1.Red Is A Mean, Mean Colour
He can remember hearing words of wonder
'failure is on the inside'
So often does he wonder
How hard it is without a guide
This manipulator of crazes
He can win any race that you name
Like a disease he comes in stages
And affects everybody the same
Chorus： he's just a body, a beat-up body
He gets his kicks on a fatal crash
And he carries a sign that screams
'red is a mean, mean colour !'
He keeps his money under his mattress
And his conscience in his pocket
He heart runs on batteries
He has two eyes to each socket
Now here's a thing, a very silly thing
He say's it's easy easy to make a million
Yeah, here's a thing, avery silly thing
He say's you steal from a broken brazilian
Chorus： he's just a body, a beat-up body
He gets his kicks on a fatal crash
And he carries a sign that screams
'red is a mean, mean colour !'
Life's a game of colours and shades
Llife's an ugly hue
Life's a pageant that we paint.
Can you remember being south of brighton
Head full of floating memories
Swimming to the grey horizon
Trying to escape the enemy
Who can quote from a thousand young poets
And with a flag on his backhe can shine
Who has a dream but can never show it
Who is drunk from the mad man's wine
Chorus： he's just a body, a beat-up body
He gets his kicks on a fatal crash
And he carries a sign that screams
'red is a mean, mean colour !'
2.White, White Dove
Rose and cross - so is the battle lost？
Is there now no time to jive？
Rose and cross - you know the price it's cost？
But the hope is still, the hope is still alive
Rosicrucius - is your story told？
Or is there still more to come？
Rosicrucius - from my simple soul
I shall eat the morning, eat the morning sun
Chorus： if i was ordered not to travel another mile
If i was told i could never see another city
There is one thing i'll always hold, that's the smile
Of the symbol that is peace, the white, white dove
Rose and cross - can we ever toss
All our prejudice aside？
Rose and cross - turn this petty loss
Into hope and glory, hope and glory with pride？
Rosicrucians - paint your symbols fair
Write your verses in the sand
Rosicrucians - you missed baudelaire
But we still extend, we still extend our hand...
3.Understand
Shall i begin from here to tell everything ？
Relinquish honour in order to make it ring ？
You'd have to give me your promise
You won't expect too much from this
You'll just be happy with the gold that i bring
We've been playing cat and mouse now for far too long
I can't let it simmer and just go gruelling on
I have to make my move
I've still got so much to prove
You can't imagine the life that i've had
Chorus： if i could put the words together
If i could put the words together
If only i could put the words together
You'd understand
You've been a magnet stuck in my memory
I'd hide if i could but i'm red in a yellow sea
Consider me lost in aspic
(i'd give in but that's not my schtick)
You'll haunt me for ever, i know you will
Chorus： if i could put the words together
If i could put the words together
If only i could put the words together
You'd understand
4.All Men Are Hungry
Was in the early evening and the sun was punching into my head
Outside a stockholm cafe at the river's edge we sat and smiled
We said how rich we were and how warm we felt with a cognac
heart
Talked over women in a lonely voice and began to jive
All the men are hungry, all the men are in search of time
Was in a scene from 'death in the afternoon' when i almost cried
I realized papa wanted me to live in his bull ring life
It made me hungry for peace and it made me wild and tore my
heart
It didn't help to wipe away the fears like he often claimed
All the men are hungry, all the men are in search of time
Was in a frenzy from the midnight air when i saw the light
I realized only children can live upon a timeless flight
It made me hungry for youth and it made me sad and made me laugh
To think that as we live and learn we only follow god's path
All the men are hungry, all the men are in search of time
All the men are hungry, all the men are in search of time
5.Black Or White(And Step On It)
Behind the wall the ears of love are listening
Behind the door they kneel
Behind the boy from whom we steal
Behind the dark, deserted halls of memory
Inside the sound：'ahoy !
'we have just landed for employ
'we need your hands to carru us to our joy'
To black or white
And step on it
Black or white
Between the shadow and uncertain colour
Between the word and sign
Between the man and all his time
Between the sidewalk and the moving stairway
Between the yay and nay !
There falls the thruth we aim to slay
There falls the thruth we do so righteous flay
Come black or white
And step on it
Black or white
Until we gather life and all our dreams
Until we cool the heat
Until we share our cup of meat
Until the trail of waste is put to stud
Until we drift away
Towards the picture in the frame
Our celebratian comes a game to play
Just black or white
And step on it
Black or white
6.Everything Changes
I can remember heaven
It came to me only seven years ago
When i was a lad and from the
Professionals i got fired
Had a good time in a way
Took a different trip a day
Buried the fear that i was
Only here to be borrowed or hired
Chorus： oh what a shame, nothing can stay the same
(shame ! shame !)
