Oh I wish
Oh how I wish
I could wind my life back
To any one of those times
When I only thought
Things were so hard

Well to tell you the truth
I've got nothing much left to say
You talk about freedom
I just wanna get away
You keep on talking
My mind keeps drifting away
I wish I could remember the things
You used to say

Well I've heard this story  
'bout a thousand times before
It starts off with freedom
And it ends in a ****** war
No-one really knows who's keeping the score
But no ones really winning
Anymore

Well I heard you in a room
An' you sounded so fresh and new
I heard you in the stadium
You sounded so strong and true
I followed you down to the riverside
I drank that wine, I saw that light
But the water was cold
Like the long dark night

Sleep won't come
Again
I try to find
A place to be in
Streetlight shines
Through my window
The perfect rain
Falls again

There's no misery
Quite like mine
Made in my image
By my design

I keep on pouring
This angry wine
The  twisted pleasure
From a poison vine

A twice brewed venom
Long in the vault
Aged to perfection
Down an open throat

How long must I labour
At the fuitless vine
That twists round my heart
Have I not yet dug down deep enough
To pull every rotten deep embedded strand
That claws it's way back up to find
A cold light that can never warm
Did I not make a law
This wretched valve shall pulse no more
And out upon this time-lined shore
No salted streams shall ever pour

The night flows on like a black river
And sleep is for angels
I'm here 'til the morning light
Breaks my window

There's food on the table
Gold and Silver in the vault
But I'm hungry and broke
Lying here in the lonely night

Nothing breaks the silence
'cept the rain in the cold streetlight
My heart is on the road
Beating out of sight
And I'm staring through the shadow
Of another sleepless night

I've been looking for that place
A little comfort,
Like a spot beside a river,
Or a quiescent lake.

I don't know when I lost it,
Or where it went,
I wasn't there at the time.

I was somewhere else,
Running down frantic corridors

I must have past the door,
To that place,
A million times,
Moving too fast,
To see it there.

And now it's not there at all.

It was all for nothing
Was it nothing for all
I bled a river
From a heart of stone

Cold understanding
Clothed in barbed wire
No more returning
No more retreat
Your flight is Earthbound
In full defeat

This old Earth, is dying
I feel it in my bones
I see it in the water
It trembles in the stones

You can tell me that you don't believe
You can tell that I'm foolishly deceived
But I can hear her louder every day
I cannot feel it any other way

We have bruised her body
We have bruised her soul
Poison in the waters
And the places of our home

You can tell me that you won't believe
That what I say is just a foolish dream
There will be no time to make amends
By the time you hear her final songs

Mother Earth is dying
I feel it in my bones
I see it in the waters
It trembles in the stones

I can't find the me that is
So I try to remember
The me that was

The me that is
Cannot remember
The me that was

So I cannot be
The me that is

And yet I am
The me that is
And not
The me that was

When you've done it all
Everything you said
When your book is full
Of the things you read

When you've seen it all
And know it's not
The thing you spoke
And said it was

But your heart still aches
And your mind still burns
For loves sweet straits
And twisting turns

When midnight comes
Without a stroke
And the streets are cold
And life's a joke

When the river dries
And the bed is stones
And the rain never comes
Despite the clouds

Remember me
Recall the song
I was here
And you were gone

You may be a Diamond
I am no ring of Gold
And can never hold
In this everlasting cold
And I know that I'll be missing
You're sweet smile
Somewhere way on down the road
When birdsong carries melodies
Upon the gentle breeze
And I'll be singing too
I am forever blue
About you

What's there to say
Everyday the same
With a little difference
That you and I
Cannot see

A tiny flow
A stream that runs below
In the dark cavern

Hidden from the up above
In the bustle and hum of
Now

We don't see the loss
We're just a little lighter every day
And a little more dry

Love flows away

Down the empty street I walk
Searching for signs
Of what once wrote itself
On me, in me
Right here
Right there

This place is a stone
Upon a stone
With eyes that stare me down
And follow me

Will I ever learn
There's no return
Bricks and mortar
Have no memory
And the windows are dark lidless holes
Empty eyes
In the faces of the night