Mad Jack

He's cold to the kiss
In ignorance he's dangerous, in innocence he's bliss
And stalks the night with sonar senses and he holds you tight
Masturbates the madness in you

He dreams when he's not sleeping
Plays a trusted friend
Trust him, friend, about as far as you can piss
And he holds the night, walks in shadow and avoids the light
Masturbates the madness in you

His frightened eyes can't disguise
Blatant lies, flagrant lies
Step inside, let the world know...

Oh well we'll be watching now where he's walking
Is a vacuum world where every word is a silent, strangled scream
Oh he's God tonight, he walks on water and he's always right
Talks about the madness in America
Oh he's God tonight, he walks on water and he's always right
Talks about the madness in Africa

His frightened eyes, Mad Jack's eyes
Can't disguise blatant lies
Frightened eyes
Mad Jack's eyes are open wide, his eyes are wide, eyes are wide!

It's been a long time Jack, welcome back
Have some speed, have some smack

You know it's your name.
 

Caution

(This is a little trick I learned, this latest great escape)

We have no future, we have no past
We're just drifting ghosts of glass
Brown sugar, ice in our veins
No pressure, no pain

Everybody looks the same to me
Rows and rows of faces on a balcony
I can hear them calling down to me
Come up here--set us free
Got sugar in our brains
Or a dagger in our hearts

This is not my home, no
Everyone's bought and sold
This is not my home
Everybody's walking round the dead and cold

And one by one by one we disappear
Day after day, year after year
You can do a runner but we're still there
Nobody hears cause nobody cares
Put a dagger in my heart now

Cold here and I shudder and I shiver
I want to look twenty but I can't deliver
Pains in the heart
Ba-ba-bow-wow-wow-wow

It's cold in here
Can you hear my teeth a-chatter
The time has come for all of us to scatter
Caution to the wind
Caution to the wind
Dagger in the heart

No
This is not my home, no
Everyone's bought and sold
This is not my home
Everybody's checking out the dead and cold
Cold, cold, cold

We have no future we have no past
We're just drifting ghosts of glass
Brown sugar, ice in our veins
No pressure, no pain

No pressure, no pain
No pressure, no shame
No pressure, oh, throw it away

Nothing on earth could help me now
No...
 

Tears (Original Version)

It's just coincidence
Well you can talk that way
But I have to say I don't believe in it
And with the chill of chance I decided to dance the days away
But I wasn't worried at all--sneaking through the back door
No I wasn't worried at all--dreams are what you live for

Waiting for the light to turn green
And carry me home
To the kindest eyes that I've ever seen
Carry me home
Well can you tell me how will it be now?
How will it be?
Can you tell me how will it be now?
How will it be?

Well we were younger then, and the days were long and slow
But were we wiser then?  I couldn't say, I wouldn't know,
But I wasn't worried at all--I had someone to run to
No I wasn't worried at all--I knew which way the wind blew

Kicking out the chaos and gloom
Carry me home...
I watched the ceiling spin round the room
Carry me home...
Well can you tell me how will it be now?
How will it be?
Can you tell me how will it be now?
How will it be?

In a cold world
How will it be?
In the real world
How will it be?
In a lonely world
How will it be?
Will the ghosts just stop following me?

In a cold world
How will it be?
In a real world
How will it be?
Beg and crawl
How will it be?
Will the ghosts just stop following me?

Oh now, draw him to the sun
He was the only one
He cries out to everyone
For his only son

From the window of my room now
I can see the colour bloom now
You can't even look in my eyes now
What would you see?
If you could look into my eyes now
What would you see?
What would you see

It's just coincidence
Well you can talk that way
It's just coincidence
Well you can talk that way
I don't believe in it
I don't believe in it
 

Soul In Isolation

Soul in isolation
I can hear you breathing down the hall
Soul in isolation
I can hear you whisper through the walls

And if I had a mind to now
I could call to you
Or I could simply shut you out
No more would you cry, cry, cry

I give you my time to kill
But you'll never never break my will
Or I could sink a sleeping pill
And in the morning could be sleeping still

But most of you are much too ill
Way beyond a surgeon's skill
In bondage to a dollar bill
What more can you buy, buy, buy?

Oh, when you think on it,
When you think on it we're all souls in isolation
I'm alive in here

Come here...a word in your ear...
Back to the trees...

Big bad giant standing tall
Crushing all creatures, great and small
I'd like to see this giant fall
When will it come?

Words that rattle round my head
"Struck by lightning" someone said
A diamond bullet through the head
Right in the brain

Will I see the chamber's face
Did my mother bring me to this place?
And will I live to see his face
Will another come to take my place?

In total isolation surrounded by fears
Too many clouds--too many tears
Isolation, surrounded by clouds
In another world, head in the clouds

I'm alive in here
I scream but you still don't hear
I'm alive in here
I'm alive--turn on the light...

Turn on the light...

