Better parted
I see people crying
Thruth gets harder
There's no sense in lying
Help me find a way from this maze
I can't help myself
When I see tenderness before you left
That even breaking up was never meant
But only angels look before they thread
Living in another world to you
Better parted
I see people hiding
Speech gets harder
There's no sense in writing
Help me find a way from this maze
I'm living in another world to you
And I can't help myself
did I see tenderness where you saw Hell
Did I see angels in the hand I held
God only knows what kind of tale you'd tell
Living in another world to you

I'm picking up again
Waint it got too much
After the accident
It could feel no worse
I turned around and saw him hit the ground
Alittle earlier, it was a game
I guess the barrier
Must have dropped away
I don't like to read the news
D'you know anything I'm going through
Did you see my photograph
It was on page ten
I swore to everyone
I'm not to blame
I turned around and saw him hit the ground
A little earlier it was a game
i'm so disposable
you can throw me away
I don't like to read the news
D'you know anything I'm going through
Wat a fool I've been
Didn't get to him in time
"What's been happening?"
Its so hard to sleep at night
Its so hard to sleep at night
To sleep at night
I don't like to read the news
D'you know anything I'm going through

(Mark Hollis Tim Friese-Greene)
Here she comes
Silent in her sound
Here she comes
Fresh upon the ground
Come gentle spring
Come at winter's end
Gone is the pallow from a promise that's nature's gift
Waiting for the colour of spring
Let me breathe
Let me breathe the colour of spring
Here she comes
Laughter in her kiss
Here she comes
Shame upon her lips
Come wanton spring
Come for birth you live
Youth takes it's bow before the summer the seasons bring
Waiting for the colour of spring
Let me
Let
me breathe
Let me breathe you
Let me breathe
Let me breathe you
Let me breathe

Don't look back until you've tried
A line so openly a lie
'Outside of you, it's just tomorrow starting'
I've said I'm wrong when I've been right
I've seen times when I've been sure but still I find
I'm just the first that you take
Are there reasons everybody pays
They never seem to be any use
It's just tomorrow starting
Don't look back until you've tried
With time you'll endlessly arrive
Outside of use
With just tomorrow starting
See my eyes tell me I'm not lying
I'm just the first that you take
Are there reasons everybody pays
They never seem to be any use
It's just tomorrow started

Cover me with shades of disbelief
Can happiness be someone else's dream
Numbers call to spell my name
Move about as values change
Catch me if you can
But don't delay
Today, today
It's a dream away
Governed by the title on the wall
Commit me to a life within a fool
Happiness can often bleed
Beggars lay among the sheep
Let me take the choice
The sermon pleads
Today, today
It's a dream away
Visions in my cell begin to bread
Was everything a fact of what I read
Excuse my while l spell my name
Boat and ship could sound the same
Catch me if you can
But don't delay
Today, today
It's a dream away
Belle Malissima
Today, today
It's a dream away

From the place that I stand to the land that is openly free;
Watching rivers run black by the trees
that are vacant to greed.
Gotta give it up
gotta get a second chance
Gotta give it up
gotta get a second chance
and the tunes just started.
Gotta give it up
give it up
give it up
gotta give it up!
Or tell me why I'm so wrong
where does love come from
If you've sold your reasoning out?
How can I learn if I don't understand what I see.
If I'm giving this mess
take a walk
through a nightmare so real.
Gotta give it up
gotta get a second chance
. . .

Or tell me if I'm so wrong
where does luck come from
When you've never been without?
Give it up
give it up
give it up
gotta give it up
Give it up
give it up
gotta give it up.
Tell me if I'm so wrong
where does love come from
If you've sold your reasoning out?
Or tell me if I'm so wrong
where does luck come from
When you've never been without?

