re holdin’ hands
Walk along the strands
Walkin’ on the sands
Of the Mediterranean

Repeat: chorus

Now we’re on the plane
I can see the Seine
We’ve got to be insane
To want to go back to America

But there we’ll meet your folks
We’ll tell ‘em Riviera jokes
As we carry our yokes (of luggage)
Back home to stay

Repeat: chorus

Salamander Sound
(B. Kious)

There's sand on the beaches and boots in the kitchen
The tide is receding, the sun starts to glisten
The motor is churning, all year I've been learning
to deal with the pain in my mind that is burning
On Salamander Sound

My love, she went down to the water for sailing
but all of my talk and convincing went failing
She went down to the water, and the wind she was wailing
and blew my poor love right on over the railing
On Salamander Sound

Now I go down to the water, I'm older
I go down to the water, I try to be bolder
I go down to the water, it feels so much colder
I bend down, I lift up the water to hold her
On Salamander Sound....

Same Reminders
(R. Belt)

You wouldn’t play fair, I know your stare
You thought it was oh so easy
You wasted time, squeezed out the lime
You said it was so hard to please me

And now - here we are
And you - seem so far

The same reminders keep coming lately
Take off the blinders so you can see me
The same reminders keep coming back to
Keep coming back to me

If you lost the touch, it’s not enough
It cost us oh so dearly
You played it rough, you'd had enough
Why couldn’t you just speak clearly

The same reminders keep coming lately
Take off the blinders so you can see me
The same reminders keep coming back to
Keep coming back to me

no oh oh oh - no oh oh oh
no oh oh oh ohhhhhhh

And now - here we are
And you - seem so far

The same reminders keep coming lately
Take off the blinders so you can see me
The same reminders keep coming back to
Keep coming back to me

Same reminders uh huh
same reminders keep coming back to -
coming back to me

She's Fine
(R. Belt)

There’s a trace of your face
All around me all over this whole waste
Don’t you know? Gotta go!
It’s no show that you always give me

Whoah oh, there she goes, oh no , what a beautiful scene!

Well maybe, could it be?
That your thoughts are always on me
If I said the wrong thing
Would you could you ever desert me?

Whoa oh, there she goes, oh no, what a beautiful scene.

She’s fine, I know, she’d do anything for me
She’s alright, I know, she’d do anything with me
Whoa-oh there she goes, oh no, what a beautiful scene

What a day, I must say
Lets go for a walk or we'll pay
Well alright, she's uptight
Why don’t we just stay up all night?

Whoa-oh, there she goes, oh no, what a beautiful scene!
Uh huh, here she comes, oh yeah, what a beautiful scene!
Uh huh, here she comes, oh yeah, what a beautiful scene!

Sleepdriving
(C. Wollberg)

Pollution makes the moon seem very large,
or is it just my lack-sleep eyes?
These midnight scenes flash around me as I drive.
Stay on course and out of the ditch.

The lazy will not eat. The worker will not dream.
I lost my nerve as a student of this world.
I said "good-bye" from a star-filled sky.
Now I just make a little money I think I need
and watch the world slip into hell.

While I'm sleepdriving
under a pollution moon
in a cloudy cinema sky,
all the roadkill watch me as I grind by.
It's the only time I can find a little shut-eye.

Summon
(B. Kious)

coming soon

That Won't Change It
(R. Belt)

Don't hand me down
Don't wind me 'round
All I wanted was an indication
Don't leave me 'lone
You know I don't condone
I don't want just an imitation

Well I don't want to say it
'cause I don't think you'll take it well

Your shallowness
That you can't confess
Think I'll just have to break it to ya
You're a hollow trade
For a serenade
I don't know how to wake up to ya

You said we could talk it over
But I don't think that'll change it
I see you've got your four-leafed clover
But I don't think that'll change it
No, not at all

That won't change it
I said "gone-n-a-gone-n-a-gone-n-a-gone
No no no that won't change it"
She's gone-n-a-gone-n-a-gone-n-a-gone
No no no that won't change it

You said we could talk it over
But I don't think that'll change it
I see you've got your four-leafed clover
But I don't think that'll change it
No, not at all

That won't change it
I said "gone-n-a-gone-n-a-gone-n-a-gone
No no no that won't change it"
(That won't change it - no not at all)
She's gone-n-a-gone-n-a-gone-n-a-gone
No no no that won't change it
(That won't change it - no not at all)
She's gone-n-a-gone-n-a-gone-n-a-gone
No no no that won't change it!

