BLACK PLANET

 

In the western Sky

My Kingdom comes

So still so dark all over Europe

And I ride down the highway 101

By the side of the ocean headed for sunset

For the kingdom come

for the

 

CHORUS:

Black

Black planet

Black

Black world

 

Black

Black planet

Black

Black world

 

Run around in the radiation

Run around in the acid rain

On a

Black

Black planet

Black planet hanging over the highway

Out of my mind's eye

Out of the memory

Black world out of my mind

 

So Still

so dark all over Europe

And the rainbow rises here

In the western sky

The kill to show for

At the end of the great white pier

I see a

 

CHORUS:

Black

Black planet

Black

Black world

 

Black

Black planet

Black

Black world

 

Run around in the radiation

Tune in turn on burn out in the acid rain on a..

 

CHORUS:

Black

Black planet

Black

Black world

 

Black

Black planet

Black

Black world

[repeat to fade]

 

 

WALK AWAY

 

And in the summer when the clouds show through

I might go the same way too if

You and I could talk together

Well what am I supposed to do with

You and I would walk together

Then with always close around and

Now you gaze toward the doorway

When the weather comes falling down

 

Chorus:

And when the rain comes down

Would you choose to walk or stay

Would you choose to walk

Would you choose to stay

Would you

Walk walk walk walk walk away

 

(away) (away) away away (away) away

away away walk away

Walk away

Would you choose to walk away

 

Chorus:

And when the rain comes down

Would you choose to walk or stay

Would you choose to walk

Would you choose to stay

Would you

Walk walk walk walk walk away

 

Though when the day is nearly

Through I might see the same way too if

You would name the things

That bring you down on me so I could say it's

Not quite true if you don't really

Know or understand the circumstance

Behind them I might clear your

Mind and you won't have to go so

 

Chorus:

And when the rain comes down

Would you choose to walk or stay

Would you choose to walk

Would you choose to stay

Would you

Walk walk walk walk walk away

 

(away) (away) away away (away) away

away away walk away

Walk away

Would you choose to walk away

 

 

NO TIME TO CRY

 

It's just a feeling

I get sometimes

A feeling

Sometimes

And I get frightened

Just like you

I get frightened too

But it's

 

Chorus:

(No no no) No time for heartache

(No no no) No time to run and hide

(No no no) No time for breaking down

(No no no) No time to cry

 

Sometimes in the world as is you've

Got to shake the hand that feeds you

It's just like Adam says

It's not so hard to understand

It's just like always coming down on

Just like Jesus never came and

What did you expect to find

It's just like always here again it's...

 

Chorus:

(No no no) No time for heartache

(No no no) No time to run and hide

(No no no) No time for breaking down

(No no no) No time to cry

Everything will be alright

Everything will turn out fine

Some nights I still can't sleep

And the voices pass with time

And I keep

Everything will be alright

Everything will turn out fine

Some nights I still can't sleep

And the voices pass with time

And I keep

 

No time for tears

No time to run and hide

No time to be afraid of fear

I keep no time to cry

 

Chorus:

(No no no) No time for heartache

(No no no) No time to run and hide

(No no no) No time for breaking down

(No no no) No time to cry

 

 

A Rock and a Hard Place

 

And she came to look for me

Sold me name and innocence

Took my key

And told me to follow her

Down from Igor with her bangles and her reference

One from the church from the valley of the well

She wanted a haven and a place to hide

So I gave her an alibi took her inside but

 

Chorus:

A rock and a hard place await for me

Between the devil and the deep blue sea

Everything I ever did right or wrong

Hid out of sight where I belong

Belong

 

And I didn't have the heart to tell her why

 

And there wasn't a part of me that

didn't want to say goodbye but

Cause and effect go hand in hand with

The devil may care but I don't mind and I

thought she'd never quite understand so I

left her there that night but will she find me?

