16 Lovers Lane

LOVE GOES ON


There's a cat in the alleyway
Dreaming of birds that are blue
Sometimes girl when I'm lonely
This is how I think about you
There are times that I want you
I want you so much I could bust
I know a thing aboat lovers
Lovers lie down in trust

Love goes on anyway!
Love goes on anyway!

The people next door got their problems
They got things they can't name
I know a thing about lovers
Lovers don't feel any shame
Late at night with the lights down low
The candle burns to the end
I know a thing about darkness
Darkness ain't my friend

Love goes on anyway!
Love goes on anyway!

I'm gonna make you happy
I'm gonna spin you round
I'm gonna cut your strings

I put my foot flat down on the floor
I took it as far as I could
I took it down there to Sheridan Street
by the dark wood
Late at might when I want you
I lock you in my room
I know a thing about darkness
I know a thing about lovers
I know a thing about lovers
Lovers want the moon

Love goes on anyway!
Love goes on anyway!


QUIET HEART


The heater's on
The windows are thin
I'm trying hard
To keep this warmth in
I turn to her
She's sound asleep

Someplace I don't know
Doesn't matter how far you come
You've always got further to go

Chorus
I tried to tell you
I can only say it when were apart
About this storm inside of me
And how I miss your quiet, quiet heart.

Two hours on
My eyes are open
There's bad blood between us
What did I say
That made you cry?
Our dream won't die
Doesn't matter how far you come
You've always got further to go.


Chorus

What is that light?
that small red light ...
Scorpio rising
Doesn't matter how far you come
You've always got further to go

Chorus


LOVE IS A SIGN


I'm ten feet under water
Standing in a sunken canoe
Looking up at the waterlillies
They're green and violet blue
Still the sun it finds
A place to light me
Still the sun it finds
That it's warm beside me.

Green and violet blue
No matter what you say no matter what
you do
I want to be the one and
Love is a Sign.

The letters that were writing
Baby they just break our hearts
And when we get back together again
There's just no time to start.
No time to restore
It's all on the ground
What you've been doing
Against what I've found.
And this is what I find
No matter what you say no matter what
you do
I want to be the one and
Love is a Sign.

I'm not a playboy or a poet
There's no cool water from the well
I wish you had a big house
And that your work would start to sell.
Wave after wave
Our tension and our tenderness.
Wave after wave
Our tension and our tenderness.
Green and violet blue
No matter what you say no matter what
you do
I want to be the one and
Love is a Sign.

I know I'll see you again
The world is too big or too small.
I won't be the madman then
It will be me that's come to call.
Me in freezing weather
Snow cuffs on my wrist.
You down by the river
London no longer exists.
This is what I find
No matter what you say no matter what
you do
I want to be the one and
Love is a Sign.


YOU CAN'T SAY NO FOREVER


You can have hearing loss when you're
boyfriend says he's boss you're scared of
a new endeavour. What can be tempting
you? Who can be tempting you, you
look like a winter.
You can't say no forever You can't say
no forever. I've tried.

Run! if you have to run up to the mountain
air a writer's retreat maybe. Sheltered
and lonely there a fireplace and a rocking
chair you understand me.
You can't say no forever You can't say
no forever. I've tried.

You can't say no in December as the trees
lined the drive. I'm sure your family
remembers me by your side.

Night! as your clothes discard he asks
Was your day hard you can barely answer
"Yes my world's
Tumbling down
Stone by stone
To the ground"
Please take out the garbage.

You can't say no in December a piano
played by a child's hand drifts over the
verandah and I'm your man.

You can't say no forever. You can't say
no forever. You can't say no forever.
You can't say no forever.
I've tried and I know why.


THE DEVIL'S EYE


I don't wanna let you out of my sight
don't wanna let you onto your flight.
The fortune teller might have been right
The bad old world can turn your hair white.

And sometimes we don't come through
Sometimes we just get by
but I know with you
I've never seen the devil's eye.

