This rhythm gets too hot to handle
Like news that's too good to be true
You want to get in on the action
And make believe it came from you
And then you start to lift the tempo
Cos who's got time to hang around?
But in the noise and the confusion
You're losing contact

Oh, me and my cousin, one Arthur McBride
As we went a-walking down by the seaside
Now, mark what followed and what did betide
For it being on Christmas morning...
Out for recreation, we went on a tramp
And we met Sergeant Napper and Corporal Vamp
And a little wee dr

I've been here a long long time
Trying to get things right
You might think I'd know by now
But it's still out of sight
People say I'm doin' ok
And when will I get sense?
They can't see what's sure to come
When I get confidence

Chorus

Cos I won't l

There you go again, pretending that the world is blue.
And you see red when I explain, that I don't share your point of view.
Well I say open up your eyes, for the world is like a rainbow.
And maybe blue is just the colour of the world inside of you.

-bridge-
But that kind

It was a cruel turn of fate
I did three bitter years inside
A friend of mine who set me up
And he was the one got away with the money.
But I swore tonight would be the night
This place couldn't hold me no longer.

The rain was dancing on the yard
The searchlig

Had a bad dream
Had a bad dream in the cold cold night (in the cold cold night)
Had a bad dream
Darling, it came to me in the cold cold night
I dreamed I looked for you but you were gone
You were a shadow fading in the dawn
And there was nothing but the memory to linger o

Snow-bound siren in the winter dawn
There's a blizzard blowing in from off the river
It's ten below out on these city streets,
But the feeling in your heart is even colder
The sunrise screeching down the line
And the fog banks running out of time,
But you won't be h

I hear you imagine
You're losing it all,
Your mind's in confusion
Your back's to the wall . . .
Hold on! there is a door and it's opening.

The light in the tunnel
Deceived you again,
It was only the headlight
From the oncoming train

Hold on! there

The last time I saw you
Was the spring of '75
And way back then I was afraid
to look you in the eye
Yes even then I found it hard to
To look you in the eye

Come a running to me with your soul in your hand
Like a child who knew no fear
With such a need to

The lovers' hour is here, the night is creeping down
This is the moment you've been dreading
Another bar-room in another lonely town
You wish you knew where you were heading
In everyone that you see
You see her
In every dream that could be
You see her, need her

Shutters on the windows, chains upon the door
Sleepless nights spent waiting for an answer
Dreams of heaven falling, panic in the town
Lonely men with fingers on the future...

When all is said and done
You are the only one

Follow on
For the open road is wai

Hey Mr. Businessman
Please take me as I am
I'm ready to go straight
but it's not easy
When you don't have no money
And if you take a chance
I know you won't be sorry
Hard times all around
Hard Station in the town

She came to me this morning
Cam

You Monaghan sportsmen I pray you draw near
To a few simple verses you quickly shall hear
It’s the deeds of a hero that lives near Ballybay
And they call him Hugh Jackson, I hear people say

His mill, kilns and barns, they do cut a great show
And his cloth to the North and t

Lately I been talking to some friends of mine
(You know the kind who understand)
Trying to get a handle on this heart of mine
(Sometimes it's hard to be a man)
How to find a way to end these wars with you?
(The more we run the more we hide)
Were we just fools to eve

We step on a stage
From straight off a page
Of everything that's gone before
We dream of a time
Of crossing a line
And opening another door
Rivers of stardust in our eyes
Leading us out there
How could this just be an illusion?

We play out our part

Before I met you
My life had not begun
Then your world and my world
Exploded into one
Every thought that you had
And every word you said
Sounded so familiar
Like a poem I'd just read

They say it's written in the sky
That love like ours should never

Drank all of the whiskey
But I still can't get no rest
Brain trapped on a roller coaster
Got a pain in my chest
Cold water on my eyeballs
Send a shiver up my spine
Hit the street in the wee wee hours
This is the night hunting time

Don't know what I'm doi

Johnny's got high expectations
He's gonna rise
Everyone knows that Johnny is ready
He's ready to fly
Up on the rooftop he turns to the crowd
No one is waiting
No one is there

Chorus
Nobody knows why Elvis threw it all away
Nobody knows what Ruby had

I was just about nineteen
When I landed on their shore
With my eyes big as headlights
Like the thousands and thousands who came before
I was going to be something . . .
Smiled at the man scrutinising my face
As I stepped down off the gangway

Came down to thei

Cried a lotta blues up and down the street
(I'd) lose everything I had but I would not lose the beat
Oh yeah, oh no!
Had a lotta lovin', bitter and the sweet
Bring you up in glory, drop you in defeat
Oh yeah, oh no!
Oh what a world!

chorus

Oh, what a w