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GLASS 

High Stakes

Play for high stakes
Can you take it that's the name of the game
Names in gold plate
Paradise just over the hill
See them come and go
Sympathy has no place in your heart
Learn to hold on tight
Fight it down if you want to survive

Get up early in the morning
Get up early for the high stake life

A little place in Spain
Nothing fancy you know what I mean
Silver spur she purrs
Streets are black where you came from
Now the lights burn bright
Sheets are silk, conscience clean
With a Chelsea view and West End screw
Left that East End dead end far behind

Did you think of any other
Sliding by in your high stake life

High roller, steam roller
High staker, chance taker
Smile please camera tease
You're a dirt raker obnoxious little money maker

Not you're sister or you're brother
They misunderstood though you were a mean roller, steam roller
High staker, chance taker
Smile please camera tease
You're a dirt raker obnoxious little money maker

Variety
Variety adds spice to your life
You're doing good, doing good
Doing good but you end up doing well

Where do you go from here
A Duke an Earl or just a life peer

High staker

I Want to See the Moon

Counting days and nights
We play a waiting game
Pluto's child and moon man sing
We've galaxies to tame
Snatching time
Down a telephone line
Just left me feeling blue

Did the postman call
Did he leave my card
Checking in, checking out
Seem's so hard
Another airplane, so many things to do
I want to see the moon with you

I want to see the moon
Up there in the sky
I want to see the moon
Round and round the world we fly
When those clouds have blown away
Stars come into view
Then I'll see the moon with you

Let me take your hand
You'd better hold on tight
Passing through so many places in the night
Hear that road train roar
So many things to do
I want to see the moon with you

I want to see the moon
Up there in the sky
I want to see the moon
Round and round the world we fly
When those clouds have blown away
Stars come into view
Then I'll see the moon with you

I want to see the moon
Up there in the sky
I want to see the moon
Round and round the world we fly
When those clouds have blown away
Stars come into view
Then I'll see the moon with you

Papermen

What do you give us papermen
We're fool enough to read
Daily dose of such trivia
Become so sure that we need
Now it seems to me you have a say
Every corner East and West
Economic, political control at its very best

Another deadline, another deal
Another scandal to reveal

How can I help, what can I do
About an earthquake in Japan
There seems no way to comprehend
Religious fervour in Iran
Exchanging spies with indignant cries
Just don't know who to trust
Its patriotism, fanatacism, protection at any cost

Communication from every place
Communication in the face

Don't you know we're sick and tired of reading this stuff
You never seem to realise enough is enough
Big news exclusive news
Mother nature's got the blues
You're hard nosed bulldozed
What's her name with no clothes
Spend no energy contemplating honesty
Now what's the difference , what's the score?
I just can't tell no more

Making smoke to fuel the fire
Money makes a better liar

Don't you know we're sick and tired of reading this stuff

So we get a bellyfull
Of tribalistic bloody rule – sit and consume
There's little you can do or say
Such crazy business day to day – the media tune
Drug probe, star abode
The P.M.'s work load – the jet set
All this stuff to entertain
As commonsense goes down the drain – never let you forget

The right to know you insist
Always get what you try to resist

Don't you know we're sick and tired of reading this stuff
You never seem to realise enough is enough
Manipulating history to suit your own desires
Truth is burned and turned to ashes in the fire

Yes it is

All I Want Is You

All I want is you
Everything you say and do
All I want is you

All I want is you
Take my hand, lead me through
All I want is you

Hearts beat, hearts beat in time
Soul beat a rhapsody
It's held in rhythm and rhyme

All I want is you
Lark flies high with every breathe
It carries me with you

Touches me, touches me through my skin
This symphony weeps like a willow
I don't know where to begin

All I want is you
Cover me like morning dew
All I want is you

Touches me, touches me through my skin
This symphony weeps like a willow
I don't know where to begin

The World Is Made of Glass

This house is mine
I'm in my house
The many rooms are warm
Each has it's use
Each has it's place
All but one
This empty space

There's no way in
There is no key
No light from windows clear
The air is thick
It's so hard to breathe
This empty space
It troubles me

The world is made of glass
The world is made of glass

Then outside a mighty noise
The flagpole crashes down
On the roof a warrior proud
He's finely dressed
In wartime shroud

He wealds his spear
I see his face
His eyes flash like ice
Heaven knows what curse he brings
Does hell protect
This empty space

The world is made of glass
The world is made of glass

I am on air
There is no time
No sound outside to hold
Can this be where
The two sides touch
Before the dream grows cold

The world is made of glass
The world is made
The world is made of glass

Red Turns to Blue

Goodnight baby
The day has lost its summer glow
Night calls in long shadows fast
The sea shimmers like broken glass

I hear those mighty engines roar
Do we run – do we hit the floor?
Just a look, nothing left to say
Black and white fades to grey

All I'm left with is a photograph
Coloured memory of you
These footsteps take another path
Mist covered eyes – as the red turns to blue

Old age burnt on a young mans face
Such innocence, such, youthful waste
What you got here is what you see
Ten thousand years of history

All I'm left with is a photograph
Coloured memory of you
These footsteps take another path
Mist covered eyes – as the red turns to blue

So we tried to make a difference
We were tired of sitting on the fence
We were hero's before we had gone
Kidded ourselves, this won't take long

Now the flag flies half way down
The tears are flowing free
Right or wrong we're the last to know
And the day has lost its summer glow

All I'm left with is a photograph
Coloured memory of you
These footsteps take another path
Mist covered eyes – as the red turns to blue

Let's Dance

I'll paint you a sunrise today
Sky high and clear
I could show you a summer heart beat
So gentle like breathe in your ear

Let's dance, let's dance
Dance the dance with me
Let's dance
Dance the dance with me

I've been walking I'm dead on my feet
I'm all tattered and torn
But I'll paint you a sunset today
That will last until dawn

Let's dance, let's dance
Dance the dance with me
Let's dance
Dance the dance with me

I'll show you the way

I'll colour the end of the day
The moonchild will sing
We'll swim in the shadow of love
As nightfall spreads open wings

Let's dance, let's dance
Dance the dance with me
Let's dance
Dance the dance with me

She Wants Everything

Lioness tears at my heart
She wants my soul my very whole
She wants everything

This love affair has no end
Endless tease – with no release
She surely was my friend

I gave myself to this war
I was the nice kid
The one from next door

Tracks of tears, tracks of pain
Those needles deep – taste blood so sweet
Like summer walking in the rain

How can I ever forget
I'm battle scrres – I fought so hard
But she wants everything

This alley way is my home
While all around me this cancer has grown
Streets of fear streets of shame
Consume the innocent – enveloped in flames

I gave myself to this war
I was the bright kid the one they adored
Now all is still all is calm
The lioness sleeps she can do me no harm

She wants my soul my very whole
She wants everything
Lioness tears at my heart
She wants everything

Star for Now

Through smoke glass windows you smile
You're a mandarin of ease
You quietly inspire
Luxury follows you unconcealed

You're a star for now
You're a star for now
You're a star

Perfect situation remote romantic
Opportunity thrown at your feet
Illumination so easily
Casting long shadows in your path

You're a star for now
You're a star for now
You're a star

Saw your face in neon brightly glare
Oh shrill cold insistent peon
You get asked to go everywhere
Personal invitation to consume

You're a star for now
You're a star for now
You're a star

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