Heaven is here Each night when i should be asleep I put on my coat And i walk the streets I spend these hours Escaping from my dreams Afraid of what i might see Fear has no beginning no end So i spend all my time With you on my mind I see visions of […]
A tenement, a dirty street Walked and worn by shoeless feet Inside it’s long and so complete Watched by a shivering sun Old eyes in a small child’s face Watching as the shadows race Through walls and cracks and leave no trace And daylight’s brightness shuns The days of pearly spencer The race is almost […]
Caught between two love affairs I brush my teeth and comb my hair My lonely neighbour called today And asked me, has he gone away I lied to her like i lied to him I lie to myself about everything Love, what is love? Love, what is love? Love is a time Love is a […]
Jacky - Tenement Symphony
And if one day i should become A singer with a spanish bum Who sings for women of great virtue I’d sing to them with a guitar I borrowed from a coffee bar Well, what you don’t know doesn’t hurt you My name would be antonio And all my bridges i would burn And when […]
Champagne - Tenement Symphony
A winter morning sun in new york Champagne wakes and checks the time It’s hard to keep a cup of coffee down When there’s so much on your mind Kicks a cockroach ‘cross the bedroom floor Checks the mirror grabs some clothes Waits for the aching to subside Where to find it no-one knows And […]
I’ve had my fill of ugly words I’ve had my fill of lies When the only truth or beauty now Is deep within your thighs The roses are in bloom my dear I haven’t any fear That you’ll love me Like you did last year Look at me Do you see A man against the […]
Sometimes we touch Sometimes we kiss Sometimes we just look In spiritual bliss In warmth or heat In sound or vision We like to come To some decision Under the moon In the dark Down in the street In the park In threat of law In sweat of fear I’d risk it all To have […]
Love Is a beautiful brutal thing It sings at night like the wind It stings your heart like a whip It rocks your soul like a ship And love Is a beautiful brutal thing It can mean everything Or nothing at all Such a feeling can make you tall Or as small as a distant […]
