1. Dance with the Devil
I see your lovely face,
I see you walking past here most every day and I
Think you know I’m watching and that I don’t know what to say.
It’s such a bitter taste,
Every time you leave and everything we waste but it’s
Not living without you, I can’t breathe in the same way.
Listen you’ll hear the silent city creaking through the night.
See this then open up your eyes and take what’s mine.
I wanna dance with the devil again
I wanna howl your name at the moon but then when the
Morning arrives I wake to find an empty bed.
So I stumble round like a rogue like a beggar
I can’t meet your gaze and keep an eye on the setting sun it’s
Not living without you, I can’t breathe in the same way.
I see your hungry eyes,
Staring at me from the dark in the dead of the night and you
Think that I lie sleeping by the fire as it dies.
By the failing light,
I watch that black and white picture of you come to life but it’s
Not living without you I can’t breathe in the same way.
Listen you’ll hear the silent city creaking through the night
See this then open up your eyes and take what’s mine.
I wanna dance with the devil again
I wanna howl your name at the moon but then when the
Morning arrives I wake to find an empty bed.
So I stumble round like a rogue like a beggar
I can’t meet your gaze and keep an eye on the setting sun it’s
Not living without you, I can’t breathe in the same way.
Listen you’ll hear the silent city creaking through the night,
See this then open up your eyes and you’ll see what we made of each other.
I see your lovely face,
I see you walking past here most every day and I
Think you know I’m watching and that I don’t know what to say.
It’s such a bitter taste,
Every time you leave and everything we waste but it’s
Not living without you, I can’t breathe in the same way.
Listen you’ll hear the silent city creaking through the night.
See this then open up your eyes and take what’s mine.
I wanna dance with the devil again
I wanna howl your name at the moon but then when the
Morning arrives I wake to find an empty bed.
So I stumble round like a rogue like a beggar
I can’t meet your gaze and keep an eye on the setting sun it’s
Not living without you, I can’t breathe in the same way.
I see your hungry eyes,
Staring at me from the dark in the dead of the night and you
Think that I lie sleeping by the fire as it dies.
By the failing light,
I watch that black and white picture of you come to life but it’s
Not living without you I can’t breathe in the same way.
Listen you’ll hear the silent city creaking through the night
See this then open up your eyes and take what’s mine.
I wanna dance with the devil again
I wanna howl your name at the moon but then when the
Morning arrives I wake to find an empty bed.
So I stumble round like a rogue like a beggar
I can’t meet your gaze and keep an eye on the setting sun it’s
Not living without you, I can’t breathe in the same way.
Listen you’ll hear the silent city creaking through the night,
See this then open up your eyes and you’ll see what we made of each other.
2. Pantomime
I can’t believe oh the ease with which you’re telling me to
Fall into line, it’s the line that you have crossed so many times.
Don’t you see I can’t play the part you’ve cast me in for
I’ve cut the strings, I have seen behind this charming pantomime.
Don’t you know that the fire went out?
Don’t you know, don’t you know, don’t you know by now?
So hold your tongue,
and bide your time.
You could be,
You could be losing your mind.
Back to a time when a look was all it took to get you through,
Before the chill stole the thrill and you were racing around with
Nothing to lose, you could prove beyond a doubt you had it
All at your feet, but you’ve lost it now, it’s slipped out of your reach.
Don’t you know how the fire went out?
Don’t you know, don’t you know, don’t you know?
You should know by now.
So hold your tongue.
and bide your time.
You could be,
You could be losing your mind.
I can’t believe oh the ease with which you’re telling me to
Fall into line, it’s the line that you have crossed so many times.
Don’t you see I can’t play the part you’ve cast me in for
I’ve cut the strings, I have seen behind this charming pantomime.
Don’t you know that the fire went out?
Don’t you know, don’t you know, don’t you know by now?
So hold your tongue,
and bide your time.
You could be,
You could be losing your mind.
Back to a time when a look was all it took to get you through,
Before the chill stole the thrill and you were racing around with
Nothing to lose, you could prove beyond a doubt you had it
All at your feet, but you’ve lost it now, it’s slipped out of your reach.
