August 1914, Grieson's hauled down the souls of 50,000 while the rivers rush 'round up through the Clyde, the miller, and the church the keeper lays down a body in the misty night me, I'm steppin' in the cold muddy ground on an old tombstone covered in moss I stood up and walked over my ancestors' graves now their spirits are bound to take me home chorus: They say there's a world no one will ever know they say there's something out there bigger that the fields we run I don't know if I've been touched by an angel or a ghost but there's got to be a bridge to the keeping the soldiers hold their guns in the battlefield four years of torture and pain the digger carries the sack all down the stony hill but no one will know their names gravedigger, gravedigger, hold your shovel high the moon ain't smilin' anymore they died with blood and gunpowder, unnamed, they lay in trenches deep chorus me, I lay in bed with the wind howin' through town an hour past midnight in a Glasgow hotel the deep sleep came and washed me away as I fell past the ocean and deep into the sea I jump to a start and felt a beating in my heart I wrestle with the shadows and rush across the room in the darkness I thought I saw a shape of an arm but he sailed off to the Fortunate Isles chorus the spirits all lie on the cliffs of the Hebrides where the green mountains meet the sea maybe Cúchulainn is watching over us fighting the demons and ghouls that wreck our dreams way up in Skye there is a story of the ones who never leave where the fishermen lead them to their majestic crystal ships the world around us remains a mystery but our spirits are looking for a home

Verse 1: I think I saw a ghost today sitting next to me on a cold London ride violet splinters disrupted the symphony while sunlight was shining in his eyes the frames 'round his glasses were so torn they collided just like the bullets from the day that he died Chorus: so come shine a little light on the avenue, I'm closer than a hero to the memory of you the world is getting bigger but our voices are the end of these crazy times and spirits never cease Verse 2: I wore a green jacket in honor of Che Guevara and all the ones who never made the grade today he told me he's been writing a play about Elvis Presley I said that's cool just as long as it's free and easy we casts aside those who don't preach or entertain us but then we complain when she's bigger than Jesus Verse 3: as I told him my goodbyes he said see you later just keep your fists in the air and your rebel soul rocking everybody's walking with their hands in their pockets they think that life's just a game but they're aren't living I think this place has become just a little to square for me so I'm gonna equalize my profits and go see Suzanne for a while

Verse 1: I want to see myself again, when I come back to you, my singing child wonder where the words will be when the dreams call, they call back to me the summer rain washes out all the leaves but the air is thick, like magnolia trees when all the world is caught up in fate, I will think of you, sweet Marianne Chorus: sunshine, jingle jangle, back and forth we go forwards, backwards, downwards, rolling through the tracks bring buckets of sympathy to pour down the drain all for sweet Marianne Verse 2: so I took a chance and went down to the sea to try and find her melody I wandered back across the fields till I came upon a burgundy I asked him "where's the music at?" so he pointed to me, said "come and see" there were dancing bears and calliopes and the tune that they played was sweet Marianne Verse 3: When the music is done and the strife is young only one thing is left undone take a ride down to the birth of the sun with the brothers in arms and the chosen ones sing out your tune one final time hear the skies harmonize with sonic delight if anyone asks you what's become of the song say "it's waiting to play for sweet Marianne!"

Verse 1: well, I've been down to the seven seas I've seen the temples and I've seen the floods I've wandered aimlessly down those dark crooked streets and I've rode the steam trains all down the silver state line I've seen people crying, I've seen children out of luck I've seen some people who just want to pick a fight one day soon everything is gonna change something tells me I'm gonna have a bright day Prechorus: you knock me out, you fill up my cup you take away my heartache and all of my blues you turn the sunlight into a melody when the tide rolls in you pull me ashore Chorus: well, I'm bound to you, I don't wanna run around no more yes I'm bound to you, and honey don't you ask me to move I've been bound, bound to you Verse 2: when the Folsom street rain pours our sorrow down the drain I'll regret all the times I said goodbye you made me your fool with 100 blue eyes but the years turn backwards all my time Athena Athena, god I love your smile but the wind is howling when you're gone the summer's almost here so lets go get some more regrets 'cause I've done some hard traveling

this city is paved with layers of gold the way's deserted but the lilies are in bloom the streets are crumbling but it's more than enough to keep me in the mother's embrace no beggars on the floor look that old just been a million times through heaven or maybe more but when the working man comes back with no salary you know the system's truly gone insane Lucie, it's all just a game in my head for martyrs and my only true lover Paris, I need to be in your arms feel your funny solutations and artistic collections where cigarretes lay in a pool of black water where footsteps will land and carry all the dead ashes I put it to rest as a little too theatrical and gave in to the smiles on their faces these people I know are the kindest I've met and they give you something in return but nobody said that it's all just a game in my head for martyrs and my only true lover well, here we go again it's just another rainy day and I'm stuck inside this cozy hotel give them pain, just give them a name but I can't be the only one left to blame from here to California's just another long haul I'm crossing that old silver state line if ever I return to these broken down shops I'll ride to the edge of your forgotten seas but somebody told me it's just another game in my head for martyrs and my only true lover

