All that you can't leave behind

 

Beautiful day   Stuck in a moment you can't get out of   Elevation   Walk on   Kite   In a little while   Wild honey

Peace on earth   When I look at the world   New-York   Grace

    

 

 Beautiful Day


The heart is a bloom - shoots up through the stony ground 
There's no room - no space to rent in this town 
You're out of luck, and the reason that you had to care 
The traffic is stuck, and you're not moving anywhere 
You thought you'd found a friend to take you out of this place 
Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace 
It's a beautiful day - the sky falls 
You feel like it's a beautiful day 
Don't let it get away 

You're on the road, but you've got no destination 
You're in the mud - in the maze of her imagination 
You love this town, even if that doesn't ring true 
You've been all over, and it's been all over you 

It's a beautiful day 
Don't let it get away 
It's a beautiful day 

Touch me - take me to that other place 
Teach me - I know I'm not a hopeless case 

See the world in green and blue 
See China right in front of you 
See the canyons broken by cloud 
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out 
See the Bedouin fires at night 
See the oil fields at first light 
See the bird with a leaf in her mouth 
After the flood all the colours came out 

It was a beautiful day 
Don't let it get away 
Beautiful day 

Touch me - take me to that other place 
Reach me - I know I'm not a hopeless case 
What you don't have you don't need it now 
What you don't know you can feel somehow 
What you don't have you don't need it now 
Don't need it now 
It was a beautiful day 



Stuck In A Moment you can't get out of


I'm not afraid of anything in this world 
There's nothing you can throw at me that I haven't already heard 
I'm just trying to find a decent melody 
A song that I can sing in my own company 
I never thought you were a fool 
But darling - look at you 
You gotta stand up straight - carry your own weight 
These tears are going nowhere, baby 

You've got to get yourself together 
You've got stuck in a moment and now you can't get out of it 
Don't say that later will be better 
Now you're stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it 

I will not forsake the colours that you bring 
The nights you filled with fireworks - they left you with nothing 
I am still enchanted by the light you brought to me 
I listen through your ears - through your eyes I can see 

And you are such a fool to worry like you do 
I know it's tough, and you can never get enough 
Of what you don't really need now - my, oh my 

You've got to get yourself together 
You've got stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it 
Oh love, look at you now 
You've got yourself stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it 

I was unconscious, half asleep 
The water is warm till you discover how deep 
I wasn't jumping - for me it was a fall 
It's a long way down to nothing at all 

You've got to get yourself together 
You've got stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it 
Don't say that later will be better 
Now you're stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it 

And if the night runs over, and if the day won't last 
And if our way should falter along the stony pass 
And if the night runs over, and if the day won't last 
And if your way should falter along this stony pass 
It's just a moment - this time will pass 



Elevation


High - higher than the sun 
You shoot me from a gun 
I need you to elevate me here 
At the corner of your lips 
As the orbit of your hips 
Eclipse - you elevate my soul 
I've got no self control 
Been living like a mole 
Now going down - excavation 
I and I - in the sky 
You make me feel like I can fly 
So high - elevation 

A star lit up like a cigar 
Strung out like a guitar 
Maybe you can educate my mind 
Explain all these controls 
Can't sing but I've got soul 
The goal is elevation 

A mole, digging in a hole 
Digging up my soul 
Now going down - excavation 
I and I - in the sky 
You make me feel like I can fly 
So high - elevation 

Love, lift me out of these blues 
Won't you tell me something true? 
I believe in you 

A mole, digging in a hole [etc repeated] 

Elevation - elevation -- 


Walk On


And love is not the easy thing 
The only baggage that you can bring 
Not the easy thing 
The only baggage you can bring 
Is all that you can't leave behind 
And if the darkness is to keep us apart 
And if the daylight feels like it's a long way off 
And if your glass heart should crack 
And for a second you turn back 
Oh no - be strong 

Walk on - walk on 
What you got, they can't steal it 
No, they can't even feel it 
Walk on - walk on 
Stay safe tonight 

You're packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been 
A place that has to be believed to be seen 
You could have flown away 
A singing bird in an open cage 
Who will only fly - only fly for freedom 

