Is there impermanence, hanging in the air?
With 3 words you change my mind and the rest i just dont care for.
I can feel you, taste you in the air,
I'm so near you, but how long could you be there?
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I don't want to have to say goodbye again,
It's been 5 days and I'm lost without that voice of yours,
Though you take my thoughts and spin them round on me.
What would I do without you here, without you here.
What would I do without you here, without you here.
Yeah there's been rough times but we've been there and back.
With those 3 words, I know that you'll confuse me some more.
But I dont mind, 'cause I confuse you too.
It will unwind, and you will pull us through.
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I dont want to have to say goodbye again,
It's been 5 days and I'm lost without that voice of yours
Though you take my thoughts and spin them round on me.
What would I do without you here, without you here.
What would I do without you here, without you here.
Sometimes this twisted love, really isn't easy.
It doesnt help that you can't see all that.
Is ignorance our bliss in those situations
But i gotta say...
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I dont want to have to say goodbye again,
its been 5 days and i'm lost without that voice of yours
though you take my thoughts and spin them round on me.
what would i do without you here, without you here.
what would i do without you here, without you here.
The compass cried and I got lost and soon froze half to death
I walked for miles 'cross open plains and thought I had nothing left
'Till I found Shelter in a Bar that sat in just the perfect spot
'Neath the forests where thirsty tourists sat with men who wanted to see alot
And it didn't seem
That men like me
Came in often
Sat beneath these trees
And some guy asked me my name
He was Paul
I was the man who lost it all
When his car broke down I got out and walked into a small cafe
Sat down on one of those old stools by the window and felt okay
The waitress came said I like your hair I said thanks she said where you headed for
I said I might hitch a ride out west tonight she said "Ah, I've been up that way before"
And as she spoke
I forgot
Why I was there
Who I was
She reminded me of a brick
of a wall
of the man who lost it all
the room is bare and the floor is hard
the tv's fuzzing black and white
and the tabloids speak of doherty and moss
with midnight eyes trading midnight roses
with midnight skin and cocaine noses
wasting all the chances that they've got
yes, the winter freeze is approaching fast,
and i'm wrapped up like a hidden past,
I've been here before and I'll be here again
'cos you can't always count on the night
to pass without a shivers sight
like freight train raging, howling in the rain
but the man who sang, is blowing all my dreams this way
yes, the man who sang, is blowing all my dreams this way
once upon a time i saw,
a thousand men who couldn't draw
an abstract man who couldn't write a word
and right in that instant i knew,
the reason humans never flew,
and dropped my head, my vision surely blurred
And the man who sang, was blowing all my dreams this way
the man who sang, is blowing all my dreams this way
where vicious vessels rock against the tide
and fishermen retreat inside
and the storm blows up, silhouetted by my call
where the hairs on your neck stand to a point
where nightmare's hang in every joint
where the light's so bright that you can't see at all
the man who sang, is blowing all my dreams this way
the man who sang, is blowing all my dreams this way
when the day has passed and the night has gone,
and the road ceases to wander on,
when the cars have parked and every plane has flown,
when the fall has fallen and the spring has sprung
and every bullet from every gun
has been shot, and i'm a wild cat, standing alone
the man who sang, will be blowing all my dreams this way
the man who sang, will be blowing all my dreams this way
frost controls the street and the pizza parlor's closed
i'm empty like the city, like the scottish piper i stand alone
pull out a cigarette and light it 'neath my shirt
taste it for the warmth and blow the smoke out like dirt.
and all the money i once spent means nothing to me now
all i need is shelter's stand, to pull me up out of this world
the way i shiver in the wind, you'd think i had something to lose
you think i'd care about the time, crime, or disaster on the news
but i'm a cripple on his feet, a poet on the beat, one more man on the street
I rise in the morning and breath in the fresh air
straighten out my tie and straighten out my hair
head over to the cafe, ask a guy there for some change
he hands it over reluctantly and looks at me as if i'm strange
i head up to the counter, and i'm staring at the girl
once upon a time i would have bought her a diamond, a pearl, a light
and asked to take her out at night, show her all the world
but i just can't compete, i order coffee and a sweet, one more man on the street
people speak of presidents and politics and votes
people speak of currency, of bankers cheques and notes
people speak of parties and celebrations and new clothes
people speak of relationships, of love and kiss and exchanging a red rose
i speak of the night, i speak of the past
i speak of the loser, of the bottom, i speak of the last
i speak of the men, who couldn't stand the fight
i'll always pick the left, over the right
i'm the kid on the bus without a seat, a bed with hypnotic sheets, one more man on the street
i'm a cripple upon his feet, a poet on the beat, one more man on the street,
i just can't compete, i order coffee and a sweet, i'm one more man on the street.
Fear
And the panic in the air
I want to be free
From desolation and despair
And I feel
Like everything I sow
Is being swept away
Well I refuse to let you go
I can't get it right
Get it right
Since I met you
Loneliness be over
When will this loneliness be over?
Life
Will flash before my eyes
So scattered and lost
I want to touch the other side
And no one
Thinks they are to blame
Why can't we see
When we bleed we bleed the same?
I can't get it right
Get it right
Since I met you
Loneliness be over
When will this loneliness be over?
Loneliness be over
When will this loneliness be over?
