So let the people talk
It’s Monday morning walk
Right past the fabulous mess we’re in
It’s gonna be a beautiful day
So do the bluebirds sing
As I take your hand
And you take my kiss
And I take the world
‘Cause out of all the people I’ve known
The places I’ve been
The songs that I have sung
The wonders I’ve seen
Now that the dreams are all coming true
Who is the one that leads me on through

It’s you
Who puts me in the magic position, darling now
You put me in the magic position
To live, to learn, to love in the major key

And I know how you’ve hurt
And been dragged through the dirt
But c’mon get back up
It’s the time to live
So give your love to me
I’m gonna keep it carefully
Deep in the treasure chest below my breast
‘Cause out of all the people I’ve known
The places I’ve been
The songs that I have sung
The wonders I’ve seen
Now that the dreams are all coming true
Who is the one that leads me on through

It’s you
Who puts me in the magic position, darling now
You put me in the magic position, darling now
Let me put you in the magic position, darling
‘Cause I’m singing in the, the major key

Let me put you in the major key

It’s wonderful what a smile can hide
If the teeth shine right and it’s nice and wide
It’s so magical what you can keep inside
And if you bury it deep no one can find a thing, n

So come on now, open wide, open up now.
Don’t you think it’s time

To look back at that boy on his way to school
Such a heavy heart, such a heavy jewel
Hiding something that one day he’ll sell
But now if no one shows, no one tells a thing, no

So come on love, open wide, open up now
Don’t you think it’s time

Now after all these years, you are at last opening
Was it worth all that war, just to win?
So caught up in the speed of the days in your sin
Don’t forget how the story begins no
Don’t forget now

Now I’m seeing all your lovers and enemies
They’ve been turning their keys so full of need
All trying to see that jewel you keep
What makes it shine, what makes it mine?
But I don’t care

Just come on now, open wide
Open up now
There’s so much love for what you’ll find

But what will you find?

Now after all these years, you are at last opening
Was it worth all that war, just to win?

If it was, can you take me back to where it begins?
Come and take me back to where it begins
Come and take me back to where it begins
Come on, open wide and let some light in

Let us in
Let us in

Emergency!

So c’mon:
Give me the worst and then again
I’m feeling braver than I’ve ever been
From the skull down to the feet
All out for blood and sweat and meat
And for…

Accident! Emergency!
To terrorists, catastrophe
Drop this agony, and misery
Give me accident and emergency

So what happens when you lose everything?
You just carry on and with a grin
(Sing!)
For all that your life has to bring
And just get yourself back into the ring
(Knuckles out!)

For accident and emergency
To terrorists, catastrophe
Drop this agony, and misery
Hold on for accident and emergency

If you never lose
How you gonna know when you won?
And if it’s never dark
How you gonna know the sun
When it shines?
You’ve got to let it shine

(Accident, emergency
Accident, emergency
C’mon!
Accident, emergency
Accident, emergency
C’mon!)

Accident and emergency
Bringing out the best in me

Down in the park
In the last of the light
Among the stray dogs and families

I smell the bonfires, and watch the bombs
Fireworks burst above the trees
Into pillows of white cloud, and
Another year has gone
Now it is the fifth of November

I lock the doors, and
Swallow the key
And draw the curtains, closed forever

Forever

Lucy, remember
The smell of that fall
The fires of fungus
And the rotting leaves

I fell off the wagon
Into your arms
Into this long month of Sundays

And you were my husband
My wife, my heroine
Now this is our final December

Now deep in a forest
Losing all thought of spring
And nothing can help me remember

And I’m going nowhere fast
A darker day has hold at last
Deep in a dream, I set the compass to spinning

And your love has come too late
I wave from the garden gate
Wake me up when the bluebells are ringing

Now that it’s over, after all that we had
A river runs through the rafters down, down, down
Does it leave me sleeping?
Dreaming only of spring
The phone rings out and I remember

But I’m going nowhere fast
A darker day has hold at last
Deep in this dream, I set this compass to spinning

And your love has come too late
Now wave to the garden gate
Wake me up when the bluebells are ringing
Ringing, ringing, ringing

Wanna hear them ringing, my love
Wanna hear them ringing
Ringing…

Magpie, was it you who stole the wedding ring?
Or what other thieving bird would steal such hope away?
Magpie, I am lost among the hinterland
Caught among the bracken and the fern and the boys who have no name

There’s no name for us

Still we sing

And still we sing

Little boy, little boy, lost and blue
Listen now, let me tell you what to do
You can run on, run along, alone or home between the knees of her
All among her bracken and her ferns and the boy will have a name

We will sing

And we will sing

One for sorrow
Two for joy
Three for a girl
Four for a boy
Five for silver
Six for gold
Seven for a secret, never to be told

As the belltower blocks the sunlight
All the seeds in our garden fight
To break and blossom, all to be adored
And look, your skirt is torn, and there’s blood on our sheets

Here comes the long arm of the law
Fist tight, banging on the door
And knocking me down on its way in
And I let him in

As I pass out into a dream
Whooping cranes and wooden beams
Great white wings beating
In an attic, in a house, in the dead of night

Singing, oh, my Augustine, Augustine
Oh, is this forever, ever?
Oh, oh, sweet Augustine, Augustine
What does this mean for us?

Does it mean that I can never change my ways?
And that’s why, love, you shouldn’t stay
Still you will and love me
Like a mother, or a maid bringing you down, down

Down on your brazen knees
Watering the worms and weeds
Thinking, why does love leave me so damn cold?
And I’m getting old

And is this what it should be?
Well… Is it?

Oh, my Augustine, Augustine
Oh, is this forever, ever?
Oh, oh, sweet Augustine, Augustine
Do we kill this one tonight?

And now come the tears, heavy and hot
As it comes clear, this is all we got
As I hold you to my bed
Like a cancer or a curse

Be my loving nurse
As we fall back into the impossible dream

Get lost…

We could go to the cinema
Big effects and big name stars
And we could go to that private view
But darling, these days, my favourite view is you

Let’s just bin the invitations
Leave our bikes down at the station
Lose all sense of direction
With only time to lose

Come on and run, come, get lost with me
Slip away discreetly
If you’re my love, then come
Run away with me till we run on empty

NOW!

We could stay here till closing time
But the drinks are flat, and the price is a crime
And we could dance till our feet turn red
But the beat’s so boring and I’d rather be home in our bed

This town is skipping like a record
And reruns get me so bored
So with the nothing I can afford
And only time to lose

Come on and run, come, get lost with me
Slip away discreetly
If you’re my love then come
Run away with me till we run on empty
Let’s go now

Get lost with me, darling
If this be love, come on

Let’s go!

Get lost with me
If this be love, if this be love, if this be love
Let’s go

Enchanted, enchanted

This magical place that we’ve found
No one here but us and the sound
Of the stars and the night owls
Your breath and the rolling clouds

Enchanted, I am, by you

Now love has come to me and set apart thee
From all of the maddening crowds
The orchard is leaning her boughs to hear our laughter
And we roll in the ardour

Enchanted, I am, by you

I saw, I saw the stars tonight
Mama, I saw the stars tonight

Mama, I saw the stars tonight
Orion, the plough, the burning bright
Cannot recall where I drove
An empty lane, the lonely road
Home

I saw, I saw my star tonight
Mama, the stars are burning bright
And it came clear, that the light years
Are here and lost

I laughed, I cried
The death, the life
And all unseen came into sight
The pole, the scales
The dark, the light
Mama, Papa, voila!
The night!

The night…

So now, to the one with the neverending invisible scars…
Look up, look up!
The stars!