JUST LIKE STRANGE RAIN

I looked up from my glass into the sky
There's no room in my comic book to hide
Calendar swung on the wall held by a rusty nail
Down came the strange rain and washed my thoughts away

So stop in the sky and tell me why
You're changing your colours before my eyes
Yellow, blue, green and grey
Settled on the window pane

It made the rain that came seem strange
Just like strange rain
It made the rain that came seem strange
Just like strange rain

Still I sit beside the fire and watched as it fell
Come in colours from above into my citadel
My eyes are all embriodered with the rainbow you have made
And now it seems as though it's just, just like strange rain

IT'S ME THAT YOU NEED

Hey there
Look in the mirror
Are you afraid you might see me looking at you
Waiting, waiting at windows
Oh it's me that you need
Yes it's me and I'm waiting for you

But I remain silent
Oh I won't say a word
I leave you to realise I'm the light in your world

And it's me, yes it's me, yes it's me, yes it's me
That you're needing
It's me, yes it's me, yes it's me, yes it's me
That you need
Yes it's me, yes it's me, yes it's me
If you want to be living
I'm the one who's forgiving
Admit that it's me that you need

Watching, watching the swallows fly
It all means the same
Just like them
You can fly home again
But don't, no don't forget yesterday
Pride is an ugly word girl
And you still know my name

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É De Mim Que Você Precisa

Ei você
Olhe no espelho
Você tem medo de ver olhando pra você ?
Esperando, esperando nas janelas
Oh, é de mim que você precisa
Sim, é de mim e estou lhe esperando

Mas eu permaneço calado
Oh, não direi uma palavra
Deixo pra que você note que sou a luz no seu mundo

Sou eu, sou eu, sou eu, sou eu
Do que você precisa
E sou eu, sou eu, sou eu, sou eu
Se você quer continuar vivendo
Sou eu quem lhe perdoa
Admita que é de mim que você precisa

Olhando, olhando os pardais voarem
Tudo quer dizer a mesma coisa
E assim como eles
Você pode voar de novo pra casa
Mas não, não esqueça de ontem
Orgulho é uma palavra feia, menina
E você ainda sabe o meu nome

ALL ACROSS THE HAVENS

The sister of sunlight
Comes to my lonely life
Bearing the crosses I hung
I hung on my lonely wife
And the anchor told me
If I prayed by the river
That the sweet sound of water
Would always go with her

All across the havens to the waterfall
They told me I would meet her there
Inside those icy walls
But how on earth in this universe
Can they forgive me of my pains
For all across the havens
I must stumble locked in chains

Then the mother of mercy
Showed me her stable
And told me you would be safe
Safe in her cradle
And the waterfall opened
And the water withdrew
Leaving me standing
On a road leading through

LADY SAMANTHA

When the shrill winds are screaming
And the evening is still
Lady Samantha glides over the hill
In a long satin dress that she wears every day
Her home is the hillside, her bed is the grave

Lady Samantha glides like a tiger
Over the hills with no one beside her
No one comes near
They all live in fear
But Lady Samantha, she sheds only tears

The tales that I told round the fire every night
Are out of proportion and none of them right
She is harmless and empty of anything bad
For she once had something that most of you have

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Lady Samantha

Quando os ventos cortantes estão uivando
E a noite está caindo
Lady Samantha desliza sobre a colina
Em um longo vestido de seda que ela usa todos os dias
Sua casa é a encosta, sua cama é uma sepultura

Lady Samantha desliza como um tigre
Sobre as colinas sem ninguém ao seu lado
Ninguém se aproxima
Todos eles vivem com medo
Mas Lady Samantha, ela derrama apenas lágrimas

As histórias que eu conto em volta do fogo cada noite
São fora de proporção e nenhuma delas é certa
Ela é inofensiva e vazia de qualquer mau sentimento
Por uma vez ela teve algo que a maioria de vocês tem

GULLIVER

Gulliver's gone
To the final command of his master
His watery eyes had washed
All the hills with his laughter
And the seasons can change
All the light from the grey to the dim
But the light in his eyes
Will see no more so bright,
As the sheep
That locked in the pen

There's four feet of ground
In front of the barn
That's sun-baked, and rain-soaked
And part of the farm
But now it lies empty
So could and so bare
Gulliver's gone
But his memory lies there

By passing the doors of his life
Was a stage I remember
And in later years
He would cease to bare teeth to a stranger
For sentiment touched him
As cyclament holds him

