1.Pseudo Silk Kimono
(fish ／ marillion)
Huddled in the safety of a pseudo silk kimono wearing bracelets
of smoke
Naked of understanding
Nicotine smears, long, long dried tears, invisible tears
Safe in my own words, learning from my own words
Cruel joke, cruel joke
Huddled in the safety of a pseudo silk kimono a morning mare
rides
In the starless shutters of my eyes
The spirit of a misplaced childhood is rising to speak his mind
To this orphan of heartbreak, disillusioned and scarred
A refugee, refugee
2.Bitter Suite
(fish ／ marillion)
A) brief encounter
A spider wanders aimlessly within the warmth of a shadow
Not the regal creature of border caves
But the poor, misguided, directionless familiar of some obscure
scottish poet
The mist crawls from the canal
Like some primordial phantom of romance
To curl, under a cascade of neon pollen
While i sit tied to the phone like an expectant father
Your carnation will rot in a vase
B) lost weekend
A train sleeps in a siding
The driver guzzles another can of lager, lager
To wash away the memories of a friday night down at the club
She was a wallflower at sixteen, she'll be a wallflower at
thirty four
Her mother called her beautiful
Her daddy said, 'a whore'
C) blue angel
The sky was bible black in lyon, when i met the magdalene
She was paralyzed in a streetlight
She refused to give her name
And a ring of violet bruises
They were pinned upon her arm
Two hundred francs for sanctuary and she led me by the hand
To a room of dancing shadows where all the heartache disappears
And from glowing tongues of candles i heard her whisper in my
ear
'j'entend ton coeur', 'j'entend ton coeur'
I can hear your heart, i can hear your heart, i can hear your
heart
Hear your heart
I hear your heart
D) misplaced rendezvous
It's getting late, for scribbling and scratching on the paper
Something's gonna give under this pressure, and the cracks are
already beginning to show
It's too late
The weekend career girl never boarded the plane
They said this could never happen again
Oh, so wrong, so wrong
This time it seems to be another misplaced rendezvous
This time, it's looking like another misplaced rendezvous
With you
The parallel of you, you
E) windswept thumb
On the outskirts of nowhere
On the ringroad to somewhere
On the verge of indecision
I'll always take the roundabout way
Waiting on the rain
For i was born with a habit, from a sign
The habit of a windswept thumb, and the sign of the rain
Rain on me, rain
It's started raining
3.Heart Of Lothian
(derek dick, steve rothery, mark kelly, pete trewavas, ian
mosley)
On the outskirts of nowhere
On the ringroad to somewhere
On the verge of indecision
I'll always take the roundabout way
Waiting on the rain
For i was born with a habit
From a sign
The habit of a windswept thumb
And the sign of the rain
Rain on me! {it started to rain}
A) wide boy
Wide boys, wide boys, wide boys
Born with hearts of lothian
Wide boys, wide boys
Born with hearts of lothian
Wide boys, we were wide boys
Born with hearts of lothian
These hearts of lothian
It's six o'clock in the tower blocks
The stalagmites of culture shock
And the trippers of the light fantastic, bowdown, hoe-down
Spray their pheremones on this perfume uniform
And anarchy smiles in the royal mile
And they're waiting on the slyboys, flyboys, wideboys
Rooting, tooting cowboys
Lucky little ladies at the watering holes
They'll score the friday night goals
I was born with a heart of lothian
I was born with a heart of lothian
I was born with a heart of lothian
I was born with a heart of lothian
I was born with a heart of lothian, with a heart of lothian.