Don’t you know how the fire went out?
Don’t you know, don’t you know, don’t you know?
You should know by now.
So hold your tongue.
and bide your time.
You could be,
You could be losing your mind.
3. The Prophet Told Me
The prophet told me
That you would be lonely,
For you were born
On the drifters dawn.
Under a red moon,
To the bluebird’s sad tune,
And as the sun it rose,
Well the wind turned cold.
But oh the silence, when they found you there,
Hell amongst your head.
Right or wrong son, I’ll be there,
In the hell amongst your head.
Oh Jesus help me,
From the wise and wealthy,
I’m just skin and bone,
And they’re both growing old.
Inside a red room,
The sin it found it’s true bloom.
And as the sun it rose,
We did the things untold.
But oh the silence, when they found you there,
Hell amongst your head.
Right or wrong son, I’ll be there,
In the hell amongst your head.
So strip out all those faceless truths just
Gimmie something I can use.
The prophet told me
That you would be lonely,
For you were born
On the drifters dawn.
Under a red moon,
To the bluebird’s sad tune,
And as the sun it rose,
Well the wind turned cold.
But oh the silence, when they found you there,
Hell amongst your head.
Right or wrong son, I’ll be there,
In the hell amongst your head.
Oh Jesus help me,
From the wise and wealthy,
I’m just skin and bone,
And they’re both growing old.
Inside a red room,
The sin it found it’s true bloom.
And as the sun it rose,
We did the things untold.
But oh the silence, when they found you there,
Hell amongst your head.
Right or wrong son, I’ll be there,
In the hell amongst your head.
So strip out all those faceless truths just
Gimmie something I can use.
4. Waltz #3
Dance with me liar won’t you take to the floor with me?
I don’t believe you but I never needed to.
I can see your face,
Hidden half by the moon's embrace.
Tell the others
I’ll recover,
For it’s not the same without you.
Watch you breath the bait,
Sing but once for me dear and stay.
Tell the others
What the wolf discovered,
As I weave a tale around you.
You upon the wire,
Come down, please come down.
For I love your cruel embrace.
Dance with me liar won’t you take to the floor with me?
I don’t believe you but I never needed to.
Dance with me liar won’t you take to the floor with me?
I don’t believe you but I never needed to.
I can see your face,
Hidden half by the moon's embrace.
Tell the others
I’ll recover,
For it’s not the same without you.
Watch you breath the bait,
Sing but once for me dear and stay.
Tell the others
What the wolf discovered,
As I weave a tale around you.
You upon the wire,
Come down, please come down.
For I love your cruel embrace.
Dance with me liar won’t you take to the floor with me?
I don’t believe you but I never needed to.
5. Common Thief
Do you think that we could be
On the brink of something glorious?
Does it frighten you, knowing that we could do
All the things we’ve ever wanted to?
But oh that time is running out,
Ooh you gotta take a chance.
Our time is running out,
Ooh you gotta take a chance.
Trust me now that gun won’t make a sound.
I don’t know –
But I need you to do this
It’s just so –
Please it’s only this one.
But your eyes they…
Tell me now, the time is near,
And I will tell you how we can get out of here.
But oh that time is running out,
Ooh you gotta take a chance.
Our time is running out,
Ooh you gotta take a chance.
Trust me now that gun won’t make a sound.
Hold tight to me and all I believe,
It’s time we achieved something.
Hold tight to me and all I believe,
And trust me it feels like falling.
Do you think that we could be
On the brink of something glorious?
Does it frighten you, knowing that we could do
All the things we’ve ever wanted to?
Do you think that we could be
On the brink of something glorious?
Does it frighten you, knowing that we could do
All the things we’ve ever wanted to?
But oh that time is running out,
Ooh you gotta take a chance.
Our time is running out,
Ooh you gotta take a chance.
Trust me now that gun won’t make a sound.
I don’t know –
But I need you to do this
It’s just so –
Please it’s only this one.
But your eyes they…
Tell me now, the time is near,
And I will tell you how we can get out of here.
