"Believers" (2016)

The Believers lyrics - Deacon Blue

Go on ahead
I'll be with you soon enough
Go plant a garden
I'll be walking in the cool of the evening
In honeysuckle and willow trees

Tell them your story
Tell them what you dreamed about
Say you were lost
Then one day you were found
Someone brought you home again

The Believers
Know that it's going to get better
You better
Believe it
Cause no one here will ever forget you
Not let you
We're believers
Believers

Who was this child?
What was her journey?
Who were her people
What did she dream of?
How come we know nothing
When we say we know so much
About everything?

Step on a boat
Go on a journey
May it take you to heaven
And never bring you back again
So you no longer fear the boatman
Or the swell of the ocean

The Believers
Know that it's going to get better
You better
Believe it
Cause no one here will ever forget you
Not let you
We're believers
Believers

You wake up one morning
There's nothing you can do about it now
You know you're on one side or the other
You're just one more believer

This Is A Love Song lyrics - Deacon Blue

Morning comes
To the sound of bells
Lying beside me saying
You gotta be somewhere else
There was a time
Everything got lost
Everyone and everything we once loved
Was in the past

Cross the room and you're looking at me
You touch the handle and you're looking at me
Walking out that door still looking at me
There's something there's something
There's something you gotta know...

Morning comes
I like awake
I'm looking at you
I only know today you're going away
Look at your clothes
Scattered on the floor
Is nothing gonna change
Is nothing gonna change any more?

I get so worried when you don't appear
I get so worried when you come too near
I'm standing in your way
But you're still looking at me
There's something there's something
There's something you gotta know...

Love is enough
Love will do
Love lasts longer than
Anything you're going through
Love is enough
Love will do
Love lasts longer than
Anything you're going through
Love song
This is a love song
Love song
This is a love song

You gotta walk a long way
Walk a long way
Walk a long way
To come back again
You gotta walk a long way
Walk a long way
Walk a long way
To come back again

Love is enough
Love will do
Love lasts longer than
Anything you're going through
Love is enough
Love will do
Love lasts longer than
Anything you're going through
Love song
This is a love song
Love song
Love will do
Love lasts longer than
Anything you're going through
This is a love song
This is a love song
This is a love song
This is a love song

I Will And I Won't lyrics - Deacon Blue

Every time I think of that night
I still smile
I made you laugh and you were kind enough
To make me feel good for a while
At last when you fell in my arms
I knew you were glad
It was so good to learn how things
Take a turn to happy from sad

Will I tell you all the things if my heart says so?
Will I show you everything I want you to know?
Well, I will and I won't
I do and I don't

Every time I think of that night I still smile
If I laughed and showed kindness
It's cause you made me feel good for a while
In your arms this girl's chances
Didn't seem so bad
Though I didn't get you
I could not forget
To remember the night we had

Will I tell you all the things if my heart says so?
Will I show you everything I want you to know?
Well, I will and I won't
I do and I don't

Will I tell you all the things if my heart says so?
Will I show you everything I want you to know?
Well, I will and I won't
I do and I don't
Will I tell you all the things if my heart says so?
Will I show you everything I want you to know?
Well, I will and I won't
Do I love you
I do and I don't

Meteors lyrics - Deacon Blue

Had a friend in Fowlis
We'd stay up all night and talk it out
We'd never worry about things
We shouldn't worry about

Like the cold dark river
Currents running so deep you can't see
How far down we'd be
Before they pulled us out

Oh, the toughest test
Is not the way we came into the world
Or the way it ends
Yes, our toughest test
Is what lies between and what we do
With the time we get

This world is beautiful
It's full of beautiful things
Tall trees and meadows and birds that sing

Oh, the toughest test
Is not the way we came into the world
Or the way it ends
Yes, our toughest test
Is what lies between and what we do
With the time we get

There's a hole in the middle
We've gotta work out how we're gonna fill it in

Oh, the toughest test
Is not the way we came into the world
Or the way it ends
Yes, our toughest test
Is what lies between and what we do
With the time we get

Gone lyrics - Deacon Blue

Were you there at the beginning, pacing the roads, walking the streets
Or in the shadows of the summer, close by, but never seen

Were you the figure in the window, seen from some speeding train
Or accidentally in a photograph, of a half forgotten scene

Did I see you from the car, round the corner out of reach?
Were you a swimmer or just a rock, glanced in a moment from the beach

If I never see you one more time, I know you're in all my dreams
It would be everything, just to see you back again
But you're gone
You're gone

Everybody's lost, not just the ones you know
We are reluctant travelers, all trying to get home
Did I see you from the platform, slowly pulling out again,
Did I pass you on the road, almost forgotten by everyone

If I never see you one more time, I know you're in all my dreams
It would be everything, just to see you back again
But you're gone,
But you're gone,
You're gone
You're gone
You're gone
You're gone
You're gone
You're gone
You're gone
You're gone

If I never see you one more time, I know you're in all my dreams
It would be everything, just to see you back again

If I never see you one more time, I know you're in all my dreams
It would be everything, just to see you back again
But you're gone,
You're gone
You're gone
You're gone

What I Left Out lyrics - Deacon Blue

Is this the common cup?
Every one drinks once
Or am I the odd one out?
Laughing at danger and saying...
Everything's gonna be all right
Everything's gonna be all right

I want to sing and I want to shout
She keeps making me what I'm all about
I've been given the benefit of the doubt
She's got me wondering what I left out

I told her everything
Knew every word was true
I wanna be just and kind
God knows I tried and failed
So many times trying to do it right
So many times but I won't be denied

I want to sing and I want to shout
She keeps making me what I'm all about
I've been given the benefit of the doubt
She's got me wondering what I left out

Sometimes the light's too cruel
You put the truth behind you
Hoping it can't find you

Waiting to sing, waiting to shout
She keeps making me what I'm all about
I've been given the benefit of the doubt
She's got me wondering what I left out
She's got me wondering what I left out

A Boy lyrics - Deacon Blue

I first met you on the road
Everyone was rushing past
And you were going slow
You seemed to make me all I should be
Having watched it all on the movies and on tv
I met somebody else
Who spun me around and around
And that made all the difference to me

We were young once
Don't pretend it didn't happen to you
We thought we had it all to come
So what's a boy supposed to do?

We got into your old car
Drove about as fast as it would go and just as far
Till, before we even knew we came
Up to the end of the road
Long before we meant to
I found somebody else
Who spun me around the town
And that made all the difference to me

We were young once
Don't pretend it didn't happen to you
We thought we had it all to come
So what's a boy supposed to do?

Birds lyrics - Deacon Blue

We were the sailors in the summer
In the winter we climbed the hills
We were swimmers for a season
Even out to sea you'd see us

We left footsteps on the beaches
Trails of sand back to the road
There's nothing left there to teach us
Only the knowledge of your going

Were we folks you recognised
When we came into your view?
Did you notice who we were
Or were we strange shapes in truth?

Maybe it was how the light fell
Maybe just the time of day
Perhaps a storm had just passed over
Or perhaps we were never there
The land will surely come

One day we're gonna be free
One day we're gonna be free
One day we're gonna be free
As the birds

We were sailors in the summer
In the winter we stayed in
No one heard us break the water
Or saw our shapes on the horizon

We were strangers on the coast
Outsiders to the land
No one thought to ask us questions
No one thought to understand

We were prisoners to the city
We had nowhere else to go
All our dreams like fallen leaves
On some unremembered road
Sometimes no land would come

One day we're gonna be free
One day we're gonna be free
One day we're gonna be free
As the birds

We're high above jail walls and windows
We're high above the waves of worry
We're floating on the wind
Cause nothing can begin
To make us want to land again

One day
One day
One day we're gonna be free
One day we're gonna be free
One day we're gonna be free
One day we're gonna be free
As the birds

You Can't Know Everything lyrics - Deacon Blue

I wish I was a painter now
I'd paint all of this somehow
Words just don't come quick enough
To catch that weak winter light
Leaking in from above

The rain's gone off for a while
Probably coming back in style
Short glimpses of near perfection
Thanks, but I'll walk and keep my coat on

You can't know everything
You're such an innocent soul
You can't learn anything
Unless you let somebody show you
And you'll not know everything
Even if you started right now
You must trust someone
Cause someday darling trust's all you know

Here comes those sirens again
Or is it just my dreams that they're in?
Racing towards and ending
When everything seems to be beginning

You can't know everything
You're such an innocent soul
You can't learn anything
Unless you let somebody show you
And you'll not know everything
Even if you started right now
You must trust someone
Cause someday darling trust's all you know


Delivery Man lyrics - Deacon Blue

I give you everything I can
But I don't get anything back from you
There's something in the way you sing
The words but somehow it lacks the bitter truth
I'm here singing you're there watching
But I've been in these songs too long
I know you love them more than I ever could
But that's cause you never stood where I stood
In amongst the heartache
Down around the sorrow saying I love you
Saying it right out loud..
Singing there or being here...
Two different things we need to realise but I.
I''m the delivery man
Taking round things I don't own
To folks who can afford them
Cause I can't
I'm just the delivery man

I can't tell you what to think or do
I'm just a singer of songs
In the middle of it all, when it all comes down
I can't tell right from wrong
In amongst the heartache
Down around the sorrow
Saying I love you, saying it right out loud...
Singing there or being here
Two different things we need to realise but I...