Oh, when you think on it,
When you think on it we're all souls in isolation
I'm alive in here

We're always searching for something, searching
Dear, dear dead days I'm longing for you
Sweetest virgin, now deflowered...
 

Swamp Thing

I can already hear your tune
Calling me across the room
When the world and his wife are on my back again
Not enough pleasure, too much pain

When the world is too much with me
(Please leave--just go away)
I lose my mind completely
(Please leave--just go now)
In the side street something's moving
Look around, look around
All around you walls are tumbling down
Stop staring at the ground

I can practically see your face
And another revolutionary falls from grace
Hear the thunder in your brain
Not enough sunshine, too much rain

When the light of life has gone
(No change for the meter)
And then the king of spivs will come
(Selling blood by the liter)
When nothing's sacred anymore
When the demon's knocking on your door
You'll still be staring down at the floor

Not too many hours from this hour
So long
The storm comes
Or is it just another shower?

Picking up the pieces
Half alive in a nine-to-five
Vacant eyes
Is it any wonder?
Rhyme and scream at the TV screen
Close your eyes

Now the world is too much with me
(Please leave--just go away)
Before I lose my mind completely
(Just leave--please go now)
Now nothing's sacred anymore
When the demon's breaking down your door
You'll still be staring down at the floor

Not too many hours from this hour
So long
The storm comes
Or is it just another shower?

Now the rain has come
Or is it just another shower?
 

Time

One chance is all you have
When it's gone all you have is sorrow
One chance is all you have
Take it on like there's no tomorrow

Don't waste your time,
Don't waste time
Time

Time--slipping away
Have to make the most of your time
You don't have time
Time--open the door somewhere in the back of your mind
Child, you don't have time anymore

Unchained, intoxicating youth
Such an endless feeling
These days are softly stolen away
While your head is reeling

Don't waste your time,
Don't waste time
Time
Time

Time--slipping away
Have to make the most of your time
You don't have time
Time--open the door somewhere in the back of your mind
Child, you don't have time anymore

Don't waste your days away crying all night
Lonely child, lonely child
Don't waste your days away crying all night
Oh lonely child, lonely child

Time--slipping away
Have to make the most of your time
You don't have time
Time--open the door somewhere in the back of your mind
Child, you don't have time anymore

Time, time, time
Slipping away somewhere in the back of your mind
In your mind, in your mind

Tick tick tick
Tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock...
 

Seriocity

I used to be so sure
I used to be so certain
Now it's gone

Always needing more
Bleating out excuses
I have none, no

Cast reflections on the water
Now that the deed is done
We'll wait, and watch the ripples fade away

Hearts are breaking
Someone's daughter joins with someone's son
It goes on and on again, on and on again
We'll watch the ripples run

I used to be so sure
I used to be so certain
How could I be so wrong?

Always needing more
At last the chains are breaking
Watch me now
Watch me run

Over fields and past the houses
Like a bullet from the gun
Watch the figure fade away

Hearts are breaking
Someone's daughter joins with someone's son
All alone again
All alone again
Watch the ripples run

Over fields and past the houses
Watch the rabbit run
 

In Answer

Hey, one afternoon
The parties were parted too soon
And it slipped away
I don't know what to say

Eyes that drew me in
To a wonderfully wonderful sin
And it blew me away
I don't know what to say

In answer,
In answer,
In answer,
Nothing matters to me

Hey, one cold grey afternoon
The parties were parted too soon
And it slipped away
I don't know what to say

Eyes that drew me in
To a wonderfully wonderful sin
And it blew me away
I don't know what to say

In answer
In answer
In answer
Nothing matters to me
Nothing matters to me
Believe me--you own my soul completely

And from day to day,
Oh from hour to hour
I will be, I will be
Always in your power
Set my spirit free

As I fell, fell to the ground
My head spun around and around
And I didn't know
Which way was up or down

Hey, one cold grey afternoon
The party was parted too soon
I touched the moon
I don't know what to say

In answer
In answer
In answer
You're all that matters to me
You're all that matters to me
Believe me...
 

Childhood

I saw innocent kids turn cool
In the playground at school
Poor Claudius played the fool
Survival is cruel
One for the space to prowl as you please
Two for the pulpit--down on your knees

We opened out hearts to shame
No-one's to blame

Hey--everything was clearer than today
Oh you have to hold on to your childhood
Open your eyes, and stay as you are my friend
You have to hang on

My life is a Milbury's home, on Hereford way
My life is a Barclays' loan, now, and a mortgage to pay
Let's drink to freedom and family ties
"Here's to the bags that are under my eyes"
We opened our eyes to pride
Nothing inside

Hey--everything was clearer than today
Oh you have to hold on to your childhood
Open your eyes, and stay as you are my friend
You have to hold on...

