‘68

   Far far far away way
   people heard him say say
   I will find a way way
   there will come a day day
   something will be done
 
   Then at last the mighty ship
   descending at a point of flame
   made contact with the human race at no time
 
   Now now now is the time time
   time to be be be aware
 
   Not as far the solar bear
   in human role revealed to him
   a living soul of heavenward forever
 
   Sunlight, something in my eye
   something in the sky
   waiting there for me
 
   The antelope grows hurling back
   the servicemen would like to sigh
   the memory went flowing rounds
   as Lucy in the sky
 
   Oh oh did you ever know
   no never ever will they ascend
 
   Summoning in his cosmic powers
   and flowing slightly from his toes
   psychedelic nations fly

   Remember a day before today
   a day when you were young
   renew a play along with time
   evening with a thyme
 
   Sing now a song that can't be sung
   without a morning's kiss
   dream you shall be it if you wish
   look for your king
 
   Why can't we play today
   why can't we stay that way
 
   Climb your fatal apple tree
   try to catch the sun
   hide from your little brother's gun
   dream yourself away
 
   Why can't we reach the sun
   why can't we blow the years away
   go away
   remember remember

   Little by little the night turns around
   counting the leaves which tremble in the dawn
   notices leaning on each other and yearning
   under the leaves the swallow is resting
 
   Set the controls for the heart of the sun
 
   On to the mountain watching the Watcher
   breaking the darkness, breaking the grapevine
   the moment your flaw is run to your shadow
   notice the shadow that reopens the vine
 
   Set the controls for the heart of the sun
   heart of the sun
   Breaking the shape of his questions for ever
   when the sun will fall in the evening
   will he remember the lesson I gave him
 
   Set the controls for the heart of the sun
   heart of the sun

   Corporal Clegg had a wooden leg
   he won it in the war in nineteen forty four
   Corporal Clegg had a medal too
   in orange and in blue, he found it in the zoo
 
   Dear oh dear, oh are they really sad for me
   dear oh dear, oh will they really laugh at me
 
   Mrs. Clegg, you must be proud of him
   mrs. Clegg, another drop of gin
 
   Corporal Clegg, umbrella in the rain
   he's never been the same but no one is to blame
 
   Corporal Clegg received his medal in a dream
   from Her Majesty the Queen, his boots were very clean

   Fairly girls were very much in love
   but he doesn't mind
   pickin' up his sister
   makes his way to the see-saw land
   all the way she smiled
   she goes up while he goes down
 
   Sits on a snake in the river
   laughter in his sleeves
   sister's throwing stones
   hoping for a hit
   he doesn't know, so there
   she goes up while he goes down
 
   Another time, another day
   her brother's plain to me
   another time, another day day day
 
   She was selling plastic flowers
   on a sunday afternoon
   pickin' up me, she has not got the time to care
   all can see, he's not there
   she grows up for another man and he's down

   It's awfully considerate of you to think of me here
   and I'm most obliged to you for making it clear
   that I'm not here
   and I never knew the room could be so big
   and I never knew the room could be so blue
   and I'm grateful that you threw away my old shoes
   and brought me here instead dressed in red
 
   And I'm wandering who could be writing this song
 
   I don't care if the sun don't shine
   I don't care if nothing is mine
   and I don't care I'm nervous with you
   I'll do my loving in the winter
 
   And the sea isn't green
   and I love the queen
   and what exactly is a dream
   and what exactly is a joke

   ‘69

   In a churchyard by a river
   lazing in the haze of midday
   laughing in the grasses and the graves
 
   Yellow bird you are not lonely
   in singing and in flying on
   in laughing and in leaving
 
   Willow weeping in the water
   waving to the river-daughters
   swaying in the ripples and the wreaths
 
   On a trip to Cirrus Minor
   saw a crater in the sun
   a thousand miles of moonlight later

   I was standing by the Nile
   when I saw the lady smile
   I would take her out for a while, for a while
   like tears that like a child
   how her golden hair was blowing wild
   then she spread her wings to fly, for to fly
   soaring high above the breezes
   going always where she pleases
 
   She will make it to the island in the sun
   I will follow her in her shadow
   and I'll watch her from my window
   one day I will catch her
 
   She is calling from the deep
   summoning my soul to endless sleep
   she is bound to drag me down, drag me down.

   We smile and smile
   laughter echoes in your eyes
   We climb and climb
   fruit falls softly in the pines
   We cry and cry
   sadness passess in a while
   We roll and roll
   help me roll away the stone

   Heavy hung the canopy of blue
   shade my eyes and I can see you
   white is the light that shines through the dress that you wore
 
   She lay in the shadow of a wave
   hazy were the visions overplayed
   sunlight in her eyes, but moonshine made her cry every time
 
   Green is the colour of her kind
   quickness of the eye deceives the mind
   envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned

   The path you tread is narrow and the trumpets sheer and very high
   the ravens all are watching from a vantage point nearby
   apprehension creeping like a tube train up your spine
   will the tight rope reach the end, will the final couplet rhyme
   And it's high time, Cymbaline
   please wake me
 
   A butterfly with broken wings is falling by your side
   the ravens all are closing in, there's nowhere you can hide
   your manager and agent are both busy on the phone
   selling coloured photographs to magazines back home
   And it's high time, Cymbaline
   please wake me
 
   The lions converging where you stand,
   they must have moved the picture plain
   the leaves are heavy 'round your feet,
   you hear the thunder of the train
   suddenly it strikes you that they're moving into range
   and Doctor Strange is always changing size
   And it's high time, Cymbaline
   please wake me

   I'm so afraid of the mistakes that I made
   making every time that I lay
   I feel like an oddball with a cut-off mind
   So if you excuse me it's time
   when the count is rhymed
   and the story-line is fine
 
   I've been amazed since the first day
   I can't get a line too close
   take me down, take me down
   from the cell of my mind
   and hear me slowly floating lonely somewhere
 
   I live far enough on a shelf like a dress
   on the end of all that reads like a sad song
   leaves began to grow beautiful
   and years they began
   and hear me slowly floating lonely
   flowing down too slow

   ‘69

   Icy wind of night be gone, this is not your domain
   in the sky a bird was heard to cry
   misty morning whisperings and gentle stirring sounds
   be like the deathly silence that lay all around
 
   Hear the knock and hearten
   to the barking of the dog fox
   gone to ground
   see the splashing of the kingfisher
   flashing through the water
   and the river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees
   laughing as it passes through the endless summer
   making for the sea
 
   In the lazy watermeadow I lay me down
   all around me golden sunflakes settle on the ground
   basking in the sunshine of a bygone afternoon
   bringing sounds of yesterday into the city room
 
   In the lazy watermeadow I lay me down
   all around me golden sunflakes covering the ground
   basking in the sunshine of a bygone afternoon
   bringing sounds of yesterday into my city room.

   Flowing in the path
   as it leads toward the darkness in the north
   weary stranger's faces show their sympathy
   they've seen that home before
 
   If you wanna stay for a little bit
   rest your aching limbs for a little bit
   before you can find his private room
   and you can't delay
   hear the nightbirds calling him
   to care and catch the words to say
   close by in the nightmare of your brain
 
   Misty swelling creatures crawling
   hear the roar get louder in your ears
   you know the volume as you're on the force
   behind can't conquer all your fears
 
   All your birds aren't really listening
   tell them there is life with every morning
   perhaps today you can when you answer me
   it's clear, it's all nights warning

   ‘70

   If I were the swan, I'd be gone
   if I were the train, I'd be late (again)
   and if I were the good man
   I'd talk with you more often than I do
 
   If I were to sleep I could dream
   if I were afraid I could hide
   if I go insane
   please don't put your wires in my brain
 
   If I were the moon, I'd be cool
   if I were the rule, I would bend
   if I were a good man
   I'd understand the spaces between friends
 
   If I were alone, I would cry
   and if I were with you, I'd be home and dry
   and if I go insane
   will you still let me join in with the game.

   Would you like to say something before you leave
   perhaps you'd care to state exactly how you feel
   we say goodbye before we've said hello
   I hardly even like you, I shouldn't care at all
   we met just six hours ago, the music was too loud
   from your bed I came today and lost a bloody year
   and I would like to know, how do you feel
   how do you feel
 
   Not a single word we've said, the lights stay without fears
   occasionaly you showed a smile but what was the need
   I felt the cold far too soon in the world of ninety-five
   my friends they're in the sun, I wish that I was there
   tomorrow brings another town, another girl like you
   have you time before you leave to greet another man
   just to let me know, how do you feel
   how do you feel
 
   Goodbye to you
   shall it bring girls due
   I had a love for one day

   When that fat old sun in the sky is falling
   summer-evening birds are calling
   summer sun do you travel yet
   the sound of music in my ears
   distant bells, new grown grass smells so sweet
   by the river holding hands
   you're old enough and lay me down
   And if you see, don't make a sound
   pick your feet up off the ground
   and if you hear as the warm night falls
   the silver sound from a time so strange
   sing to me, sing to me
 
   When that fat old sun in the sky is falling
   summer-evening birds are calling
   children's laughter in my ears
   and then the sunlight disappears.