I'm the delivery man
Taking round things I don't own
To folks who can afford them
Cause I can't I'm just the delivery man
I'm going round the town
Can't take it back
Can only give it out
Cause I know what I'm not and what I am
I'm just the delivery man

I'm going round the town
Can't take it back
Can only give it out
Cause I know what I'm not and what I am
I'm just the delivery man

l'm going round the town
Can't take it back
Can only give it out
Cause I know what I'm not and what I am
I'm just the delivery man

Come Awake lyrics - Deacon Blue

When the daylight comes
And come it will
I'll get all my things
And creep down the hall
I'll light that ring
For my first cigarette
Walking out to the morning
Pulling on your jacket

I can no longer watch
I can no longer wait
I can no longer hope
I have come awake

That persistent sun
Will warm my face
Lighten my steps
Till hours later
I'll come back
Throw my coat on the floor
We'll talk tomorrow
When tonight is over

I can no longer watch
I can no longer wait
I can no longer hope
I have come awake

"A New House" (2014)

Bethlehem Begins lyrics - Deacon Blue

Tell me once tell me twice how is it that we begin again
Do we start off by clearing up the mess or just forgetting
The way some people try to kid you'd think
We're better off pretending
Just how far can we go without working out the ending
We stayed awake one starry night
Just to watch the sky turn and change and aim...

So suddenly there's no day, no night,
No earth and no horizon
Everything that's wrong's now right
No moon or no sun rising
I can't tell my left from right
There's nothing to keep my eyes on
You got to go back, gotta go back, gotta go back in time
To Bethlehem
To begin again

Sometimes it feels like
The weals of winter won't disappear
So we throw out a rope and hope it gets
To the middle of the year
When we can't tell the land from the sky from the cloud
And nothing's clear I guess a miracle's the only thing
That's ever going to work here
We stayed awake one starry night
Just to watch the sky turn and change and aim...

So suddenly there's no day, no night,
No earth and no horizon
Everything that's wrong's now right
No moon or no sun rising
I can't tell my left from right
There's nothing to keep my eyes on
You got to go back, gotta go back, gotta go back in time
To Bethlehem
To begin again

To Bethlehem
To begin again
To Bethlehem
To begin again

Every step I take will lead me back
Along the broken road

So suddenly there's no day, no night,
No earth and no horizon
Everything that's wrong's now right
No moon or no sun rising
I can't tell my left from right
There's nothing to keep my eyes on
You got to go back, gotta go back, gotta go back in time
To Bethlehem
To begin again
To Bethlehem
To begin again

For John Muir lyrics - Deacon Blue

What am I?
Stronger than you
That you don't think like I do
These days
More than in youth
I keep thinking about you

All of me feared the wild things in you
The truth is that I never forgot you

Long live the wilderness way
The high cloud
The long days
Long live perpetual light
Remember
Wherever
You wander

When you sail
Over the sea
Do you dream of the new world
Can you see
Clear mountain burns
The deer in the north woods

All of me feared the dark depths of the ocean
There's no coming back there is only going

Farewell to the high hills of snow
The green glens
The rivers
Farewell to the people I know
All gathered
And moving
Long live the wilderness way
The high cloud
The long days
Long live perpetual light
Remember
Wherever
You wander

Farewell to the high hills of snow
The green glens
The rivers
Farewell to the people I know
All gathered
And moving

Long live the wilderness way
The high cloud
The long days
Long live perpetual light
Remember
Wherever
You wander

A New House lyrics - Deacon Blue

All those places where the wild things grew
All the fields he used to run through
Summer stretches out for seven weeks in June
Was there more light, more time than he ever knew?

Now he runs as fast as he can go
And he's hidden almost everywhere that he knows
Chased by the terror from the boys on the street below
He remembers a time of sunlight
And weeds through windows

Cause once there was meadows here; greens and grass
The night skies were only black interrupted by stars
They were like settlers abroad from some foreign parts
A new job, a new hope, a new start
In a new house
I'm going to take you there some time

Sometimes he's walking home alone out on the street
Memories come flooding back about
What they used to do what things used to be
Could he go back to unscrambling his dream?
Could everything in his world go from grey to green?

So I'd take you back to paradise if I only could
I want to walk you to the lane to the river
Through the woods
I want to show you how it was and what we used to do
With a new job, a new hope, a new view
In a new house
That's where we're going to go

I'm crying all the way to it now

Cause once there was meadows here; greens and grass
The night skies were only black interrupted by stars
They were like settlers abroad from some foreign parts
A new job, a new hope, a new start, a new way
A new place, a new view, a new road, a new time
A new walk, a new climb, on a new day
In a new house

In a new house
I'm going to take you there
To a new house
That's where we're gonna go
To a new house
Come on back, come on back
To a new house
To a new house

An Ocean lyrics - Deacon Blue

Sometimes I'll open my eyes
And remember sight, remember breathing
I want to wake up nights
Mesmorized by you
Lying here in the cradle of fear
Remembering love remembering feeling
Is there something else I hear?
Unrecognised by you

Do you remember back then?
And can you still touch it again?
Do your dreams come quick do they never end?
Do you think of me?
Do you think of me?

I want a love the stretches out
Stretching out to the horizon, an ocean
Or wider still I hope
And you realise
There's nothing wider than an ocean
Rolling out beyond sight

I want to love and never look back
But I can't thats just a simple fact
How come it's so easy for some
To kiss and forget
What's next?
I want to raise my hand
To wherever that singer laid his hat
Cause I'm never gonna be that kind of man
No matter how hard I think I am

I want a love the stretches out
Stretching out to the horizon, an ocean
Or wider still I hope
And you realise
There's nothing wider than an ocean
Rolling out beyond sight

I want a love the stretches out
Stretching out to the horizon, an ocean
Or wider still I hope
And you realise
There's nothing wider than an ocean
Rolling out

I want a love the stretches out
Stretching out to the horizon, an ocean
Or wider still I hope
And you realise
There's nothing wider than an ocean
Rolling out beyond sight

The Living lyrics - Deacon Blue

Oh Kate the weather's good
The summer's come
What could you do here?
Should we pursue everything?
Insist on joy?
Hound out the humdrum?

Oh Kate we're the lucky ones
The first of them
That burst into that sea
We're not running scared
Locked up
Or frightened for what will be
Ooh wah wah
Wah wah ooh

Can we be the precious
The jewels
The longed for?
Are we the forgiven
The bright stars of the morning, the living?

