No Trains To Heaven Be Bop Deluxe

I'm building bridges On which no house may stand, I'm painting pictures On walls across the land Burn down the prisons In which your children grow, See no illusions, The truth behind the show See

Surreal Estate Be Bop Deluxe

Nelson I bought you surreal estate Hanging gardens for your gate You said that I could stay See you through to another day.

Third Floor Heaven Be Bop Deluxe

with the girls, Heard him swear once, at least I thought I heard him curse Someone had called him queer Yes, one of those my dear, They're all the same, one hand lovers But he's finally saved enough to

Maid In Heaven Be Bop Deluxe

She's a maid in heaven He's a knight on the tiles A bat out of hell, oh well! It's just a question of style...

Love Is Swift Arrows Be Bop Deluxe

Nelson Room in the east invested with meanings, Open to none but the strange and the wild Sunset encounters with destiny's chances, Envelopes marked for the personal life Night falling, hiding the poets

Twilight Capers Be Bop Deluxe

All the white horses ran bleeding to the end, Shot through the heart by dear devoted passion And the falling stars that never fall But send ambassadors to call, Still call the guilty to heaven All the

Axe Victim Be Bop Deluxe

You came to watch the band To see us play our parts We hoped you'd lend an ear You hope we dress like tarts But back stage we stand naked All the make-up cleaned away My poet sheds his pretty skin

Dangerous Stranger Be Bop Deluxe

He's the stranger with a danger if you ever get to play his game. I want to go for a ride To see what lies on the other side I want to go for a ride tonight, tonight.

Quest For The Harvest Of The Stars Be Bop Deluxe

Many years have passed me by, its true Many dreams have vanished from my view I've chased them all But there has been no answer Though I recall My innocence and laughter I'm feeling older now But what

Life In The Air-Age Be Bop Deluxe

They listen patiently to me, My story I unfold... I see their faces change, The lights grow dim I'm losing hold...

Life In The Air Age Be Bop Deluxe

They listen patiently to me, My story I unfold... I see their faces change, The lights grow dim I'm losing hold...

Down On Terminal Street Be Bop Deluxe

Nelson I took a walk down terminal street last night To see the ancient faces living there I saw the sunken eyes of agony And saw the desperate stations of despair The madman waiting for the spirit girls

Orphans Of Babylon Be Bop Deluxe

Nelson Ooh in babylon Your secret's on the run We're hiding from the sun, tonight My mind has been set free I dream of sorcery Bring all your sins to me, tonight The airships cross the sky in sight of

Music In Dreamland Be Bop Deluxe

Standing by the old car Sunset in your grey eyes Listening to the bluebirds Praying for a sunrise Maybe we'll make music in dreamland tonight Someone in the garden Walking through the moonlight Sailing

Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape Be Bop Deluxe

away Paintings and songs that I'd done in a day Going 'round in my head Fires on spires and chimneys of black Fields on horizons with pylons that crack With singing sad wires for council house mystics To

Forbidden Lovers Be Bop Deluxe

you be my secret lover?

Fair Exchange Be Bop Deluxe

Here we come in a cloud stars in our eyes Standing up proud it's the perfect disguise We've got so much to give, so much to gain Just give me your money, and I'll give you my pain It's a fair exchange

Ships In The Night Be Bop Deluxe

Like a sailor who sails no oceans . . . Like a bird that has no wings . . . Without love, I am a desert, Without love, My light is dim . . . Without love, I have no treasures . . .

The Gold At The End Of My Rainbow Be Bop Deluxe

The cup of sorrow overflows… Nothing shows, no nothing glows, But my soul is all at sea The night has had it’s way with me This game is growing rather grim And some of us must sink or swim But I’ll play

New Mysteries Be Bop Deluxe

Speeding through your heart Pricking like a poison dart Cutting to the quick. New mysteries There's mystery in the air New mysteries There's mystery everywhere.

Kiss Of Light Be Bop Deluxe

my hand, I’m grinning like a fool Spread your love around my head I’m feeling rather cruel Alone in the dance hall we spoke of her next incarnation… I asked what it took and she gave me a look Needing no

Panic In The World Be Bop Deluxe

My love and I, we escaped, we left no trace For they had raped both body and soul The taste was much too hard to swallow We ran naked through the cold Above our heads, in fiery red The clouds they bled

Love In Flames Be Bop Deluxe

I want to be your camera I want to be your dancer I want to be your question And I want to be your answer Flames, love in flames I'm in flames, love in flames.

Futurist Manifesto Be Bop Deluxe

Events far and implicit, most frightening ghost projections Fade and never return (the earth forever renders tapes from this mockery) Even more than international Perhaps inside our different events No

Bring Back The Spark Be Bop Deluxe

the spark You can bring it back Bring back the spark You can bring it back There's a star in the sky in morning I keep thinking it's some kind of warning They say the end of the world is near They say no-one

Speed Of The Wind Be Bop Deluxe

Nelson If you see me If you see me smiling It's no sin It's just the speed of the wind If you want me If you want me laughing Let me sing It's just the speed of the wind It's just the speed of the wind

Rocket Cathedrals Be Bop Deluxe

know the way Became an airboy and changed my name My airship dreams had found a clearer sky I've been thinking about the state I'm in I started sinking a bottle of gin In this rocket cathedral pointing to

Islands Of The Dead Be Bop Deluxe

"Come with me to the fire festival Let us burn each other blind Let us dance, let us dance away Dance till the end of time.

