Musical Friends Lyrics

Past the derelict mattress And the overgrown pavement Over the tracks And through the hole in the fence Past graffiti-bright buildings And the junkyard alarm bell And the screaming...Read Full Lyrics

Up above my shoulder the ragged rooftops rise Casting shadows over streets they seem to despise Come on, come on, wind and rain I know the sun will shine again Till then my lady an...Read Full Lyrics

Nanzen Ji Cooling wind Mind swept clean like arctic sand White stone lake Crystal clear I walk on the voices of nightingales Pine-framed space Tiger leaps Emerald tea reflects the ...Read Full Lyrics

Wind across the quay-side Grit in my eyes and fish in my nose White as whalebone, wheeling seagulls cry Outside the bar in the high street Blind fingers spin an accordion reel Shoe...Read Full Lyrics

Breakfast woodsmoke on the breeze -- On the cliff the U.S. Embassy Frowns out over Managua like Dracula's tower The kid who guards Fonseca's tomb Cradles a beat-up submachine gun -...Read Full Lyrics

Not a knife throw from here you can hear the night train passing That's the sound somebody makes when they're getting away Leaving next week's hanging jury far behind them Prisoner...Read Full Lyrics

Mist hangs above hills Above mist hangs stone face of mountain Above mountain face hangs a net of sky -- Crack! There are wings and they rip the net! And the dance flows on Everyth...Read Full Lyrics

Sunday night and it's half past nine Sunday night and it's half past nine Sunday night and it's half past nine I'm leaving one more town behind Mirrors are showing the day's last g...Read Full Lyrics

Oh I have been a beggar And shall be one again And few the ones with help to lend Within the world of men One day I walk in flowers one day I walk on stones Today I walk in hours O...Read Full Lyrics

I never lived with balance I always wake up nervous Light comes at me sideways I hold my breath forever I never lived with balance Though I've always liked the notion I feel an end...Read Full Lyrics