SONG: The Trouble With Normal (3:35) (From the album "The Trouble With Normal") Strikes across the frontier and strikes for higher wage Planet lurches to the right as ideologies engage Suddenly it's repression, moratorium on rights What did they think the politics of panic would invite? Person in the street shrugs -- "Security comes first" But the trouble with normal is it always gets worse Callous men in business costume speak computerese Play pinball with the 3rd world trying to keep it on its knees Their single crop starvation plans put sugar in your tea And the local 3rd world's kept on reservations you don't see "It'll all go back to normal if we put our nation first" But the trouble with normal is it always gets worse Fashionable fascism dominates the scene When ends don't meet it's easier to justify the means Tenants get the dregs and landlords get the cream As the grinding devolution of the democratic dream Brings us men in gas masks dancing while the shells burst The trouble with normal is it always gets worse SONG: Going Up Against Chaos (5:31) (From the album "The Trouble With Normal") Moon across the valley Squatting on the roof Of the dirty gray bank Like a cop with no proof We were lying in bliss Love was cooling into sleep There was a dream on the horizon And a punch-up in the street We were lying on the mountain by the satellite dish Humming with the tremors of Every envy, rage and wish Orchids and radar In the dazzling night The stars were all racing like satellites Going up against chaos Going up against chaos Two hearts full of tough love We were bodies of light Like we'll be someday The sirens and the curses Were light years away We were Lot on the mountain We were Noah on the Ark Flying hand in hand From the doghowl dark Going up against chaos... SONG: Wondering Where The Lions Are (3:42) (From the album "Dancing In the Dragon's Jaws") Sun's up, uuh huh, looks okay the world survives into another day and i'm thinking about eternity some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me. I had another dream about lions at the door they weren't half as frightening as they were before but i'm thinking about eternity some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me. Walls windows trees, waves coming through you be in me and i'll be in you together in eternity some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me Up among the firs where it smells so sweet or down in the valley where the river used to be i got my mind on eternity some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me and i'm wondering where the lions are... i'm wondering where the lions are... Huge orange flying boat rises off a lake, thousand-year-old petroglyphs doing a double take, pointing a finger at eternity i'm sitting in the middle of this ecstasy Young men marching, helmets shining in the sun, polished as precise like the brain behind the gun (should be!) they got me thinking about eternity some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me and i'm wondering where the lions are... i'm wondering where the lions are... Freighters on the nod on the surface of the bay One of these days we're going to sail away, going to sail into eternity some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me and i'm wondering where the lions are... i'm wondering where the lions are... SONG: Tokyo (3:25) (From the album "Humans") They're getting prepared to haul a car out of the river Noise and smoke and concrete seem to be going on forever Grinding gears and drivers getting high on exhaust i'm thinking about the water down below and what got lost Pachinko jingle and space torpedo beams Comic book violence and escaping steam Grey suited business men pissing against the wall -- Cut to crumbling guardrail, slow motions car fall Oh Tokyo -- I never can sleep in your arms Mind keeps on ringing like a fire alarm Me and all the other dice bouncing around in the cup Did you have to show me that accident scene Didn't I get enough shaking up? Still I'm gonna miss you... Dragon of good fortune struggles with trickster fox Energy and patience and the power of the buck Tonight I'm flying headlong to meet the dark red edge of dawn I know somebody will be crying and somebody will be gone Oh Tokyo -- (repeat chorus) SONG: All's Quiet On The Inner City Front (5:27) (From the album "Inner City Front") 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: Creation Dream (4:00) (From the album "Dancing In the Dragon's Jaws") centred on silence counting on nothing i saw you standing on the sea and everything was dark except for sparks the wind struck from your hair sparks that turned to wings around you angel voices mixed with seabird cries fields of motion surging outward questions that contain their own replies... you were dancing i saw you dancing throwing your arms toward the sky fingers opening like flares stars were shooting everywhere lines of power bursting outward along the channels of your song mercury waves flashed under your feet shots of silver in the shell-pink dawn... SONG: Wanna Go Walking (2:53) (From the album "Inner City Front") 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: Grim Travellers (4:51) (From the album "Humans") ministers meet -- work on the movement of goods also work on the movement of capital also work on the movement of human beings as if we were so many cattle grim travellers in dawn skies see the beauty -- makes you cry inside makes you angry and you don't know why grim travellers in dawn skies 12 mercenaries got weapons primed gonna take that African nation in record time you wonder why they bother, why not leave it alone they say "every man wants to retire to a place he can call his own" those grim travellers in dawn skies see the beauty -- makes them cry inside makes them angry and they don't know why grim travellers in dawn skies redness, richer than a rose blooms against the backdrop of somebody's white clothes bitter little girls and boys from the Red Army Underground they'd blow away Karl Marx if he had the nerve to come around they're just travellers in dawn skies see the beauty -- makes them cry inside makes them angry and they don't know why they're grim travellers in dawn skies down on the plain of 10,000 smoke stacks trucks butt each other to establish