walking down by the seashore at noon whispers of wind, seashells will tell a mother, a baby, a mad Englishman the rumblings are endless when you're on the run the world is a cauldron and we are the meat but too many people are out in the street refrain: I light a candle, I light a soul I light a candle, warmth for the soul o humble savior, what's he done now set the poor free, threw them some pounds cast out the king, throw out the crown I wonder where the hero's wandered to now Yorkshire hiding, seashells seashells sunset is here but the fog's still come on windows streaked with lines that could buy us some time heroes don't worship to the peasants or meek every day's been less stressful since the circus left town and quicksilver roses was the song that she sang consciousness losing, concrete loose around weary is the order of the faith of contingent starlight down by the old fisherman's bench same as it was for 1,000 years or more the valley's calm shore, what's that 'round the edge, three golden galley's a-passin' me by run 'round the carousel, pull out some herbs the darkness has stretched past my fine lace enter "Scarborough Fair"

midnight rain's dripping on the lake I'm stuck between dead heat and the snow nobody's creeping, whole world is sleeping this mansion is alive with music and dictations christian words from an ebony dream another bell tolls for the winter solstice bridge: here comes my mountain monster, here comes the midnight panther time ticks away for a reluctant killer but I'm not going home chorus: living in a dreamstation, life is harder than pain living in a dreamstation, I'm in on the crime Mary Shelly dreamt of hell and new inventions and she wrote out fears deep down inside when I glance at the rain and glacial fields I see hallucinations from an older world but it's so warm inside these four station walls I could drown from dehydration

V1: eucalyptus, baby, leaves all crowned by these lonely nights watching rivers from your backyard, the backyard where we thought paradise was but that was just a thought, a thought I had when I was an old man V2: the lions, the lions drove teardrops from the song of the rain and St. Francis mixed the lights with poison and shattered fame like a shaded form of dignity, a desire no one wanted to tame Chorus: Into the woods, into a city where life is free I'm not gonna take it, gonna write a false letter in somebody's name I'm a-gonna paint it, paint it lord, when I make it back into the woods V3: cemetery, you know this cemetery is dead like shouts in the wind those trees are alive, they're telling the story of a past that I forgot when I was young, when I was young I heard them coming to strike you down V4: every day, every day they pump more fear in our heads and our fate gets stronger every time we stare into their screen but I'm gonna change, gonna take myself back to where it all began

Verse 1: no use in taking out a loan for the helpless and the weak for all the hunger in the world we still can’t get enough to eat it’s enough just to see and say all things are considered before the summer’s up you know it’s gonna roll some heads We went flying on the waves when the spirits hit us the sensation of congestion when I turned away you asked me if I wanted a piece of your false neglections it was cool like the spring trees and the silence of circus rides Verse 2: The sun’s been blazing on the road but the beast is still out if he doesn’t rob your wallet then he just might rob your soul never question your road on the path to desertion just carry your world on a string and you will get by sister Corrina she though you were an outlaw she didn’t know that our constitution wasn’t written for pride she got a glimpse of the red body of a dying whale now the wounds are gonna heal but she’ll never be the same Chorus: but all the things I said to you never turned the seasons around all the blossoms that once fell outside our door became all the roses of yesterday Verse 3: for so long I’ve been trying to make sense of the world but been there’s too much situation happening ‘round here now I’m standing on the road where my people were born lord my head is getting dizzy from that weight put diamonds on the hillside where the maidens lay but don’t go digging when the wolves are back in town you have eyes like a demon that could stop the next world war but the patriots would throw you under the bus Verse 4: sitting here we talk but no words cannot be found they just fall apart and melt into the air don’t weep for poor Ezekiel or his wagon full of desire it’s just a case of people wanting to be free I asked you when I met you if fate means more than redemption I thought you were laughing but your laughter turned into tears if a knowledge is a messenger I’d rather save my words ‘cause I’ve been worn down weary through the years

I met a man who tried to sell me his soul he said he was my brother from another homeland I told him man I'm sorry but it just ain't in my blood if you really are my brother why you asking me to pay 500 years of slavery ain't nothing gonna change one man's riches is another man's pain everywhere I turn I see people on the ground the government solution is to push them further down Chorus: From the gods with love, I hope you take a stand From the poor, the weak and weary to the highest of the high from the gods with love, I hope you heed the call the wounds of the earth must heal preacher man told me I was his long lost friend but I lost all my friends when I gave up all my wealth they said I was a refuge of the laws of modern man but I didn't want to sacrifice the newborn lamb I met Jesus in my sleep he gave me a blessing then he wept said love is just a conflict but the outcome isn't love ignorance will blind us when we perceive what's right and wrong even Aphrodite's charms never turned war into peace everybody tells me I'm exaggerating the point just take a look at the starving child and say that to her face you liar you say you will protect all of our lives but mr. president will you save us when the prophecies unfold acid rain is coming down and it's poison mixed with tears but politicians think they can sell us sex and rape the world you can call me a communist, you can strip me of my name but I still believe that all good deeds will outnumber the bad

and when I wake me from the dream I lost the fireside protection from your frosted eyes trees of yearning, gold and forgotten waiting for death to be released something died, when I gave birth to you something stirred, that pointed to the stars sunlight brighter than the temples of ruin reflecting back the last tears I cried so when you're seeking shelter in the harshness of winter and your life is flickering tonight look up above and find the presence of god in her land of the northern lights and while I hold onto old memories torn and shattered and the words I say may be falsely written see the shades of a past where the future haunts me and the ships sail deep into your ocean of rest something died, when I saw the bombers and the houses something stronger than the soul I have lost the doves fly over the wreckage we were caught in cold silence drifting over what remains so when you're falling towards the darkest hour of sorrow and your body is waiting to be freed I will await your call and we shall be with you forever in the land of the northern lights in the land of the northern lights