I don't think so, no

When you go, you go alone

And I'm gone

Far away

 

Far away

 

Far away

 

Far away

 

And I didn't have the heart to tell her why

 

And there wasn't a part of me that

didn't want to say goodbye but

 

A rock and a hard place await for me

Between the devil and the deep blue sea

Everything I ever did right or wrong

Hid out of sight where I belong

A rock and a hard place await for me

Between the devil and the deep blue sea

Everything I ever did right or wrong

Hid out of sight where I belong

A rock and a hard place await for me

Between the devil and the deep blue sea

 

 

Marian

 

In a sea of faces, in a sea of doubt,

In this cruel place your voice above the maelstrom

In the wake of the ship of fools I'm falling further down,

If you can see me, Marian, reach out and take me home.....

I hear you calling, Marian

Across the water, across the wave

I hear you calling, Marian

Can you hear me calling you to

Save me, save me, save me from the

Grave....

Marian....

 

Marian, there's a weight above me

And the pressure is all too strong

To breathe deep, breathe long and hard, to

Take the water down and go to sleep

To sink still further

Beneath the fatal wave

 

Marian, I think I'm drowning

This sea is killing me

I hear you calling, Marian

Across the water, across the wave

I hear you calling, Marian

Can you hear me calling you to

Save me, save me, save me from the

Grave....

 

Was ich kann und was ich k?e

Weissich gar nicht mehr

Gib mir wieder etwas sch?

Zieh mich aus dem Meer

Ich hohr dich rufen, Marian

Kannst du mich schreien hohren, ich bin hier allein

Ich hohr dich rufen, Marian

Ohne deine hilfe, verliere ich mich in diesem

Ort; I hear you calling, Marian

Across the water, across the wave

I hear you calling, Marian

Can you hear me calling you to

Save me, save me, save me from the

Grave....

Marian

Marian....

 

{Translation of German Verse}

{What I can and what I could,

I don't know it anymore

Give me something beautiful again,

Pull me from the sea,

I can hear you calling Marian,

Can you hear me calling, I am here alone

I hear you calling, Marian

Without your help, I will lose myself in this place...}

2006

 

BONUS TRACKS

 

Poison Door

 

Behind the door

The poison door

We search the still hours

Looking

For a place to hide (For a place to hide)

Behind the door

Where dreams collide (Where dreams collide)

Behind the door

The poison door

We sit in silence waiting

For a deadly friend

Behind the door

Where dreams descend (Where dreams descend)

And the shadows smile

 

Lips dark and wild

The shadows smile

And kiss the sky

Behind the door

The poison door

The puppets dance on a burning floor

Like dying flames

Behind the door

Shoot me down again

 

Behind the door

The poison door

We search the still hours

Looking

For a place to hide (For a place to hide)

Behind the door

Where dreams collide (Where dreams collide)

Behind the door

The poison door

We sit in silence waiting

For a deadly friend

Behind the door

Where dreams descend (Where dreams descend)

And the shadows smile

 

And kiss your memory goodbye

And the shadows smile

But their lips are ssss...

 

And the shadows smile

Lips dark and wild

And the shadows smile

Kiss your memory goodbye

And the shadows smile

Lips dark and wild

And kiss the sky

 

 

On the Wire

 

Now the ground come up too fast

Too fast to meet you

In clouds of dust erupting

Thick around your feet, be careful

In the rubble in shrouds in waiting

Wall to wall to where you tread

Now the quick and the dead and the same old

Fates come calling cards away

How do you think it came to pass you

By the hard way by desire

How do you think it came to pass you by?

- On the wire

 

I don't sleep so I don't dream so I don't

Wake up frightened

Everything is what it seems if

You look deep enough tonight and

See...

 

On the wire, on the wire, on the wire I will not fall

On the wire, on the wire, on the wire I will not fall

 

On the wire, on the wire, on the wire I will not fall

On the wire, on the wire, on the wire I will not fall

On the wire, on the wire, on the wire I will not fall

On the wire, on the wire, on the wire I will not fall

 

 

Blood Money

 

(Flesh)

(Bone)

(Splinters on the telephone)

(Whispers...)