But oh that time is running out,
Ooh you gotta take a chance.
Our time is running out,
Ooh you gotta take a chance.
Trust me now that gun won’t make a sound.
Hold tight to me and all I believe,
It’s time we achieved something.
Hold tight to me and all I believe,
And trust me it feels like falling.
Do you think that we could be
On the brink of something glorious?
Does it frighten you, knowing that we could do
All the things we’ve ever wanted to?
6. Jack Middle of the Broken Heart
Jack middle of the Broken Heart said “smoke ‘em if you got ‘em love”,
Cashed in, drawn down, turned out, seeking fire from the lord above.
Greedy fingers on a photograph, hungry for the life below,
Pull the car ‘round my dear, let the wheels turn slow.
Crashing trains through the underground, searching for a better past,
The wicker-man with the crimson craft, stolen from the better half.
Set a match to the fraying scars, gathering along the way,
Set unto the sky, a suicide of strays.
Hey Bonnie love, we’re leaving, yeah we’re leaving let it go.
Too many hearts, claim a reason to this treason let it go.
Hey Bonnie love, we’re leaving, yeah we’re leaving let it go.
Too many hearts, claim a reason to this treason let it go.
Everyone that she ever loved, was hiding in the bitter black,
A vice of villain vagrants, stealing though the hidden tracks.
The crooked rhythm of a stray bullet through her open chest,
“Take my other hand my dear, please don’t die just yet.”
Hey Bonnie love, we’re leaving, yeah we’re leaving let it go.
Too many hearts, claim a reason to this treason let it go.
Hey Bonnie love, we’re leaving, yeah we’re leaving let it go.
Too many hearts, claim a reason to this treason let it go.
Jack middle of the Broken Heart said “smoke ‘em if you got ‘em love”,
Cashed in, drawn down, turned out, seeking fire from the lord above.
Greedy fingers on a photograph, hungry for the life below,
Pull the car ‘round my dear, let the wheels turn slow.
Crashing trains through the underground, searching for a better past,
The wicker-man with the crimson craft, stolen from the better half.
Set a match to the fraying scars, gathering along the way,
Set unto the sky, a suicide of strays.
Hey Bonnie love, we’re leaving, yeah we’re leaving let it go.
Too many hearts, claim a reason to this treason let it go.
Hey Bonnie love, we’re leaving, yeah we’re leaving let it go.
Too many hearts, claim a reason to this treason let it go.
Everyone that she ever loved, was hiding in the bitter black,
A vice of villain vagrants, stealing though the hidden tracks.
The crooked rhythm of a stray bullet through her open chest,
“Take my other hand my dear, please don’t die just yet.”
Hey Bonnie love, we’re leaving, yeah we’re leaving let it go.
Too many hearts, claim a reason to this treason let it go.
Hey Bonnie love, we’re leaving, yeah we’re leaving let it go.
Too many hearts, claim a reason to this treason let it go.
7. The Door Swung
The door swung on ya hon’,
A month before the night turned cold,
I’ll be on my way.
An hour or two is all I can stay.
You can’t fail on me now,
The sheltered hand, what we said,
It’s just a matter of course.
All my hopes, selling you short.
But I won’t carry on when you are gone.
There’s a light, in your eye, delivered in song.
I woke up on the floor.
A shaft of light, caught my eye,
Looking around
For the steady beat of a familiar sound.
But I won’t carry on when you are gone.
There’s a light, in your eye, delivered in song.
All men are bordered,
All men are free.
To pray for wisdom,
Just let this be.
8. A Want That You Wouldn’t
You are the light,
You are the one that I reach for in the night.
My bonny, my lovely, my one.
You are the sweetest thing,
The quiet that calls to the trouble within,
But I see something dark ahead, I'm closing my eyes.
I’ll leave the stars to the glittering night,
And gladly remember, a want that you wouldn’t.
Stray from reason, staged by fate,
One hand on the bottle, one pointing the way,
We are all of us drifting down to an early grave.