4.Waterhole(Expresso Bongo)
(fish ／ marillion)
When the taxis gather in mock solemnity
Funeral hearses court the death of virginity
Was it paradise lost or paradise found？
Did we gain respect or were we holding ground？
You had found true love, or so you believed
And the wideboys tattooed your hearts upon their sleeves
So when you think it's time to go, when you think it's time to
go
Don't be surprised, the heroes never show
And the patter merchants selling false impressions
Tipping eyes at the waitress with american expressions
Tie angels to the bar with sweet martini's and their charms
They're lying on every word and every arm
They're turning down their noses to the best lines
And the cheap wines
And the wideboys
They wear their lovebites for their crimes
So when you think it's time to go, when you think it's time to
go
Don't be surprised, the heroes never show
5.Lords Of The Backstage
(fish ／ marillion)
A love song with no validity
Pretend you never meant that much to me
Numb, a valium child, bored by meaningless collisions
A lonely stretch of headlight, diamonds trapped in black ice
A mirror cracked among the white lines
I just wanted you to be the first one
I just wanted you to be the first one
Ashes are burning, burning
Ashes are burning, burning
A lifestyle with no simplicities
But i'm not asking for your sympathy
Talk, we never could talk, distanced by all that was between us
A lord of the backstage, a creature of language
I'm so far out and i'm too far in
I just wanted you to be the first one
I just wanted you to be the first one
Bridges are burning, burning
Bridges are burning, burning
Now, now, now, now
6.Blind Curve
(fish ／ marillion)
A) vocal under a bloodlight
Last night you said i was cold, untouchable
A lonely piece of action from another town
I just want to be free, i'm happy to be lonely
Can't you stay away？
Just leave me alone with my thoughts
Just a runaway, just a runaway, i'm saving myself
B) passing strangers
Strung out below a necklace of carnival lights
Cold moan, held on the crest of the night
I'm too tired to fight
So now we're passing strangers, at single tables
Still trying to get over, still trying to write love songs for
passing strangers
All those passing strangers
And the twinkling lies, all those twinkling lies
Sparkle with the wet ink on the paper
C) mylo
Oh i remember toronto when mylo went down
And we sat and we cried on the phone
I never felt so alone
He was the first of our own
Some of us go down in a blaze of obscurity
Some of us go down in a haze of publicity
The price of infamy, the edge of insanity
Another holiday inn, another temporary home
And an interviewer threatened me with a microphone
'talk to me, won't you tell me your stories.'
So i talked about conscience and i talked about pain
And he looked out the window and it started to rain
I thought maybe i've already gone crazy
So i reached for a bottle and he reached for the door
And i picked up the sleeping pills crushed on the floor
Inviting me to a casual obscenity
D) perimeter walk
It would be incredible if we could retrace all the times that we
lived here
All the collisions
Wasted, i've never been so wasted
I've never been this far out before
Perimeter walk
There's a presence here
I feel could have been ancient, i could have been mystical
There's a presence
A childhood, my childhood
My childhood, childhood
A misplaced childhood
My childhood, a misplaced childhood
Give it back to me, give it back to me
A childhood, that childhood, that childhood, that childhood,
that childhood
Oh please give it back to me
E) threshold
I saw a war widow in a launderette
Washing the memories from her husband's clothes
She had medals pinned to a threadbare greatcoat
A lump in her throat with cemetery eyes
I see convoys curbcrawling west german autobahns
Trying to pick up a war
They're going to even the score
Oh... i can't take any more
I see black flags on factories
Soup ladies poised on the lips of the poor
I see children with vacant stares, destined for rape in the
alleyways
Does anybody care, i can't take any more!
Should we say goodbye？
Hey
I see priests, politicians？
The heroes in black plastic body-bags under nations' flags
I see children pleading with outstretched hands, drenched in
napalm, this is no vietnam
I can't take any more, should we say goodbye
How can we justify？
They call us civilised!