   ‘71

   One of these days
   I'm going to cut you into little pieces

   The cloud of eiderdown draws around me
   softening the sound
   sleepy time when I lie with my love by my side
   and she's breathing low, and the candle dies
 
   When night comes down you lock the door
   the look falls to the floor
   as darkness falls and waves roll by
   the seasons changed, the wind is warm
 
   Now wakes the owl, now sleep the swan
   behold the dream, the dream is gone
   green fields, a cold rain
   is falling in a golden glow
 
   And deep beneath the ground the early morning sounds
   and I go down
   sleepy time when I lie with my love by my side
   and she's breathing low, and I rise like a bird
   in the haze when the first rays touch the sky
   and the night wings die

   You say the hill's too steep to climb, try it
   you say you'd like to see me try climb it
   you pick the place and I'll choose the time
   and I'll climb the hill in my own way
   just wait a while for the right day
   and as I rise above the tree-line and the clouds
   I look down, hearing the sounds of the things you've said today
 
   Fearlessly the idiot faced the crowd, smiling
   mercyless the magistrate turns round, frowning
   and who's the fool who wears the crown
   go down in your own way
   and every day is the right day
   and as you rise above the fear-lines in his crown
   you look down, hearing the sound of the faces in the crowd
 
   You never walk alone, you never walk alone
   walk on, walk on with hope in your heart
   and you never walk alone, you never walk alone

   As I reach for a peach, slide a ride down
   behind a chauffeur in San Tropez
   breaking a stick with a brick on the sand
   riding a wave in the wake of an old sedan
   sleeping alone in the drone of the darkness
   scratched by the sand that fell from my love
   keeping my dreams and I still hear her calling
   if you're alone, I'll come home
 
   Backward and homebound, a pigeon, a dove
   gone with the wind, the rain on an airplane
   owning a home with no silver spoon
   I'm drinking champagne like a good tycoon
   sooner than wait for a break in the weather
   I'll gather my far-flung thoughts together
   speeding away on the wind to a new day
   if you're alone, I'll come home
 
   And I pause for a while by a country style
   and listen to the things they say
   digging the gold in a hole in my hand
   hoping the good, take a look at the way things end
   and you're leading me down to a place by the sea
   I hear your soft voice calling to me
   making a date for Rita Pavone
   if you're alone, I'll come home

   I was in the kitchen
   Seamus, that's the dog, was outside
   well I was in the kitchen
   Seamus, my own hound, was outside
   well you know the sun was sinking slowly
   and my own hound-dog sat right down and cried

   Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air
   and deep beneath the rolling waves in labyrinths of coral caves
   the echo of a distant time comes billowing across the sand
   and everything is green, the sun beneath
   and no one showed us to the land
   and no one knows the where's or the why's
   but something stares and something tries
   and starts to climb towards the land
 
   Strangers passing in the street by chance to separate closes meet
   and I am you and what I see is me
   and do I take you by the hand and lead you through the land
   and help me understand the best I can
   and no one calls us to the dawn
   and no one forces down our eyes
   and no one speaks and no one tries
   no one flies around the sun
 
   Cloudless everyday you fall upon my waking eyes
   inviting and insighting me to rise
   and through the window in the wall
   come streaming in on sunlight wings
   a million bright ambassadors of morning
   and no one sings me lullabies
   and no one makes me close my eyes
   so I throw the windows wide
   and crawl to you across the sky

   ‘71

   Arnold Layne had a strange hobby
   collecting clothes, moonshine washing lines
   they suit him fine
 
   On the wall hung a tall mirror
   distorted view, see through, baby blue
   he got it
 
   Oh Arnold Layne, it's not the same
   it takes two to know, two to know, two to know, two to know
   why can't you see
 
   Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne
   Arnold Layne
 
   Now he's caught a nasty sort of person
   they gave him time, doors bang chaingang
   he hated
 
   Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne
   Arnold Layne,
   Arnold Layne
   don't do it again

   Emily tries but misunderstands
   she's often inclined to borrow
   somebody's dreams till tomorrow
 
   There is no other day
   let's try it another way
   you'll loose your mind and play
   free games today
   see Emily play
 
   Soon after dark Emily cries
   gazing through trees in sorrow
   hardly a sound till tomorrow
 
   Put on a gown that touches the ground
   float on a river
   for ever and ever
   Emily, Emily

   Last night I had too much to drink
   sitting in a club with so many fools
   playing to rules
   trying to impress and feeling rather empty
   I had another drink
 
   What a way to spend that evening
   you don't turn up with their friends
   playing their game
   here in the scene or it should be
   far away
 
   Getting up first without remembering
   where I've been before
   I open the door to an empty room
   then I forget
 
   The telephone rings and someone speaks
   she would very much like to go
   out to a show
   so what can I do, I can't think what to say
   she sees through any way
 
   Out of the front door I go
   traffic's moving rather slow
   arriving late
   there she waits looking very angry
   as cross as she can be

   Wasting my time, resting my mind
   and I'll never pine for the sad days and the bad days
   when we was working from nine to five
 
   And if you don't mind
   I'll spend my time here by the fireside
   in the warm light of the love in her eyes

   Sunlight bright upon my pillow
   lighter than an eiderdown
   wishing that the weeping-willow
   winds its branches round
 
   Julia dream
   dream that queen
   queen of all my dreams
 
   Every night I turn the light out
   waiting for the velvet bride
   will the scaly armadillo
   find me where I'm hiding
 
   Will the misty master break me
   will the key unlock my mind
   will the following footsteps catch me
   am I really dying

   ‘72

   Bridges burning gladly, melting with the shadow
   flickering between the lines
   stolen mormons floating softly on the air
   gone on wings of fire and climbing higher
 
   Ancient bulbs are breaking, leaving all and changing sides
   dreaming of a new day, cast aside the other way
   magic vision, staring, kindled by the burning flames
   lies in her eyes
 
   The door it stands a jar
   it was, it once was high beyond the guilded cage
   beyond the reach of time, the moment is at hand
   she breaks the golden band

   Come on my friend, let's make for the hills
   they say there's gold and I'm looking for thrills
   you can get your hands on whatever we find
   'cause I've only come along for the ride
 
   Well you go your way and I'll go mine
   I don't care if we get there on time
   everybody's searching for something, they say
   I'll get my kicks on the way
 
   Over the mountains, across the sea
   who knows what may be waiting for me
   I could sail forever to strange sounding names
   faces of people and places don't change
 
   All I have to do is just close my eyes
   to see the seagulls wheeling in the far distant skies
   all I wanna tell you, all I wanna say
   is count me in on the journey, don't expect me to stay

   Heaven sent the promised land
   looks alright from where I stand
   'cause I'm the man on the outside looking in
   waiting on the first step
   show me where the key is kept
   point me down the right line 'cause it's time
 
   To let me in from the cold, turn my lead into gold
   'cause there's a chill wind blowing in my soul
   and I think I'm growing old
 
   Flash… the red is… wot's… uh deal
   got to make it to the next meal
   try to keep up with the turning of the wheel
   mile after mile, stone after stone
   you turn to speak but you're alone
   million miles from home you're on your own
 
   Fly kite by candle light
   with her by my side
   wish she prefers we never stir again
   someone sent the promised land
   well I grabbed it with both hands
   now I'm the man on the inside looking out
 
   Hear me shout, come on in
   what's the news, where you've been
   'cause there's no wind left in my soul and I've grown old

   You shout in your sleep
   that's the price, it's just too steep
   is your conscience at rest
   it was put to the test
   you awake with a start
   just the beating of your heart
   just one man beneath the sky
   just two ears, just two eyes
 
   You said, sail across the sea
   long past thoughts and memories
   childhood's end: your fantasies
   merging harsh realities
   and then as the sail is hoist
   you'll find your eyes are growing moist
   and all the fears never voiced
   say you have to make the final choice
 
   Who are you and who am I
   to say we know the reason why
   some are born, some men die
   beneath one infinite sky
   there'll be war and there'll be peace
   but anything one day will cease
   all the iron turn to rust
   all the proud men turn to dust
   so all things time will mend
   so this song will end

   One two three four
 
   The memories of a man in his old age
   are the deeds of a man in his prime
   you shuffle in the gloom of the sick room
   and talk to yourself as you die
 
   Life is a short warm moment
   and death is a long cold rest
   you get your chance to try the twinkling of an eye
   eighty years with luck or even less
 
   So all aboard for the American tour
   and maybe you'll make it to the top
   but mind how you go, and I can tell you 'cause I know
   you may find it hard to get off
 
   But you are the angel of death
   and I am the dead man's son
   he was buried like a mole in a fox-hole
   and everyone's still on the run
 
   And who is the master of foxhounds
   and who says the hunt is begun
   and who calls the tune in the court-room
   and who beats the funeral drum

   Stay and help me to end the day
   and if you don't mind, we'll break a bottle of wine
   stick around and maybe we'll get one down
   'cause I want to find what lies behind those eyes
 
   Midnight blue, burning gold
   a yellow moon is growing cold
 
   I rise, looking through my morning eyes
   surpised to find you by my side
   light my brain, don't try to remember your name
   to find the words to tell you goodbye
 
   Morning dews, newborn day
   midnight blue turned to grey
   midnight blue, burning gold
   a yellow moon is growing cold.

