Lyrics - To The Faithful Departed

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• Hollywood
• Salvation
• When You're Gone
• Free To Decide
• War Child
• Forever Yellow Skies
• The Rebels
• I Just Shot John Lennon
• Electric Blue
• I'm Still Remembering
• Will You Remember?
• Joe
• Bosnia
• Cordell
• The Picture I View

I've got a picture in my head, in my head
It's you and me, we are in bed, we are in bed
You'll always be there when I call, when I call
You'll always be there most of all, all, all, all

(Chorus 1)
This is not Hollywood, like I understood
Is not Hollywood, like, like, like
This is not Hollywood, like I understood
Is not Hollywood, like, like, like

(Chorus 2)
Runaway, runaway, is there anybody there?
Runaway, runaway, is there anybody there?
Get away, get away, get away
Get away, get away, get away

I've got a picture in my room, in my room
I will return there I presume, it should be soon
The greatest irony of all, shoot the wall
It's not so glamorous at all, all, all, all

Chorus 1
Chorus 2

This is not Hollywood, runaway
This is not Hollywood, {like x19} & {runaway x9} (at the same time)

To all those people doin' lines
Don't do it, don't do it
Inject your soul with liberty
It's free, it's free

To all the kids with heroin eyes
Don't do it, don't do it
Because it's not not what it seems
No no it's not not what it seems

Salvation, salvation
Salvation is free
Salvation, salvation
Salvation is free

To all the parents with sleepless nights, sleepless nights
Tie your kids on to their beds
Clean their heads

To all the kids with heroin eyes
Don't do it, don't do it
Because it's not not what it seems
No no it's not not what it seems

Chorus x2

Hold onto love
That is what I do
Now that I've found you

And from above
Everything's stinking
They're not around you

(Chorus 1)
And in the night
I could be helpless
I could be lonely
Sleeping without you

(Chorus 2)
And in the day
Everything's complex
There's nothing simple
When I'm not around you

(Chorus 3)
But I'll miss you when you're gone
That is what I do
And it's going to carry on
That is what I do

Hold onto my hands
I feel I'm sinking
Sinking without you

And to my mind
Everything's stinking
Stinking without you

Chorus 1
Chorus 2
Chorus 3

It's not worth anything more than this at all
I live as I choose or I will not live at all
So return to where you come from
Return to where you dwell
Because harassment's not my forte
But you do it very well

(Chorus)
I'm free to decide, I'm free to decide
And I'm not so suicidal after all
I'm free to decide, I'm free to decide
And I'm not so suicidal after all
At all, at all, at all

You must have nothing more with your time to do
There's a war in Russia and Sarajevo too
So to hell with what you're thinking
And to hell with your narrow mind
You're so distracted from the real thing
You should leave your life behind, behind

(Chorus repeats)

Who will save the war child baby
Who controls the key
The web we weave is thick and sordid
Fine by me

At times of war we're all the losers
There's no victory
We shoot to kill and kill your lover
Fine by me

(Chorus 1)
War child
Victim of political pride
Plant the seed
Territorial greed
Mind the war child
We should mind the war child

I spent last winter in New York
And came upon a man
He was sleeping on the streets and homeless
He said, "I fought in Vietnam"

Beneath his shirt he wore the mark
He bore the mark with pride
A two inch deep incision carved
Into his side

Chorus 1

Who's the loser now?
Who's the loser now?
We're all the losers now
We're all the losers now

War child
War child

Yellow skies
I can see you in yellow skies
See you again
I see you again

In my dreams
In my dreams
In my dreams
In my dreams

Morning light
I remember morning light
Outside my door
I see you no more

In my dreams
In my dreams
In my dreams
In my dreams

(Chorus 1)
Forever, forever I'll be
Forever holding you
Forever, forever I'll be
Forever holding you
Responsible, responsible, responsible, responsible

Black and white
It's become so black and white
So insecure
You're so insecure

That's what you are
That's what you are
That's what you are
That's what you are

Chorus 1

Chorus 1

Seems like yesterday we were sixteen
We were the rebels of the rebel scene
We wore Doc Martens in the sun
Drinking vintage cider having fun
We were drinking vintage cider having fun