Sang soulless loud
Herding step on flesh
And nothing else
To well
To drown & drown
Sleight of reason
How they come
Cain in number

Alone
The crowd
Spurning step by state
Blame something else
Thirsting
Within without
Sighted
Weeded
How they run
Slain in number

Shake my head
Turn my face to the floor
Dead to respect
To respect to be born
Lest we forget who lay

(Mark Hollis Tim Friese-Greene)
Funny how I find myself
In love with you
If I could buy my reasoning
I would pay to lose
One half won't do
I've asked myself how much do you
Commit yourself
It's my life
Don't you forget
It's my life
It never ends
Funny how I blind myself
I never knew
If I was sometimes played upon
Afraid to lose
I would tell myself what good you do
Convince myself
It's my life
Don't you forget
It's my life
It never ends
I would ask myself how much do you
Commit yourself
I
t's my life
Don't you forget
Caught in the crowd
It never ends

Maybe when the heat's away you're fine
To put another drink away is out of line
Out of line
So easy with a thief to blame
For breaking every pledge I've made
Does it matter if I can't say Caroline knows?
Every little accident takes time
Forget about mistakes I've made they're left behind
Left behind
So easy with a thief to blame
For breaking every pledge I've made
Does it matter if I can't say Caroline knows?
Caroline knows
So easy with a thief to blame
For breaking every pledge I've made
Does it matter if I can't say
Does it matter if I can't say Caroline knows?

I DON'T BELIVE IN YOU
Now the fun is over
Where do words begin
I'm trying to find the path ahead
Any way you say it
The charade goes on
But your eyes won't see it
It's the same old song
'I don't believe you'
Promises so golden
Years have proved them wrong
I'm trying to leave some self respect
Any way you say it
Our decline goes on
But your pride won't heed it
It's the same old song
'I don't believe you'
And the way you play it
Is the way you want
Any way you sing it
It's the same old song
'I don't believe you'

(Mark Hollis Tim Friese-Greene)
Create upon my flesh
Create approach upon my breath
Bring me salvation if I fear
Take my freedom
A sacred love
Create upon my breath
Create reflection on my flesh
The wealth of love
Bear me a witness to the years
Take my freedom
Let my freedom up
Take my freedom for giving me a sacred love
Create upon my flesh
Create a home within my head
Take my freedom
Let my freedom up
Take my freedom for giving me a sacred love

(Mark Hollis Tim Friese-Greene)
Well aren't you success
In answer select
Apologies met
An effigy blessed
Slow to bleed fair son
Rescinded
Well aren't you suspect
In answer unread
Meander contest
So effortly blessed
Slow to bleed fair son

(Mark Hollis Simon Brenner Paul Webb Lee Harris)
I've given everything with nothing in return
I'm filled with images that play on every word
No one to tell me there's a cloud before my eyes
Not only broken I don't know the reason why
It's so serious
This endless sea of tears the feeling that I'll drown
I'd try to catch them but they're sure to touch the ground
My world of emptiness a child without a toy
Forgiving anything restore me to my joy
It's so serious

(Mark Hollis)

Take my hand
Colours seem so black inside your head
Does everything reflect the time you spend
So tired of thinking you
You hide your face
Don't ask me to excuse

I'm only laughing
Again, a game... again

Some things are right
I'm only laughing
Again, a game... again

Save your words
Words they're never there for those who try
A stranger in a world no longer mine
Sometimes I'm feeling used
I'll change my place
I'd sooner be excused

You're only laughing
Again, a game... again
I'm only laughing
Again, a game... again

Some things are right
I'm only laughing
Again, a game... again

There are times I confess
I'm not easy to accept
So come find I'll react
I'm a reason to be there
They're only laughing
Again, a game... again

I'm only laughing
Again, a game... again

Well did I tell you before
When l was up
Anxiety was bringing me down
l'm tired of listening to you
Talking in rhymes
Twisting round to think
You're straight down the line
All you do to me is talk talk
If every sign that l see is to complete
Then l'm a fool in your game
And all you want to do
Is tell me your lies
Won't you show the other side
You're just wasting my time
All you do to me is talk talk
When every choice that l make is yours
Keep telling me what's right and what's wrong
Don't you ever stop to think about me
l'm not that blind to see
That you've been cheating on me
You're laughing at me when I'm up
Crying for me when I'm down
Laughing for me when l'm up
Crying for me
Alll you do to me is talk talk

Funny how I find myself in love with you
If I could buy my reasoning I'd pay to lose
One half won't do
I've asked myself
How much do you commit yourself?
It's my life
Don't you forget
It's my life
It never ends
Funny how I blind myself
I never knew if I was sometimes played upon
Afraid to lose,
I'd tell myself what good you do
Convince myself
It's my life
Don't you forget
It's my life
It never ends
I've asked myself
How much do you commit yourself?
It's my life
Don't you forget
Caught in the crowd
It never ends

