The Waterboys

fox69 · 10.01.2015

"Trumpets"

"Trumpets"

Your love feels
Like trumpets sound
I said your love feels
Like trumpets sound
Your life is like a mountain
Yes, your life is like a mountain
And your heart is like a church
With wide open doors
And to be with you
Is to find myself in the best of dreams
Your love feels like trumpets

Your love feels
Like high summer
Your love feels
Like high, high, summer
Your life is like an ocean
Yes, your life is like an ocean
I want to dive in naked
Lose myself in your depths
I want to be with you
To find myself in the best of dreams
Your love feels like trumpets

Please don't wake me
No don't shake me
I want to be with you
When being with you is the same
The same as being you
Your love feels like trumpets

fox69 · 10.01.2015

"Universal Hall"

"Universal Hall"

I sacrifice my power on the altar of your love
That it may be born again on another world

In this library I could lose myself
Transports, gateways on every shelf
Dark words, bright words of ice and fire
As if an angel did descend and use the writer as a pen
For here are 'avalon of the heart'
'flight into freedom'
Macdonald's 'lilith' and 'fantastes'
Lewis's 'perelandra'

I sacrifice my power on the altar of your love
That it may be born again on another world

Come friend, let us climb the winding flights of stairs
Through the narrow door into the chamber bare
A single candle burns as we seat ourselves
Words take form in our minds and repeat themselves:
"my beloved and I are one
My beloved and I are one
My beloved and I are one
My beloved and I are one"

I sacrifice my power on the altar of your love
That it may be born again on another world

Out here on the tower the air is cold and clear
The stars and moon are bright above us
A night wind whispers in our ears
And it loves us
And though your body weary is
In this grand canyon state of mind
If high stream of dreams and truth be told
And our intentions be entwined
Then from these high flung tower walls
Let healing grace and blessings fall
Over all this cracked and broken land
From northern crag to southern down
From universal hall to camden town
From city square to village green
From parliament to housing scheme
From iona to the hill of dreams

I sacrifice my power on the altar of your love
That it may be born again on another world

fox69 · 10.01.2015

"Upon The Wind And Waves"

"Upon The Wind And Waves"

Andy tooks us down upon the keyside
To board the silver boat
Upon the Wind and Waves
And Daniel he harrelted the boat
And directed her well
Across the Wind and Waves
And Johnny took us on the boat
He held the sails, he tied the ropes
Upon the Wind and Waves
And Desiree she watched the ocean
Fair Upon the wind and Waves

fox69 · 10.01.2015

"We Are Jonah"

"We Are Jonah"

And the round old fox, stepped up to make his speech
His ship was on the rocks, and rescue out of reach
Spotlit he stood, said what he thought he should
Half the crowd did laugh, though there was no joke
And soon the other half were swallowed up in smoke
A robin on the wing, could be heard to sing, the strangest thing

Grandma, we are Jonah
Rolling along in the teeth of a whale

Then the plane did land, for some it did not crash
From it emerged a man, in trainers and moustache
Down he laid his load, upon the heated road
Then the road did part, and the tar did melt
He loosened up his heart, he tightened up his belt
Like a piece of string, then he began to sing, like a pearly king

Grandma, we are Jonah
Rolling along in the teeth of a whale

Then the scene did shift, to a sun kissed sea
There was Montgomery Clift, Jonah, the Whale and me
As the sun it set, Montgomery placed his bet
Then the whale did yawn, and fell asleep in four
From dusk till dawn, you shoul have heard him snore
From Tierra-Del-Fuego, to the Alaskan Snows... there she blows!

Grandma, we are Jonah
Rolling along in the teeth of a whale
My dear old Grandma, we are Jonah
Rolling along in the teeth of a whale
Grandma
We are Jonah, rolling along in the teeth of a whale

fox69 · 10.01.2015

"We Will Not Be Lovers"

"We Will Not Be Lovers"

You just stepped into the maintrack
Climbed down off the fence
Words are your weapon
Lies are your defence
I know what you want
And I see what you see
You're looking for somebody
But he isn't me
Find yourself another
Because we will not be lovers

How your eyes are like tortures
And your presence is bliss
I never knew time
Could speed and zip like this
The touch of your flesh
Is tough to resist
Planets collide, collide
At the smack of your kiss
But you can kiss your brother
Because we will not be lovers

Now you're pulling down curtains
You've been sparking old flames
You've been causing disturbance
Crying for shame
You've been Knocking on doors
You've been abusing my name
You've been casting up doubt
You've been throwing your blame
But you can throw it at your mother
We will not be lovers

Now the world's full of trouble
Everybody's scared
The landlords are frowning
Cupboards are bare
People are scrambling
Like dogs for a share
It's cruel and its hard
But it nothing compared to
What we do to each other
To each other

We will not be lovers!
We will not be lovers, no
We will not be lovers, no

fox69 · 10.01.2015

"What Do You Want Me To Do?"

"What Do You Want Me To Do?"

I've tried to do things my own way
I've tried to do what people say
And I'm going nowhere fast
And I'm turning to you at last

What do you want me to do?
What do you want me to do?
What do you want me to do Lord?

