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NEVER TOLD A SOUL 

Boy with Chinese Eyes

On a clear summer morning
A black woman in white
We've waited for so long
Three hundred days and nights

Soft music warms the air
Feel the temperature rise
Say hello to this bright new world
And a boy with Chinese eyes

You take me to places I never thought I would go
You bring out the child inside
A lonely child waited so long to know

It's so easy to love you
It's no trouble at all
We're part of the same world now
I wonder if you'll be tall

Are you real let me touch you
English summer surprise
Sweet smile full of wonder
From a boy with Chinese eyes

You helped turn back the pages I'm under your spell
So much to experience
Those Chinese eyes will soon have their story to tell

I remember when I was young that crazy first sailboat ride
Memories dance round inside my head
Appear in my dreams a chance to see the other side

Come dance through the fire with me
Come play with the game
We'll change all the rules again
We can give them other names

You reach out to touch
That plane high in the sky
J-J dance to the guitar sound
Boy with Chinese eyes

You take me to places I never thought I would go
You bring out the child inside
A lonely child waited so long to know

The Night Café

Two souls caress
As hard as steel yet soft as snow
It's so unreal I know
The body feels each savage blow

Painter's chair
The painter's gone but his spirits strong
His legacy's on fire
Leaves “just about everything” a mistery

The Night Café holds you like a madman's stare
Aching lights on aching heads
Some have made a home of this place instead
The Night Café

Night or day
His arrow's point so hard to choose
What colour black or white
So close to the edge in the Café of Night

Shed no tears
The Night Café won't let you go
Won't let you show your fear
But if you show your heart somebody mught care

The Night Café asks for no entrance fees
Shabby clothes on heroes past
This bottle on the table might be your last
In the Night Café

Yellow dawn
Shows its face but no one turns
No one says goodbye
All they have left is a license to die

The Night Café asks for no entrance fees
Shabby clothes on heroes past
This bottle on the table won't be my last
In the Night Café

Never Told a Soul

Never told a soul you were leavin'
Never told a soul you were mine
Feels like the first time
Not the last time
Never told a soul

Everyday I hear a different story
Everytime I call you you're putting hope in my heart
Oh can't this time be sure
Not like the time before
We drifted apart

What am I doing here why did I stay
It didn't make sense for us day after day
Don't turn around and say I wasted your time
It was mostly your idea not mine

Seemed so right to keep a secret
I didn't like your friends you didn't like mine
Late night rendezvous
Somehow you've got to prove
You've got a friend

What am I doing here this place is not my home
I should be out there with a life of my own
I thought everything was working out fine
So I never told a soul you were mine

Never told a soul you were leavin'
Didn't realise I was out in the cold
Someoene else calls your name
Nothing now can make me change
My mind again

What am I doing here why did I stay
Nothing made sense for us day after day
You turned around and said “You wasted my time”
I never told a soul you were mine

Jimmy on the Central Line

Weary morning traveller another weekend gone
Billboards paint a better picture than where you come from
You don't want to talk about it
You might as well talk to the wall
Isolated in your newspaper-crossword puzzle- page three girl

Try to find a reason try to find a cause
Why everyday a thousand footsteps cross this dirty floor
A sea of cigarette ends
And giveaway magazines
Ticket seller's purple hangover-usual morning scene

And you Jimmy whats the song that you play
Makes me feel happy helps me forget the day
All the smoke and dust makes my lungs burn
Think I've had a bellyful don't have the nerve to turn

Turn around and change this empty life
Nine to five is killing me there must be more in life
I can't seem to understand it
I don't know what to make of it all
Then I hear your sweet song loud and strong echo down the tunnel wall

I know that some throw you silver
Some just walk on by
When you play the central line I can feel my anger slide

And you Jimmy whats the song that you play
Makes me feel happy helps me forget the day
All the smoke and dust makes my lungs burn
Think I've had a bellyful don't have the nerve to turn

I can see you crouching there your head bent low
You never seem to notice all the people come and go
Makes no difference to you
Just another way of passing the time
Can't remember how it used to be when you weren't there on the Central Line

Jimmy what's the song that you play
Makes me feel happy helps me forget the day
All the smoke and dust makes my lungs burn
Think I've had a bellyful don't have the nerve

Oh Jimmy what's the song that you play
Makes me feel so happy makes me want to break away

Northern Land

Many years living hell
Has left its scars
Armies march to settle the score
A bell tolls behind closed doors

Headlines full of priests and martyrs
And sheady financial deals
Religion holds its banners high
Hungry man prepares to die for his freedom

They'll come a day when you'll be free Northern Land
The band will play your folk songs Northern Land
Caught in this crossfire is it any wonder
We don't understand

Across the water the devil's daughter
Her scheming hands
With calls for Traitors and Acts of Treason
Peacemakers pay lips service to reason

Divided we stand divided we fall
Divided we fail
How can we hang on to the same old lie
When so many men are willing to die for their freedom

You're the ones we talk about you're the ones we fear Northern Land
Not a place to walk about no nature trail Northern Land
Caught in your crossfire is it any wonder
We don't understand

Sticks and stones have broken bones
On these battered streets
Military games-manning barricades
Are what young boys are made of

With your father in a prison cell
And a brother lost
Hard for a child to understand
Why so many men are willing to die for their freedom

They'll come a day when you'll be free Northern Land
The band will play your folk songs Northern Land
Caught in this crossfire is it any wonder
We don't understand

You're the ones we talk about you're the ones we fear Northern Land
Not a place to walk about no nature trail Northern Land
Caught in your crossfire is it any wonder
We don't understand

Another Alibi

Have they taken the law into their own hands
Tell an artist “We don't like your style”
They've worked out a way to live
The priest reminds them what to give
The church stands tall the people still in rags

Don't ask me why
Its sometimes easy to lie
Don't ask me why
I'll find another alibi

Old man poses for a photograph
He don't care who's right or who's wrong
Nothing is what it appears to be
He just sees what he wants to see
Church stands tall people still in rags

Don't ask him why
He's no tears left to cry
Don't ask him why
He'll find another alibi

So good to lie and walk on your golden sands
Blessed by the sun the Almighty Hand
We're happy passing through
Must look pretty strange to you
Church still stands tall the people still in rags

Don't ask them why
They know what it is to get by
Don't ask them why
They'll find another alibi

Let the River Flow

A full moon tide sweeps in
To wash the sand to white
A fairytale keeps a child wide eyed at night
A golden band could bring such happiness
A dream of you and me
Or a haven from times of loneliness

Won't you take my hand at the picture show
I love to sit with you and let the river flow
Let the river flow

I hear a church bell ring
There's people searching for the Holy Ghost
But now our daily bread
Gets delivered like the morning post
Rock of ages past
They pass like ships that dance by in the night
This dream keeps haunting me
Only to get shattered by the first morning light

Won't you take my hand at the picture show
I love to sit with you and let the river flow
Let the river flow

Well it makes no sense to me
So close yet so far apart
A sailor lost at sea
With a promise from his lover's heart
Can't stop this circle of fear
I'm like a priest who's confessing alone
At the end of the street a dark man appears
And cuts me right through the bone

Won't you take my hand at the picture show
I love to sit with you and let the river flow
Let the river flow

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