The Ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove 

I thought that you knew it all 
Well you've seen it ten times before. 
I thought that you had it down 
With both your feet on the ground. 
I love slow...slow but deep. 
Feigned affections wash over me. 
Dream on my dear 
And renounce temporal obligations. 
Dream on my dear 
It's a sleep from which you may not awaken. 

You build me up then you knock me down. 
You play the fool while I play the clown. 
We keep time to the beat of an old slave drum. 
You raise my hopes then you raise the odds 
You tell me that I dream too much 
Now I'm serving time in disillusionment. 

I don't believe you anymore...I don't believe you. 

I thought that I knew it all 
I'd seen all the signs before. 
I thought that you were the one 
In darkness my heart was won. 

You build me up then you knock me down. 
You play the fool while I play the clown. 
We keep time to the beat of an old slave drum. 
You raise my hopes then you raise the odds 
You tell me that I dream too much 
Now I'm serving time in a domestic graveyard. 

I don't believe you anymore...I don't believe you. 

Never let it be said I was untrue 
I never found a home inside of you. 
Never let it be said I was untrue 
I gave you all my time.

I sat within the valley green 
I sat me with my true love. 
My sad heart strove the two between 
The old love and the new love. 
The old for her the new 
That made me think on Ireland dearly. 
While the soft wind blew down the glade 
and shook the golden barley. 

T'was hard the woeful words to frame 
To break the ties that bound us. 
But harder still to bear the shame 
of foreign chains around us. 
And so I said the mountain glen 
I'll meet at morning early. 
And I'll join the bold united men 
While soft winds shook the barley. 

T'was sad I kissed away her tears 
My fond arm round her flinging. 
When a foe, man's shot burst on our ears 
From out the wild woods ringing. 
A bullet pierced my true love's side 
In life's young spring so early. 
And on my breast in blood she died 
While soft winds shook the barley. 

But blood for blood without remorse 
I've ta'en at oulart hollow. 
I've lain my true love's clay like corpse 
Where I full soon must follow. 
Around her grave I've wandered drear 
Noon, night, and morning early. 
With breaking heart when e'er I hear 
The wind that shakes the barley. 

Outside 
The storm clouds gathering, 
Moved silently along the dusty boulevard. 
Where flowers turning crane their fragile necks 
So they can in turn 
Reach up and kiss the sky. 

They are driven by a strange desire 
Unseen by the human eye 
Someone is calling. 

I remember when you held my hand 
In the park we would play when the circus came to town. 
Look! Over here. 

Outside 
The circus gathering 
Moved silently along the rainswept boulevard. 
The procession moved on the shouting is over 
The fabulous freaks are leaving town. 

They are driven by a strange desire 
Unseen by the human eye. 
The carinval is over. 

We sat and watched 
As the moon rose again 
For the very first time.

Farewell now my sister
Up ahead there lies your road
And your conscience walks beside you
It's the best friend you will ever know
And the past is now your future
It bears witness to your soul
Make sure that the love you offer up
Does not fall on barren soil.
For the wind cries of late
In the whispering grass.
Our way of life is held
In the spinning wheels of chance.
I believe in the ways of an older law
When we used to dance to a different drum
And we are changing are ways
Yes we are taking on different roads
Tell me more about the forest
That you once called home.
For the wind cries of late
In the whispering leaves
And the sun will turn to waste
The heavens we build above.
Father teach your children
To treat our mother well
If we give her back her diamonds
She will offer up her pearl.
But I'm not bitter no I'm surviving
To face the world, to raise the future.
So why don't you tell me, come on and tell me
About the world you left behind.
Come on and tell me.

You saw sagacious Solomon
You know what came of him,
To him complexities seemed plain.
He cursed the hour that gave birth to him
And saw that everything was vain.
How great and wise was Solomon.
The world however did not wait
But soon observed what followed on.
It's wisdom that had brought him to this state.
How fortunate the man with none.
You saw courageous Caesar next
You know what he became.
They deified him in his life
Then had him murdered just the same.
And as they raised the fatal knife
How loud he cried: you too my son!
The world however did not wait
But soon observed what followed on.
It's courage that had brought him to that state.
How fortunate the man with none.
You heard of honest Socrates
The man who never lied:
They weren't so grateful as you'd think
Instead the rulers fixed to have him tried
And handed him the poisoned drink.
How honest was the people's noble son.
The world however did not wait
But soon observed what followed on.
It's honesty that brought him to that state.
How fortunate the man with none.
Here you can see respectable folk
Keeping to God's own laws.
So far he hasn't taken heed.
You who sit safe and warm indoors
Help to reliev4���