BLUE SUNSET
Some think living is impossible, even breathing is a task
Wrapping trees around convertibles, drinking spirit from a flask
ripping pages from the catalogue, sticking items on the wall
Seeking thrills and writing monologues about a mantra for us all
Hedge every bet, have no regret
Clear every debt, live to forget
Hedge every bet, have no regret
Face every threat until you ride into the sunset
When it sinks into the night
Blue sunset, scattering the light
Dropping down at the deep-end, more like the Mariana Trench
Nobody spinning on the carousel, lonely park, empty bench
Feeling something is incredible, when a heart is in a phone
Don’t remember to communicate, just a feeling so alone
Hedge every bet, have no regret
Clear every debt, live to forget
Hedge every bet, have no regret
Play the cassette where you sail into the sunset
Hedge every bet, have no regret
Clear every debt, live to forget
Hedge every bet, have no regret
Try not to fret when you fall into the sunset
BE WHAT YOU WANT
Once upon a time people could be different
Now they’re all the same
Caught up inside the irrelevant
And the world’s to blame
In constant solitude
It goes round and round again
Same old attitude
Inside the hunt for fame
Your style, my style, it’s time to terminate profile
Save yourself from the falling hand
Be what you want, Not to stand out, not to stand out
Be what you want Not to fit in
Be what you want, It’s a simple plan
Be what you want because you can
In the lost and found notice our benevolence
Preoccupied
A disconnect, some kind of malevolence
Cut us open wide
Dying in a digital world, dying in a digital world
Let me resuscitate you, don’t die in the digital world
Your style, my style, on trial and looking juvenile
Wasting time while it wastes you, nothing new
ANOTHER WAY
Dropping bombs on kids and mums
There’s another way
Looking out for number one
There’s another way
I cannot help but think that – there’s another way
to all this pain and sickness – there’s another way
I held you just the other night
Together, holding on so tight
Working so hard to make everything alright
for a short time, anyway
Getting home and keeping score
There’s another way
Stepping over weak and poor
There’s another way
I cannot help but think that – there’s another way
to all this hate and sadness – there’s another way
I told you one day we would change
Now it has happened it don’t feel strange
Furniture for us to rearrange
To turn our world around
I hear the sound of creaking floors
Slamming doors on the way to find…
Giving back the things we’ve taken – is another way
Mending hearts that we’ve been breaking – is another way
I think it’s obvious – there’s another way
Lead the rest with your example to another way
SLEEP STREET
Only yesterday you said you’d start a new crusade
Better move on those visions before they start to fade
The need for release has increased, become a stormy affair
And everyone around you doesn’t care
You’ve been shot down, I really know what that’s like
Best friends been going on a fun strike
So filled with pessimism, pacifism it’s a prison, living on sleep street
Lazy and passive got married, why walk when you could be carried
Hitchhike through life just wondering why you go slow
personal death row
They don’t know which way to go
Sucked in to the maelstrom of everyday, of everyday
I know a way to bring you back to life
held back by restrictions, well not, my friend, tonight (no not tonight)
Where they’re sheltered, they’ll be shattered
Walking out all bruised and battered
I know a way, let’s implement it today (hey, hey, hey)
Cavalier in the eyes of a rat-pack
Twenty years they’ll be crying for their youth back
Forfeiting ambition to the competition, living on sleep street
Do they really, really wanna join the rat race?
I I was you I’d tell them it’s the last place,
You’re going and they ought to be knowing it’s the last place
They wanna be too
It didn’t take that long, it didn’t take that long to find
Become one with one’s mind
You shouldn’t pay the price, you shouldn’t put a price on time
What it takes, what it takes, it’s what it takes
To have to make a choice and then you hear that voice sing
Carry on, carry on, carry on
You have to wake that voice, you have to hear your voice sing
Carry on, carry on, carry on
