No Line On The Horizon

I know a girl who’s like the sea
I watch her changing every day for me, oh yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh

One day she’s still, the next she swells
You can hear the universe in her sea shells, oh yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh

No, no line on the horizon… No, no line
No, no line on the horizon… No, no line

I know a girl, hole in her heart
She said infinity is a great place to start
Oh, oh, oh, oh

Time is irrelevant, it’s not linear
Then she put her tongue in my ear
Oh, oh, oh, oh

No, no line on the horizon… No, no line
No, no line on the horizon… No, no line

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
The stones in your head are now on my mind
You put me on pause, I’m trying to recall, reload and replay

Every night, I have the same dream
I’m hatching some plot
Scheming some scheme, oh yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh

I’m a traffic cop, Rue du Marais
The sirens ‘re wailing, but it’s me that wants to get away
Oh, oh, oh, oh

No, no line on the horizon… No, no line
No, no line on the horizon… No, no line

Magnificent

Magnificent…
Oh, oh, Magnificent…

I was born
I was born to be with you
In this space and time
After that and ever after I haven’t had a clue
Only to break rhyme
This foolishness can leave a heart black and blue

Only love, only love can leave such a mark
But only love, only love can heal such a scar

I was born
I was born to sing for you
I didn’t have a choice but to lift you up
And sing whatever song you wanted me to
I give you back my voice
From the womb my first cry, it was a joyful noise…

Oh, oh…
Only love, only love can leave such a mark
But only love, only love can heal such a scar

Justified till we die, you and I will magnify
Oh, oh, Magnificent…
Magnificent

Only love, only love can leave such a mark
But only love, only love unites our hearts

Justified till we die, you and I will magnify
Oh, oh, Magnificent…
Magnificent
Magnificent

Moment Of Surrender

I tied myself with wire
To let the horses run free
Playing with the fire until the fire played with me
The stone was semi-precious
We were barely conscious
Two souls too smart to be in the realm of certainty
Even on our wedding day

We set ourselves on fire
Oh God, do not deny her
It’s not if I believe in love
But if love believes in me
Oh, believe in me

At the moment of surrender
I flooded to my knees
I did not notice the passers-by
And they did not notice me

I’ve been in every black hole
At the altar of the dark star
My body’s now a begging bowl
That’s begging to get back, begging to get back
To my heart
To the rhythm of my soul
To the rhythm of my unconsciousness
To the rhythm that yearns
To be released form control

I was punching in the numbers
At the ATM machine
I could see in the reflection
A face staring back at me

At the moment of surrender
Of vision over visibility
I did not notice the passers-by
And they did not notice me

I was speeding on the subway
Through the stations of the Cross
Every eye looking every other way
Counting down ‘til the pain would stop

At the moment of surrender
Of vision over visibility
I did not notice the passers-by
And they did not notice me

Unknown Caller

Sunshine, sunshine
Sunshine, sunshine

Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh

I was lost between the midnight and the dawning
In a place of no consequence or company
3:33 when the numbers fell off the clock face
Speed dialing with no signal at all

Go, shout it out, rise up
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Escape yourself, and gravity
Hear me, cease to speak that I may speak
Shush now
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Force quit and move to trash

I was right there at the top of the bottom
On the edge of the known universe where I wanted to be
I had driven to the scene of the accident
And I sat there waiting for me

Restart and re-boot yourself
You’re free to go
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Shout for joy if you get the chance
Password, you enter here, right now

Oh, oh, oh, oh
You know your name so punch it in
Hear me, cease to speak that I may speak
Shush now
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Don’t move or say a thing

I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight

She’s a rainbow and she loves the peaceful life
Knows I’ll go crazy if I don’t go crazy tonight
There’s a part of me in the chaos that’s quiet
And there’s a part of you that wants me to riot

Everybody needs to cry or needs to spit
Every sweet tooth needs just a little hit
Every beauty needs to go out with an idiot
How can you stand next to the truth and not see it?
A change of heart comes slow

It’s not a hill, it’s a mountain
As you start out the climb
Do you believe me, or are you doubting
We’re gonna make it all the way to the light
But I know I’ll go crazy if I don’t go crazy tonight

Every generation gets a chance to change the world
Pity the nation that won’t listen to your boys and girls
‘Cos the sweetest melody is the one we haven’t heard
Is it true that perfect love drives out all fear?
The right to appear ridiculous is something I hold dear
Oh, but a change of heart comes slow

It’s not a hill, it’s a mountain
As you start out the climb
Listen for me, I’ll be shouting
We’re gonna make it all the way to the light
But I know I’ll go crazy if I don’t go crazy tonight

Baby, baby, baby, I know I’m not alone
Baby, baby, baby, I know I’m not alone

It’s not a hill, it’s a mountain
As we start out the climb
Listen for me, I’ll be shouting
Shouting to the darkness, squeeze out sparks of light

You know we’ll go crazy
You know we’ll go crazy
You know we’ll go crazy if we don’t go crazy tonight

Oh, oh
Slowly now
Oh, oh
Oh, be slowly

Get On Your Boots

The future needs a big kiss
Winds blows with a twist
Never seen a moon like this
Can you see it too?

