Old Skin Lyrics

What do you feel said the land to the farmerSweat on my brow the farmer repliedSun on my skin said the springtime loverBall at my feet the young boy criedAnd the man whose eyes wer...Read Full Lyrics

No more sleepingIt's in your fingertipsYou've got the best of itTake a chance just toss out the medicineThere goes the sleepless nightYou've got to wait it outYou've got to wear it...Read Full Lyrics

When you go away I'll try to find someone else but I'l fail I'll fail I'll failAnd if you came back you'd hold my heart like a giant crushing snails, crushing snailsLove don't leav...Read Full Lyrics

The Ant and the GrasshopperThe ant and the grasshopper, everyone knows how the story goes,How the ant was diligent, never spentAnything lightly, he laboured wisely,And gathered his...Read Full Lyrics

I was born in the shadow of the Fairfield craneWhere the blast of a freighter's horn Was the very first sound that reached my earsOn the morning I was bornI lay and I listened to t...Read Full Lyrics

A long wind a weaving mind Over all the land the wild flowers grow, Echoing kind to kind On that day when I found the iron stone Heavy in my hand in the sloping rain Ever the seas ...Read Full Lyrics

The silver swanWho living had no noteWhen death approachedUnlocked her silent throatLeaning her breast against the reedy shoreThus sung her first and last and sang no moreFarewell ...Read Full Lyrics

Come to the market and sample an orgyCome to the fair for a thruppenny thrillSell him a tomb or a tumbler of strychnineIf you don't there's plenty of others that willIf you don't t...Read Full Lyrics

Come all of you workers who toil night and dayBy hand and by brain to earn your payWho for centuries long past for no more than your breadHave bled for your countries and counted y...Read Full Lyrics

Why don't I see any black people at my gigsWhy don't black people like my musicNo blacks at my concertsIt really makes me sickDo they hate meOr are they just a little bit too thick...Read Full Lyrics