I slip softly through Your slim fingers Feeling traces I embrace this Feeling that lingers So take me far away And hold me close to your heart And do me just this little favour For I do Yes I do love you   This silence sits easy So peacefully Like the skin Like the skin upon your body So take me far away now And hold me close to your heart And do me just this little favour For I do Yes I do love you   This little universe between backs So beautiful and colourful I lean on that Walking around in a daze Out for days now it’s been Talking it up as amazing The maze that I’m in Looking under stones for the answers But all that I found Is silence and dirty ground   If only you could see me now If only you could hear me out If only it was only me now   Listen just a little bit harder For hearts tell the truth It isn’t just a piston in an engine To keep you moving   You’re looking like you’re looking for something And now you’re surrounded by silence   If only you could see me now If only you could hear me out If only it was only me now   Silence, silence, silence, You’re surrounded by silence silence silence If only you could see me now If only you could hear me out If only it was only me now White bird with a black tail Eyes dark and face so pale Do you know what your future holds Over your side of the road   White bird with a black tail Look like an open sail Made me look up from my shoes To show me what you stand to lose   White bird White bird With your face so pale White bird White Bird Where’d you get that tail White Bird White Bird With a black tail   White feathers dipped in tar It’s hard to tell how old you are Wondering how much you know About all of us below   Half of you is heavenly Showing off your purity The rest you is from the street Like a line where they both meet   White bird White bird With your face so pale White bird White Bird Where’d you get that tail White Bird White Bird With a your face so pale White Bird White Bird With a black tail Locked inside your head Do you realise the things you said Never made sense We can sit here and laugh But we don’t know the half of it In your defence   We’ve been talking a while And it seems to me each time you smile Lights are coming on But they don’t burn too strong And they won’t stay for long And then they’re gone again   Funnyman got a plan To be something wonderful Funnyman listening To the world turn in on itself Tuning in to a brand new universe Funnyman will never be anything else   Do you remember the night When I had to play your angel Saving your soul Even though you were holding on tight Part of you was taken by Your demons below   And with no more to lose You said you feel like a bruise On a beautiful body All the damage you do Is so honest and true I don’t want to feel sorry for you   Funnyman got a plan To be something wonderful Funnyman listening To the world turn in on itself Tuning in to a brand new universe Funnyman will never be anything else Say you to me You’re a bird with an eye for anything shiny Searching the land For a hero of a man   You say I need More than my fair share of attention But I think you know That just isn’t so   Underneath I felt the fire of a burning question Tearing me apart Right from the very start   And now I see That it don’t take a trick of the light to excite me So strong, So long, You’ll see   Hold on to what you’ve been given lately Hold on to what you know you’ve got Hold on to what you’ve been given lately Hold on cos the world will turn if you’re ready or not   Simplicity A heart of gold An old head on young shoulders Quiet and lovely Becoming part of me And now I see From a handful of names and a thousand faces One light, burning fiercely   I was tired of January I was tired of June I felt a change coming I was tired of January Tired of June I felt a change a coming   I felt a change a coming I felt a change a coming I felt a change a coming I felt a change a coming soon   Hold on to what you’ve been given lately Hold on to what you know you’ve got Hold on to what you’ve been given lately Hold on cos the world will turn if you’re ready or not   Hold on to what you’ve been given lately Hold on to what you know you’ve got Hold on to what you’ve been given lately Hold on cos the world will turn if you’re ready or not   Well the world will turn if you’re ready or not Yes the world will turn if you’re ready or not Everybody says it’s just Another decay of the soul but I know that I’m a Hopeless Follower of anything to take me away from this hole in the ground I found it’s Hopeless Clinging to a feeling like a fish on a line It’s sublime to finally be Hopeless No more saying that there’s no more time   I was trying far too hard To be what I thought I should be I was playing wild cards And seeing things that weren’t in front of me Like a little tiger play fighting I was hurting myself Again and again   Hopeless Everybody says it’s just Another decay of the soul but I know that I’m a Hopeless Follower of anything to take me away from this hole in the ground I found it’s Hopeless Clinging to a feeling like a fish on a line It’s sublime to finally be Hopeless No more saying that there’s no more time   Well I’m just discovering I’m living in a different body Got a little insight into Everything that’s happening to me Like a little spider I’m climbing