No Frontiers

Better keep your distance from this whale
Better keep your boat from going astray
Find yourself a partner and treat them well
Try to give them shelter night and day
'cause here in this blue light
Far away from the fireside
Things can get twisted and crazy and crowded
You can't even feel right

So you dream of columbus
Ever time the panic starts
You dream of columbus
With your maps and your beautiful charts
You dream of columbus
With an ache in your travelling heart

See how the cormorant swoops and dives
Must be some thrill to go that deep
Down to the basement of this life
Down to where the mermaid gently sleeps
Not like here in this blue light
Far away from the fireside
Where things can get twisted and haunted and crowded
You can't even feel alright

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And as tide must ebb and flow
I am dragged down under
And i wait the livelong day
For an end to my hunger

So i dream of columbus
Every time that the panic starts
I dream of columbus
With my maps and my beautiful charts
I dream of columbus
And there's peace in a traveling heart
I dream of columbus

Hey little brother the winds of the world
Have ruffled your soft and weakened wings
And though i can't hold you as i look into your eyes
I can see the film that disappointment brings
I know it's rained upon your childhood dreams
The games you've been playing
Weren't quite what they seemed
How can i tell you don't bang your head against the wall
The wall i've been banging and praying might fall

Your time will come on another day
And your dreams will flame and in the fire play
On another day

I know it's hard for you to understand
There are no flying angels come to lend a hand
No smiling faces lined for you to meet
It looks like that in twisted glass
From the kind side of the street

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Repeat 1st verse

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If life is a river and your heart is a boat
And just like a water baby, baby born to float
And if life is a wild wind that blows way on high
Then your heart is amelia dying to fly
Heaven knows no frontiers
And i've seen heaven in your eyes

And if life is a bar room in which we must wait
'round the man with his fingers on the ivory gates
Where we sing until dawn of our fears and our fates
And we stack all the deadmen in self addressed crates
In your eyes faint as the singing of a lark
That somehow this black night
Feels warmer for the spark
Warmer for the spark
To hold us 'til the day
When fear will lose its grip
And heaven has its way
Heaven knows no frontiers
And i've seen heaven in your eyes

If your life is a rough bed of brambles and nails
And your spirit's a slave to man's whips and man's jails
Where you thirst and you hunger for justice and right
Then your heart is a pure flame of man's constant night
In your eyes faint as the singing of a lark
That somehow this black night
Feels warmer for the spark
Warmer for the spark
To hold us 'til the day when fear will lose its grip
And heaven has its way
And heaven has its way
When all will harmonise
And know what's in our hearts
The dream will realise

Heaven knows no frontiers
And i've seen heaven in your eyes
Heaven knows no frontiers
And i've seen heaven in your eyes

It was one of those days
When to shine was of no value
One of those days
When the language had no grace
We were miles apart
And i stood there with my head spinning
Just another poor soul
Trying hard not to lose faith

We had it engraved
We had the key to a union
But you wanted more
So we both kept on losing

Fat valley of pain
Fat valley of pain inside
And this pain will not end
'cause loving you is what i was made for

You were like one of those rainbows
We glimpse for a few seconds
One of those dreams
That could last for a life long
Now i'm quizzing myself
And it's always the same question
Is it wrong to believe
When the feeling so so strong?

We had engraved
We had the key to a union
But you wanted more
So we both kept on losing

It's an ill-kept secret
That something here's going wrong
Oh but my helpless feelings
They keep on leading me on

Fat valley of pain
Fat valley of pain inside
And this pain will not end
'cause loving you is what i was made for
Fat valley of pain

Last night i dreamed you were back again
Larger than life again, holding me tight again
Placing those same kisses on my brow
Sweeter than ever now, lord i remember how
Couldn't get enough of kissing
Do you know how much i'm missing?
No you don't, but i do

Days like a slow train trickle by
Even the words that i write refuse to fly
All that i can hear is your song haunting me
Can't get the melody out of my head you see
Distractions i've been using
Do you know how much i'm losing?
No you don't, but i do

But i do and i wonder if i'm past the point of rescue
An is no word from you at all the best that you can do
Never meant to push or shove you
Do you know how much i love you?
No you don't, but i do.

The moon was full
And their hearts were empty
When i stopped to watch the river go down
Saw the gleaming eyes
On your blind two corners
Heard the shuffle of the buckled
As they come to lay their money down

Ooo not even with his money down
And he fades in the shadows
Of the walls of night in this town
He just fades in the shadows
Of the walls of night in this town

My heart was numb and my eyes stopped running
And the wind chilled my bones where i stopped
To watch that river go down
And the song on this street
Boasts no chest proud anthem
It's the shuffle of the buckled
As they come to lay their money down

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The moon was full
And their hearts were empty
When i stopped to watch the river go down
Ooo not even with his money down