Walk tall beneath these trees, boy
You monolith, not scarred by fallout
Us wolves are right behind you, and Lucifer will never find you
Oh no!

The moon, let it guide you, when Selene comes, we’ll all know how to fight
Dear Fenrir, my saviour, come and eat the ones, we know who taste the best

I know just where you’ve been, boy, I’ve watched you by the stream
And don’t be afraid of the dark, ‘cos the darkness is simply a womb for the lonely
Swallow your pride and walk with us through the trees and hills
Oh yes! Your English eyes they are turning red
I, I, I, I, oh, I, I, I, I…

The moon, let it guide you and I shall find you a home in our heartland, a heart in our homeland
Until the moon is down, until the moon is down

I wake at dusk to go alone
Without a light
To the unknown
I want this night inside of me
I want to feel
I want this speeding
I want that speeding

My blood beats black tonight!

No need for comfort
No need for light
I am hunting for secrets tonight
Eat the sorrow, lick the spark
Uh oh, my blood beats dark

And here it comes
It comes for me
I want to run
I want to scream
Get in my car with both eyes closed
Full pedal down
And I am speeding!

My blood beats black tonight!

No need for comfort
No need for light
I’m hunting down demons tonight
Eat the terror, lick the spark
Uh oh, my blood beats dark

The day our house collapsed
I went down stream
I followed the swans
Like I follow my dreams

Oh, I was living on borrowed time in a
Borrowed house for a borrowed crime
In need of help, I came to your door
Saw the spike of the railings from
The 23rd floor
Singing: “Build your castle, stop collecting stones
And the river bed shall not be your home”

To the lighthouse, my friend
I bless your words and education
To the lighthouse, my friend
Just go, just go!

To the lighthouse, my friend
I am sorry that you came to find
“Great, great minds
Against themselves conspire”

Now the bombs drop around our feet
Do we throw them back
Or bow and greet them?
Everyone now is so terrified
Of the glowing dark
And those orange skies.

Sing it:
“Build your castle, stop throwing stones
‘Cos those fire birds are
Coming down on our homes”

To the lighthouse, my friends
It cannot even be a question
To the lighthouse, my friends
We must go, we must go

London, did you have to take my child away?
You buried him under rent and low pay
I’ve been cycling in circles ’round your empty streets
I’ve been searching in the pouring rain

I’ve been going alone to the cinema
I’ve been stealing all my food from the Electric Avenue
Now the pigeons gather ’round my feeding hand
And we talk till the evening fades

I have learnt how it goes
What you wait for never shows
And what you least wanted
Holds you down like a stone
Just like a stone

Now I feed the birds
Day after day
Only they can hear me pray for
A lighter heart, a lighter load
To be moving, moving, moving
My way home

I used to say just follow your heart
But my heart always led me in circles
And I used to say just follow your dreams
But my dreams always led me to murder

So now I don’t say nothing at all
I just bow my head to the battle
A thousand miles above our heads
They are weaving
Giant currents around the sun

If you’re brave enough, you’ll just let it happen
If you’re brave enough, you’ll just succumb

Don’t say no to it
You can’t say no to it

Just throw yourself in
Just give yourself in
To the pattern

A thousand miles above our heads
They are bleeding
Mighty currents upon the day

If you’re brave enough, you’ll just let it happen
If you’re brave enough, you’ll give yourself away

Don’t say no to it
You can’t say no to it

I was still a child when you caught me and tied me to your bed
You gave me shoes and pretty clothes, and I gave you what I had between my legs
Just a rite of passage, you held me down and said:
“I’m gonna be your right of passage, so boy, you better spread… Spread ‘em”

You said:
“Run, run, run, as fast as you can, but you can’t run, run, from the childcatcher’s hands”

I wrote your name in my shit across the town to warn the kids of your bloodshed
When I chased you with a burning cross, my mother, she wanted you dead

She said:
“Run, run, run, as fast as you can, but you can’t run, run, from our law given hand”

You said:
“Well, I’ve got no time for victims, and I don’t think it was all that bad
And if you can’t run to save yourself, well then, you deserve to be had
This is the age of constipation, this is the age of martyrdom
I think you even enjoyed it, I think I even saw you come”

Since I met you
This house has started to decay
And every wall that once was clean
Has turned a shade of grey

So much to rescue
So much you just can’t understand
Now the streets are dark and empty
And the problem’s in our hands

I can’t leave you
See, back home, my house is falling down
I can’t leave you
And back home, my house is falling down

Since I met you
My basement has started to bleed
The floors are all collapsing
Still I’m begging to be free

Sundark on darker streets
It’s violent times for weary feet
Carjackers and bullet showers
A yellow sign, too many fools in power

But see, I will be gone by morning
My dear friend, I lost a fight
Forget me
I wash my hands in your grey slowing night

Coming down from darkened heights
I taste the Thames with my cycle lights
By Saint Paul’s, by Big Ben
By god’s name, I repent

But see, I will be gone by morning
My dear London, goodnight
Forget me
I wash myself in your grey river light

It was 7 in the morning when the spark began to give
The bath was spilling over, my self pity spilling with it
So I, I fled the country to start it all again
And found myself in Paris in the cemetery rain

Dear Anne came to me and took me by the arm
Showed me old disasters embedded in the palm
Warned me of a lady with the sun behind her head
With a granite neck, a singer, who can never sing again
But you, my love:

You must come, come to joy, turn your head to the sun
It’s down to you, you can shine, you can shake all the
Sorrow from your palm…
It’s down to you, if you dare to come to joy

What was it I ran from, what burnt away inside?
Four hundred schoolboys and a lawyer at my side
Always running with these legs going nowhere
A ghost in the system, and angel on the stairs…
But oh! This time…

I shall turn, turn my head to the sun
They are marching out of me, one by one
Walking free. Oh! They’re going out of…
Oh! I can feel it moving, this time I’m really moving

Are you ready to come, come to joy?
Well it’s really down to you
If you dare to enjoy, it’s down to
You hold the key
In your hands, it’s all in the palm of your hands

I was stumbling into battle
I was walking into walls
Till I walked myself to Peter
And I let my shadows fall

He’s a boy who never ages
Rides a goat around the lake
He’s a friend who never falters
To change my circling fate

He said: “dance across the battle
But punch straight through that wall
Though your knuckles may be bleeding
They’ll be healed before the fall”

After war comes peace
After peace comes war
But remember, if it weren’t for fighting
We’d be fighting for evermore

I was once a boy
Till I cut my penis off
And I grew a hairy skull of stubborn fire

Then I was a girl
Till I sewed my hole up
And I grew a hairy heart of dark desire

But there’s no answer, just surrender
Send all your barriers into the fire
And let no foot mark your ground
Let no hand hold you down

You were once so sad
Till you cut your suffer off
Now you please yourself
And fight your own wars

And you were once so weak
Till you sewed your wounds up
Now you’ve learnt to sing
About sun and shine

Be your own hero
Be your own saviour
Send all your suffering
Into the fire

A boy like me is told he is both nine and ninety and
A boy like me should shut those books, join the army

But a boy like me would never be seen fighting for peace
I want total chaos and a holiday home in the East

A boy like me should know much better than to raise his flag in stormy weather
but I just can’t get enough electric shocks
I want to buy a lighthouse and ride a giraffe on the rocks

I don’t give up

I want… two dogs, two cats, a big kitchen and a welcome mat
I want all this, and all I shall have

I don’t give up

A boy like me don’t ever
Give up
Give up his dream
No