(Mark Hollis Tim Friese-Greene)
Lifted up
Reflective in returning love you sing
Errant days filled me
Fed me illusion's gate in temperate stream
Welled up within me
A hunger uncurbed by nature's calling
Seven sacraments to song
Versed in Christ should strength desert me
They'll come, they come
Come there, come come do they
Lifted up
Reflected in returning love you sing
Heaven waits
Someday Christendom may come
Westward evening sun recedent
Set my resting vow
Hold in open heart
Open heart

(Mark Hollis Tim Friese-Greene)
Now the fun is over
Where do words begin
I'm trying to find the path ahead
Any way you say it
The charade goes on
But your eyes won't see it
It's the same old song
'I don't believe you'
Promises so golden
Years have proved them wrong
I'm trying to leave some self respect
Any way you say it
Our decline goes on
But your pride won't heed it
It's the same old song
'I don't believe you'
I don't
I don't believe in you
And the way you play it
Is the way you want it
Any way you sing it
It's the same old song
'I don't believe you'

(Mark Hollis E Hollis)
Hey hey hey
What did I tell you before when I was up
Anxiety was bringing me down
I'm tired of listening to you talking in rhymes
Twisting round to make me think you're straight down the line
All you do to me is talk talk
Talk
talk talk talk
All you do to me is talk talk
Talk talk talk talk
All you do to me is talk talk
If every sign that I see is complete
Then I'm a fool in your game
And all you want to do is tell me your lies
Won't show the other side you're just wasting my time
All you do to me is talk talk
Talk talk talk talk
All you do to me is talk talk
Talk talk talk talk
All you do to me is talk talk
When every choice that I make is yours
Keep telling me what's right and what's wrong
Don't you ever stop to think about me
I'm not that blind to see that you've been cheating on me
And here you laugh at me when I'm up
I see you when you're crying for me when I'm down
I see you when you're laughing at me when I'm up
I see you when you're crying for me
All you do
to me is talk talk
Talk talk talk talk
All you do to me is talk talk
Talk talk talk talk
All you do to me is talk talk

HAPPINESS IS EASY
Makes you feel much older
Sublime the blind parade
It wrecks me how they justify their acts of war
They assemble, they pray
Take good care of what the priests say
'After death it's so much fun'
Little sheep don't let your feet stray
Happiness is easy
Joy be written on the earth
And the sky above
Jesus star that shines so bright
Gather us in love
Guilt upon their shoulders
How well the cause evades
Infecting your religions, claiming pacts
It's easy to shoulder the blame
Happiness is easy
Try to teach my children
To recognise excuse before it acts
From love & conviction to pray
Happiness is easy

One by one
Every courtesy is gone
And the show begins
Bring on the clowns
Pain is quiet
I've laughed at silence
For the last time
Let the show begin
For the last time
Sometimes one
Sometimes each of us is wrong
But the show begins
Bring on the clowns
Blind to reason
These eyes are dreaming
For the last time
Let the show begin
For the last time
Let the show begin
Bring on the clowns
Smiling sweetly
Doubt may leave me
For the last time
Let the show begin
For the last time
Let the show begin
For the last time

Such a shame to believe in escape
'A life on every face'
And that's a change
Till I'm finally left with an eight
Tell me to relax, I just stare
Maybe I don't know if I should change
A feeling that we share
It's a shame
Such a shame
Number me with rage
It's a shame
Such a shame
Number me in haste
Such a shame
This eagerness to change
It's a shame
The dice decide my fate
And that's a shame
In these trembling hands my faith
Tells me to react, 'I don't care'
Maybe it's unkind that I should change
A feeling that we share
It's a shame
Such a shame
Number me with rage
It's a shame
Such a shame
Number me in haste
Such a shame
This eagerness to change
Such a shame
Tell me to relax, I just stare
Maybe I don't know if I should change
A feeling that we share
It's a shame
Such a shame
Number me with rage
It's a shame
Such a shame
Number me in haste
It's a shame
Such a shame
Write it across my name
It's a shame
Such a shame
Number me in haste
Such a shame
This eagerness to change
Such a shame