So Kate we never did
The things we said
The promises we made
Oh Kate can we burn out
Fade away gloriously instead?
Ooh wah wah
Wah wah ooh

Can we be the precious
The jewels
The longed for?
Are we the forgiven
The bright stars of the morning, the shining?
So are we everything
We believed in
To the finish
From the beginning?
The Living?
The Living?
The living the living the living the living the living

I Wish I Was A Girl Like You lyrics - Deacon Blue

You know I miss you now and again
Though I never missed you then
Isn't that the beauty of love?
We forget about everything
There was a time we could have come back
Got over what it was we lacked
Do what everybody else does
Made a deal, not made a fuss
All the things we wish we could have done
But we haven't done yet
On the tribulation of regret

Sometimes I wish I was a girl like you for just one day
If just one day we heard the things
We used to say so differently
So differently we might not have let our love slip as easily
But a girl like you would not have given it away

There was a time you were the May queen
When all around our world was mantled green
We fell for the beauty of love
Or so now that's how it seems
Where every lad and every lass went
We only followed the romance
Despite never quite knowing
We made up our own dance
All the time we seemed to have then
We're only envious of now
We'd like to go back but we don't know how

Sometimes I wish I was a girl like you for just one day
If just one day we heard the things
We used to say so differently
We might not have let our love slip as easily
But a girl like you would not have given it away

Sometimes I wish I was a girl like you for just one day
If just one day we heard the things
We used to say so differently
We might not have let our love slip as easily
But a girl like you would not have given it away

You know I miss you now and again
Though I never missed you then
Isn't that the beauty of love?
We forget about everything

Win lyrics - Deacon Blue


Can't we just go out?
See a film do something with the night?
Lark about
Morning comes to early every day
The good bits always seem to slip away

Even though you think it's the last thing
That's ever gonna happen
There's one thing you should know

It's OK to want it
Believe it, maybe now we need it
We can win
It's OK to dream it
Feel it, maybe even steal it
We can win
Can't we go the distance?
We can win

Riding on the bus
Side by side as all the lights go up
It's taking us
Out of the darkness girl you wont believe
Just look back this one last time with me

Even though you think we're running
There's no way we're returning
So you should know

It's OK to want it
Believe it, maybe now we need it
We can win
It's OK to dream it
Feel it, maybe even steal it
We can win
Can't we go the distance?
We can win

When tomorrow comes, we're out of here
Pack some things, gonna be our year
Don't tell a soul I told you so
But I bet on us from the first time I saw you...
I knew we were going to
Win

It's OK to want it
Believe it, maybe now we need it
We can win
It's OK to dream it
Feel it, maybe even steal it
We can win
Can't we go the distance?
We can win

Can we go the distance?
We can win
Forget the worlds against us?
We can win
We can win

Wild lyrics - Deacon Blue

When I come home
We'll go out
We'll breathe in our dream again
And sing out loud
We'll dare that rain
Or fires or flood
To wash us all away
But nothing could
And we won't stop every believing
This world would allow us to leave
And no one can stand in our way
We know that the happiest places are

Wild
Where it's wild
Wild
Where it's wild

Do you remember
When we were young?
All the days we had ahead of us
We never saw coming
The hours we lost
Just for love
Won't stop ever believing
We could be blood
And we won't stop every believing
This world would allow us to leave
And no one can stand in our way
We know that the happiest places are

Wild
Where it's wild
Wild
Where it's wild
Wild
Where it's wild
Wild
Where it's wild

March lyrics - Deacon Blue

This miracle of spring is all that matters now
Hard light warm earth buried deep below
There's a scent and a sense that winter's over
One last hard fight won before we go

We want, we want, we want
To feel the sun, the warm, the light
From March to May

Nothing in this long life delights like spring
Nothing's as strong
And nothing will match the joy it brings
Bloom throughout the streets for your survival
Bloom to show the world you're alive

We want, we want, we want
To feel the sun, the warm, the light
From March to May
From March to May
The thrust the trust
The march to May
The will to work to pay the pain the hurt
The march to Mayday

I want, I want, I want, I want
I want, I want, I want, I want
I want, I want, I want, I want
I want, I want

We want, we want, we want
To feel the sun, the warm, the light
From March to May
From March to May
I want the rush the push of every shoot
The thrust the trust
The march to May
The march to May

Our New Land lyrics - Deacon Blue

And so here comes the dream
I seem to have each night
We are racing up that hill
In case we lose the light
Even then, nothings certain
We think we cannot make it
Unill we're just about to break

Scrambling up towards the top
Climbing till we're just about to drop
Two hundred steps from here's the final spot
We'll see our new land

From here the land is still
There's nothing going on
Then twinkling out of darkness
All the lights come on
And even then, we'll never know
If they're there for celebration
Or just to show us the way home

Scrambling up towards the top
Climbing till we're just about to drop
Two hundred steps from here's the final spot
We'll see our new land
So many times I've doubted it
Prepared myself for disappointment
Wondering if it really still exists
Our new land

Oh yes all revolutions seem to be impossible
Until the moment just before it happens
It happens
It happens
It happens

Scrambling up towards the top
Climbing till we're just about to drop
Two hundred steps from here's the final spot
We'll see our new land
So many times I've doubted it
Prepared myself for disappointment
Wondering if it really still exists
Our new land

Scrambling up towards the top
Climbing till we're just about to drop
Two hundred steps from here's the final spot
We'll see our new land

I Remember Every Single Kiss lyrics - Deacon Blue

Forgotten all the names, forgotten all the girls
Forgotten all the chords, forgotten all the words
Forgotten all the barbs, forgotten why they hurt
Forgotten all the guilt, forgotten why it mattered

Summer
Beaches
Sunlight
I remember every single
Corner
Side street
Cold spell
I remember every single kiss

Forgotten all the verbs, forgotten all the rhymes
Forgotten every crook, forgotten every crime
Forgotten very town, forgotten every sign
Forgotten every hack, forgotten every headline

Winter
Frozen
The road home
I remember every single
Pavement
You took me
Touched me
I remember every single kiss

Shadows
Walkway
The old bridge
I remember every single
Garden
In springtime
The bird song
I remember every single kiss

"The Hipsters" (2012)

Here I Am In London Town lyrics - Deacon Blue

Here I am in London town
Waiting for the world to begin
Waiting for the world to begin again
Let me in

Here I am in London town
Waiting for the world to begin
Waiting for the world to begin again
Let me in

I’m amazed at you now
You don’t see the world turn like I do
I’m amazed at you now
I can feel the weight of the whole world
You see it much more clearly than I can ever did

Here I am in London town
Waiting for the world to begin
Waiting for the world to begin again
Let me in

I can picture you now
But there’s still so much I can’t remember
And so much to forget
But it’s forgetting that makes it easy
That’s how we survive

Here I am in London town
Waiting for the world to begin
Waiting for the world to begin again
Let me in

The Hipsters lyrics - Deacon Blue

All, all those waves
And that old sun
Shining

So drive
Drive to the coast
And let the water
Surround you

I was standing by the shore
Pulled by the deepest blue
Aching for the allure
Of the hipster boys
And the hipster girls
Shining

Friends, who needs friends?
When there’s a road
And an ocean

I was standing by the shore
Pulled by the deepest blue
Aching for the allure
Of the hipster boys
And the hipster girls
Shining

When I let the dream
Die slowly down
Did I do it right
Or was I wrong?

I was standing by the shore
Pulled by the deepest blue
Aching for the allure
Of the hipster boys
And the hipster girls
Shining, falling
Glistening, diving...

Stars lyrics - Deacon Blue


You won’t believe the dirt, the rain the wind the snow
The endless roads I seemed to travel down
Trying to get to you

And when I’m finally there, I find you in a hole
I realize we don’t know what to do
Nothing seems to change

This cruel world seems full of such unhappiness
If our lives collide we may get out of this

Every day is like, the next one comes along
It seems the same as all the other ones
Will it ever change?

People can be easily destroyed I guess
We’re only just a word away from happiness

We can catch a rocket ship and fly away
Through meteors and moons and galaxies
To the avenue
Of stars
Stars

Surges of light
Breaking the dark
Street lamps in summer rain storms
Shining across this universe
Shining across this universe

This cruel world seems full of such unhappiness
If our lives collide then we’ll get out of this

We’ll soar into the never ending universe
Nothing else but gravity will limit us
We will ride our rocket ship and fly away
Through meteors and moons and galaxies
To the avenue
Of stars
Stars

We'll go, we'll go, we'll go, we'll go
We'll go, we'll go, we'll go, we'll go
We'll go, we'll go, we'll go, we'll go
We'll go, we'll go, we'll go, we'll go

Tomorrow
Tomorrow
Tomorrow
Tomorrow

Turn lyrics - Deacon Blue

Here I am thinking we’re alright
Candle burned, half asleep
Starts to deepen
Then I remember how you looked at him last night
Too soft, too long
Why don’t you keep him?

You walk and I’ll run
You talk and I’ll fight
You cry and I’ll shout
You’re cold but I’m on fire

And I could turn like an animal that knows you’ve got a gun
Pointing at her heart only this time you’ll better try hard when you run
Cause I could turn like a wild fire that catches on the wind
Only this time, to be certain, just in case you’re wondering
I can turn

You know me, I hate getting angry
Cause when there’s love, that’s enough
I like forgetting
So why do you do it? You just let yourself down
Because you’re weak, because you could,
Cause you let him?