Bullet in the head

Down

Head

Down

Got power to burn

Got means

Flowers to burn

Between those pretty dreams

Hold out for cover

Hold out your hand to me, for

Blood, blood money

Blood money, money, money, money

 

(Kiss...)

 

Children, kiss the ring

Children, kiss the blade

 

Blood money

Blood money

 

Which hand holds

Your hand? Holds

Blood, blood money

Blood, blood money, money, money

Blood, blood money

Blood, blood money, money, money

 

 

Bury Me Deep

 

Call it superstition

Followed and fell

Under the falling

Under the spell

Singing

Bury me

Bury me

Spoken in tongues

Of many colours, in the

Colours of heaven, in the colours of hell, in the

Cannot, would not tell, in the

Broken temple bells, in the ringing

Oh, Marian, I can

Hear those voices singing

Bury me

Inside

Lie beside and

Bury me

Deep

In the spoken in tongues

Cover me over

Unsung

Unsaid, not

Borrowed, broken and torn,

On the bed tomorrow, mourning

Before you sleep

Bury me deep

Bury me

Inside

Lie beside and

Bury me, bury me, bury me, bury me

Deep

Call it superstition

Followed and fell

Under the falling

Under the spell

Bury me

Inside

Lie beside and

Bury me

Deep

 

 

Train

 

Train

Train

Train

Train

Take a last decision and the cars to move it

Past information

Tunnel vision and the scars to prove it

Everybody got a reservation

Far beyond the black horizon

Beyond the things you know

Everybody got a destination

Everybody got a place to go

 

Take a walk downtown where the victims go

Take your shadow to the end, to the very last window

Everybody got friends got shot upside and over

Down the line

Everybody got assignations

I got mine

 

Take a one-way ticket to the chain reaction

Cut a hole between the ground and sky

Make a railway track for the main attraction

Cross my heart and take a ride

Far beyond the black horizon

Beyond the things you know

Everybody got a destination

Everybody got a place to go

 

 

Some Kind Of Stranger (Early)

 

See above at he original text for first impression. If different in time it will be here to read

First and Last and Always

 

See a body and the dream of the dead days

Following lost and blind

Living, far from here

Tomorrow is hard to find

And it seems like twenty-five years of

Promises and give me more

Scenes of a hand me down in

Dresses heard before

 

First and last and always: 'til the end of time

First and last and always: Mine

 

Maybe it's not so easy

Maybe it's a way too long

Say, say you'll be by me

When the evidence comes along

 

(My calling)

(My time)

 

See a body and the dream of the dead days

A following lost and blind

Cross my heart with silver

Here's the key behind

Seems like twenty-five years of

Ever after, ever more more more

Seems I wore this face for you

Far too long before

 

First and last and always: My calling, my time

First and last and always: Mine

First and last and always: 'til the end of the end of time

First and last and always: Mine

First and last and always: 'til the end of time

First and last and always: Mine

 

 

Possession

 

Carrion child

Prey for me, play your

Wild card, see the house come down around your

Head, home to me, so much dreaming

Some say I'm growing cold and

Taking over

Nothing, cut, two ways....

Possession: Taking over....

Stand these pictures on your shelf and

Wear your heart upon my sleeve

Wear a dress that you can see through

See yourself inside

I'll be your imagination

Tear apart what you believe

Make a mess of your conviction

Take away my pride, and leave you

Nothing, but the debris

Cut, two ways

Carrion child

Prey for me, play your

Wild card, see the house come down around your....

Possession: Taking over

Possession: Shake shake shake shake shake shake

Possession: Taking over

Somehow the facts take over, and the fiction coming through

Somehow I do my crying breaking down for you

This way the doubt takes over, contradiction coming through

This way I do my lying, making up and making out for you

Possession: Taking over

Child (Nothing)

Pray for me (But the debris)

Play your wild card (Cut two ways)

Some say I'm growing cold and

Taking over....

Down around your head (Nothing)

Home to me (But the Debris)

So much dreaming: See the house come down around your....