I can see the lights of home
But I can't get there on my own
I can see the landing strip
But I need you to steer my ship

What do you want me to do?
What do you want me to do?
What do you want me to do Lord?

I've been a fool and I've been a clown
I let the enemy turn me around
I've wasted love and I've wasted time
I've been proud and I've been blind

I've got a lot of things to change
A whole man to rearrange
And if you show me how
I'll begin right now

What do you want me to do?
What do you want me to do?
What do you want me to do Lord?

I'm listening...

fox69 · 10.01.2015

"When Will We Be Married"

"When Will We Be Married"

When will we be married Molly
When will we be wed
When will we be
Bedded in the same bed
When will we be married Molly
When will we be wed
When will we be
Bedded in the same bed

You have your eye on Jimmy
Long Jimmy Lee
You have your eye on Jimmy
And a fine man he
You have your eye on Jimmy
But you'd better let him be
Because when you go, Molly-o
You'll be gone with me

When will we be married Molly
When will we be wed
When will we be
Bedded in the same bed
When will we be married Molly
When will we be wed
When will we be
Bedded in the same bed

You have your eye on Johnny
Thin Johnny Fee
You have your eye on Johnny
And a fine man he
You have your eye on Johnny
But you'd better let him be
Because when you go, Molly-o
You'll be gone with me

When will we be married Molly
When will we be wed
When will we be
Bedded in the same bed
When will we be married Molly
When will we be wed
When will we be
Bedded in the same bed

I made a black bow
For your pretty head
When will we be married Molly
When will we be wed
I made a black bow
For your bonny head

When will we be married Molly
When will we be wed
When will we be
Bedded in the same bed
When will we be married Molly
When will we be wed
When will we be
Bedded in the same bed

fox69 · 10.01.2015

"When Ye Go Away"

"When Ye Go Away"

Now he's brought down the rain
And the indian summer is through
In the morning you'll be following your trail again
Fair lady

You ain't calling me to join you
And I'm spoken for anyway
But I will cry when ye go away
I will cry when ye go away

Your beauty is familiar
And your voice is like a key
That opens up my soul
And torches up a fire inside of me

Your coat is made of magic
And around your table angels play
And I will cry when ye go away
I will cry when ye go away

Somebody left us whisky
And the night is very young
I've got some to say and more to tell
And the words will soon be spilling from my tongue

I will rave and I will ramble
I'll do everything but make you stay
Then I will cry when ye go away
I will cry when ye go away

When ye go away...
When ye go away.

fox69 · 10.01.2015

"Where Are You Now When I Need You?"

"Where Are You Now When I Need You?"

Hey Johnny, where are you now when I need you?
Now when I need you so bad?
Just one word come straight from your heart
Makes me feel so glad!
Death and disease walz together like starlets in this place
I sure would like to see your honest face

Hey Eddie, where are you now when I miss you?
Now when I miss you like hell?
If you were here I know you'd make me
Believe again in myself!
You don't owe me nothing
I'm not calling you away
So please don't feel accused when I say

Where are you now when I need you?
Now when I need you so bad?
My heads almost exploding
And the tension drives me mad
And maybe you wonder
Do I really believe I need you?
But I do!

Hey you, where are you now when I dream about you
In nightmares every night?
You were on a big wheel high above me
Almost out of my sight
And just as I wake you shout down something that sounds like
Why are you not free?
But by the time I'm dressed
You're just a memory

Where are you now when I need you?
Now when I need you so bad?
When my heads almost exploding
And this tension drives me mad
And maybe you wonder
Do I really believe I need you?
But I do!

Hey mama, where are you now I hurt for you?
I hurt for you so hard?
If you heard this song, I know you you'd come straight for me
You'd come somehow, no matter how far
There's a hundred things that I want to say to you
And they come rushing through my head
But when we meet like we always do, we leave the best things unsaid
And my god! Isn't that lonely?
That's lonely as hell
To know the truth always but to be too scared to tell

Where are you now when I need you?
Now when I need you so bad?
When my hearts almost exploding
And this tension drives me mad
And maybe you wonder
Do I really believe I need you?
But I do!
But I do!

fox69 · 10.01.2015

"White Birds"

"White Birds"

I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea
Far from the rose and the lily, and fret of the flames would we be
And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky
Has awakened in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may never die, a sadness that may never die.

A weariness comes from those dreamers, dew-dabbled, the lily and rose
Ah, dream not of that, my beloved, the flame of the meteor that goes
Or the flame of the blue star that lingers hung low in the fall of the dew
For I would we were changed, my beloved, to white birds on the foam, I and you, to white birds on the foam, I and you.

Bend low, that I may crown you, flower of the branch
silver fish my hands have taken from the running stream,
morning star, trembling in the heavens like a white fawn on the border of a wood
Bend that I may crown you, that I may crown you.

And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky
Has awakened in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may never die, a sadness that may never die.

I am haunted by numberless islands, and many a Danaan shore
Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no more
Soon far from the rose and the lily and fret of the flames would we be
Were we only white birds, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea, white birds on the foam of the sea.