Into
The Picture
Mercy in bondage
In the final war for peace
Peasants, rebels, outcasts
Citizens' police
This crazy century
and a dazzling frontier
And the shameless guilt of the domain of the world
And the genocide of innocence
Hackers, slackers, generation-X
backpackers
Tribesmen and rockstars on silicone screens
Virtual emotions, digital dreams
Rushing for tomorrow where the future used to be
Chorus
I see the picture
I feel strong
I see the river
Flowing on
Do you see the picture?
Do you feel strong?
Do you see the river
Flowing on and on and on?
I've been waiting for what
you're waiting for
I've been knocking at the same door.
I want to know what
We have become.
I want to touch your face,
I want to get a sense of place
Before we step out into the sun.
Blue electric oceans
Information streams
Webs and nets in motion
Connecting you and me...
Chorus
I see the picture
I feel strong
I see the river
Flowing on
Do you see the picture?
Do you feel strong?
Do you see the river
Flowing on and on and on?
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Colours
Of Change
I'm showing you this picture
Because it changed all that I am
It's a picture of somebody
She's beautiful and holding my hand
At the moment they took the
picture
I felt a moment of something real
And I knew I could be somebody
And change this life I feel
I feel a new day coming on
See colours of change
I feel a new day coming on
I know the feeling of every
man who's lived alone
And found that special place that he could call his own
Not that it means anything at all (x2)
She's just the one who gives me
A place in this world
For an instant
I felt the sun was shining down on me
And I knew
I had the chance
To be somebody
I feel a new day coming on
See colours of change
I feel a new day coming on
(bye bye loneliness - hello
love)
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Cha
Cha In The Rain
Black Rain fall into my life
I'm looking for a woman who
has seen some pain
Looking for a woman who can dance through the flame
Are you looking at me mama 'cause I'm looking at you
Can you Cha Cha mama?
Cha cha in the rain
Cha Cha mama
Cha cha in the rain
Black rain falling down
Gives my life such a sad sad sound
Black rain falling down
Tear from the Heaven is a tear on the ground
Chorus
Can you cha cha mama
Can you cha cha in the rain?
The days are long and the living
is hard
Never had wheels or a credit card
But I'll give you loving through the darkest day
And when the times are tough we can cha cha in the rain
Cha Cha mama
Cha cha in the rain
Black rain falling down
Gives my life such a sad sad sound
Black rain falling down
Tear from the Heaven is a tear on the ground
Can you cha cha mama
Can you cha cha in the rain?
Black Rain fall into my life
Black rain falling down
Gives my life such a sad sad sound
Black rain falling down
Tear from the Heaven is a tear on the ground
Can you cha cha mama
Can you cha cha in the rain?
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New
World Survivor
I was sitting at the corner
cafe
Looking across Montego Bay
I wanted to remember the perfect view
But I was looking at my watch
I was waiting for you
With secrets and your eyes that sing
With your soft skirt flowing in the wind
It's a picture that you always paint
Between the sinners and the saints
Is this water?
Am I drowning?
Is this water?
There's a boat out on the ocean.
There's a swimmer in the tide.
There's a nervous crowd that's watching
Hope he makes it to the other side...
Ah Ah
In this strange and new territory
I await your arrival
I'm strong when you stand next to me
I'll be your new world survivor
In a world that's changing
Nothing is what it seems
The old order is caving
Hold onto your dreams
You stand out like a beacon
in the night
My ship is sailing by your true light
All around us everything falling
Everything falling
Is this water?
Am I drowning?
Is this water?
There's a boat out on the ocean.
There's a swimmer in the tide.
There's a nervous crowd that's watching
Hope he makes it to the other side...