Lay your hands into my hand
I've been so rude
I don't care what you do
Some recall is not enough
I've seen a few
Creeping like you do
My foolish friend
Teenage tears the saving grace
Of this fool
But no one's watching you
Save the mirror for your face
There are two
No matter what you choose
My foolish friend
Don't try to live my life
Upon this weary line
My foolish friend
Don't tell me if I'm right
When I can really rebel
Yes I'm really saddened
My foolish friend
Don't try to live my life
Upon this weary line
My foolish friend
Don't tell me if I'm right

(Mark Hollis / Tim Friese-Greene)

Everybody's laughing

Crimson sky
Set the sails our hearts are open
Don't cry
I believe release is in your smile

The tide shall turn to shelter us from storm
The seas of charity shall overflow
And bathe us all

Walk on by
Make believe our exile's chosen
Untied
I can see our freedom's in your mind

The tide shall turn to shelter us from storm
The seas of charity shall overflow
And bathe us all

(Mark Hollis Tim Friese-Greene)
Place my chair at the backroom door
Help me up I can't wait anymore
Blessed love the love I've seen
Stair by idle stair
Faith one path and the second in fear
I start in hope
A half wit am I read
I start in hope
And tread dependence beneath my feet
Step right up something's happening here
Something's happening here

(Mark Hollis)
Don't look back until you've tried
A line so openly a lie
'Outside of you, it's just tomorrow starting'
I've said I'm wrong when I've been right
I've seen times when I've been sure but still I find
I'm just the first that you take
Are there reasons everybody pays
They never seem to be any use
It's just tomorrow starting
Don't look back until you've tried
With time you'll endlessly arrive
Outside of use
With just tomorrow starting
See my eyes tell me I'm not lying
I'm just the first that you take
Are there reasons everybody pays
They never seem to be any use
It's just tomorrow started

(Mark Hollis)

I love to hear you sing
In every style you give
Sometimes I'll touch the right
Finally you tried

Such pressure you cannot bring
In every trial you'll give
Enough, enough, not all
Finally you'll fall

I love to hear you sing
Along, along, along the crowd
Finally you've found

Another sign with no regret
More coins inside her hand
One more time to own respect
No mercenary she stands
I'm no boy stealing pennies from the poor
Break it down
Can't you see she's the dum-dum girl
Another hand upon her hair
Time probably erased distaste
And so she's left outside of guilt
Break it down
Can't you see she's the dum-dum girl

TIME IT'S TIME
Nobody knows how long
Rustling leaves unrhyme
Lullaby breeze unsung
Babel of dreams unwinds in memory
As bad as bad becomes
It's not a part of you
And love is only sleeping
Wrapped in neglect
Time it's time to live
Kissing a grey garden
Shadow

(Mark Hollis Simon Brenner Paul Webb Lee Harris)
The party's over
I never thought you'd stay
The love of laughter
My truth's no longer sane
The party's over
Much older than you'd say
This friend of no one
Time creases on your face
Take a look at
the kids
I've been losing track
This crime of being uncertain of your love
Is all I'm guilty of
The party's over
I never thought you'd stay
A style of reason
This life of masquerade
Take a look at the kids
I've been losing track
This crime of bein
g uncertain of your love
Is all I'm guilty of
Take this punishment away Lord
Name the crime I'm guilty of
Too much hope I've seen as virtue
Name the crime I'm guilty of

(Mark Hollis)
Say it again
Heart of stone
Red on your face
So alone
Say it again
And I'll know it's you
God only knows
Why do lies about this girl bother you?
Time is waiting to explain, why refuse?
It's you
Say it again
Heart of sand
Tears on your face
'Nothing stands'
God only knows
I've noticed you
Say it again
Why do lies about this girl bother you?
Time is waiting to explain, why refuse?
It's you
Say it again
I know it's you
God only knows
Why do lies about this girl bother you?
Time is
waiting to explain, why refuse?
It's you
Talk in rhymes about the world watching you
It's you
So unwise about the girl
It's you
Why do lies about the girl bother you?
It's you
Tired of waiting to explain