(Chorus 1)
It wasn't often, that we'd fight at all
It wasn't often
It wasn't often, that we'd fight at all
It wasn't often

We wore Doc Martens in the snow
Paint our toe-nails black and let our hair grow
What I am now's what I was then
I am not more acceptable than them
I am not more acceptable than them

Chorus 1

It wasn't often x8

Seems like yesterday we were sixteen
We were the rebels of the rebel scene
(Sigh)

(Gregorian chant)

Electric blue eyes where did you come from?
Electric blue eyes who sent you?
Electric blue eyes, always be near me
Electric blue eyes, I need you

(Chorus)
Domine, domine venus
Domine, adiuva me
Domine, domine venus
Domine, adiu adiu

Ave

If you should go you should know I love you
If you should go you should know I'm here
Always be near me, guardian angel
Always be near me, there's no fear

(Chorus)

I'm still remembering the day I gave my life away
I'm still remembering the time you said you'd be mine
Yesterday was cold and bare, because you were not there
Yesterday was cold, my story has been told

(Chorus)
I need your affection all the way
The world has changed or I've changed in a way
I try to remain, I'm trying not to go insane
I need your affection all the way, the way

Get away x6

I'm still remembering my life before I became your wife
I'm still remembering the pain and the mind games
Reverse psychology never tainted me
I didn't sell my soul
I didn't sell my soul

Chorus

They say the cream will always rise to the top
They say that good people are always first to drop
What of Kurt Cobain, will his presence still remain?
Remember JFK, ever saintly in a way
Where are you now
Where are you now
Where are you now, I said
Where are you now

I need your affection all the way x4

All the way x10

Will you remember the dress I wore?
Will you remember my face?
Will you remember the lipstick I wore?
This world is a wonderful place

Will you remember the black limousine?
Will you remember champagne?
Will you remember the things that we've seen?
I will return here again

Will you remember the flowers in my hand?
Will you remember my hair?
Will you remember the future we planned?
The world is not waiting out there

I won't remember the dress I wore
I won't remember champagne
I won't remember the things that we swore
I will just love you in vain

Will you remember?
Will you recall?
Will you remember?

There was a time, I was so lonely
Remember the time, it was on Friday
You made me feel fine, we did it my way
I sat on your knees, every Friday

(Chorus)
We walked in fields of golden hay
I still recall you
We walked in fields of golden hay
I see you in the summer

Joe
Joe

I sat on your chair, by the fire
Transfixed in a stare, taking me higher
Precious years to remember
Childhood fears, I surrender

(Chorus)

I would like to state my vision
Life was so unfair
We live in our secure surroundings
And people die out there

Bosnia was so unknind
Sarajevo changed my mind
And we all call out in despair
All the love we need isn't there
And we all sing songs in our room
Sarajevo erects another doom

Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Saraje-
Bosnia was so unkind
Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Saraje-
Bosnia was so unkind

Sure things would change if we really wanted them to
No fear for children anymore
There are babies in their beds
Terror in their heads
For the lamb of life

When do the saints go marching in?
When do the saints go marching in?
When do the saints go marching in?
When do the saints go marching in?

Cordell, time will tell
They say that you passed away
And I hope you've gone to a better place
Time will tell, time will tell
They say that you passed away
And I know that you've gone to a better place
Cordell x7

Your lover and baby will cry
But your presence will always remain
Is this how it was meant to be
You meant something more to me
Than what many people will see
And to hell with the industry

Cordell, time will tell
They say that you passed away
And I hope you've gone to a better place
Time will tell, time will tell
We all will depart and decay
And we all will return to the better place
Cordell x7

I swear that he's good for me
And I swear he looks after me
And I swear he looks out for me
And I swear that he's good, good, good

La, la, la, the picture I view
La, la, la, the picture I view

All my plans and promises
Went tumbling down the hill
All my plans and promises
Went tumbling down the hill
They went tumbling down the hill

I haven't changed but my life has
People are strange when it's like us
I did something wrong to them
And I don't even know your name
No I don't even know your name
Don't even know your name

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