Walk on - walk on 
What you got, they can't deny it 
Can't sell it or buy it 
Walk on - walk on 
You stay safe tonight 

And I know it aches 
How your heart it breaks 
You can only take so much 
Walk on - walk on 

Home - hard to know what it is if you never had one 
Home - I can't say where it is, but I know I'm going 
Home - that's where the hurt is 

And I know it aches 
And your heart it breaks 
You can only take so much 
Walk on 

Leave it behind 
You've got to leave it behind 

All that you fashion - all that you make 
All that you build - all that you break 
All that you measure - all that you feel 
All this you can leave behind 

All that you reason - it's only time 
Love in a fever - no, not mine 
All that you sense - all that you scheme 
All you dress up - all that you seem 
All you create [fades] 


Kite


Something is about to give 
I can feel it coming 
I think I know what it means 
I'm not afraid to die 
I'm not afraid to live 
And when I'm flat on my back 
I hope to feel like I did 
And hardness - it sets in 
You need some protection 
The thinner the skin 

I want you to know 
That you don't need me anymore 
I want you to know 
You don't need anyone or anything at all 

Who's to say where the wind will take you 
Who's to say what it is will break you 
I don't know which way the wind will blow 
Who's to know when the time has come around 
Don't want to see you cry 
I know that this is not goodbye 

In summer I can taste the salty sea 
There's a kite blowing out of control on a breeze 
I wonder what's gonna happen to you 
You wonder what has happened to me 

I'm a man - I'm not a child 
A man who sees the shadow behind your eyes 

Who's to say where the wind will take you 
Who's to say what it is will break you 
I don't know where the wind will blow 
Who's to know when the time has come around 
I don't want to see you cry 
I know that this is not goodbye 

Did I waste it? 
Not so much I couldn't taste it 
Life should be fragrant 
Rooftop to the basement 
The last of the rock stars 
When hip-hop drove the big cars 
In the time when new media 
Was the big idea 
That was the big idea 


In A Little While


In a little while - surely you'll be mine 
In a little while I'll be there 
In a little while this hurt will hurt no more 
I'll be home, love 
When the night takes a deep breath 
And the daylight has no air 
If I crawl - if I come crawling home 
Will you be there? 

In a little while - I won't be blown by every breeze 
Friday night running to Sunday on my knees 
That girl, that girl - she's mine 
And I've know her since 
Since she was a little girl with Spanish eyes 
When I saw her in a pram they pushed her by 
My, how you've grown 
Well it's been - it's been a little while 

Slow down, my beating heart 
A man dreams one day to fly 
A man takes a rocket ship into the skies 
He lives on a star that's dying in the night 
And follows in the trail the scatter of light 
Turn it on - turn it on 
You turn me on 

Slow down, my beating heart 
Slowly, slowly love -- 


Wild Honey


In the days when we were swinging from the trees 
I was a monkey stealing honey from a swarm of bees 
I could taste - I could taste you even then 
And I would chase you down the wind 
You can go there if you please - wild honey 
And if you go there, go with me- wild honey 

Did I know you - did I know you even then? 
Before the clocks kept time 
Before the world was made 
From the cruel sun you were shelter 
You were my shelter and my shade 

If you go there, go with me - wild honey 
You can do just what you please - wild honey 
Yeah, just blowing in the breeze - wild honey 
Wild, wild, wild 

I'm still standing - I'm still standing where you left me 
Are you still growing wild? 
With everything tame around you 

I send you flowers - cut flowers for your hall 
I know your garden is full 
But is there sweetness at all? 