You walk and I’ll run
You talk and I’ll fight
You cry I’ll shout
You’re cold but I’m on fire

And I could turn like an animal
Now I’m down, don’t corner me
Don’t make me turn

Only this time, just in case you’re wondering
I could turn like an animal that knows you’ve got a gun
Pointing at her heart only this time you’ll better try hard when you run
Cause I could turn like a wild fire that catches on the wind
Only this time, to be certain, just in case you’re wondering
I can turn

The Rest lyrics - Deacon Blue

I don’t know what I’m doing
Damn sure I’m no longer looking
Maybe I’m made motionless by truth
Up all night watching it raining
Up all night hesitating
Guess that there’s the rest
And then there is you
There’s no easier thing to say
The world is out there but it gets in the way

I don’t know what to say
Don’t know how to say it through
I only know that in this life
There’s the rest
And there is you

I don’t know where I’m going
Know full well I can’t start caring
Nothing seems to matter more than now
This night sky’s full of warning
But I’m going on through till morning
Need to stop and think but don’t know how
There’s hundreds of things to do
But I just want to spend my hours with you

I don’t know what to say
Don’t know how to say it through
I only know that in this life
There’s the rest
And there is you

Oh oh, oh oh, oh

I don’t know what to say
Don’t know how to say it through
I only know that in this life
There’s the rest
And there is you

The Outsiders lyrics - Deacon Blue

What to wear?
How to go?
Do we take the train?
Or take your car?
Are you innocent
Of everything?
Didn’t know you
And yet, you showed me

We took the road, any road, every road out of here
Forgot the past, cut the strands, made a path, took a stand
Chased the day, raced the night, grabbed our chance didn’t look
Back to where we’d come from
So we kept right on running
And this world seemed so much lighter
When we were the outsiders

But I didn’t want
Anything
I could only give
Everything
I lost my heart
Every time
Are we too old
To be innocent?

We took the road, any road, every road out of here
Forgot the past, cut the strands, made a path, took a stand
Chased the day, raced the night, grabbed our chance didn’t look
Back to where we’d come from
So we kept right on running
And this world seemed so much lighter
When we were the outsiders

Are we so old
Don’t care any more?
Where we had to come from
So we kept right on running
And this world seemed so much lighter
When we were the outsiders

That's What We Can Do lyrics - Deacon Blue

In your room last night when you were out
Saw your ticket stubs, unread books, your photographs
Saw your rings and the things that you forgot about
Looked around at the mess I’d sooner you’d not left,
I sat down on the floor and I realised
I’m here, you’re gone, I’m lost and I finally know why

We trust, we change, we move from one place to another
Cause that’s what we can do
We talk, forgive we give - everything that love allows
Cause that’s what we can do

Looking out from your bedroom window to the dark
Thought about the times we used to fight, you used to cry
Couldn’t see where you’d gone or if you’re coming back
Wondered if you’d had the same thoughts, same time
Staring hard out that window I could see my eyes
I’m here, you’re gone, I’m lost and I finally know why

We trust, we change, we move from one place to another
Cause that’s what we can do
We talk, forgive we give - everything that love allows
Cause that’s what we can do
We trust, we change, we move from one place to another
Cause that’s what we can do
We talk, forgive we give - everything that love allows
Cause that’s what we can do

She'll Understand lyrics - Deacon Blue

She is going away again
Back to the place where she came from
A big, black plane just crossed the sky
Casting a shadow where we used to lie

Everything she once said’s ringing
But I’m past the point of trying to think

And I can’t help wanting to go out
And drink, fight and take on the whole world
I know it doesn’t make sense to you, how
Can it make things better for me, but I just know
She’ll understand
She’ll understand

She is starting to drift away
Have I forgotten the things she said
She left the clothes she never wore
And I can’t stand them any more

Every time the door blows open
I think you’re back, by I’m just hoping

And I can’t help wanting to go out
And drink, fight and take on the whole world
I know it doesn’t make sense to you, how
Can it make things better for me, but I just know
She’ll understand
She’ll understand

Something about this
It just doesn’t feel right
There’s a way out
That I don’t know

And I can’t help wanting to go out
And drink, fight and take on the whole world
I know it doesn’t make sense to you, how
Can it make things better for me, but I just know
She’ll understand
She’ll understand

Laura From Memory lyrics - Deacon Blue

Laura you can’t write back now
And you can’t stop my time running out
You can’t laugh and you can’t sing
And you can’t share the things I think

But the wall, the clouds the misty light
The pylons reaching to the sky
The bridge, the ramp the ferry road
Everything I can’t let go
Your face your smile your words your breath
The cheap mementos I’ve got left
The look of fear ‘don’t leave me now’
Don’t leave me now

I was lured by the pull of the words
Abandoned then cut by the broken chords
What we do, we do for love
Memories are dust and that’s never enough

Laura give me one last night
Before you take that long, dark drive
One last time all on our own
Just us, a room and words. Alone.

And the world, the seas the beach the sound
The towns that nearly brought you down
The dread of night, the fear of dawn
The certainty this life’s gone wrong
The sleeps, the pills, the tears the rage
The years of hope, the missing days
Let them all just slip away
Slip away now

I was lured by the pull of the words
Abandoned then cut by the broken chords
What we do, we do for love
Memories are dust and that’s never enough

We wait, we hope, we pray
For the night to go away

I was lured by the pull of the words
Abandoned then cut by the broken chords
What we do, we do for love
Memories are dust and that’s never enough

It Will End In Tears lyrics - Deacon Blue

So now I understand
The differences I’ve seen
Between the grown man
And the boy he’s been
It’s a simple plan:
You make it through the day
Till night comes again
To let those dreams escape~
Of falling down and drowning
Of flying over buildings
Of rescue and reunion
For the ones you love

You know the truth
All laughter dies
And even you
Knows this world will end
People change
And people go
And most times we know
It will end in tears

There’s a constant pull
To keep us spinning round
See the stars appear
And the seasons come
This old world goes on
And people get things done
One man sets a clock
For how high the tide will come
To mark out every ending
And welcome each beginning
Of rescue and reunion
For the ones you love

You know the truth
All laughter dies
And even you
Knows this world will end
People change
And people go
And most times we know
It will end in tears

Is There No Way Back To You lyrics - Deacon Blue

The will to love goes on and on
From the dawn of time till the lights are gone
So how do you carry the sorrow?
How do you know when to let go?

Is there no way back to you
Is there no way back to you
Tell me baby tell me how it feels

You said I lost your heart back then
But it was not mine to break or bend
So how do you carry the sorrow?
How do you know when to let go

Is there no way back to you
Is there no way back to you
Tell me baby tell me how it feels
To lose this love

Tell me baby tell me how it feels
To lose this love
How do you carry this sorrow?
How do you know when to let go?

Is there no way back to you
Is there no way back to you
Tell me baby tell me how it feels
To lose this love
Tell me baby tell me how it feels
To lose this love
This love

"Homesick" (2001)

Rae lyrics - Deacon Blue

I can't go with you
And I can't let you go
You can't be with me
So I won't let it show
I don't want you to know
So I'll just have to let you go

I'm going to love you so much better
You'll forget the error of my ways
I'm sending you the good I wished I'd given you
Oh how I miss you Rae
Some day you might well laugh at this
As memories of love all shift and time slips away

So don't cry honey
You can't see everything
But the wind still dries your tears
And the sun will keep you living
I just want you to see
My love's unseen but still keeps seeking

I'm going to love you so much better
You'll forget the error of my ways
I'm sending you the good I wished I'd given you
Oh how I miss you Rae
Some day you might well laugh at this
As memories of love all shift and time slips away

Oh Rae
Oh Rae

Out There lyrics - Deacon Blue

I got something and I know it's true
Cause I know you're out there
We all want somebody like you
Cause we all know that you're out there

Animal boys and earthen girls
Are meeting out there
All the friends made in the world
Are waiting out there

I got lost and it all went black
But I saw the light and I got you back
We only love the way we do
Cause there's something out there

Under the stars when it's late at night
I know you're out there
Something knocking and it can't be right
Means we need you're out there
In the city there's a million prayers
Going to someone out there
I found love and it was burning bright
Cause I saw it out there

Beautiful stories you've never heard
Trust me baby you can lean on the wind
We only love the way we do
Cause there's someone out there

