Beat Boy
The siren screams to start the day
You get up early to earn your pay
Push the button throw that switch
Turbines roar their unholy pitch
I listen I can hear
Pounding like thunder
Pistons push the steel on steel
Steam filled air turns the wheel
The wheel in turn takes the strain
Pounds the beat again and again
Chorus:
Metal on metal
The feeling of steel
Someone is driving
But you've got the wheel
The workers sing the same old song
Machines in motion they're never wrong
You think in time you will be free
But a factory man is what you'll be
I listen I can hear
Pounding like thunder
Pistons push the steel on steel
Steam filled air turns the wheel
The wheel in turn takes the strain
Pounds the beat again and again
Chorus
Angry young men look to the west
Speak for yourself you'll pass the test
Fortune beholds the brave so they say
Questions unanswered the risk they might pay
I listen I can hear
Pounding like thunder
Chorus
Fade
Casuality
At 17 you're in a world of your own
You think that no-one quite understands
Your mother is telling you to stay at home
Your father has quite different plans
You've packed your bags and you're ready to leave
Like so many times before
You leave the envelope on the kitchen table
As you turn the key of the door
I'm so sorry but you'll never understand
But you've never had the problems that I've had
And I think that I can make it
But life is just a game
And I'm dealing all my aces
While I grit my teeth in pain
Chorus:
I'm not a casualty
(Hey boy)
I'm not a number
(Do you really care?)
I'm looking through glossy magazines
They make it look oh so real
But my life isn't quite right just now
who knows just how I feel
Another tube station and a false address
Know where to sleep tonight
Another false friend who smiles and smiles
And smiles through his evil eyes
I'm so sorry but you'll never understand
But you've never had the problems that I've had
And I think that I can make it
But life is just a game
And I'm dealing all my aces
While I grit my teeth in pain
Chorus
Fade...
Questions
Questions more questions
Run round in my head
No answers solutions
Illusions instead
As I walk alone
And I picture the past
The very beginning I ask yes I ask
Chorus:
The face may be gone
But the scent lingers on
Don't deny
No place can I go
My hopelessness shows in my eyes
Questions more questions
Never ending they seem
My passion my heart
Ripped out at the seams
Like a jigsaw in pieces
I have all the parts
To put them together
More a feat than a task
Questions...
Chorus
Where can I go
I remember so well
Like a child sees the past
You rejected my passion
Ripped out my heart
Questions, questions
Tormenting myself
Disillusioned and broken
Like a toy on a shelf
Like a child in the corner
With my head in my hands
Rejected I wonder
Through life's empty lands
Chorus
Fade...
Only the Good (Die Young)
A blade in the back, don't please attack
A knife in your back, won't fight back
A blade in our back, go go attack
A knife in your back, please fight back
Harder they come run boy run
Fight fight stand by your rights
He's too young to die, he hopes but still tries
And that what a rebel cried
Chorus:
Only the good die young
Only the good die young
Survive staying alive
Alive we will survive
Only the good die young
Crawl into a coffin six feet in the ground
Down down don't want him around
Don't break his bones find he's not stone
You know you'll never hurt him
Stronger they come they think they have
But no they haven't killed him
Life without time, that just a crime
A life time without mercy
You said to achieve it's not just a dream
But the good die young
Chorus
Fade...
Can Your Hear Me
I can never tell you
I can't speak the truth
From my window I see darkness
From my past my youth
Alone I'm alone again
Here in my room
More tears are shed for yesterday
For you...
Chorus:
Tell me tell me tell me
The screaming children cry
Like flowers in the water
Without it they would die
Listen to me, hear my words
Can you hear me,
The voices in the garden calling
For you...
I'm alone
Alone again
The screaming children calling
Like angels voices, crying
Chorus
Can you hear me...
Whispering voices echo nothing
They wish to speak to you
Nothing but sweet nothing
Spoken if only they'd speak the truth
Spoken if only they'd speak the truth
The Promise
The promise:
You said it would come true
The proof:
The making up to you
Pride:
Hold your head up high
You've got them on your side
Please don't run please don't hide
Chorus:
Promises it's your life
The jury:
Decided it for you
Decisions:
Maybe they're untrue
Sometimes:
You've got to give and take
Hurry-up:
It's make or break
It's time:
Time to live live your life
(chorus)
Promises, promises
Promise me, I'll promise you
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And count to two
Lately:
Are you takin' wrong advice
Suggestions:
Maybe wrong maybe right
Remember:
You're takin' nothing for granted
Your past your present life maybe tainted
But remember it's your life
(chorus)
Chorus
Fade...
Love Glove
Love change we change
One cheque for love
One lost glove
Never to reappear
Gone forever with the change
Oh it's such a shame
Nothing's true anymore
Chorus:
Give me the love glove
I'll give you love
For a certain price
Give me the love glove
I'll give you love
Gamble and sacrifice
Love I'll give you money
Sweet as sugar pure as honey
Hey don't walk away
You won't have to pay
Love I'll give you gold
Gold you pay the price
I throw the dice
Gamble risk sacrifice
Chorus
Love has changed to you
Who's got the glove
I've got the cheque
One cheque for love
I've got the glove who pays the price
Chorus
Fade to end...
Yesterday's Shadow
Today or tomorrow
Who can tell at all
The tears and the sorrow
Can you hear them call
Chorus:
Walk - walk away
Turn against it all
But still, still tomorrow
It's backs against the wall
See - can you see
All around us pain
Look deep inside
But still it's still the same
Chorus
Fade... to end