   ‘73

   Breathe, breathe in the air
   Don't be afraid to care
   Leave but don't leave me
   Look around and choose your own ground
   For long you live and high you fly
   And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
   And all you touch and all you see
   Is all your life will ever be.

   Run, Run rabbit run
   Dig that hole, forget the sun
   And when at last the work is done
   Don't sit down it's time to dig another one
   For long you live and high you fly
   But only if you ride the tide
   And balanced on the biggest wave
   You race towards an early grave.

   Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
   You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way
   Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
   Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
   Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
   You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
   And then one day you find ten years have got behing you
   No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
 
   And you run and you run to catch up with the sun,
   but it's sinking
   And racing around to come up behing you again
   The sun is the same in the relative way, but you're older
   Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
 
   Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
   Plans that either come to naught
   or half a page of scribbled lines
   Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
   The time is gone the song is over
   thought I'd something more to say.
 
   Breathe (reprise)
 
   Home, home again
   I like to be here when I can
   When I come home coldened and tired
   It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
   Far away across the field
   The tolling of the iron bell
   Calls the faithful to their knees
   To hear the softly spoken magic spells.

   Money, get away
   Get a good job with more pay and you're O.K.
   Money, it's a gas
   Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
   New car, caviar, four star daydream,
   Think I'll buy me a footbal team.
   Money, get back
   I'm alright, Jack, keep your hands off of my stack
   Money, it's a hit
   Don't give me that do goody good bullshit
   I'm in the hi-fidelity first class travelling set
   And I think I need a Lear jet.
 
   Money, it's a crime
   Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie
   Money, so they say
   Is the root of all evil today
   But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that
   They're giving none away, away, away

   Us and them
   And after all we're only ordinary men
   Me and you
   God only knows it's not what we would choose to do
   "Forward" he cried from the rear and the front rank died
   And the General sat, and the lines on the map
   Moved from side to side
 
   Black and blue
   And who knows which is which and who is who
   Up and Down
   And in the end it's only round and round and round
   Haven't you heard it's a battle of words the poster bearer cried
   Listen son, said the man with the gun
   There's room for you inside
 
   Down and Out
   It can't be helped but there's a lot of it about
   With, without
   And who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about.
 
   Out of the way, it's a busy day
   And I've got things on my mind
   For want of the price of tea and a slice
   The old man died.

   The lunatic is on the grass
   The lunatic is on the grass
   Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs
   Got to keep the loonies on the path.
 
   The lunatic is in the hall
   The lunatics are in my hall
   The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
   And every day the paper boy brings more.
 
   And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
   And if there is no room upon the hill
   And if your head explodes with dark forbodings too
   I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.
 
   The lunatic is in my head
   The lunatic is in my head
   You raise the blade, you make the change
   You re-arrange me 'till I'm sane.
 
   You lock the door
   And throw away the key
   There's someone in my head but it's not me
 
   And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
   You shout and no one seems to hear
   And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
   I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

   All that you touch
   All that you see
   All that you taste
   All you feel
   All that you love
   All that you hate
   All you distrust
   All you save
   All that you give
   All that you deal
   All that you buy
   beg, borrow or steal
   All you create
   All you destroy
   All that you do
   All that you say
   All that you eat
   everyone you meet
   All that you slight
   everyone you fight
   All that is now
   All that is gone
   All that's to come
   and everything under the sun is in tune
   but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.

   ‘74

   Oh my girl sitting in the sun
   go buy candy and a current bun
   I like good to see you
   lay flat
 
   Oh talk talk sweet
   please just fuck with me
   please no feeling afraid
 
   It's true sun shinihg very bright
   it's you I'm gonna love tonight
   icecream tastes good in the afternoon
   icecream tastes good if you eat it soon
 
   Don't touch me child
   please, you know you drive me wild
   please, you know I'm feeling frail
 
   Don't try another cat
   don't go a lot like that you must know
   I'm very very bad

   Got a fliptop pack of cigarettes in the pocket
   feeling good at the top shopping at shops
   she's walking in the sunshine town
   feeling very cool
   but the butchers and the bakers
   in the supermarket stores
   getting everything she wants
   from the supermarket store
 
   Apples and oranges
   apples and oranges
 
   Cornering meekly she trips up sweetly
   to meet the people
   she's on time again
   and then, I catch her by the eye
   then stop and have to think
   what a funny thing to do
   'cause I'm feeling very thin
 
   I love she
   she loves me
   see you, see you, see you
 
   Thought you might like to know
   I'm a lorrydriver man
   she's on the run
   down by the riverside
   feeding ducks in the afternoon time

   It would be so nice to leave some time
 
   Everybody wakes and in the morning
   hot tea can't stop yarning
   pass the butter please
   have you ever read the Daily Standard
   reading all about the plane that's landed
   upside down
 
   Everyone knows what I do today
   there can be no other way
   but I would just like to say
 
   Everybody cares about the weather
   but everybody should know better
   what a waste of time
   everybody lives beneath the ceiling
   living out a dream that sends them reeling
   to a distant place
 
   But no one knows what I do today
   there can be no other way
   but I would just like to say

   In a while I'll find the time to make
   The sunshine mine
   In a smile I saw a single eagle in the sky
   Wheeling, soaring, gliding high
 
   On a hill there lived a man with many
   Shining things
   Shiny gold, shiny car and shiny diamond rings
   Wining, dining, shining king
 
   Now the eagle flies in clear blue skies
   Drinking in the clear blue well
   Back here on the ground another dealer
   Coughs and dies
   But fifty more come rolling off
   The floor production line
 
   Then a man commuting like a village
   On the sand
   In his hand a moving picture of
   The crumbling land
   Screaming, dealing, movie man
 
   Here we go, hold your breath to see
   If something blows
   Close your eyes, count till ten and see
   The sunrise rise
   Gliding high into the sky
 
   By the holy mansion, let the guardian rise
   Upon the finger of the king
   On high the eagle flies, that glitter
   All of gold
   Then wheeling in a cloudy sky,
   He flies into the sun

   All is love, is all I am
   A ball is all I am
   I'm so new compared to you
   And I am very small
 
   Warm glow, moon bloom
   Always need a little more room
   Waiting here seems like years
   Never seen the light of day
 
   All around I hear strange sounds
   Come durgling in my ear
   Red the light and dark the night
   I feel my dawn is near
 
   Warm glow, moon bloom
   Always need a little more room
   Whisper low, where I go
   I will see the sunshine show

   Hey Gene, this is Henry Maclean
   and I finished my beautiful flying machine
   and I'm ringing to say that I'm leaving and maybe
   you'd like to fly with me and hide with me, baby
 
   Isn't it strange how little we changed
   isn't it sad we're insane
   playing the games that we know end in tears
   the games we've been playing for thousands and thousands
 
   Point me to this cosmic flight
   and throw away the plastic coloured eye
   I'd like to use the static miles that we fly
   this is my last summarize
 
   Point me at the sky and let it fly
 
   And if you survive till two thousand and five
   I hope you're exceedingly thin
   for if you are stout you will have to breath out
   while the people around you breathe in, breathe in
 
   People blaspheme all I say
   to something that I hate to say
   stooping down to eat the air
   breathe careful that you might die, my friend
 
   All we've got to say to you is goodbye
   time will die in our eye
   and we fly, it's goodbye
 
   Point me at the sky and let it fly

   ‘75

   Remember when you were young
   You shone like the Sun
   Shine on, you crazy diamond!
   Now there's a look in your eyes
   Like black holes in the sky
   Shine on, you crazy diamond!
   You were caught on the crossfire
   Of childhood and stardom
   Blown on the steel breeze
   Come on, you target for faraway laughter
   Come on, you stranger, you legend, you martyr
   And shine!
 
   You reached for the secret too soon
   You cried for the Moon.
   Shine on, you crazy diamond!
   Threatened by shadows at night
   And exposed in the light
   Shine on, you crazy diamond!
   Well you wore out your welcome
   With random precision
   Rode on the steel breeze
   Come on, you raver, you seer of visions
   Come on, you painter, you piper, you prisoner
   And shine!