Third Degree Burn
(R. Belt)

Beaming like a star that shines
I can’t explain your face reminds me - of the sun
Glowing Glittered all the time
It’s too much for this simple mind - I couldn’t see

I don't feel the heat fading
Just like the air raiding
Even darkest parts seem animated

CHORUS:
And your touch, is a Third Degree Burn
Too much to discern, it’s a Third Degree Burn
Yeah, your touch, is a Third Degree Burn
Too much to discern, it’s a Third Degree Burn

Like lighted torches in the sky, Your radiation shows me why
I think I understand
Flying missile in the night, Hear the whistle hold on tight
Crash into your land

I don't feel the heat fading
Just like the air raiding
Even darkest parts seem animated

CHORUS: (repeat)

I don't feel the heat fading
Just like the air raiding
Even darkest parts seem animated

CHORUS: (Repeat 2x)

Tide Beckons Me
(R. Belt)

Wish me well 'cause I'm going now
To sail out to sea
If nothing else you can save yourself
A lot of misery

'Cause I may get lost
Weather turn to frost
But the tide beckons me

So I drift through the deep blue-green
Here comes a heavy swell
On a course dead-reckoning
Can't find the shelf

And I may get lost
Weather turn to frost
But the tide beckons me
I may get lost
Weather turn to frost
But the tide beckons me

Oh turbulent sea
Roll and fall slowly
May osmeone find me

'Cause I may get lost
Weather turn to frost
But the tide beckons me

Nothing there but fog ahead
Or is it a dream?
Pull the ropes and take 'er home
Just follow light beam

'Cause I may get lost
Weather turn to frost
But the tide beckons me
I may get lost
Weather turn to frost
But the tide beckons me

True
(B. Kious)

Dream awhile my Bonnie Marie
You won't ever cry for me
You say your lover had to fly
and he gave you no reason why

But I would never do that to you
'cause I have this thing about being true

Lay you down you sleepy head
You told me you wish you were dead
That's ok dear thats alright
I will stay with you through the night

Yes I, I will do that for you
'cause I have this thing about being true

So you say he's back in town
You no longer need me around
That's alright dear thats ok
I know when I should go away

Keep in mind that I'd never do that to you
'cause I have this thing about being true

So today I'm far away
I'm standing on this Texas highway
Now, i don't mean to sound unkind
But today you didn't even cross my mind

Undressing Beverly
(B. Kious)

Locked in a room and wondering
If the hall is really there outside
Wants to take a road to the country
But she doesn't know if she should drive

Four years have left her lonely
And the last six months make her feel
Like a ghost of sorts or a poltergeist
But she doesn't really want to deal

So strip off her suffering and peel off her pain
Unbuckle her burden and now you're undressing Beverly

She feels weighed down in this cathedral town
She's feeling just like a mouse
Trying to find her way out of this maze
But she never wants to leave the house

Tries to blame it on men who led her astray
And maybe she's got the right
But no one's seen her exposed as I have
When she wants to give up the fight

So strip off her suffering and peel off her pain
Unbuckle her burden and now you're undressing Beverly

Want It To Be
(R. Belt)

Asked a stranger what he wanted to be
When he was young and still green timber
He said he wanted a hundred million things
When he’d sung a line he remembered

Well I was listening in
On his dream that had been
It was the end of September
I remember…

CHORUS:
It’s what you want it to be, It’s what you want it to be
It’s something you’ve never seen - I’m saying
It’s what you want it to be, It’s what you want it to be
It’s something you’ve never seen - I’m saying

Asked a lady what she thought she could be
As a child, with imagination
She said she never really thought it through
Was beguiled with lack of creation

Well I could see that her mind
Was racing all of the time
I think she needed some ventilation
So I told her…

CHORUS: (Repeat)

I'll saying to you…

What do you want it to be?
What do you want it to be now? (I'm open)
what do you want it to be now?
What do you want it to be? (I'm open)
What do you want it to be? (I'm opening)

Well I was listening in
On his dream that had been
It was the end of September
I remember

CHORUS: (repeat 2x)

Whatcha Need
(R. Belt)

If whatcha need ain't whatcha got
and whatcha get you don't want it
now honey - honey you know
we can take care of things

If whatcha think ain't whatch your talkin'
Then there ain't room to talk ain't it funny?
What's funny to you is not so funny to me

There's much I've thought about
I've tried to wring it out
Of my mind, of my mind, of my mind
But it's still on you

There's what you have there's what you don't
There's what you do and what you won't and it's sunny
It's sunny inside and that don't bother you
There's where you look there's where you don't
There's when you're walking the rope do you follow?
If you follow me, we can take care of things

There's much I've thought about
I've tried to wring it out
Of my mind, of my mind, of my mind
But it's still on you

If whatcha need ain't whatcha got
and whatcha get you don't want it
now honey - honey you know
we can take care of things

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