Orphans - Deacon Blue And Ricky Ross
I now describe my country As if to strangers This train is full of songs Of local winners And the wind surrounds the towers And the flags they are blowing And the bunting and the distance Stretches over our sound And when he teases the children He calls them orphans And he cries for all […]
Your constant heart beats like the road It cuts through the rain and clears the snow And in our summer we take it slow Letting the wind die in the hollow Your constant heart Now that the leaves are strewn on your constant path Your feet won’t stumble from your chosen task Like the light […]
Poorly – you’re more than poorly jimmy More than that worse than that This is a case of photographs Smudged and dropped and laughed at Here’s some things that came in post Letters never sent but wrote Shelves of books not opened Browsed in and bored you unlocked things That should have been fastened down […]
Silhouette - Deacon Blue And Ricky Ross
Down in the streets they’re walking and kissing All he sees is the lights in her her eyes She feels his hand and smells his warm breath Looking up all she sees is the night sky He saw her standing there alone She saw him walking the whole town behind him He loved to whisper […]
So maybe you’re standing In some foreign town You’ve walked for miles Till the heat slows you down And your jeans and your curls Are bleached and split And your money and your anger Are all used up Maybe i’m sorry About the light in this place Makes my heart seem cold As the words […]
Fergus sings the blues In bars of twelve of less I’m a stranger to the land To this wilderness All things are possible but happen less and less This is my country these are my reasons ’cause i look in the mirror And it throws back the question And i whisper in words That beg […]
Sad Loved Girl - Deacon Blue And Ricky Ross
He saw her trying on his old clothes He watched herstretch and pull and tear He said you’re impatient as the wind Your laugh is strong and right and scared she was the sad loved girl of the neighbourhood He was the man that put happy over good She was the sad loved girl of […]
I wrote this once before Long before the summer You were then a student And we were dark as angels We were in the east Working to the west The west was looking south And the south she had no pity But last night i dreamed And you were always in it There were hopes […]
Circus Lights - Deacon Blue And Ricky Ross
You’re tired and you say you’re angry You’re thankful for this blessed rain And you think you’d know But your old friends have to tell you again Your books taught you all you know Your tastes and patterns and your tv shows But you can never follow where they won’t let you go Sometimes it’s […]
Cold dawn won’t comfort you Cold coffee won’t see you through Cold sheets won’t heal your heart Your frozen fingers of your name so tarred I know so rarely that things come your way Your ways are tender and your paths are straight Your mind’s not lived in the way ours are set Your heart […]
