Whole Of The Moon

The Waterboys Whole Of The Moon Lyrics
1.A Girl Called Johnny

I remember johnny - hey!
Johnny come lately
I remember her shoes like a ballerina
A girl called johnny who
Changed her name when she
Discovered her choice was to
Change or to be changed

I remember a girl called johnny
Black as hell and white as a ghost
'don't talk about life or death'
She said 'i've had enough of both'
A girl called johnny who was not scared
They'd have torn her to pieces but
Who would dare?

I remember a girl called johnny
The train came to town, boy she got on it
With no looking back, with not a word
If she said goodbye, well i never heard
But the noise goes on
The noise, the jazz
And the truth is in somebody else's hands
And the house that a girl called johnny built
Is now just ashes and sand


2.Fisherman's Blues

I wish i was a fisherman
Tumblin' on the seas
Far away from dry land
And its bitter memories
Casting out my sweet line
With abandonment and love
No ceiling bearin' down on me
'cept the starry sky above
With light in my head
You in my arms
Woohoo!

I wish i was the brakeman
On a hurtlin' fevered train
Crashing a-headlong into the heartland
Like a cannon in the rain
With the beating of the sleepers
And the burnin' of the coal
Counting the towns flashing by
In a night that's full of soul
With light in my head
You in my arms
Woohoo!

Well i know i will be loosened
From bonds that hold me fast
That the chains all hung around me
Will fall away at last
And on that fine and fateful day
I will take me in my hands
I will ride on the train
I will be the fisherman
With light in my head
You in my arms


3.Glastonbury Song

I dreamed myself from the sultry plains
To the old green square back in old maybole
Rode the wind up to stornaway
Paused at the peak, pacified my soul
Caught the bus at the faery fort
Made it to the mansion on the boyne
See i come around to the ancient ways
I took a tip from the buddha boy

I just found god
I just found god
I just found god where he always was

We came down from the hill of dreams
Bernadette, mother earth and you and me
Through carraroe, down the wildwood side
Blinding out eyes in the shallow seas
Drank fire with the king of the blues,
Plugged in to the medicine way
Took a long last look at crazy horse
Push now for a golden age

I just found god
I just found god
I just found god where he always was

I found myself on the roof of the world
Just waiting for to get my wings
Strange angel in the changing light
Said 'brother, you forgot something!'
My heart beat from the inside out
So lucky just to be alive!
Can you tell what i'm talking about?
Any day now the sun's gonna rise

I just found god
I just found god
I just found god where he always was
I just found god where he always was

There is a green hill far away
I'm going back there one fine day


4.Higher In Time

The mountain is steep
The ditches are deep
The task in hand
Is making us weep
But here's a promise
(i intend to keep

That i mean to keep)
Seed it in your mind
And say it each night
Before you sleep:
We will climb higher in time
(och!)

You've got a head full of trouble
And a ship to build
(you think you won't make it
But you know you will
You feel you need your
Cup refilled
Fill it out of mine
We'll drop the defenses,
Pool our skill

Your heart you're hiding
It's making you ill
You feel like you want to have your
Sporran refilled
Well, fill it out of mine
Let the soulful water
Overspill)
And we will climb higher in time

I've been to the bottom
I've been on the train
I've slept in the gutter
With my head in a drain
I've been brutally proud
I've been mortally shamed
But this is not a crime
I'm just learning, my friends,
That it's all in the game
And we will climb higher in time
(och!)

Climb higher in time
Climb higher in time


5.Love Anyway

So you crahed the plane
And there's hell to pay
I'm making it plain
I love you anyway

You made a fool
Out of me today
I'm breaking the rule
I love you anyway

You threw the blame
What a role to play!
My story's the same
I love you anyway

You dealt the blow
And you burst the ball
I'm letting you know
I love you most of all

Magic we chase - only to find
It comes from a place higher than mind
Higher than dust, but only just
It hangs on the cusp

I can hear you scream
Like a branded slave
It's only a dream
I love you anyway

You've got a war to wage
Chief to obey
Foe to engage
I love you anyway

You hunker down
Feeling small
Judging the clown
I love you most of all

I picture you with the eye of my mind
A portrait in blue, unravaged by time
Beauty undimmed and through your pale skin
The beauty within

So you beat the child
Sent him away
Beauty defiled
I love you anyway

You tricked the king
Cut him where he lay
Unthinkable thing
I love you anyway

You held the jewel
And you let it fall
Prince of a fool!
I love you most of all

Over the wind, under the hill
Wing upon wing, love over will
When the big me meets the big you
The things we will do!

I'll make the time
If you name the day
Trouble or shine
I love you anyway

I think of you
As child of clay
Whatever you do
I love yo anyway


6.Medicine Bow

There's a black wind blowing
A typhoon on the rise
Pummeling rain
Murderous skies!
I'm gonna take my books
I'm gonna wear my coat
I'm gonna find my scarf
And wrap it around my throat
And you can
Come with me
Through the driving snow
We're gonna ride on up to
Medicine bow

Well i spent too long
Just stuck on the shore
There's a man in my head
But he isn't me anymore
I'm gonna find me a ship
Stowaway on a boat
I'm gonna burn all the words
And letters and cards that i ever wrote
And you can
Sail with me
Where the current flows
We're gonna move on up to
Medicine bow

I'm gonna change my colours
Cancel my things
Stop my squawking
Grow some wings!

