And love is not the easy thing
And if the darkness is to keep Walk on, walk on You're packing a suitcase for a place
Walk on, walk on And I know it aches Walk on Home And I know it aches All that you fashion All that you reason And if the darkness is to keep Walk on, walk on You're packing a suitcase for a place Walk on, walk on I know it aches Walk on All that you fashion Ha le, ha le, ha le, ha le The heart is a bloom It's a beautiful day You're on the road It's a beautiful day Touch me See the world in green and blue It's a beautiful day Touch me What you don't have It's a beautiful day Soul, goal
Beautiful day In New York freedom feels like In New York summers get hot In New York you can forget
New York, New York The Irish have been coming there for years
New York, New York In New York I lost it all You got to put the women New York, New York In the stillness of the evening New York New York, New York As long as the night is coloured As long as you're on your knees Avenue Atlantico She's got the baby Oh mama, mama, mama, ma I'm gonna change like the weather She feels it Oh mama, mama, mama, ma
She's elliptical Ohhh, ohhh, ohhh As long as the night is coloured As long as you're on your knees She can taste every sensation Big Girls
Oh mama, mama, mama, ma It's a beautiful day The heart is a bloom It's a beautiful day Touch me You're on the road It's a beautiful day Touch me See the Bedouin fires at night It was a beautiful day It's a beautiful day What you don't have Beautiful day (how long to sing this song) (What can I give back to God I wanna run
I wanna feel Where the streets have no name The city's a flood Where the streets have no name Where the streets have no name (Right Green light, Seven Eleven Red lights, grey morning And if you look, you look through me If I could stay Faraway, so close And if you listen I can't call If I could stay Ohhh, ohhhh, ohhhh, ohhhh, ohhhh Three o'clock in the morning Just the bang and the clatter Thank you I'm not afraid of anything in this world
You've got to get yourself together I will not forsake, the colours that you bring You are such a fool You've got to get yourself together I was unconscious, half asleep You've got to get yourself together And if the night runs over It's just a moment
The only baggage you can bring
And love is not the easy thing
The only baggage you can bring
Is all that you can't leave behind
Us apart
And if the daylight feels like it's
A long way off
And if your glass heart should crack
And for a second you turn back
Oh no, be strong
What you got they can't steal it
No they can't even feel it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight
None of us has been
A place that has to be believed
To be seen
You could have flown away
A singing bird in an open cage
Who will only fly
Only fly for freedom
What you've got they can't deny it
Can't sell it or buy it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight
And your heart it breaks
You can only take so much
Walk on
Hard to know what it is
If you've never had one
Home
I can't say where it is
But I know I'm going
Home
That's where the hurt is
And your heart it breaks
You can only take so much
Walk on
All that you make
All that you build
All that you break
All that you measure
All that you feel
All this you can leave behind
All that you sense
All that you speak
All you dress up
WALK ON (single version)
Us apart
And if the daylight feels like it's
A long way off
And if your glass heart should crack
And for a second you turn back
Oh no, be strong
What you got they can't steal it
No they can't even feel it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight
None of us has been
A place that has to be believed
To be seen
You could have flown away
A singing bird in an open cage
Who will only fly
Only fly for freedom
What you've got they can't deny it
Can't sell it or buy it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight
And your heart it breaks
But you can only take so much
Walk on
Leave it behind
You've got leave it behind
All that you make
All that you build
And all that you break
All that you measure
All that you deal
You count on two fingers
All that you steal
Ha le, ha le, ha le, ha le
Ha le, ha le, ha le, ha le
Ha le, ha le, ha le, ha le
Ha le, ha le, ha le, ha le
BEAUTIFUL DAY (live)
Shoots up through the stony ground
But there's no room
No space to rent in this town
You're out of luck
And the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck
And you're not moving anywhere
You thought you'd found a friend
To take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand
In return for grace
The sky falls
And you feel like
It's a beautiful day
But you've got no destination
You're in the mud
In the maze of her imagination
You love this town
Even if it doesn't ring true
You've been all over
And it's been all over you
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day
Take me to that other place
Teach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the Bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light and
See the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colours came out
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day
Take me to that other place
Teach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case
You don't need it now
What you don't know
You can feel it somehow
What you don't have
You don't need it now
You don't need it now
Don't need it now
The goal is soul
Goal, goal, goal
The goal is soul
Sing it
NEW YORK (live)
Too many choices
In New York I found a friend
To drown out the other voices
Voices on the cell phone
Voices from home
Voices of the hard sell
Voices down the stairwell
In New York
Just got a place in New York
Well into the hundreds
You can't walk around the block
Without a change of clothing
Hot as a hairdryer in your face
Hot as a handbag and a can of mace
New York
I just got a place in New York
Forget how to sit still
Tell yourself you will stay in
But it's down to Alphaville
New York, New York
New York, New York
New York, New York
Feels like they own the place
They got the airport, city hall, concrete
Asphalt, they even got the police
Irish, Italian, Jews and Hispanics
Religious nuts, political fanatics in the stew
Living happily not like me and you
That's where I lost you
NewYork
New York
New York, New York
In New York
In New York
In New York
To you and your vices
Still I'm staying on to figure out
My mid wife crisis
I hit an iceberg in my life
But yeah I'm know I'm still afloat
