Pressure Points

Heaven

Every day as heaven moves further and further away
Familiar blue eyes I once knew turn a colder shade of grey
Every day as heaven moves further and further away
Familiar words we used to share seem so difficult to say

And I am alone
In a world of cold flesh, cold steel, cold stone
I close up like a clam
And shut the world out with a slam of the door
To shut out all the fighting, all the hatred, all the war
You just cannot stay calm
When your soul screams less but something always wants more
What for?

Every day as heaven moves further and further away
Familiar blue eyes I once knew turn a colder shade of grey

Every day
Every day
Heaven is moving further and further away

Red Sands

Blood on the sand
Blood on the hands
Of a handful of madmen
What a way to see the world
Through the smeared window of a TV screen

Technicolor assassinations
Assassinations that make me scared and afraid
Afraid of the streets that breed malice and hatred

Those with their heads bowed to the darkness
Those who can't see for the glare of the light
Those without strength
Who can't raise hands yet alone guns
Become prisoners of conscience
Though not your conscience
You cheer and rejoice as life trickles away
Through the outlets you give in the shape of a gun

Our world is slipping quickly away

Alarm call

Wake up with the fear of God inside me each morning
as I open my eyes to this world without warning
So easy to fall down
So easy to be crushed
As you fight to stand at all in this never ending rush

There's no one here who's close enough to share this sorrow with
Have few answers for myself yet alone enough to give
Watch all my faults before me like reflections in a glass
They linger on around and doesn't ever seem to pass

Yet everything I ever wanted races on ahead
And all the hopes I need to share always go unsaid
So easy to fall down
So easy to be crushed
As you fight to stand at all in this never ending rush

My world's an open prison where I walk to and fro
Viewed with tunnel vision 'cause there's no place I can go
So easy to fall down
So easy to be crushed
As you fight to stand at all in this never ending rush

Tide

Lone figure walks beside a restless shore
How touch more?
How much more?

The world doesn't have to tell me what I need
I know how to fail and how to succeed

Tide always turns quicker
When you're least prepared
Lone figure walks beside a restless shore
Always scared

The Interruption

I ate the sharpened sword
The cast stone
The words that linger too long in the air
The rumbling silence over the length of a room
The lie that lay between two lovers
The hopelessness in their struggling
The price too high to pay
A dark and obscured voyeur
Combing through your secret
The stranger to the child
Loneliness in solitude
Sand in the drinkers mouth
Shadows over sunlight

And all the time you are with me

Uncertainty
Certainty of falling
Scars on souls
Scars on skin
Stars too far away to see
Wave on wave over the swimmers head

And all the time you are with me

The Power Game

I've been sitting here all day
Trying to understand
Why people want to rule each other
When the problem's close at hand

A little less of what you want
And more of what you've got
Is enough to keep you struggling
Without hatching other plots

But justify yourself!
Don't satisfy yourself
You should be out there voting
Say the power mongers gloating

You hide behind the left or right
To add power to your claims
But what you're really saying
Doesn't need theories to explain

Self glorification is what you really mean
The glory you say you despise
Is what makes it more obscene

I'll fight to make life better
In any way I can
I'll break the rules that you tie to me
If it means staying who I am

Don't tell me how to live my life
Don't tell me what to do
Repression is always brought about
By people with politics and attitudes like you

People
And politics
And attitudes
And you

World Without Warning

I live off nothing in this world
Except the thick grey air that chains itself
Swirls all around and engrains itself
Stifles my last hope into sullen despair

I don't associate myself
With all of the people I can do without
Those who never leave me in any doubt
That their selfish narrow lives are all they care about

I enjoy my silence in my life
I don't thrive on the chaos that close contact can bring
So many empty gestures
That don't mean anything

It's so hard and so cold
The texture of this world
That nothing in this place is soft enough to hold
And nothing like tenderness can ever be unfurled

I don't want anything in this world
Except a thick grey air
That will keep my heart hoping
And keep my eyes wide open
Just in case there's something there.

Bursting

Bursting in a thousand places
Like a bottle of champagne
Burst all over me

Foaming like a wild horse
Your breath will beat on me
Pulling see tighter with your reins
My eyes will burn on you

My heart will beat so loudly
Like a drumming through your brain
Then when you think I've finished
I shall beat on you again

My flesh will hit on you
Like waves against a rock
Like being dragged under water
We will fight against the shock

I will hold you in my arms
As the night turns into day
And when I squeeze you tighter
You won't pull away

Like a flash of flame
I will lick you with my tongue
Wetness shall cool the fire
And no bells shall be rung

We shall its eventually
After we've fulfilled our needs
Until love becomes the hunger once more
And we start once again our feed
Bursting in a thousand places
Like a bottle of champagne
Burst all over me

Lovers Retreat

Look at your young faces
They're growing older with each moment
Harder and less beautiful
With every word we say

Stumbling over bridges
And through the backstreets
Waiting for some thing
But we don't know what

It could be a promise
It could be passion
Etemal life
Or instant death

Wading through rubbish and dodging choc-a-block cars
Through the door and up the stairs we'll find some moments of happiness
Between sheets we've known so often
The warmest place in this hostile town

Afterwards
Through dust and comfort filled eyes
We can look upwards
And almost stare at the stars