Calm Animals

The Fixx Calm Animals Lyrics
1.The Flow

When a dream survives the longest night
And the vision takes a hold
When a breath inspires it's a sign of life

You're the string and I'm the bow
Jump in the flow
Just get carried by the flow

Where the bank defines the water's edge
The river in my spine
As we circulate maybe we shall collide

You're the space and I am the time
Jump in the flow
We get carried by the flow

Through a sleep I ride
Feel like a night that shines
With a memory of long ago
We drank to them, said goodbye as friends

We survive, we survive it so
Back in the flow
Carried by the flow

Just look how far you've been
Look how far you've come
All the things you've achieved

Don't try and find any reason
Get carried by it
Jump in the flow


2.I'm Life

Lyricist:Dan K Brown, Cy Cyrnin, Peter Greenall, James West-oram, Adam
Woods

I'm life, watching
I think I can
Measure the flow
I could swim that river

I'm fast breeding
I think I have
No cruise control
I can't stop the spiral

I'm sand wave, blown in the air
I come down in raindrop
I'm time passing
I think I know we'll meet again
We can climb the mountain

I'm life, watching
I think I can
Measure the flow
I could swim that river

I'm fast breeding
I think I have
No cruise control
I can't stop the spiral, spiral

I'm life, watching
I think I can
Measure the flow
I could swim that river

Take a breath, life
Feel it stretch, life
Life

I'm sand wave, blown in the air
I come down in raindrop
I'm time passing
I think I know we'll meet again
We can climb the mountain

I'm life, watching
I think I can
Measure the flow
I could swim that river

I'm life, watching
I think I can
Measure the flow
I could swim that river


3.Calm Animals

Lyricist:Daniel Kingsmill Brown, Cy Curnin, Peter Greenall, James
Fletcher West Oram, Adam Woods

Calm animals expect nothing
Live suspicious to balance out
The effect of reason on their sunrise
There's a moving hide

Calm animals with no shackles
Free on a shrinking plain
So presented, it's economics
Small wonder, the pastures die

Calm, calm, calm, calm, animals
Free on a shrinking plain
Calm, calm, calm
Adventures to roam alone

So civilized the code stifles
A race with gestures has lost its way
The chance was given to think social
But we choke on greed and excess

Going by, going by
Just for politics we live the lie
You cry, we cry
Part of history will wonder why


4.Driven Out

Lyricist:Dan Brown, Cy Curnin, Peter Greenall, James West-oram, Adam
Woods

Driven out by thieves
I watch them pillage the planet
Fueled by a fattening greed
Trees fall to the hatchet

Chopping against the grain
Our spirits in a vacuum
Sadly ignore the pain
End arrives, we all lose, we all lose

Hope it comes, it comes, it comes around
Driven out, holding out, day by day survival
Castaways have silent lives
With the strength to rival you

I've been driving in my car
I used to be able to walk this far
Now I turn on the light
Used to be able to sleep at night

Cooking with microwaves
Warm up my food it's not seen the soil
Plugged into my TV, yeah
I'm used to the lies they're telling me, they're telling me

I hope it comes, it comes, it comes around
Driven out, holding out, day by day survival
Castaways have silent lives
With the strength to rival

Driven out, holding out
Know this will take up my best time
Driven out, holding out
With the strength to rival you

I've been hoping that we'll find
More to life than meets the eye
Can we escape the grind
And build a life that's more worthwhile?

Be rid of this empty pride
Full of selfishness inside
Bathe in a turning tide
Until then we all hide, we all hide

I hope it comes, it comes, it comes around
Driven out, holding out, day by day survival
Castaways have silent lives
With the strength to rival

Driven out, holding out
Know this will take up my best time
Driven out, holding out
With the strength to rival you
To rival you
Push, push, push it away


5.Precious Stone

Lyricist:Dan Brown, Cy Curnin, Peter Greenall, James West-oram, Adam
Woods

I danced in the surf
At the edge of an ocean
Could have been someone else
Could have been anything at all

Don't deny that you ask yourself
How do you weigh in
This precious stone?

I stumbled on a flaw in the order
Unwrapped the gift spread
The sheet to the border
There's no virtue if there's no sin

How do you weigh in
This precious stone
At the point of no return?

This precious stone
At the point of no return?
Precious stone
At the point of no return?
Precious stone
At the point of no return?

And at the end of the day
There's no me without you
At the end of the day
There's no me without you

So how do you weigh in
This precious stone?