   Welcome, my son, welcome to the machine
   Where have you been?
   It's alright we know where have you been.
   You've been in the pipeline, filling in time
   Provided with toys and "Scouting for Boys"
   You bought a guitar to punish your ma
   And you didn't like school
   And you know you're nobody's fool
   So welcome to the machine
 
   Welcome my son, welcome to the machine
   What did you dream?
   It's alright we told you what to dream.
   You dreamed of a big star
   He played mean guitar
   He always ate in the Steak Bar
   He loved to drive in his Jaguar
   So welcome to the Machine

   Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar
   You're gonna go far,
   You're gonna fly high, you're never gonna die,
   You're gonna make it if you try
   I gonna love you
   Well I've always had a deep respect
   And I mean that most sincerely
   The band is just fantastic,
   That is really what I think
   Oh, by the way which one's Pink?
   And did we tell you the name of the game, boy
   We call it Riding the Gravy Train
 
   We're just knocked out
   We heard about the sell out
   You gotta get an album out
   You owe it to the people
   We're so happy we can hardly count!
   Everybody else is just green,
   Have you seen the chart?
   It's a helluva start,
   It could be made into a monster
   If we all pull together as a team
   And did we tell you the name of the Game, boy
   We call it Riding the Gravy Train

   So, so you think you can tell
   Heaven from Hell
   Blue skies from Pain
   Can you tell a green field
   From a cold steel rail?
   A smile from a veil?
   Do you think you can tell
   And did they get you to trade
   Your heroes for ghosts?
   Hot ashes for trees?
   Hot air for a cool breeze?
   Cold comfort for chains?
   And did you exchange
   A walk on part in the war
   For a lead role in a cage
 
   How I wish, how I wish you were here
   We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl
   Year after year
   Running over the same old ground
   What have we found?
   The same old fears
   Wish you were here

   Nobody knows where you are
   How near or how far
   Shine on, you crazy diamond!
   Pile on many more layers
   And I'll be joining you there
   Shine on, you crazy diamond!
   And we'll bask in the shadow
   Of yesterday's triumph
   And sail on the steel breeze
   Come on, you boy child, you winner and loser
   Come on, you miner for truth and delusion
   And shine!

   ‘77

   If you didn't care what happened to me,
   And I didn't care for you,
   We would zig zag our way through the boredom and pain,
   Occasionally glancing up through the rain,
   Wondering which of the buggers to blame
   And watching for pigs on the wing.

   You gotta be crazy, you gotta have a real need.
   You gotta sleep on your toes, and when you're on the street,
   You gotta be able to pick out the easy meat
   with your eyes closed.
   And then moving in silently, down wind and out of sight
   You gotta strike when the moment is right without thinking.
 
   And after a while, you can work on points for style
   Like the club tie, and the firm handshake,
   A certain look in the eye and an easy smile.
   You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to,
   So that when they turn their backs on you
   You'll get the chance to put the knife in.
 
   You gotta keep one eye looking over your shoulder.
   You know it's going to get harder, and harder and harder
   as you get older.
   And in the end you'll pack up and fly down south,
   Hide your head in the sand,
   Just another sad old man,
   All alone and dying of cancer.
 
   And when you loose control, you'll reap the harvest
   you have sown.
   And as the fear grows, the bad blood slows and turns to stone.
   And it's too late to loose the weight you used
   to need to throw around.
   So have a good drown, as you go down, alone,
   Dragged down by the Stone.
 
   I gotta admit that I'm a little bit confused.
   Sometimes it seems to me as if I'm just being used.
   Gotta stay awake, gotta try and shake off this creeping malaise.
   If I don't stand my own ground,
   how can I find my own way out of this maze?
 
   Deaf, dumb and blind, you just keep on pretending
   That everyone's expendable and no one has a real friend.
   And it seems to you the thing to do
   would be to isolate the winner.
   And everything's done under the sun,
   And you believe at heart, everyone's a killer.
 
   Who was born in a house full of pain.
   Who was trained not to spit in the fan.
   Who was told what to do by the man.
   Who was broken by trained personnel.
   Who was fitted with collar and chain.
   Who was given a seat in the stand.
   Who was breaking away from the pack.
   Who was only a stranger at home.
   Who was ground down in the end.
   Who was found dead on the phone
   Who was dragged down by the stone.

   Big man, pig man, ha ha charade you are.
   You weel heeled big wheel, ha ha charade you are.
   And when your hand is on your heart,
   You're nearly a good laugh,
   Almost a joker,
   With your head down in the pig bin
   Saying, "keep on digging."
   Pig stain on your fat chin.
   What do you hope to find?
   When you're down in the pig mine
   You're nearly a laugh,
   You're nearly a laugh,
   But you're really a cry.
 
   Bus stop rat bag, ha ha charade you are.
   You fucked up old hag, ha ha charade you are
   You radiate cold shafts of broken glass.
   You're nearly a good laugh,
   Almost worth a quick grin
   You like the feel of steel,
   You're hot stuff with a hat pin,
   And good fun with a hand gun.
   You're nearly a laugh,
   You're nearly a laugh,
   But you're really a cry.
 
   Hey you Whitehouse,
   Ha ha charade you are
   You house proud town mouse,
   Ha ha charade you are
   You're trying to keep our feelings off the street
   You're nearly a real treat,
   All tight lips and cold feet,
   And do you feel abused?
 
   You gotta stem the evil tide,
   And keep it all on the inside.
   Mary you're nearly a treat,
   Mary you're nearly a treat
   But you're really a cry.

   Harmlessly pssing your time in the grassland away,
   Only dimly aware of a certain unease in the air.
   You better watch out,
   There may be dogs about
   I've looked over Jordan, and I have seen,
   Things are not what they seem.
 
   What do you get for pretending the danger's not real.
   Meek and obedient you follow the leader
   Down well trodden corridors, into the valley of steel.
   What a surprise!
   A look of terminal shock in your eyes.
   Now things are really what they seem,
   No, this is not bad dream.
 
   THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD. I SHALL NOT WANT
   HE MAKES ME DOWN TO LIE
   THROUGH PASTURES GREEN HE LEADETH ME THE SILENT WATERS BY.
   WITH BRIGHT KNIVES HE RELEASETH MY SOUL
   HE MAKETH ME TO HANG ON HOOKS IN HIGH PLACES.
   HE CONVERTETH ME TO LAMB CUTLETS.
   FOR LO, HE HATH GREAT POWER, AND GREAT HUNGER.
   WHEN COMETH THE DAY WE LOWLY ONES
   THROUGH QUIET REFLECTION, AND GREAT DEDICATION,
   MASTER THE ART OF KARATE.
   LO, WE SHALL RISE UP,
   AND THEN WE'LL MAKE THE BUGGERS' EYES WATER.
 
   Bleating and babbling I fell on his neck with a scream.
   Wave upon wave of demented avengers
   March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream.
 
   Have you heard the news?
   The dogs are dead!
   You better stay home
   And do as you're told.
   Get out of the road if you want to grow old.

   You know that I care what happens to you,
   And I know that you care for me,
   So I don't feel alone.
   Or the weight of the stone,
   Now that I've found somewhere safe
   To bury my bone.
   And any fool knows a dog needs a home,
   A shelter from pigs on the wing.

   ‘79

   So ya
   Thought ya
   Might like to go to the show
   To feel the warm thrill of confusion
   That space cadet glow
   Tell me is something eluding you sunshine?
   Is this not what you expected to see?
   If you want to find out what's behind these cold eyes?
   You'll just have to claw your way through the
   Disguise

   Mamma loves her baby
   And daddy loves you too
   And the sea may look warm to you, babe
   And the sky may look blue
   But oooh babe
   Oooh baby blue
 
   If you should go skating
   On the thin ice of modern life
   Dragging behind you the silent reproach
   Of a million tear stained eyes
   Don't be surprised, when a crack in the ice
   Appears under your feet
   You slip out of your depth and out of your mind
   With your fear, flowing out behind you
   As you claw the thin ice

   Daddy's flown across the ocean
   Leaving just a memory
   A snap shot in the family album
   Daddy what else did you leave for me
   Daddy what d'ya leave behind for me
   All in all it was just a brick in the wall
   All in all it was all just bricks in the wall

   When we grew up and went to school
   There were certain teachers who would
   Hurt the children anyway they could
   By pouring their derisions
   Upon anything we did
   And exposing every weakness
   However carefully hidden by the kids
   But in the town it was well known
   When they got home at night, their fat and
   Psychopatic wives would thrash them
   Within inches of their lives

   We don't need no education
   We don't need no thought control
   No dark sarcasm in the classroom
   Teachers leave the kids alone
   Hey, teacher, leave the kids alone!
   All in all it's just another brick in the wall
   All in all you're just another brick in the wall

   Mother do you think they'll drop the bomb
   Mother do you think they'll like the song
   Mother do you think they'll try to break my balls
   Oooh ma
   Mother should I build a wall
 
   Mother should I run for president
   Mother should I trust the government
   Mother will they put me in the firing line
   Oooh ma is it just a wasted time
   Mother am I really dying
 
   Hush now baby, baby don't you cry
   Mama's gonna make all of your nightmares come true
   Mama's gonna put all of her fears into you
   Mama's gonna keep you right here under her wing
   She won't let you fly but she might let you sing
   Mama's gonna keep baby cosy and warm
   Oooh babe Oooh babe Oooh babe
   Of course mama's gonna help build the wall
 
   Mother do you think she's good enough for me
   Mother do you think she's dangerous tell me
   Mother will she make your little boy a toy
   Ooh mother will she break my heart
 
   Hush now baby, baby don't you cry
   Mama's gonna check out all of your girlfriends for you
   Mama won't let anyone dirty get through
   Mama's gonna wait up 'till you get in
   Mama will always find out where you've been
   Mama's gonna keep baby healthy and clean
   Oooh babe Oooh babe Oooh babe
   You'll always be a baby to me
 
   Mother, did it need to be so high?