Robert Johnson, Harmonica Frank
Digging it out there
Jimmy Rogers on the last train back
Sounds better out there

I got lost and it all went black
But I saw the light and I got you back
We only love the way we do
Cause there's something out there

This Train Will Take You Anywhere lyrics - Deacon Blue

Down by the beach road
Crawling through the undergrowth
Stand by the railing
And look along
Put your ear to the ground
Listen for a while
Till all the tracks start
Humming and buzzing
Then the roar comes
And it's louder than the drums
Cause it's tons and tons and tons
Of steel going faster

Now maybe I'm on the bridge
And near the very edge
And I'm waiting for the train
To pass under
It's got fifteen carriages
Each one saying what it is
This is bigger than anything
That'll ever go past you
It drowns out what you say
And it blows the dust away
And it makes it's own way
We can't stop it

This train will take you anywhere
This train will take you anywhere
You want to go

I'm on the border
Berlin to Warsaw
I can't tell the things I saw
You'd see them anyway
It's the same where you go
Hanol to Bangalore
From Belize to Bogato
You can ride on
Get on at the platform
Keep your eyes on the land
And see the colours all change
And the world all open

This train will take you anywhere
And you can see anything
You can sleep or you can imagine
This train will take you anywhere
You want to go

Every Time You Sleep lyrics - Deacon Blue

I go to work
And I get in early
Lying to myself I need to be there
I pass the church
And all the hurly burly
Of all the people as they walk without a care
How I'd love to tell them of how I get so happy
Maybe now's not the time
But when's it going to be right?

I come awake
Every time you sleep
I slip away
But it gets so hard to leave
Watching you down deep
And all my troubles to keep
Every time you sleep

You walk to work
And I walk out with you
Lying to the people that we're together
You cross the street
To catch the waterloo train
And I slink back to walk the quiet way back home
How I'd love to sing about what gets me happy
Maybe now's the time
Maybe it's alright?

I come awake
Every time you sleep
I slip away
But it gets so hard to leave
Watching you down deep
And all my troubles to keep
Every time you sleep

I want to get on the telephone
I want to call everyone
I want to know what to say when you mean it

I come awake
Every time you sleep
I slip away
But it gets so hard to leave
Watching you down deep
And all my troubles to keep
Every time you sleep
Every time you sleep
Every time you sleep



Now That You're Here lyrics - Deacon Blue

Everything's got easier since you've been around
Everything's got easier since you've been around

If you're thinking of looking at setting me free
Be sure and tell me baby, so I can see
Cause you can charm the birds down from that old oak tree
Someday I know I'm scared it's gonna be me

These are just the sad times
Don't go thinking they're gonna last forever
These are just the bad times
Everything's got easier now that you're here

Are we awake or are we asleep?
Is there something, something you really need?
Your love, your love, your love is what makes me believe
It keeps raging so hard it brings me peace

These are just the sad times
Don't go thinking they're gonna last forever
These are just the bad times
Everything's got easier now that you're here

Everything's got easier since you've been around
Everything's got easier since you've been around
Everything's got easier since you've been around
Everything's got easier since you've been around

These are just the sad times
Don't imagine things just can't get better
These are just the bad times
Don't go thinking they're gonna last forever
These are just the bad times
Everything's got easier now
Everything's got easier now
Everything's got easier now
Everything's got easier now that you're here

Silverlake lyrics - Deacon Blue

Forty men in a paper boat
No plan to hand just tearing a hole
To get the water out
Got together on a phone-in show
Oh how we love that talk radio
No one else say's it like that
Here we are now a-singing songs
We all know where it all went wrong
We're going to put it right
Oh yeah

One night up at silverlake
John the taxi and Willy the brake
Said all the things that needed said
We named and shamed
And stuck it out on the web
Sorted it at silverlake

Try some of these and turn down all the lights
You might find love unusually nice
More if you care for her
I went on the TV twice
Once for the money and once for advice
I tell it like it is
Come up and see us

One night up at silverlake
The place was jumping, people goin' ape
All the paper and the news
Was waiting for us to say
Let the oil trucks roll away
Won't forget us in a hurry
All the boys down at silverlake

One night up at silverlake
John the taxi and Willy the brake
Said all the things that needed said

One night up at silverlake
John the taxi and Willy the brake
Said all the things that needed said
We named and shamed
And stuck it out on the web
Sorted it at silverlake
One night up at silverlake
John the taxi and Willy the brake
Said all the things that needed said
We named and shamed
And stuck it out on the web
Sorted it at night at silverlake

A Is For Astronaut lyrics - Deacon Blue

You don't have to be grateful
For all the world's ills
There's plenty of people
Never seen the white cliffs of Dover

So come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
A is for astronaut
E is for everything
So come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
A is for astronaut
E is for everything

Got caught in the headlights
Saying something special
There's never a moment
When the beat stops long enough to hear the message

So come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
A is for astronaut
E is for everything
So come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
A is for astronaut
E is for everything

We all get stuck and we don't know why
We think there's no place we can go to
We need to trip on to

So come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
A is for astronaut
E is for everything
So come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
A is for astronaut
E is for everything
So come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
A is for astronaut
E is for everything

Beautifully Still lyrics - Deacon Blue

Send me down my future
From your wheel of fire
Let me only fly
On your wings of desire
What happened to that ride
On your chariot of gold
It had only lasted minutes
From the centuries you hold

What happened to the reign
The reign of love?
Where have all the angels gone
Now the sun's not up above?
You lie so beautifully still
I can't see you move

I want us to be closer
In fifty years or more
Getting young not older
Like we were here before
But your quarters are all sullied
Your alter boys asleep
Your priests have drunk the wine
You meant us all to keep

What happened to the reign
The reign of love?
Where have all the angels gone
Now the sun's not up above?
You lie so beautifully still
I can't see you move

What happened to the reign
The reign of love?
Where have all the angels gone
Now the sun's not up above?
You lie so beautifully still
I can't see you move
I'm not saying your dead
I just think you've changed
You lie so beautifully still
I can't see you move

Homesick lyrics - Deacon Blue

There's me and daddy out at Lunan Bay
Now looking dandy stepping out Saturday
I can still see the buses
Lined up to take the dancing home

That's me on the stairs suitcase in hand
Kidding on but knowing that one day he planned
To leave all that behind
And see what the big smoke's saying

These are just some photographs talking
Make it look easy
To imagine just walking
Back into someone's arms
And feeling
Homesick
Homesick
Homesick

Maybe you have a question too
You recognize a face in unfamiliar shoes
You don't see a man just someone broken down
Standing in front of you

This could be just a photograph talking
I make it look easy
To get up and start walking
Back out of these arms
And feeling
Homesick
Homesick
Homesick

I'm just
Homesick
Homesick
Homesick

Even Higher Ground lyrics - Deacon Blue

I could almost weep
If I could only take your hand
we're so close to sleep
And so far from deliverance
Once in every lifetime
Love comes down

Even higher ground
Would not make you stumble
Even higher ground
Would not make you fall
Even higher ground
Would not make you stumble
Would not make you fall

Oh you came tumbling in
Like a river to the valley
Which will not be rolling green again
It's washed everything away
Well it stretches out so beautifully
Shows the heavens up above

Even higher ground
Would not make you stumble
Even higher ground
Would not make you fall
Even higher ground
Would not make you stumble
Would not make you fall
Would not make you fall
Would not make you fall
Would not make you fall

I couldn't love you better
If I'd loved you all my life
You threw out all the questions
With one big breath - welcome to the world

Even higher ground
Would not make you stumble
Even higher ground
Would not make you fall
Even higher ground
Would not make you stumble
Would not make you fall
Would not make you fall
Would not make you fall
Would not make you fall

I Am Born lyrics - Deacon Blue

All the people in all the world
Will look for something that will keep it turning
Everyone's got to keep the will
Every boy every girl

I'm no different why the other day
I saw death like an ocean that could wash us away
The only comfort that I got was this
I once was unlovely and now I'm kissed

I am born
Aliver than the raging sea
Stranger than the strangest beasts
Than ever can be

After midnight and the night is black
You lie awake and the fear comes back
That your breath will stop
And this world will carry on

But I am born
Once there was nothing here
Not even the smell of fear
Nothing at all

Until you are born
Gasping out and in to open air
Taking hold of the atmosphere
And loving being born


"Walking Back Home" (1999)



