1. DREAM OF STONE

Summer nights in windows frame the moon on your face
And when the night confines you in a desireless embrace.
Then, if you don't believe it all the magic is dead
And what becomes of little boys who're lost inside their head?

Well, if you don't receive the message
Then you'll know that I have failed
The answer, in all honesty, is constantly in change
The beauty in a desert dawn
The comedy of rain

Your will is gone, dreams will erase
You're hanging on by your fingernails
Will someone bring me back again
Night never needs a reason

The arrogance of love will always know
That when you close your eyes
The truth is shown and born
To fall in love is such a dream
It flies, to where it flies no one sees
The darkest stone conceals a vein of gold

Detest me when I'm running late
A kiss of endings, kiss of hate
So what becomes of all of those
Who run away from home
Your world keeps getting bigger
And you're on your own

Home to no one. You're nowhere
The sandman takes you there
You'll be sleeping on the pillow where
night becomes her hair
climbing through the button hole
and falling up the stairs

So go on now, sweet prince and let me lead you on
Close your eyes blindly look at the sun
You fall below the silver screen
Of knowledge it's a perfect dream

Rubicon's old bridges burn
You turn, they are ablaze
The great divine getting bigger
tears sting your face

You'll be sleeping on the other side
where a smile becomes your fear
Ladders lean against the wall
the well water is clear
Kiss it and make it better...


2. CHEQUERED LIGHT BUILDINGS

Chequered light buildings
Fallen from the sky
Sway as they climb into your eye
They’re taller now
Everything has changed
From an empty frame
Stares a distant face

Can he see me?
At night and all alone
When I raise my hand to wave
The face is gone

In a flash I see the face is mine
And swinging from the mantelpiece is why
I said I could go back to the house where all we keep is keeping on
Where everyone pretends that they belong and long and long

If I tell you what I’m seeing
Can you tell me what is true?
In the space between our feelings
There’s a place for me and you


3. UPSIDE DOWN

You may believe that your house is bleak and you're leaving
But there's a gulf between what it is that you see and what you should be seeing

You may believe that your house is bleak and you're leaving
But there's a gulf between what it is that you see and what you should be seeing

And you open like a flower
And I open too
I have found that what you seek
Is the perfect flower and it is in you,
And I only wish you knew

The way I see it (What do you see?)
The world is upside down (Upside down?)
Is it me? (Can it be?)
Or is it in your hands?

So go on now sweet prince
And let me lead you on
And close your eyes to blindly look at the sun
You fall below the silver screen
Of knowledge, it's a perfect dream

Rubicon's old bridges burn
You turn, they are ablaze
Great divide is getting bigger

Home to no one, you are are nowhere
The Sandman takes you there
You'll be sleeping on the pillow
Where the night becomes her hair
Climbing through the buttonhole
And falling up the stairs
Go on go on go on

So go on now sweet prince
And let me lead you on
Close your eyes to blindly look at the sun


4. VALERIE'S FRIEND

Little things that make up her life
Watching them pick winners with her standing by
She read a tired pamphlet by a fire-starting freak
Campbell's ice cubes, the drinks are unique!
But everything is cool as long as you dare
To bend a few taboos, to sacrifice pawns

Pockets filling up with gold
From the shades of his soul
Lost in the panic that she typewrote
Of lightbulbs that burn out in rain
And he saw his wife to be in someone
But she couldn't see and she never cared

How small is your life
Is it too small to notice?
Is anywhere better than here?
A journey inside a black and white postcard
Discover that colours were there
Burning out

How small is your life
You wait in the lobby
Is anywhere better than here?
Too much control
The top of the mountain
A farewell to elevate her

Now she's going to sleep once again
Near the drawer where she keeps her best friend
And everything's over
Burning out

How small is your life
Are you too cold to notice?
Is anywhere better than here?
A journey inside your black and white postcard
Discover that colours were there
Burning out


5. MASSIVE ILLUSION

St John got gunned down with a cold '38
Why don't we pin him to the sky…
The rarest of the specimens are neatly locked away
It's all in my collection…
It's all in my collection…

You know that bird has flown
Can you forgive?
A bird you'll never own

And your love is a graveyard
Where the grasses grow low
And the people that lie here
Knew just what you know
Now your shovel's a shot glass and you drink your own toast
You're living your life as a ghost

You see, love is a playground
Where the grasses grow low
And the people that play here
Reap just what they sow
And if your shovel's a shot glass and you drink your own toast
You're living your life as a ghost, a ghost

When your will is gone your dreams will erase
When you're hanging on by your fingernails…

Bring out your finest wines your holy shrines and let them go
Freed from the chains of what has remained of a life that you don't want to know
The bass and the drums will hammer it home with their marching band of the proud
Celebrate ages, all life stages, seas and the winds and the clouds
The message's been written from your prison, see what tomorrow will be
See what tomorrow will be

Got every reason to believe that all must decide to break free
Was it a tantrum when you said that all the laughs were on me
Then I'll know my bet will win when the saints go marching in
Go marching in…