1. |
Goodbye Ruth
03:58
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When you're young and
your life stretches out before you,
so much temptation,
so many doors seem open for you.
Inviting thresholds,
when you don't know what lies deep in the room,
but clock on anyway
for factory-floor financial liberty.
And life is good now,
the daylight, bright, shines all around you,
with youth and beauty,
overcome the things you want to,
the World's a fine place,
security taken for granted,
and why should you fear
the future when your future is so bright.
But when the night falls,
the facts will dawn the boom is over,
behind the closed doors,
the scapegoat-shortlist pondered over,
they repay your loyalty
with empty words and fickle gestures,
and with truth that's skin deep
they smile and put you out to pasture.
It's so easy
to put your trust in someone you love.
And it's so easy
to put your faith in wages day,
but when the time comes,
you'll find betrayal comes before the truth.
And when the bell chimes,
you leave the door - you can't go back there.
So Goodbye Ruth I never knew
and never will,
they took your life,
they put you down,
they turned you round,
they threw you out,
they never gave you anything,
except the scars in your mind.
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2. |
What is The Sense
03:03
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See the difference,
they're writing for a million seller,
and I'm writing just for you.
Hear the inference,
The Beatles loving everyone.
They never wrote for you
Smell my innocence,
the sentiments I try to express,
the feelings coming through.
Touch experience,
detach yourself from in the crowd
and try to be different.
Taste my influence,
he took a drink and never talks sense,
but you know I do.
Sense my exigence,
and now I wrote a love song to you,
you've got to see it's true.
What is the sense of talking like this,
where's the explanation for the things I say?
What is the sense of talking like this,
when I don't believe you listen anyway.
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3. |
Alizon
04:23
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Alizon, your pretty face,
bewitching features out of place,
your mother never could give you
the beauty you have grown into.
Alizon, your innocence,
reflected by your reticence.
Behind the mask you always hide,
the secrets buried deep inside.
Jealousy, a sprig of fear,
mix them well and hate appears
within the cauldron of the mind
with truth and reason left behind.
Innocent beyond all doubt,
but don't forget that in this state
you're guilty until proven not.
Your rights, it seems, the law forgot.
Your mother burned, your sister hanged,
beneath the gallows people sang
of freedom from the lifted spells
no longer cursed among the fells.
Alizon I feel ashamed,
Three Hundred years, and nothings changed
and Witches now still serve their time
as victims for another's crime.
Which girl are you,
Which girl are you?
Witch girl, are you gonna swim tonight?
Which girl are you,
Which girl are you?
Witch girl, can you shed a tear when you need to?
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4. |
Favourite Cat
02:52
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Sit and think of a man
sitting on a sealed train
off to end a reign spent in exile.
Thoughts of revolution
now materialised,
soon no more despised class divisions.
See a soviet state,
see the Red and the White
see them have to fight, still, for freedom.
Shame about Uncle Joe,
while you're working out that,
who's your favourite cat?
Sit and think of a man,
over fifty years gone
but his name lives on through the Column.
A Spanish railway worker,
fought for where he came from,
in his heart "el communa libre".
Born to die in Madrid
a hero then, sadly missed,
or just a terrorist killed in action?
Lived and died for a cause
while you're working out that,
who's your favourite cat?
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