How have you been?  I hope you go far
Together we stand and drop from the bar
I'm watching you now, cleaning your car
Open your eyes, and stay as you are

You have to hold on to your childhood
You have to hold on to your childhood

Hang on, hang on
With just a little more heart now
With just a little more--come on
Just a little more heart now
Just a little bit--come on

I hope we'll both be very happy
Both be very happy
Both be very happy
Both be very very very very very very very happy

Hang on with just a little more heart now
With just a little bit...
Hang on, hang on
 

Tears (Full Arrangement)

It's just coincidence
Well, you can talk that way
But I have to say I don't believe in it
It was a chill of chance,
I decided to dance the days away

And I wasn't worried at all
Sneaking through the back door
No, I wasn't worried at all
Dreams are what you live for

Waiting for the light to turn green
Carry me home
To the kindest eyes that I've ever seen
Carry me home
Well, can you tell me how will it be now?
How will it be?
Can you tell me, how will it be now?
How will it be?

Well we were younger then,
And the days were long and slow
But were we wiser then?
I couldn't say, I wouldn't know

But I wasn't worried at all
I had someone to run to
And I wasn't worried at all
I knew which way the wind blew

Counting out the chaos and gloom
Carry me home
And I watched the ceiling spin 'round the room
Carry me home
Well, can you tell me, how will it be now?
How will it be?
Can you tell me, how will it be now?
How will it be?

In the real world, how will it be?
In a cold world, how will it be?
In a lonely world, how will it be?
Will the ghosts just stop following me?

No, now drawn into the sun
He was the only one

In the real world, how will it be?
In a cold, cold world, how will it be?
Beck and call, beg and crawl, how will it be?
Will the ghosts just stop following me?

No, now drawn into the sun
He was the only one

And so I'll remember you
I'll remember the days and the thousands of ways you pulled me through
And dream of all the things you've seen
Of all the faces and all of the places you have been
Now you have no phone and you have no name and you have no number
And it comes to an end in the blink of an eye and it makes me wonder...
 

Paradiso

I recall a closing door, and I remember
Seeing shadows cross a stained-glass stair
Long before the strangers came down to steal our clothing
And our consciences and long before
Eyes were empty
Hearts were cold...

We'll watch the rattlesnake slide
Slowly swirl into view
To tease and tantalize
To suck your senses and spit out the pieces

Magazine girl, she was living in a different world
Or is it a he?
Pull back the curtain, my son
I look around, the color has gone

And slowly darkness descends upon me
Paradiso, I know you lied
That much I see

Well the serpent sings his song
To so many sleeping, staring eyes
Like sheep they sing along
And clap in time to a heart that's beating

Crazy child, she was wicked, oh she was wild
Her eyes were open
Pull back the curtain today
I look around, the color is gray

Gray as the ghost town that towers above me
Paradiso, I know you lied
That much is clear
To me

I see the poet and the fool
Walking hand in hand to school

I recall a lonely outcast, and I remember
Laughing children
It was long before
Their eyes were empty,
Hearts were cold

So dance this final dance with me
I'll wrap my sting round your spine
Will poison wash away the fear
Wipe the world from my mind?

Look up, what can you do
I looked around, the color was blue
Wise up, it's in your head
I looked around me and the color is red

Red as the words that I read on the wall
Paradiso, kingdoms rise,
So must they fall
And only ashes remain in the end
Paradiso, I know you lied,
Lies without end
I'll see it again and again and again...
 

Inside Out

Love and laughter fills his life today
Dragged into this world and thrown away
She never wanted you, better things to do
You won't remember...
Drawn to the door, whizzing through the week,
Dancing round the fire with the rest of the freaks

Oh no, no, things are different now
Don't let these days of doubt
Turn him inside out

His second mother holds him to her breast
She sees her children come and go
Ripping the heart from her
All of them part of her
And some will remember...
Time heals all wounds they say
She can't let them take her boy away

This son, oh, she would die without
Don't let these days of doubt
Turn her inside out

When she was young, the world was a different place...
After all

And his heart is in his home
There helplessly waiting for someone to smash his world to pieces
Ignorant and cruel,
Social student fools,
Pull him to the right, pull him to the left,
Pull him by the arms, pull him by the legs
Let go!

Oh, things are different now...
Don't let these days of doubt
Turn them inside out

When you were young, they wore a different face
When she was young, the world was a different place
When you were young, they wore a different smile
 

Ever After

I don't believe in fascists or flashing females or factory floors
I don't believe in speeding, I don't believe in spreading spores
I don't believe in Cupid or his laden arrows out of the blue
All of that is stupid but then again it's up to you.

Disguise and distort all you will
I'm burning up I can't stand still
I'm finding out I always will
For ever after.

I don't believe in fireworks, I don't believe in CND
It's just another slogan from a student library
I don't believe in justice, I don't believe in love on the dole
I don't believe in wham-bam, I don't believe in what comes now.

Disguise and distort all you will
I'm burning up I can't stand still
I'm finding out I always will
For ever after.

It's just another avenue to walk down.

Disguise and distort all you will
I'l burning up I can't stand still
I'm finding out I always will
For ever after.

Everybody's crazy.