The Great Escape Lyrics

Hotel hobbies padding dawns hollow corridorsA typewriter cackles out a stream of memoriesDryin' out a conscience, evictin' a nightmareOpenin' the doors for the dreams to come homeW...Read Full Lyrics

When I hit the streets back in '81Found a heart in the gutter and a poet's crownI felt barbed wire kisses and icicle tearsWhere have I been for all these years?I saw political intr...Read Full Lyrics

Hotel hobbies padding dawns hollow corridorsBell boys checking out the hookers in the barSlug-like fingers trace the star-spangled clouds of cocaine on the mirrorThe short straw to...Read Full Lyrics

On the rebound, fumbling all the linesThe light at the end of the bottle, alcoholic alphabetThrough the looking glass the proof in my own reflection Five senses down and reeling on...Read Full Lyrics

I was walking in the park dreaming of a sparkWhen I heard the sprinklers whisperShimmer in the haze of summer lawnsThen I heard the children singingThey were running through the ra...Read Full Lyrics

I found smog at the end of my rainbowI found my thoughts shift slowly into phase Declared the constitution of the walkway I realise it's time to plan the day I'm a Market Square he...Read Full Lyrics

Do you remember chalk hearts melting on a playground wallDo you remember dawn escapes from moon washed college hallsDo you remember the cherry blossom in the market squareDo you re...Read Full Lyrics

A ghost of a mist was on the fieldThe gray and the green togetherThe noise of a distant farm machineOut of the first light cameA tattered necklace of hedge end treesOn the southern...Read Full Lyrics

I was out in the cold of a North London streetA cog in the hurrying worldAbove the walls and the gate policeI caught a glimpse of a Holloway girlShe was reachin' out of a windowFro...Read Full Lyrics

Do you remember chalk hearts melting on a playground wallDo you remember dawn escapes from moon washed college hallsDo you remember the cherry blossom in the market squareDo you re...Read Full Lyrics