SONG: You Pay Your Money And You Take Your Chance (4:19)

Woman cry -- chase man down street crying "No Chuckie, no, please don't"
Another girl comes they run along St. Andrew, turn south on Kensington
Meanwhile Chuckie beats it down the alley by the chicken packer's
By the time I reach the corner they've all vanished
Just a deaf kid talking like Popeye to a large fleshy laughing man in a blue shirt
You pay your money and you take your chance
When you're dealing with love and romance

Down the alley past the fire escape a woman is talking on the telephone
Kitchen light spills out, laughter riding on its beam
In the maze of moebius streets we're trying to amuse ourselves to death
Under the deep sky that's squatting so close over us tonight
You'd think it was trying to hatch us
The numb and confused
The battered and bruised
The counters of cost
And the star-crossed
You pay your money and you take your chance
When you're dealing with love and romance

Confused and solo in the spawning ground i watch the confusion of friends all numb with love
Moving like stray dogs to the anthem of night-long conversations, of pulsing rhythms and random voltage voices
In spite of themselves, graceful as these raindrops creeping spermlike across the car window
Stay or leave, give or withold, hesitate or leap
Each step splashing sparks of red pain in every direction
And through it all, somehow, this willingness that asks no questions
You pay your money and you take your chance
When you're dealing with love and romance.


SONG: The Strong One (6:03)

Isn't it hard
To be the one who has to give advice?
Isn't it hard
To be the strong one?

I see the skyline blurred through the plastic on your back screen door
Not unlike the faces of the people who keep turning up in the places we go
The ones we'd never see if things weren't going so well
When I was a torn jacket hanging on the barbed wire
You cut me free
And sewed me up and here I am

Isn't it hard
To be the one whose phone rings all day everyday?
Isn't it hard
To be the strong one?

Mouths move without vision -- without regard for consequences
Eyes fill with memories poisoned by intimate knowledge of failure to love
Sometimes, sometimes, doesn't the light seem to move so far away?
You help your sisters, you help your old lovers, you help me but who do you cry to?

Cause isn't it hard
To be the one who gathers everybody's tears?
Isn't it hard
To be the strong one?


SONG: All's Quiet On the Inner City Front (5:27)

blue billboard on the roof next door
makes a square of light on the kitchen floor
smokes rises from a cigarette
there's a dull glisten where the table's wet
soft breath rises from the bed
a thousand question marks over my head

turn on the tube but there's nothing new
the usual panic in red, white and blue
"military advisors" marching in the square
knife-sharp trouser creases slicing air
private armies on suburban lawns
shoulders braced against the tidal dawn
all's quiet on the inner city front
i don't know why i should but i feel content

bell in the fire station tower
rings out the measure of the racing hours
i slip through the door to the roof outside
to gaze at the sign hanging in the sky
that sailor on the billboard looks so self-possessed
doesn't have a thing to forgive or forget
all's quiet on the inner city front.


SONG: Radio Shoes (4:16)
(Instrumental)


SONG: Wanna Go Walking (2:53)

neon flame on the window of an upstairs room
helicopter beats across the face of the moon
got a hunger that sprawls like this galaxy
want to wrap my arms around you -- draw you right inside me
i want to go walking
with you Judy
through the movie
of the world

no matter what i do i feel your presence everywhere
i'll be just standing around and your scent comes at me
out of nowhere
i see your face on the wall -- in the magazine too
next thing you know the billboard out my window will be you
i want to go walking
with you Judy
through the movie
of the world

today was a dog licking crap in the gutter of the street
tonight is a dancer oscillating on weightless feet
so the fortune teller said you wouldn't end up with me
last i heard only God gets to say what has to be
i want to walking
with you Judy
through the movie
of the world.


SONG: And We Dance (4:45)

Midnight flight
Fullmoon light
Laughter in the air
It's a party all right
Slate-blue clouds
Iridescent sea
I'm heading for you
And you're headed for me
     and we dance and we dance
     and we dance...

Down there in the realm of power
Somebody's manicured hands
Play the Ace of Influence
Against the Jack of Demands
I reach of the deck --
Draw the seven of hearts --
Doesn't mean the world
But it's a better place to start
     and we dance and we dance
     and we dance...

Paradox and contrast
Variety and change
History repeats
But it's never the same
We've got this time
We've got this rhythm
Till the whole thing comes apart
Like light through a prism
     and we dance and we dance
     and we dance...


SONG: Justice (4:49)

What's been done in the name of Jesus
What's been done in the name of Buddha
What's been done in the name of Islam
What's been done in the name of man
What's been done in the name of liberation
And in the name of civilization
And in the name of race
And in the name of peace!
     everybody
     loves to see
     justice done
     on somebody else

Can you tell me how much bleeding
It takes to fill a word with meaning
And how much, how much death
It takes to gave a slogan breath
And how much, how much, how much flame
Gives light to a name
For the hollow darkness
In which nations dress?
     everybody
     loves to see
     justice done
     on somebody else

Everybody's seen the things they've seen
We all have to live with what we've been
When they say charity begins at home
They're not just talking about a toilet and a telephone
Got to search the silence of the soul's wild places
For a voice that can cross the spaces
These definitions that we love create --
These names for heaven, hero, tribe and state
     everybody
     loves to see
     justice done
     on somebody else


SONG: Broken Wheel (4:39)

Way out on the rim of the galaxy
The gifts of the Lord lie torn
Into whose charge the gifts were given
Have made it a curse for so many to be born
This is my trouble --
These were my fathers
So how am I supposed to feel?
Way out on the rim of the broken wheel

Water of life is going to flow again
Changed from the blood of heroes and knaves
The word mercy's going to have a new meaning
When we are judged by the children of our slaves
No adult of sound mind
Can be an innocent bystander
Trial comes before truth's revealed
Out here on the rim of the broken wheel

You and me -- we are the break in the broken wheel
Bleeding wound that will not heal

Lord, spit on our eyes so we can see
How to wake up from this tragedy

Way out on the rim of the broken wheel
Bleeding wound that will not heal
Trial comes before truth's revealed
So how am I supposed to feel?
This is my trouble --
Can't be an innocent bystander
In a world of pain and fire and steel
Way out on the rim of the broken wheel


SONG: Loner (7:38)
(From the album "Mummy Dust")

Down at the bus station
shark grins and sandpaper conversation
men's faces women's bodies on the magazine stand
and a headline about Sarajevo and Tehran

They are radiant angels, they are earthly slaves
they are predators moving in their endless days
days of striving, nights of novocaine
never going to bring them freedom from their pain

     i'm a loner
     with a loner's point of view
     i'm a loner
     and now i'm in love with you

Wild shadows, acid verbs
eyelids opening dans mon coeur
tu me touche comme la pression
des etoiles sur les tenebres

In the elevator and the empty hall
how'm i ever going to hear you when you call
I'm always living and i always die
on the event horizon of your eyes

     i'm a loner
     with a loner's point of view
     i'm a loner
     and now i'm in love with you