Smart Bombs

These are smart bombs falling from the sky
Accurate and clean on your TV screen

Please oh please save us from ourselves
Please oh please make us someone else

All laid low by friendly fore
Enterprise is free but you pay to buy

Please oh please save us from ourselves
Please oh please make us someone else

Take a chance you can play the game
There are big winner you can be the same
Until you are so downsized you fall through
Cracks in the floor
So rationalized you don’t know who you are anymore

Smart Smart bombs

Somewhere between your breath and your hope
Somewhere between ice and water

Everything changes and you can paint 1000 skies

Somewhere between the call and your name
Somewhere between pride and shame

Everything changes and you can paint 1000 skies
Claiming hollow victory
Claiming hollow victory

When sleep is a crashing wave
When your fear puts you on a stage

Everything changes and your can paint 1000 skies

Sometimes all you know cannot protect you only expose you lay you bare for all the world to see
Sometimes the answers are in the shadows around dark corners where there are only questions
Waiting there
Waiting there
Waiting there

Claiming hollow victory
Claiming hollow victory
Claiming hollow victory
Claiming hollow victory

The Promised Land

The shadows are lifting form over my heart
The fires are burning deep in my soul
Now the hiding is over step into the sun
For tomorrow a change it will come

I have no concern for what will happen to me
But like anyone I would like to live long and free
I am lucky I am already free
Love has come and love has taken me

The light of the day washes over me
The new morning will come
For I have been to the top of the mountain
I have seen the glory

I have no fear
Nothing will turn us around

I don’t know what will happen now
There are many many difficult days ahead
But I am lucky I am already free
Love has come and love has taken me

Land of no goodbyes

A place where everyone is home
You can leave but you never have to go
And time stands still without regrets
Where you are is always the best

Unsophisticated never complicated
Where you never have to cry
A simple story without time or money
A land of no goodbyes

A land of no goodbyes
Repeat

Nothing is carried in the wind
Everything is done and it never ends
You can look into the eyes of everything that you desire

Chorus

Everything is close it is never far away
You are here tomorrow you are here today
You can touch everything you want
If you break it it is not your fault.

The empire’s new clothes

Trading shares in an endless war
Kids with guns don’t know what they are fighting for
The fools are fooled again I think I’m losing my sense
I know what I believe this is something else

Twenty miles short of Babylon’s gates
Smoke and flames and the TV shakes
It’s happening again against the will
of ordinary people who say thou shalt not kill

I can’t see the empire’s new clothes
I can’t see the empire’s new clothes

Bright coloured flags draped over body bags
Thousands more unpeople graves

I can’t see the empire’s new clothes
I can’t see the empire’s new clothes

Five long years hiding behind concrete walls
Swimming in the dictator’s swimming pools
Outside the children play in a burnt out shell
Of an Abrams tank with American letters
Who does count and who is free
For the shiny black slime to lubricate a war machine
I hope they’re satisfied with the mess they’ve made

I can’t see the empire’s new clothes
I can’t see the empire’s new clothes
I can’t see the empire’s new clothes
I can’t see the empire’s new clothes
The empire’s not wearing any new clothes
The empire’s not wearing any new clothes

Lonely People

Words you find have left me
Lonely people know every one
They look into your eyed and you are most naked
They have perfect memories
they remember words you threw away
In their tears is the taste of fruit gone rotten

Lost in a crowded song
Now all the melting is done
Were have all the dancers gone
Who will bury my memories?

