How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
Vertigo
Uno, dos, tres, catorce
Turn it up loud, captain
Lights go down
It's dark, the jungle is
Your head can't rule your heart
I'm feeling so much stronger
Than I thought
Your eyes are wide
And though your soul
It can't be bought
Your mind can wander
Hello, hello
Hola
I'm at a place called Vertigo
Dond' esta
It's everything I wish I didn't know
Except you give me something
I can feel
Feel
The night is full of holes
These bullets rip the sky
Of ink with gold
They twinkle
As the boys play rock and roll
They know that they can't dance
At least they know
I can sell the beats
I'm asking for the check
Girl with crimson nails
Has Jesus 'round the neck
Swinging to the music
Swinging to the music
Hello, hello
Hola
I'm at a place called Vertigo
Dond' esta
It's everything I wish I didn't know
But you give me something
I can feel
Feel
Shot dead
Shots fall
Show me, yeah
All of this, all of this can be yours
All of this, all of this can be yours
All of this, all of this can be yours
Just give me what I want
And no one gets hurt
Hello, hello
Hola
Weīre at a place called Vertigo
Dond' esta
Lights go down and all I know
Is that you give me something
I can feel your love teaching me how
Your love is teaching me how
How to kneel
Kneel
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Miracle Drug
I want to trip inside your head
Spend the day there...
To hear the things you havenīt said
And see what you might see
I want to hear you when you call
Do you feel anything at all?
I want to see your thoughts take shape
And walk right out
Freedom has a scent
Like the top of a new born babyīs head
The songs are in your eyes
I see them when you smile
Iīve had enough Iīm not giving up
On a miracle drug
Of science and the human heart
There is no limit
There is no failure here sweetheart
Just when you quit...
I am you and you are mine
Love makes nonsense of space
And time... will disappear
Love and logic keep us clear
Reason is on our side, love...
The songs are in your eyes
I see them when you smile
Iīve had enough of romantic love
Iīd give it up, yeah, Iīd give it up
For a miracle, a miracle drug, a miracle drug
God I need your help tonight
Beneath the noise
Below the din
I hear a voice
Itīs whispering
In science and in medicine
"I was a stranger
You took me in"
The songs are in your eyes
I see them when you smile
Iīve had enough of romantic love
Iīd give it up, yeah, Iīd give it up
For a miracle, miracle drug
Miracle, miracle drug
Sometimes You Canīt Make It On Your Own
Tough, you think youīve got the stuff
Youīre telling me and anyone
Youīre hard enough
You donīt have to put up a fight
You donīt have to always be right
Let me take some of the punches
For you tonight
Listen to me now
I need to let you know
You donīt have to go it alone
And itīs you when I look in the mirror
And itīs you when I donīt pick up the phone
Sometimes you canīt make it on your own
We fight all the time
You and I... thatīs alright
Weīre the same soul
I donīt need... I donīt need to hear you say
That if we werenīt so alike
Youīd like me a whole lot more
Listen to me now
I need to let you know
You donīt have to go it alone
And itīs you when I look in the mirror
And itīs you when I donīt pick up the phone
Sometimes you canīt make it on your own
I know that we donīt talk
Iīm sick of it all
Can - you - hear - me - when - I -
Sing, youīre the reason I sing
Youīre the reason why the opera is in me...
Where are we now?
Iīve got to let you know
A house still doesnīt make a home
Donīt leave me here alone...
And itīs you when I look in the mirror
And itīs you that makes it hard to let go
Sometimes you canīt make it on your own
Sometimes you canīt make it
The best you can do is to fake it
Sometimes you canīt make it on your own
Love And Peace
Lay down
Lay down
Lay your sweet lovely on the ground
Lay your love on the track
Weīre gonna break the monsterīs back
Yes we are...
Lay down your treasure
Lay it down now brother
You donīt have time
For a jealous lover
As you enter this life
I pray you depart
With a wrinkled face
And a brand new heart
I donīt know if I can take it
Iīm not easy on my knees
Hereīs my heart you can break it
I need some release, release, release
We need
Love and peace
Love and peace
Lay down
Lay down your guns
All your daughters of Zion
All your Abraham sons
I donīt know if I can make it
Iīm not easy on my knees
Hereīs my heart and you can break it
I need some release, release, release
We need
Love and peace
Love and peace
Baby donīt fight
We can talk this thing through
Itīs not a big problem
Itīs just me and you
You can call or Iīll phone
The TV is still on
But the sound is turned down
And the troops on the ground
Are about to dig in
And I wonder where is the love?
Where is the love?
Where is the love?
Where is the love?
Love and peace
City Of Blinding Lights
The more you see the less you know
The less you find out as you go
I knew much more then than I do now
Neon heart dayglo eyes
A city lit by fireflies
Theyīre advertising in the skies
For people like us
And I miss you when youīre not around
Iīm getting ready to leave the ground....
Ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh
Oh you look so beautiful tonight
In the city of blinding lights
Donīt look before you laugh
Look ugly in a photograph
Flash bulbs purple irises
The camera canīt see
Iīve seen you walk unafraid
Iīve seen you in the clothes you made
Can you see the beauty inside of me?
What happened to the beauty I had inside of me?
