This Is the 21st Century Lyrics

I lie awake at nightListening to you sleepingI hear the darkness breatheAnd the rain against the windowAfter all this timeCynical and jadedAll the stones are diamondsAll the blues ...Read Full Lyrics

Garden Party held today, invites call the debs to play,Social climbers polish ladders, wayward sons again have fathers,Edgy eggs and queing cumbers, rudely wakened from their slumb...Read Full Lyrics

Catalogue princess, apprentice seductress Hiding in her cellophane world in glitter town Awaiting the prince in his white Capri Dynamic young Tarzan courts the bedsit queen She's p...Read Full Lyrics

You landed in my lifeLike a new and brighter light That made all my past seem in the shadow I always used to believe That beauty was skin deep But I need a new word to describe you...Read Full Lyrics

I think I have become one of the hollow menAs I shine on the outside more these daysI can feel the outside feeding on my insideLeaves a growing darkness in it's placeI think I have...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

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

He's seen too much of lifeAnd there's no going backThe loneliness calls himAnd the edge which must be sharpenedHe's losing it. And he knows.But there's a fighter in his mind and hi...Read Full Lyrics

You may not recall the moment that you asked meBut your invitation was clearYou'll pretend you've never met me but it's far too lateNow I'm here, yeah'Cause I'm the one who knows w...Read Full Lyrics

She bought a bottle of ciderFrom the shop on the cornerThey didn't stop herThought she was olderShe took a bus rideTo a name and a numberA house full of musicAnd a hatful of wonder...Read Full Lyrics