Lonely people know the weather
They see the future in all that you spill
They predict birth and deaths
They taste the blood before the kill
Lonely people feel cold hands through warm words
They pull a sword from the heart of stone
Lonely people lock the door
When they take a stranger into their home

Lonely people understand silence
They are the best measures of distance
They always know your age
And they never follow you when you have gone
Who will bury their memories
Who will bury their memories
Who will bury their memories
Who will bury their memories

Lies and silence

On this sad morning there are no words to speak
The sun itself is weeping for the broken bodies in the rubble
In the soft light of the moon the war machine it roared
Over the quiet breathing restless dreams of sleeping children

All we hear are the lies and silence
All we hear are the lies and indifference

The war machine it rumbles
Over the lives of countless millions
Whose lives are just the dust
Blowing over the ruins

All we hear are the lies and silence
All we hear are the lies and indifference

The serpent tongues are speaking
Words that have no meaning
Except to bounce back off the cameras
In front of which they’re standing

On this sad morning there is no justice in the dawn
So many years of dying where does hope get born
Not over the broken and bloodied bodies of sleeping children
Or the fork tongued lies of the criminals and their defenders

All we hear are the lies and silence
All we hear are the lies and silence
All we hear are the lies and silence
All we hear are lies and silence
Lies and silence
Lies and silence

What you look for is the hardest thing to see

I left I walked out the door
I didn’t look back I ain’t going to turn to salt no more
I tell you this between you and me
What you look for is the hardest thing to see.

I cleaned the table for the makers of the law
I picked their rubbish right up off the floor
I smiled back when they said to me
What you look for is the hardest thing to see

If there is mercy in the shadows of regret
I bite the apples in the bucket of contempt
I ride the roller coaster crashing back to earth
I tell a little white lie I was not the first.

What you look for is the hardest thing to see
What you look for is the hardest thing to see

So hard it's so hard to see

A long way

Over the ruins the setting sun
Through the holes in the wall the beams of light
Silhouetted in the sky silent weapons stand
As the day turns to night

And it's a long way on the face of it
For peace to come

The water flows from a broken pipe
In the silence sets the dust
A small child crouches on the road
Doing what we all must

And it's a long way on the face of it
For peace to come

This city is almost ancient
Look at its heart see the scars and the blood
If you sit and you listen
You can hear some people praying

It's a long way on the face of it
It's a long way on the face of it
It's a long way on the face of it
For peace to come
It's such a long way
for peace to come
It's such a long way
for peace to come
It's such a long way
For peace to come

Hard Days

These are hard days
And the long hot summer goes on forever
Always never say always
In these days when there is nothing to hold onto

Only me only you
Through all these claims of permanence
And justifiable innocence
Just to hold onto
All that they left for you

People come people go
Nothing is constant the river flows
Sadness there is sadness in time
And glory is so unbecoming

Only me only you
Through all these claims of permanence
And justifiable innocence
Just to hold onto
All that they left for you

On the edge overtime
Looking out watching the passing years
Sadness there is sadness in time
But where is the peace in our time

Only me only you
Through all these claims of permanence
And justifiable innocence
Just to hold onto
All that they left for you

Touch

Surely there are things you wouldn’t do the same
There must be words you would never say again
Many papers you would burn
Disguises you would never wear again

When the writing is on the wall
The water drop so full it must fall
Hit the ground explode apart
Rise to meet the sun become rain in the dark

I must see eyes to talk
Touch the ground to walk
Skin to touch to love
Hands to hold to give

There are birds that fly away and never return
Wood once burnt cannot be burned
Black and soft it falls apart
Rising as smoke or left as ash in the dirt

I must see eyes to talk
Touch the ground to walk
Skin to touch to love
Hands to hold to give

The people you meet you may never meet again
An enemy you make might become your friend
Or just another face in a crowded street
Someone you don’t think of until you meet

I must see eyes to talk
Touch the ground to walk
Skin to touch to love
Hands to hold to give

I must see eyes to talk
Touch the ground to walk
Skin to touch to love
Hands to hold to give

If you think you are crazy
If you think you are right
If you think you can face it
Floating above the world

If you come from nowhere
Call no place home
If you left your heart in a moon shadow
Floating above the world.

The trees they dance the wind it sang
The sun came up and went down again
Floating above the world

Cars moved like shadows
People’s faces were a blur
You can’t reach anything to touch
Floating above the world

Talk without speaking
Listening in the shadows
Watching from the wings
Floating above the world

On those nights I touch no one
No one touches me
What I feel is a mystery
Floating above the world