Well i will not sleep
And i will not rest
I will put my soul
And my will to the test
I'm gonna tug at my tether
I'm gonna tear at my lead
I'm gonna test my knowledge
In the field of deeds
And you can
Run with me
Fast as we can go
Over the hill to
Medicine bow


7.Rare, Precious And Gone

Cry baby boy, not tears of joy
The one you held is no longer your toy
She's got her new boots and her make up on
You can call her your friend
But not your lover again
She's made it clear as air that this affair is at an end
So what are you doing holding on?

Don't you see she's
Rare, precious and she's gone
She's rare, precious and she's gone

She was soft in your hands, now she's shattered your plans
I'm sympathetic but you've got to understand
You tried to squeeze her somewhere
She just don't belong
She was being sincere when she breathed in your ear
As long as there were stars in the night sky she'd be near
Even angels get it wrong!

Won't you see she's
Rare, precious and she's gone
She's rare, precious and she's gone

It's a subtle trap
Seeding guilt in her mind
But she ain't taking your crap
This time
Boy you're out on a line...

She's a queen among women, a child among queens
The finest thing that your lovesick eyes have ever seen
She's a rose without a thorn
She's a peach, she's a prize
A gift in disguise
She's graceful and colourful and when she grows
She'll be wise
But most of all my friend, she's gone
Gone, gone gone!

She's rare, precious and she's gone
Rare, precious and she's gone
Yes, she's rare, precious and she's gone
She's rare, precious and she's gone
Gone, gone gone...


8.Red Army Blues

When i left my home and my family
My mother said to me
'son, it's not how many germans you kill that counts
It's how many people you set free'

So i packed my bags
Brushed my cap
Walked out into the world
Seventeen years old
Never kissed a girl

Took the train to voronezh
That was as far as it would go
Changed my sacks for a uniform
Bit my lip against the snow
I prayed for mother russia
In the summer of '43
And as we drove the germans back
I really believed
That god was listening to me

We howled into berlin
Tore the smoking buildings down
Raised the red flag high
Burnt the reichstag brown
I saw my first american
And he looked a lot like me
He had the same kinda farmer's face
Said he'd come from some place called hazzard, tennessee

Then the war was over
My discharge papers came
Me and twenty hundred others
Went to stettiner for the train
Kiev! said the commissar
From there your own way home
But i never got to kiev
We never came by home
Train went north to the taiga
We were stripped and marched in file
Up the great siberian road
For miles and miles and miles and miles
Dressed in stripes and tatters
In a gulag left to die
All because comrade stalin was scared that
We'd become too westernized!

Used to love my country
Used to be so young
Used to believe that life was
The best song ever sung
I would have died for my country
In 1945
But now only one thing remains
But now only one thing remains
But now only one thing remains
But now only one thing remains
The brute will to survive!


9.She Is So Beautiful

She is so beautiful
I've got no words to describe
The way she makes me feel inside
I'm flying solo
As free as light as a bird
Yet i could lay my wings down in a moment
To guard and comfort her

She is so beautiful
Light-filled, loving and wise
Laughter dancing in her eyes
All my road is before me
And i never did plan on a wife
Yet she's the most beatiful soul
I ever have met in this life

For she is like a song
She is like a ray of light
She is like childrens playing
Like harps and bells and cymbals playing
And she is like a wind
Moving, soothing, bringing joy
And here am i, destroyed
She is so beautiful
I don't know what i'm going to do when i leave
Except grieve


10.Strange Boat

We're sailing on a strange boat
Heading for a strange shore
We're sailing on a strange boat
Heading for a strange shore
Carrying the strangest cargo
That was ever hauled aboard

We're sailing on a strange sea
Blown by a strange wind
We're sailing on a strange sea
Blown by a strange wind
Carrying the strangest crew
That ever sinned

We're riding in a strange car
We're followin' a strange star
We're climbing on the strangest ladder
That was ever there to climb

We're living in a strange time
Working for a strange goal
We're living in a strange time
Working for a strange goal
We're turning flesh and body
Into soul


11.The Pan Within

Come with me
On a journey beneath the skin
Come with me
On a journey under the skin
We will look together
For the pan within

Close your eyes
Breathe slow we'll begin
Close your eyes
Breathe slow and we will begin
To look together
For the pan within

Swing your hips
Loose your head, and let it spin
Swing your hips
Loose you head, and let it spin
And we will look together
For the pan within

Close your eyes
Breathe slow and we will begin
Close your eyes
Breathe slow and we will begin
To look together
For the pan within

Put your face in my window
Breathe a night full of treasures
The wind is delicious
Sweet and wild with the promise of pleasure
The stars are alive
And nights like these
Were born to be
Sanctified by you and me
Lovers, thieves, fools and pretenders
And all we gotta do is surrender

Come with me
On a journey under the skin
Come with me
On a journey under the skin
And we will look together
For the pan within
When to be with you
Is not a sin
When to be with you, oh just to be with you
Is not a sin
We will look together
For the pan within


12.The Return Of Pan

I stood upon the balcony with my brand new bride
The clink of bells came drifting down the mountainside
When in our sight something moved
- lightning eyed and cloven hooved -
The great god pan is alive!

