Exhibition Tour 1987: Ghost

Instrumental

Stroll to the cafe
My god how time flies
I close up my brain
And another friend dies

I feel like a mirror
Feel like nothing is mine
I could go back to crying
But now dying seems fine

So i hang from the ceiling
Or i sit on the air
Or rot in a corner
Until somebody cares

Faces at random
I quote people i knew
I'd love to be like me
If i could feel like you

Here am i, more roche five than pain
Here am i, just me and my walls to blame
Here am i, i really don't feel quite sane
Here am i, still searching for my shadow in vain
Lock my door i only think in black and white
I'll even try to look ashamed

Moving out of central
Somebody knows me well
Says he'll spill the whole story
He may be lying i can't tell

Meet me inside
I'll keep my head to the floor
And one hand on the handle
Of the mad/sane door

Here am i, more roche five than pain
Here am i, just me and my walls to blame
Here am i, i really don't feel quite sane
Here am i, still searching for my shadow in vain
Lock my door i only think in black and white
I'll even try to look ashamed

My shadow in vain
My shadow in vain
My shadow in vain
My shadow in vain
My shadow in vain...

I've seen the 'action'
All kinds of people
Seen things disgusting
I've seen it all


I've heard excuses
All kinds of stories
I've heard confessions
I've heard it all


They wrote bad poems
Painted bad pictures
They say we used them
I'm not sure


Some call it love and
Some call it affection
I don't believe it
It's all clean young flesh


And we all fall down
We all fall down


You say you want it
Dress to kill and kill me
We could play new games
And you could lose


Don't tell your mother
Or some jealous husband
Don't talk of love just
Send me a postcard


We need to feel it
We need to feel it
I've lost all patience
You'll lose all pride


I've no conversation
I've no good intentions
I've room for one more
I've room for you


They say we're 'corrupted'
They say we're 'disturbing'
I don't know
It must be true


They say we're 'reckless'
They say we're 'vicious'
It's just a rumour
We don't leave scars


She likes the movement
She likes the motion
She likes to whisper
But then she likes to scream


She likes the dancing
She likes the make up
She likes to forget
'bout everything

We are young we can break
Watch us fall
We can take some train
Down to the sea
We are glass, we are glass
We are real you can touch
Just for now
And then say
'hey you, which way is down'
We are glass, we are glass

We are strong we run though
We have time
And to you i'm just
One of those boys
We are glass, we are glass
We are cold
We're not supposed to cry
But it's all just a thought
So here am i
We are glass, we are glass

They run fast
Impressions of the floors inviting
Stay with me, stay with me
They run past
With telephones they scream
Well would you turn all this down
Turn all this down

You are replaced you are you
And our dreams are real
And dreams are all we need
We are glass, we are glass

We slip down
And old eyes don't cry for me
Cause i doubt i'm and i doubt you
And never never going to doubt
We are glass, we are glass

They run fast
Impressions of the floors inviting
Stay with me, stay with me
They run past
With telephones they scream
Well would you turn all this down
Turn all this down

We're in the building where they make us grow
And i'm frightened by the liquid engineers
Like you

My mallory heart is sure to fail
I could crawl around the floor just like i'm real
Like you

The sound of metal i want to be you
I could learn to be a man
Like you

Plug me in and turn me on
Oh everything is moving

I need my treatment it's tomorrow they send me
Singing "i am an american"
Do you?

Picture this if they could make the change
I'd love to pull the wires from the wall
Did you?

And who are you and how can i try?
Here inside i like metal
In you

All i know is no one dies
I'm still confusing love with need

I've been there and seen it
I've been up and down
And i've been fighting for so long.


I can't stop for all your stories
I can't stop for all you young hearts.


Been up on the power
Been down and ashamed
I'm sure i'm guilty of something now.


I'm back and i'm proven
I'm back and i'm strong
And i've been waiting for so long.

This disease
I'm out of my class
This disease
I'm needle sick again
This disease
We must expect such things
This disease
She finds me the girls


Tick tock tick
All gone all gone all gone
Tick tock tick
Whispering goodbye
Tick tock tick
Who is talking?
Tick tock tick
I don't have the choice


Look at me
A puppet dancing on strings
Look at me
And this is easy?
Look at me
I got the screams
Look at me
Words failing


This disease
This disease

Here am i
Like a target in flesh
One more time
For you to call out the dogs
Passengers
With a ticket to burn and burn and burn
You will learn
I'm still waiting for you you know


I'm a slogan, an old story,
A disease, never again
I don't like this, new anger,
These young boys, just make me laugh
This picture, i'm so nervous,
The dj, says 'who are you?'
Look at me, i'm shaking,
I don't know if i can move


I don't need
This attention again
I've lost time
I could lose everything
You will learn
That you've nowhere to go so go

it's cold outside
And the paint's peeling off of my walls
There's a man outside
In a long coat, grey hat, smoking a cigarette

Now the light fades out
And i'm wondering what i'm doing in a room like this
There's a knock on the door
And just for a second i thought i remembered you


So now i'm alone
Now i can think for myself
About little deals
And *issues*
And things that i just don't understand
Like a white lie that night
Or a slight touch at times
I don't think it meant anything to you


So i open the door
It's the `friend' that i'd left in the hallway
"please sit down"
A candle lit a shadow on a wall near the bed


You know i hate to ask
But, are `friends' electric?
Mine's broke down
And now i've no one to love


So i find out your reason
For the phone calls and smiles
And it hurts
And i'm lonely
And i should never have tried
And i missed you tonight
So it's time to leave
You see this means everything to me