Ah Ah
In this strange and new territory
I await your arrival
I'm strong when you stand next to me
I'll be your new world survivor
I see the promise of your light
As we sail across these dark oceans of change
Ah Ah
In this strange and new territory
I await your arrival
I'm strong when you stand next to me
I'll be your new world survivor
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Africa
Rising
Keep this for protection
Deep in your heart
It's the Kalahari blowing
Under a southern star
There's a new day coming
I feel it in my bones
Africa Rising
From blood on the stones
I feel the wind in my sails
I know I can fly
I'm going to break these chains
Under a blood red sky
I said Hey La
I said Helele
I said Hey La
I said Hala
Isoka lapha wena ukhatizwe
Good young people
Born to bad times
Where the prophjets have failed
And the river runs dry
There's a new day coming
Across the divide
Africa Rising
Against yesterday's tide
I see the young are strong
And their dreams are proud
Their hearts are on fire
Where silence once stood
I said Hey La
I said Helele
I said Hey La
I said Hala
Suka lapha wena weqath'izwe
('Leave this place, you who incited the nations tofight')
Baleka wena weqath'izwe
('Flee, you who incited the nations tofight')
Sesikhatele
('we are tired')
African moon
Keep on rising
Shine on to the sea of Japan
Millions in the darkness waiting
From Kowloon to Amsterdam
Very soon I must be leaving
I hear your mother call my name
Passing through the midnight hour
I feel no pain
I said Hey La
I said Helele
I said Hey La
I said Hala
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Naked
In The Rain
I feel nervous about these times she said
It's like the beginning of the fall of Rome
I feel lost on this rising tide she said
Of superhighways and genetic clones
And I miss you like mad
When you go away
And I fear the things I read about
These coming days
A digital picture wired to
the moon
A chemical sister
Yoiu know she's coming soon
A virtual lover always waiting
there for you
And the human touch
Fades into the blue
I feel blue
I feel strange
I feel naked in the rain
And I know
In this world
Very little stays the same
If you could see me now
Would you remember my name?
'cause I could never forget
you
A software prophet said the
other day
This the final ride we're on our way
Like a weapon ready to unleash its load
We're genetically coded to decode our code
And I miss you like mad
When you go away
And I fear the things we read about
These coming days
I feel blue
I feel strange
All these pictures in the rain
All those times
All those moments
Lost forever
Like tears in the rain
I could never forget you
I feel new
I feel strange
I feel naked in the rain
And I know
In this world
Very little stays the same
'cause I could never forget
you
Always
On Time
Each day is a train thundering
down my back
Every moment I'm looking for a new plan of attack
Every night I lie awake listening to the river flow
Time is slipping away
I watch each second of it go
Then you step out smiling in
the sun
And I knew that if I waited
You would come
Always on time
Never like the others
Always on the line
Showing your true colours
My true other
You are my true other
I see others run
I even see some of them fly
I'm standing on the earth but I'm thinking of the sky
Where do I belong?
Is there a place here for me?
I don't want to be a passing moment in someone else's dreams
Then you step out smiling in
the sun
And I knew that if I waited
You would come
Always on time
Never like the others
Always on the line
Showing your true colours
Always on time
My true other
You are my true other
There's a picture of my loneliness
It's a man on a highway
Walking
There's a picture of my loneliness
It's a boy at the station
Waiting
You are where I want to be
Always on time
Never like the others
Always on the line
Showing your true colours
Always on time
My true lover
You are my true lover
There's a picture of my loneliness
It's a man on the highway
Walking
There's a picture of my loneliness
It's a boy on the station
Waiting
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Brave
New World
I know it's coming wrong or
right
I'm leaving flesh and blood behind
All that I have left is my mind
The last trace of the human sign
Take my life and clone me do
Turn me into something new
Promise me a brand new day
Take these human chains away
You can change me
Rearrange me
You can turn me inside out
The future's calling I'm not stalling
I'm on the edge you can hear me shout
It's a brave new world
I'm tired of this human shape
Inside me lies a cyber ape
New world is calling out my name
Time to make my great escape
Take my life and clone me do
Turn me into something new
Promise me a brand new day
Take these human chains away
You can change me
Rearrange me
You can turn me inside out
The future's calling I'm not stalling
I'm on the edge you can hear me shout
It's a brave new world