Jets At Dawn Be Bop Deluxe

radio was singing love songs Saw the smiles upon the soldiers Coming home across the fields The calendar said first of August Romance and promises of summer days I strolled unclothed into your garden To

Sister Seagull Be Bop Deluxe

Sister seagull, oh you're flying me to high Feels so dizzy underneath your open skies And it's strange the games we play to hide the crime Sister seagull, you're the reason I survive I am a prisoner

Electrical Language Be Bop Deluxe

I speak to you through electrical language Sometimes you hear me when our frequencies meet You try to listen but you don't understand it Turn up the rhythm and you'll pick up the beat I speak to

Crying To The Sky Be Bop Deluxe

Crying to the sky Searching for a silver lining Hoping that the clouds I'm climbing aren't hiding rain. Nowhere left to go, For every show now disappoints me.

Lost In The Neon World Be Bop Deluxe

Nelson This jet-age life is getting worse I feel I'm half a universe away I left my home some time ago To fight the creatures of the USA You tell me that this neon world is free Say this is the place I

Blazing Apostles Be Bop Deluxe

God drives a dreamless highway in a black sedan, Picking up survivors, preaching to the motel man. Blazing apostles, Thieves in the night, Messengers of the fall.

Crystal Gazing Be Bop Deluxe

I stared, too frightened to move For fear my eyes shone a light On the darkness he drew like a cloak All around his shoulders...

Jet Silver And The Dolls Of Venus Be Bop Deluxe

Dolls of Venus Span the space between us with a tune Jet Silver and the Dolls of Venus Play their music 'specially for you Change your faces slowly 'Til the morning warms the sky All you see is holy But to

Like An Old Blues Be Bop Deluxe

Anymore Looking at you (hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo) And the way you shine like a sharp knife Well I've found a new switchblade (switchblade) Time I took a stab at a new life There's nothing left for me to

Lovers Are Mortal Be Bop Deluxe

In the back of your car Where the light from the stars Caught our eyes in a moment of blue It was then that I knew All my feelings were true And what lovers like us have to do I looked at the time And

Sound Track Be Bop Deluxe

shining arc Oh part of me is crystal too And dances free In the marble mausoleum In the shadows I can see them Lovers Blue bed spread they give me head Oh how I bled When they said that the rose had no

Modern Music Be Bop Deluxe

"Modern music on my radio Another station and another show If only I could let my feelings flow (to you) When you're lonely and you're far away, When those steel guitars begin to play Please don't

Swan Song Be Bop Deluxe

With our bodies on fire and our heads in a spin We pressed close to the moment We were Siamese twins in ecstasy, in ecstasy So we lay soul to soul as the archer of the night United our hearts for

Beauty Secrets Be Bop Deluxe

Arrangements that I made to end it all . . . Yeras and years of love all turned to paper, Dancing at the old musician's ball.

Stage Whispers Be Bop Deluxe

Nelson Well I'm waiting in the wings With all the strings and things That help me make the music Just another curtain call Before I fall into your arms To give my music This guitar does not lie The great

Love With The Madman Be Bop Deluxe

Piano keys don't please me they're so dark And it's so easy to forgive them And violins still scream from every room You're ever passed your presence through But is you hang 'round here much longer You'll

Between The Worlds (Original Single Version) Be Bop Deluxe

Nelson Well I'm waiting in the wings With all the strings and things That help me make the music Just another curtain call Before I fall into your arms To give my music This guitar does not lie The great

Heavenly Homes Be Bop Deluxe

Somewhere tomorrow warms the distance With the light of dawn You yawn, my love Your eyes are growing tired The dawn must come although we will deny it I'd like to hold you here Beneath these clouds of

Between The Worlds Be Bop Deluxe

Between the worlds are pearls Around your lily white neck So round, profound all shining beads of sweat I know my way 'round your throat like a knife I'll silver and steel you away to my island of sea

Piece Of Mine Be Bop Deluxe

Came to me one rainy evening Warmer then the setting sun Took my love by the tigger Shot me like a gun Hold me like a baby She laughed at my fears Said now love don't you worry Make everything so clear

The Bird Charmer's Destiny Be Bop Deluxe

His heart was locked inside a crystal ball, The day her gypsy love came 'round to call, His wings were broken by their latest fall, A young man waiting for the snow… The gull and the white swan, Ghostly

Sleep That Burns Be Bop Deluxe

Your youth is a mask but it's not made to last For we all have a past to out run When the mask comes undone And we race on annd on Through the fiery portals of hell...!