Before & After Album
| 1. | Hit the Ground Running |
| 2. | Protected |
| 3. | In Love With It All |
| 4. | Persuasion |
| 5. | Many's the Time |
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| 7. | Can't Do Both |
| 8. | In Your Sway |
| 9. | Strangeness & Charm |
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| 12. | I Found It |
- Hit the Ground Running (Tim Finn) (4:38)
- San Francisco
New York City
Strangely silent
Strangely empty
His graffiti filled the subway
But where's my brother
He could keep you up for hours
In a town of wilting flowers
I can more or less continue my life
I can give in or I can try
Hit the ground running
Hit the ground running for your life
Deadly virus
So few survivors
Creeps up quickly
Leaves you darkly
But where's my brother
When you're standing shoulder to shoulder
Fear and anger make you bolder
I can more or less continue my life
I can give in or I can try
Hit the ground running
Hit the ground running for your life
He could keep you up for hours
He could keep you up for hours
I can more or less continue my life
I can give in or I can try
Hit the ground running
Hit the ground running for your life
I can always hit the street swaying
But there's no one there to catch you when you fall
Hit the ground running
Hit the ground running for your life
I went to the river on the lower east side
Cried and cried and cried and cried
Went to the river on the lower east side
I cry cry cry cry cried
- Protected (Tim Finn) (5:24)
- I had a dream
Just the other night
And it made me want to change
The way I live my life
I've had enough
Of just walking through it
And I want to take the chance
And dice with death with you
And we stand on the cliff
As if we were protected
And I walk on the path
My mind and body connected
And I walk on the cliff
As if I was protected
And I talked it over
With my best friend
And he's had the same dream
More than once
Now it's happened again
Could be all of us
Can you feel the power?
Can you feel it rushing in
Coming golden in this hour?
And we stand on the cliff
As if we were protected
And I walk on the path
My mind and body connected
And I walk on the cliff
As if I was protected
It's another fall from grace
Everything I do becomes a fake
It's only when I'm awake
Everyone takes a fall
I don't know how I can take
Much more of this
And I feel an agonizing ignorance of bliss
But if it were true
I'd stand with you
On the cliffs of Acapulco
Staring into the blue
And we stand on the cliff
As if we were protected
And we walk on the path
Our minds and bodies connected
And we stand on the cliff
As if we were protected
As if we were protected
We must be having the time of our lives
It was only a dream
It was only a dream
We stood on the cliff
As if we were protected
By something we couldn't see
By something we couldn't touch
By something we couldn't taste
And we all were protected
- In Love With It All (N. Finn, T. Finn) (3:21)
- God's white beard hung down
Sacrilegious town
Sleek nostalgia blonde
The one you had your eyes on
As you came back from the altar
Your head was all a-gaga
In love with it all
In love with it all
In love with it all
With it all
Brothers come to blows
White shirt all aglow
All laid out ahead
Just like the family photos
That fall out of the suitcase
And wear the same expression
In love with it all
In love with it all
In love with it all
With it all
To score the highest hilltop
To turn the angry river
Leave ripples on the surface
In love with it all
In love with it all
In love with it all
With it all
- Persuasion (T. Finn, R. Thompson) (3:53)
- You and I
Tempted by the promise of a different life
Time has fled
There's a constant battle running through my head
I don't know what to do
'Cos I still believe
After all the foolish things that we've been through
I will always be a man who's open to
Persuasion
Blind romance
There'll be no half measures given half a chance
But we never learn
Trusting in the fire while the cruel flame burns
And we need to rebuild
What was never there
What got left behind
After all the foolish things that we've been through
I could always make a start on something new
And I'll always be a man who's open to
Persuasion
And it's written in the my heart
So that everybody could see it
And it's written in my soul
After all I still believe it
I still believe it
I still believe it
I still believe
I don't know what to do
'Cos I still believe
After all the foolish things you put me through
I could always make a start with something new
And I'll always be a man who's open to
Persuasion
- Many's the Time (A. White, L. O'Maonlai, T. Finn) (4:27)
- Many's the time I'd do anything just to belong
Many's the time what I did I would feel to be wrong
I was only trying too hard
Just to belong
I was only trying too hard
The wind pulled the water
Bonfire burning high
You took me in your arms
And told me I could cry
I didn't want to hurt you
I felt something was wrong
I didn't mean to want you
Just to belong
First we got turned away
Then we got welcomed in
First we got turned away
Then we got welcomed in
I was only trying too hard
A place to begin
I was only trying too hard
We drove past the nightclub
In a beaten up old car
The man on the door said
"Do we know who you you are?"