Maybe it's good to dance andsing,
laugh and cry
Maybe there's something special in the human eye
Maybe I know I'll miss your tender touch
cause I'm a prisoner of hope
You know that much
Take my life and clone me do
Turn me into something new
Promise me a brand new day
Take these human chains away
You can change me
Rearrange me
You can turn me inside out
The future's calling I'm not stalling
I'm on the edge you can hear me shout
It's a brave new world
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Universal
Men
I have undone this distance
So many times before
It seems as if this life of mine
Is trapped between two shores
As the little ones grow older on the station platform
I will undo that distance just once more
My brothers and my sisters
have been scattered in the wind
Dressed in cheap horizons that have never quite fitted
And for centuries they've travelled in a pale phantom ship
Sailing for that shore which has no other
They made the world that you
live in
They made it go around
They made the world we live in
They made the world that we
live in
They make it go around
They made the world we live in
They could not read
And they could not write
And they could not spell their names
BUt they took this world in both hands
And they changed it all the same
And from whence they came and where they went
Nobody knows or cares
They made the world that you
live in
They made it go around
They made the world we live in
They made the world that we
live in
They make it go around
They made the world we live in
From our hands leap the buildings
From our shoulders bridges fall
We stand astride the mountain
And pull out all the gold
The rivers of our homelands
Murmur in our dreams
We are trapped inside that distance
Until the future sets us free
They made the world that you
live in
They made it go around
They made the world we live in
They made the world that we
live in
They make it go around
They made the world we live in
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Ride
In Your Car
I woke up this morning
I went to the window
Mouth feels like a birdcage
And I'm dying for a cigarette
Look across the skyline
The morning sun is rising
Air is thick and heavy
Like the smell of opportunity
And I feel like a motherless
child
I feel like a motherless child
Promises on the table
Empty bottles on the floor
Hoped I'd see your face again
Waiting at my door
I remember how you used to
be wild
With your wheels on the road for miles and miles
I want to ride in your car
Cleaning up the kitchen
Before I go to work
Another dollar another day
For some other jerk
Thinking of some other place
Somewhere true
Always planning my escape
From the human Zoo
I remember how you used to
be wild
With your wheels on the road for miles and miles
I want to ride in your car
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Across
The River
I've been watching you now
for a long long time
Across the river you've been waiting for the tide
Everything that you ever did is in your eyes
I can see you coming out in the shadow of the moonlight
Like you I've struggled with
the question of right life
Like you I've been in the belly of the night
CHORUS
Hold me close it's dark and
cold outside
It's raining days and nights into our lives
Into our Lives
The captain says that it doesn't
look so good from here
Hope and mercy are stranded on the pier
Love is the prisoner of the dark and the weird
Only the stars in heart will guide you clear
Like you I've struggled with
the question of right life
Like you I've been in the belly of the night
CHORUS
Hold me close it's dark and
cold outside
It's raining days and nights into our lives
I can make it on my own
But it's good to have you by my side.
Hold me close it's dark and cold outside
Only the stars in your heart
(yelele mama)
CHORUS
Hold me close it's dark and
cold outside
It's raining days and nights into our lives
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Father
Buttons from a uniform
A cartridge from the war
Letters to my mother
Hidden in a drawer
All around me empty space
Never filled by a father's face
In my mind he's strong and warm
I like the picture I have drawn
He's a shadow man
He's my father
He's the hidden link in my chain
He's a shadow man
He's my father
He's the one who lives inside my name
I'm the only link in the chain
Fragments of memories
From other people's lives
Gather and collect them
To see my father's eyes
Eyes to see the future come
Eyes to see the past
Eyes to see his only son
From whom he was cast
He's a shadow man
He's my father
He's the one who lives inside my name
He's a shadow man
He's my father
I'm the only link in the chain
What you gonna be when you
grow up?
How you gonna fill that empty cup?
Be strong and hold your head up high
Teach yourself how to fly
He's a shadow man
He's my father
He's a shadow man
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