ALWAYS COMING BACK TO YOU 

What was it like when we were young
Sleeping in eachothers arms
Walking in eachothers dreams
Was it only yesterday
I've forgotten anyway

What was it like to hear your name
Where's the girl that I once knew
Running home thru winter parks
Arm in Arm and heart in heart
Now like children in the dark
We hold hands and watch the rain

When you kissed my eyes awake
Running mornings crowded streets
Just to find we've missed our bus
but we'd laugh , kiss, what the hell

When you'd burst in from the rain
Clasp my head between your hands,
kiss away the darkest day
Always there to understand.
You could make me proud again

Now I go aimlessly at night
Sleep with faces I don't know
Always coming back to you
and the shadows of this room

I must search your eyes again
Just to find that they are dead

Always coming back to you

AMSTERDAM 

In the port of Amsterdam
There's a sailor who sings
Of the dreams that he brings
From the wide open sea
In the port of Amsterdam
There's a sailor who sleeps
While the riverbank weeps
With the old willow tree
In the port of Amsterdam
There's a sailor who dies
Full of beer, full of cries
In a drunken down fight
And in the port of Amsterdam
There's a sailor who's born
On a muggy hot morn
By the dawn's early light

In the port of Amsterdam
Where the sailors all meet
There's a sailor who eats
Only fishheads and tails
He will show you his teeth
That have rotted too soon
That can swallow the moon
That can haul up the sails
And he yells to the cook
With his arms open wide
Bring me more fish
Put it down by my side
Then he wants so to belch
But he's too full to try
So he gets up and laughs
And he zips up his fly

In the port of Amsterdam
You can see sailors dance
Paunches bursting their pants
Grinding women to paunch
They've forgotten the tune
That their whiskey voice croaks
Splitting the night with the
Roar of their jokes
And they turn and they dance
And they laugh and they lust
Till the rancid sound of
The accordion bursts
Then out to the night
With their pride in their pants
With the slut that they tow
Underneath the street lamps

In the port of Amsterdam
There's a sailor who drinks
And he drinks and he drinks
And he drinks once again
He drinks to the health
Of the whores of Amsterdam
Who have promised their love
To a thousand other men
They've bargained their bodies
And their virtue long gone
For a few dirty coins
And when he can't go on
He plants his nose in the sky
And he wipes it up above
And he pisses like I cry
For an unfaithful love

In the port of Amsterdam
In the port of Amsterdam

ANGELICA 

Each night I meant to say
I missed her through the day
But I'd forget it
I never said it

I passed the flower shop
Lord knows I meant to stop
But I said tomorrow
Perhaps tomorrow

Tomorrow there'd be time
There'd always be another spring
Time to make her laughter ring
Time to give her everything

Angelica, my Angelica
There's so much you never knew
So much I always meant to say
And do, for you, for you
Angelica

And then the cold winds came
And when I spoke her name
And felt her near me
She couldn't hear me

Her shadow had been cast
Too many springs had passed
For Angelica
Sweet Angelica

Now in my solitude
I tend the flowers that I buy
As they slowly fade and die
Watered by the tears I cry

for my Angelica, my Angelica
There's so much you never knew
So much I always meant to say
And do, for you, for you
Angelica
Angelica
Angelica
Angelica


Cada noche que quise decir
I missed her through the day Me perdí a través de ella el día
But I'd forget it Pero me olvide
I never said it Nunca he dicho que

I passed the flower shop Me pasé por la tienda de flores
Lord knows I meant to stop Señor sabe que significa dejar de
But I said tomorrow Pero he dicho mañana
Perhaps tomorrow Tal vez mañana

Tomorrow there'd be time Mañana allí se había tiempo
There'd always be another spring No había otro ser siempre primavera
Time to make her laughter ring Ha llegado la hora de formular su anillo de la risa
Time to give her everything Ha llegado la hora de darle todo

Angelica, my Angelica Angelica, mi Angelica
There's so much you never knew Hay mucho que usted nunca supo
So much I always meant to say Por lo tanto, mucho que siempre significaba que decir
And do, for you, for you Y hacer, para usted, para usted
Angelica

And then the cold winds came Y entonces los vientos fríos vinieron
And when I spoke her name Y cuando me referí a su nombre
And felt her near me Y se sintió cerca de ella me
She couldn't hear me Ella no puede oírme

Her shadow had been cast Su sombra se había fundido
Too many springs had passed Demasiados Springs había pasado
For Angelica Para Angélica
Sweet Angelica Dulce Angelica

Now in my solitude Ahora en mi soledad
I tend the flowers that I buy Tiendo las flores que comprar
As they slowly fade and die A medida que lentamente se desvanecen y mueren
Watered by the tears I cry Regado por las lágrimas lloro

for my Angelica, my Angelica Angelica para mi, mi Angelica
There's so much you never knew Hay mucho que usted nunca supo
So much I always meant to say Por lo tanto, mucho que siempre significaba que decir
And do, for you, for you Y hacer, para usted, para usted
Angelica
Angelica
Angelica
Angelica

BEST OF BOTH WORLDS 

Best of both worlds that's what you want

All your own way that's not my way

I won't share you I couldn't bear to

Its' time for you to choose which one you'd rather lose

Can you love him and forget me?