They gave us fruit cocktails
That we didn't want to drink
Techno music coming through
I started to think
Where are the people
That we welcomed in
Where is the place
The place to begin
It's got to be someone
It's got to be now
Many's the time I'd do anything just to belong
Many's the time what I did I would feel to be wrong
I was only trying too hard
Just to belong
I was only trying too hard
I made it my purpose
I made it my plan
The rulers of the world
Would never understand
You are my dancing queen
I wanna hear you sing
The day that you do
I'll be your dancing king
First we got turned away
Then we got welcomed in
First we got turned away
Then we got welcomed in
I was only trying too hard
A place to begin
I was only trying too hard
And if my words were stars
I'd send you a skyful
It felt so good
It felt so easy
It felt so good
It felt so easy
- Funny Way (Tim Finn) (2:54)
- You've got a funny way
Of showing that you care
It's strange the way you go about it
You gotta find a way
Of proving that you're here
Before I begin to doubt it
Count the hours
Question everything
For the record
You got the final say
No matter what I do
It's hard to turn the other cheek
You got a funny way
Of telling me goodbye
Your car is idling as we speak
Count the hours
Question everything
For the record
I come running with open arms
I come running with everything I own
'Cos I'm not made of stone
- Can't Do Both (Tim Finn) (4:51)
- Mr. & Mrs. Almost
- I want to go to Spain
Had a double income life
- I want to fight a bull
He worked every evening
- And meet with my old flame
She had a nine to five
- Behind a castle wall
The first year was so easy
- And as we smoke Madeira
The second was alright
- And drink our guitars
But it was halfway through the third year
- You'll pirouette beside me
When she turned to him and cried:
- And I'll whisper to the stars
Looking out for you
Looking out for me
But I can't do both obviously
Looking out for you
Looking out for me
But I can't do both
They love to be together
- I'll go to the Chatham Islands
But now they hardly get the chance
- Be the first to see the sun
She gives him a smile of welcome
- And as I hang my washing out
And he leaves her a parting glance
- I'll watch the colours run
They said when they got married
- And one day late in August
There will be no compromise
- I'll get your telegram
Now they burn down one side only
- You'll be my lie detector
That's the story of our lives
- I'll be your radio ham
Looking out for you
Looking out for me
But I can't do both obviously
Looking out for you
Looking out for me
But I can't do both
Have you heard about the modern couple
They had everything
Their income was double
But now they're losing sight of each other
They thought they had it all
But now they're falling out of love
Looking out for you
Looking out for me
Looking out for you
Looking out for me
They thought they had it all
Now the writing's on the wall
Their love is on the line
They're running out of time
Can't do both
- In Your Sway (Tim Finn) (4:49)
- One PM on the seventh day
And my back was racked with pain
As we sat down once again
The wind built up with a restless sound
And my mind went round and round
And the sweat ran down my face and shoulders
Everything will rise then will pass away
When you hold me in your sway
Everything will fall then will rise again
When you hold me in your sway
Rolling with the pleasure
Reeling with the pain
Is the monkey in my brain
But I have to start again
In a half lit room
A warrior's gloom
We are only flesh and blood
And the truth is right in front of us
Everything will rise then will pass away
When you hold me in your sway
Everything will change
Nothing stays the same
When you hold me in your sway
And it seemed that much more real
And it's something that I can't see
But it seems that much more real to me
Everything will fall
Then will rise again
When you hold me in your sway
Everything will rise then will pass away
When you hold me in your sway
- Strangeness and Charm (N. Finn, T. Finn) (3:24)
- You and I we circle each other
The truth is a powerful magnet
And beauty draws you in to her dragnet
Then she sets you free
Strangeness and charm
That's what you are
Strangeness and charm
That's what you are
We can't separate 'cos we annihilate
Fortune and favour come too late
Break down the pieces until you're left
With nothing else
Strangeness and charm
That's what you are
Strangeness and charm
That's what you are
Particles of flying dust go by
A hundred billion million atoms
I don't think I want to know
What you are is no more than
Strangeness and charm
What you need is to share the air
That Einstein breathes
What you are is no more than
Strangeness and charm
I think I want to know you
I don't think I want to know
I don't think I want to know
Strangeness and charm
That's what you are
Come on and share it with me
Share it with me
- Always Never Now (Tim Finn) (3:57)
- Once he thought it was forever
But it's always never now
It was the best decision he ever made
Now he's living with the consequences
He was still a bit green
Like a sheep in a ballroom
She had the devil in her
He couldn't stop himself experimenting in secret
Fire was a constant theme
Now he's glad that it's over
And the horrible feeling's gone away
Nothing prepares you
He said "I'd do it all again
Just to be where I am"
Once he thought it was forever
But it's always never now
Once he thought it was forever
But it's always never now
And it seems so long ago now
When he didn't have that peace in himself
Two overlapping circles
But you can't find the center in somebody else
And the hardest of hearts
Couldn't fail to weep
Now he's on his way
Throw him a line as he walks to his sleep
Now he's on his way
Like the scales on a fish
They flash and flicker in the sea
But they're dull in the heat of the sun
When his back was to the wall
In a dirty bar in London
He didn't care about the Beatles
She would be angry & frightened
He would be hopeless & guilty
They had to discover that country for themselves
He went through life always
Looking to turn it around
The only way he can work it
Is from the inside
Making things happen from within
Once he thought it was forever
But it's always never now
- Walk You Home (Tim Finn) (3:37)
- You are used to confrontation
But the day will soon come
When you need a shoulder
I will make it easy for you
Point you to the shoreline
I'll be there to walk you home
Whenever you can't go on
If there's phantoms in the twilight
I'll be there to walk you home
You need a traveling companion
When you feel half-hearted
Searching for a way through
Let's go to the lava river
Rising up from the cold earth
I'll be there to walk you home
If you're tired of going it alone
You're in a strange and silent quarter
I'll be there beside you
Oh when the days drag on too long
When your strong resolve is broken
Resistance merely token
I'll be there beside you
Oh when the night comes crashing down
Stars will fall and sky will thunder
You'll hesitate and blunder
I'll be there to walk you home
- I Found It (Tim Finn) (4:16)
- In the end it all depends on you
No matter what you're going through
There's always gonna be more than one point of view
Yes I did I finally found it
Kept it hidden from myself for so long
I finally found it yes I did
Yes I did I finally found it
Kept it hidden from myself for so long
I finally found it yes I did
For every wave upon the beach
I want to ride a wave with you
For every starfish in the sea
I want to swim away
Yes I did I finally found it
I've been searching for so long
But I found it now
And I'm never gonna lose it
Yes I did
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