Young Love

From the tick-tock of the union shop
To the rock-rock where the ??? stops
To the crack-crack of the lipstick look
To the snap-snap pack of a brand new suit

Rock-rock
Crack-crack
Young love
Young love
Young love
Rock-rock
Crack-crack
Young love

From the knock-knock of the bang-bang boys
To the shock-shock of the glow girl's voice
To the deadlock of the cinema suit
To the eight block dock on the concrete pitch

Knock-knock
Shock-shock
Young love
Young love
Young love
Knock-knock
Shock-shock
Young love

To the hush-hush when the boys walk in
To the rush-rush of the chemical spin
To the dance-dance in a howling door
To the lunatic fringe in a white-hot car

Rock-rock
Shock-shock
Young love
Young love
Young love
Rock-rock
Shock-shock
Young love

Miles Away

Miles away
I'm walking in like someone else again
Miles away
I'm watching summer through an English rain
And I'm a new man when I walk away
It's crazy
Shaking the daze from my head again
I know I must be miles away
Miles away
Miles away
Miles away

Miles away
I reassemble on the morning train
I try to say
My voice just tumbles on a long delay
And there's a new man at the edge of me
It's crazy
Making new plans for the rest of me
I'm looking back from miles away
Miles away
Miles away
Miles away

All the same
We talk on telephones across the haze
Miles away
The planes go glinting on their vapour trails
And I'm a new man when I walk away
It's crazy
Turning my head to the shine again
I'm waking up from miles away
Miles away
Miles away
Miles away

A Long Time

Lost again in shades of green
Seasons changing under me
Seems like I forgot to steer
Close my eyes, I know it's been a long time
Such a long time

Silence in your silver passing
Glinting in the bliss of laughing
Shafts of someone slowly glancing
Down on me, I know it's been a long time

Look in the mirror
Well I know it's clear
To get me to the hollow
Well I haven't been here for such a long time
For such a long time
Such a long time

How's she been?
The place is just the same
??? but to me it all seems like a life time
Such a long time

Passing in your quiet way
Silent in the silent day
Moving as you move away
Wherever you go I wish you fell
It's been a long time

Smiling in the hazy blaze
As the focus starts to change
Watch the room begin to sway
Just beside me someone's says "It's a long time"
Such a long time

Annexe

Woman on a Stairway

Oh pull me up slowly
I've been running just too far again
I can never see the places where she stands
They're always lost in some kind of rain

Turn around in the new pool
The colour rose
You learn the danger zones
Move all your life to the fiction of the pictures
And let regrets
Form a silhouette...

A woman on a stairway
Dreaming and cool
Through all the storm of days

I step in here sometimes
When I've been brushing off too many things
And all the rhythms of your manner and your voice
Gently focus and reflect
Everything I neglect

A woman on a stairway
Twisting the light
Rolling the time away

Oh turn me round slowly
I've been walking through too many rooms
And all these spirals in the heart and the hands
Always lead to places better left
As a silhouette...

A woman on a stairway
Dreaming and cool
Through all the storm of days
A woman on a stairway
Beautiful light
Pulling the veils away

Dance With Me

Outside
It's so warm
And the rain is on my face
Inside
I feel
A part of me slips away

So dance with me
Dance with me
All my life
Oh we'll go waltzing through the crowd
While all the skies go tumbling down
Oh we'll be magic in the night
Leave all the people spinning by

Inside
I feel all my shadows
Move away
By the light of the fire
A part of you
Seems to change

So dance with me
Dance with me
All my life

A Kind of Wave

Something's moving into my life
Windows appear
A touch and I steer
Slowly coming into the light
Now maybe we'll see
The point where we reappear
From all those years ago
And all those lives away
All those summers build
In a kind of wave

So open all the pieces we dream
And don't disconnect
You know you're trying my best
Determined now to say what I mean
Oh well ­ maybe ­ though...
Er ­ yes ­ is that so?
I see...
And when I flick a switch
I feel something click
And your phrase will change direction
Just half a word away
I'm about to say
Then you looked up and I lost connection

Something is about to appear...
A shadow a smile
An angle a line
Turning now to look at the place
It's all silver and blue
And sounds coming through the page
From all those years ago
And all those moments away
All those people turn
In a kind of wave

This Jungle

Every avenue seems uncertain
This film beam plays across our heads
Someday I know you'll change your place in here
Don't let the sunset make you sad
In these jungles

The walls and the streets dissolve
I see
Rooms are all overgrown
We leave
Outside the sky's so bright
We step out in the haze
Time and time again
In these jungles

Ghostly perfume rose and hyacinth
Deep blue twilight over our heads
The vistas melt and change in film escape
Just let the sunrise make you glad
In these jungles

Dressed as a private man
I go
Fragile as any stance I know
Voice on a golden wind
I'm turning in the blaze
The place is not the same

I'll meet you on summer streets
You'll see
Shadows and echoes made of me
Light on my hands I know
You're talking in the haze
The voice is not the same

The walls and the streets dissolve
I see
Rooms are all overgrown
We leave
Outside the sky's so bright
You're turning in the blaze
The face is not the same...
In these jungles