the insurmountable But I never hold my self accountable, no, no   Cos I’m hopeless Everybody says I’m hopeless Glad I got a bit of Hopelessness You can never bring me down Even though I got some solid ground Oh because I love it so And I think you should know   That I’m Hopeless Everybody says it’s just another decay of the soul But I know that I’m a Hopeless Follower of anything to take me away from this hole in the ground I found it’s Hopeless Clinging to a feeling like a fish on a line It’s Sublime to finally be Hopeless No more saying that there’s no more time Show me what it is you’ve done Pull the covers off in front of everyone Surely you want us all to see What you created for yourself in spite of me   You can try to tie me down You can try to stitch me up But you’ll have no luck now Please don’t ever let me down again It shouldn’t be allowed Please don’t ever make me frown again You have shown me how Please don’t try to be my friend again Cos I don’t want you I don’t want you now I don’t want you now   So now you learned to make your bed Far be it for me to be the one to pat your head Truth is you know I could have pulled you home But you’d already advertised that I slashed the tires of your one man show     You can try to tie me down You can try to stitch me up But you’ll have no luck now Please don’t ever let me down again It shouldn’t be allowed Please don’t ever make me frown again You have shown me how Please don’t try and be my friend again Cos I don’t want you I don’t want you now I don’t want you now     I don’t want you now Truth is that I could have pulled you home   You can try to tie me down You can try to stitch me up But you’ll have no luck now Please don’t ever let me down again It shouldn’t be allowed Please don’t ever make me frown again You have shown me how Please don’t try and be my friend again Cos I don’t want you I don’t want you now I don’t want you now   I don’t want you now See the look on my face From staying too long in one place But every time I try to leave I find I keep on stalling   Feel like a big old stone Standing by a strength of my own But every time the morning breaks I know I’m closer to falling   I’m all out of luck All out of faith I would give everything Just for a taste But everything’s here All out of place Losing my memory Saving my face Saving my face   I’m listening to what you say Even though I look the other way You could never understand The feeling of what I’m needing   I’m all out of luck All out of faith I would give everything Just for a taste But everything’s here All out of place Losing my memory Saving my face Saving my face   Leave it all to me I will do the right thing Maybe I’ll be everything I need Leave it all to me I will do the right thing Maybe I’ll be everything I need Leave it all to me I will do the right thing Do the right thing *(no 3rd one) I’m all out of luck All out of faith I would give everything Just for a taste But everything’s here All out of place Losing my memory I’m losing the best of me   I’m all out of luck All out of faith I would give everything Just for a taste But everything’s here All out of place Losing my memory And saving my face Saving my face I need a mirror And the eyes of a man I need no protection from my Bullet proof plan   Cos I’ve got a ticket For all that I lack You might think that I’m gone for good But I know that I’m coming back   Sit at my table Sip from my bowl I feel like I know you now And I will do until I get old   You might not see me Or trust that I’ll stay But there’s no sense in traveling If we’ve already been that way   Night is an adder Hidden in grass Bites like her life depends on it And waits to see how long you last  But you know better You stand your ground It might just sting a little But she knows you’re sticking around   The beauty of uncertainty Think it’s time to put myself away Seek out a little silence Close the door and sit a while And walk a little   As I put my words away The flow slows See this penny in a stream Picking it up is easy Follow the shape of it Jump in Swallow it whole Jump in   Even though I know my way around Possibly there’s something new I’ve found Holding on for finding solid ground Someday Soon   I’m gonna turn myself into the grass And I’ll grow Take this space above my head And live in it a little   Wear my feather headdress Like an Indian chief Gonna stretch out both my arms I’m gonna test the temperature Follow the taste of it Jump in Swallow it whole Jump in   Even though I know my way around Possibly there’s something new I’ve found Holding on for finding solid ground Someday Soon Well this stone that I have swallowed Isn’t going down so well And this road that I have followed Is leading me to hell   And you said it didn’t matter But I think you’re a liar Is this one of your talents That stokes the very Fire that burns you Each time you try to live The earth will turn below you The pressure is building And something has to give   And when I build you a steeple You say it’s incomplete Cos you need the whole cathedral To satisfy your need   You’re like a paper aeroplane That never seems to land Flying blind through anything Straight into the Hand that chokes you Each time you try to live The earth will turn below you The pressure is building And something has to give   Something has to give