We kept back the cold,
We were warm from the fever inside of our bones,
But so foolish to think that we were safe for the night,
We are not here alone.
I’ll leave the stars to the glittering night,
And gladly remember, a want that wouldn’t.
Holding the needle close to her chest,
I’m guiding the hand of the one you love best,
As the phone is ringing at the library reception desk.
I’ll make for the harbour,
Under the light of the dying sun.
I will walk towards the drifter’s dawn for you my darlin’.
The door swung on ya hon’,
A month before the night turned cold,
I’ll be on my way.
An hour or two is all I can stay.
You can’t fail on me now,
The sheltered hand, what we said,
It’s just a matter of course.
All my hopes, selling you short.
But I won’t carry on when you are gone.
There’s a light, in your eye, delivered in song.
I woke up on the floor.
A shaft of light, caught my eye,
Looking around
For the steady beat of a familiar sound.
But I won’t carry on when you are gone.
There’s a light, in your eye, delivered in song.
All men are bordered,
All men are free.
To pray for wisdom,
Just let this be.
8. A Want That You Wouldn’t
You are the light,
You are the one that I reach for in the night.
My bonny, my lovely, my one.
You are the sweetest thing,
The quiet that calls to the trouble within,
But I see something dark ahead, I'm closing my eyes.
I’ll leave the stars to the glittering night,
And gladly remember, a want that you wouldn’t.
Stray from reason, staged by fate,
One hand on the bottle, one pointing the way,
We are all of us drifting down to an early grave.
We kept back the cold,
We were warm from the fever inside of our bones,
But so foolish to think that we were safe for the night,
We are not here alone.
I’ll leave the stars to the glittering night,
And gladly remember, a want that wouldn’t.
Holding the needle close to her chest,
I’m guiding the hand of the one you love best,
As the phone is ringing at the library reception desk.
I’ll make for the harbour,
Under the light of the dying sun.
I will walk towards the drifter’s dawn for you my darlin’.
9. Made it to the Harbour
Made it to the harbour,
I’ll wait in the bar in the corner for the others.
I’m looking at her picture,
I can see what they mean she’s the same as her brother.
But that won’t help her now,
He’s a world away and he’s stuck at the border.
He can’t help her now,
I’m all that she’s got so you better come with me.
Don’t tell me who you are then,
or how you know everything I thought when the dice were divided.
It’s just one question,
Tell me will you be wise? Will you be guided?
That could save her now,
She’s an hour away I will pay in the morning.
We can’t stay in this town,
You’re all that I’ve got so we better start running.
I’ve met you before I swear I’ve seen your face before.
Did you sell your soul for the sake of a cold ex-lover?
Does it haunt you every time you pray?
Or have you let it go?
Made it to the harbour,
I’ll wait in the bar in the corner for the others.
I’m looking at her picture,
I can see what they mean she’s the same as her brother.
But that won’t help her now,
He’s a world away and he’s stuck at the border.
He can’t help her now,
I’m all that she’s got so you better come with me.
Don’t tell me who you are then,
or how you know everything I thought when the dice were divided.
It’s just one question,
Tell me will you be wise? Will you be guided?
That could save her now,
She’s an hour away I will pay in the morning.
We can’t stay in this town,
You’re all that I’ve got so we better start running.
I’ve met you before I swear I’ve seen your face before.
Did you sell your soul for the sake of a cold ex-lover?
Does it haunt you every time you pray?
Or have you let it go?
10. Slipped Your Mind
It started in the morning with a call to all the arms
And it continued through the afternoon,
But I will give you everything I have, everything I’ll ever have,
I’m holding out to savour the one thing true.
It must’ve slipped my mind,
I remember now that I have seen his crooked white grin
amongst the wealthy and wise.
Inside a red room I can still smell her perfume,
but I have also seen the hunger in his big black eyes.
She spent her whole life waiting for the wolf to return to her door.
Red was the colour of denial but you wanted some more.
He was a good man or so they said,
They didn’t know the devil that he kept hidden in his head.
He could do no wrong,
But worse he did she surprised him.