Love Hurts lyrics - Love Hurts

Love hurts, love scars, love wounds and mars
Any heart not tough nor strong enough
To take a lot of pain, take a lot of pain
Love is like a cloud holds a lot of rain
Love hurts, ooh, ooh, love hurts

I'm young I know but even so
I know a thing or two I learnt from you
I really learnt a lot, really learnt a lot
Love is like a stove burns you when it's hot
Love hurts, mmm, mmm, love hurts

Some fools dream of happiness
Blissfulness, togetherness
Some fools fool themselves I guess
But they're not fooling me

I know it isn't true, know it isn't true
Love is just a lie made to make you blue
Love hurts, ooh, ooh, love hurts

Jesus Do Your Hands Still Feel The Rain lyrics - Deacon Blue

Would the rain, the frozen rain
Be as cold upon your forehead
As the tears that plough your beaten face again
Would the rain

Could your hands, your grubby hands
Pull your coat around your shoulder
Steel yourself against the weather of the day
Could your hands

Here I stand
Just the same

Jesus do these hands still feel the rain

Here we go, winter long
Like sun bleeds down the valley
Or a black and oily river moves so slow
Here we go

Here I stand
Just the same

Jesus do these hands still feel the rain

Here I stand
Just the same

Jesus do your hands still feel the rain

Christmas And Glasgow lyrics - Deacon Blue

He was lying in the half light
Of Christmas and Glasgow
Thinking and talking
Talking to St Enoch about
Christmas and Glasgow
Drinking and talking

And the sweet smell
Of the Kelvin Hall Circus
And the sweet smell lingered
Of her perfume and kisses

He needed to take one step
He was taking one step back

She knows the only danger
Of Christmas And Glasgow
Is you love too much
And she's thinking of years
At Christmas and Glasgow
When it meant too much

And walking in frost
Down in Cowcaddens
And the sweet smell
As they were lost in the garden

She needed to take one step
She was taking one step back

They could hear choirs, those heavenly choirs
Choirs of angels, those heavenly choirs

They needed to take one step
They were taking one step back

When You Are Young lyrics - Deacon Blue

When you were young and your heart was free
I'd run and meet you and rush to see
Just over the wall where the clouds roll by
And age and chance and tears were far away

Oh if heaven wouldn't see
Light lovers so distantly
Then look today at this love so free
When you are young again

When you were young and your eyes are old
Then all your treasures my hand can stroke
And all your memories and your sorrows are loosed
And blown and left so your lips may be touched

Oh if heaven wouldn't see
Light lovers so distantly
Then look today at this love so free
When you are young again

Plastic Shoes lyrics - Deacon Blue

Plastic shoes
Empty in the hall
Well, I gathered the news
That you'd gone after all
Whats left is this:
And from what I can recall
Theres something I've missed
And I have seen it all

You caught me drawn in the
Bathroom mirror
And said I looked a little older
Walking along on a beach at dawn
With your head upon my shoulder

In your plastic shoes
Broken and used on me
And what have we been through?
Are you watching alone
The same film I'm tuned to?
Do you still cry
When the doctor gives her the news?

Theres a big black bag of belts and hats
You wore to other weddings
A broken chain and a picture frame
That once held us together
I put out these shoes that I helped you choose
And I bolted all the doors
So they won't walk back...

Those plastic shoes
Oh you looked so good
That was all you wore
When I really understood
Some things need summer weather
Others want the dark
Some things work well together
But still keep falling apart

Beautiful Stranger lyrics - Deacon Blue

Seven lonely days in a fifty ton lorry
I know you made me what I am
And I fall to pieces
Johnny Cash in black singin'
Understand your man from
St. Quentin crossing to Tarbert to Gigha

Oh lonesome me howled box car willie
Coming out of Tobermory to the sound
In the morning
Patsy Clines on the air say's I've loved and lost again
From now on all of my friends are gonna be strangers

So I fell in love with a beautiful stranger
It's just an arangement
I'll leave the first light of day
This one goes out
To my beautiful stranger
I slipped so quietly away

By the window where she stands
She counts the beads in her hand
And knows it wasn't God who planned to make
Honky tonk angels
She makes the bed all alone but a house
Without love is not a home plays on the radio

She says why can't he be you I hear
You've gone from Brown to blue
Since the holiday for two
But I don't need to know that right now
I love you so much it hurts he cursed
As his truck tyres lurched down the
Old dirt track road again

She fell in love with a beautiful stranger
There's no arangement
He leaves the first light of day
This one goes out to the beautiful stranger
Time slips so easily away
Time slips so easily away
Time slips so easily away

All I Want lyrics - Deacon Blue

A cautious smile under the western sky
Would curl upwards like the wild sea
A special friend knowing all the ways of love
Would talk his way back inside a tiny second

Don't promise good intention
One in a thousand (maybe even me)
Don't know there are clouds in the sky
Sooner or later eveyone'll say the same thing
Baby, you already know

That all I want is to be with you

Call me over sooner
Call me right now
I'm standing underneath the blackest rolling sky
I don't know my way forward
I'm dizzy with the wind
Turning like a compass never true only spinning

All I want is to be with you

In the sad and lonely pines
Where no midday sun ever shines
As the clouds all float into thin air
Underneath the blackest sky somewhere
I hear the soul of man never dies
I hear that special will survive
Keeping time over the rolling roads
Staying with me as my thoughts all go
Chasing away in the green fields
Where every breath gives up and yields
To all I want

Walking Back Home lyrics - Deacon Blue

The stars and satellites
Are quiet over the hills tonight
And the cats' eyes and white lines
Are heading out for miles
The frost on the embankment
Keeps my feet on the road
But the tunes and beers
Are walking us back home

And we stopped any travellers
And wished them good new year
And we sang and we drunk
And we quarrelled and we cheered
And we felt the earth below
And we knew how good it was
Just walking back home

La La La La......La La La La......La La La La......La La La La

I left them at the circle
As the sun began to rise
And we walked the last few hundred yards
Back to my own house
I pulled my coat still closer
'Cause now I'm on my own
I've struck out for the first time
And now I'm walking back home

Warbeck sang
La La La La......La La La La......La La La La......La La La La
The Stacy's sang
La La La La......La La La La......La La La La......La La La La
Linda sang
La La La La......La La La La......La La La La......La La La La

"Whatever You Say, Say Nothing" (1993)

Your Town lyrics - Deacon Blue

I wouldn't want to be you
Mostly not even near you
When you're gone they will curse you
And raise the tide against you

I no longer care now
For what you said was fair now
I just don't go there now
I just don't go

Maybe there's a way not to make it hurt
To cover up the words like you covered up the dirt
Ever since you left
It just gets worse
Living out in your town

Now let's say it like it is
I just don't know where to begin
It's a different way of living
It's so strange to what we've been

First we speak for ourselves now
And people know who we are now
And they wake up and they live now
Yes they wake up and they live

Maybe there's a way not to let it hurt
Tell it out in pictures
And songs and words
Do what we should not
To make it worse
Living out in your town

Only Tender Love lyrics - Deacon Blue

Way out there in the wilderness
Of love and pain
Under the gentle arches we rode
The silver streets
Couldn't see a difference between gold or
Wooden cross
Could never see where we're falling
Came in to love

Then hounded by love
Hounded by the very thing you dreamed up
Chased inside the walls you tried to breach
Sent crashing to your knees
Only tender love
Understood the need you need with
Understood the time it took
To take you where nothing ever was

Never was there once nothing
And everything once was
Not dead but still and ready to be born anew
Looking back now it all
Seems so clear
Like staring so long unseeing for someone to light inside a
Darkened room

Then try your tender love
Push you back till there's nowhere left
Nowhere to feel nothing anymore
Nothing that will comfort you more
More than tender love
Understands the need you need with
Understand the time it takes to get home and have a love again

More than tender love
Understands the need you need with
Understand the time it takes
To get home and have a love

Then try your tender love
Push it till there's nothing left
Nowhere to feel nothing anymore
Nothing that will comfort you more

Then hounded by love
Hounded by the very thing you dreamed up
Chased inside the walls you tried to breach
Sent crashing to your knees

Then only tender love
Understood the need you need with
Understood the time it took
To take you where nothing ever was

Peace, Jobs And Freedom lyrics - Deacon Blue

There comes a time in everybody's dream
When the stage is lighted and the
Words appear
And in the blackness
That it seems
A tiny little realization
Begins