   Ooooooooooooooooooh
   Did you see the frightened ones
   Did you hear the falling bombs
   Did you ever wonder
   Why we had to run for shelter
   When the promise of a brave new world
   Unfouled beneath a clear blue sky
   Ooooooooooooooooooh
   Did you see the frightened ones
   Did you hear the falling bombs
   The flames are all long gone
   But the pain lingers on
 
   Goodbye blue sky
   Goodbye blue sky
   Goodbye

   What shall we use to fill the empty spaces
   Where waves of hunger roar
   Shall we set out across this sea of faces
   In search of more and more applauses
   Shall we buy a new guitar
   Shall we drive a more powerful car
   Shall we work straight through the night
   Shall we get into fights
   Leave the lights on
   Drop bombs
   Do tours of the East
   Contract diseases
   Bury bones
   Break up homes
   Send flowers by phone
   Take to drink
   Go to shrinks
   Give up meat
   Rarely sleep
   Keep people us pets
   Train dogs
   Race rats
   Fill the attic with cash
   Bury treasure
   Store up leisure
   But never relax at all
   With our backs to the wall

   What shall we use to fill the empty
   Spaces where we used to talk
   How should I fill the final places?
   How should I complete the wall?

   I am just a new boy
   A stranger in this town
   Where are all the good times
   Who's gonna show this stranger around?
   Ooh I need a dirty woman
   Ooh I need a dirty girl
   Will some woman in this desert town
   Make me feel like a real man
   Take this rock'n'roll refugee
   Ooh Babe set me free
   Ooh I need a dirty woman
   Ooh I need a dirty girl

   Day after day, love turns grey
   Like the skin of a dying man
   And night after night we pretend it's all right
   But I have grown older and
   You have grown colder and
   Nothing is very much fun any more.
   And I can feel one of my turns coming on.
   I feel cold as a razor blade
   Tight as a tourniquet
   Dry as a funeral drum
 
   Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left
   You'll find my favourite axe
   Don't look so frightened
   This is just a passing phase
   Just one of my bad days
   Would you like to watch T.V.?
   Or get between the sheets
   Or contemplate the silent freeway?
   Would you like something to eat?
   Would you like to learn to fly? Would you?
   Would you like to see me try?
   Oh I don't know
 
   Would you like to call the cops?
   Do you think it's time I stopped?
   Why are you running away?

   Oooh Babe
   Don't leave me now
   Don't say it's the end of the road
   Remember the flowers I sent
   I need you Babe
   To put through the shredder
   In front of my friends
 
   Ooh Babe
   Don't leave me now
   How could you go?
   When you know how I need you
   To beat to a pulp on a Saturday night
 
   Ooh Babe
   Don't leave me now
   How can you treat me this way
   Running away
   Ooh Babe
   Why are you running away?
   Oooh Babe!

   I don't need no arms around me
   And I don't need no drugs to calm me
   I have seen the writing on the wall
   Don't think I need anything at all
   No, don't think I'll need anything at all
   All in all it was all just bricks in the wall
   All in all you were all just bricks in the wall

   Goodbye cruel world
   I'm leaving you today
   Goodbye
   Goodbye
   Goodbye
   Goodbye all you people
   There's nothing you can say
   To make me change my mind
   Goodbye

   Hey you! out there in the cold
   Getting lonely, getting old, can you feel me?
   Hey you! standing in the aisles
   With itchy feet and fading smiles, can you feel me?
   Hey you! don't help them to bury the light
   Don't give in without a fight.
 
   Hey you! out there on your own
   Sitting naked by the phone, would you touch me?
   Hey you! with your ear against the wall
   Waiting for someone to call out, would you touch me?
   Hey you! would you help me to carry the stone?
   Open your heart, I'm coming home
 
   But it was only fantasy
   The Wall was too high, as you can see
   No matter how he tried he could not break free
   And the worms ate into his brain.
 
   Hey you! out there on the road
   Always doing what you're told, can you help me?
   Hey you! out there beyond the wall
   Breaking bottles in the hall, can you help me?
   Hey you! don't tell me there's no hope at all
   Together we stand, divided we fall

   Is there anybody out there?

   I've got a little black book with my poems in
   Got a bag with toothbrush and a comb in
   When I'm a good dog they sometimes throw me a bone in
   I got elastic bands keeping my shoes on
   Got those swollen hand blues
   I've got 13 channels of shit on the T.V. to choose from
   I've got electric light
   And I've got second sight
   I've got amazing powers of observation
   And that is how I know
   When I try to get through
   On the telephone to you
   There'll be nobody home
 
   I've got the obligatory Hendrix Perm
   And the inevitable pinhole burns
   All down the front of my favourite satin shirt
   I've got nicotine stains on my fingers
   I've got a silver spoon on a chain
   Got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains
   I've got wild staring eyes
   And I've got a strong urge to fly
   But I've got nowhere to fly to
   Ooh Babe when I pick up the phone
   There's still nobody home
 
   I've got a pair of Gohills boots
   And I've got fading roots…

   Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn
   Remember how she said that
   We would meet again
   Some sunny day
   Vera! Vera!
   What have become of you
   Does anybody else in here
   Feel the way I do?

   Bring the boys back home
   Bring the boys back home
   Don't leave the children on their own
   Bring the boys back home

   Hello,
   Is there anybody in there?
   Just nod if you can hear me
   Is there anyone at home
   Come on now,
   I hear you're feeling down
   I can ease your pain
   And get you on your feet again
   Relax,
   I'll need some information first
   Just the basic facts
   Can you show me where it hurts?
 
   There is no pain, you are receding
   A distant ship smoke on the horizon
   You are only coming through in waves
   Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
   When I was a child I had a fever
   My hands felt just like two balloons
   Now I've got that feeling once again
   I can't explain, you would not understand
   This is not how I am
   I have become comfortably numb

   Just a little pin prick
   There'll be no more aaaaaaah!
   But you may feel a little sick
   Can you stand up?
   I do, believe it's working, good
   That 'll keep you going through the show
   Come on, it's time to go.
 
   There is no pain, you are receding
   A distant ship smoke on the horizon
   You are only coming through in waves
   Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
   When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse
   Out of the corner of my eye
   I turned to look but it was gone
   I cannot put my finger on it now
   The child is grown
   The dream is gone
   I have become comfortably numb

   Ooh Ma ooh Pa
   Must the show go on
   Ooh Pa take me home
   Ooh Ma let me go
 
   Do I have to stand up
   Wild eyed in the spotlight
   What a nightmare Why?
   Don't I turn and run
 
   There must be some mistake
   I didn't mean to let them
   Take away my soul
   Am I too old is it too late
 
   Ooh Ma Ooh Pa
   Where has the feeling gone?
   Ooh Ma Ooh Pa
   Will I remember the songs?
   The show must go on.

   So ya
   Thought ya
   Might like to go to the show
   To feel the warm thrill of confusion
   That space cadet glow
   I've got some bad news for you sunshine
   Pink isn't well he stayed back at the hotel
   And they sent us along as a surrogate band
   And we're going to find out where you fans
   Really stand
 
   Are there any queers in the theatre tonight
   Get'em up against the wall
   There's one in the spotlight
   He don't look right to me
   Get him up against the wall
   And that one looks Jewish
   And that one's a coon
   Who let all this riff-raff into the room
   There's one smoking a joint
   And another with spots
   If I had my way
   I'd have all of you shot

   You better make your face up in
   Your favourite disguise
   With your button down lips
   And your roller blind eyes
   With your empty smile
   And your hungry heart
   Feel the bile rising from your guilty past
   With your nerves in tatters
   As the cockle shell shatters
   And the hammers butter
   Down your door
   You better run
 
   You better run all day
   And run all night
   And keep your dirty feelings
   Deep inside. And if you
   Take your girlfriend
   Out tonight,
   You better park the car
   Well out of sight
   'cos if they catch you in the back seat
   Trying to pick her locks
   They're gonna send you back to mother
   In a card board box
   You better run.

