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Once upon a time at home
I sat beside a telephone
waiting for someone to pull me through.
When at last it didn't ring, I knew it wasn't you.
 

A New England

Billy Bragg


Grinning like a circus clown
I float and glow my way back home
impatient for tomorrow's dreams to rise.

Will she send me soaring
gaping mouthed and seeing nothing else?
Will she once more find me with her eyes?
 

(Not Bad for a)
Shy Boy Lost

The Separation CIrcle


Don't doubt the fact there's life within you.
Yesterday's endings will tomorrow life bring you.
All that dies, dies for a reason
- to put its strength into the season.
 

Survival

Yes


Fate doesn't hang on the wrong or right choice.
Fortune depends on the tone of your voice.
 

Songs of Love

The Divine Comedy


I drive a Rolls Royce
because it's good for my voice.
 

Children of the Revolution

T Rex


It's you that I adore.
You will always be my whore.
You'll be the mother to my child
and a child to my heart.
We must never be apart.
 

Ava adore

The Smashing Pumpkins


Repetition is a message of space.
 

"The Empty Space

Games to Avoid


Skeletons refusing to stay in closets suffer retribution from the queen and her man.
You showed me slit windows, echoed screams and an invitation
but so much remains unseen
Miss Japan?
 

Miss Japan?

The Separation Circle


All day today just excuse for tomorrow.
Tomorrow just something to do.
Too good to be true.
 

Too good to be true

remembered from graffiti on a cricket sight screen in Riverside Park, Southampton]

 Tom Robinson Band


I was so upset that I cried
all the way to the chip shop
 

Jilted John

Jilted John


So...
so you think you can tell
heaven from hell?
blue skies from pain?
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
a smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
hot ashes for trees?
hot air for a cool breeze?
cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?

How I wish
How I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl
year after year.
Running over the same old ground,
what have we found?
The same old fears?
Wish you were here.

 

Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd


That last drop,
how it shines!
Cold to the lip,
but it won't taste like wine.

She gave in silver
but I offer her mercury.
 

Mercury

The Comsat Angels
{Dream Command}]


Ten years on
I still dream and we still hesitate.
The passion's all but gone.
My eyes see other glories,
other dreams and other stories
and I want to live before I die,
Dear John.
 

Dear John

Kirsty MacColl


Home calls from a distant ocean.....
 

Eastward from Krakatoa (Parahyangan)

The Separation Circle


Starry starry night:
Paint your palette blue and grey.
Look out on a summer's day
with eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
Shadows on the hills:
Sketch the trees and daffodils
Catch the breeze and winter chills
in colours on the snowy linen land.
Now I understand
what you tried to say to me
and how you suffered for your sanity
and how you tried to set them free.
They would not listen.
They did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now?
 

Vincent

Don MacLean


It was a hot afternoon, the last day of June
and the sun was a demon
The clouds were afraid, one ten in the shade
and the pavement was steaming.

I told Blly Ray in his red Chevrolet
I needed time for some thinking>
I was just walking by when I looked in her eye
and I swore it was winking.

She was 31 & I was 17.
I knew nothing about love.  She knew everything.
But I sat down beside her on a front porch swing
and wondered what the coming night would bring.
 

Summer (the first time)

Bobby Goldsboro


Strands of light upon a bedroom floor
change the night through an open door.
I am awake but this is not my home.
For the first time I'm not alone.

Reaching out I touch another skin
breathing out as he is breathing in.
Deep inside I feel my soul aflame.
Can my life ever be the same?

I should have told him
that I'd do anything if I could hold him
for just another day
for just another day.
 

Amoureuse

Kiki Dee


And beneath the stars we sat down.
She stilled my trembling hands.
And the heavens dark parted the clouds to reveal the Moon.
 

Forbidden

The Separation CIrcle


And when we die, will we be that disappointed or sad?
If heaven doesn't exist, what will we have missed?
This life is the best we've ever had.
 

Tonight We Fly

The Divine Comedy


Thank you for the days, those endless days, those sacred days you gave me.
I'm thinking of the days.  I won't forget a single day, believe me.
I bless the light.  I bless the light that lights on you, believe me.
And though you're gone, you're with me every single day, believe me.
 

Days

Ray Davies


There's something here that I don't understand.
You search for signs like some crusade.
When one seems to point to that promised land
why do you always turn away?
 

Lost Continent

The Comsat Angels


Digging up the dead with a shovel and a pick
- it's a job!  It's a job!
 

God's Away on Business

Tom Waits


Hey ho.
Who is there?
No-one but me, my dear.
Please come
say "how do?"
The things I'll show to you.
 

Willow's Song

Paul Giovanni/Rachel Verney


I remember my mum told me
out of all my funny toys
that you won't make a man of me
and growing up's an interesting thing to do

And then all life begins to scream.
The whole world changes like I've never seen
and then she goes up to the window and leaps into the sky
so do I
so do I
so do I
so do I?
 

The Whole World Window

Cardiacs


I wanted much more for the first night with you
but the Railway Hotel was the best I could do.
I knew the Savoy would have suited you well
but the best I could do was the Railway Hotel.
 

Railway Hotel

Mike Batt


Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
waiting for someone or something to show you the way.

Tired of lying in the sunhine, staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
and then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No-one told you when to run.
You missed the starting gun.

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
and racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older
- shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

Every year is getting shorter.  Never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to nought or half a page of scribbled lines.
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.
The time is gone.  The song is over.
Thought I'd something more to say.
 

Time

Pink Floyd


When you get the choice to sit it out or dance
I hope you dance.
 

I hope you dance

Lee Ann Womack


The world outside the window.
The world outside the window.
I dare say that we're wiser for all that we've not seen.
 

Greylands

Jon Hunt


Frayed away
Fate's future face.
Erased the place
where brick fields lay.
 

Where Brick Fields Lay

The Separation Circle


In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man
with the man in the woman and the woman in the man.
 

Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel


Hours pass.
Distance grows.
Where are you now?
Who knows?

There's a place
where you were
but it seems so far
from here.

Years of life
waiting for
what might have been.
No more.

Take our friends.
Raise them up.
Keep them safe
for us.
 

Light Years

The Comsat Angels


 Come home, Billy Bird
international business traveller.
Come home, Billy Bird.
 

Come Home Billy Bird

The Divine Comedy


My heart's a kangaroo.
 

(Not bad for a ) Shy Boy Lost

The Separation Circle


There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
- it's a deal!  It's a deal!
 

God's Away on Business

Tom Waits


Such a perfect day.
You made me forget myself.
I thought I was someone else
- someone good.
 

Perfect Day

Lou Reed


The way that sunlight flits across your skirt
makes me feel I'm from another world.
To touch your face in the morning light....
I hope you're always going to be around.
 

Fly

The Jam


Let's go fly a kite!
 

Let's Go Fly a Kite

Mary Poppins


 One system is only as good as another.
 

Postcard

The Comsat Angels


Light the sky.
Forget the hour.
Fireworks shower.
A year goes by.
 

Where Brick Fields Lay

The Separation Circle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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