So Long Ago

Early in the evening there's a sun in the sky
Everybody's happy but there's a tear in your eye
The times i never wondered
The times i never knew
I'd live them all again
If i could live them all for you

And when the walls are broken
And when they're on your back
When its scapegoats that they're after
And they know you'll attack
Just remember,boy in the silence of the night
Something i never told you

I love you like a son

Later in the evening in the light of the moon
Everyones found lovers ,its empty in the room
When polite conversation
Goes screaming out the door
And understanding people
Leave you lying on the floor

They ask me why
They ask me why
Analyse it, analyse it
They ask me why
They ask me why
But don't tell
Just don't say

There's a million reads that i'd not taken
Till you caught me with my eyes closed
Looking over my shoulder to see whats behind me
I didn't see the promised land

I fell back into your arms
(its hard when you don't know)
I was so suprised by the joy
(it was all that i could do)
To trust you with my life

As the road goes on the paths get steaper
A light begins to shine
Though i pass by and miss the turning
You'd walk with me over the edge

On the road and bound for glory
But i'm a fool when i forget
I'm on the route where travellers seldom meet
Its so easy to slip

And fall back into your arms
(its so easy when you know)
But i'm still suprised by the joy
(though it happens all the time)
Anytime,anywhere
(when the wind is blowing cold)
When there's nothing left at all
(its all that i can do)
To trust him with your life

Stay with me now
I feel like you're slipping away
There's a song in the air
That no-one is singing today
There are places to go
But somehow i feel we should stay

And the checkout girls sing a a song for the world
That goes round and round
And the anthem of the keys in the tills
Makes a soothing sound
And the eyes and the ears aren't on the sky~
They're on the ground

Talk to me now
There are words in your mind worth saying
There's a something happening over here
Even though the actors might only be playing
Life is the thing
That can't be lost by delaying

Live with me now
I'm ready to hear your crying
Risen again like the phoenix the ashes defying
In the silence we know
There's something beyond the dying

And sometimes i'm ready to know
Sometimes i'm willing to go
For someone its happening slow
Didn't you know

(undiscovered kingdom)

In a windy street in a bitter morning
A seagull flies into a fire of blazing sun
In the minutes after midnight
When humans let go
Only cat and litter move without fear

Undiscovered kingdom

Underneath an awful stern
Above dark dock water
And anchor hangs wounded from a ragged body
In a seething pub at midday
A boy has lost his way
From a hundred empty faces
A hundred gazes glare

Undiscovered kingdom

Sometimes i touch
Sometimes i see
Sometimes i feel
Sometimes i really know

Undicovered kingdom

In an angry alley
The paints been left to run
From a daubed swastika on an abandoned vw
A cathedral door is opened
A woman wipes away a tear
Sunlight streams in
As a priest puts out a brief candle

Undiscovered kingdom

Driving through the frocess in the snow
Two lines of trees consent to let us go
It tells a story of long ago
Another love that won't let go ....it told me

Something about ireland
Something i should know
Something about ireland
Something makes me want to go

Standing in the suberbs at midnight
Out of the warm of dim tv light
A cold shiver gripped on hearing the distant sound
These dangerous places can turn your head around
Thet tell me ....

Families meet families mutter
Backdrop radio news stutters
Dead body in a dead-end street
Men media on while widows meet

In sunlit morn crossing the red sea
Two lights laugh from a hillside and beckon me
"mythical light of the ever present hope"
Bidding farewell,letting me know, telling me