Oooh, soul 
Love me - give me soul 

If you go, then go with me - wild honey 
Won't you take me, take me please - wild honey 
Yeah, swinging through the trees - wild honey 
Wild, wild, wild 


Peace On Earth


Heaven on Earth - we need it now 
I'm sick of all of this hanging around 
Sick of sorrow - sick of the pain 
I'm sick of hearing again and again 
That there's gonna be peace on Earth 
Where I grew up there weren't many trees 
Where there was we'd tear them down 
And use them on our enemies 
They say that what you mock 
Will surely overtake you 
And you become a monster 
So the monster will not break you 

And it's already gone too far 
Who said that if you go in hard 
You won't get hurt? 
Jesus can you take the time 
To throw a drowning man a line 
Peace on Earth 

Tell the ones who hear no sound 
Whose sons are living in the ground 
Peace on Earth 
No whos or whys 
No-one cries like a mother cries 
For peace on Earth 
She never got to say goodbye 
To see the colour in his eyes 
Now he's in the dirt 
Peace on Earth 

They're reading names out over the radio 
All the folks the rest of us won't get to know 
Sean and Julia - Gareth, Ann and Breda 
Their lives are bigger than any big idea 

Jesus can you take the time 
To throw a drowning man a line 
Peace on Earth 
To tell the ones who hear no sound 
Whose sons are living in the ground 
Peace on Earth 

Jesus in the song you wrote 
The words are sticking in my throat 
Peace on Earth 
Hear it every Christmas time 
But hope and history won't rhyme 
So what's it worth? 
This peace on Earth 
Peace on Earth -- 


When I Look At The World


When you look at the world 
What is it that you see? 
People find all kinds of things 
That bring them to their knees 
I see an expression 
So clear and so true 
That changes the atmosphere 
When you walk into the room 
So I try to be like you 
Try to feel it like you do 
But without you it's no use 
I can't see what you see 
When I look at the world 

When the night is someone else's 
And you're trying to get some sleep 
When your thoughts are too expensive 
To ever want to keep 
When there's all kinds of chaos 
And everyone is walking lame 
You don't even blink now, do you? 
Don't even look away 

So I try to be like you 
Try to feel it like you do 
But without you it's no use 
I can't see what you see 
When I look at the world 

I can't wait any longer 
I can't wait till I'm stronger 
Can't wait any longer 
To see what you see 
When I look at the world 

I'm in the waiting room 
I can't see for the smoke 
I think of you and your holy book 
When the rest of us choke 

Tell me, tell me - what do you see? 
Tell me, tell me - what's wrong with me? 


New York


In New York freedom looks like too many choices 
In New York I found a friend to drown out the other voices 
Voices on a cell phone - voices from home 
Voices of the hard sell - voices down a stairwell 
In New York - just got a place in New York 
In New York summers get hot - well into the hundreds 
You can't walk around the block without a change of clothing 
Hot as a hair dryer in your face 
Hot as handbag and a can of mace 
New York - I just got a place in New York 
New York - New York 

In New York you can forget - forget how to sit still 
Tell yourself you will stay in, but it's down to Alphaville 
New York - New York -- 

The Irish been coming here for years 
Feel like they own the place 
They got the airport, city hall 
Dance hall, dance floor - they even got the police 
Irish, Italians, Jews and Hispanics 
Religious nuts, political fanatics in the stew 
Happily not like me and you 
That's where I lost you 
New York - New York -- 

In New York I lost it all to you and your vices 
Still I'm staying on to figure out my mid-life crisis 
I hit an iceberg in my life 
You know I'm still afloat 
You lose your balance - lose your wife 
In the queue for the lifeboat 
You better put the women and children first 
But you've got an unquenchable thirst 
For New York 
New York - New York -- 

In the stillness of the evening 
When the sun has had its day 
I heard your voice whispering 
Come away now 
New York - New York -- 


Grace


Grace - she takes the blame 
She covers the shame 
Removes the stain 
It could be her name 
Grace - it's a name for a girl 
It's also a thought that changed the world 
And when she walks on the street 
You can hear the strings 
Grace finds goodness in everything 

Grace - she's got the walk 
Not on a ramp or on chalk 
She's got the time to talk 
She travels outside of karma, karma 
She travels outside of karma 
When she goes to work you can hear the strings 
Grace finds beauty in everything 

Grace - she carries a world on her hips 
No champagne flute for her lips 
No twirls or skips between her fingertips 
She carries a pearl in perfect condition 
What once was hurt - what once was friction 
What left a mark no longer stains 
Because Grace makes beauty out of ugly things 
Grace finds beauty in everything 
Grace finds goodness in everything

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