I don't wanna have to say a goodbye
don't wanna wipe the tear from your eye
I took this chance to write a message
It's just to say that I'll miss you.

And sometimes we don't come through
Sometimes we just get by
but I know with you
I've never seen the devil's eye.


STREETS OF YOUR TOWN


Chorus
Round and round, up and down
Everyday I make my way
Through the streets of your town

Don't the sun look good today?
But the rain is on its way
Watch the butcher shine his knives
And this town is full of battered wives.

Chorus

I ride your river under the bridge
I take your boat out to the reach
Cos I love that engine roar
but I still don't hnow what I'm here for.

Chorus

they shut it down
they closed it down
they shut it down
they pulled it down.

Chorus


CLOUDS


The clouds are here
They aren't up in the sky.
I cupped them with my hands
and reached up high.

I said to these clouds,
"no more am I blind.
I have to see straight
and that will make me unkind."

Visions of blue,
I'm angry, I'm wise.
And you, you're under cloudy skies.

Blue air I crave, blue air I breathe
They once chopped my heart the way you chop a tree.
Told to equate achievement with pain
I took their top prize and paid them back with rain.

Visions of blue
I'm angry I'm wise and you.
You're under cloudy skies.

Blue air I crave blue air I breathe
they once chopped my heart the way you chop a tree.
Told to equate Achievement with Pain
I stole their top prize and paid them back with rain.

Visions of blue I'm angry I'm wise and you.
You're under cloudy skies. Visions of blue
Preverse and strong and you.
You're under cloudy skies.
What I did once I now do everyday.


WAS THERE ANYTHING I COULD DO?


She comes home and she's happy
She comes home and shes blue
She comes home and she tells him
Listen baby were through
I don't know what happened next
All I know is she moved
Packed up her bags and her curtains
Left him in his room
Was there anything I could do?

She went out with her paint box
Paints the chapel blue
She went out with her matchsticks
Torched a carwash too
I don't know where she's living
All I've got is a card
A picture of her at the pyramids
A knife held to her heart
Was there anything I could do?

She came down from the mountains
Said goodbye to her guru
She went back to her room
Lost herself in voodoo
I don't say that I blame her
People don't know what they want
If you spend your life looking behind you
You don't see what's up front
Was there anything I could do?

Putting out her fire
Putting out her fire


I'M ALLRIGHT


She knows that I'm not ready
When my nerves are steady
When my eyes are free of tears
Someday
She doesn't want to hurt me
It's OK
I'm Allright.

Splashing and dashing myself
A sad man
Trying to lift a hundred weight
If I can
When I say I'm available
She smiles
She doesn't want to hurt me
It's OK
I'm Allright.

I'm allright, I know
I'm allright, I know
can it be can it be will it be will it be
Allright.

She can see that I'm still angry
It's no good
I can see her during the day
That's good
I have to earn the night
At night
She doesn't want to see me
It's OK
I'm Allright.
I'm Allright, I am Allright, I'm Allright.

I'm allright, I know
I'm allright, I know
can it be can it be will it be will it be
Allright.


DIVE FOR YOUR MEMORY


If the cliffs were any closer,
If the water wasn't so bad.
I'd dive for your memory
on the rocks and the sand.

I'd dive for you
Like a bird I'd descend
Deep down I'm lonely
And I miss my friend.

So when I hear you saying,
That we stood no chance,
I'll dive for your memory
We stood that chance.

We stood side by side,
Strong and true.
just wish you'd remember,
Bad times don't get you through.

So when I hear you saying,
That we stood no chance,
I'll dive for your memory
We stood that chance.

Now, I dive black waters
The waters of her dream.
Are black and forgetful
I'd like to make them clean.

So when I hear you saying,
That we stood no chance,
I'll dive for your memory
We stood that chance.

So when I hear you saying,
That we stood no chance,
I'll dive for your memory
We stood that chance.