Jimmy’s just a regular thief
Irregular tombstone teeth
Tinker tailored so it beggars belief
Why the women all fall at his feet
His girlfriend’s back at home in a pit
of toddler vomit and dry dog shit
But you can’t keep this major miner down
He's digging new pits all around the town

Oh you’re all characters alright
Oh don’t you have homes to go to
Homes to go to tonight?

Janey is a force of nature
II don’t know if I love or hate her
The minute you bask there in her sun
She leaves you in the dark for someone
Says that she’d been long abused
Left feeling sick and so confused
Laughs, I don’t need saved by you
But I can’t help myself from wanting to

Oh you’re all characters alright…

Johnny’s glassy eyes are shifty
Is he twenty-five or fifty?
He could shred guitar of course
But he sold his tele for a horse

Oh you’re all characters alright…

Characters

From the far western ocean
And northern mountain peaks
The southern desert fire
And wind-blown from the east
Enter congregation
Surround the central riser
The front rows quickly taken
Hope you can hold your water

And if you think you can come along with us it’s alright
We’ve got a song about an octopus that’ll blow your mind

Witness now my flock the last mysteries of rock
And roll called glorious dead
Those revolutionary heads
A revelatory night
A retaliatory strike
A resolute swan song
And you can sing along

So here is the bassline 
Flowing smooth like water
Drums solid as earth 
Twin guitars on fire
Let us hear your voices
From softest whispers sung
To wild ferocious noises
This Gotterdammerung

And if you think you can come along with us it’s alright…

Let’s chant that final chorus
Our torches held aloft
The band wave goodbye to us
The old gods shuffle off
No intermediaries
Required now we’re through
You never needed any
“The rock resides in you”

Sing along

The Last Mysteries Of Rock

It was time, We’d wandered sure and fast
Into the fold at last
By the bar a rescue swiftly formed
Raced to a veiled dawn

And now I wonder where you are
And I long to meet you in the stars

And oh my stars
Why are you tumbling down
And oh my stars
Where are you leading me now

In the trial of little loss and gains
I see you now and then
Come down to whisper soft and low
If anyone it’s you who knows

And now I wonder where you are
And I long to meet you in the stars

And oh my stars
Why are you tumbling down
And oh my stars
Where are you leading me now

A golden Venus and scarlet Mars
In a blue night sky of stars
I don’t know where on Earth you are
But you are
You are

Stop

In that old familiar place
With my comedienne
But this really is the final stage
Never again, again
“I can shed this skin” she fakes
“ heaven knows I try”
The shivers like a rattlesnake
Poised ready to strike

Oh Oh, but you can’t change
Just content to stay the same
You love another and I can’t pretend we're friends
I never want to see your face again

It’s not me it’s this poison that’s
The object of your lust
Drinks greedy like a vampire bat
While I choke in the dust
This venom running through your veins
Means more to you than me
I’ve tried to help time and again
But this is all I see

Oh Oh, you can’t change…

A hundred million blacked out nights
Are yours potentially
Until you walk into the light
I guess you’ll never see
You struggle in the darkness
Pulled by the undertow
You promise that you’re past this
But I think that we both know

Oh Oh, you can’t change…

Never Again Again

Watching you glide with an ageless grace
Bathing in light from a bygone age
I’m sorrily heaving a sigh again
Hopefully breathing your atoms in

Separated by three thousand years
Raising the dead as the image clears
Gone in the dawn of the silver screen
Who doesn’t long for a time machine

Dying to meet you
But your heaven’s so far away
So I can’t go
Trying to see through
A million yesterdays
So I don’t know
But what I do know
If I was then
Or you were now
For what it’s worth I’d make it work somehow

A beautiful vision in black and white
A random collision of distant lives
Immortal beloved you soldier on
While dozens of empires have come and gone

Why do I watch this scene on repeat
I see your lips move but can’t hear you speak
There’s people right here made of flesh and blood
But let me be clear it’s a ghost I love

Dying to meet you…

The power stutters on my street
I accidently press delete

Dying to meet you…


Then and now

Where men come home from work boiling inside
And take their wives lives with kitchen knives
Her parents only knew what they knew of this world
Ignorant and ignoring their girl

Well ten thousand hours of this
Makes an expert in taking hits
But never show them how much it hurts
Sometimes a flower lurks
Where the concrete meets the dirt

Working in a bar or a shop
A hand up the skirt a leer down the top
Where you can’t lock up your daughters
She meets a new class of soft slumming exploiters

Always land on their feet do those cats
They retreat to their warm paid for flats
Or villas on the city outskirts
Sometimes a flower lurks
Where the concrete meets the dirt

So her character arc’s in collapse
No uplifting cathartic third act
Our Doolittle match girl has to go back
And toil in the soil of the cracks