You lose your balance
Lose your wife
In the queue for the lifeboat
And children first
But you've got an unquenchable thirst
For New York
New York
New York, New York
When the sun has had its day
I thought I heard you whisper
Come away child
BIG GIRLS ARE BEST
Blue and black
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
And she's not on her back
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
Seventeen-o-two
She's cocoa butter
Baby, she's the glue
At her breast
She knows big girls are best
Oh mama, mama, mama, ma
Hot to cold
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
She keeps it all together
She's got the mother load
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
Every sensation
She's got a smile
Like salvation
She's got a baby
At her breast
She knows big girls are best
Sexy mama, mama, mama, ma
Oh mama, mama, mama, ma
Sexy mama, mama, mama, ma
Also political
All so spiritual
Not superficial
Yeah, she's tropical
Yes, she's illogical
Those little girls are a pest
Big girls are the best
Ohhh, ohhh, ohhh
Blue and black
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
And she's not on her back
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
She's got a smile
Like salvation
She got a baby
A baby at her breast
She walk like she talk
Big girls are best
Sexy mama, mama, mama, ma
Oh mama, mama, mama, ma
Sexy mama, mama, mama, ma
BEAUTIFUL DAY (Q and S remix)
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day
Shoots up through the stony ground
But there's no room
No space to rent in this town
You're out of luck
And the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck
And you're not moving anywhere
You thought you'd found a friend
To take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand
In return for grace
The sky falls
And you feel like
It's a beautiful day
Take me to that other place
Teach me, love
I know I'm not a hopeless case
But you've got no destination
You're in the mud
In the maze of her imagination
You love this town
Even if it doesn't ring true
You've been all over
And it's been all over you
The sky falls
And you feel like
It's a beautiful day
Take me to that other place
Teach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case
See the oil fields at first light
See the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colours came out
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day
The sky falls
And you feel like
It's a beautiful day
You don't need it now
What you don't know
You can feel it somehow
What you don't have
You don't need it now
You don't need it now
You don't need it now
WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME
(live)
For the blessings he poured out on me
What can I give back to God
For the blessings he poured out on me
A cup of salvation
Here's a toast to our father
Follow through on the promise
He made to us
King of heart)
I want to hide
I wanna tear down the walls
That hold me tonight
I wanna reach out
And touch the flame
Where the streets have no name
Sunlight on my face
I see the dust cloud
Disappear without a trace
I wanna dance, dance, dance
From the dirty rain
Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
We're still building and burning down love
Burning down love
And when I go there
I go there with you
It's all I can do
And our love turns to rust
We're beaten and blown by the wind
Trampled in dust
I'll show you a place
High on a desert plain
Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
Still we're building and burning down love
Burning down love
And when I go there
I go there with you
It's all I can do
Where the streets have no name
Still we're building and burning down love
Burning down love
And when I go there
I go there with you
It's all I can do
It's all we can do
This is all we can do
STAY (faraway, so close)
(live)
What we would like to do now is
Go live from Toronto to London
To the secret policemen's ball
Which is a mysterious and
Extraordinary event
That certainly changed my life
When I was, I don't know, changeable
I still am, this is Stay)
You stop in for a pack of cigarettes
You don't smoke, don't even want to
Hey now, check your change
Dressed up like a car crash
Your wheels are turning but you're upside down
You say when he hits you
You don't mind
Because when he hurts you
You feel alive
Ohhh now, is that what it is
You stumble out of a hole in the ground
A vampire or a victim
It depends on who's around
You used to stay in to watch the adverts
You could lip synch to the talk shows
And when you talk, it's not to me
And when I touch you, you don't feel a thing
Then the night would give you up
Stay and the day would keep its trust
If I could
Stay and the night would be enough
Up with the static and the radio waves
With satellite television
You can go anywhere
Miami, New Orleans
London, Belfast from Toronto
And if you jump, you just might fall
And if you shout, I'll only hear you
Then the night would give you up
Stay and the day would keep its trust
Stay with the spirit I found
Stay with the demons you drowned
Stay and the night would be enough
Ohhh, ohhhh, ohhhh, ohhhh, ohhhh
Ohhh, ohhhh, ohhhh, ohhhh, ohhhh
Ohhh, ohhhh, ohhhh, ohhhh, ohhhh
It's quiet and there's no one around
Just the bang and the clatter
As an angel runs to ground
As an angel
Hits the ground
STUCK IN A MOMENT (acoustic)
There's nothing you can throw at me
That I haven't already heard
I'm just trying to find a decent melody
A song that I can sing in my own company
You've got stuck in a moment
And now you can't get out of it
Don't say that later will be better
Now you're stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it
The nights you filled with fireworks
They left you with nothing
I am still enchanted of the light you brought to me
I still listen through your ears
And through your eyes I can see
To worry like you do
I know it's tough
And you can never get enough
Of what you don't really need now
My oh my
You've got stuck in a moment
And now you can't get out of it
Oh love look at you now
You've got yourself stuck in a moment
And now you can't get out of it
The water is warm till you discover how deep
I wasn't jumping
For me it was a fall
It's a long way down to nothing at all
You've got stuck in a moment
And now you can't get out of it
Don't say that later will be better now
You're stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it
And if the day won't last
And if our way should falter
Along the stony pass
This time will pass