Gazpacho

 

Saw you walking on your velvet lawn

Is it lonely on the moon?

You took a dive and swallowed all you could

Did you drink too much too soon?

Nothing left for you to fight about

And no-one wants to see you try

The nearest neighbouts are a mile away

Does the ocean hear you cry?

Punching at the sky

They say the King is losin' his grip again

They said you're bullet proof, they sayd you feel no pain

It seems the hero is misunderstood again

Is it love or is it surgery

Makes he seem so ill at ease

As she's begging you to please calm down

In her silk Armani on her knees

Did you carry out those threats I heard

Or were you only playing macho?

And the stains on her Versache scarf

Were they really just Gazpacho?

They say the King is watching his back again

They say the King is losing his grip again

Raging like a bull to an empty ring

D'you think they will forgive a hero anything?

Now the ring is just a band of gold

And your wife nees Police protection

While you're sparring with the journalists

You're trying to win back her affection

Is this what it means to be a man

boxing up all your emotion

So now she's gone and you're alone at last

You can tell it to the ocean

They say the King is losing his grip again

They say the King is countin' his numbered days

You never lost a finght in your whole life

You never had no trouble sleepin' through the night

The bottle and the doctor get you through the day

The boys who run the house'll make it all OK

You think they will forgive a hero anything

Maybe Hollywood.. but maybe then again

Now the ring is just a band of gold..

Drive the road

"They're heading towards that Rockingham address, we have literally

thousands of on-lookers stopping on both sides of the freeway and the south

bound freeway is literally stopped... And people are lining the street ..there are

about 20 or 30 police cars in pursuit..."

"..he's flown the coop, he's in the breeze, we don't know where he's at, the man

is a fugitve..."

 

Cannibal Surf Babe

 

Well she tied me to the headbord with a surf leach

And her wet hair hugged her body like a long-lost friend

And I really tried my best to get across to her

But nothing she would say could be defended

Well her birthday suit it was her only present

When I looked into her eyes - no history

And I told her eating people wasn't pleasant

But she laughed a snake eye laugh and walked away from me

I wathced her as she walked across the coals

I wathced her as she walked across the coals

singing:

I was born in Nineteen sixty weird

And I am your nightmare surfer babe

Mr. Wilson where's your sandbox and your beard

Are you still looking for the perfect microwave

So I did my best to try and get across her

I said: "One day every pebble hits the beach"

And I kissed her face and held her like a long-lost friend

But she was too far out there

To be reached

singing:

I was born in Nineteen sixty weird, old man

Mr. Wilson I'm your nightmare surfer babe

Mr. Wilson where's your sandbox and your bear old man

Are you still looking for that perfect microwave

And the sun came up over the mountain

And the waves rolled in across the bay

And the fabulous brightly coloured birds flew up out of the forest

And she said Well we're all heaven's beautiful children together in paradise

Lie down my dear... you're going to enjoy this

 

Beautiful

 

Everybody knows that we live in a world where they give bad names to

beautiful things

Everybody knows that we live in a world where we don't give

beautiful things a second glance

Heaven only knows that we live in a world where what we call

beautiful is just something on sale

And the leaves turn from red to brown

To be trodden down

To be trodden down

And the leaves turn from red to brown

Fall to the ground

Fall to the ground

We don't have to live in a world where we give bad names to

beautiful things

We should live in a beautiful world

We should give beautiful a second glance

And the leaves fall from red to brown

To be trodden down

Trodden down

And the leaves turn green to red to brown

Fall to the ground

And get kicked around

You strong enought to be..

Have you the courage to be..

Have you the faith to be..

Honest enough to say..

Don't have to be the same..

Don't have to be this way

C'mon and sign your name

You wild enough to remain beautiful?

Beautiful

All the leaves turn from red to brown

To be trodden down

Trodden down

And we fall green to red to brown

Falled to the ground

To be kicked around

You strong enough to be..

Why don't you stand up and say

Give yourself a break

They laugh at you anyway

So why don't you stand up and be

Beautiful.