(Mark Hollis)
This sure is some kind of party
It's so useful
Surround my life with excuses
For what I choose to lose
And my name
Doesn't look the same to me now now
No no not me now
And inside
Don't you know I feel so bad?
When I tried to turn away
T
o feel new again
Candy
My emotion cost me pain
Did I look the same?
Candy
When I think about the times
That I laughed away
Candy
The idea you'd cheat me
But look again
What you say
'That's my name'
And I hope that I've kept you amused
To wipe that spit right off my boots
And when I'm home and thinking in the dark
I hope I hope I hope
That none of this has had to go too far
When it gets too late
To see me any other way
And it gets so hard to hold on
To everything that I want so bad yeah yeah
Candy
When I tried to turn away
To feel new again
Candy
My emotion cost me pain
Did I look the same?
Candy
When I think about the times
That I laughed away
Candy
The idea you'd cheat me
But look again
What you say
'That's my name'

(Mark Hollis Tim Friese-Greene)
Better parted
I see people crying
Truth gets harder
There's no sense in lying
Help me find a way from this maze
I can't help myself
When I see tenderness before you left
Forget
That even breaking up was never meant
Forget
But only angels look before they tread
Forget
Living in another world to you
Better parted
I see people lying
Speech gets harder
There's no sense in writing
Help me find a way from this maze
I can't help myself
When I see tenderness befo
re you left
Forget
That even breaking up was never meant
Forget
But only angels look before they tread
Forget
Living in another world to you
Help me find a way from this maze
I'm living in another world to you
And I can't help myself
Did I see
tenderness where you saw hell
Forget
Did I see angels in the hand I held
Forget
God only knows what kind of tale you'd tell
Forget
Living in another world to you

(Paul Webb)
And when you're hanging 'round
Waiting on the other side of town
Kick a stone on a painted wall
And when the riot comes
Keep your head and keep your loving charm
Living life is a glamour show
But it's another word
It's another word
All soldiers have a cause
Giving life upon graffitied walls
As a way to pass the time
I saw a father's tear
For a leader standing over here
'Who's the King?' says a passer by
But it's another word
It's another word
Word
And when you're hanging 'round
Waiting on the other side of town
Kick a stone on a painted wall
And when the riot comes
Keep your head and keep your loving charm
Living life is a glamour show
But it's another word
It's another word
Word

(Mark Hollis Tim Friese-Greene)
Only of the night
And it's darkness am I calling
Only of the night
My relief in it's falling
Breathe on me, eclipse my mind
It's in some kind of disarray
Killing time, I cradle far
Chameleon days
Chameleon day

(Mark Hollis Tim Friese-Greene)
Dum the dum dum girl
The dum dum girl the dum dum girl
Another sigh with no regret
More coins inside her hands
One time to own respect
Now mercenary she stands
I'm no boy
Stealing pennies from the poor
Break it down
Can't you see she's
Dum the dum dum girl
The dum dum girl the dum dum girl
Another hand upon her hair
Time probably erased distaste
And so she's left
Where guilt is out of place
I'm no boy
Stealing pennies from the poor
Break it down
Can't you se
e she's
Dum the dum dum girl
The dum dum girl the dum dum girl

(Mark Hollis)
Say goodnight
Every hour brings the morning of my life
Out of time
Every breath I take I'm further down the line
Here I stand left behind
My eyes are open wide
If you need me you should try
Say goodnight
Every hour brings the morning of my life
Out of tune
Every step I take I take it over you
I don't care what people say
I don't care if night is day
I'll remember if you say
Here I stand left behind
My eyes are open wide
If you need me you should try

(Mark Hollis / Simon Brenner / Paul Webb / Lee Harris)

The party's over
I never thought you'd stay
The love of laughter
My truth's no longer sane

The party's over
Much older than you'd say
This friend of no one
Time creases on your face

Take a look at the kids
I've been losing track
This crime of being uncertain of your love
Is all I'm guilty of

The party's over
I never thought you'd stay
A style of reason
This life of masquerade

Take a look at the kids
I've been losing track
This crime of being uncertain of your love
Is all I'm guilty of