And later, men came from the town
Who said, clear the child
This won't take a while
And Gulliver's gone with the dawn

SKYLINE PIGEON

Turn me loose from your hands
Let me fly to distant lands
Over green fields, trees and mountains
Flowers and forest fountains
Home along the lanes of the skyway

For this dark and lonely room
Projects a shadow cast in gloom
And my eyes are mirrors
Of the world outside
Thinking of the way
That the wind can turn the tide
And these shadows turn
From purple into grey

For just a Skyline Pigeon
Dreaming of the open
Waiting for the day
He can spread his wings
And fly away again
Fly away Skyline Pigeon fly
Towards the dreams
You've left so very far behind

Just let me wake up in the morning
To the smell of new-mown hay
To laught and cry, to live and die
In the brightness of my day

I want to hear the pealing bells
Of distant churches sing
But most of all please free me
From this aching metal ring
And open out this cage towards the sun

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Pombo da Linha do Horizonte

Solte-me de suas mãos
Deixe-me voar para terras distantes
Sobre campos verdes, árvores e montanhas
Flores e fontes florestais
Para casa nas faixas da estrada do céu

Pois este quarto escuro e solitário
Projeta uma sombra lançada na tristeza
E meus olhos são espelhos
Do mundo lá fora
Pensando no modo
Como o vento muda a maré
E essas sombras mudam
Do púrpura para o cinza

Pois apenas um pombo da linha do horizonte
Sonhando com a abertura
Esperando pelo dia em que
Ele puder abrir suas asas
E voar para longe de novo
Voe para longe, pombo da linha do horizonte, voe
Em direção aos sonhos que
Você deixou para trás tão longe

Deixe-me apenas acordar de manhã
Do cheiro de feno recém cortado
Para rir e chorar, viver e morrer
No brilho do meu dia

Eu quero ouvir os sinos repicantes
De igrejas distantes cantarem
Mas acima de tudo, por favor me liberte
Desta dolorosa argola de metal
E abra esta gaiola em direção ao sol

THE SCAFFOLD

In Orient where wise I was
To please the way I live
Come give the beggar chance at hand
His life is on his lip

Three score at thousand times
Where once in Amazon
Where Eldorado holds the key
No keeper holds my hand

Unchain the gate of solitude
The ruler says you run
Run hard unto the scaffold high
It's your chance to jump the gun

Oh how high the scaffold grows
The plant life of your window
In black-lace curtains brought you near
From out the plate glass window

The Minotaur with bloody hands
Is enraged by the sun,
Caged he by the corpses
Brought forth by the dawn

In Orient is I told
The buckshee hangman swears
For open crypts to silence
Nylon knots to sway by prayer

In Orient where wise I was
To please the way I live
Come give the beggar chance at hand
His life is on his lips

SAILS

I viewed in my presence
My hand on my forehead
And sighting the liners
Of mad merchant seamen
In search of the living
Or the spices of China

Lucy walked gently
Between the damp barrels
And shut out my eyes
With the width of her fingers
Said she'd guessed the number
Of bales in the back-room

While the sea-gulls were screaming
Lucy was eating
Then we hauled up our colours
The way the mother had told us
And together we just watched the sails

Lucy, I said
In a passage of cotton kegs
Can we hold hands
I'm sure that it's warmer
Then the gulls ate the crumbs
Of Lucy's sandwich

LADY WHAT'S TOMORROW

Look up little brother
Can you see the clover
No, not over there, a little bit left
And over there

Now look and see the lilac tree
The lily pond, the skylark's song
The open air, but no one cares
If branches live and die out there

Remember when you were nine
And I was ten
We would run into the woods
No we never will again

And Lady, what's tomorrow
What's tomorrow anyway
If it's not the same as now
It's the same as yesterday

Yes Lady, what's tomorrow
Will it be the same as now
Will the farmer push the pen
Will the writer pull the plough

Look up little brother
Can you see the clover
Oh sorry, but it's over
Now there's concrete and no clover

HYMN 2000

She chose the soft centre
And took it to bed with her mother
And the ideal confusion
Was just an illusion
To gain further news of her brother

And the comfort of mother
Was just an appeal for protection
For the cat from next door
Was found later at four
In surgical dissection

And I don't want to be
The son of any freak
Whor for a chocolate centre
Can take you off the street

For soon they'll plough the desert
And God knows where I'll be
Collecting submarine numbers
On the main street of the sea

