Novella

Gold - said the man to the many
I want money and i'll make it grow
I will count my worth in gold - wealth untold
I'll sell my soul - midas man

Sold - said the man to the many
Work for me, i'll only steal your time
I will count my money out, there's no doubt
I'll sell my soul - midas man - midas man

Chorus:

I'll take from the blind and i'll get up ahead
I'll sneak up behind and i'll steal
I'll take all that you have
And then all that you've concealed
I'll take anything i can get - i'll make you
I'll break you and i'll make you sweat
Nothing is worth nothing unless it's
Made for midas man

Gold - said the man to the many
Pots of gold are all i want from you
Quarter time for treble days the only way
To sell your soul - midas man - midas man

Chorus

Midas - midas - midas man

The sisters worked for the people round them
Their spanish lace wove some bread for the poor
And they cared and tried but were worn with
Their fears and the years of heartbreak

Dust and wine stained the men who knew them
The sweat of days in the angry sun
And the men were weak, and they cried
And they asked, "sisters, make us holy."

The sisters prayed, "give us hope for something."
The men asked, "where is your god today?"
And the empty eyes as the sisters prayed held
Their thoughts unspoken

There was nothing they could do
Earth was dust for miles around
Nothing new survived
Everything was barren on the land
And the truth they tried to understand just died

Everything was barren on the land
And the truth they tried to understand just died

Leaving all their thoughts behind
Passing over timeless wastes of ecstasy
Freedom strangled at the source
Takes the only charted course
That leads them home
Their bodies move towards the dawn
The light in which a nation born
Can only hope, and only weep
Their passion may be growing weak

How was alone, recall me if you can
I feel i am lost within you
Many times within the sound of emptiness
A light has shown deep in each others soul
Keeps them apart, a love now makes them whole
Fractured memories tearing at all their dreams
Made life and living a faded scene

To give a name locked in despair
Makes chances of a lifetime course across your eyes
To give and get, and yet return
Emotion smoulders, starts to burn in harmony
They lay within a ruined shell
Searching for the time to tell
That he who followed endlessly
Does not exist, can never be

How was alone, recall me if you can
I feel i have lost within you
A part of what is held inside a deep regret
Taking over all that a hearts request
Answered by cries from a wilderness
Found forgotten lying in deeper sleep
Touching once is so hard to keep

In emptiness, a light has shown deep in each others soul
Keeps them apart, a love now makes them whole
Fractured memories tearing at all their dreams
Made life and living a faded scene
Taking over all that a hearts request
Answered by cries from a wilderness
Found forgotten lying in deeper sleep
Touching once is so hard to keep