Possession: Shake shake shake shake shake shake

Possession: Taking over

Possession: Shake shake shake shake shake shake

Possession: Taking over

 

 

Nine While Nine

 

And it's passing strange

And I'm waiting for the train

Caught up on this line again

And it's passing slowly

Killing time, but it's

Better than living in what will come and I've

Still got some of your letters with me, and I

Thought sometimes, or I read too much

And I think you know, let's

Drink to the dead lying under the water and

The cost of the blood on the driven snow, and the

Lipstick on my cigarettes

Frost upon the window pane

Nine while nine and I'm waiting

For the train....

She said do you remember a time when angels

Do you remember a time when fear?

In the days when I was stronger

In the days when you were here, she said

When days had no beginning

While days had no end, when

Shadows grew no longer I

Knew no other friend but you

Were wild

You were wild....

Frost upon these cigarettes

Lipstick on the window pane, and I've

Lost all sense of the world outside but I

Can't forget so I call your name and I'm

Looking for a life for me and I'm

Looking for a life for you and I'm

Talking to myself again and it's

So damn cold, it's just not true

Walking through the rain

Trying to hold on, waiting for the train and I'm

Only looking for what you want but it's

Lonely here and I think you knew and I'm

And I'm waiting

And I wait in vain

Nine while nine and I'm waiting

For the train....

 

 

Logic

 

Watch them do

The falling over

Watch them do

The standing still

Nothing but the knife to live for

One life, all I need

Give me one good reason

Give me more S....

 

(Women)

And the women come and go

(Talk)

Talking about me like they know

(Men)

Bought and sold

And the world keeps turning

People cold

And people burning

Nothing but the knife to live for

One life, all I need

Give me one good reason

Give me more S....

 

Nothing but the knife to live for

One life, all I need

Give me one good reason

Give me more S.... (Amphetamine Logic)

Hit up

Steel in hand

Lit up

Like candles

Burning

Like Catherine wheels

Turning

On

Nothing but the knife to live for

One life, all I need

Give me one good reason

Give me more S.... (Amphetmine Logic)

 

 

Some Kind of Stranger

 

And yes I believe in what we had

But words got in the way

And only yesterday

As I was leaving

Lord knows I tried to say, but I've

Heard a million conversations

Going where they've been before

Seen the way that careful lingers

Undecided at the door

And all I know for sure

All I know for real

Is knowing doesn't mean so much

When placed against the feeling

The heat inside

When bodies meet

When fingers touch

 

All of my words are second-hand and

Useless in the face of this

Rationale and rhyme and reason

Pale beside a single kiss

And I've heard so many things I

Fail to understand at all

I'd settle anytime for

Unknown footsteps in the hall outside

 

And all I know for sure

All I know for real

Is knowing doesn't mean so much

When placed against the feeling

The heat inside

When bodies meet

When fingers touch

 

Because the world is cruel, and

Promises are broken

Don't try to tell me

Anything, don't try to tell me

You'll be true to me, you know the

Real truth is never spoken

And I know the world is cold, but

If you hold on tight to what you

Find you might not mind too much, though

Even this must pass away and

Memories may last for years but

Names are just for souvenirs

Some kind of Angel let me

Look into your eyes

Don't give me whys and wherefores

Reason for surprise

I don't care for words that don't belong

And I don't care what your called

Tell me later if at all

I can wait a long long time

Before I hear another love song

Come here I think your beautiful

My door is open wide

Some kind of Angel come inside

Come here I think you're beautiful

I think you're beautiful beautiful

Some kind of Angel come inside

Come here I think you're beautiful

I think you're beautiful

Some kind of Angel come inside

Come here I think you're beautiful

My door is open wide

Some kind of stranger come inside

Come here I think you're beautiful

I think you're beautiful beautiful

Some kind of stranger come inside

Come here I think you're beautiful

I think you're beautiful

Some kind of stranger come inside

F I R S T    A N D    L A S T    A N D    A L W A Y S

 

 

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