   Ooh You cannot reach me now
   Ooh No matter how you try
   Goodbye cruel world it's over
   Walk on by
 
   Sitting in a bunker here behind my wall
   Waiting for the worms to come
   In perfect isolation here behind my wall
   Waiting for the worms to come
 
   Waiting to cut out the deadwood
   to clean up the city
   to follow the worms
   to put on a blackshirt
   to weed out the weaklings
   to smash in their windows
   and kick in their doors.
   for the final solution
   to strenghten the strain
   to follow the worms
   to turn on the showers
   and fire the ovens
   for the queens and the coons
   and the reds and the Jews
   to follow the worms
 
   Would you like to see Britania
   Rule again, my friend?
   All you have to do is follow the worms
   Would you like to send our coloured cousins
   Home again, my friend?
   All you need to do is follow the worms.

   Stop
   I wanna go home
   Take off this uniform
   And leave the show
   And I'm waiting in this cell
   Because I have to know
   Have I been guilty all this time.

   Good morning Worm Your Honour
   The crown will plainly show
   The prisoner who now stands before you
   Was caught red handed showing feelings
   Showing feelings of an almost human nature
   This will not do
 
   Call the schoolmaster
   I always said he'd come to no good
   In the end Your Honour
   If they'd let me have my way I could
   Have flayed him into shape
   But my hands were tied
   The bleeding hearts and artists
   Let him get away with murder
   Let me hammer him today
 
   Crazy, toys in the attic I am crazy
   Should I go fishing
   They must have taken my marbles away
 
   You little shit, you're in it now
   I hope they throw away the key
   You should have talked to me more often
   Than you did, but no you had to
   Go your own away. Have you broken any
   Homes up lately?
   "Just five minutes, Worm Your Honour
   Him and me alone"
 
   Babe
   Come to mother baby let me hold you
   In my arms
   M'lud I never wanted him to
   Get in any trouble
   Why'd he ever have to leave me
   Worm Your Honour let me take him home
 
   Crazy, over the rainbow I am crazy
   Bars in the window
   There must have been a door there in the wall
   When I came in
   Crazy over the rainbow he is crazy
 
   The evidence before the court is
   Incontravertable, there's no need for
   The jury to retire
   In all my years of judging
   I have never heard before
   Of someone more deserving
   The full penalty of law
   The way you made them suffer
   Your exquisite wife and mother
   Fills me with the urge to defecate
   But my friend you have revealed your
   Deepest fear
   I sentance you to be exposed before
   Your peers
 
   Tear down The Wall!

   All alone, or in twos
   The ones who really love you
   Walk up and down outside the wall
   Some hand in hand
   Some gathered together in bands
   The bleeding hearts and the artists
   Make their stand
   And when they've given you their all
   Some stagger and fall after all it's not easy
   Banging your heart against some mad buggers ^[1]
   Wall

   ‘83

   Tell me true tell me why was jesus crucified
   Is it for this that daddy died?
   Was it for you? was it me?
   Did i watch too much t.v.?
   Is that a hint of accusation in your eyes?
   If it wasn't for the nips
   Being so good at building ships
   The yards would still be open on the clyde
   And it can't be much fun for them
   Beneath the rising sun
   With all their kids committing suicide
   What have we done maggie what have we done
   What have we done to england
   Should we shout should we scream
   "What happened to the post war dream?"
   Oh maggie maggie what have we done?

   They flutter behind you your possible pasts
   Some brighteyed and crazy some frightened and lost
   A warning to anyone still in command
   Of their possible future to take care
   In derelict sidings the poppies entwine
   With cattle trucks lying in wait for the next time
 
   Do you remember me? how we used to be?
   Do you think we should be closer?
 
   She stood in the doorway the ghost of a smile
   Haunting her face like a cheap hotel sign
   Her cold eyes imploring the men in their macs
   For the gold in their bags or the knives in their backs
   Stepping up boldly one put out his hand
   He said, "i was just a child then, now i'm only a man"
 
   Do you remember me? how we used to be?
   Do you think we should be closer?
 
   By the cold and religious we were taken in hand
   Shown how to feel good and told to feel bad
   Tongue tied and terrified we learned how to pray
   Now our feelings run deep and cold as the clay
   And strung out behind us the banners and flags
   Of our possible pasts lie in tatters and rags
 
   Do you remember me? how we used to be?
   Do you think we should be closer?

   When you're one of the few to land on your feet
   What do you do to make ends meet?
   Teach
   Make them mad, make them sad, make them add two and two
   Make them me, make them you, make them do what you want them to
   Make them laugh, make them cry, make them lay down and die

   Jesus jesus what's it all about
   Trying to clout these little ingrates into shape
   When i was their age all the lights went out
   There was no time to whine and mope about
 
   And even now part of me flies over
   Dresden at angels one five
   Though they'll never fathom it behind my
   Sarcasm desperate memories lie
 
   Sweetheart sweetheart are you fast asleep,
   Good
   'Cos that's the only time that i can really speak to you
   And there is something that i've locked away
   A memory that is too painful
   To withstand the light of day
 
   When we came back from the war the banners and
   Flags hung on everyone's door
   We danced and we sang in the street and
   The church bells rang
   But burning in my heart
   My memory smoulders on
   Of the gunners dying words on the intercom

   Floating down through the clouds
   Memories come rushing up to meet me now
   But in the space between the heavens
   And the corner of some foreign field
   I had a dream
   I had a dream
   Goodbye max
   Goodbye ma
   After the service when you're walking slowly to the car
   And the silver in her hair shines in the cold november air
   You hear the tolling bell
   And touch the silk in your lapel
   And as the tear drops rise to meet the comfort of the Band
   You take her frail hand
   And hold on to the dream
 
   A place to stay
   Enough to eat
   Somewhere old heroes shuffle safely down the street
   Where you can speak out loud
   About your doubts and fears
   And what's more no-one ever disappears
   You never hear their standard issue kicking in your door
   You can relax on both sides of the tracks
   And maniacs don't blow holes in bandsmen by remote control
   And everyone has recourse to the law
   And no-one kills the children any more
   And no-one kills the children any more
 
   Night after night
   Going round and round my brain
   His dream is driving me insane
   In the corner of some foreign field
   The gunner sleeps tonight
   What's done is done
   We cannot just write off his final scene
   Take heed of his dream
   Take heed

   Button your lip and don't let the shield slip
   Take a fresh grip on your bullet proof mask
   And if they try to break down your disguise with their questions
   You can hide hide hide
   Behind paranoid eyes
 
   You put on your brave face and slip over the road for a jar
   Fixing your grin as you casually lean on the bar
   Laughing too loud at the rest of the world
   With the boys in the crowd
   You can hide hide hide
   Behind petrified eyes
 
   You believed in their stories of fame fortune and glory
   Now you're lost in a haze of alcohol soft middle-age
   The pie in the sky turned out to be miles too high
   And you hide hide hide
   Behind brown and mild eyes

   Brezhnev took afghanistan
   Begin took beirut
   Galtieri took the union jack
   And maggie over lunch one day
   Took a cruiser with all hands
   Apparently to make him give it back

   Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
   And build them a home a little place of their own
   The fletcher memorial
   Home for incurable tyrants and kings
 
   And they can appear to themselves every day
   On closed circuit t.v.
   To make sure they're still real
   It's the only connection they feel
   "ladies and gentlemen, please welcome reagan and haig
   Mr. begin and friend mrs. thatcher and paisley
   Mr. brezhnev and party
   The ghost of mccarthy
   The memories of nixon
   And now adding colour a group of anonymous latin-american
   Meat packing glitterati"
 
   Did they expect us to treat them with any respect
 
   They can polish their medals and sharpen their smiles
   And amuse themselves playing games for a while
   Boom boom, bang bang, lie down you're dead
 
   Safe in the permanent gaze of a cold glass eye
   With their favourite toys
   They'll be good girls and boys
   In the fletcher memorial home for colonial
   Wasters of life and limb
 
   Is everyone in?
   Are you having a nice time?
   Now the final solution can be applied

   They disembarked in 45
   And no one spoke and no one smiled
   There were too many spaces in the line
   Gathered at the cenotaph
   All agreed with hand on heart
   To sheath the sacrificial knifes
   But now
 
   She stands upon southampton dock
   With her handkerchief
   And her summer frock clings
   To her wet body in the rain
   In quiet desperation knuckles
   White upon the slippery reins
   She bravely waves the boys goodbye again
 
