1. THE SENSUAL WORLD

Mmh, yes

Then I'd taken the kiss of seedcake back from his mouth
Going deep South, go down, mmh, yes
Took six big wheels and rolled our bodies
Off of Howth Head and into the flesh, mmh, yes

He said I was a flower of the mountain, yes
But now I've powers o'er a woman's body, yes

Stepping out of the page into the sensual world
Stepping out...

To where the water and the earth caress
And the down of a peach says mmh, yes
Do I look for those millionaires
Like a Machiavellian girl would
When I could wear a sunset? mmh, yes

And how we'd wished to live in the sensual world
You don't need words ...just one kiss, then another

Stepping out of the page into the sensual world
Stepping out, off the page, into the sensual world

And then our arrows of desire rewrite the speech, mmh, yes
And then he whispered would I, mmh, yes
Be safe, mmh, yes, from mountain flowers?
And at first with the charm around him, mmh, yes
He loosened it so if it slipped between my breasts
He'd rescue it, mmh, yes
And his spark took life in my hand and, mmh, yes
I said, mmh, yes
But not yet, mmh, yes
Mmh, yes


2. LOVE AND ANGER

It lay buried here. It lay deep inside me
It's so deep I don't think that I can speak about it
It could take me all of my life
But it would only take a moment to
Tell you what I'm feeling
But I don't know if I'm ready yet
You come walking into this room
Like you're walking into my arms
What would I do without you?

Take away the love and the anger
And a little piece of hope holding us together
Looking for a moment that'll never happen
Living in the gap between past and future
Take away the stone and the timber
And a little piece of rope won't hold it together

If you can't tell your sister
If you can't tell a priest
'Cause it's so deep you don't think that you can speak about it
To anyone
Can you tell it to your heart?
Can you find it in your heart
To let go of these feelings
Like a bell to a Southerly wind?
We could be like two strings beating
Speaking in sympathy
What would we do without you?
Two strings speak in sympathy

(What would we do without you?)

Take away the love and the anger
And a little piece of hope holding us together
Looking for a moment that'll never happen
Living in the gap between past and future
Take away the stone and the timber
And a little piece of rope won't hold it together

We're building a house of the future together

(What would we do without you?)

Mmmm, yeah, mmmm, yeah, mmmm, yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah

Well, if it's so deep you don't think that you can speak about it
Just remember to reach out and touch the past and the future
Well, if it's so deep you don't think you can speak about it
Don't ever think that you can't change the past and the future

(What would we do without you?)

You might not, not think so now
But just you wait and see, someone will come to help you

Mmmm, yeah, Mmmm, yeah
Mmmm, Mmmm, Mmmm, yeah. Laughs


3. THE FOG

"You see, I'm all grown up now"

He said
"Just put your feet down child
'Cause you're all grown up now"

Just like a photograph
I pick you up
Just like a station on the radio
I pick you up
Just like a face in the crowd
I pick you up
Just like a feeling that you're sending out
I pick it up
But I can't let you go
If I let you go
You slip into the fog...

This love was big enough for the both of us
This love of yours was big enough to be frightened of
It's deep and dark, like the water was
The day I learned to swim

He said
"Just put your feet down, child"

"Just put your feet down child
The water is only waist high
I'll let go of you gently
Then you can swim to me"

Is this love big enough to watch over me?
Big enough to let go of me
Without hurting me
Like the day I learned to swim?

"'Cause you're all grown up now"

Just put your feet down, child
The water is only waist high
I'll let go of you gently
Then you can swim to me"


4. REACHING OUT

See how the child reaches out instinctively
To feel how fire will feel

See how the man reaches out instinctively
For what he cannot have

The pull and the push of it all

Reaching out for the hand
Reaching out for the hand that smacked
Reaching out for that hand to hold
Reaching out for the Star
Reaching out for the Star that explodes
Reaching out for Mama

See how the flower leans instinctively
Toward the light

See how the heart reaches out instinctively
For no reason but to touch

The pull and the push of it all

Reaching out for the hand
Reaching out for the hand that smacked
Reaching out for that hand to hold
Reaching out for the Star
Reaching out for the Star that explodes
Reaching out for Mama

(Can't we see...)

Reaching out for Mama


5. HEADS WE'RE DANCING

You talked me into the game of chance
It was '39, before the music started
When you walked up to me and you said
"Hey, heads we dance"
Well, I didn't know who you were
Until I saw the morning paper:
There was a picture of you
A picture of you 'cross the front page
It looked just like you, just like you in every way
But it couldn't be true
It couldn't be true
You stepped out of a stranger

They say that the Devil is a charming man
And just like you I bet he can dance
And he's coming up behind in his long
Tailed black coat dance
All tails in the air
But the penny landed with its head dancing

A picture of you, a picture of you in uniform
Standing with your head held high
Hot down to the floor
But it couldn't be you
It couldn't be you
It's a picture of Hitler

He go "Do-do-do-do-do"
He go "Do-do-do-do-do"
He go "Do-do-do-do-do...
Do you want to dance?"