But it’s so hard to cling on
As the winter shadows come
Though they say it could be worse
Sometimes a flower lurks
Where the concrete meets the dirt

Toughening it out as you do
But here I am beside you
If you’re a weed then I am one
Let’s stretch for the sun
Let’s stretch for the sun

Where the concrete meets the dirt

I wanted to be
The right one
The only one
That you’d ever need
Now my mind’s 
On lost time

Cloistered in self-defence
With the blinds drawn
And no light on
Picturing Madeline
With someone wrong

Oh Maddy, let me be the right one

Live on cake and tea
As time’s arrow
Bids me follow
But I’ll always be
In your shadow

Early to bed again
With the blinds drawn
And no light on
The taste of Madeline
On my tongue

Oh Maddy, let me be the right one

Remembering things past
How they change fast
How they don’t last
How my character in your play
Was a miscast

Oh Maddy, I wasn’t the right one

Maddy

Seeing, Dawn split the clouds apart
Reaching, Her fingers ‘round your heart
Feelings, Breaking down your walls
The ceiling, Is nothing real at all

I hope you see it sometime
I hope you see it
Sunshine
Sunshine

Shadows, Suffocating light
He holds, Things wrapped up deep inside
She was, Willing to uncover
Because, The day belongs to lovers

I hope you see it sometime
I hope you see it
Sunshine
Sunshine

Dawn breaks, The night for everyone
Heartaches, Dissolving in the sun
Feel her, Reanimate your world
A healer, A radiating girl

I hope you see it sometime
I hope you see it
Sunshine
Sunshine

Alright
Alright sunshine

Alright sunshine

I’ve been taking time to find my mind
I’ve been drawing lines
Sitting on the fence, what’s fake or fact
It’s a balancing act

You say you know the way and what’s the truth
You say you know what’s bad and what is good
Like any decent person should

But I beg to differ

Just so sure you know what’s right from wrong
Critical thinking’s gone
Reinforced in the corners where you look
The giddy power of the group

Thet say the ground has strayed from where I stood
Check your thinking, yeah you really should
Like any decent person should

But I beg to differ

I beg you check your tablets of stone
I beg that you can look underneath
I beg that you can learn to discern
Who it is that gains from your beliefs

I beg to differ

I beg to differ

I’m standing in the rubble
There’s obviously been some trouble, here
A long, long time ago
I’m sifting through the ruins
Wondering what I’m doing, here
And why time passed slow
(because) these days mean nothing to me
(because) these days mean nothing to me

All that I can see is ancient history
They should give me a degree
In ancient history
(because ) it’s all we have
(because ) it’s all we have

Deep in the layers of time
There’s bones entwined
A man and wife
What I wouldn’t give to go back
A tumbledown shack
A simpler life
(because) these days mean nothing to me …

I’m not expecting treasure
Just trying to piece together
A broke anatomy
But digging in the dead ground
I just can’t get my head round
This archaeology
(because) these days mean nothing to me …


Ancient history

Headless Nobody wants to cry, he can’t he has no eyes
Headless Nobody would heave a sigh but simply can’t say why

He awoke this morning feet first out of bed and said
Unless misled communication’s dead
This predicament should make me scratch my head
Instead frustrated I’ll scratch my ragged neck

Headless Nobody wants to cry, he can’t he has no eyes
Headless Nobody would heave a sigh but simply can’t say why

This is a no-brainer anyone could see
An atrophy complete of an extremity
But I am human and can think therefore I am
My plan: to go outside and wave at who I can

Headless Nobody wants to cry, he can’t he has no eyes
Headless Nobody would heave a sigh but simply can’t say why

Headless Nobody 
Headless Nobody

Who’s coming near I cannot hear I cannot taste nothing but fear 
Who’s calling me I cannot see can someone save myself from me
Ridiculous me, ridiculous me


Headless nobody

My travelling companion
We’ll take the off-peak train
To the strip where we’ll watch them
Take off and land again

My friend
Come and see the aeroplanes
Again
Come and see the aeroplanes 

I hear you get your lunch
In a little tray
And your own TV
To sit and watch all day

My friend…

I sit and view the runway
With this pressure on my brain
The weight of disadvantage
Clogging up my veins

My friend…


Come and see the aeroplanes

Once upon a time
In the east half of Eden
They worshiped as divine
The golden calf of Mammon

He’s now a mighty bull
A wrecking ball of meat
The china shop is ruled
They rub his balls on Wall Street

We supplicate
To our lord and masters
We suffocate
Happily ever after

The minotaur demands
The sacrificed first born 
Theseus’s plans
Gored upon the horn

Shower of gold for Midas
So heavy he could drown
His people stand and cup their hands
As the bullshit rains down

We supplicate
To our lord and masters
We suffocate
Happily ever after

And the bull rains down

Bull

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