And I miss you when youīre not around
Iīm getting ready to leave the ground
Ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh
Oh you look so beautiful tonight
In the city of blinding lights
Time... time
Wonīt leave me as I am
But time wonīt take the boy out of this man
Oh you look so beautiful tonight
Oh you look so beautiful tonight
Oh you look so beautiful tonight
In the city of blinding lights
The more you know the less you feel
Some pray for others steal
Blessings are not just for the ones who kneel... luckily
All Because Of You
I was born a child of grace
Nothing else about the place
Everything was ugly but your beautiful face
And it left me no illusion
I saw you in the curve of the moon
In the shadow cast across my room
You heard me in my tune
When I just heard confusion
All because of you
All because of you
All because of you
I am... I am
I like the sound of my own voice
I didnīt give anyone else a choice
An intellectual tortoise
Racing with your bullet train
Some people get squashed crossing the tracks
Some people got high rises on their backs
Iīm not broke but you can see the cracks
You can make me perfect again
All because of you
All because of you
All because of you
I am... I am
Iīm alive
Iīm being born
I just arrived, Iīm at the door
Of the place I started out from
And I want back inside
All because of you
All because of you
All because of you
I am
A Man And A Woman
Little sister donīt you worry about a thing today
Take the heat from the sun
Little sister
I know that everything is not ok
But youīre like honey on my tongue
True love never can be rent
But only true love can keep beauty innocent
I could never take a chance
Of losing love to find romance
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman
No I could never take a chance
`Cos I could never understand
The mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman
You can run from love
And if itīs really love it will find you
Catch you by the heel
But you canīt be numb for love
The only pain is to feel nothing at all
How can I hurt when Iīm holding you?
I could never take a chance
Of losing love to find romance
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman
And youīre the one, thereīs no-one else
You make me want to lose myself
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman
Brown eyed girl across the street
On rue Saint Divine
I thought this is the one for me
But she was already mine
You were already mine...
Little sister
Iīve been sleeping in the street again
Like a stray dog
Little sister
Iīve been trying to feel complete again
But youīre gone and so is God
The soul needs beauty for a soul mate
When the soul wants... the soul waits ...
No I could never take a chance
Of losing love to find romance
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman
For love and sex and faith and fear
And all the things that keep us here
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman
How can I hurt when Iīm holding you?
Crumbs From Your Table
From the brightest star
Comes the blackest hole
You had so much to offer
Why did you offer your soul?
I was there for you baby
When you needed my help
Would you deny for others
What you demand for yourself?
Cool down mama, cool off
Cool down mama, cool off
You speak of signs and wonders
I need something other
I would believe if I was able
But Iīm waiting on the crumbs from your table
You were pretty as a picture
It was all there to see
Then your face caught up with your psychology
With a mouth full of teeth
You ate all your friends
And you broke every heart thinking every heart mends
You speak of signs and wonders
But I need something other
I would believe if I was able
But Iīm waiting on the crumbs from your table
Where you live should not decide
Whether you live or whether you die
Three to a bed
Sister Ann, she said
Dignity passes by
And you speak of signs and wonders
But I need something other
I would believe if I was able
Iīm waiting on the crumbs from your table
One Step Closer
Iīm `round the corner from anything thatīs real
Iīm across the road from hope
Iīm under a bridge in a rip tide
Thatīs taken everything I call my own
One step closer to knowing
One step closer to knowing
Iīm on an island at a busy intersection
I canīt go forward, I canīt turn back
Canīt see the future
Itīs getting away from me
I just watch the tail lights glowing
One step closer to knowing
One step closer to knowing
One step closer to knowing
Knowing, knowing
Iīm hanging out to dry
With my old clothes
Finger still red with the prick of an old rose
Well the heart that hurts
Is a heart that beats
Can you hear the drummer slowing?
One step closer to knowing
One step closer to knowing
One step closer to knowing
To knowing, to knowing, to knowing
Original Of The Species
Baby slow down
The end is not as fun as the start
Please stay a child somewhere in your heart
Iīll give you everything you want
Except the thing that you want
You are the first one of your kind
And you feel like no-one before
You steal right under my door
And I kneel `cos I want you some more
I want the lot of what you got
And I want nothing that youīre not
Everywhere you go you shout it
You donīt have to be shy about it
Some things you shouldnīt get too good at
Like smiling, crying and celebrity
Some people got way too much confidence baby
Iīll give you everything you want
Except the thing that you want
You are the first one of your kind
And you feel like no-one before
You steal right under my door
I kneel `cos I want you some more
I want the lot of what you got
And I want nothing that youīre not
Everywhere you go you shout it
You donīt have to be shy about it, no
And youīll never be alone
Come on now show your soul
Youīve been keeping your love under control
Everywhere you go you shout it
You donīt have to be shy about it
Everywhere you go you shout it
Oh my my
And you feel like no-one before
You steal right under my door
I kneel `cos I want you some more
I want you some more, I want you some more...
Yahweh
Take these shoes
Click clacking down some dead end street
Take these shoes
And make them fit
Take this shirt
Polyester white trash made in nowhere
Take this shirt
And make it clean, clean
Take this soul
Stranded in some skin and bones
Take this soul
And make it sing
Yahweh, Yahweh
Always pain before a child is born
Yahweh, Yahweh
Still Iīm waiting for the dawn
Take these hands
Teach them what to carry
Take these hands
Donīt make a fist
Take this mouth
So quick to criticise
Take this mouth
Give it a kiss
Yahweh, Yahweh
Always pain before a child is born
Yahweh, Yahweh
Still Iīm waiting for the dawn
Still waiting for the dawn, the sun is coming up
The sun is coming up on the ocean
This love is like a drop in the ocean
This love is like a drop in the ocean
Yahweh, Yahweh
Always pain before a child is born
Yahweh, tell me now
Why the dark before the dawn?
Take this city
A city should be shining on a hill
Take this city
If it be your will
What no man can own, no man can take
Take this heart
Take this heart
Take this heart
And make it break