Well, I couldn't see what was to be
So I just stood there laughing

A picture of you, a picture of you in uniform
Standing with your head held high
Hot down to the floor
But it couldn't be you
It couldn't be you
It's a picture of Hitler

He go "Mmh-mmh-mmh-mmh-mmh"
He go "Mmh-mmh-mmh-mmh-mmh"
He go "Mmh-mmh-mmh-mmh-mmh..."
"Heads we're dancing"


6. DEEPER UNDERSTANDING

As the people here grow colder
I turn to my computer
And spend my evenings with it
Like a friend

I was loading a new programme
I had ordered from a magazine:

"Are you lonely, are you lost?
This voice console is a must"
I press Execute

"Hello, I know that you've been feeling tired
I bring you love and deeper understanding
Hello, I know that you're unhappy
I bring you love and deeper understanding"

Well I've never felt such pleasure
Nothing else seemed to matter
I neglected my bodily needs

I did not eat, I did not sleep
The intensity increasing
'Til my family found me and intervened

But I was lonely, I was lost
Without my little black box
I pick up the phone and go, Execute

"Hello, I know that you've been feeling tired
I bring you love and deeper understanding
Hello, I know that you're unhappy
I bring you love and deeper understanding"

I turn to my computer like a friend
I need deeper understanding
Give me deeper understanding


7. BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN

With her hand in his hand
They were both happy again
You started taking sides
They started arguing
He said it was her fault
She said it wasn't at all
But the truth lies somewhere in the middle

Where angels fear to tread
You go rushing in
Well, I had to tell you then
And now I'm telling you again:

Stay out of this
You must not interfere
Don't you see this is
Between a man and a woman?

Every day and night I pray
Pray that you will stay away forever
It's so hard for love to stay together
With the modern Western pressures
I don't want to say it
But I had to tell you then
And now I'm telling you again:

Stay out of this
Oh, I know you mean to help me
And I know you've good intentions
But stay out of this
This isn't your problem
Do not interfere ...you are not needed here
Let the pendulum swing
Between a man and a woman
Don't you see? You're in the way...
Between a man and a woman

Every day and night I pray
Let the pendulum swing
Between a man and a woman
Between a man and a woman


8. NEVER BE MINE

I look at you and see
My life that might have been:
Your face just ghostly in the smoke
They're setting fire to the cornfields
As you're taking me home
The smell of burning fields
Will now mean you and here

This is where I want to be
This is what I need
This is where I want to be
This is what I need
This is where I want to be
But I know that this will never be mine

Ooh, the thrill and the hurting
The thrill and the hurting
I know that this will never be mine

I want you as the dream
Not the reality
That clumsy goodbye-kiss could fool me
But I'm looking back over my shoulder
At you, happy without me

This is where I want to be
This is what I need
This is where I want to be
This is what I need
This is where I want to be
But I know that this will never be mine

Ooh, the thrill and the hurting
Will never be mine
The thrill and the hurting
It will never be mine
It can never be
The thrill and the hurting
Will never be mine


9. ROCKET'S TAIL

That November night, looking up into the sky
You said

"'Hey, wish that was me up there...
It's the biggest rocket I could find
And it's holding the night in its arms
If only for a moment
I can't see the look in its eyes
But I'm sure it must be laughing"

But it seemed to me the saddest thing I'd ever seen
And I thought you were crazy, wishing such a thing

I saw only a stick on fire
Alone on its journey
Home to the quickening ground
With no one there to catch it

I put on my pointed hat
And my black and silver suit
And I check my gunpowder pack
And I strap the stick on my back
And, dressed as a rocket on Waterloo Bridge...
Nobody seems to see me
Then, with the fuse in my hand
And now shooting into the night
And still as a rocket
I land in the river

Was it me said you were crazy?
I put on my cloudiest suit
Size 5 lightning boots, too

'Cause I am a rocket
On fire
Look at me go, with my tail on fire
With my tail on fire
On fire
Hey, look at me go, look at me...


10. THIS WOMAN'S WORK

Aha-ooh! Aha-ooh! Aha-ooh!
"You'll have to wait in here"

Pray God you can cope
I'll stand outside
This woman's work
This woman's world
Ooh, it's hard on the man
Now his part is over
Now starts the craft of the father

I know you have a little life in you yet
I know you have a lot of strength left
I know you have a little life in you yet
I know you have a lot of strength left

I should be crying, but I just can't let it show
I should be hoping, but I can't stop thinking:
All the things I should have said, but I never said
All the things we should have done, but we never did
All the things I should have given, but I didn't
Oh, darling, make it go
Make it go away!

Give me these moments back
Give them back to me
Give me that little kiss
Give me your hand

(I know you have a little life in you yet
I know you have a lot of strength left
I know you have a little life in you yet
I know you have a lot of strength left)

I should be crying, but I just can't let it show
I should be hoping, but I can't stop thinking
Of all the things I should have said, but I never said
All the things we should have done, but we never did
All the things that you needed from me
All the things that you wanted for me
All the things that I should have given, but I didn't
Oh, darling, make it go away
Just make it go away now


11. WALK STRAIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE

Can't move my arms
Can't move my legs
Can't say no
I can't say yes
Can't help myself
I need your help

(We go)
"Ooh, ooh, what do we do
Now we just can't move?"
We're calling out for Middle Street

"Ooh, ooh, what do we do
Now we just can't move?"
We hang on to every line
And walk straight down the middle of it

He thought he was gonna die
But he didn't
she thought she just couldn't cope
But she did
We thought it would be so hard
But it wasn't...
It wasn't easy, though!

Can't say yes
I can't say no
Can't begin
Can't let go...
Help me now

(We go)
"Ooh, ooh, what do we do
Now we just can't move?"
We're calling out for Middle Street

"Ooh, ooh, what do we do
Now we just can't move?"
We hang on to every line
And walk straight down the middle of it

He thought he was gonna die
But he didn't
She thought she could never cope
But she did
We thought it was all over
But it wasn't...
It hadn't started yet

And walk straight down the middle of it
And walk straight down the middle of it
Calling out for Middle Street
Calling out for Middle Street
Walking straight down the middle of it