It must’ve slipped his mind,
The latch on his door he left it hanging loose,
And the noose tightened slowly.
She spent her whole life waiting for the wolf to return to her door.
Red was the colour of denial but you wanted some more.
So strip out all those faceless truths just,
Gimme something I can use.
She spent her whole life waiting for the wolf to return to her door.
Red was the colour of denial but you wanted some more.
It started in the morning with a call to all the arms
And it continued through the afternoon,
But I will give you everything I have, everything I’ll ever have,
I’m holding out to savour the one thing true.
It must’ve slipped my mind,
I remember now that I have seen his crooked white grin
amongst the wealthy and wise.
Inside a red room I can still smell her perfume,
but I have also seen the hunger in his big black eyes.
She spent her whole life waiting for the wolf to return to her door.
Red was the colour of denial but you wanted some more.
He was a good man or so they said,
They didn’t know the devil that he kept hidden in his head.
He could do no wrong,
But worse he did she surprised him.
It must’ve slipped his mind,
The latch on his door he left it hanging loose,
And the noose tightened slowly.
She spent her whole life waiting for the wolf to return to her door.
Red was the colour of denial but you wanted some more.
So strip out all those faceless truths just,
Gimme something I can use.
She spent her whole life waiting for the wolf to return to her door.
Red was the colour of denial but you wanted some more.
11. Richter
The boy lit a match to start a fire
In the heart of the one that he desired,
And waited for her to come to see.
Sung from the side of a dirty smile,
Couldn’t keep it quiet for half that time oh.
Drifter count the coins to pay,
Life was never meant this way.
Open up the door and let us in.
I only got so far left to go.
Every night the voices tell you this.
It’s not about the fortune of the bold,
And that lie’s gettin’ old.
Run from the light that’s in her eye,
Stick it in the heart of every night.
Drifter count the coins to pay,
In severance you go your way,
As I step upon the road to take us down.
Open up the door and let us in.
I only got so far left to go.
Every night the voices tell you this.
As I call upon them all to take you home,
Where you’ll never have to leave, believe me now.
But Richter slipped her half a pill,
Said darlin’ you are ill.
Oh I could take the pain away,
In one of seven ways.
The first will hurt, the second worse,
And three to six aren't named.
The seventh lies between your legs,
And I will do the same.
The boy lit a match to start a fire
In the heart of the one that he desired,
And waited for her to come to see.
Sung from the side of a dirty smile,
Couldn’t keep it quiet for half that time oh.
Drifter count the coins to pay,
Life was never meant this way.
Open up the door and let us in.
I only got so far left to go.
Every night the voices tell you this.
It’s not about the fortune of the bold,
And that lie’s gettin’ old.
Run from the light that’s in her eye,
Stick it in the heart of every night.
Drifter count the coins to pay,
In severance you go your way,
As I step upon the road to take us down.
Open up the door and let us in.
I only got so far left to go.
Every night the voices tell you this.
As I call upon them all to take you home,
Where you’ll never have to leave, believe me now.
But Richter slipped her half a pill,
Said darlin’ you are ill.
Oh I could take the pain away,
In one of seven ways.
The first will hurt, the second worse,
And three to six aren't named.
The seventh lies between your legs,
And I will do the same.
12. Other Friends Have Flown Before
I woke up to find this, no water or wind,
No bluebirds were calling,
And a single lonely raven
Was the first thing I saw.
The last leaves are falling, the air is heavy
With your whispered words,
And the cry of a raven
Was the last thing I heard.
Nothing further then she uttered,
In the silence there I shuddered,
And I scarcely more than muttered,
"Other friends have flown before".
All my sorrow now will leave me
As my hopes have flown before.
I woke up to find this, no water or wind,
No bluebirds were calling,
And a single lonely raven
Was the first thing I saw.
The last leaves are falling, the air is heavy
With your whispered words,
And the cry of a raven
Was the last thing I heard.
Nothing further then she uttered,
In the silence there I shuddered,
And I scarcely more than muttered,
"Other friends have flown before".
All my sorrow now will leave me
As my hopes have flown before.