7.Childhood's End？
(fish ／ marillion)
And it was morning
And i found myself mourning, for a childhood that i thought had
disappeared
I looked out the window
And i saw a magpie in the rainbow, the rain had gone i'm not
alone
I turned to the mirror, i saw you, the child, that once loved
The child before they broke his heart
Our heart, the heart that i believed was lost
Hey you, surprised？
More than surprised, to find the answers to the questions, were
always in your own eyes
Do you realize that you give it on back to her？
But that would only be retraced in all the problems that you
ever knew
So untrue
For she's got to carry on with her life, and you've got to carry
on with yours
So i see it's me, i can do anything
And i'm still the child
'cos the only thing misplaced was direction
And i found direction
There is no childhood's end
There is no childhood's end
Cos' you are my childhood friend
Cos' you are my childhood friend
Oh lead me on
Hey you, you've survived
Now you've arrived, to be reborn in the shadow of the magpie
Now you realize, that you've got to get out of here
You've found the leading light of destiny, burning in the ashes
of your memory
You want to change the world
You'd resigned yourself to die a broken rebel
But that was looking backward
Now you've found the light
You, the child that once loved
The child before they broke his heart
Our heart, the heart that i believed was lost
So it's me i see, i can do anything
I'm still the child
'cos the only thing misplaced was direction, and i found
direction
There is no childhood's end
There is no childhood's end
There is no childhood's end
I am your childhood friend
Oh, lead me on
8.White Feather
(fish ／ marillion)
When i hit the streets back in '81
Found a heart in the gutter and a poet's crown
I felt barbed wire kisses and icicle tears
Where have i been for all these years？
I saw political intrigue, political lies
Gonna wipe those smiles of self-satisfaction from their eyes
I will wear your white feather i will carry your white flag
I will swear i have no nation but i'm proud to own my heart
I will wear your white feather i will carry your white flag
I will swear i have no nation but i'm proud to own my heart
My heart, this is my heart
We don't need no uniforms, we have no disguise
Divided we stand, together we'll rise
We will wear your white feather
All the children
We will carry your white flag
We will swear we have no nations
Beirut children
But we're proud to own our hearts
Jeruzalem children
We will wear your white feather
Tokio children
We will carry your white flag
Moscow children
We will swear we have no nations
Washington children
But we're proud to own our hearts
Munich children
These are our hearts
Chicago children
These are our hearts
Cairo children
You can't take away our hearts ...
You can't steal our hearts away
I can't walk away i can't walk away
No more, no more, no more, no more...
9.Lady Nina
(fish, steve rothery, mark kelly, pete trewavas, ian mosley)
You pick out your credit cards and check into the night
A dozen tequilas and you're feeling all right
So you swim to the disco, out of your depth jaded gigolo
Your lucky charms are tarnished so you leave alone
But there's one place left to go before the taxi home
After all you've made your marks
One night you'll play elizabeth taylor
The next night you're marilyn monroe
Forever kissing frogs that think they're princes
Oh, lady nina, where did all the romance go？
Your little sister babysits, your husband picks you up at six
The make-up hides the bruises and the tears so they never show
'cos your beauty is the only thing you've ever owned
It's the only way you've ever known to make your marks
You made your marks, you made your marks
We believe it's for real
Ich liebe dich, liebst du mich
Lady nina, i'd love to take you home with me
But i love my wife and i love my family
I've got a good job, responsibilities
And i need to keep respect from society
I know you'll never act with me, i know that you're in love with
me
So how do i compare to the sailors of the ships of the night？
Was i all right？
Did you come tonight, lady nina？
You made your marks, you made your marks
Ebony flowers pinned to a velvet cushion in a red light
And edith piaf sings a lullaby for the night
Just making marks, just making marks
Just making marks, just making marks
You made your marks
Ebony flowers pinned to a velvet cushion in a red light
And edith piaf sings a lullaby for the night
Just making marks, just making marks
You made your marks
And you made your mark
Just making marks
And you made your mark
Just making marks
10.Freaks
(derek dick, mark kelly, steve rothery, peter trewavas, ian
mosley)
Have you ever met a lady, screaming angst potential？
