I was spending my time in the doldrums
I was caught in a cauldron of hate
I felt persecuted and paralysed
I thought that everything else would just wait

While you are wasting your time on our enemies
Engulfed in a fever of spite
Beyond your tunnel vision reality fades
Like shadows into the night

To martyr yourself to caution
Is not going to help at all
Because there'll be no safety in numbers
When the Right One walks out of the door

Can you see your days blighted by darkness?
Is it true you beat your fists on the floor?
Stuck in a world of isolation
While the ivy grows over the door

So I open my door to my enemies
And I ask could we wipe the slate clean

We bitch and we fight. 
Diss each other on sight. 
But this thing we do. 
These times again. 
Rain or shine, or stormy weather. 
This thing we do. 
With world-weary grace. 
We've taken our places. 
We could curse it or nurse it and give it a name. 
Or stay home by the fire, 
Fed by desires, stocking the flames. 
But we're here for the ride. 

It's louder than words. 
This thing that we do. 
Louder than words. 
The way it unfurls. 
It's louder than words. 
The sum of our parts. 
The beat of our hearts. 
Is louder than words. 
Louder than words. 

The strings bend and slide. 
As the hours glide by. 
An old pair of shoes, your favorite blues. 
Gonna tap out the rhythm. 
Let's go with the flow wherever it goes. 
We're more than alive! 

It's louder than words. 
This thing that we do. 
Louder than words. 
The way it unfurls. 
It's louder than words. 
The sum of our parts. 
The beat of our hearts. 
Is louder than words. 
Louder than words. 

It's louder than words. 
This thing we call soul, 
Is there with the path. 
Louder than words. 
Louder than words! 

[Guitar break]

Into the distance, a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a windswept field
Standing alone my senses reeled
A fatal attraction is holding me fast
How can I escape this irresistible grasp?

Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earthbound misfit, I

Ice is forming on the tips of my wings
Unheeded warnings, I thought I thought of everything
No navigator to find my way home
Unladened, empty and turned to stone

A soul in tension that's learning to fly
Condition grounded but determined to try
Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earthbound misfit, I

Above the planet on a wing and a prayer,
My grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air
Across the clouds I see my shadow fly
Out of the corner of my watering eye
A dream unthreatened by the morning light
Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night

There's no sensation to compare with this
Suspended animation, a state of bliss
Can't keep my mind from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earthbound misfit, I

Far far far away way
People heard him say say
I will find a way way
There will come a day day
Something will be done

Then at last the mighty ship
Descending at a point of flame
Made contact with the human race at no time

Now now now is the time time
Time to be be be aware

Not as far the solar bear
In human role revealed to him
A living soul of heavenward forever

Sunlight, something in my eye
Something in the sky
Waiting there for me

The antelope grows hurling back
The servicemen would like to sigh
The memory went flowing rounds
As Lucy in the sky
Oh oh did you ever know

Sunlight bright upon my pillow
Lighter than an eilderdown
Wishing that the weeping-willow
Winds its branches round

Julia dream
Dream that queen
Queen of all my dreams

Every night I turn the light out
Waiting for the velvet bride
Will the scaly armadillo
Find me where I'm hiding

Will the misty master break me

Why won't you talk to me
You never talk to me
What are you thinking
What are you feeling
Why won't you talk to me
You never talk to me
What are you thinking
What are you feeling

I feel like I'm drowning
You know I can't breathe now
We're going nowhere

It would be so nice to leave some time
It would be so nice to leave some time
It would be so nice to leave some time

Everybody wakes and in the morning
Hot tea can't stop yarning
Pass the butter please
Have you ever read the Daily Standard
Reading all about the plane thet's landed
Upside down

Everyone knows what I do today
There can be no other way
But I would just like to say

Everybody cares about the weather
But everybody should know better
What a waste of time
Everybody lives beneath the ceiling
Living out a dream thet sends them reeling

It's awfully considerate of you to think of me here
And I'm most obliged to you for making it clear
That I'm not here
And I never knew the room could be so big
And I never knew the room could be so blue
And I'm grateful that you threw away my old shoes
And brought me here instead dressed in red

And I'm wandering who could be writing this song

I don't care if the sun don't shine
I don't care if nothing is mine
And I don't care I'm nervous with you
I'll do my loving in the winter

And the sea isn't green

So ya
Thought ya
Might like to go to the show
To feel the warm thrill of confusion
That space cadet glow
I've got some bad news for you sunshine
Pink isn't well he stayed back at the hotel
And they sent us along as a surrogate band
And we're going to find out where you fans
Really stand

Are there any queers in the theatre tonight
Get'em up against the wall
There's one in the spotlight
He don't look right to me
Get him up against the wall

I'm so afraid of the mistakes that I made
Making every time that I lay
I feel like an oddball with a cut-off mind
So if you excuse me it's time
When the count is rhymed
And the story-line is fine

I've been amazed since the first day
I can't get a line too close
Take me down, take me down
From the cell of my mind
And hear me slowly floating lonely somewhere

I live far enough on a shelf like a dress
On the end of all that reads like a sad song