   And still the dark stain spreads between
   Their shoulder blades
   A mute reminder of the poppy fields and graves
   And when the fight was over
   We spent what they had made
   But in the bottom of our hearts
   We felt the final cut

   Through the fish eyed lens of tear stained eyes
   I can barely define the shape of this moment in time
   And far from flying high in clear blue skies
   I'm spiralling down to the hole in the ground where i hide
 
   If you negotiate the minefield in the drive
   And beat the dogs and cheat the cold electronic eyes
   And if you make it past the shotguns in the hall
   Dial the combination, open the priesthole
   And if i'm in i'll tell you what's behind the wall
 
   There's a kid who had a big hallucination
   Making love to girls in magazines
   He wonders if you're sleeping with your new found faith
   Could anybody love him
   Or is it just a crazy dream
 
   And if i show you my dark side
   Will you still hold me tonight
   And if i open my heart to you
   And show you my weak side
   What would you do
   Would you sell your story to rolling stone
   Would you take the children away
   And leave me alone
   And smile in reassurance
   As you whisper down the phone
   Would you send me packing
   Or would you take me home
 
   Thought i had to bare my naked feelings
   Thought i had to tear the curtain down
   I held the blade in trembling hands
   Prepared to make it but just then the phone rang
   I never had the nerve to make the final cut

   Fuck all that we've got to get on with these
   Got to compete with the wily japanese
   There's too many home fires burning
   And not enough trees
   So fuck all that
   We've got to get on with these
 
   Can't stop lose job mind gone silicon
   What bomb get away pay day make hay
   Break down need fix big six
   Clickity click hold on oh no
 
   Brrrrrrrrrring bingo!
 
   Make em laugh make em cry make em dance in the aisles
   Make em pay make em stay make em feel o.k.
 
   Not nah john
   We've got to get on with the film show
   Hollywood waits at the end of the rainbow
   Who cares what it's about
   As long as the kids go
   So not now john
   We've got to get on with the show
 
   Hang on john
   I've got to get on with this
   I don't know what it is
   But it fits on here like…
   Come at the end of the shift
   We'll go and get pissed
   But now now john
   I've got to get on with this
 
   Hold on john
   I think there's something good on
   I used to read books but…
   It could be the news
   Or some other abuse
   Or it could be reusable shows
 
   Fuck all that we've got to get on with these
   Got to compete with the wily japanese
   No need to worry about the vietnamese
   Got to bring the russian bear to his knees
   Well, may be not the russian bear
   May be the swedes
   We showed argentina
   Not let's go and show these
   Make us feel tough
   And wouldn't maggie be pleased
   Nah nah nah nah nah nah!
 
   S'cusi dove il bar
   Se para collo pou eine toe bar
   S'il vous plait ou est le bar
   Oi'where's the fucking bar john!

   In my rear view mirror the sun is going down
   Sinking behind bridges in the road
   And i think of all the good things
   That we have left undone
   And i suffer premonitions
   Confirm suspicions
   Of the holocaust to come
 
   The rusting wire that holds the cork
   That keeps the anger in
   Gives way
   And suddenly it's day again
   The sun is in the east
   Even though the day is done
   Two suns in the sunset
   Hmmmmmmmmmmm
   Could be the human race is run
 
   Like the moment when the brakes lock
   And you slide towards the big truck
   You stretch the frozen moments with your fear
   And you'll never hear their voices
   And you'll never see their faces
   You have no recourse to the law anymore
 
   And as the windshield melts
   My tears evaporate
   Leaving only charcoal to defend
   Finally i understand
   The feelings of the few
   Ashes and diamonds
   Foe and friend
   We were all equal in the end

   ‘87

   Into the distance, ribbon of black,
   stretched to the point of no turning back.
   A flight of fancy on a wind swept field,
   standing alone my senses reeled.
   A fatal attraction holding me fast, how
   can I escape this irresistible grasp?
 
   Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky,
   tongue-tied amp; twisted just an eath-bound misfit.i.
   Ice is forming on the tips of my wings,
   unheeded warnings.
   I thought,I thought of everything,
   no navigator to guide my way home.
   Unladened.Empty and turned to stone.
 
   A soul in tension that's learning to fly.
   Condition grounded but determined to try.
   Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies.
   Tongue-tied amp; twisted just an eath-bound misfit.i.
 
   Above the planet on a wing and a prayer,
   my grubby halo, a vapor trail in the empty air,
   across the clouds I see my shadow fly,
   out of the corner of my watering eye.
   A dream unthreatened by the morning light.
   Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night.
 
   There's no sensation to compare with this,
   suspended animation, a state of bliss.
   Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky.
   Tongue-tied amp; twisted just an eath-bound misfit.i.

   Dogs of war and men of hate
   with no cause, we don't discriminate.
   Discovery is to be disowned
   our currency is flesh and bone
   hell opened up and put on sale
   gather round and haggle
   for hard catch, we will lie and deceive
   even our masters don't know the webs we weave.
 
   One world, it's a battleground,
   one world, and we will smash it down,
   one world… one world.
 
   Invisible transfers, long distance calls,
   hollow laughter in marble halls.
   Steps have been taken, a silent uproar
   has unleashed the dogs of war.
   You can't stop what has begun,
   signed, sealed, they deliver oblivion.
   We all have a dark side, to say the least
   and dealing in death is the nature of the beast.
 
   one world, and they smash it down,
   one world… one world.
 
   The dogs of war don't negotiate.
   The dogs of war won't capitulate,
   they will take and you will give,
   and you must die so that they may live.
   You can knock at any door,
   but wherever you go, you know they've been there,
   before.
   Well winners can lose and things can get strained,
   but whatever you change, you know the dogs remain.
 
   One world,it's a battleground,
   one world are we going to smash it down?
   One world… one world.

   A restless eye across a wary room,
   a glazed look and I was on the road to ruin.
   The music played and played as we whirled without end
   no hint, no word her honor to defend.
 
   I will, I will she sighted to my request
   And then she tossed her mane while my resolve was put,
   to the test.
   Then drowned in desire, our souls on fire.
   I led the way to the funeral pyre,
   and without thought of the consequence
   I gave in to my decadence.
 
   One slip, and down the hole we fall,
   it seems to take no time at all.
   A momentary lapse of reason.
   That binds a life for life,
   a small regret, you won't forget,
   there'll be no sleep in here tonight.
 
   Was it love, or was it the idea of being in love?
   Or was in the hand of fate, that seemed to fit just,
   like a glove?
   The moment slipped by and soon the seeds were sown.
   The year grew late and neither one wanted to remain,
   alone.
 
   One slip, and down the hole we fall,
   it seems to take no time at all.
   A momentary lapse of reason.
   That binds a life to a life.
   The one regret, you will never forget,
   there'll be no sleep in here tonight.
   One sleep… One sleep

   On the turning away,
   from the pale and downtrodden.
   And words they say
   which we won't understand.
   "Don't accept that what's happening.
   Is just a case of other suffering.
   Or you'll find that you're joining in
   the turning away".
 
   It's a sin that somehow,
   light is changing to shadow.
   And casting it's shroud
   over all we have known
   unaware how the ranks have grown.
   Driven on by heart of stone,
   we could find that we're all alone
   in the dream of the proud.
 
   On the wings of the night,
   as the daytime is stirring
   where the speechless unite.
   In a silent accord,
   using words you will find are strange.
   And mesmerized as they light the flame
   feel the new wind of change,
   on the wings of the night.
 
   No more turning away,
   from the weak and the weary.
   No more turning away,
   from the coldness inside.
   Just a world that we all must share.
   It's not enough just to stand and stare.
   Is it only a dream that there'll be,
   no more turning away?

   One sound, one single sound.
   One kiss, one single kiss,
   a face outside the window pane,
   however did it come to this?
 
   A man who ran: A child who cried,
   a girl who heard, a voice that lied.
   The sun that burned a fiery red.
   The vision of an empty bed.
 
   The use of force, he was so touch.
   She'll soon submit, she's had enough.
   The march of fate, the broken will,
   someone is lying very still.
 
   He has laughed and he has cried,
   he has fought and he has died.
   He's just the same as all the rest,
   he's not the worst, he's not the best.
 
   And still this gazelles murmuring,
   the babbling that I brook,
   the seas of faces, eyes upraised,
   the empty screen, the vacant look.
 
   A man in black on a snow white horse,
   a pointless life has run it's course,
   the red rimmed eyes, the tears still run.
   As the fades into the setting sun.

   I have always been here,
   I have always looked out from behind these eyes.
   It feels like more than a lifetime,
   feels like more than a lifetime.
 
   Sometimes I get tired of the waiting,
   sometimes I get tired of being in here.
   Is this the way it has always been?
   Could it ever have been different?
 