 

Afraid of Sunrise

 

Dressed in black, no turning back

We blanked out the Great White Way

Fingers in desires crack

We'd bridge and tunnel into day

Abandoned to the salt of skin

Abandoned to the highway

Sand running in the hourglass

Heat of leather and mirages

So how do we now come to be

Afraid of sunilght

So how do we now come to be

Afraid of sunilght

Dayglo Jesus on the dash

Scorch marks on the road ahead

Friendly fire in hostile waters

Keep the faith, don't lose your head

Don't lose your head

Afraid of sunilght

So how do we now come to be

Afraid of sunilght

Agave flower

Sleeps beside me

Drivin' on

Nevada's burnin'

Phoenix rising

Drivin' on

To sunlight

Dayglo Jesus on the dash

Scorch marks on the road ahead

Friendly fire in hostile waters

Keep the faith, don't lose your head

Don't lose your head

So how do we now come to be

Adraid of sunlight

How do we now come to be

Afraid

 

Out of this World

 

(If you live too fast, you may die too young)

Three hundred miles an hour on water

In your purpose-built machine

No one dared to call a boat

Screaming blue

Out of this world

Make history

This is your day

Blue

Bird

At such speeds... things fly

What did she say?...

I know the pain of too much tenderness

Wonddering when or if you'll come back again

Wanting to live for you

And being banned from giving

But only love will turn you around

Only love will turn you around

Only love

Only love will turn you around

So we live you and I

Either side of the edge

And we run and we scream

With the dilated stare of obsession and dreaming

What the hell do we want

Is it only to go

Where nobody has gone

A better way than the herd

Sing a different song

Til you're running the ledge

To the gasp from the crowd

Spinning round in your head

Everything that she said..

 

Afraid of Sunlight

 

Drive the road and surrender

Time comes around... out of my hands

Small boats on the beach at the dead of night

Come and go before first light

Leace me running in the wheel

King of the world

How do you feel?

What is there to feel?

So how do we now come to be

Afraid of sunlight?

Tell me girl why you and me

Scared of sunlight?

Been in pain for so long

I can't even say

what hurts anymore

I will leave you alone

I will deny

I will leave you to bleed

I will leave you with your life

So how do we now come to be

Afraid of sunlight?

Tell me girl why you and me

Scared of sunlight?

All your spirit rack abuses

Come to haunt you back by day

All your byzantime excuses

Given time, given you away

Don't be surprised when daylight comes

To find that memory prick your thumbs

You'll tell them where to run to hide

I'm already dead

Matter of time

So how do we now come to be

Afraid of sunlight

How do we now come to be

Afraid of sunlight

So how do we now come to be

Afraid of sunlight

How do we now come to be

Afraid of sunlight

Dayglo Jesus on the dash

Chalk marks on the road ahead

Friendly fire in hostile waters

Keep the faith

Don't lose your head

So how do we now come to be?..

 

Beyond You

 

If you were a baby I would take you and run

I could hide you in the folds of my heart

There's a truth in the madness that I can't get beyond

And a fever that won't leave me alone

I don't want my heart

Don't want my head

Don't want my friends

Don't want my bed

I can't live with myself

I can't live with myself

Can't take no help

I try to want you

But I can't get beyond you

I will stare from the window

At the shapes in the rain

As the space between us drives me insane

I can't live with myself

I can't live with myself

Can't take no help

I want no one else

If I was a child

I would reuse to leave

I would sit down on the street

Kick my legs and scream

I'm not much of a man

but I know how I am

I know this won't fade away

I will pretend and be strong

But I wonder where I belong

And the feeling comes in waves

A hole in my body.. aching

Like a heart dying

A soul crying

Exhausted and insecure

Took all you have and I still want more

And I reach out to hold you

but all I do is hurt you

Hurt you

I can't live with myself

I can't live with myself

Can't take no help

I try to want it

But I can't get beyond you

If I was a child I would take you and run

And I say I don't know... But I know

And I say I'll go

But I don't let go

You just spent the whole day

Driving away

 

King

 

How long can you stand

Tightening up

Avoiding the fight

Avoiding the truth

Tighten the smile

Tighten the lie

Will you get what you want

To be cursed with your dreams

I hope for your sake

Something gets in the way

How long can you stand Living under the lens

The kiss of success

The ensuing, all consuming, mess

Message of love

They arrive everyday

People you touch

Wasting away

People you don't know

Give you no choise

And your sick to your stomack

At the sound of your voice

And the shape of your face

And the sound of your name

They send you pictures of yourself

It's someone you don't know

And they call you a genius

Cause you're easier to sell

But the fire in your belly

That gave you the songs

Is suddenly gone

And you feel like a fake

Is that what you want?

I hope for your sake..

You've got what it takes

You've got what it takes

You've got what it takes

Wishmaster - 2003