The Vicar is thicker
And I just can't see through to him
For his cardinal sings
A collection of hymns
And a collection of coins
Is made after

And who wrote the Bible
Was it Judas or Pilate
Well one cleans his hands
While the other one hangs
But still I continue to stand

WESTERN FORD GATEWAY

It's hard to feel what's in your hands
Where the gas lamps grow
And the garbage blows
Around the paper stands

And a baby cried
And I saw a light
And I wondered where
And I wondered Why
There'd be a loss of life
Down here tonight

Down on Western Ford Gateway
That's a place where the dead say
That a man lives no more
That his fair share of days
Down on Western Ford Gateway

It flowed upon the cobbled floor
For the bottles dead
And they're drunk again
By the tavern door

VAL-HALA

The seadogs have all sailed their ships
Into the docks of dawn
While the sirens sit
And comb their hair
And twiddle with their thumbs

Oh Thor, above the mountain
Look down upon your children
This is their heaven
Where they're told
To bring their galleons

Seek you find your place with me
Men of iron, men of steel
Only the brave hear the hammers ring
In the courts of the Queens
In the halls of the Kings

You can come to Val-hala
In your own time
Come to Val-hala
Seek and you will find
Val-hala

There's long boats in the harbour
Which arrive there every hour
With the souls of the heroes
Whose blood lies on the flowers

And this heaven is the home
Of every man who loves his sword
And he uses it for freedom
To preach the word of Thor

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Val-Hala

Todos os cães do mar têm velejado em seus navios
Pelas docas do alvorecer
Enquanto as sereias sentam-se
A pentear seus cabelos
E a girá-los com seus polegares

Oh Thor, por sobre a montanha
Olhai por suas crianças
Este é vosso paraíso
Onde vos foi dito
Para trazerem seus galeões

Busqueis e encontrarás seu lugar comigo
Homens de ferro, homens de aço
Somente os bravos ouvirão os martelos soarem
Nas côrtes das Rainhas,
E nos salões dos Reis

Você pode vir a Val-Hala
Em seu próprio tempo
Venha a Val-Hala
Busqueis e encontrarás
Val-Hala

Há grandes barcos no porto
Que lá chegam a cada hora
Com as almas dos heróis
Cujo sangue jaz em flores

E este paraíso é o lar
De cada homem que ama sua espada
E a usa pela liberdade
Para pregar a palavra de Thor

EMPTY SKY

I'm not a rat to be spat upon
Locked up in this room
Those bars that look towards the sun
At night look towards the moon

Everyday the swallows play
In the clouds of love
Make me wish that I had wings
Take me high above

And I looked high
Saw the empty sky
If I could only
Could only fly

I'd drift with them
In endless space
But no man flies
From this place

At night I lay upon my bench
And stare towards the stars
The cold night air come creeping in
And home seems oh so far

If I could only swing
Upon those twinkling dots above
I'd look down from the heavens
Upon the ones I love

Hey, the lucky locket
Hangs around your precious neck
Some luck I ever got with you
And I wouldn't like to bet

That sooner or later you'll own
Just one half of this land
By shining your eyes on the wealth
Of every man

Just send up my love
Ain't seen nothing but tears
Now I've got myself
In this room for years

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Céu Vazio

Eu não sou um rato para ser cuspido
Trancado neste quarto
Aquelas barras que olham em direção do sol
À noite olham em direção à lua

Todo dia o pássaro brinca
Nas nuvens de amor
Faz-me desejar que eu tivesse asas
Para me levar ao alto

E eu olhei para cima
E vi o céu vazio
Se eu pudesse apenas,
Pudesse apenas voar

Eu carregaria com eles
No espaço infinito
Mas nenhum homem voa deste lugar

À noite deito no meu banco
e olho em direção as estrelas
O ar da fria noite vem devagar
E o lar parece, oh, tão longe

Se eu pudesse apenas dançar
Sobre aqueles pontos cintilantes lá em cima
Eu olharia para baixo do céu
Sobre aqueles que amo

Ei, o pingente da sorte
Agarrado ao teu precioso pescoço
Algum amante sortudo está com você
E eu adoraria apostar

Que cedo ou tarde você será próprio
Apenas uma metade da terra
Brilhando seus olhos na riqueza de todo homem

Apenas envie meu amor para o alto
Não vejo nada além de lágrimas
Agora eu me encontrei
Neste quarto por anos