Young enough to have some fun
Old enough to hold a gun
I can remember playing games with
Pistols not so long ago
Many times i reminisce
About this solitude and bliss
We enjoyed as children
O did we really have to grow ？
Chorus： oh what a shame, nothing can stay the same
(shame ! shame !)
She came to me soft, asunder
Showed me the distant thunder blue
Told me the clouds could help us all
Told me the prophet says the man is deep in you
I took a sonic pill and slept
Begged her never tell then wept
Any friend or enemy of me could
Only lend you a clue....
Chorus： oh what a shame, nothing can stay the same
(shame ! shame !)
7.Nothing Is Sacred(It's Everything Else)
As the sun was coming up on the danube, the hotel room was alive
It's heart was beating hard as thunder, there were three of us
There for the night
And we were talking about the magnificent river of strauss
We were saying that nothing is sacred, it's everything else
We put a match to a candle and watched it flicker and spark
We just stared at ourselves until we couldn't keep our tired
Eyelids apart
Then someone (i think it was me) said： 'somehow this is rich,
'we're sitting here on thr danube and nobody noticed the
Blue water bitch'
Ohh la la, it's fun to be so kitsch
We went out to the balcony, the danube a glorius flame
We tookpolaroid pictures and swore that we're never again going
To be the same
It was a moment when nothing was stirring save these two and me
And the clouds were beginning to gather and crash overhead from
The glorius sea
We swayed to and fro and talked of michaelangelo
And of how there was too much beauty here to take it in one go
Then from a corner a tap on the door put the room in a flood
There was god in my mind but the problem was water - not blood !
Ohh la la , it's fun to drink of blood
They ran around me, demented, white lightning flashed in their
heads
I was getting bewildered, put on my armour, i was scared of
Attack from the reds
And with a pound lodged in mu nose i felt kind of rich and
serene
I yelled： ' lenny, come quick, get the other boy, take him out
Of this scene !'
When he disappeared, there was only lenny and me
And we hit on a thousand subjects at once in spite of the dusky
Beat
Then lenny opened his eye for a second and pulled down the blind
Saying： 'go if you must but you know you'll always be easy
To find'
Ohh la la, it's fun to make it blind
We heard phaedre speak of the philistines of paris
But she talked to herself like a parasite so we both struggled
Free
I said： 'zizi jeanmaire wouldn't take this and neither will we
'if they call me napoleon again i'll be forced to let the lion
Free
'i'll tear down all the paper walls they hide behind
'i'll be damned if i'll take much more of this, i'm beginning
To see the signs'
Then i glanced at lenny and saw that my confidante was beginning
To jest
Well, he came out of my subconscious and that's where i put him
Away to rest
Ohh la la, it's so fun to be depressed
I can't get over my beginnings, i can't imagine my end
I want to escape this wilderness i'm living in, i want to be
Somebody's friend
I could do with a little peace, o lord, and my heart cries out
For love
But to realise all of one's fantasies hasgot to be too much
8.Don't Go, Don't Cry
I was a drifter in a rock 'n' roll safari
Took a fancy to an ape in malawi
Who kissed my head and my eyes went all starry
And so i ran and was screaming 'where the hell are we ？'
He begged ： 'don't go, don't cry !'
There was a tiger i fought for the glory
The bloody battle was fierce and was gawry
Was like a scene from a kipling story
He sucked my blood like he's eating tandoori
He yelled： 'don't go, don't cry !'
I took a plane and was greeted in england
By many people and my spine started tingling
They stole my time and they all started mingling
I ran so hard that my feet started stinging
They screamed： 'don't go, don't cry !'
9.The Mad, Mad Moonlight
It was just like a dream, yeah, a surreal scene, like a blue
orange
I thought my senses had gone, like i was writing a song about a
foot-long
Syringe
And she said, 'hello, dear, it's my party
'so i hope you'll be smart, hee hee
And i said,'i don't know, but i think i'll go fix me a stiff
drink'
Well, i sat there and stared, because at first i was scared of
this female
Tarzan
And while she talked with the apes about champagne and grapes, i
approached her
Garden
And she said,'now, now, don't try to leave me,
'it's unfair to deceive me
'i could kill if you try to escape me, come upstairs my friend'
Now i knew, i knew, i couldn't be that mean,
So i tried, yeah i really tried to leave her but she was a
Big, big, big, big girl, big girl
Hurled out the door, it was becoming more of a test of honour
Would i go, would i stay, could i do it all day and be a certain
gonnor
And she said,'now you're so young and tender,
'and don't be concerned with my gender
It was hard but i managed to send her away up to those fluffy
white clouds
It was hard on the brain but i would do it again for the
satisfaction
She weighed 203 but that was ok by me, there was lots of action
And she said,'shall we dance in the moonlight
'it would be so nice on a june night
But i said,'if it's ok by you, i'll just sit here a take me a
rest'
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