I'm a tick in the clock
Of old father time
Feel the beat to the rock
Under the palm of of my hand

Don't deny that you ask yourself
How do you weigh in
This precious stone?
At the point of no return

Precious stone
At the point of no return
Precious stone
At the point of no return
Precious stone
At the point of no return
Precious

This precious stone


6.Shred Of Evidence

Turn your eyes to the page
Read about the living age
Polish up your crystal ball
Check the night before it falls
Let it go

Please beware of nature's witch
Picks her berries from your ditch
And you'll be gone

Turn you into Orobas
Turn you in, not one of us
And you'll have words to say about that
Let it go
(Shredded evidence)

Not so much as a word
Not so much as a clue
Not so much as a trace
Disappear into the blue

Hell appears your living end
Where you're left you will suspend
And you just dangle

They boil the fat, we chew the weed
They make the facts, we can't succeed
Without a little trick up your sleeve
Let it go

Not so much as a word
Not so much as a clue
Not so much as a trace
Disappear into the blue

Turn your eyes to this bed, let it go
Turn your eyes for me she said, let it go
Clear your mind of other thoughts, let it go
Take my hand you astronaut, let it go

Not so much as a word
Not so much as a clue
Not so much as a trace
Disappear into the blue


7.Subterranean

There's a clash of tunnel vision
Work and play, live and die in corridors
People are turning subterranean
And digging in, digging in for the fall

There's a flag arms to call a nation
Make the break from school to dole queue
People are turning radioactive
Beep beep the sensor beeps it out.
Come on...

Let's escape this cold world comfort
Make the break, I'll meet you on the surface
Let's escape this cold world comfort
Make the break, I'll meet you on the surface
Way on up...

There's a mood but no legislation
No guarantee it's a tabloid reality
People are making good connections
write, write, write... it up for us all
Come on...

Let's escape this cold war comfort
Make the break, I'll meet you on the surface
Let's escape this cold war comfort
Make the break, I'll meet you on the surface
Way, way on up...
Way on up...

No more cold subterranean...
No more cold at all...
Lock the door...

Let's escape this cold war comfort
Make the break, I'll meet you on the surface
Let's escape this cold war comfort
Make the break, I'll meet you on the surface
Way, way on up...


8.Gypsy Feet

Land to land
From sea to shining sea
A dream's a dream
No matter where you stand
Heart to heart
Your urge is pulling me
Search we search
With your night light calling
Play hide and seek with me.
Go dancing, following
Go to the peak with me,
Aspiring, climbing
To your sweet retreat
Scene to scene
We cast a sexual eye
And then life unites
We're undercover
Play hide and seek with me
Go dancing, following
Go to the peak with me,
Aspiring, lying
At your gypsy feet


9.World Weary

World weary
Is there a dream in your heart?
World weary
Take it back to the start
Little lacklustre
The nut's in your hand
Little boy hopeful
Don't plant in the sand
And you will see
Hearts are pumping for you
And you will find
There's a vessel for you
And you will grow,
Roots are searching for you
There must be a reason for it.
Reason for it all
Little partaker
There's a role you must play
Little facemaker
Smile in your day
World weary
Write your name in the stars
World weary
You are back at the start


10.Cause to Be Alarmed

A little kid goes from
Size one to size two
Still we have same job
What is it that we do
All the change that's going on
In that tiny mind
Still we're indecisive,
Still we're wasting time
And there's cause, cause,
Cause to be alarmed
Who feeds the dove
Who gives the world its charm
Cause, cause, cause to be alarmed
We are pumped up fantasies
Until the world's disarmed
A little hungry face
Deserved more than roots to chew
They will erupt 'enough's enough'
They'll lay the blame on you
And these perceiving minds observe
To count the final score
No treasure chest, to reinvest
Just a bunch of whores
And there is cause, cause,
Cause to be alarmed
No making love
Until the world's disarmed
Cause, cause, cause to be alarmed
A frigid little fantasy
Until the world's disarmed
Fly bird high bird
A love bird got shot
Heard the lead bird's a dead bird
A new mind goes from birth,
To full view to old fool
Still we have the same face
Just what do we achieve?
All these minds that think alike
Do damage to the strain
Where we stand the very spot
We will not stand again
And there is cause, cause,
Cause to be alarmed
Who feeds the dove
Who gives the world its charm
Cause, cause, cause to be alarmed
We are pumped up fantasies
Until the world is disarmed
Fly bird high bird
Go see bird and tell bird
That a love bird got shot,
Heard the lead bird's a dead bird


11.Never Mind What You Leave Behind