And in my number
57 dream
I'm standing at the window
Of the world
And suddenly the
World begins to scream
We want the promise and the promise
Can be made

Who said the words
Who said the words
Peace and jobs
And Freedom

People say there's nothing
When you die
Tell you stories that will
Make you sigh
And beat up all your senses
Until you
Cry cry cry
All I'm saying is the words
Writ up in the great big holy sky

Who said the words
Who said the words
Peace and jobs
And freedom
Who said the words
Who said the words
Peace and jobs
And freedom

Hang Your Head lyrics - Deacon Blue

There's no sleep inside
Their dreams are broke and inspired
All the times you try to
Scream

Houses dark indoors
And blinds are pulled and closed
Everything that needed
Change

And there's nothing wise
Or twice as good as nice
You save it all inside while you

Hang your head
Hang your head

Underneath it all
Your smile your smile your smile is flawed
And the songs you sing are only
Spoken

The promise of this child
You crossed your palms with silver crowns and the
People swore he's only
Choken

There's no promises
No light is ever shed
Between the living and dead

Hang your head
Hang your head

There's no promises
No light is ever shed
Between the living and dead

Bethlehem's Gate lyrics - Deacon Blue

There was a night
As purple as this
With a love so close
We longed to be missed
Summer '89
And everything stood
Sure and free and there
To be finished

I long to be there
As bright as the sky
At Bethlehem's gate

September again
You come so quick
So sudden your strength
So strong your kiss
The world groans and strains
For the hope of a time
Like a prayer that
Is wished and willed
To exist

Like knocking so hard
And trying to get through
To Bethlehem's gate

I'm chiding the heart
That the body will live
To question the power
And the gift of birth
To stand and grow and die
On the wasteland
That scorns the high temples
We build

And stand in the way
And darken the sky
At Bethlehem's gate

Stand in the way
And darken the sky
At Bethlehem's gate

Last Night I Dreamed Of Henry Thomas lyrics - Deacon Blue

Lily love that's a
Beautiful name
Your precious gifts are not the same
Since they faded away

The song so distant
But it still rings true your
Beautiful hands were rudely used
To make things pay

Every minute of every day
You don't get angry 'bout what's taken away
Is only real life
Every second of eternal light
Piercing through this sorrowful night
Will bring the sad heart
The cold heart
To love again

Last night I dreamed of
Henry Thomas in the
Delta light his rusty pipes
They drifted away

Standing in some
Dusty patch
It felt so close that I could almost catch
His breath on me

Every minute of every day
You don't get angry 'bout what's been taken away
Is only real life
Every second of eternal light
Piercing through this sorrowful night
Will make the sad heart
The cold heart
To love again

Every minute of every day
You don't get angry 'bout what's been taken away
Is only real life
Every second of eternal light
Piercing through this sorrowful night
Will make the sad heart
The cold heart
To love again

Last night I dreamed of
Henry Thomas and the blues

Will We Be Lovers lyrics - Deacon Blue

All my worries
All my care
Is held in check
For you not there

Evening comes
And darkness falls
We sit round
And curtain out
The black night

There is a time
Away
From here

Seasons pass
So quickly come
And steal the days
Your work has done

They leave the fields
So bare and grey
I long to hold
You there and say
It won't change

There is a time
Away
From here
There is a time
Away
From here

Will we be lovers
Or will we still be
Will we be lovers
Or will we still be

Will we be lovers
Or will we still be
Still be still be

Fall So Freely Down lyrics - Deacon Blue

Little baby don't just slip away
Without fight or push or
Saying anything
This is all you really
Get to say
And the only thing you
Listen in to

There are people to see
There are places to go
There are things to believe in
To believe in

So you live in the magic water
And you tumble and kick and turn
While your beautiful hands and feet grow
So quiet is the life you beat with
Till you fall so freely down

You can't just slip or fall or leave without talking
There's no goodbye without walking
The roads we travel for good
The ways we exit for bad

There are places to go
There are jobs to be done
There are things to believe in
To believe in

So you live in the magic water
And you tumble and kick and turn
While your beautiful hands and feet grow
So quiet is the life you beat with
Till you fall so freely down
Till you fall so freely down

Kick kick down

So you live in the magic water
And you tumble and kick and turn
While your beautiful hands and feet grow
So quiet is the life you beat with
So quiet is the life you beat with
And you tumble and kick and turn

Cut Lip lyrics - Deacon Blue

15 books in
Different covers
Winter comes in
Many colours

Kids toys broken glasses Elvis live in Vegas
He's still turning
All the worthless things
We're paying in

Pounds of sugar
Here it comes
Blankets from the
Social fund
Snooker balls and Spanish divers rocks full
Of cat hair
All the worthless things
For the warrants sake

Maybe you'll be so kind and take the shirt right from my back
That's got my kid I'd even smile for you
With my cut lip
With my cut lip
With my cut lip
With my cut lip

Talkin' away
My rent is due
Didn't get my
Last few

Playing on the satellite dish
Finally nights to switch to
Blue filmsloon tunes
Purple moons
Every motherfucker
Will be on it soon

Maybe you'll be so kind and take the shirt right from my back
That's got my kid I'd even smile for you
With my cut lip
With my cut lip
With my cut lip
With my cut lip


All Over The World lyrics -


All over the world
The wild wild wind
Rips through the mighty words
We kept ourselves warm with
And all over this love
Has never been stronger
All Jericho's walls
They gently fall

I've been waiting for a golden
Bright milleniun
Waking early for the Union bonds being broken
Then gone

All over the world
All over the world
All over the world
All over the world

I've been searching for a new new
Song of freedom
Where no flag of conquest
Is furled
No war words are spoken

All over the world
All over the world

I,I hear the sound
I,I Hear the sound

All over this land
People are waiting
To enter the world
Like a new born baby
All over the world

Where nothing's been learned
The flags are changing
So let freedom unfurl
New flags need waving
Let freedom unfurl

"Fellow Hoodlums" (1991)

James Joyce Soles lyrics - Deacon Blue

Here's the pictures
I promised to send
You see the airbase
Where we were sent
Now the winter
Has started to descend
Your loving son was sent here

I got your letter
From Boise Idaho
To James Joyce Soles
To James Joyce Soles
I went down at midnight
To the Holy Loch shore
And scattered the ashes
Of James Joyce Soles

He knew the reasons
Why we were here
He loved your parcels
And all your care
You're so thoughtful
They're so fair
I know my friend thought so
Was James Joyce Soles

He's not just a soldier
He's not just a friend
He's been in the wars
In a foreign land
He's been on the payphone
When it was so cold
He was my comfort
Was James Joyce Soles
He was my comfort
In a country so old
He was my comfort
Was James Joyce Soles

Fellow Hoodlums lyrics - Deacon Blue

On the night that
Maxton died
I fell over
The Clyde was full of old tyres
The wind nearly pulled my
Breeches off
And Ann Kelly
She kissed my mouth

Fellow hoodlums and
Engineers
The Union's south
And we're all here
I'm going up Buchanan Street
With a box of fireworks
And two bottles of
Tizer

On the last train from St. Enochs
I saw the graveyard
It looked like our old street
People were cheering
All the way from Hampden
With macaroons and
scarves and rattles

[CHORUS]

Billy's a butcher now
Always has been
And he picks his teeth
With old rusty meat hooks
And he sends his beef with the bike boys
Monday to Saturday
Partick to Cowcaddens

[CHORUS]

Your Swaying Arms lyrics - Deacon Blue

Send me back all the thing she ever wrote
Tell me secrets of her days when she was young
Show me nights when she laughed
So innocent
I'll be happy
Waiting till they come

Love the people that she smiled upon
Walk with me in streets
Where she once stood
Say if it could be that we once passed like strangers
Long before the love we ever new

'Cause I've been longing
For a new world waiting
I've been hoping
To be sent
I've been picking up
All the love we squandered
Until you
Hold me in your swaying arms again

One day I can see us walking
Arm and arm in sheltered Kelvin way
Talking and tripping and teasing
And heading for the best part of the day

When your head
Falls softly on my pillow
No fear will make you cry or turn you grey
And we will wake
So early in the morning
Knowing you'll never
Never
Never go away

[CHORUS]

Cover From The Sky lyrics - Deacon Blue

I will love you when the morning is ascending
I will love you when the moon is riding high
I will love you when we only have pretending
When our home becomes a cover from the sky