Are you sorry that you met me?

What we've been through means nothing to you

I can't satisfy you, you want best of both worlds

Make your fickle mind up

I won't stay while you enjoy

Best of both worlds

I have loved you since I found you

You belong here, just look around you

Keep your true love or take your new love

You must choose between us, you want best of both worlds

Make your fickle mind up

I won't stay while you enjoy

Best of both worlds

You've got to choose between us

You just can't have the two of us

Make your fickle mind up

I won't stay while you enjoy

Best of both worlds

Best of both worlds

BIG LOUISE 

She stands all alone
You can hear her hum softly
From her fire escape in the sky
She fills the bags 'neath her eyes
With the moonbeams
And cries 'cause the world's passed her by

Didn't time sounds sweet yesterday?
In a world filled with friends
You lose your way

She's a haunted house
And her windows are broken
And the sad young man's gone away
Her bathrobe's torn
And tears smudge her lipstick
And the neighbors just whisper all day

Didn't time sounds sweet yesterday?
In a world filled with friends
You lose your way

BLACK SHEEP BOY 

Here I am back home again
I'm here to rest
All they ask is where I've been
Knowing I've been West.

I'm the family's unknown boy
Golden curls and envied hair
Pretty girls with faces fair
See the shining Black Sheep Boy.

If you love me, let me live in peace.
Please understand,
That the black sheep can wear the golden fleece,
And hold a winning hand.

I'm the family's unknown boy
Golden curls and envied hair
Pretty girls with faces fair
See the shining Black Sheep Boy.

BOLIVIA '95 

Doctorie, give me a C
for this babaloo

Opiate me with that key, doctor
babaloo

Please, don't you laugh doc
Manos arriba bien

With springs tickling
less than two feet
from your chin

Lemon Bloody Cola
Lemon Bloody Cola
Lemon Bloody Cola

gonna sponge you down
gonna sponge you down

Save the crops and the bodies
from illness
from pestilence hunger and war
I journey each night like a Saint
to stand on this straw floor
our uniforms are loose
they look flimsy
night black shadows
under the peaks of our caps
shaved up to Augost
I still hear them singing

babaloo
babaloo

Lemon Bloody Cola
Lemon Bloody Cola
Lemon Bloody Cola

gonna sponge you down
gonna sponge you down

Hey you
Hey you
This isn't through

Opiate me
just for
me
with my
babaloo

please dont you laugh?
Manos arriba bien

again and again
again and again

Lemon Bloody Cola
Lemon Bloody Cola
Lemon Bloody Cola

gonna sponge you down
gonna sponge you down

I journey tonight I'm a saint
to stand on this straw floor

The tiles speckling
darker and darker
around my feet

BOUNCER SEE BOUNCER 

Spared
I've been spared
all the nickling
all the dimeing

Spared
I've been spared
all the powder
on a trumpet of Gabriel

Don't play that song for me
you won't play that song for me

The riff with the swaddling hair
Those sisters who never broke us
The link missing at the rear
and the halo, halo of locust

Mama danced four feet away
Papa danced four feet away
in the rubbing and fusing
the sealing and pivoting
gotta dance four feet away

Spared
I've been spared
All the handle a body could handle

Spared
I've been spared
All the powder on a Magdalene Mary

Don't play that song for me
you won't play that song for me

Those threads you would never wear
The sobbing that just might choke us
Those tooth fairies wait till they get here
and the halo, halo of locust

I love this season without it's cleft
left hook to the right hook
right cross to the left

I love this season this very night
right cross to the left foot
left hook to the right

Mama danced four feet away
Papa danced four feet away
in the rubbing and fusing
the sealing and pivoting
gotta dance four feet away

BOY CHILD 

You'll lose your way
A boy child rides upon your back
Take him away
Through mirrors dark and blessed with cracks
Through forgotten courtyards
Where you used to search for youth
Old gets a new life
Reach out you can touch it's true
He's not a shadow of shadows
Like you, you see
Hearts hold on holding
If you stay one, you'll stay free
Go seek the lady
Who will give, not take away
Naked with stillness
On the edge of dawn she stays
Night starts to empty
That's when her song begins
She'll make you happy
She'll take you deep within her
Window lights for wanderers
Hide hard in your swollen eyes
Echoes of laughter
Hide in the cities thighs
Love catch these fragments
Swirling through the winds of night
What can it cost
To give a boy child back his sight
Extensions through dimensions
Leave you feeling cold and lame
Boy child mustn't tremble
'cos he came without a name

BUTTERFLY 

There's a butterfly circling the beach
Searching the rocks where you are
He chooses your hair, and that's where he belongs
For he's lost like a star
Head down, reluctant and warm
You give your thoughts to the sea
Dark rivers your eyes belong to no-one
Like a star
Like a butterfly