Have you ever dreamed of romance, no matter how experimental？
Have you ever felt an alien drifting back into your hometown？
Did you think you were buying safety when you bought that piece
of ground？
She said all the best freaks are here
She said all the best freaks are here, please stop staring at me
So i said all the best freaks are here
All the best freaks are here, please stop staring at me
Have you ever woke up, sweating in the middle of the night？
You search the darkness and you're scrambling for the light
Have you ever walked down the street, heard bootsteps following
you？
Don't worry my son, you've got the spook squad looking after you
He said all the best freaks are here
He said all the best freaks are here, please stop staring at me
So i said all the best freaks are here
All the best freaks are here, please stop staring at me, stop
staring at me
Airport terminal, patiently waiting on the last call
You feel the eyes burn the back of your head
Sign the autograph, get out of the picture, gonna have the last
laugh
Feel the whispers as you head for the plane
Stop staring at me
Love and linen sheets seem so very far away
You save your pennies and you buy another day
But after all it's only hide and seek, just another game
There's so much fun to be had when you're living with a name
All the best freaks are here, all the best freaks are here
Please stop staring at me, all the best freaks are here
All the best freaks are here, please stop staring at me
Oh, stop staring at me, oh, stop staring at me
They said all the best freaks are here
All the best freaks are here, please stop staring at me
All the best freaks are here
All the best freaks are here, please stop staring at me
11.Kayleigh
(fish, steve rothery, mark kelly, pete trewavas, ian mosley)
Do you remember chalk hearts melting on a playground wall
Do you remember dawn escapes from moon washed college halls
Do you remember the cherry blossom in the market square
Do you remember i thought it was confetti in our hair
By the way didn't i break your heart？
Please excuse me, i never meant to break your heart
So sorry, i never meant to break your heart
But you broke mine
Kayleigh is it too late to say i'm sorry？
And kayleigh could we get it together again？
I just can't go on pretending that it came to a natural end
Kayleigh, oh i never thought i'd miss you
And kayleigh i thought that we'd always be friends
We said our love would last forever
So how did it come to this bitter end？
Do you remember barefoot on the lawn with shooting stars
Do you remember loving on the floor in belsize park
Do you remember dancing in stilettoes in the snow
Do you remember you never understood i had to go
By the way, didn't i break your heart？
Please excuse me, i never meant to break your heart
So sorry, i never meant to break your heart
But you broke mine
Kayleigh i just wanna say i'm sorry
But kayleigh i'm too scared to pick up the phone
To hear you've found another lover to patch up our broken home
Kayleigh i'm still trying to write that love song
Kayleigh it's more important to me now you're gone
Maybe it will prove that we were right
Or ever prove that i was wrong
12.Lavender
(derek dick, steve rothery, mark kelly, pete trewavas, ian
mosley)
I was walking in the park
Dreaming of a spark
When i heard the sprinklers whisper
Shimmer in the haze of summer lawns.
Then i heard the children singing
They were running through the rainbows.
They were singing a song for you
Well it seemed to be a song for you
The one i wanted to write for you
Lavenders blue, dilly dilly, lavenders green
When i am king, dilly dilly
You will be queen
A penny for your thoughts my dear
A penny for your thoughts my dear
I.o.u. for your love
I.o.u. for your love
Lavenders green, dilly dilly, lavenders blue
When you love me, dilly dilly, i will love you
A penny for your thoughts my dear
A penny for your thoughts my dear
I.o.u. for your love
I.o.u. for your love
Lavender dreams dilly, dilly lavender true
When you miss me dilly dilly, i did miss you
A penny for your thoughts my dear
A penny for your thoughts my dear
I.o.u for your love
I.o.u. for your love
For your love
Blue angel
The sky was bible black in lyon
When i met the magdalene
She was paralyzed in a streetlight
She refused to give her name
And a ring of violet bruises
They were pinned upon her arm
Two hundred francs for sanctuary and she led me by the hand
To a room of dancing shadows
Where all the heartache disappears
And from glowing tongues of candles i heard her whisper in my
ear
'j'entend ton coeur', 'j'entend ton coeur'
I can hear your heart, i can hear your heart, i can hear your
heart
Hear your heart. i hear your heart
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