He moves amid the modern world in disguise
It's possible to look into his immortal eyes
He's like a man you'd meet anyplace
Until you recognise that ancient face
The great god pan is alive!

At sea on a ship in a thunder storm
On the very night that christ was born
A sailor heard from overhead
A mighty voice cry 'pan is dead!'
So follow christ as best you can
Pan is dead! long live pan!

From the olden days and up through all the years
From arcadia to the stone fields of inisheer
Some say the gods are just a myth
But guess who i've been dancing with
The great god pan is alive!


13.The Whole Of The Moon

I pictured a rainbow
You held in your hands
I had flashes
But you saw then plan
I wondered out in the world for years
While you just stayed in your room
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon!
The whole of the moon!

You were there at the turnstiles
With the wind at your heels
You stretched for the stars
And you know how it feels
To reach too high
Too far
Too soon
You saw the whole of the moon!

I was grounded
While you filled the skies
I was dumbfounded by truths
You cut through lies
I saw the rain-dirty valley
You saw brigadoon
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon!

I spoke about wings
You just flew
I wondered, i guessed, and i tried
You just knew
I sighed
But you swooned
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon!
The whole of the moon!

With a torch in your pocket
And the wind at your heels
You climbed on the ladder
And you know how it feels
To reach too high
Too far
Too soon
You saw the whole of the moon!
The whole of the moon!

Unicorns and cannonballs,
Palaces and piers,
Trumpets, towers, and tenemets,
Wide oceans full of tears,
Flag, rags, ferry boats,
Scimitars and scarves,
Every precious dream and vision
Underneath the stars

You climbed on the ladder
With the wind in your sails
You came like a comet
Blazing your trail
Too high
Too far
Too soon
You saw the whole of the moon!


14.This Is The Sea

These things you keep
You'd better throw them away
You wanna turn your back
On your soulless days
Once you were tethered
And now you are free
Once you were tethered
Well now you are free
That was the river
This is the sea!

Now if you're feelin' weary
If you've been alone too long
Maybe you've been suffering from
A few too many
Plans that have gone wrong
And you're trying to remember
How fine your life used to be
Running around banging your drum
Like it's 1973
Well that was the river
This is the sea!
Wooo!

Now you say you've got trouble
You say you've got pain
You say've got nothing left to believe in
Nothing to hold on to
Nothing to trust
Nothing but chains
You're scouring your conscience
Raking through your memories
Scouring your conscience
Raking through your memories
But that was the river
This is the sea yeah!

Now i can see you wavering
As you try to decide
You've got a war in your head
And it's tearing you up inside
You're trying to make sense
Of something that you just can't see
Trying to make sense now
And you know you once held the key
But that was the river
And this is the sea!
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!

Now i hear there's a train
It's coming on down the line
It's yours if you hurry
You've got still enough time
And you don't need no ticket
And you don't pay no fee
No you don't need no ticket
You don't pay no fee
Because that was the river
And this is the sea!

Behold the sea!


15.What Do You Want Me To Do

I've tried to do things my own way
I've tried to do what people say
And i'm going nowhere fast
And i'm turning to you at last

What do you want me to do?
What do you want me to do?
What do you want me to do lord?

I can see the lights of home
But i can't get there on my own
I can see the landing strip
But i need you to steer my ship

What do you want me to do?
What do you want me to do?
What do you want me to do lord?

I've been a foll and i've been a clown
I let the enemy turn me around
I've wasted love and i've wasted time
I've been rpoud and i've been blind

What do you want me to do?
What do you want me to do?
What do you want me to do lord?

I've got a lot of things to change
A whole man to rearrange
And if you show me how
I'll begin right now

What do you want me to do?
What do you want me to do?
What do you want me to do lord?

I'm listening...


16.When Ye Go Away

Now he's brought down the rain
And the indian summer is through
(in the morning you'll be following your trail again
Fair play to you

You'll be leaving, pretty darling, in the morning-time
If i know you)
You ain't calling me to join you
And i'm spoken for anyway
(but i will cry when ye go away
I will cry when ye go away

But you'll be killing my heart when ye go away
You'll be killing my heart when ye go away)

(your beauty is familiar
And your voice is like a key

Your beauty is a legend
And your voice is like a melody)
(that opens up my soul

That plays upon my soul)
And torches up a fire inside of me
(your coat is made of magic
And around your table angels play

Your shoes are made of magic
And your footstep is the break of day

I must have known you in another life
In another age)
I will cry when ye go away
I will cry when ye go away

(river road reel)

Somebody/el torro/mike rogers left their whisky
And the night is very young
I've got some/much to say and more to tell
And the words will soon be spilling from my tongue
I will rave and i will ramble
I'll do everything but make you stay
Then i will cry when ye go away
I will cry when ye go away

(river road reel)

When ye go away...
When ye go away...