Well my eyes have seen the dust and then the ashes
And the lowland and white sky of your home
And the rain that washed mascara from my lashes
And nothing gave us cover from the sky

When you're gone I notice all your tiny touches
And it's then that I see its then that I know why
If the days become the walls you never wanted
Our years will give us cover from the sky
From the sky

Well we've been among the saints and the angels
And we don't want to wait until we die
So we'll stand among the ruins of our temples
And prey to god for cover from the sky

The Day That Jackie Jumped The Jail lyrics - Deacon Blue

The day that Jackie jumped the jail
There was a big explosion just as he got off the motorway
And thirty thousand fireworks took the piss out of Princes Street Gardens
So he drove up to the Budgie for a livener
See the smell of cabbages first thing in the morning

The sun will be up again
And you you will be loved again

After the sausages and cream of the barley
There was a frame or two to be had at the "Imperial" on Mitchell Street
Five years ago he'd buried her memory with a snooker cue on a daft wee student's head
Still he remembered everything

The sun will be up again
And you you will be loved again
And the wind
And the rain
And the wind
And the rain
Falls around

As he walked down Hope Street he thought about the last time they'd been together
He'd been wearing a green parka and he'd bought her yellow stilettos
That squeezed her toes
He'd told her the whole story as she took him into the wee penn behind Sloan's
And let him feel her all over
For the last time
Ten minutes later the meat wagon picked him up

The sun will be up again
And You, You will be loved again
You will be loved
And the wind
And the rain
Falls around
All over this town

The Wildness lyrics - Deacon Blue

Oh the rush hour is over
And the night has been trying
To drive us and chase us away
But we're lovely and drunk now
And our laugh doesn't
Rattle or fray
And the Friday folk
Are coming round
Let the wildness
Have its way

Oh sweet autumn
With your dark surprise
And your short days all smudged with gold
You covered up
Worn paths for us
So no story could be told
And sent the dark
Come tumbling down
So the wildness
Can't grow cold
So the morning
Would never know

Of the wildness
Of the wildness
Driving me on again
Of the wildness
Of the wildness
Shaking me
Letting me know

There were two of us driving
We were six miles out
And a
Hundred miles to go
Still the morning lies waiting
And the light falls
On your travel map
I'm still here hoping
For the wildness
To relax
For the wildness
To go back

[CHORUS]

I went up to your house one night
I took 59 in the rain
And I saw your tiny face shine
So calm and so bright
And so gay
I called in
I called out
I couldn't see any other name
I woke
One morning
With the wildness
Once again
With the wildness
Shining in

[CHORUS]

A Brighter Star Than You Will Shine lyrics - Deacon Blue

Down on the flag stones
The accordians
And sweet trumpets rise
Rusty memories
Of sin and doubting
Mingle in around
The Queen Street
Traffic noise

Would that all the love in the world
Watch me through the night

You know the preacher
All he preaches is vanity
Maybe, At last, You'll see
A brighter star than you will shine one day

Hymns and words and busy planets
Said the preacher have come and gone
Even your smile will one day die away
When your wealth and words are forgotten

Would that all the love in the world
Stay with me tonight

You know the preacher
All he preaches is vanity
Maybe, At last, You'll see
A brighter star than you will shine one day

Twist And Shout lyrics - Deacon Blue

You've got a lot of
Tings to say about the
Big world and the
High skies so you
Walk a little in a
Long mile to be
Sure your eyes can see the
Right sights

I see a
Pale girl in a
Blue room with a
Pink dress and a
Wide smile I see a
Pale girl in a
Blue room with a
Pink dress and a
Wide smile

You've got a little
Way to go before you
Find the knowledge that you're
Searching for so you'll
Turn the big world
Upside down
To find the things that you
Never wanted

I see a
Pale girl in a
Blue room with a
Pink dress and a
Wide smile I need a
Pink smile on a
Dark night from the
Right girl to be
Sure it's right

You've got three million things to get mad about
Another hundred things to get glad about
Junk food
The whole world over's good as standing round
So baby twist and shout baby
Find out baby
Find out baby
Find out baby

So it's April and the
Tings you say don't
Seem as certain as on
Hogmanay when we
Kissed at midnight and a
Wee wee bells had
Gave me courage for my
My heart to tell

I see a
Pale girl in a
Blue room with a
Pink dress and a
Wide smile I need a
Pink smile on a
Dark night from the
Right girl to be
Sure it's right

[Chorus]

Twist and shout
Come on come on baby

Closing Time lyrics - Deacon Blue

This is the way we walk
This is how we walk
At closing time
These are the songs we sing
These are our songs
At closing time
And in the clear
Of this sweet moonshine
We'll walk back
To where we started
On our own again
This is my favourite time
Drink up now and move outside
It's closing time
My most favourite lips
Are on the girls that I kissed
At closing time
And in the clear of dear sweet moonshine
We'll walk back
To where we started
On our own again
When all the people are just
Shuffling home
When all the saddest things are
Said and done
And all the words are brighter
In the happy light of
Closing time
We took the shortcut home
Over the wood slat bridge
And stood and gazed and wished
Till all the clouds
Had vanished
Nothing could be missed
And only the river passed
And there at the back of eleven
In the late summer night
A leaf landed soft
Soft soft soft
And sorrowful
And your belly was warm
As the day was long
And night came upon us
So fast
Would you be poor
Not to be sure
That everything lasts for ever
Some things don't get better
Till you're on your own again
When all the people are just
Shuffling home
When all the saddest things are
Said and done
And all the words are brighter
In the happy light of
Closing time
When all the people are just
Shuffling home
When all the saddest things are
Said and done
And all the words are brighter
In the happy light of
Closing time
We took the shortcut home
Over the wood slat bridge
And stood and stared and wished
Till all the clouds
Had vanished
Nothing could be missed
And only the river passed
And there at the back of eleven
A leaf landed soft and sorrowful
And your belly was warm
And the day was long
And night came upon us
So fast
So fast
Came so fast
Came so fast
Came so fast
And all we said
Da da do do
All we said was
All we said was
Was da da do do
Was da da do do
Da da do do
And all we said
Do do
Do do
Do do

Goodnight Jamsie lyrics - Deacon Blue

You were a good man
Jamsie
Everyone loves you
Now you're gone
And the seagulls over
Where you lie
Sing your final song

I'm walking back
Away from here
To see where you belong
Here's the church
And here's the work
And here's where shows were at the fair

Take me on your skirling waltzer
And scream the ghost train down
And buckle me to the chairy plane
As the big wheel goes round

I Will See You Tomorrow lyrics - Deacon Blue

Outside the world
The wind is howling
Through the broken trees
And the moon is shining
As the river meets the sea

And I will see you tomorrow
Calm and bright in tender light
And my heart will be racing
Like your wakening eyes

Inside my room the curtain`s blowing
And our bed it lies unmade
But the morning will be broken
By the loving words you say

[CHORUS]

Though you're far still your heart sounds loud beating time with me
Through the day the only grace I get is
I want to be you

In the world time we're rushing
Like the cool evening breeze
But my soul is calm
And I will see you presently

One Day I'll Go Walking lyrics - Deacon Blue

Water
Tiny at first then bigger
And it flowed right down
From the highest hill
And it grew and it joined
The battling burn
And it flowed right through
To where we are now

Standing
Beside a cool cool stream
It's hard to imagine
The great and terrible river you'll be
Bringing life or rest
Or wonder
Or high high tide
And in times like this
You bring me here

And when the wind is blowing quick time
For the waves to be dancing by
And the moon is watching over
The purple gloaming sky
I'll go walking
Yeah
One day
I'll go walking

Sometimes I come down here
And I don't know why
It's like a garden or a room
Or a dream that you
Keep on trying to find
It leaves you feeling that maybe
Maybe there's a destination you've missed
And all along the way you hope the reason that you came was blessing
Hah
Some holy kiss

[CHORUS]

Let me ask you a question

Give me the
Just give me
Just give me five

Did you see the picture
Or did you read the book
I mean
Did you really go there
Or were you only took
I said
Were you believing
Or were you just shook
Well I went inside and I
It was dark and
Then I stood

I stared out long and fast
Till my eyes were hurting
And I saw the hands on the savior
And all his bloody feet
And his hair and his clothes were all
Mattered and torn
Were they only dirty from the beating of the soldiers or just
Just from walking

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