Take this punishment away Lord
Name the crime I'm guilty of
Too much hope I've seen as virtue
Name the crime I'm guilty of

hear it in my spirit
I've seen heroin for myself
on the street so young laying wasted
enough ain't it enough
crippled world
I just can't bring myself to see it starting
tell me how I fear it
I buy prejudice for my health
is it work so much when you taste it
enough there ain't enough hidden hurt
a time to sell yourself
a time for passing
spirit
how long

Well baby how the weeks fade
Baby was the best part of your youth a sensation
Yeah that's a change
I never thought I'd end up fooling you
Do you hear what they say?
All these people living up in my street
Well they say
'Out of touch, she lives in faded dreams'
Renee Renee Renee Renee
Baby how the weeks fade
Baby how the streets change
Renee Renee Renee Renee
Baby how the weeks fade
And maybe when the cheat plays
Maybe when the ace falls from his suit
And he tells you
'Yeah that's the game, I didn't want to lose it on the two'
You're playing his way
But the prize that you've been losing was youth
And I say
'Throw the ace and face up to the truth'
Renee Renee Renee Renee
Baby how the weeks fade
Baby how the streets change
Renee Renee Renee Renee
But baby how the weeks fade
Renee Renee Renee Renee
Baby how the weeks fade
Baby how the streets change
Renee Renee Renee Renee
But baby as the weeks change
And we've seen quite a few
I don't know who's fooling who
I'm fooling you

Say goodnight
Every hour brings the morning of my life
Out of time
Every step I take I'm further down the line
Here I stand left behind
My eyes open wide
If you need me you should try
Calling the night boy
Calling
Calling the night boy
Say goodnight
Every hour brings the morning of my life
Out of tune
Every breath I take I take it over you
I don't care what people say
I don't care night is day
I'll remember if you say
Calling the night boy
Calling
Calling the night boy
Calling
Here I stand left behind
My eyes are open wide
If you need me you should try
Calling the night boy
Calling
Calling the night boy
Calling

Baby, life's what you make it
Can't escape it
Baby, yesterday's favorite
Don't you hate it
Baby, life's what you make it
Don't backdate it
Baby, life's what you make it
Beauty is naked
Baby, life's what you make it
Celebrate it
Anticipate it
Yesterday's faded
Nothing can change it
Baby, life's what you make it

(Mark Hollis Simon Brenner)
Lay your hands into my head
I've been rude
I don't care what you do
So much heart is not enough
I've seen few
Who treat me like you do
My foolish friend
Don't try to live my life
Upon this weary line
My foolish friend
Don't tell me if I'm right
Teenage tears the saving grace
Of this fool
But no-one's watching you
Save this mirror for your face
There are two
No matter what you choose
My foolish friend
Don't try to live my life
Upon this weary line
My foolish frie
nd
Don't tell me if I'm right
When I can really rebel
Yes I'm really saddened
My foolish friend
Don't try to live my life
Upon this weary line
My foolish friend
Don't try to live my life

(Mark Hollis Tim Friese-Greene)
Makes you feel much older
Sublime the blind parade
It wrecks me how they justify their acts of war
They assemble, they pray
Take good care of what the priests say
'After death it's so much fun'
Little sheep don't let your feet stray
Happiness is easy
Joy be written upon the earth
And the sky above
Jesus star that shines so bright
Gather us in love
Guilt upon their shoulders
How well the cause evades
Infecting your religions, claiming pacts
It's easy to shoulder the blame
Happiness is easy
Little ships of Galilee
Happiness is easy
Standing on the sea
Happiness is easy
Jesus tried to love us all
Happiness is easy
Be a friend to me
Happiness is easy
Try to teach my children
To recognise excuse before it acts

(Mark Hollis / Tim Friese-Greene)

Here she comes
Silent in her sound
Here she comes
Fresh upon the ground

Come gentle spring
Come at winter's end
Gone is the pallow from a promise that's nature's gift

Waiting for the colour of spring
Let me breathe
Let me breathe the colour of spring

Here she comes
Laughter in her kiss
Here she comes
Shame upon her lips

Come wanton spring
Come for birth you live
Youth takes it's bow before the summer the seasons bring

Waiting for the colour of spring
Let me
Let me breathe
Let me breathe you
Let me breathe
Let me breathe you
Let me breathe