dominance the newspaper next to me leans over and says matter-of-factly "sacred mountains towers above meadows" uh huh and above us grim travellers in dawn skies i see the beauty -- makes me cry inside it makes me angry and i don't know why we're grim travellers in dawn skies SONG: Rumours Of Glory (3:38) (From the album "Humans") above the dark town after the sun's gone down 2 vapour trails cross the sky catching the day's last slow goodbye black skyline looks rich as velvet something is shining like gold but better rumours of glory smiles mixed with curses the crowd disperses about whom no details are known each one alone yet not alone behind the pain/fear etched on the faces something is shining like gold but better rumours of glory (repeat) you see the extremes of what humans can be? in that distance some tension's born energy surging like a storm you plunge your hand in and draw it back scorched beneath it's shining like gold but better rumours of glory SONG: Tropic Moon (4:38) (From the album "The Trouble With Normal") Away from the river Away from the smoke of the burning Fearful survivors Subject of government directives One sad guitar note Echoes of the wall of the jungle Seen from the air they're just targets with nowhere to run to Children of rape Raised on malnutrition Men in camouflage Filled with a sense of mission Light through the wire mesh Plays on the president's pistol Like the gleam of a bead of sweat in the flow of a candle Hear the cry in the tropic night Should be the cry of love but it's a cry of fright Some people never see the light Till it shines through bullet holes The tropic moon Bathing a beach fringed with palms Glitters on shells And beach tar and coke cans And on the night-coloured boat And on the barrels of guns In the rage in the hearts of these men is the seed of a wind they call Kingdom Come Hear the cry... SONG: Yanqui Go Home (4:27) Yanqui wake up you know it's time to go the sun is almost up and we want to be alone Yanqui head spin better get some rest tomorrow we can talk about the way you insulted the guests Ivan's outside sulking in the yard everyone go bad communication when the time gets hard Not a nice guy but he's got troubles of his own anyway it's best if you both just leave the rest of us alone Yanqui go home you had too much better go sleep it off party's over -- time to meditate on it time to tally up the cost Yanqui wake up don't you see what you're doing trying to be the Pharoah of the West bringing nothing but ruin Better start swimming before you begin to drown all those petty tyrants in your pocket gonna weigh you down You're my friend but I say Yanqui go home you had too much better go sleep it off party's over time to meditate on it time to tally up the cost (1984) SONG: Lord Of The Starfields (3:22) (From the album "In the Falling Dark") Lord of the starfields Ancient of Days Universe Maker here's a song in your praise. wings of the storm cloud beginning and end you make my heart leap like a banner in the wind. O Love that fires the sun keep me burning. Lord of the starfields sower of life, heaven and earth are full of your light. Voice of the nova smile of the dew all of our yearning only comes home to you. O Love that fires the sun keep me burning. SONG: The Coldest Night Of The Year (3:58) (From the album "Mummy Dust") I was up all night, socializing Trying to keep the latent depression from crystalizing Now the sun is lurking just behind the Scarborough horizon And you're not even here On the coldest night of the year. I took in Yonge Street at a glance Heard the punkers playing Watched the bikers dance Everybody wishing they could go to the south of France And you're not even here On the coldest night of the year. Hey look at me now See the shape I'm in It's taken me so long to catch on to what's going on Inside this skin When two lovers really love there's nothing there But this suddenly compact universe Skin and breath and hair I watched the all night TV show In the all night bar I drove all the people home I was the one with the car Now I'm sitting here alone and sleepless and wondering where you are And wishing you were here On the coldest night of the year. SONG: Laughter (3:35) (From the album "Further Adventures Of") A laugh for the way my life has gone a laugh for the love of a friend a laugh for the fools in the eyes of the world the love that will never end Ha Ha Ha... Let's hear a laugh for the man of the world who thinks he can make things work tried to build the New Jerusalem and ended up with New York Ha Ha Ha... A laugh for the sun redballing through the thermal inversion haze a laugh for the nuclear good-time boys numbering all our days Ha Ha Ha... A laugh for the newsprint nightmare a world that never was where the questions are all "why" and the answers are all "because" Ha Ha Ha... A laugh for the dogs barking at our heels they don't know where we've been a laugh for the dirty window pane hiding the love within Ha Ha Ha... Tapping our feet to an ancient tune a laugh for the time gone by a laugh for me and Kitty in the delivery room waiting for the child's first cry Ha Ha Ha... SONG: Joy Will Find A Way (3:50) (From the album "Joy Will Find A Way") make me a bed of fond memories make me to lie down with a smile everything that rises afterward falls but all that dies has first to live. as longing becomes love as night turns to day everything changes joy will find a way SONG: The Rose Above The Sky (6:23) (From the album "Humans") something jewelled slips away round the next bend with a splash laughing at the hands i hold out only air within their grasp all you can do is praise the razor for the fineness of the slash i see the Rose above the sky opens and the light behind the sun takes all gutless arrogance and rage burn apart the best of tries you carry the weight of inherited sorrow from your first day till you die toward that hilltop where the road forever becomes one with the sky i see the Rose above the sky opens and the light behind the sun takes all ozone on the midnight wind got me thinking of the sea and the mercies of the currents that brought me to you and you to me and in the silence at the heart of things where all true meetings come to be i see the Rose above the sky opens and the light behind the sun takes all