Night is falling everywhere
Rockets at the fun fair
Satan loves a bomb scare
But he won’t scare you

Hey, sexy boots
Get on your boots, yeah

You free me from the dark dream
Candy floss ice cream
All our kids are screaming
But the ghosts aren’t real

Here’s where we gotta be
Love and community
Laughter is eternity
If joy is real

You don’t know how beautiful
You don’t know how beautiful you are
You don’t know, and you don’t get it, do you?
(You don’t know how beautiful you are)
You don’t know how beautiful you are

That’s someone’s stuff they’re blowing up
We’re into growing up
Women of the future
Hold the big revelations

I got a submarine
You got gasoline
I don’t want to talk about wars between nations
Not right now

Sexy boots…
Get on your boots, yeah
Not right now
Bossy boots

You don’t know how beautiful
You don’t know how beautiful you are
You don’t know, and you don’t get it, do you?
(You don’t know how beautiful you are)
You don’t know how beautiful you are

Hey, sexy boots
I don’t want to talk about the wars between the nations
Sexy boots, yeah

Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound, sound
Let me in the sound, sound
Meet me in the sound

Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound, now
God, I’m going down
I don’t wanna drown now
Meet me in the sound

Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound, sound
Let me in the sound, sound
Meet me in the sound

Get on your boots
Get on your boots

Get on your boots… Yeah hey, hey (4x)

Stand Up Comedy

Love, love, love, love, love…
Love, love, love, love, love…

I got to stand up and take a step
You and I have been asleep for hours
I got to stand up
The wire is stretched in between our two towers
Stand up in this dizzy world
Where a lovesick eye can steal the view
I’m gonna fall down if I can’t stand up
For your love

Love, love, love, love, love…

Stand up, this is comedy
The DNA lottery may have left you smart
But can you stand up to beauty, dictator of the heart
I can stand up for hope, faith, love
But while I’m getting over certainty
Stop helping God across the road like a little old lady

Uh, uh, uh, uh
Uh, uh, uh, uh
Out from under your beds
C’mon ye people
Stand up for your love

Love, love, love, love, love…

I gotta stand up to ego but my ego’s not really the enemy
It’s like a small child crossing an eight lane highway
On a voyage of discovery

Stand up to rock stars, Napoleon is in high heels
Josephine, be careful of small men with big ideas

Uh, uh, uh, uh
Uh, uh, uh, uh
Out from under your beds
C’mon ye people
Stand up for your love

Love, love, love, love, love…

God is love
And love is evolution’s very best day

Soul rockin’ people moving on
Soul rockin’ people on and on
C’mon ye people
We’re made of stars
C’mon ye people
Stand up, then sit down for your love

Love, love, love, love, love… (4x)

FEZ - Being Born

Oh, oh, oh, oh (4x)

Six o’clock
On the auto route
Burning rubber, burning chrome
Bay of Cadiz and ferry home
Atlantic sea cut glass
African sun at last

Lights… flash past…
Like memories
A speeding head, a speeding heart
I’m being born, a bleeding start
The engines roar, blood curdling wail
Head first, then foot
Then heart sets sail

White As Snow

Where I came from there were no hills at all
The land was flat, the highway straight and wide
My brother and I, we’d drive for hours, like we’d years instead of days
Our faces as pale as the dirty snow

Once I knew there was a love divine
Then came a time I thought it knew me not
Who can forgive forgiveness when forgiveness is not?
Only the land as white as snow

And the water it was icy
As it washed over me
And the moon shined above me

Now this dry ground it bears no fruit at all
Only poppies laugh under a crescent moon

The road refuses strangers
The land, the seeds we sow
Where might we find a land as white as snow?

As boys we would go hunting in the wood
To sleep, the night shutting out the stars
Now the wolves are every passing stranger
Every face we cannot know
For only a heart could be as white as snow
For only a heart could be as white as snow

Breathe

16th of June, 9:05, door bell rings
Man at the door says if I want to stay alive a bit longer
There’s three things I need you to know
Three…

Coming from a long line of travelling sales people on my mother’s side
I wasn’t gonna buy just anyone’s cockatoo
So why would I invite a complete stranger into my home?
Would you?

These days are better than that
These days are better than that

Every day I die again, and again I’m reborn
Every day I have to find the courage
To walk out into the street
With arms out
Got a love you can’t defeat
Neither down or out
There’s nothing you have that I need
I can breathe
Breathe now

16th of June, Chinese stocks are going up
And I’m coming down with some new Asian virus
Juju man, Juju man
Doc says you’re fine, or dying
Please
9:09, St. John Divine, on the line, my pulse is fine
But I’m running down the road like loose electricity
While the band in my head plays a striptease

The roar that lies on the other side of silence
The forest fire that is fear so deny it

Walk out into the street
Sing your heart out
The people we meet
Will not be drowned out
There’s nothing you have that I need
I can breathe
Breathe now

We are people borne of sound
The songs are in our eyes
Gonna wear them like a crown
Oh, oh

Walk out, into the sunburst street
Sing your heart out, sing my heart out
I’ve found grace inside a sound
I found grace, it’s all that I found
And I can breathe
Breathe now

Cedars Of Lebanon

Yesterday I spent asleep
Woke up in my clothes in a dirty heap
Spent the night trying to make a deadline
Squeezing complicated lives into a simple headline
I have your face in an old Polaroid
Tidyin’ the children’s clothes and toys
You smilin’ back at me I took the photo from the fridge
Can’t remember what Emily did
Haven’t been with a woman, it feels like, for years
Thought of you the whole time, your salty tears
This shitty world sometimes produces a rose
The scent of it lingers but then it just goes

Return the call to home

The worst of us are a long drawn-out confession
The best of us are geniuses of compression
You say you’re not gonna leave the truth alone
I’m here ’cause I don’t wanna go home

Child drinkin’ dirty water from a riverbank
Soldier brings oranges he got out from a tank
Waitin’ on the waiter, he’s takin’ a while to come
Watchin’ the sun go down on Lebanon

Return the call to home

Now, I got a head like a lit cigarette
Unholy clouds reflect in a minaret
You’re so high above me, higher than everyone
Where are you in the cedars of Lebanon?

Choose your enemies carefully, ’cause they will define you
Make them interesting ’cause in some ways they will mind you
They’re not there in the beginning but when your story ends
Gonna last with you longer than your friends