   Do you ever get tired of the waiting?
   Do you ever get tired of being in there?
   Don't worry, nobody lives forever,
   nobody lives forever.

   I will always be here,
   I will always look out from behind these eyes.
   It's only a lifetime,
   it's only a lifetime,
   it's only a lifetime.

   The sweet smell of great sorrow lies over the land.
   Plumes of smoke rise and merge into the leaden sky:
   a man lies and dreams of green fields and rivers,
   but awakes to a morning with no reason for waking.
 
   He's haunted by the memory of a lost paradise
   in his youth or a dream, he can't be precise,
   he's chained forever to a world that's departed,
   it's not enough,it's not enough.
 
   His blood has frozen amp; curdled with fright,
   his knees have trembled amp; given way in the night,
   his hand has weakened at the moment of truth,
   his step has faltered.
 
   One world, one soul,
   time pass, the river roll.
   And he talks to the river of lost love and dedication,
   and silent replies that swirl invitation.
   Flow dark and troubled to an oily sea,
   a grim intimation of what is to be.
 
   There's an unceasing wind that blows through this night.
   And there's dust in my eyes, that blinds my sight,
   and silence that speaks so much louder than words,
   of promises broken.

   ‘94

   As you look around this room tonight
   Settle in your seat and dim the lights
   Do you want my blood, do you want my tears
   What do you want
 
   What do you want from me
 
   Should I sing until I can't sing any more
   Play these things until my fingers are raw
   You're so hard to please
 
   What do you want from me
 
   Do you think that I know something you don't know
 
   What do you want from me
 
   If I don't promise you the answers would you go
 
   What do you want from me
 
   Should I stand out in the rain
   Do you want me to make a daisy chain for you
   I'm not the one you need
 
   What do you want from me
 
   You can have anything you want
   You can drift, you can dream, even walk on water
   Anything you want
   You can own everything you see
   Sell your soul for complete control
   Is that really what you need
 
   You can lose yourself this night
   See inside there is nothing to hide
   Turn and face the light
 
   What do you want from me

   Did you know… It was all going to go so wrong for you
   And did you see it was going to be so right for me
   Why did we tell you then
   You were always the golden boy then
   And that you'd never lose that light in your eyes
 
   Hey you… did you ever realise what you'd become
   And did you see that it wasn't only me you were running from
   Did you know all the time but it never bothered you anyway
   Leading the blind while stared out the steel in your eyes
 
   The rain fell slow, down on the roofs of uncertainty
   I thought of you and the years and all the sadness fell away from me
   And did you know…
 
   I never thought that you'd lose that light in your eyes

   Cover design Storm Thorgerson
   Sculptures by Aden Hynes…

   On the day the wall came down
   They threw the locks onto the ground
   And with glasses high we raised a cry for freedom had arrived
 
   On the way the wall came down
   The Ship of Fools had finally run aground
   Promises lit up the night like paper doves in flight
 
   I dreamed you had left my side
   No warms, not even pride remained
   And even though you needed me
   It was clear that I could not do a thing for you
 
   Now life devalues day by day
   As friends and neighbours turn away
   And there's a change, that even with regreat, cannot be undone
 
   Now frontiers shift like desert sands
   While nations wash their bloodied hands
   Of loyalty, of history, in shades of grey
 
   I woke to the sound of drums
   The music played, the morning sun streamed in
   I turned and I looked at you
   And all but the bitter residue slipped away… slipped away

   From morning to night I stayed out of sight
   Didn't recognize I'd become
   No more than alive I'd barely survive
   In a word… overrun
 
   Won't hear a sound
   From my mouth
   I've spent too long
   On the inside out
   My skin is cold
   To the human touch
   This bleeding heart's
   Not beating much
 
   I murmured a vow of silence and now
   I don't even hear when I think aloud
   Extinguished by light I turn on the night
   Wear its darknes with an empty smile
 
   I'm creeping back to life
   My nervous system all awry
   I'm wearing the inside out
 
   Look at him now
   He's paler somehow
   But he's coming round
   He's starting to choke
   It's been so long since he spoke
   Well he can have the words right from my mouth
 
   And with these words I can see
   Clear through the clouds that covered me
   Just give it time then speak my name
   Now we can hear ourselves again
 
   I'm holding out
   For the day
   When all the clouds
   Have blown away
   I'm with you now
   Can speak your name
   Now we can hear ourselves again
 
   He's curled into the corner
   But still the screen is flickering
   With an endless stream of garbage to curse the plase
   In a sea of random images
   The self destricting animal
   Waiting for the waves to break
 
   He's standing on the threshold
   Caught in fiery anger
   And hurled into the furnace he'll curse the place
   He's torn in all directions
   And still the screen is flickering
   Waiting for the flames to break

   Her love rains down on me easy as the breeze
   I listen to her breathing it sounds like the waves on the sea
   I was thinking all about her, burning with rage and desire
   We were spinning into darkness; the earth was on fire
 
   She could take it back, she might take it back some day
 
   So I spy on her, I lie to her, I make promises I cannot keep
   Then I hear her laughter rising, rising from the deep
   And I make her prove her love for me, I take all that I can take
   And I push her to the limit to see if she will break
 
   She might take it back, she could take it back some day
 
   Now I have seen the warnings, screaming from all sides
   It's easy to ignore them and G-d knows I 've tried
   All of this temptation, it turned my faith to lies
   Until I couldn't see the danger or hear the rising tide
 
   She can take it back, she will take it back some day (3 times)

   Where were you when I was burned and broken
   While the days slipped by from my window watching
   Where were you when I was hurt and I was helpless
   Because the things you say and the things you do surround me
   While you were hanging yourself on someone else's words
   Dying to believe in what you heard
   I was staring straight into the shinning sun
 
   Lost in thought and lost in time
   While the seeds of life and the seeds of change were planted
   Outside the rain fell dark and slow
   What I pondered on this dangerous but irresistible pastime
   I took a heavenly ride through our silence
   I knew the moment had arrived
   For killing the past and coming back to life
 
   I took a heavenly ride through our silence
   I knew the waiting has begun
   And headed straight… into the shining sun

   For millions of years mankind lived just like animals
   Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination
   We learned to talk
 
   There's a silence surrounding me
   I can't seem to think straight
   I'll sit in the corner
   No one can bother me
   I think I should speak now
   I cant seem to speak now
   My words won't come out right
   I feel like I'm drowning
   I'm feeling weak now
   But I can't show my weakness
   I sometimes wonder
   Where do we go from here
 
   Why won't you talk to me
   You never talk to me
   What are you thinking
   What are you feeling
   Why won't you talk to me
   You never talk to me
   What are you thinking
   What are you feeling
 
   It doesn't have to be like this
   All we need to do is make sure we keep talking
 
   It doesn't have to be like this
   All we need to do is make sure we keep talking
 
   I feel like I'm drowning
   You know I can't breathe now
   We're going nowhere
   We're going nowhere
 
   Why won't you talk to me
   You never talk to me
   What are you thinking
   What are you feeling
   Why won't you talk to me
   You never talk to me
   What are you thinking
   Where do we go from here

   I was spending my time in the doldrums
   I was caught in a cauldron of hate
   I felt persecuted and paralysed
   I thought that everything else would just wait
 
   While you are wasting your time on your enemies
   Engulfed in a fever of spite
   Beyong your tunnel vision reality fades
   Like shadowes into the night
 
   To martyr yourself to caution
   Is not going to help at all
   Because there'll be no safety in numbers
   When the Right One walks out of the door
 
   Can you see your days blighted by darkness?
   Is it true you beat your fists on the floor?
   Stuck in a world of isolation
   While the ivy grows over the door
 
   So I open my door to my enemies
   And I ask could we wipe the slate clean
   But they tell me do please go fuck myself
   You know you just can't win

   Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young
   In a world of magnets and miracles
   Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary
   The ringing of the division bell had begun
 
   Along the Long Road and on down the Causeway
   Do they still meet there by Cut
 
   There was a ragged band that followed in our footsteps
   Running before time took our dreams away
   Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground
   To a life consumed by slow decay
 
   The grass was greener
   The light was brighter
   With friends surrounded
   The nights of wonder
 
   Looking beyong the embers of bridges glowing behind us
   To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side
   Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again
   Dragged by the force of some inner tide
 
   At a higher altitude with flag unfurled
   We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of world
 
   Encumbered forever by desire and ambition
   There's a hunger still unsatisfied
   Our weary eyes still stray to be horizon
   Though down this road we've been so many times
 
   The grass was greener
   The light was brighter
   The taste was sweeter
   The nights of wonder
   With friends surrounded
   The dawn mist glowing
   The water flowing
   The endless river
 
   Forever and ever
 
   ^[1]The final cut a requiem for the post war dream by Roger Waters